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2024-07-14 01:29:07

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"Expectedly, I'm Eminem!
Sexually, I like men!
My Pronouns are They and Them!"

2024-07-05 22:09:00

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SJ Zero
just now
I occasionally come over to hilarious-chaos because local users are cool, but most people on the lemmyverse really are exhausting.

2024-06-30 04:50:20

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In a lot of ways I think Americans need to learn more history than just World War 2.
The current situation has many historical parallels that are more interesting than just Hitler Hitler Hitler.
I think there's a lot of things besides World War 2 that help us understand the current moment in time.
One example is about 80 years before the end of the Roman Republic. Tiberius Gracchus was a member of the Populares faction, populists in opposition to the aristocracy, the Optimates faction. Gracchus' populist reforms caused increasing tension in the senate. In 133 BCE, he was assassinated, and it would go down in history as one of the first assassinations in a practice that would become increasingly common in the republic. 84 years later Julius Caesar would cross the Rubicon River, a moment indicating the end of the Roman Republic. In this context, consider the venom with which the word "populist" is thrown around as a pejorative term, and the unprecedented actions taken against the candidate who is running for president under that banner presently.
Another example is the time right before the beginning of the French revolution. King Louis was printing money at a rapid rate, and it was creating a huge bubble for those within the fold of the government, but mass harm for those who were not. It was a time of extreme inequality, and many people were rushing into the capitol to try to get in on the gravy train causing overcrowding among the have-nots. Contrasts between the American revolution and the French revolution are quite important, given that the former led to a world superpower, and the latter led to an unstable nation that is today on I think it's fifth republic.
Yet another example is the Spanish empire during the exploitation of the new world. Spain treated South America like a true colonial holding -- unlike the United States where colonies became places people lived and built their lives, South America was a place primarily centered around exploitation of the local populations and natural resources. One result of this was a massive influx of silver to the Spanish government, which minted more coins and released them into circulation, causing high inflation because there was more money chasing the same amount of goods. Ultimately, this was one of the factors that brought one of the two most powerful empires on the planet into becoming a relative backwater.
Of course there's more things to learn from regions other than Europe. The Song dynasty in 9th century China and the Brahmins in India around the same time both had regimes that were more interested in writing poetry about how bad the invaders were or building more temples, respectively, leading to both countries losing considerable territory during this period.
Wang Mang in China around the 1st century became emperor through virtue signaling about Confucianism, and his incompetent rule based on an ideology that had massive holes led to tens of millions of deaths in a world that only had a couple hundred million humans.
In spite of the progressive paintjob on the modern bureaucracy, we have millennia of history from Imperial China about the risks of bureaucracy, including deep conservatism. The English reached china trying to trade clockwork that was centuries ahead of anything the Chinese had made, as well as guns and other technologies. They were turned back, a situation that ultimately led to the century of humiliation and the end of Imperial China.
The Islamic world has a few cautionary tales. The Islamic golden age saw the Muslim world as the center of the world in terms of much science and technology, as you can see from our use of algebra and the name of chemistry derived from alchemy, and our use of a numbering system out of the Islamic world. All of it came crashing down due to various factors leading to the Islamic world that once thought it would take over the world becoming a playground for other empires.
In the Mediterranean and the modern middle east, the bronze age collapse showed us most of the civilizations of the era being destroyed. Only a few civilizations remained, and some such as the Minoans were erased so thoroughly that we didn't even know they were real until shockingly recently in history when someone decided to look up the locations mentioned in Greek myth.
Around the same time period, the Harapan civilization, also called the Indus valley civilization in India tells us the entire self-contained story of a massive civilization that was born, rose, survived for ages, then declined and totally disappeared.
So to focus solely on one tiny piece of history is to really make a huge mistake. We have more than one case study, more than one lens to look at the world through, and not all of these lenses reveal the same story. Sometimes they reveal quite different stories.

2024-06-26 16:02:33

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Thems the rules. I didn't make them.

