Rob in AUS @RobInAUS

I'm just this guy, OK? Australia, not Austin Joined September 2009

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Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse

a day ago

It takes 15 LAPD officers making an average of $100k a year to kill a fucking Golden Doodle. That’s $1.5 million dollars a year standing around watching a woman cry over her dead dog they just killed. But sure, police departments need more money.

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Rob in AUS @RobInAUS

2 days ago

@DreamLeaf5 It's too easy to compare this to IDIOCRACY, but President Wayne Mountain Dew Camacho honestly wanted the best for his people, and listened to the experts to solve the problem. Pathetic that we don't even have that.

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The Culturist @the_culturist_

2 days ago

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is. University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages. Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures. There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them. If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings: Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them. Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc

3 days ago

Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book. Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts. This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one. To fight back, we started an online book

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Rob in AUS @RobInAUS

2 days ago

@MassOrdPen2 @AmyElli0ttDunne @AGuyWithAFace @emilykmay Brosephus, just how long have you been divorced? (Assuming you've ever been married to a live, adult human woman, that is.)

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Rob in AUS @RobInAUS

2 days ago

@IDreamOfNinja Just know that *he* has to share his birthday with *you* (and he gets petulant about sharing anything). 🎂🎉🎁🎊🍰💐

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Jennifer Get In Good Trouble @TheJenniWren

3 days ago

Trump used the Armed Forces Full Honor Cordon — soldiers who escort fallen heroes and heads of state — to usher UFC fighters past Abraham Lincoln’s statue like they’re celebrities on a red carpet. I am LIVID. And everyone else should be too.

@matthewdmarsden @jemelehill @grok "Mooooooommmm! Someone disagreed with my opinion on Xitter, and started using faaaacts! Can you give me security AI blankie?"