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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I notice you didn't say anything about the platypus

reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Another day, another conservative freakout over nothing. Here in Iowa 60% of corn is used to make ethanol motor fuel. Using solar and wind (and battery storage) to power EVs could be done in a small fraction of that land.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does each new Tesla come with a phrenology skull caliper set in the spare tire compartment?

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Fun fact: Chuck Grassley is older than the chocolate chip cookie.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Is the applicant required to marry Grandma River?

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

And ironically, I’m a Jew who used to work for an Egyptian slu… property management company whose name changed multiple times for unclear reasons. If a politician thinks housing issues are a result of the greedy <insert group name here>, they’ll fail their constituents.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A relative lives in a senior building and often complains about “kids on bikes not watching where they’re going” (both e- and not). We were driving back from brunch and a car was straying onto our side of the driveway. The relative just shrugged and said, “Well, it is a senior building.”

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Not sure how IA-01 is a tossup when it’s a rematch of 2024, in which Miller-Meeks won by 1/4%. I have to imagine the national environment would be expected to move more votes to the dem than that.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

To use completely arbitrary numbers, becoming rich would add 20 happiness points, but a lifetime of debt would subtract 100, so I’m taking option 1

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

After the price increase, I switched to Mint Mobile to save around $50/month. Mint is owned by… Tmobile. Makes a lot of sense.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Maybe you’re more fluent in Trump than I am, but nowhere in that chunk of authentic frontier gibberish was there a coherent statement.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Y’all find my Pork Tornadoes hat?

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The idea that youth sports, which if you're serious about it means thousands of dollars a year in hotels, club dues, equipment, etc. for a remote chance at a scholarship, is a practical way to pay for college is just absurd.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Network the Green Day side project, or the local healthcare monopoly (Go Hawks)?

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

If there’s a guy outside Taco Bell punching people, and the manager is loudly insisting that Taco Bell is open, guess what, Taco Bell is closed

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Didn’t know “substitute teacher” was the name of a senior leadership position in the Oregon Democratic party lol

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Quint City style pizza would just sound ridiculous tho

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Having some experience with bureaucratic decision-making, I feel like this idea would get nixed when someone said, “Don’t we have a process to ensure that our drivers speak the local language adequately? Are you saying that process doesn’t work?”

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I know that if I was the captain of a civilian vessel filled with highly flammable cargo, this “views differ on whether someone’s going to fire a missile at me” BS would not be reassuring

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The way people think the most tenuous connection gives you the right to criticize others’ choices is wild. A relative loves to badmouth the state of the front yard of a house they sold a decade ago. Why? Well, they left behind some perfectly functional lawn equipment, so they oughta…

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Maybe oil tankers will be able to use E-ZPass to pay the Iranian tolls

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Reads like a mediocre five-paragraph essay that ends with, “In conclusion, Egypt is a land of contrasts.”

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

And if an apartment doesn’t have a modern HVAC system, it probably also doesn’t have a modern electrical system. Meaning that an efficient portable AC unit may be the difference between cooling the apartment and tripping the circuit breaker.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Collective action by UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS? Looking at my alumni magazine, you’d think Biden was still president.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The analogy that comes to mind is laundry. What’s most convenient is having a washer and dryer in your apartment (charger in your garage stall). A shared facility for the whole apartment building works fine. And having to go to a laundromat (fast charger) is an option, but not a great one.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I heard another potential juror asked what verdict they would reach right now (before the trial started). “Guilty.” “Why is that?” “Well, the cops must have had a reason to arrest him.” She was dismissed.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Doing the math, I’d pay a fee equal to the tax on 700 gallons of gasoline. That’s bonkers. Before I bought my Bolt, I had a Honda Insight, not a Grand Wagoneer or something.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As long as the business lunch special still includes margaritas that say “postage stamps” on the receipt, and Marge in accounting doesn’t get suspicious, I’ll be there!

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Still better than the local supermarket monopoly that asks for donations for a food bank at the self-checkout. My dudes, you have all the food. Sorry, what were we talking about?

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Points for using the DEFCON scale correctly!

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Actual quote I heard: “How many times a year is the quarterly meeting?”

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Also, despite its name, the murderbot policing the craps table usually issues a warning first and only murders guests when they try to slip in a weig

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I mean, the roundabout near my work also has priority for pedestrians and cyclists. Maybe 1/4 of cars stop. Serious question: how does your country get drivers to follow traffic laws?

A roundabout in Iowa, USA. Like the Dutch roundabout, it also has markings that indicate priority for pedestrians and cyclists, but they aren't as easily visible.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Who but an economist could make the bold, outside the box argument that acshually, drunk walking is the real problem freakonomics.com/podcast/the-...

freakonomics.com

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

There’s something almost wholesome about a special interest that produces actual physical goods at a reasonable price, and donated around $350k total in the last election cycle.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I guess facilitating ransomware payments by schools and hospitals is, in some sense, “transgressive”

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Without gas cars, it would be hard to convince even the most credulous non-farmer here in the American corn belt that we need to keep subsidizing corn-based ethanol.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I bought a new computer, and it (Frameworks desktop running Windows 11) would only recognize my ancient Brother laser printer as an unknown USB device. Bought a new bottom-tier printer and paid $20 more than advertised because the sale was online-only. At least the ink subscription was optional.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Seems reasonable, but I’m not sure why the manager’s desk is in an idling ice cream truck

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

He did have a good take once about the History Channel going to hell. So, that’s one thing I agree with him on.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

One of my senators (Grassley) is older than the chocolate chip cookie. So at least he isn’t breaking any arms, just voting for all of the bad things.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

To the “Harris would have gone to war with Iran, too” folks: There’s nothing safer or lazier than declaring that both sides are equally bad. Nobody ever lost their job by saying that. Biden signed a nuclear agreement with Iran. Trump withdrew from it.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Well, there go your tax credits. I do still look forward to the new Bears stadium though

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A man running for office listing his occupation as “politician”. Huh.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Free bus trip on the Hoover Highway to the Hoover Museum, to let the valued customers know that comparatively, everything is fine today and they should shoot more craps

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And somehow the strangest thing I’ve ever seen at a Menards was in the parking lot

wgntv.com

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If Julie Le was defending Stephen Miller from criminal charges, I’d agree with you. Even the worst criminal deserves a good legal defense. My sympathy completely evaporates when the client is a government carrying out a lawless campaign of ethnic cleansing.

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My mom’s employer paid for part of my tuition (she worked for a college, but not the one I attended). Should they have gotten a say lol

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reb0ot.bsky.social @reb0ot.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I am, in fact, tired of all the winning. I keep thinking about this: the only reason I’m likely to have any (peripheral) involvement with crypto is if my employer needs to pay a ransom to an international group of cybercriminals.

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