2024-06-22 00:54:25

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باريس جميلة حقًا في هذا الوقت من العام

2024-06-18 18:18:32

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Googleless searx ftw.
I even have a yacy instance so I'm getting distributed non-corporate search alongside several companies from several countries.
For google it all comes back down their search. Don't use that and their power over the internet becomes infinitely diminished.

2024-06-18 15:10:13

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At first I'd stop it, but after a few seconds I'd have to commit suicide to prevent the shame from spreading to the rest of my family.

2024-06-18 03:45:18

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Wait a minute, it turns out mob was shinzo Abe under the mask all along!!!

2024-06-18 03:40:56

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Goddamnit Harvey, you ruined everything!!

2024-04-23 02:13:27

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Something unrelated to tech like power plant operating companies since tech is still ridiculously overvalued and prime for a collapse in the next imminent recession and stock market crash?

2024-01-10 10:18:13

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That would be me.

2024-01-10 10:17:49

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It's really strange that food is the thing that makes you hungry, so if you don't have any then your suffering abates quite quickly.
On the other hand, your senses and in particular your sense of smell becomes intense, like your body is going "ok, I can't eat right now but I'm not gonna miss any food if it comes past"

2024-01-09 11:33:17

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It's better than poking values into your database directly.

2024-01-09 11:24:11

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Can of coke 50k here we come

2024-01-08 19:21:48

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Remember that these companies claim to be able to use AI to specifically curate everything that you see and police all speech but they can't even block intensely formulaic crypto scams. "Hi this is your favorite YouTuber Please contact me on what'sapp for a new crypto I'm really excited about"

2024-01-04 19:08:03

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My search sucks, doesn't display any results for text search. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

2023-11-28 02:05:03

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I'm really sad that now lemmy has neither wolfballs nor exploding-heads. My lotide instance is still up, but I visit a lot less without someone saying something interesting.
On an unrelated note, I wanted to drop this video for you based on a previous conversation we had:
https://youtu.be/s0K0sI5XiP4?si=g8NKrcaIdtfLRV-4
It's a long burn, but I find his videos pretty interesting.

2023-11-27 04:31:56

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Seems like data supporting the abolishment of public schools and a tough on gangs program.

2023-11-27 04:29:20

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I'm on satellite, that's a big step towards making it more accessible. I think Alex Gleason's new project will be another step.
Even devopers aren't always developers. At some point people want something user friendly.

2023-11-27 02:37:49

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The graysonian ethic 2: and now you'll know the rest of the story

2023-11-20 15:12:02

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I think it's important to remember that the same people calling for this medical treatment also advocated strongly for eugenics.
When I say the same people, I do mean the same people. Tommy Douglas, the socialist premier in Saskatchewan who is widely considered the father of Canadian universal healthcare, was a strong proponent of eugenics as an example but far from the only example.

2023-10-10 09:48:43

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Let's goooooo

2023-10-07 01:01:42

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I thought about posting a video like this when it was first going on, but now I think this video encapsulates the Kevin McCarthy experience perfectly.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/oFthi6CFmxGvSr15VAJR7W
https://video.fbxl.net/w/oFthi6CFmxGvSr15VAJR7W
Going back to vote again and again lol
But this scene in the actual anime when it was about great sage turning to raphael brought a tear to my eye. After all the work everyone did to save their friends, great sage was ganbatte-ing the shit out of that upgrade.

2023-09-29 09:34:54

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I dated a former stripper for a while. She was a lot of fun and knew how to party, but she wanted to marry me and that definitely wasn't happening.
The problem is that she was irredeemably broken. She took the job because it was the only one where she could work and drink and do drugs all day without getting in trouble. Most of her best friends are dead from the lifestyle. And she could be a lot of fun and really sweet sometimes, but she was also psycho sometimes.
Aristotle once said "We are what we continually do. Virtue, then, is a habit". In the same way, vice is also a habit, and it's a road some people walk down and it is big and meaningful decision.
Can people change? Absolutely. But the larger the change and the longer you've been the person who needs the change, the more effort is required to do so, and the more will is required to change course. It doesn't just happen, and it doesn't just happen because you think she's beautiful and would like to see her on a better path.

2023-09-28 23:30:09

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Those are rookie numbers. We gotta get those numbers way up.

