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I will be very sad when he goes. Regardless of his success or lack thereof during his presidency, I don't know that a better person in general has been president. The man devoted his post-presidency to building houses for the poor (with his own two hands) and eradicating guinea worm... and never showed up to say something on the endless news cycle unless he had a specific point to make.

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It won’t suck, we promise.

It already sucks. Any time I use Google for anything, I have to hope there will be an entry beyond the 800 shopping links for products I wasn't interested in to begin with.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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People had weird names back then. As much as people complain about the names parents give their kids today, I kind of like that we're going back to that.

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Because it is easily cracked, I imagine.

FlyingSquid ,
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Happens a lot with religious groups, actually.

Evangelicals: "Those snake handlers are crazy. Time to speak in tongues."

Orthodox Jews: "Those Hardi guys? They're the nuts that don't allow their members to use the internet. By the way, we have separate fridges for milk and meat."

FlyingSquid ,
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Is "overstand" part of SovCit lingo? Because that's a new one to me.

FlyingSquid ,
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That is not a secret.

https://www.nuclearban.us/us-nuclear-weapons-bases/

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He only knows the best people.

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What a weird coincidence. I posted this same image in an entirely different thread yesterday.

FlyingSquid ,
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Right, but it was on a totally different subject. Religious "tippers" in restaurants.

Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )

The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....

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Looks like there's a multi-pronged attempt to shift the narrative to "see? Hamas is bad, so Israel is justified" today based on articles being posted.

FlyingSquid ,
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The bigger issue is the U.S. auto dealership industry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/11/09/car-dealerships-ev-sales/

If dealerships refuse to sell EVs, what can be done? Especially in states where cars can only be sold from licensed dealerships?

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Both can be true. But that doesn't mean the BBC should give up its neutral stance.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Because the BBC is not the PR arm of the British government. It is supposed to be an independent and impartial entity.

FlyingSquid ,
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That's the biggest part of the reason, but there's also the fact that he's been complaining about how the 'woke left' has destroyed comedy. That's not exactly going to endear him to young adults either.

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I'm really not sure what the Duke administration was thinking.

FlyingSquid ,
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What, and miss the opportunity to throw things at him?

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One of the many shameful moments of American history conveniently left out of grade school history classes.

FlyingSquid ,
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Considering nuking Gaza could easily lead to everyone nuking everyone else, you might change your priorities a bit.

FlyingSquid ,
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Also, I have always thought that, as horrific and tragic as what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, the fact that the world was able to view the aftermath has been what has prevented a larger nuclear exchange. I don't know if the Cuban Missile Crisis would have gone the same way without everyone knowing exactly what an atomic bomb does.

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Would this be before or after Israel is able to control the direction the wind blows?

FlyingSquid ,
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He knows that he's not the one who's going to be pushing the button, but that his rabid out-for-blood base won't even think about that. He's just throwing them meat.

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This really isn't off the deep end for him. He's said atrocious things for decades.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/376548-lindsey-graham-war-with-north-korea-would-be-worth-it-in-the-long-run/

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Over a nuked Gaza? I wouldn't be so sure.

FlyingSquid ,
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I sort of got a bar mitzvah, but the asshole Israeli who was supposed to teach me Hebrew sucked at it and I never learned. So I read my passage with a crib sheet that told me how to pronounce everything. My cousin, who was the rabbi officiating, took me aside and said, "they may not know what you're doing out there today, but GOD KNOWS!" My dad and I had a good laugh about that for years.

I only did the whole thing for my grandparents' sake.

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I recently went on a drive from Indiana to Minnesota and back, doing a different route each time. Almost every hospital we passed said it was one of the 100 best hospitals according to (I think) U.S. News and World Report.

What are the chances?

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U.S. judges don't have to defect to Russia, though. They have a whole Republican pipeline that goes straight there.

FlyingSquid ,
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For a bunch of so-called atheists, yous sure do spend a lot of time thinking about god 😂

There are dozens of churches in my town. There are religious messages everywhere, from billboards to plaques. There are Christian radio stations people play music from when I go into their businesses. Religious people knock on my door trying to convert me.

Of course I spend a lot of time thinking about it. You people shove it down my throat every chance you get.

