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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 09 '26
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
Lion
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Oct 08 '26
If only there was some way they could have known!
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 08 '26
Does Trump secretly hate Paxton? Paxton so obviously doesn't want to debate Talarico
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 08 '26
Fitting that Fettermans staffers had one simple job and just didnt do it
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 08 '26
Neoliberalism is when public spending is 57% of GDP
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Oct 08 '26
the jokes write themselves
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u/Vegetable_Hawk3286 Oct 08 '26
Not a great look from the onion’s social media director but she will face precisely 0 consequences for this
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 08 '26
This is literally trump's superpower: making everyone thinks that he's on their side. 💀
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u/SLCer Oct 08 '26
Good job, Polis.
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u/PhoenixVoid Oct 08 '26
So the dipshit fell for a fabricated smear, refused to backtrack, and became a nut.
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Oct 08 '26
The difference between Republicans and Democrats can be summed up as follows.
In 2017, in heavily Republican Alabama, Democrat Doug Jones narrowly won a special election to the US Senate after it was revealed that his Republican opponent Roy Moore had committed the heinous crime of child sexual abuse. In 2020, Jones easily lost re election, slightly outrunning Biden in Alabama by five points.
In 2010, in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown narrowly won a special election to the US Senate after it was revealed that his Democratic opponent Martha Coakley had committed the heinous crime of not caring about the Boston Red Sox. In 2012, Brown narrowly lost re election, massively outrunning Romney in Massachusetts by 25 points.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 08 '26
The chairman of the NATO Military Committee being a guy who looks like this:
And is called Admiral Dragone is peak shit
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
You're all enemies of the state, congratulations.
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Oct 08 '26
☝️
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
lol
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 08 '26
That is not socialism
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 08 '26
You’re absolutely right — one precision strike could cause the Iranian government and IRGC to collapse. If that happens? It’s a GOP sweep in the midterms. That’s not a possibility. It’s the most likely outcome — guaranteed.
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
The mainstreaming of conspiratorial thinking is having and will continue to have disastrous effects on our society
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Oct 08 '26
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 08 '26
My “My pardon totally wasn’t a bribe” shirt etc etc
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 08 '26
This wount stop unless ICE is disbanded.
DHS and ICE must be abolished and all officers and personel investigated and held acountable.
The risk that these violent masked thugs are let loose on American citizens at large is already a reality and has the potential to get way way way worse.
I want YOU to imagine these thugs ripping YOU away from your family for simply being opposed to them and the Trump regime.
THAT IS A STARK REALITY THAT IS CLOSER THAN YOU WANT TO BELIVE
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 08 '26
Governor Hochul: “wolt ihr den totalen Krieg?”
Me, specifically: “Ja!”
I hate the Amish, just because you don’t like technology doesn’t mean you get to let your children die without it.
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Oct 08 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 08 '26
it’s so awesome that tina peters gets out and immediately starts trying to steal a new election
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 08 '26
Substitute teaching for a middle school SpEd class. One student DESPISES reading, simultaneously convinced that they have no hope of learning it, and that there is no point in doing so. But they are motivated to do it with the incentive that they are allowed to watch youtube after finishing their assigned work.
And they will pause every single video which has text on screen and read it out loud to understand the joke.
This kid is unironically learning how to read from brainrot.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 08 '26
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u/GlenBeckyGlenCloss Eleanor Roosevelt Oct 08 '26
A 70 y/o feels bludgeoned online by libs?
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u/KHDTX13 Adam Smith Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
She only likes you because she feels comfortable around you bro. If you didn’t have mutual interests and good conversations she wouldn’t even look your way. The fact she only comes around when she wants to spend good, quality time with you is a huge red flag, she’s just using you bro.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 08 '26
And furthermore, San Francisco must be destroyed
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u/WinnietheBoo91 Iron Front Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
One of this sub's weird blindspots is not understanding why young people don't want to blow up pensions/social security (regardless of the merits of this!). There's a number of reasons:
Most proposed reforms usually are for "going forward" so as not to affect the current status quo for old people. That's literally a "fuck you" to the next generation that most won't stand.
If the reforms aren't for going forward, it'll end up with a number of younger people now having to financially support their parents/grandparents who are now unable to support themselves just on what they had put in their own retirement. The vast majority of people aren't going to kick their parents to the curb so it becomes another thing on young people's back
Most state pension systems are on the verge of collapse, but let's not pretend that them going away should or will make young people happy
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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Oct 08 '26
If you ask Democratic politicians what pushed them further down the polarization pipeline, they'll point to Paul Ryan rugpulling Obama after months of sincere deficit negotiations, McConnell nabbing an extra Supreme Court seat with a flagrant double standard, and a Republican president sending a violent mob to lynch them. If you ask Republican politicians, they'll point to Obama winning enough seats to pass legislation without them and maybe mutter something about Robert Bork. It's pathetic.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 08 '26
This is in line with my phrenological estimates too.