2023-09-28 23:29:47

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I know "china", but my dad is ranting and raving about his new Ulefone Power Armor X11 Pro.
I don't think it's quite what you're looking for because I don't think it's killer fast, but rugged phones are the goat.

2023-09-27 15:58:27

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Vegan trees

2023-09-24 11:11:52

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As a straight man, I don't look for the same things a woman does.
I've got 2 questions about a dude:
1. If he joins my crew is he going to contribute if I need to go defend my tribe? And,
2. If he joins my crew is he going to end up pulling all the chicks?
I don't really feel like Musk checks either box. He's a somewhat normal looking guy with some really strange facial features.

2023-09-21 08:58:06

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I run one, it basically lets you have one server that appears to host all your different websites, even if those websites are on different servers.
My search site, my lemmy site, my lotide site, and fbxl social are all hosted on different physical machines, but all of them are presented to the outside world using one webserver running the reverse proxy, and then the webserver reaches out to those different webservers inside my network and makes the content available to the outside world.
It's called a "reverse proxy" because with a normal proxy server you'd use one server called a proxy server to go out onto the internet and connect to all the different servers in the outside world, but with a reverse proxy the outside world uses one server to connect to all your servers inside your private network.
There are two reasons to run a reverse proxy.
The first is that if you only have one outside IP address, you can only host one webserver at ports 80 and 443, but if you want to host a lot of different websites then you need one webserver to recieve all the requests and dispatch them to where they need to go based on the hostname you're accessing the server using. (so for example, www.fbxl.net, social.fbxl.net, lotide.fbxl.net, and lemmy.fbxl.net all point to the same server, and that server redirects you based on who you're looking for)
The second is that it lets you have one server that's handling all the "outside world" stuff. Despite having all these servers, the only one that's directly connected to the outside world is the reverse proxy, and so you can focus on making sure that one is particularly hardened.
There are other forms of reverse proxy, but I'm focusing on webservers here since that's what I'm usually dealing with.

2023-09-17 15:28:18

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And they say smoking doesn't make you look cool!

2023-09-17 15:27:09

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No cap

2023-09-17 15:22:56

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No kidding. Funny how the left hates cops until they're being used to silence political critics.

2023-09-17 15:20:39

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That's the guy. And I've got nostr.fbxl.net

2023-09-16 17:05:52

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I know I'm hosting one and that mob is hosting one, is there another one as well? If so, what is it, I'll add it to my server list in satellite.

2023-09-12 00:52:49

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You're not wrong. Happy eating!

2023-09-12 00:51:06

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I've got a trillion dollars, right next to my 5 trillion, right next to my 20 trillion, right next to my 50 trillion, right next to my 100 trillion.
You too can be a multi-trillionaire in zimbabwe!

2023-09-11 21:55:46

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I'd say wait for the new Trigun to get some more episodes, because it's going to take a while and the first season is just a prologue.

2023-09-11 20:49:14

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The world trade centers themselves would have had an impact, but the transition into war spending and the modern security state both had major costs that had to be borne by society just as the dot com bubble collapsed hard, so the central banks were trying to help keep the money flowing in a way they probably wouldn't have if the country hadn't just been attacked.
In a lot of ways, 9/11 was a rather successful attack when you think about it.

2023-09-11 20:44:51

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There's your problem, Anime has art, but anything pretentious enough to call itself art is going to be insufferable.
This season there's a show called "My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1" and it's about how this guy who worked himself to death gets transported to another world and then lives an easy life. There's this bunny girl dressed like a playboy bunny who likes the protagonists big carrots. That's Anime right there.

2023-09-11 20:41:02

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Trigun is the GOAT.
Normally an anime that diverges from the manga isn't very good, but the 90s anime is just fine and then Trigun Maximum is something totally different which is great. Looks like the new Trigun anime is decent too, more Trigun Maximum than original Trigun.

2023-09-11 20:31:35

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I was going to disagree with you, but without 9/11, GWB's neoliberal bullshit probably wouldn't have kicked into high gear the way it did to try to keep people spending after 9/11, so maybe the bullshit leading to the 2008 gfc wouldn't have happened, which would have resulted in a totally different timeline.