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This is by no means a comprehensive list, but- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpionage

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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I'm thinking the British need to let them know they're a good 50 years late on this joke.

r/The_Donald helped radicalize users into far-right identities and discourse – Active users on r/The_Donald increasingly used white nationalist vocabularies in their comments within three months. ( journals.sagepub.com )

I know most people that were on reddit at the time are fully aware of this and won't be surprised but don't dismiss the findings out of hand. It's important that studies are being conducted and the fact that the finding match our lived experience is still noteworthy.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yes. And I really should have left Reddit then and never looked back.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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stop Israel from defending themselves against their explicitly genocidal attackers

Yeah, all those babies and toddlers they killed were genocidal maniacs.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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How exactly are they defending themselves by bombing areas full of children?

If your answer is "Hamas is there," well they were somehow able to raid a hospital without killing everyone inside it and still get a whole bunch of Hamas people, so maybe they should do that instead of dropping bombs on children.

You are justifying child murder.

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who often attacks them while hiding in areas full of children.

Please present evidence of this. Or is this just a guess on your part?

Going in without air support into a well prepared guerilla fighter’s den is likely to cause a lot of casualties.

They don't go in, they just bombs.

that’s why they do this.

They are not killing the children.

More children were killed in Gaza by March than children in conflicts in the rest of the world over the past four years.

And you would have us believe that Israel's hands are free of their blood.

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That information is way out of date. There are almost no schools left because Israel destroyed 90% of them.

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/education-under-attack-gaza-nearly-90-school-buildings-damaged-or-destroyed-and-no-university-left-standing

If you're going to claim that Israel is killing children because Hamas is hiding in schools and there aren't schools, that's a really silly claim.

And if there were schools, you're claiming that Israel needs to bomb schools filled with children in self-defense. I don't know that you're going to find too many people sympathetic to that argument.

I sincerely hope you aren't a parent if you feel children are so disposable.

Also, if you have to kill children in the name of self-defense, maybe you don't have anything worth defending.

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Yes. You have already made it clear that you think the murder of thousands of children is justified for the sake of Israel's self-defense.

And I have made it clear that I think that if you have to kill thousands of children in the name of self-defense, you have nothing worth defending.

Suggesting that there is anything reason to justify killing thousands of children is pretty disturbing.

I would sacrifice my own life to save one child.

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Everything in Mayan culture was completely infused with their religious beliefs. Everything was for ritualistic purposes.

FlyingSquid ,
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I've seen Hopi kachina dolls with removable masks, but I'm not sure if that's an ancient or modern thing.

They made one-of-a-kind quilts that captured the public's imagination. Then Target came along ( apnews.com )

Over the past two decades, Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. The groundbreaking art practice was cultivated by direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama who have faced oppression, geographic isolation and intense material...

FlyingSquid ,
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Because they did steal the designs. They gave the quilters a pittance and made a fortune off of it without giving them a share. I would have considered that theft if it were my designs.

From the article:

The Target designs were “inspired by” five Gee’s Bend quilters who reaped limited financial benefits from the collection’s success. They received a flat rate for their contributions rather than pay proportionate to Target’s sales. A spokesperson for Target wouldn’t share sales numbers from the collection but confirmed that it indeed sold out in many stores.

Furthermore:

Unlike the pay structure of the Freedom Quilting Bee of the 1960s — an artist-run collective that disbursed payment equitably to Gee’s Bend quilters, who were salaried and could set up Social Security benefits — one-off partnerships with companies like Target benefit only a small number of people, in this case five women from two families.

And why did those quilters accept that fee? Because they were living in poverty.

After all, the average annual income in Boykin, Alabama, is still far below the poverty rate at about $12,000, according to the nonprofit Nest.

They took advantage of poor people by offering them a lump sum and then reaped the benefits exponentially more.

And to rub salt in the wounds:

While thumbnail-size photos of the makers appeared on some marketing materials and the text “Gee’s Bend” was printed on clothing tags, the company’s engagement with the quilters was limited. As soon as Black History Month ended, the quilters’ names and images were scrubbed from the retailer’s site.

They didn't even give these people recognition after one month. Despite this being a very important part of their local culture, which went back to when they were slaves.

The whole thing stinks and you should not be defending it.

FlyingSquid ,
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No. Do you think what those artists got paid came even close to the profits Target made on the designs of theirs that Target both altered and removed the history from?

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Why? Do they need a new generation of kids to molest?

FlyingSquid ,
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Dude, have you actually heard the song? She's not a bad singer, but "amazing talent" goes way too far. We're not talking about Madonna here.

Also, the choreography in the music video is fucking hilarious.

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I am going to use this opportunity to show this year's 'fuck it, we aren't winning, so let's just have fun' entry. This time, it's Croatia's entry- Rim Tim Tagi Dim by a dude who calls himself Baby Lasagna and it's really funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTBrVNZtnys

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We really can't have anything nice in this country, can we?

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