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What did the framers want? Let’s give them a little credit.

“With knowledge of a 2023 in which mass shootings occur almost daily … the hypothetical Framer-ancestor might be both baffled and horrified at the prospect of “freedom” in future generations meaning that government could not stop the massacre of small children in schools because it turned out that the Constitution they drafted forbade virtually any regulation of guns.” slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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fun fact:
This game I'm trying to reverse engineer defines one thousand, one hundred, and fifteen v-tables!

second fun fact:
I'M ABOUT TO PULL OUT ALL MY HAIR

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Dismantling the dogmas of life and death – how a forgotten prodigy presaged the quantum undoing of time and thermodynamics themarginalian.org/2022/06/09/

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“What’s the difference between Senator Sinema and me? When bank lobbyists asked me to weaken bank regulations, I said no. When they asked Senator Sinema, she asked how much—and voted yes. Now we are all going to pay for her mistake.” 🔥- Ruben Gallego running to boot Republican lite Sinema out of the US Senate. #uspol
thedailybeast.com/kyrsten-sine

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When Pat Schroeder was elected to Congress in 1972, the Speaker tried to swear in her husband. Later she was forced to share a seat on the Armed Svcs Cmte bc she & a Black man were deemed worthy of only 1/2 a seat. One of her biggest victories was FMLA. RIP.
politico.com/news/2023/03/14/p

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Publishers are smearing Internet Archive. Visit this site to show your support and speak out for an open internet with uncensored access to knowledge.
battleforlibraries.com/

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This Oct 18, 2022 article is important to read if you want to understand who David Sacks is and whom Ro Khanna is allying himself with by accepting money from him (i.e., fascists like Ron DeSantis, Peter Thiel/Palantir (look it up), Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, & pro-Putin/anti-Ukraine GOP in the US), all of whom position themselves as aggressively anti-progressive. Ro Khanna positions himself as progressive.

newrepublic.com/article/168125

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@flexghost I think the part that ultimately gets me angry about this constant cycle of the wealthy crashing the economy is that they are given the power to do it at will and never experience any jeopardy while they make the average person have difficulty affording basic life necessities. Pether Thiel won't lose a penny for crashing an entire banking institution and even if a billionaire loses millions it would have no impact on their life.

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It is fundamentally corrupt to advocate for the replacement of even a single human by ChatGPT. It is corrupt that you think you can get away with it. It is corrupt that you did not help that human become who they might have been. It is corrupt that you think extractive capitalism is a legitimate justification.

And it's not funny.

It is deeply and abidingly and fundamentally corrupt.

(It's also not very good thinking.)

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Banks want you to pay fees to use your own account. Banks want you to have debt obligations for your whole life. Banks get money below the prime rate, then charge you 23% interest on your credit cards. Banks debit your account immediately, then take 2-3 days to clear a check.

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SAUDI OIL GIANT'S $161 BN PROFIT

“It is shocking for a company to make a profit of more than $161bn in a single year through the sale of fossil fuels – the single largest driver of the climate crisis,” - Amnesty International
#HumanRights #ClimateCrisis

aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/12/o

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I hadn't planned on making this image until later in spring with lime green leaves, but alas there was an opportunity that was too good to pass up.

This veteran hornbeam has bags of character - I just love its shape. The snowstorm lasted about an hour in the dying light of the day.

By morning the snow was gone, and the opportunity had gone. Sometimes you just have to take advantage of a short window.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #woodland #trees #forest #winter #nature #landscapephotography

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Check out this beauty! 💗 Such stunning detail in this gorgeous photo of a short-eared owl in Homer, #Alaska
Photo by Phillip Flippo
#BirdsOfAlaska

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Nanabozho great spirit-being?

Nanabozo is a supernatural being of various Indigenous oral traditions. He is the embodiment of life, with the power to create life in others. In some Anishinaabe and Cree stories, Nanabozo is a main player in the creation of Turtle Island. Nanabozho is a shapeshifter who is both zoomorphic as well as anthropomorphic, meaning that Nanabozho can take the shape of animals or humans in storytelling. Thus Nanabush takes many different forms in storytelling, often changing depending on the tribe. The majority of storytelling depicts Nanabozho through a zoomorphic lens. In the Arctic and sub-Arctic, the trickster is usually called Raven. Coyote is present in the area of California, Oregon, the inland plateau, the Great Basin, and the Southwest and Southern Plains. Rabbit or Hare is the trickster figure in the Southeast, and Spider is in the northern plains. Meanwhile, Wolverine and Jay are the trickster in parts of Canada.

Often, Nanabozho takes the shape of these animals because of their frequent presence among tribes. The animals listed above have similar behavioral patterns. The gender identity of Nanabozho changes depending on the storytelling. Because Nanabozho is a shapeshifter, they are androgynous. While the majority of stories told about the trickster figure are written with he/him pronouns, the gender identity changes depending on the story and many are written with feminine pronouns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanabozh
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/.

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Mastodon Eau De Toilette!

High fashion kneels to no carnivore!

Parfum for him; aftershave for her.

"Mastodon: The Scent of Extinct Things to Come!"

Available now at all Macy's stores and Shell gas stations.

#AI #Midjourney #Mastodon #Parfum #Fashion

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The commercialization of Pi Day is appalling. Let’s remember the reason for the season.

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