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Comment · 2 years ago
The conservative Sohrab Ahmari recently wrote a piece in which even he found Musk to be too conservative for his tastes. One of his complaints:

>A popular white-nationalist account with the handle “IAmYesYouAreNo” posts a meme declaring, “You are witnessing the biggest act of cuckoldry in human history. An entire civilisation willingly giving away its land and women.” Musk quotes the post, adding in his own words, “Accurate” (he has since deleted the response).

What's the mitigating context here? Can you adequately explain it for me?

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I used to lean towards the belief that Epstein was murdered, but as I read the reports and evidence describing the circumstances of his incarceration, I came to realize that it really was just a suicide, enabled by incompetence.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wow, it works. But it's not random, afaict. I keep getting the privacydev instance.

How do they keep theirs up and running?

Comment · 2 years ago
>One of the best writing tips I've ever gotten was to avoid using demonstrative pronouns. Instead of saying “this” or “that,” you should add a noun to spell out exactly what you’re referring to, even if you’ve just mentioned it.

This piece of advice is maybe the only thing I remember from my college English class. A naked "this" or "that" now feels shamefully lazy to me.

Comment · 2 years ago
The winget version is still stuck on v6.1.1. Valve pls fix.
Comment · 2 years ago
Software probably sucks because even the people complaining that it sucks will use a software platform that greets you with multiple pop-ups that obscure 80% of the screen. Can Medium just die off already?
Comment · 2 years ago
I've never heard of this brand, so saying "corn snacks" helps clarify what they are.
Comment · 2 years ago
Can we just get rid of lossy image compression, please? It's so unpleasant looking at pictures on social media and watching them degrade over time as they are constantly reposted. What will these pictures look like a century from now?
Comment · 2 years ago
This is so great to see at a time when so many other services are putting more and more of their content behind a gate (cough Twitter). It's sad that it even feels radical at all.
Comment · 2 years ago
Collin has been writing more extensively on IRC. A screenshot of one of his posts can be seen in [this YouTube video](https://youtu.be/0pT-dWpmwhA?t=1158).

He notes that while he was unsatisfied with some of the changes Tan introduced, Tan was nonetheless extremely helpful.

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