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You know, someone else could make a show about politics that is not a reboot of The West Wing. Maybe someone whose approach to politics doesnā€™t include absolute devotion to a strategy that has never worked in anyoneā€™s life.

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After spending a few mins looking at players that have worn 15, 52, and 36, I've come to the conclusion that I got stuck with an uninteresting number

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I'm concerned about society's abilities to solve big problems if every major city is completely stymied by "how do we make people pay for the train"

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Guy who has only seen Locke, reading the Dave Grohl announcement: Getting a lot of ā€˜Lockeā€™ vibes from thisā€¦

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itā€™s ā€œcircling backā€ season (derogatory)

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GOdavekarpf.bsky.social

NEW RULE: if you are going to *thank ChatGPT* in the acknowledgements of your book, then you have to put the acknowledgments at the beginning rather than the end.

One more newfangled acknowledgment: ChatGPT was a significant help in
476 / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, METHODS, AND SOURCES
writing this book, serving as a creative muse when coming up with things like chapter subheadings, metaphors, and analogies, and for refining my understanding of technical topics that are likely to be well represented in its corpus. t is not a reliable fact-checker, which is why I needed Andy and the Penguin Press team. And I can't stand its prose style-all of the writing is my own. None-theless, it's a helpful tool for a nonfiction author and improved my productivity.
Finally, thank you for purchasing this book. I hope to have made it worth your while. But I'm still going to claw out every inch of EV that I can if we met at the poker table.
ā€”Nate Silver, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 10, 2024
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It is with a heavy heart that I must admit I spent a summer in college working in a lumber yard and another working in accounts payable for a small company. To have hid this from the public is unforgivable. bsky.app/profile/greg...

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The purpose of the postmenopausal female is to stop the rebels in the outer planets, bring Mars to heel and gain control of the protomolecule

Christen Avasarala, the leader of Earth in "the Expanse" tv series.
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idk why everyone makes such a big deal about lebron maintaining this level at age 39; I am also about as good at basketball as I was 20 years ago

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