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  Kinda sublime how Stranger Things now stirs nostalgia not only for the 80s but also for when Netflix was something people actually liked using.

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  Because I’m a pedant, I’m annoyed when people say the U.S., India, or right-leaning EU states are “revanchist”. Yes, they’re bad. No, they’re not trying to regain lost territory. However, Russia and China absolutely are. This misuse dilutes the seriousness of Taiwan threats and the Ukraine War.

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  Minor thing but man dril (once the definitive weird twitter account) has really fallen off (you don’t even have to read the “joke” here, it’s also the fact that it’s on Threads)

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  An unpopular opinion of mine is that the commercial passenger aviation industry should’ve been gradually wound down after 9/11. These trips have huge externalities and most of them (the trips) aren’t important at all.

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  The most baffling praise of Infinite Jest is that it’s funny. It’s not. This is captured in how its most famous sentiment (“[wtf] is water”) is buried in filler about “Bob Death smiled coolly”. You can make the case that it’s a good and important book (I disagree) without defending its “humor.”

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  They don’t tell you this before you start selling, but every eBay buyer lives in North Carolina

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  YIMBYs often argue that the restrictive housing policies of the big blue states (CA, NY, and IL) are handing the U.S. government over to “red states” but it seems like the opposite is true? People leaving those states have made TX, NV, GA, and AZ much bluer. FL is the one exception.

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  Guy trying to nickel-dime me on eBay by offering like $1.59 less than the listed price on four items, when he could just buy all four together and save 20%. 🤷

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  Nvidia makes less than 1% of its revenue from selling chips to China. The idea that it being able to sell H200s to Chinese companies was some vital lifeline was always ridiculous, a farce hiding it in plain sight but now we might know why https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-jensen-huang-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  If you’ve been taken in by Ed Zitron’s logorrheic AI takes, may I also recommend Elizabeth Holmes’ ideas on blood testing? They’re the same “I made it up”-style improvisation by people who aren’t even members of the fields they’re commenting on.

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  Do you ever think about how the Iran War is probably the most successful climate change mitigation action ever taken?

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  I haven’t seen Korea get wrongfooted by a European power like this since the Free City Incident almost exactly 105 years ago #WorldCup #CoupeMondiale #CoupeDuMonde #soccer #football #fifa #FIFAWorldCup #Canada #America #RSA #sports #Mexico

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  People don’t realize how much Taiwan has pivoted away from the PRC and toward the USA economically. Its exports to the USA outvalue those of both the PRC and Vietnam.

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  AAAA - also a #battery #dns https://www.batterymart.com/p-energizer-max-aaaa-alkaline-batteries-2pk.html @kevin https://mastodon.km6g.us/@kevin/113724524588964200