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I think some people derange themselves swinging between "voting for the better option" and "validating or defending the better option as actually good". It doesn't work that way, and I think it much easier to stick to the former than stretch yourself to the latter.

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It's wild how many people, when beholding the breadth of human awareness and intelligence, say "well we gotta limit the franchise of voting or say in social policy" rather than "we have to educate people and teach them to be discerning."

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This guy is estimated to be worth $25 billion, lmao

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

The vanity "EVIL" Texas plates really seal it. That had to be in demand!

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I'm being kinda gloomy serious, but I'll acknowledge it's just perception: I literally cannot imagine powerful people and their families facing sturdy consequences for their actions, in any systematic way.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

Imagine a US politician saying "After decades of lies, millions of Americans experienced for the first time what real regime change and equality before the law really mean. America is finally not a country without consequences." It seems impossible.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

could a non-human use an LLM?

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

earnest question, if we’re talking about language— why would any process in (or underlying) a human mind be “surprisingly inhuman”? Wouldn’t it be surprisingly human?

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

never go with an engineer to a second analogy

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

[laughs nervously, tugs collar]

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 14h

is this the kind of pitching the AL East is working with? i don’t watch the junior circuit that much.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 03/11/2023

The perfect Atlanta Braves fan #mlb

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 14h

the “statistics are the most important thing in the universe” tendency in tech is probably the part of our age that Søren would most vigorously reject.

The exact opposite of the truth is "the probable." Truth does not consist of an approximation. That which lies nearest to the truth is not, if you please, closest to the truth - no, this is the most dangerous delusion of all, the most dangerous simply because it lies so near to the truth without being the truth.

Let us be honest about it. We are more afraid of the truth than of death.

Kierkegaard

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h

Ya think Pope Leo struggles to find someone to watch the game with and he’s like Cardinal Pizzaballa, “You don’t understand, this was a bullpen game in Houston. To win is huge! Oh, stop asking about Vinnie Pasquantino, he’s on the Royals! No, not the monarchy!”

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 15h

i like all baseball, but playoff baseball has the electricity the cool kids crave

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 16h

the White Sox get one papal blessing and they start practicing pagan magic under his protection. makes you wonder what the Cistercians are up t— [transmission cut]

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 16h

was explaining to someone today why Brian might be the greatest Coloradan, referenced this

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 17h

y’know? when I was was watching the Rockies in the early 10s, I always told myself “boy there’s a lot of future national broadcast voices on this team”

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 18h

Jon Hamm, in tears, desperate to get a call back from a comedy film or a Safdie brothers project, screaming at his agent for telling him the amount of the next sportsbook commercial offer. Hangs up on the agent, but calls him back 15 minutes later, says yes.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 18h

the last time the White Sox were this good, the TV personalities of Kelly Clarkson and Ludacris were still toiling away in the musician leagues

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[newly married Tolkien nerd] Husband? Heavens, no, I'm a wer.

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how many years away are we from "US Representative says "bruh" on the mic in response to a bad move in a committee hearing"? How far from a US Senator doing it?

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Here's my secret: I have beautiful and kind and sweet reply guys

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 31/01/2025

I don't think it will really "matter" in the grand scheme of things, but this is one of the funnier screw-ups in recent memory of retail politics

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If you work in politics and say “I told you so” you are just saying “I lost”

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13/10/2024

All the great Philly sports accounts post about their teams in a way where you can almost smell the plugged-in toaster next to the bathtub

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 20h

White Sox vs Astros, the Pope vs Joel Osteen

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 21h

Proud to announce the frontier model beyond super intelligence, uper duper intelligence (UDI)

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 21h

[snooty voice] I only support stores that offer organic and non-gmo intelligence, nothing artificial.

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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 21h

oh this is some @snowden.st shit

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 21h

and just to be clear, I personally hate the framing of “pure” in food (our bodies can handle all kinds of gorbage, one meal doesn’t ruin health, etc), but it’s perfectly valid as political rhetoric.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 22h

don’t get headline sniped, these are standard plans from a liberal/progressive policy standpoint.

The platform, dubbed the Building A Healthier America Policy Agenda, takes aim at pesticides in food, backing legislation that would give people the right to sue pesticide manufacturers over harm caused by the products. It seeks accountability for polluters, with a pledge to get industry lobbyists out of regulatory agencies. And it aims to get substances such as lead and microplastics out of water, in part by strengthening federal drinking water rules. It also proposes investments in school meal programs and grocery stores on wheels.

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🫡🫡 just had breakfast there last fall, rest in peace, thank you for hosting some real crusty old timers to let me eavesdrop on

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I was an incel 20 year old Republican operative, but I can’t blame social media for any of it. Just a weird damn life, lol

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kinda wild that “actually, I was watching the Terps play” is an exculpatory piece of evidence

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If this happens, Your Humble Correspondent will lose it, full Walter White laughing in the floor space hours

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