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sports & tech | regular contributor to WIRED | past: ESPN, Ringer, Scientific American, Guardian | tips: bdowsett.nyfwc@gmail.com Signal: bdows.99 | leftist who does not stick to sports | Free Palestine

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All the people/entities involved in this need to be sued into fucking oblivion.

It's obvious the government isn't going to help. We have to ruin these people financially so they'll stop killing our kids.

10.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
133 wpm at 99% accuracy, good lord

133 wpm at 99% accuracy, good lord

OK I believe this is a personal record, damn I didn't know I had this in me

09.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah the one I posted was my second try lol, first one was like 108.

I actually envy your ability to have patience while typing. If I had that too, I could be even better lol. Alas

09.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lol no I think that's very fair. What's crazy is there are people who put me to shame. We used to do competitions in a newsroom I worked in, an assignment desk lady could do 130+ and it was insane

09.03.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That is good! My number is not healthy lol

09.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
I type 118 wpm at 96% accuracy lol

I type 118 wpm at 96% accuracy lol

You only adopted the nerddom. I was born in it, molded by it.

09.03.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Peak level he's probably close already

09.03.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That might mean admitting they’re people, though. Tough ask.

09.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But Aaron, Israel has a right to defend itself.

09.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is what manufacturing consent looks like in action. Laundering the world's atrocities on behalf of the powerful.

09.03.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Any version of Wembanyama who stays reasonably healthy feels like a lock to be the best defensive player of all time, at a minimum. That feels pretty much locked up already.

09.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Buying a new AI voice command robot vacuum so I can tell it β€œgo clean over there” and confuse it several times a day (and then returning it obviously)

09.03.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Marcus was just a couple extra steps and a well-placed elbow from doing the world a real favor

08.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If it wasn’t so fraught with risks (even for someone like me), being detained by a cop when I’ve truly done nothing wrong would be a bucket list item for me

08.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No interaction with cops is pleasant (especially with a darker skin tone) but I have to imagine the end of this one was at least somewhat satisfying

08.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

With no disrespect to the post author, I disagree that this is a β€œtake.”

This isn’t a take, it’s not an opinion someone could debate. It’s a basic fact. And it’s really hard to reckon with a world where so many people somehow disagree.

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08.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s such a stain on our species that we’re capable of thinking of each other like this

08.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bombing oil refineries and desalination plants isn’t what you do when you want to β€œliberate” a country.

They’re what you do when you want to destroy it.

08.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Bombing hospitals? βœ…

Imitating medical personnel or enemy combatants? βœ…

Violating ceasefires? βœ…βœ…βœ…βœ…βœ…

Targeting children? βœ…

Violently occupying other sovereign nations? βœ…

08.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Something something ministry of health figures can’t be trusted something something

08.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Name any war crime you can think of.

Whatever you thought of, it’s standard procedure for the IDF.

08.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The past/present music scene from the first half of the movie is one of my single favorite film scenes in at least a decade. Incredible

08.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't threaten me with a good time

08.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, Sinners is an absolute masterpiece. What a movie. Kicking myself for waiting so long.

08.03.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s so incredible that funding televised ethnic cleansing with our tax dollars counts as β€œdoing a good enough job” to you, and that you see no issue with this logic

07.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such fucking insanity lol, it is absolutely a political candidate’s job to motivate voters. That is literally the job. My word

07.03.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s not much point in trying to debate with these people sadly. You by yourself may have done more to further the Harris campaign’s chances of winning than anything *the Harris campaign* did, but the moment you say one negative thing about them you’re the reason they lost.

07.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These dorks type out these posts and earnestly think they’ve made a great point

07.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You don’t need an expert in human consciousness to explain why the predictive text function on your phone isn’t β€œconscious” folks

07.03.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd have to check again but I'm pretty sure it has 2 different readings and one of them is the active level

And at least in the state I'm in, I'm pretty sure the charge for one is nearly identical to the other anyway

07.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0