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Ben Dees
@bendeebendee.bsky.social
Math postdoc at Brown, PhD from JHU, undergrad at UR. Professional Website: sites.google.com/brown.edu/ben-dees
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Well, should the worst befall us, the fate of the country may not be as the country deserves, and the fate of the world may not be as the world deserves, but the fate of the Atlantic's writers? They'll get the show they always wanted, as sure as the monkey's paw has fingers

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is that a quote? I am paywalled and I don't particularly care to give bad journalism any more of my money. but do they actually say "elegant non-answers"?

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"If I drink this bottle of hydrofluoric acid, I should go on a diet afterwards"

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is there any chance that you intend to, perhaps, strive by physical force to compel the enemy to submit to your will?

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I just got the upgrade that lets me summon 2 level 1 Darknuts and honestly putting those against the little armadillo guys is very funny

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have not beaten it but have really enjoyed running around Hyrule with the ability to drop Darknuts on my problems

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who can you trust when you're running an affinity fraud but the affinity you're exploiting for fraud is affinity fraudsters

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relatedly, there is an incredibly grim irony to the modern guillotine-emoji folks---the guillotine of 1793 was first and foremost a weapon of liberalism against _all_ of its enemies---royalist, reactionary, constitutional-monarchist, _and leftist_

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I’m not in favor of blowing up North Carolina no matter how cursed their districts are

Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech,” commonly used as a meme shorthand for “I’m saying something bold and controversial;” used here quite ironically
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(biggest risk with this method is cutting the yolk when you break the shell; you can also rupture it with your fingers but that is in my experience rarer)

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Ben Dees
@bendeebendee.bsky.social
Math postdoc at Brown, PhD from JHU, undergrad at UR. Professional Website: sites.google.com/brown.edu/ben-dees
96 followers22 following1.1k posts