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Scary Mr. Olmec Man

@scarymrolmecman.bsky.social
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Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h
Holy shit.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 3h
The issue here is that if these polls are anywhere near correct, it is a rural collapse that is simply fatal to the GOP
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 4h
lefty english gentiles can of course attempt to practice what they preach on jewishness and zionism by removing themselves from literally any communal space where they may encounter someone who supports nigel farage
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 6h
HELL YEAH
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 6h
I do not mean to single out LeBron James, but it feels completely bizarre to me that an active player is allowed to promote "prediction markets" but would get banned for life for using that service to bet ten dollars on their own team to win a game.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 6h
Tbh I'm open to nuance w this case but this does not seem like the actions of someone really interested in reckoning w his past
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 7h
Insanely funny to try and run away from responsibility for your own disastrous campaign even before it's over.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 7h
Does Sanchez know what he's doing?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h
By the end of Sunday’s NFL action, the leaguewide injury report looked like the closing credits of a disaster movie with stars and indispensable starters disappearing from game after game, giving teams an early lesson in contingency planning.
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From Ja’Marr to Lamar, an NFL Sunday filled with scary injuries
Injuries always reshape the NFL season, but the volume and star power feel especially impactful this year.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 8h
Why is this man on my TV, the question nobody can seem to really answer
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 8h
What's interesting to me is that he straight up says holding the powerful to account is not the project of journalism and yet he is offended by the suggestion that what VF does is advertising. I don't think you can have it both ways, dude!
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 8h
I mean, at a certain point, the legally operating faction needs to just treat this as the cosplay it is. This is like all those fake electors the Republicans tried to send in 2020.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 8h
Sometimes NYRB or whoever puts out a "lost classic," and you read it and you're like, eh, I kinda get why this was "lost"
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 20h
I don't know why people are acting like the Brazil results were a surprise, polls had them at 50-50 and that's basically where they are
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the other thing is that a lot of gentiles, from what i can tell, simply do not understand that asking a jewish person, even an anti-zionist, to never interact with members of the community who are in fact zionists, is really fundamentally antithetical to the nature of jewish communal life
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah don't like the GPEW news. They were given multiple chances to not force Jews to choose between their communities and politics and rejected them. They easily could have put a strong anti-Zionist plank in the platform without that.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
un-fucking-real
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
[while eight games are playing at once] bad call! what a bunch of baloney!
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Glenn-Johnson match-up always especially painful
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Losing my mind w these penalties
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry, but one of the few things I'll give Zionism is that it's not "just another nationalism" bc the Jews have never been "just another nation"
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
First couple of weeks I really felt like the Jets could break .500 this season, but not today
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Replacing Golden w just a normal Dem who will follow the whip would be such an upgrade
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fuckin' finally!!!
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Boy this Jets-Bears game just stinks to watch
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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
20 games (and counting) without an interception under a "defensive-minded" head coach is actually underrated for how crazy it is despite being a frequent talking point
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was born in this house and I'm going to die in this house. Now that I have a kid, I think about Teddy Bear Picnic every other day.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 04/10/2026
Cynthia Rothrock used to be in them movies beating them folks ASS!!!
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lmao me too, I was like hey the guy did Amores Perros that was p good
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I like Zohran's efforts to teach politicians about what normal people do and are like
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Huh this never occurred to me
Offering installment payments comes with a cost for retailers, the researchers warn.

Pay-later companies such as Klarna, Affirm and Afterpay pay retailers upfront and then collect installment payments from consumers. In exchange, the financing company takes a portion of the transaction. Retailers accept that cost because offering installment payments can attract customers who otherwise might abandon their purchases and can increase the size of their shopping baskets. However, that means some retailers raise their sticker prices to compensate for the financing cost.

As a result, the store effectively serves two groups of customers from the same inventory: consumers who pay the full price and those who finance their purchases. To offset the financing company’s fee, the retailer may raise its sticker price, meaning cash-paying customers can end up subsidizing customers who use pay-later.

The researchers identified another, more counterintuitive effect. Even as pay-later increases the number of products sold, a retailer’s effective price — what it actually keeps from each sale after financing costs — can decline.

“More sales is not the same as more profit,” said WashU’s Chehrazi, an assistant professor of supply chain, operations and technology.

The effects can extend to inventory decisions, too. Across millions of simulated scenarios, the researchers found that accepting pay-later could lead retailers to stock less inventory because a lost sale becomes less costly to bear. They found no scenario in which the payment option turned an unprofitable product into a profitable one.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
University democratization should be part of the Reconstruction agenda but the bare fact of it is that Democrat elites are not in favor of it
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Idk, me personally, I maybe wouldn't implicitly remind voters that I'm a complete bastard, but you do you, Ken
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, Camp Miasma is a good movie
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
UK Tories have just like, an unprecedentedly visibly stupid leadership rn
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Feel like not enough attention is paid to the fact that the current conditions in Ben Gvir's Israeli prisons make Abu Ghraib look like Disneyland
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Getting that familiar feeling with Paxton where it's like, uh, is everyone else seeing this shit, because this does not feel like a winning campaign
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dem wave where Jackson loses would spawn the worst discourse imaginable
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I haven't spent enough time thinking about how fuckin' cool it is going to be to have Claire Valdez and DAC in the House
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I will continue to believe that decades of incarceration policy paved the way for ICE terror. It should horrify all of us that the state can pick up an innocent woman and put her in prison for 15 days, but we've long accepted that for certain types of people.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do you think Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is about being trans? About being a cinephile? No, you are all wrong, including the director. That movie is about film scholarship. That movie is what it is like to be a film scholar and fucking love it.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it says something that it's still possible to feel this way bc it's still possible to have a job where AI is mostly a marginal nuisance. That's not what the money men have been saying would happen!
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm fascinated by the right-wing delusion that Steve Hilton is a good candidate.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People keep sharing the G7 photo without asking the important question: where did Carney get his coffee? It looks like Little Victories, is it Little Victories?
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What do people think they'll get out of arguing "Well, yes, they do aim to kill or exile all of the Palestinians, make it impossible to live in Palestine, and wipe out their entire culture, but it's not *technically* genocide!"
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
one thing about the AI in schools discourse is that while I think it's quite correct to assume it will be used to screw poor people out of a good education, the assumption that rich people won't hollow out their own kids' educations with expensive/exclusive versions of the same thing does not follow
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I feel like the unspoken assumption with Braverman, Vance, Ramaswamy is "But of course, if you're rich, none of this ethnic stuff matters, that's for the proles."
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Feel like Conley will win but not nearly by as much as she should, awful candidate.
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