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David@finagle-a-hegel· 25d

Lmao they literally did the bit

Image of a Vulture article screenshot with headline "As Far As We Know, Justin Theroux Doesnt Actually Have a Motorcyle Toilet" and a picture of a man on his phone in brown jacket and jeans and a blonde woman looking thoughtful sitting on a motorcycle in front of him

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jul 17

I haven't read Traister in a minute, and, let me just say, I feel like the Traister I remember would tear apart the one today who refers to Platner as merely "an alleged sexual miscreant." You don't have to be this person. You don't have to follow this path.

Partial text from an article in New York Magazine by Rebecca Traister

"following legislative session; during their campaigns, Platner lit her up for her complacency.
What has been missing in Mills's response to ICE's brutalitv, and what Democratic voters have signaled has gone missing from Democratic politics in general in Trump's second term, is any sense of genuine, visceral horror, of moral disgust, and a drive to fight back - which outsider candidates. even alleged sexual miscreants like Platner, have provided, or at least managed to perform more persuasively than their Establishment rivals. Tepid institutional response to Guerrero's killing is key to understanding not only Platner's former popularity but also why much of the Democratic base remains so frustrated with its party in Maine and beyond"

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jul 13

The... Dean of Harvard Medical School testified that Tylenol causes autism and/or ADHD??????????

While Plaintiffs-Appellants bring their claims uander the tort law of various states, there is no dispute that "all fifty states require some evidence of general causation in products liability cases involving complex products liability (or medical) issues."' In re Mirena IUS Levonorgestrel-Related Prods. Liab. Litig. (No. II), 982 F.3d 113, 124 (2d Cir. 2020) (internal quotation marks omitted). Plaintiffs- Appellants produced five experts to opine on general causation
Dr. Baccarelli is an epidemiologist and physician, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, and dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. App'x 5417. He identified and analyzed the peer-reviewed literature on prenatal acetaminophen exposure, then applied two epidemiological methodologies--the Bradford Hill criteria and the Navigation Guide7-to synthesize that evidence. Under each methodology Baccarelli concluded that the evidence supports a finding of causality.
Dr. Hollander is a psychiatrist and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He opined as to the interconnectedness of neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and ASD, explaining that it is appropriate for scientists to consider the two outcomes together, as well as to consider studies with symptomatic endpoints, when assessing whether a causal relationship exists
7 The Navigation Guide is a method distinct from the Bradford Hill analysis. According to Baccarelli, the Navigation Guide is used "to more readily evaluate causal relationships for toxic and environmental harms." App'x 1745. It involves the "systematic rating and review of" individualized studies addressing a potential causal relationship "for bias, strength of evidence, and other indicia of study quality.'' Id,
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between acetaminophen and ADHD and ASD. App'x 2475. Plaintiffs-Appellants offered Hollander's testimony as support for Baccarelli's Bradford Hill analysis which cons…

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jul 7

This whole thing was so insane to witness and isn't less insane in retrospect either. Fucking Bon Appetit got in there with a feature! As was pointed out then: a major story here to be told about the networks involved in propping this guy up in terms of PR, media, etc

Image of bon appétit magazine story showing a picture of Graham Platner, white guy with jeans and a shirt with trademark rolled up sleeves. You can see an upside campaign sign next to him and he is sitting. Text reads: At The Dunbar Store, a small grocery store off Route I in Sullivan, Maine, Graham Platner has a very specific nickname. We called him "footlong ham and cheese guy," Josh Winer, Dunbar's owner, says. Most days, he'd pick up a ham and cheese and a Moxie--a New

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jun 30

Apropos of this from Jamelle, who has correctly turned off quote posts so I'm just using the screenshot, I was just reading about how Medicare had no chance to pass despite endless hearings and campaigns until Rs got crushed in 64. We can affect these things collectively.

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the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jun 25

I don't have a subscription but this is a hilarious troll based on the headline lol

Financial Times headline screenshot

Alphaville Strategy Inc. How does Strategy save itself? We asked its financial adviser: a chatbot
Stretching credibility

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jun 23

"has a unique flush"! Courtesy of a friend of mine browsing Facebook marketplace

Facebook Marketplace posting for a Vintage Toilet
Image text:
Vintage Toilet 1987
$50
Just listed. 9 hours ago
Message seller
Good morning, is this still available?
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Vintage toilet works fine has a unique flush. When we took it off had a 1990 calendar stuck on the side

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jun 14

Not yet clear what's going on. This is near a metro station it looks like. I don't think I have ever seen so many emergency vehicles in one place at once

Post by Musicology Duck showing a street with a huge number of emergency lights and vehicles in a very small pack together

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jun 7

The stuff is legit hunterbiden.com/work/self-po...

David@finagle-a-hegel· May 20

Deepest possible sigh here

Picture of Ben Affleck smoking and looking exhausted outside his house

David@finagle-a-hegel· May 6

This one might be my favorite

Highlighted footnote: "24 I would not have characterized Anna/Mia's sintrospectivity 1n this manner if left to my own devices. but I will accept Freeman's characterization in order to explain why it does not create substantial similarity."