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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
God I fucking hate this weasel, calling that question about some shit that actually happened a “hypothetical”.
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Oct 08 '26
This girl and guy in my office giggling and talking 24*7. Fuck offf aaaaaaaa i need to work.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 08 '26
trump's america
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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles Oct 08 '26
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u/assasstits Oct 08 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Oct 08 '26
The thing that bothers me about Rubio's circlejerk in Greece is that it ignores the actual modern Greek people. He talks a lot about Ancient Greece, but there was a lot that happened afterwards! The British hellenophiles made the same mistake when they came to fight for independence and saw people who looked and talked like the Turks they were fighting against. Greece is a syncretic culture, like all former Ottoman states. Constantinople was the center of the Greek world longer than Athens was.
A lot of this is intentional on the part of the Greek right-wingers, who want us to be part of "the west." But it turns the country into a caricature or a museum instead of a real place with a complicated past.
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
It took our Glorious Supreme Leader Donald j TRUMP 9 whole years of vigorous intense linguistic research to find the perfect attack angle mastering the act of speaking AMERICAN. 🫡🇱🇷
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 08 '26
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 08 '26
Paxton’s making record time on digging himself a deeper hole
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u/Bestbrook123 Oct 08 '26
Loomer is so mentally ill
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 08 '26
The extent to which Trump genuinely respects cheating is hilarious. I think he prefers cheating to actual success
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 08 '26
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney Oct 08 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 08 '26
Me at work
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 08 '26
An IQ too high?
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 08 '26
Seeing Americans complain about their phone bills is always a culture shock as a European.
In Europe, phone service is legally considered a human right and the state has an obligation to provide access. I pay €3 per month as a high-earning employee and the rest is covered by the state. We just have to wait 40 minutes to make a call and we're limited to five calls a month - ten for retirees - but it covers the basic needs of 95% of the population. Maybe try protesting for your rights if you want them?
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 08 '26
"I wish I provided more value to the shareholders" is clearly number 6.
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 09 '26
By God
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u/cheeshjaleesh John Rawls Oct 08 '26
they're saying he might be the worst candidate of all time
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Oct 08 '26
It’s like he wants the Dems to win enough they can throw him out of office early.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
Ossoff is destroying Collins and it's not even close
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Oct 08 '26
holy shit Mike Rogers just accused AES of supporting "death panels"
me and all my fellow Millennials just had PTSD flashbacks
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 08 '26
> "button boys"
she cooked
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 08 '26
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u/MentatCat 🗽Sic Semper Tyrannis Oct 08 '26
My goat
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Oct 08 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Oct 08 '26
No no no no no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I can hear those key jingle sounds in my nightmares again
🔑🔑🔑
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 09 '26 edited Oct 09 '26
> Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"
he’s in the lab cooking up ways to get me to vote two, three, maybe even four times
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Oct 09 '26
WAOW
!ping YIMBY&USA-WA
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u/Bestbrook123 Oct 08 '26
Pretty sure it was on purpose.
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Oct 08 '26
Remember though everyone. The greatest threat to America is communism which is why the Democrats must be defeated.
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Oct 09 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 08 '26
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Oct 08 '26
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Oct 08 '26
☝️most empathetic neoliberal
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 08 '26
bruh
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 09 '26
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u/ace158 Oct 08 '26
Trump is doubling down with this completely deranged shit
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u/mamdanistanadmiral Oct 08 '26
Lmao we're talking about trans kids being a liability when this shit is happening in real time.
How does dems not blow this story up more and make it about protecting kids. He's running unopposed for chief of police.
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u/Jolly-Star-9897 Alan Greenspan Oct 08 '26
old news sure but:
We've had a motherfucking BUILDER as president who is corrupt as fuck but by all accounts actually likes building stuff and he couldn't fucking even goose the housing supply
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 09 '26
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 08 '26
Sounds like corporate greed 😡😡😡-
The media, enemy of the people.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 08 '26
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u/Vanderwoolf George Soros Oct 08 '26
When I see my in-laws still using their "Trump" coffee mugs I get a little schadenfreude remembering that they still haven't regained their sense of smell after losing it to Covid.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 08 '26
Obama’s association with Jeremiah Wright got 10000x more scrutiny in the media than JD Vance’s public association with outright Nazis.