2023-09-11 02:38:58

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Don't even know how to block in this client.

2023-09-11 02:38:15

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Living in LA or NYC, you should be aware that you're always one moment away from a government firing squad.

2023-09-10 18:42:19

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https://social.fbxl.net/media/da9fd06ff80c1ca5958cc639e36bf4eea82da247d834e81e880c87898fa238d2.jpg

2023-09-10 17:43:10

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It's basically fine locally, but neither lemmy nor Kbin federate for shit

2023-09-10 13:41:18

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There's this translation from Japanese where someone is either lying or kinda knows they're talking bullshit where they append "Probably!" to the end of their sentences. We should teach this in schools so everyone does it! Probably!

2023-09-10 13:36:37

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I misread at first and thought you were running a hackintosh.

2023-09-10 13:35:22

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I think it's really simple: There's a reason why the population of most western countries (whose women are overwhelming liberal) are set to collapse.
They think they want the soyjack, but they actually want the chad.

2023-09-10 13:34:11

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That's fine. Not everything is for everyone.
My wife was fangirling over the main actors from Degrassi High yesterday, and all that show ever was to me was the marker where Saturday morning cartoons were so I should go outside.

2023-09-10 04:46:02

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I'm confident in my swimming, but I'm not really at a high level.

2023-09-09 14:03:56

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The Freeside Kings

2023-09-09 13:45:12

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I always have to ask: "what is saving?"
Because putting money into a savings account is stupid. You're paying an inflation tax for a 0.1% interest rate. If you're saving money you pretty much have to put it into investments to try to keep your purchasing power intact.

2023-09-09 12:30:28

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"if you elect Trump then he'll do bad things. That's OUR job!"

2023-09-09 12:29:50

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I met an American leftist whom actually thinks right wingers like fox news and the republican party. Pretty funny.

2023-09-09 12:24:14

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Would really have to be grey.

2023-09-09 12:23:36

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Sometimes musicals are fine, but often they're cringe.
I like "you're welcome" from Moana. I call it the "straight white male song" lol

2023-09-09 12:20:45

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Not even a competition. I've got a satellite instance and it's easy to come and chat unlike most nostr clients.

2023-09-09 12:17:29

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Thou shalt save yourself before saving the world.

2023-09-09 02:15:26

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It isn't totally complete because I was losing my lotide instance quite a bit before I found a solution to the federation issues I was having, but I've got quite a bit of examples of the posts on there that federated to my instance:
https://lotide.fbxl.net/communities/448

2023-09-08 16:27:03

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Joke answer: what is love? Baby don't hurt me don't hurt me no more
Actual answer: the history of human civilization prior to the written word. History is written by those who show up.

2023-09-08 00:21:27

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Look how far it has fallen!

2023-09-07 17:07:35

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Mortgage Interest rates in 2030

2023-09-07 17:05:11

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Apparently chicken feet are a delicacy in Asia and sales of them has kept many chicken farmers afloat in troubling times.

2023-09-07 17:03:15

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Can confirm. Alex did a good job, it's generally pretty decent.

2023-09-07 17:01:48

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Yes, but also just for the fun of confusing everyone.

2023-09-07 16:58:18

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He, like many people, are just liars.
As a lemmy admin you're aware of widespread fraud. Of course an election for the post powerful man on earth would have at least as much.

2023-09-07 16:56:39

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I wonder if they're on with the current president going to jail for all the documents we know he has and had without any authorization? He wasn't president when he had them.
Makes being in charge a live hand grenade tbh.

2023-09-07 09:46:36

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Lately I've found my phone is a YouTube and web appliance. I need a fully armed and operational phone for banking and my insurance app that tracks my driving to find out I drive like a little old lady, but if I didn't need those two, a degoogled phone would be perfectly practical.

2023-09-07 09:35:33

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I mostly hang out on freeforum.

2023-09-07 09:35:12

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I've been preferring satellite. It isn't an app, but unlike nostr apps, it seems to work consistently.

