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So I've been talking to the mods as well as a handful of members I talk to in real life about the need and plan to draft rules for the community, as well as for specific sections. Likewise, we've also been discussing moderating protocols as a part of that. Anyhow, the community has seen steady growth, which is great. It ebbs and flows, but has been incrementally trending up since we relaunched it about two years ago or so. There's been a few spikes or exponential growth and there's a lot I'm trying to do outside the forum to build up budget to be able to take bigger steps with both the 12ozProphet brand and the forum. That being said, we're also li…
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Start this bad boy off with some boot licking good memes:
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General news stories of Police misconduct, and lack of accountability.
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U.S. government to seize money from actual working class people, give it to college graduates
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This is the most bizzaro champagne Socialist bullshit I've ever seen. The U.S. government devalues college degrees, which used to be a rare commodity, via predatory lending to people they know can't pay back the loans. Having a college now, or even a graduate degree is no longer a scarce commodity, thus due to supply demand, most degrees are just above breaking even in value, (return on investment). This upsets people who went to college and were lied to by teachers that said going to college is a good investment (misery loves company). "d0n'T wANt to eNd up liKE tHe JaNiToR" Meanwhile the Janitor makes double what your average financially illiterate teacher makes, becaus…
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html
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This keeps getting uglier and uglier for these cops in Uvalde. Rushed in to get their own kids out. Barricaded the shooter in a classroom that had kids in it. Refused to go in after him and barred parents from attempting their own rescue when it was clear they weren't going to do anything. No words.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/europe/brittney-griner-trial/index.html
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Clearest shot ever seen of the 2nd plane. He somehow knows it’s a United plane? Does his reaction seem genuine to anyone? This got posted the day Russia invaded ukraine. Initially it had a description saying he uploaded it in 2001 but it was set to private… but his acct was made in 2006. He then changed the description
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it's definitely true that police don't have enough long guns and that more guns would have stopped uvalde, especially for the psychos who become school resource officers. remember when an armed school resource officer stopped parkland? wait https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2022/08/05/madison-county-schools-add-ar-15-rifles-enhance-security/10234037002/
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attacked on friday. rushdie was in hiding for ten years after the ayatollah of iran issued a fatwa in 1989. his novel the satanic verses was considered blasphemous by muslims i would add:
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https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-irobot-roomba-acquisition-data-privacy/ Why is the Roomba company worth $1.7 billion to Amazon? It’s not the dust, it’s the data. ••• iRobot got its start building robots for the US military, but 20 years ago added consumer vacuums to the mix. (It spun off the defense business altogether in 2016.) Those Roombas work in part by using sensors to map the homes they operate in. In a 2017 Reuters interview, iRobot CEO Colin Angle suggested the company might someday share that data with tech companies developing smart home devices and AI assistants. ••• “People tend to think of Amazon as an onlin…
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-yang-forward-party-centrists/
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220720-why-insects-are-the-sustainable-superfood-of-the-future
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/nyregion/ivana-trump-dead.html
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gay marriage and contraception next
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Recession?? 1 2 3
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Okay I'm just wondering if anyone could explain the meaning on the word in simplest terms because I do not know much about the American (or world) economy. My understanding of it is knowing its something bad haha. And also what I can't figure out is how will the government handing out $800/1600 checks to everyone in America will help the economy..just doesn't make sense to me. Well any help is appreciated so thanks.
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Looks like a 4chan troll that boomer Trump fans are taking as some sort of three letter agency leak? I don’t really get what’s going on
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So this happened today:
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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3549527-newsom-announces-california-will-produce-its-own-low-cost-insulin/ California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Thursday that his state will be producing its own “low cost” insulin, stating, “People should not go into debt to get lifesaving medication.” Newsom said that the state budget he recently signed includes $100 million for California to “contract and make [its] own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all.” He said $50 million of that budget will go to the development of the low cost insulin, while the additional $50 million will go toward a Cali…
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https://www.ft.com/content/89dea1c0-0b01-42c5-82ce-e27ac3eb410d Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, an unpopular veteran leader who was appointed last week by his longtime rival Rajapaksa, said on Monday that the island was struggling to find dollars to replenish its dwindling fuel supplies. “It is a challenge for the Treasury to find $1mn,” he said in a televised address. “The next couple of months will be the most difficult of our lives. We must prepare ourselves to make sacrifices.”
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https://apnews.com/article/japan-shinzo-abe-shooting-22ec2248d92304deb9cc46b2142402d2 NARA, Japan (AP) — Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday on a street in western Japan by a gunman who opened fire on him from behind as he delivered a campaign speech — an attack that stunned a nation with some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere.
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Avoid getting 5G and welcome in 6G... https://www.laserfocusworld.com/science-research/article/14278162/quantum-materials-for-nonlinear-terahertz-photonics?o_eid=8876I2249156F3C&rdx.ident[pull]=omeda|8876I2249156F3C
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/us/r-kelly-sentencing-racketeering-sex-trafficking/index.html
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Buffalo mass shooter referenced “political compass memes” radicalized him in his manifesto
by KILZ FILLZ- 11 replies
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Is the political compass a radicalization tool I’m unaware of? I took that stupid test a few years back but remember immediately mentioning there wasn’t a single firearms question, so how did this test work? seems like it puts everyone in the bottom left quadrant. Dude a glowie?
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https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/paralysed-man-brain-implant-beer-b2044610.html#Echobox=1648137065
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Anybody really believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself? Murdered by the elite pedophile cabal?
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https://www.politico.eu/article/no-more-babies-expert-warns-that-hormone-altering-chemicals-threaten-human-procreation/ Pull out game = N/A once I hit my 60s
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Whatever Elon is considering paying, it's totally worth it just to watch right wing Twitter pretend they're libertarians & for free markets again. Like they weren't tweeting support for the government to disregard individual property rights less than a month ago so the government they hate can micromanage social media policy. Almost as hypocritical as supporting trade wars & taxing/tariffs under Trump, then admitting the Russian sanctions won't work, and only hurt both sides economically. Literally trying to blame Biden for gas prices the moment he was elected after they started a trade war. Pretending to hate inflation now, but not a peep under Trump …
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