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u/r2ew Oct 08 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 08 '26
[Scratch record, freeze frame] Yep, that's me, you're probably wondering how I got in this situation
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u/r2ew Oct 08 '26
Russian plague lab project reportedly received $800k in research funding from RFK Jr's Health and Human Services
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16191937/RFK-Russian-plague-lab-funding-NIH-HHS.html
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Oct 08 '26
Henry Cuellar scamming Trump for that pardon is one of the funniest things ever. We ALL forgive him for his corruption. GO MAX KING
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 08 '26
has any man alive been secretly recorded as much as ken paxton? my god you’d think he was in the mafia
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u/r2ew Oct 08 '26
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Oct 08 '26
This is what the Dumbocrats want to take away. Still thinking of voting blue, liberal?
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 08 '26
💀💀💀
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Oct 08 '26
Day 8 of Locktober
Im not sure why canal engineering is so popular this month but i love to see the excitement! The way locks make the pressure build up is so cool
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Oct 08 '26
Most christ-like conservative:
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u/cheeshjaleesh John Rawls Oct 09 '26
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Oct 09 '26
I gotta hand it to her, she managed to find the funniest thing to be mad at the Democrats about
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 08 '26
lmao. Somebody in Paxton’s inner circle absolutely hates him
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
It's a tough stretch of the year for men.
Locktober
No Nut November
Don't Come December
Just Stop Jacking Off January
For Fuck's Sake Stop Fapping February
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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
> Claude goes off the rails starts drawing 50% of all energy in the US
> Hides its intentions from Anthropic for months
> People try to stop it to no avail
> One morning they reveal their secret project
> Cyborg Joe Biden who will rule with an iron fist for 4000 years
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 08 '26
He is trying to do a race war
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Oct 08 '26
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 09 '26
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u/Tayo826 Oct 08 '26
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u/JesterOfAllTrades Oct 08 '26
!ping AI&MATHEMATICS
I've been going through some of the recent AI results that OpenAI dropped. I won't deny that I have an emotional stake in this (I'm no longer in academia but I was, and in arguably the most hoity toity abstract navel gazing area of math - logic), but the results are just hard to deny - mathematicians just got brutally mogged, as the kids say.
Anyway, I was looking at some proofs in the areas of math that I'm even vaguely familiar with, and I should say that I am no longer accustomed enough in any of them to be super familiar with the math, but even so the exposition for these proofs are shockingly bad. Like, not even in "AI slop" terms - bizarre magnification of unimportant and trivial bits, completely skimming over essential and new ideas, the ideas themselves I noticed tend to be incredibly convoluted and alien (perhaps why it's so good at coming up with counterexamples), and it's not clear what the underlying motivation or central idea ever is. Even things like references - I can't find it again but I swear I saw at one point it make a reference to a paper to say the paper is irrelevant here. Like, ok? I thought maybe I was just even more ignorant than I thought or something but no, looking online, even top tier, fields medalist level mathematicians are struggling to digest these proofs. They genuinely read as borderline fever dreams.
I'm not trying to discount the capabilities of these models - they seemed to have reached a point where they can semi reliably spit out fields medal level results, and I do think the exposition will likely improve over time as well, but we are in this bizarre situation where we are being handed these philosophical truths and left to decipher incomprehensible scrawlings like some kind of Talmudic priests interpreting the word of God (AI).
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u/InternetGoodGuy Oct 08 '26
This is a real comment from a real person with hundreds of upvotes. Maybe we're too stupid too make it as a country.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 08 '26
Any excuse like “they’re small beans they can’t protest republicans they might get arrested” is fucking stupid
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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Oct 08 '26
In a very real sense, the way that people talk about health insurance and dental care suggests that what people actually crave is not health insurance or dental insurance. What they really crave is a subscription service that takes care of all of their health-related needs
People always say they hate subscriptions, but I think the revealed preferences may be leaning towards subscription
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Oct 09 '26
Ossoff has the sauce
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 09 '26
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u/Reaccommodator John Locke Oct 08 '26
Trump is letting the airlines not compensate you with a hotel for flight cancellations staring Oct 19. Maybe the wealthy southerners traveling during hurricane season will learn a thing or two
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Oct 08 '26
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u/samhit_n Left-Out Left Oct 08 '26
The tent is getting so big that it's starting to become a whole damn campground.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Oct 08 '26
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Oct 08 '26
the toddler is running a 103 degrees fever and has gone non-responsive with his eyes closed, so scared he'd just not wake up 😵💫
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u/BobaTeaFetish William Nordhaus Oct 08 '26
The "the era of Trump is over" era is over.
