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46% of voters voted for Donald Trump.

In 2016, they were in the right states to make that an electoral college victory.

In 2020, they weren't.

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Unity, Tolerance, Democracy, Trump, and 46%.

A thread.

I see throwing out food is on the discourse again.

This is your occasional reminder that the reason is (usually) not greed or meanness, but liability for health code violations.

There are Seven Billion of you and only One of Me.

I want a keyboard autocomplete powered by GPT-3.

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"An eye for an eye" is all well and good, unless you're a Cyclops and your enemy is a spider.

In short, the fact that being removed from Twitter and the app stores and Facebook and Amazon is so devastating is best addressed by weakening those companies by spreading out our digital life onto lots of platforms.

Not by strengthening them by giving them formal duties to either carry or remove speech based on its content. These duties will justify all kinds of anticompetitive activity, because only a very profitable company can afford to fulfil them.

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in a shocking turn of events that nobody could have predicted, feds are building extremist groups to justify their budgets

Chris: If Kermit and Miss Piggy have kids, will they be frogs or pigs?

Bob: On one episode of _The Muppet Show_, Kermit suggested that they might have "hopping baby figs".

Alice: Technically, that was Kermit's robot duplicate.

Alice: Achievement: Capture 1000 Elves.

Bob: What are you going to do with 1000 Elves?

Carl: I'm making a meat dragon, and not just any meat will do.

I'm seeing reports that DHS failed to issue a warning about known plans for violence on Jan 6.

Isn't this the problem DHS was _created to solve_? The 9/11 plotters were known, but not apprehended because agencies couldn't share information?

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