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Texas congressman won’t stop wearing combat Infantryman Badge that was revoked ( www.military.com )

More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off....

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In Texas? I’ll hope for it, but I won’t hold my breath.

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CowBee

Hee hee hee I love this

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The mom has been a freeloader all her life, then she demonstrated that she was a lying, demanding, untrustworthy pain in the ass. Her daughter is 100% right not to want anything to do with her.

I almost want updates on this story.

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This is why I try to specify that my complaints are about Netanyahu or the IDF.

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Well, “world peace” may not be original, but it isn’t bad.

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What, world peace? Let’s just say it’s a work in progress.

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After reading the article, and realizing that what they used isn’t “paint” as we usually think of it, makes me feel less of a homicidal rage.

This is besides the point, but I’m curious about the technical aspects. How do you “spray” cornflour? The second picture looks like it’s in some large cylinder. Is it pressurized, like a fire extinguisher?

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That picture of Mary Morrissey looks like it was taken decades ago.

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Yeah - the image quality was what got my attention first. It looks like a scan of an old photo. It’s especially obvious when right next to a more recent image.

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It’s definitely affected mine. When I see small children, I wonder what their future will be like.

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Assuming someone’s informed, I think it’s a combination of strong desire for a child, plus greater hope for the future than I have. I don’t think I’d go so far as to say that they “care nothing”. I know people with young children, and they’re certainly very loving parents.

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As you know, kids are smart - but they’re not mind readers. They might pick up on that regret and interpret it as resentment. That would be bad. Just make sure they know you love them, and be the best parent you can. Maybe things will work out somehow.

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Chaplin later said that he wouldn’t have made light of Hitler if he had known at the time how horrific the situation truly was.

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Yeah, the genocide wasn’t widespread public knowledge yet. As far as most Americans knew at the time, Hitler was just another power-hungry jackass ripe for parody.

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Let’s make his claims a reality. Fuck this guy.

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Because of course he did.

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FFS, Mel. Just let it die.

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"I've had three clients who would've had income that would've meant they'd have the millionaires tax every year, and all three of them have left for Florida," Matthew Erskine, a Worcester-based estate attorney, said in an interview.

If they’re leaving for Florida, they’re idiots and/or assholes anyway. I don’t see a downside.

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Although this wasn’t the worst, it most certainly could have been, and always comes to mind when questions like this are brought up.

I was on a job site. A half dozen houses were being built simultaneously. I walked too close behind an excavator, which abruptly turned. I nearly got hit in the head by the back end of that thing - which is all ballast and has tremendous mass. I almost got myself sent to the emergency room, and it would have been 100% my fault.

At the moment, I was just glad that none of the guys on my crew saw me pull such a rookie move. I didn’t think about it seriously until I got home that day. That excavator would’ve shattered my cheap plastic construction helmet like it was an eggshell. I could have died.

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I work retail. Contrary to popular belief, I DO NOT always know whether a particular item is in stock or not, unless I consult the computer. I do not have the exact price of every item committed to memory. I don’t even know the expiration date of every single coupon. Some customers think I suck at my job, but I haven’t gotten any complaints from the people who pay me, so…

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It takes a while to learn, but now I’m glad I know where some of the weird, obscure items are that people rarely ask for. It’s nice not to have to scour the store thinking “I just KNOW I’ve seen it around here somewhere…”

What does the world think of India?

I am an Indian and I have noticed that Indians are way too proud of their country for some reason and at the same time lack any civic sense towards it, they are extremely loud and extremely proud. We feel like the world revolves around India and our culture is superior to that of others. Also, a considerable chunk of the...

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I hope that India doesn’t make the same mistakes my county (America) made, such as trying to be a major international player while ignoring the people in need at home. They’re already going that way, but there’s time to change course.

Also, I’d like them to fix their issues with Pakistan. That border was drawn by the British specifically to cause problems, and falling into that trap is letting the previous colonizers win.

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So what?

At this point, anyone who’s a Trump supporter secretly (or quite vocally) agrees with the policy of executions.

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I 100% believe you.

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Even more so since I learned the story behind it.

A new open-source humanoid robot project suggests dystopian sci-fi tropes may have got it wrong; AI and robots will be decentralized/widely available, not hoarded and controlled by corporate elites.