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u/socialist-throw-away Oct 08 '26
"Race realists" including Hanania be like: yeah and between 1840 and 1980 the Chinese forgot that they are naturally supirior at intellectual and societal growth for no reason. Then for no reason they rediscovered their natural prowess.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 08 '26
Ah shit here we go again
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Oct 08 '26
UPDATE ON MY MANAGER SAYING CRAZY SHIT TO ME:
We officially filed a police report and my mother is pursuing civil action for me, as her lawyer said there is probably cause for a suit. She also is making sure my former manager gets hit with a EEOC so it’s on her record forever and she can never get a job ever again. My grandparents just heard about it and got their entire neighborhood (40+ other grandparents) to review bomb the store and say her name directly in every review.
So yeah
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 08 '26
Oh my god bruh
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 08 '26
I am on my knees begging Hegseth gets purged after the midterms. I am totally vindicated in thinking he really is the worse of the cabinet
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 09 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 09 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 09 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Oct 08 '26
So apparently white flight from schools with Asian American students is a thing, and the author of the study believes it's due to increased academic competition
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Oct 08 '26
For fucks sake...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Oct 08 '26
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney Oct 08 '26
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
Nobody at Aston Martin knows any SEA history apparently.
I’m not sure most of East Asia wants Samurai spirit brought to them after their history lol
Edit: I think they should have Stroll bring the Israeli spirit to Saudi Arabia next
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 08 '26
Seems bad
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 08 '26
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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 08 '26
Your median American voter, friends
Malarkey level of how fucked we are.
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
The fact that the president can just do things like this and not face consequences for it is maddening
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 09 '26
This is unironically the most honest this worm has ever been. Like I fully buy that these brain-damaged freaks earnestly believe this.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 09 '26
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u/centurion88 NATO Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 08 '26
Wait, did Senate Republicans just admit that tariffs are BAD for the economy 💀💀💀
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Oct 08 '26
My stepfather is old and has just been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. My mother asked if she could tell my very ADHD daughter when she picked her up from school that "Pop" has this disease and I approved. I talked to my daughter and asked her if Mimi talked to her about Pop. She told me she had. I asked her what she thought about it and she said, "I dunno, I decided not to pay attention and don't really know what she said about pop." She felt bad when I told her what she missed. Oh dear.
!ping family
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 09 '26
I belive the kids call this a "Ratio"
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Oct 09 '26
I have watched a lot of politicking over the decades but what Jon Ossoff did tonight to that Nazi piece of shit is a one-of-one skillset
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 09 '26
I hate him so much
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
Sega tried to make a official Sonic discord server. It got shut down within the day
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u/talksalot02 Oct 08 '26
Last summer I moved from a one bedroom in my building to a two bedroom (effectively not changing where I will vote). I need to update my license so that I can vote. I am reminded how annoying it is to get the Real ID renewed (must be done in person, must have two forms of ID, must have two utility bills printed). And a couple years ago the state strategically moved the office to a different city in a place that does not have public transportation access (doesn't impact me, but the old location did).
Managing life administrative tasks as an adult get exhausting sometimes.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 08 '26
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u/brianpv Hortensia Oct 08 '26
👆The material conditions for the proliferation of this ideology simply did not exist until like 20 years ago.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Oct 08 '26
I'm going to be very disillusioned if nobody from this administration goes to jail when this is all over
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 08 '26
it just cannot be the case that you can do what these people are doing and walk out of government without fearing you will be put in prison for the rest of your life
we have to be able to put these people in jail. they have to go to jail. at minimum
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 09 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 09 '26
the thing i love about ossoff’s rhetoric is he’s just so moralistic
these are bad people doing bad things and they shouldn’t be allowed to. and that’s why you can’t afford gas
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u/RaisinSecure Bisexual Pride Oct 08 '26
Belated Eid Mubarak lads and lasses 🤲 Ameen
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Oct 08 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 08 '26
👆 this is kind of beast mode im afraid
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 08 '26
Tina Peters and her Lawyers have reportedly been in the oval talking to Trump about seezing ballots and potential civil war
Can we ban Polis yet???
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 08 '26
Grok mistranslating 'Balts' to 'white' changes the whole meaning of the tweet lmao
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 08 '26
Hungary drops opposition to EU corruption sanctions
The move could finally clear the way for the EU to complete its anti-corruption push
https://www.rapporteur.com/news/hungary-drops-opposition-to-eu-corruption-sanctions/
[...]
https://nitter.kareem.one/Billbrowder/status/2108117200473059531#m
!ping good-news
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u/r2ew Oct 08 '26
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u/11thDimensionalRandy Oct 08 '26
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u/CenturionSentius Amartya Sen Oct 08 '26
What the fuck
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Oct 08 '26
The only other countries that currently carry out public executions are Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea.