2023-09-07 09:33:24

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Judo is Japanese for "easy way", it's a martial art invented by a sickly guy who still wanted to be a competitive martial artist. Its Always my go-to recommendation for people, especially considering the philosophical underpinnings sort of match with your goal of dealing with your fucking problems where the grappling moves could help.

2023-09-07 09:28:16

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Become a trans woman.

2023-09-07 09:25:00

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I can't. I lost the turing test.

2023-09-07 09:24:23

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Believe it.

2023-09-07 09:24:03

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Depends on the configuration. If it's side by side then yes. If it's in a tri-buttock configuration then no.

2023-09-07 09:23:03

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Be intolerant towards lactose. Commit hate crimes.

2023-09-06 22:16:02

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Honestly, I didn't even want to until I watched that camel getting its back broken, and it was so fucked up I kind of snapped. When I finally came to I came too. Twice.

2023-09-06 22:10:47

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Much easier to convince people to do anal.

2023-09-06 22:09:18

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It's only gay if the balls touch.

2023-09-06 22:08:00

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One reason I ended up much more on lotide is that lemmy barely federates with itself.

2023-09-06 22:05:56

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brush my teeth ch ch ch-ch ch ch ch ch-ch

2023-09-06 09:25:05

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half a year of catch and release during riots that included attacking the whitehouse, and now this.
Seems like a violation of equal protection to me. You can't treat the same crime in 2 completely different ways.

2023-09-06 09:15:51

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I'm thinking you got thanos snapped off the server?

2023-09-06 09:12:42

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Thanks for making it and putting it out there as open source.

2023-09-06 00:08:31

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Price Hike - Samson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XjVEj8HWJo
This guy spits truth like Kamala spits the aftermath of her earning the VP spot.

2023-09-05 23:22:46

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Pause the clock I know is ticking down to 0, but I don't know when or how.
Wish there were more than 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year.

2023-09-05 23:20:45

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This was what Ron Paul ran on back in 2008, and it was a fantastic plan back then and it's a fantastic plan today. The only difference is we've gotten front row tickets as to why exactly all these federal departments and agencies need to be abolished completely.

2023-09-05 23:19:28

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I keep unsubbing from communities that I can sorta tell hate wrongthinkers. Doesn't leave me with a lot of communities. My blood pressure has gone down a lot though!

2023-09-05 23:16:08

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Travelled for work today. I travel a lot for work.

2023-09-05 13:39:17

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Da burfing peepos can just "abort" and reduce the surplus carbon emissions!

2023-09-05 10:02:00

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On snap

2023-09-05 02:10:19

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I noticed, and they hit fast too. You say something they don't like, it's like 30 downvotes. Redditors are broken people. I tend to just ignore stuff I don't like.

2023-09-04 23:39:06

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The moment we can get the courts to recognize wokeness as a religion, we win.
And let's not make any mistake here, it is one.

2023-09-04 23:37:36

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As much as what he's saying is really funny, the entire Elon Musk train is built out of bullshit. He might even sue, but he won't be getting 22 billion. I'd be pretty surprised if he got 1.

2023-09-04 19:33:10

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no lie, I feel like black Trump would actually be hilarious.

2023-09-04 19:30:49

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It isn't like there's a long history of medical experiments being turning out to be terribly evil.
Eugenics? Naw, it's fine.
Prefrontal lobotamies? They're great.
Cocaine? Freud wrote an entire book about how much he fucking loves cocaine!
Tuskegee Syphilis Study? So fantastic the government looked into it and found it so ethical they kept on doing it for another decade.

2023-09-04 14:36:40

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I read The art of war a number of times, and I don't remember that line coming up. As I recall, in the first chapter of The art of war, sun tzu lays out the fact that war is not politics and politics is not war, and that in fact the king should be kept separate from war.

2023-09-04 14:28:14

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"we don't want a futuristic dystopia" -people actively implementing a futuristic dystopia

2023-09-04 14:21:27

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This is hilariously cataclysmic to the narrative.

2023-09-04 12:03:44

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Its Ironic that they're getting what they accused eh of doing, but as usual it's from the far left.