Many people have been surprised how quickly open-source AI has kept pace with the AI efforts getting billions in investor funding. It's worth wondering if the same may happen with robotics. After all, robotics are primarily AI too, though embodied in a 3D environment. Recently two major Chinese manufacturers, UBTech Robotics and...

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Wages are the biggest expense most businesses have. Corporations would be perfectly happy with reducing you to a downtrodden serf as soon as it’s cost effective. Open-source AI might even help that happen sooner.

Don’t underestimate the power of money. Corporations will fight hard to survive. They’ll find a way to stay profitable and make themselves seem indispensable. Theoretically, we could live without corporations now, but we don’t. Why do you think that is?

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I was going to make some snarky comment, but I was completely distracted by the guy in the brick-patterned suit and matching tie. WTF? Maybe he was going for some kind of wall reference? Where did he even get that abomination?

Our country is full of idiots.

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic ( www.reuters.com )

The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk....

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Goddammit. Just to be clear, Pentagon: this is a stunt Cobra Commander would pull in a G.I. Joe cartoon, not something real people actually do.

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“I meant to do that.”

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…Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the Colombian president anyone who ever disagrees with him an “antisemitic supporter of Hamas”.

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JUST GO ALREADY

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Fuck that. I want to see people do one year of mandatory customer-facing retail work.

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It’s refreshing to see older lifelong republicans who didn’t believe the media and voted for Trump out of inertia, but are ditching him now that he’s repeatedly proven himself to be a scumbag. Better late than never!

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Unless it’s some kind of disease that takes over your brain and involuntarily makes you a bullshit artist, I don’t see how this is relevant to anything.

If a useful brain-computer interface was available sometimes in your lifetime (and secure and safe) would you get one?

Background to this slightly weird question: I found one of my old an English exams on science fiction and dystopian literature from the 11th grade in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany (ca. 2004) and found a similar question. The idea back then was to discuss the pro- and cons of a BCI (and I objectively did not do to well back...

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(and secure and safe)

…is what’s getting me. Secure and safe for whom? Secure and safe for the company? Then fuck no. Secure and safe for me? Then yeah, implant that thing!

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Isn't it better for Democracy to look on ALL parties?

I think so, yes.

However, we have never had a third-party president (except for George Washington, our very first president, in 1789). Third-party presidential candidates are not taken very seriously, and usually just seen as “spoilers” - candidates who don’t have a serious chance of winning themselves, but can gain enough votes to cause either the Republican or Democrat candidate to lose.

Third-party candidates get only superficial news coverage, and often aren’t included in presidential debates. Neither of the major parties want more competition, so these things are unlikely to change anytime soon.

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When in doubt, I just go with publishing order.

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I took a SF Lit class in college (can you believe they actually give credits for that?) and this was one of the professors favorites. Highly recommended!

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Rendezvous with Rama, Asimov
Nightfall, Asimov
The Disposessed, LeGuin
A few Ray Bradbury stories (like There Will Come Soft Rains, which is excellent)
…and a bunch of others I can’t remember

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Out of the loop. I don’t get it.

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Smoothies don’t take long to make, but in terms of giving him a chance to think twice, it’s an eternity. What an unbelievably reckless decision.

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You’re right that recording while driving isn’t great, but at least he stopped when she asked him to.

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He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.

'Becoming a totalitarian state': UK judge on why he quit Hong Kong court ( www.bbc.com )

A high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state” and judges are being compromised by an “impossible political environment created by China”....

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It highlighted remarks from the other leaving judges who said they still believed in the independence of the courts.

Okay, but where were they when they made those “everything is fine” statements? If they (or their loved ones) were still in HK’s/China’s jurisdiction, those quotes don’t mean much.

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Political correctness isn’t killing comedy. There have always been social taboos and subjects that were best handled carefully (or avoided entirely). This has been true for as long as comedy has existed.

A good comedian can dance on the edge of acceptability without falling over that edge. Other comedians can be funny by going in a different direction entirely.

Commercialism kills comedy. Studio interference kills comedy. Execs hiring the cheapest staff instead of the best staff kills comedy. Excessive analysis kills comedy. Feel free to add any culprits I’ve missed.

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This is the first I’m hearing of it. Yay! I hope it’s just as clever as the others.

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In case anyone’s curious, here’s the actual ad. Sorry it’s on Twitter.

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Your outstanding reply, plus this article, has me seriously considering voting for Jill Stein.

I have been voting Democrat since Bill Clinton, so this is a big deal for me. Thank you for making me think!

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