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mingus
@mingus Nov 22, 2022, 9:21 AM UTC

People don't seem to understand the concept of what a job is.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11451915/Qatar-World-Cup-2022-BBCs-virtue-signalling-stars-slammed-hypocrisy.html Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby weren't on a jolly. They aren't dille…

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mingus
@mingus Nov 12, 2022, 3:46 AM UTC

One of the takeaways from the recent elections is the uniqueness of Trump.

As I look at the effect, he has had it occurs to me that his 2016 win was a huge fluke that probably should never have happened. However, he ran in a race against an exceptionally bad candidate and w…

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@mingus Nov 11, 2022, 1:55 AM UTC

A fascinating bit of human biology I never thought about before.

I’ve seen discussions of the jaw and lips and palate and teeth and such related to diet shifts over the last couple million years, and of course more recently speech, but didn’t consider that only hu…

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mingus
@mingus Nov 5, 2022, 2:18 AM UTC

Hard pass for Pandemic Amnesty.

I'll grant you "Pandemic Amnesty" when you issue an apology and start doing some actual work to repair the damage you've done. Show contrition and stop making excuses. Everybody with a brain knew tha…

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mingus
@mingus Nov 3, 2022, 2:27 AM UTC

My two cents on Emily Oster's Atlantic article.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/ I agree with Oster. Forgiveness (or "amnesty," as she puts it) is necessary. However: forgiveness is a two way str…

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@mingus Oct 30, 2022, 3:30 AM UTC

And then they cancelled my train. Again.

I understand that the rail network needed people prepared to work overtime to function. But Transpennine Express cancelled FIFTY trains in one day last week. Fifty. Avanti manages one an hour to Lond…

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@mingus Oct 25, 2022, 12:28 AM UTC

What's happening to Brittney Griner is an ongoing travesty.

Really, it's hard for me to think of anything that should land you in prison for possession. Still, isn't there a "scout thyself" moment here that a lot of people are missing? I'm with all of you tha…

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@mingus Oct 23, 2022, 2:24 AM UTC

Administration, here we come?

This, one of my old favourites and finally pushed over the edge into administration. It won't be the first, and certainly won't be the last. By the Tories are voted out, this will be many of us. Hosp…

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@mingus Oct 22, 2022, 2:23 AM UTC

"Bring back Boris" as an option is sickening.

The only thing that could make the Tory party even more toxic than they currently are. The only thing that could make them even more morally bankrupt than they are. The only thing that makes them mor…

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@mingus Oct 20, 2022, 1:53 AM UTC

I'd just like to clarify some things for my International friends.

A party that was elected by 42.4% of votes versus 40% of votes and because of that held 20% more seats and thus felt empowered to enact a thing that 37.46% of voters voted for recently had a motion o…

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