@CarnegieMellon '08 💻🐒 — Let's Go @NJDevils! 👺 🤓 I like hockey, Econ, and general nerd stuff.
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"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty.
You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’ — Astronaut Edgar Mitchell" 👨🚀🌎☮️ medium.com/the-long-now-foun…
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What strikes me about this is how it points implicitly to the difference between billionaires who build and billionaires who loot. That’s a distinction both corrupt MAGA and leftist demagogues need to think about.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." 🥴
– P.J. O'Rourke
The change would significantly increase the number of properties that owe no city property taxes. Currently, 9% of homesteaded properties pay no city property taxes. That figure is projected to rise to 43% in 2027 and nearly 71% in 2028, according to the Finance Department.
Read more at: miamiherald.com/news/local/c…
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In the year of our lord 2026, we truly can't trust the government to use any tech from this century.
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 reut.rs/4zsSsu2
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Money doesn't buy elections
Billionaires don't rule America
Swing voters exist
Persuasion works
There's a lot to focus on right now, but "The richest man to ever live just spent $200 million to support the Republican Senate candidate in Texas, and his man lost by double-digits in a statewide wipeout" is a completely insane sentence.
Put another way, the most expensive US Senate race before 2020 was $200 million. *One guy* spent that amount in Texas, and it doesn't seem to have made any difference. It might have hurt in a kind of Streisand effect way, in that the spending level was seen as obscene to people sympathetic to the argument that billionaires shouldn't "buy" elections.
The implications here seem pretty interesting! Especially re the limits of billionaire political power and/or the diminishing returns of money in politics.
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Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others. #ElectionDay
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This legitimately made me sad. TNG is maybe my favorite show and so much of its success was due to the man in the captain’s chair
#RIP Patrick Stewart of Star Trek and X Men ...
On 12-4-1997, after getting a @PressClubDC coffee mug, he was asked, "Just from a purely logical point of view, why is it that a Captain whose name is Jean-Luc Picard have a perfect English accent?"
Patrick Stewart answer here:
😞 Hopefully ascended to a better timeline 🖖
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Touching my laptop screen is a jail-able offense, so one that doesn't turn into a tablet seems pointless to me.
I do hope the glow logos come back across the lineup though.
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I don’t know who Shaggy and Scooby’s pot guy was but he obviously had the best shit in town.
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We've confirmed Azel Panzerdragoon RPG(Panzer Dragoon Saga) runs all the way to the ending, so we're releasing it.
I hope this wonderful game lives on forever.
yabasanshiro.com/pds-recompi…
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Per @brycesalvador on @TheDevilsEdge, Connor Hellebuyck will be joining the Devils on their upcoming road trip. #NJDevils