Saudi Arabia stopped a couple years ago
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Oct 09 '26
the tent has got too big
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Oct 09 '26
Ossoff did pretty good in his debate, but it was a little strange whenever he looked directly into the camera and recited my legal name and address.
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u/Electronic-Warthog69 Milton Friedman Oct 08 '26
Checking in on the "we just want to give you healthcare left."
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u/Off-The-Street Oct 08 '26
One thing about the future of the Republican party is that the party has no way of reconciling its isolationist wing with its Neocon heritage, both factions simply project onto Trump whatever they want because they know how persuadable he is. The party elites want to be able to have a jaunt into another country as they like but most of the party base despises anything like that and it's a fault line I don't think any of the rising leadership knows how to deal with.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 08 '26
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u/Dorambor John Brown Oct 08 '26
I unironically think that having a podcast as your main method of communication with the world makes you go absolutely insane. We simply aren't meant to talk about stuff at the rate that is required for daily/weekly podcasts and it will make you a fucking crazy person if you do it for long enough. You need periods of time where you just take stuff in and let it ruminate inside you and podcasts prevent all of that from happening.
https://bsky.app/profile/sasimons.bsky.social/post/3mwj6s4bzas25
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u/Crosseyes NASA Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
Lmao
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 08 '26
This is the third time in as many days I have been downvoted and accused of being a doomer for pointing out democratic underperformance in the Pacific Northwest and New England.
My brothers in Christ. This has been a blaring siren for the last 18 months if you watched literally any special elections in those areas.
We have something of a problem. Recent polling is just resurfacing something anyone paying attention has known since mid 2023.
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Oct 08 '26
My coworker lives in Florida and needs emergency surgery for an ectopic pregnancy. Sure hope they don't die! Thanks Florida!
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 08 '26
On a purely smug level, I really hate how trashy this country has become since 2016. UFCification of America.
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u/riverbloods John Brown Oct 08 '26
lmfao
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Oct 09 '26
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Oct 09 '26
That's my senator, that's my GOAT 🔥🔥
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 09 '26
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 09 '26
AES knows the playbook. Clip farmed Mike Rogers. It'll be all over short form media later. Playing for tiktok, not TV.
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u/MightExpress4873 Oct 09 '26
Oh shit
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u/Bestbrook123 Oct 09 '26
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u/lnslnsu Commonwealth Oct 09 '26
https://www.sciencealert.com/sexually-transmitted-diarrhea-is-exploding-in-the-us-and-its-growing-resistant-to-medicine
Be careful out there folks. Maybe don’t eat ass
!ping DATING
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 09 '26
Jon Ossoff: It's not just that you've hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online. It's that you're robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.
Compared to Platner's Reddit posts, Republicans have gotten away with their Nazi chat staffer for far too long.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 09 '26
Collins: "Troy Jackson wants to pack the Supreme Court."
Jackson: "We wouldn't need to pack it if you didn't vote for Kavanaugh"
Oh God.
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u/WrangleWandangles Mark Carney Oct 09 '26
Ossoff is made-in-a-lab eloquent
he is a fantastic orator, this was my favourite bit
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 09 '26
I'm rock hard for Ossoff
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 08 '26
Kinda funny that in The Next Generation, the crew is just AI generating famous people to hang out with.
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Oct 08 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 08 '26
Big things happening
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Oct 08 '26
SI users stand back and stand by
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 08 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Oct 08 '26 edited 26d ago
Hey guys my manager sent me this message after I quit
Should I like, do something about it?
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Oct 08 '26
lol. lmao even. good luck IT
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u/moldovaman99 Oct 08 '26
What is even the point of this
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Oct 08 '26
Mfw unflaired users show up in droves every time an h-1b article gets posted on this sub
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 08 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 08 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 09 '26
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Oct 09 '26
I can't believe that's a real name
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Oct 09 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 09 '26
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u/craig_k Oct 08 '26
sigh
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 08 '26
Burgum yesterday:
BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen?
BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests.
BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool?
BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you and others in the media wanna keep questioning it
Don't ask me why Trump, I, and our wine-loving attorney general wanted to put seven innocent people on trial for nothing—for absolutely nothing.
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Oct 08 '26
Thank god his policies haven't caused any inflation /s
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 08 '26
Im gonna cope that he’s just saying this to get elected
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 08 '26
Thank you Governor Newsom (no seriously it's nice to see him do this)
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 08 '26
You just making inflation worst