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I'M MOVING TO SAN FRANCISCO!! Temporarily. Probably for a span of about 4 months from August to the end of 2026, then (most likely) back to NYC. Looking for advice on finding housing.
Tor Parsons ⍼
Tor Parsons ⍼
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Tor Parsons ⍼
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Durian friend. Doll owner. Internet sleuth. Oregon nationalist. Twink Riddler. "super cool person" -
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When I was a little kid, the way I defined a "city", as opposed to a "town", was if it had an IKEA. And all these years later, I'm still not sure there's a better way of defining what's a major city and what's not, at least in the US.
What a bizarre ad. Only 63%? What definition of “nature” are you working off of?
Why hasn't "zugzwang" caught on as a word outside the chess world? It's such a fun word to say, and it means a situation you can apply to so many things: when you have to make a move, but every legal move would make your situation worse. E.g. "I'm in zugzwang with my job search."
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Everyone disagreeing is defining cities by city limits rather than by metro area. Come on. If you live in Frisco, Texas you live in Dallas. If you live in Elizabeth, NJ you live in Newark. US city limits are ridiculous squiggles and patchworks that don't define anything.
One of my favorite English language oddities is that "dwarves" is the plural for mythical little people while "dwarfs" is the plural for real little people.
i’m just being honest, I don’t think either of those statements are opinions
Okay, I MUST know the story behind this precinct in Midtown where 77 people wrote in Eric Adams, with Sliwa in 2nd place. Surrounded by similarly sized precincts that were mostly evenly split between Mamdani and Cuomo. Fraud? A voting machine glitch? Ethnic block voting?
"is jerma a rationalist?" - my girlfriend tonight, drawing connections between things I've introduced her to
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Cleveland is the biggest surprise here, yeah
This is not a drill. THERE ARE OTHER JOLIBEES
The media could not be played.
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Austin has one (at least in the metro area, which counts)
I took shrooms for the 2nd time a few days ago and, despite taking every precaution I could think of, ended up violently throwing up from a mild dose. Which is exactly what happened the 1st time.
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I figured it out, and it's embarrassingly simple: Those are 2021 results. They don't have 2025 results for that precinct yet so the displayed results are from 2021. It says 2021 above the results. I'm an idiot.
what an excellent thing to be the 1st post I see on my 24th birthday. x.com/NEVERDOOMPRO/s
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I take it back, online misinformation is a problem x.com/LexerLux/statu
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thought this would be a fun frame for an episode teaser. jolibee will be back in not too long.
I love making a video debunking something that doesn't exist, and then discovering later that it basically does/did exist, exactly as the urban legend suggests, just in a totally different context.
See here, the Chinese social credit system.
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In Ming China, there were karma ledgers, so you could keep count of your karma.
A kind of rationalist, more effective altruism?
E.g. one work from 1604 assigns the following merit and demerit points:
Today I learned that neither of my parents know Smooth Criminal. They were both teenagers in the 80s. They know who MJ was, of course, and know his other hits. They have never been in a cult or otherwise restricted culture.
Neither of them had ever heard Smooth Criminal.
What?!
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another fun oddity, if not a mystery: Sliwa won a single precinct citywide, but he won it with 100%. It's in Maspeth, and it has just one resident who voted.
Just scheduled what may be the best half-hour of TCOC I've ever made. Releasing tomorrow 4pm EST. Audio is janky since it's the first video I've filmed in my NYC apartment and I'm still working out the kinks. But I'm so, so proud of this script.
"I saw a video today about the Zizians and was like 'Hey! My boyfriend is in that!'"
- my girlfriend, cheerfully but not meant as a joke, one month into our relationship x.com/VioletFlame23/
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I've been featured in the college newspaper I used to write for!
Ugh. Just a couple weeks after I resolved the fake copyright claim & figured I was clear to bring back Subways Of Your Mind, I just got a *real* copyright claim from FEX. I can share ad revenue on this episode, but I'll be using the CIA song as my intro permanently from now on.
Raining hard in Manhattan today. I'm in my pajamas in my warm apartment with my gf, feverishly editing the best, most overstuffed 1h40 of TCOC I've ever made. Finally doing the story I teased at the end of the Corbin Bleu episode, and it's the deepest rabbit hole I've ever found.
I can't believe this - I saw this comment back when my Robert Stanek video was blowing up, but only now did I check the username. Welcome to the Cabinet, Hbomb. There's far more where this came from.
I'm looking forward to 200k subscribers, but I'm looking forward to 199k even more, because that's when I'll overtake Taylor Lorenz
A few weeks ago I noticed a trend of "Zohran Un-derangement Syndrome" on liberal/YIMBY Twitter: seems everyone overnight suddenly realized Zohran is pragmatic and not that bad compared to the alternatives. I'm glad he won, I don't think he'll be popular, but I wish him the best.
Here's a question I've wondered about for years: when did "technology" become synonymous with computers in casual use? If you're an auto mechanic you "work in tech" too, but nobody would ever say that.
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Best thing about Zohran is his willingness to say "Will my outside-the-box policy proposals work? Maybe not, but we'll never know if we don't try them out."
Every candidate needs the guts to say that. Progressives are usually so smug and self-important and he's clearly not.
"Money in politics" is the same as "online misinfo" - sure, it's a real problem, but midwits cling to it to avoid the real blackpill:
Your political enemies truly believe what they say, wouldn't change if given your education or experience, and aren't being paid or brainwashed.
Band names by era
50s: Clark Johnson and the Guys
60s: The Kar Keys
70s: Fat Bobby
80s: Market Rate
90s: Crumpleface
00s: The Third Man On The Moon
10s: TH3M
20s: Clark Johnson and the Guys
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Look, I’ll defend British food til my dying day, but D is so OP here I’m surprised this is even remotely controversial. You can even still have British food if you choose D, since Australia’s in it.