David@finagle-a-hegel· Apr 29

Michael Saylor looking at people throwing 500 million at Eric Trump's bitcoin treasury play

Meme image. Close up on man's face saying "Am I a joke to you?"
I actually don't know who is depicted in this meme

David@finagle-a-hegel· Apr 24

Lmao amazing. The whole thing is funny too cause structurally when I think of the guy who had a solid primary against Trump (à la McCain/Bush 2000) it's this fuckin guy:

Pick of sad, much younger looking Ted Cruz making calls for Trump and Pence campaign after losing in the primary in 2016

David@finagle-a-hegel· Apr 7

This is farther along for JFavs on this particular path than I realized (I know he isn't yet a fan of Tucker but as so often with media many of them can only see their fellow members as people and the rest of us as ungrateful barbarians)

Jon Favreau @jonfavs

The entire monologue is worth watching

Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson. 22h
Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us.
0:00 Monologue 43:23 Paula White's Strange Easter Sunday Service..

David@finagle-a-hegel· Apr 7

Yeah i can't say for sure how it will play out but I definitely can't rule out a flip and delete all old posts type of thing. Sorta this vibe:

Picture of Trump looking demonic at a fancy dinner table with Mitt Romney looking guilty and like the total moral failure he is

David@finagle-a-hegel· Apr 1

Here i thought it was in the DNA of all Brits to go to the moon

Claymation image of Wallace and his dog on the moon, rocket and desolate landscape in background. Dog is holding a bag and Wallace has a picnic basket. He's wearing a green sweater vest and brown slacks

David@finagle-a-hegel· Mar 31

Meme image of a man in a dark suit in a formal US government office delivering a line about "you lost *another* submarine?"

David@finagle-a-hegel· Mar 25

I have had far too many thoughts in reaction to this Moyn piece but ultimately the nicest thing I can say about it is that he seems to exist in an alternate universe at least when I read his online or short form work and so I just can't find merit in further engagement beyond just doing the meme

Meme format conversation between Jesse and Walter White. No text but just five images of back anf froth. Implied ending is Walt saying Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

David@finagle-a-hegel· Mar 4

Not only are these not contradictory but they're mutually reinforcing. Like, yes! The phrase vote blue no matter who is obviously about the general election, which means the primary is where we push for better candidates and policies. I've never seen VBNMW applied to mean otherwise

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David@finagle-a-hegel· Feb 27

This man is deeply unwell

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

David@finagle-a-hegel· Feb 17

Fam, it's bad out there in the agencies. Hell of a subhed: "Experts and SSA employees question wisdom of telling callers in crisis that suicide is an option." www.govexec.com/management/2...

It's important for Fiona to keep the caller engaged and to remind her that suicide is only one option,' the animated trainer told employees in the video, a copy of which was obtained by Government Executive, "and that there is no urgency to make any decisions."
Employees at the training, which occurred on Jan. 26 for benefits authorizers and post- entitlement technical experts, were taken aback by the comment and asked their supervisors for clarity. One employee at the training said there was "disbelief that it was just said" among those in the room.
Caitlin Thompson, a clinical psychologist who spent eight years at the Veterans Affairs Department as a clinical care coordinator on the Veterans Crisis Line and later as the department's national director of suicide prevention, said SSA's approach did not follow commonly accepted best practices.
"It's not a normal thing to say," Thompson said. "No. That's not the thing you say to somebody who might be suicidal."
Instead, SSA would be better suited tell

David@finagle-a-hegel· Feb 7

God this really is a lot. I kind of thought he'd reveal he's just trolling or something by the end. He worked in Amherst! He also seems to think the primary objection is just vague notions of superficiality? This whole exercise is just bizarre

The country is incredibly, almost stunningly, safe. After a month or so of living here, you begin to realize that Western (and especially American) societies are never on less than yellow alert—you are always on guard for threats to your person or property. Here, you just … aren’t. People don’t worry about theft or disorder, and they especially don’t worry that a crazy driver (there are many) might shoot them. Living in a safe society again (my third one, after Doha 2013-2014 and Shanghai 2004) has done much to convince me that the level of disorder and actual threat that Americans in particular tolerate (and will even, bafflingly, defend) is, actually, unacceptable.

David@finagle-a-hegel· Feb 1

These are just the stupidest fucking people. If enough people had been able to think one day ahead, we would not have lost control of the state. We are now hopeful about regaining control of the state to stop the killing. Stopping bad things is good and preventing them is even better

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"The GOP must be panicking for November!" It's February and thev're wandering around killing us with impunity
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I've had people reach out saying "well they're gonna pay for it in midterms." Okay so that's ten months from now

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jan 23

Picture of WeWork found Adam Neumann with a speech bubble below him, suggesting he is saying the quoted post. Behind him is a picture of a wework sign outside one of their locations

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jan 23

Feel like this explains a lot about what's been happening in the video game industry (excepting Ubisoft, which just loves layoffs, of course) From www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

Chart depicting spending on video games from 1990 to 2024. Shows consistent growth until 2022 at which point is falls and levels off. Text reads "Had decade-long growth rates just halved, then 2022 would have grown $9.3B in annual revenue, 2023 another $9.8B (+$19B v. actual), 2024 another 10.2B (+$29B)

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jan 20

Michael Saylor rn

Meme format "I just need to" repeating over a cycle and stating each time "I just need to buy another $1.5 billion BTC"

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jan 15

Mamdani is awesome but man I sorely hope no one takes this away from his time in office because boy this is not even kind of true. Systems and history and structures are harder to overcome than this and I feel like a virtue of the left involves appreciating that fact

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Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
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David@finagle-a-hegel· Jan 6

They just came out with Making Makers, but it's not my are so I can't endorse. Seems like the logical next read tho global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Image of the front cover of the book Making Makers: The Past, the Present & the Study of War by Michael P.M. Finch

David@finagle-a-hegel· Jan 5

Hearing Mr. Hill's post in the voice of Miette