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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 41m

Why didn't they just have an engineer say that putting gold and latinum together messes with replication because of hyperbaric anti-ions or something, is what I'm asking

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 56m

C) but give them a one or two sentence summary first to jog their memory

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 59m

It turns out "I am going to brag about my monuments and plans to rig the elections" is not a popular message at this time

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah but there's a ton of that, and it usually has a canonical answer in sci-fi gibberish

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Virginians outside of the 3 NoVa counties still consider themselves southern, or at least they did in the 2000s. Northern Delaware is at this point part of the Greater Philly area, so it would be imo strange for them to think of themselves as southern. True for Baltimore and DC, though.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe? I think it's a question of emphasis more than a binary choice. If GA and the Carolinas start voting like Virginia, I could see a resurgence of thinking of them--along with MD and VA if not DE--as the "Atlantic South" distinct from Florida, the Gulf states, or Appalachia.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

That happened even later, though! I think it was infrastructure: the road, rail, sea, and air connections to the northeast were just much greater. (I took the Acela all the time in the 2000s; I *once* took the extension to Richmond and that was enough; it was 1/3 the speed!)

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Probably not the whole state, but there could have been some sort of split à la WVa (Appalachian Maryland is, well, Appalachian)

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

DC's unofficial motto was "Northern hospitality, Southern punctuality" because the region has been a mix of the two for a long time; its becoming *more* like NYC than Richmond happened in our lifetimes

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Well its staying with the union wasn't by popular demand--it was because Lincoln sent troops to Annapolis while they were voting on secession! But yeah its founding story and its development--centered around a major city--are distinct from any other former slave state

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Hoo is technically right, since "the south" is defined by the Mason-Dixon line. Delaware, Maryland, and Northern Virginia aren't really culturally southern any longer, and are better understood as their own mid-Atlantic culture, centered around the Chesapeake and extending up to Philly

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

Too cold and cloudy; I'll take the occasional scorcher in Oakland in exchange for their joke of a winter

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

I am a little nervous about a manatee entering this specific chat, ngl...

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 1h

I mean, Ben had a big discussion about it a couple of months ago (in which i participated). IIRC, they think the race would have unfolded very differently from the start without aipac involvement (a ridiculous % of the money spent was theirs). Which...maybe? I'm skeptical, but it's not absurd.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

Ok but how is that supposed to, uh, work?

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

Please accept my sincere apologies for any psychic damage caused by the above string of words.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

TrackAIPAC is antisemitic trash and everyone should ignore it, but it also has nothing to do with Kat. People need to be careful about free-assocuiting when it comes to figuring out who is racist!

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

People actually say nice things about KC, or at least that it has good food and is pretty walkable. I don't know if I've ever heard someone say either about StL

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

It's kind of both? And KC is clearly neither 🤷‍♂️

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

If your point is that she simply misdiagnosed the results, then perhaps you're right, but that doesn't warrant any assumptions about antisemitism. If your point is that, above and beyond being mistaken, she hates AIPAC, then what I said above still holds.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

And even if it were intended as an antisemitic trope (which again, it is not), the stuff juniper is saying is still orders of magnitude worse. It's an unwarranted and unfair association.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

AIPAC poured a ridiculous amount of money into that race: they are allowed to hate AIPAC as long as they mean the actual org and not some shadowy Jewish money conspiracy. Which, since it is the actual org who spent all that money, they do.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

Happens to the best of us (also, to me)

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think she issues her half-assed apology today if she wasn't internally in trouble

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

No they shouldn't: he does not have executive control over staffing. It's a real company with a CBA which defines disciplinary protocol; clearly, it gives people who negatively radicalize a bunch of chances to improve. Overall that's good; in this case, she should be at or beyond the end of her rope

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

She is, unfortunately, their head of social media. In fairness to them, I think they hired her before she radicalized into antisemitism, and their CBA means that she has (or at least had) many, uh, chances to improve before anything really happens to her

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

Pretty sure she's endorsed Biss, she just isn't campaigning for him because there's no campaign

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

It's not like he has direct staffing control over the onion though. It's a real company whose workers have a CBA and a defined disciplinary process.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

She's not perfect (who is?) but she's a good egg overall

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

"So what, he can just autogolpe" -- someone on here in the next hour, with 99.99% probability

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

Juniper is someone else, should probably become ex-onion person, and people are trying to explain why Juniper still has a job by appealing to Kat's succubus control over Ben. It's...creepy.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

No he's right, people are just making it about Kat because people are really weird about Kat.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah but people are making it about Kat anyway, because a lot of people are weird about her.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 4h

I think it's important to wait for a pattern of behavior and not judge people on one-off incidents. There's, uh, definitely a pattern here at this point.

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Shane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 4h

This is the stupidest possible explanation and therefore, by Trump's razor, almost certainly correct.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 4h

I do low-key judge the people who use it as an example of Mill's swine pleasures

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, maybe it's time for ex-onion person

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, "he pisses off the worst people on both sides" is both true and to his credit

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 17h

All news about AI solving hard math problems looks like this: “Curtains for Zoosha’s conjecture? K-smog and Batboy proved factoring a noncommutative grunt.”

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 17h

Update: I forgot how OP the English are with Victoria; you could give them motte and bailey castles and they'd still be good

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 20h

I (blissfully?) don't know who that is

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 20h

Add their tendency to demand anyone who says anything critical about Israel bend over backwards to kiss their asses turns it into a self-fulfilling prophecy, too

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 20h

...so pretty much like getting kicked in the head by a horse

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 20h

It's because they think this is secretly every antizionist.

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 20h

I would like for Israel to one day be a place I would want to go. But I also like not being kept up at night haunted by the deaths of innocent people killed in my name, so that's got to change before it can be such a place

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 20h

(I don't even *hate* israel, like that's a whole country's worth of people! But I don't think that level of nuance is on these folks' radar)

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 21h

Oh and we are just pretending to hate Israel because we're afraid of the gentiles. Or something like that. Honestly hard for me to put coherent beliefs behind some of these posts

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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 21h

I tried interacting with some and it was like we weren't speaking the same language. They're convinced that the entire world is following them around perpetually with pitchforks and torches.

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