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Friday 26th of April 2024

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Assholes say It's a pain in the ass. …  There's like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer. Elon Musk, on riding the New York City subway © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say Honestly, we've never wanted people to overuse our products. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Citizenship Citizenship in our time is about how you spend your attention. Tim Wu [2018] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California, in his Gun Violence Awareness Day ruling overturning California's longtime ban on assault weapons © 2021 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You know, President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office. And I don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. Mike Pence, referring to the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, during which Trump and his supporters called for hanging Pence for failing to overturn Biden's election © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democracy The mission falls to each of us, each and every day. Democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world. What we do now, how we honor the memory of the fallen, will determine whether democracy will long endure. Joe Biden, Memorial Day 2021 speech at Arlington National Cemetery © 2021 Kwiple.com
Economic growth Ideas were the steam power of the Great Enrichment. Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Energy An utterly crushing day for Big Oil 1) Chevron investors demand emission cuts 2) Dutch court tells Shell to cut emissions by half 3) Exxon shareholders buck the company and elect directors demanding climate action. Thanks to all who fight--you push long enough and dominoes tumble Bill McKibben, 3:27 PM – May 26, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Government One of these days, the people of Louisiana are going to get good government, and they're not going to like it. attributed to Huey Long  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Ideas Ideas are the dark matter of history. Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Intelligence gathering Intelligence is about seeing and understanding. Counterintelligence is about making that difficult for others. Active measures, such as the [Russian] operation on behalf of the fictional character “Donald Trump, successful businessman,” are about inducing the enemy to direct his own strengths against his own weaknesses. Timothy Snyder The Road to Unfreedom © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Count votes in Congress by: 1. Calculating a Member's Proportional Vote (MPV) for each member, as follows: MPV = SPNP / NLRS where: SPNP = State's Percentage of the National Population NLRS = Number of Legislators Representing the State (in that legislature) 2. Totaling “yes” MPVs and “no” MPVs 3. Passing if total MPV is more than 50 OTHERWISE Abolish the Senate © 2019 Kwiple.com
Money Money is a funny thing … As the fruit of a little extra knowledge and experience of a special kind, it simply (and undeservedly in any absoute sense) comes rolling in. John Maynard Keynes © 2021 Kwiple.com
Native Americans I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. Theodore Roosevelt © 2021 Kwiple.com
Nukes America is building a new weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear missile the length of a bowling lane. It will be able to travel 6,000 miles, carrying a warhead more than 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot. … The US Air Force plans to order more than 600 of them. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Nukes Based on a Pentagon report cited by the Arms Control Association and Bloomberg News, the government will spend roughly $100 billion to build the weapon [a new nuclear missile] which will be ready to use around 2029. …  To put that price tag in perspective, $100 billion could pay 1.24 million elementary school teachers for a year, provide 2.84 million four-year university scholarships, or cover 3.3 million hospital stays for covid-19 patients. It's enough to build a massive mechanical wall to protect New York City from sea level rise. It's enough to get to Mars. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Nukes Once you've dropped a couple of nuclear bombs on a city, if you drop a couple more, all you do is make the rubble shake. Air Force Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Robert Latiff, who commanded a nuclear weapons unit in West Germany early in his career © 2021 Kwiple.com
Post-2020 Senate shituation 15 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming) 2020 population: 40,085,414 Senators: 30 Republicans 1 Senator per 1,336,180 people — 1 state (California) 2020 population: 39,368,075 Senators: 2 Democrats 1 Senator per 19,684,037 people 19,684,037 / 1,336,180 = 14.7, therefore: average 15er's vote is worth nearly 15 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth less than 7% of an average 15er's — 1 state (Wyoming) 2020 population = 582,328, therefore: 1 Senator per 291,164 Wyomians, a Wyomian's vote is worth 68 times a Californian's, a Californian's vote is worth 1.5% of a Wyomian's  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say What the fuck is an homage? Jack Warner responding to Warren Beatty,  who told Warner that Bonnie and Clyde  was an homage to Warner's 1930s gangster films after Warner had asked him, at a screening, “What the fuck is this?” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Schools The heavy reliance on state and local funding means that our country's nonwhite school districts get about $23 billion less every year than white school districts, even though they serve the same number of children. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Mr. Vanderbilt has no time for dentists, he has to work, work hard and always. Cornelius Vanderbilt portrayed by Billy Wilder, who noticed Vanderbilt's bad teeth while interviewing him for a newspaper © 2021 Kwiple.com
Statistics When statistics do not seem to make sense, I find it generally wiser to prefer sense to statistics. John Maynard Keynes © 2021 Kwiple.com
Teachers Back in the 1960s, public school teachers, on average, earned nearly 15 percent more than other people with similar educations. Now, even when health and retirement benefits are folded in, these teachers are making less than others with similar educations — about 10 percent less. Elizabeth Warren, Persist  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Teachers Second-rate teachers, a second-rate élite: the meritocracy can never be better than it teachers. Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi's forced Jewish people to wear a gold star. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 7:22 AM – May 25, 2021, equating employees of a supermarket chain that were allowed to go maskless if they wore vaccination logos to assure customers they had been vaccinated to Jews living in Nazi Germany  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol, and walk through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion, staying between the stanchions and ropes, taking videos and pictures. You know, if you didn't know that TV footage was a a video from January the sixth, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. Andrew Clyde, May 12, 2021, Republican House member representing Georgia's 9th congressional district, who also brags of being “one of the members” who “helped barricade the door [to the House] until almost 3pm,” which he must think is customary when tourists visit the House  © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Voting It is time for the United States to take a major leap forward and recognize voting as both a fundamental civil right and a civic duty required of every eligible U.S. citizen.  Miles Rapoport and E. J. Dionne, Jr., Dissent, Summer 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com