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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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https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/06/hochul-to-dispatch-750-national-guard-troops-to-nyc-subways-following-spate-of-violence/ What exactly is the violent crime? I have read several articles with no specifics given. Just a broad range of "violence" taking place. 30c1ed60c5fdc2cd11e284fabc49c450.mp4
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I've noticed this at gas stations where they inflate the price of gas in the mornings to catch people that need to fill up on their way to work, only to drop their prices back down around 10 o'clock when the traffic rush is over. Now Wendy's wants in on the action? https://www.foodandwine.com/wendys-introducing-dynamic-pricing-8600506
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This guy's going places. Straight to the top. ac15dbbd8f7fdf0d8c4eaab7161b7bc4.mp4
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For those that haven't heard yet, on the premier episode of his show, John Oliver offered to pay 1 million dollars a year to Clarence Thomas to step down from the supreme court. Is he gonna do it? I don't think he really wants the job and I don't think all of his free gifts total a million a year anyway.
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Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
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Fuck yes. 555twitter.com_1700431606214.mp4 555twitter.com_1700436912274.mp4
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/lasd-statement-forthcoming-on-trio-of-employee-suicides/
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Fascism is a word most people use to describe any politics they dislike. Libertarians will describe all forms of authoritarianism as "fascist", including non-fascist left wing authoritarianism. Left wing authoritarians describe all political systems that aren't leftist in nature as a "fascist". Right wing authoritarians will use the word fascist to describe authoritarianism by the left. For example, if the government tells a woman she can't get an abortion, or use birth control, that's fascism to left wingers, but it's not fascism according to right wingers. If you tell someone a vaccine is mandatory, and enforce it, now all of a sudden that's "fascist" to rig…
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/us/san-francisco-archdiocese-bankruptcy/index.html
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Good. I hope as soon as he heals up nice and good they stab his ass up again. Every time for the next 175 years of his sentence.
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Woke my ass up to a Russian Revolution today. What the fuck tho ?
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A convo with a buddy of mine during a game of pool kinda opened me up to these philosophies. He was telling me about how he subscribes to stoicism and he recommended Marcus Aurelius’ book, Meditations, to me. I got it but haven’t cracked it open yet, about halfway though reading something else I want to finish first. What I gathered from him breaking it down for me is that stoicism is roughly the idea you don’t have control over anything but yourself and your own ethics, so that’s how you should pattern your life and that is what you should focus on? while dipping my toe into this, I came across absurdism and Albert Camus. I have a copy of The Stranger …
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Voluntaryism: Simply put, voluntaryism is the belief that all human interactions should be voluntary. Interactions that aren't voluntary on the part of both, or all participants violate the non-aggression principal, thus are invalid and fall under coercion. The rules are simple, people are 100% in charge of their own bodies, period, to do with them as they see fit, and their property is an extension of this concept of ownership. The only valid reason to ever violate this rule, is if the person in question has violated the bodily autonomy, or property rights of another. Even in extreme cases, where violating someone's ownership rights over their bod…
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Pretty cool drone. Hollywood is definitely gonna get good footage from this. https://insights.globalspec.com/article/20468/shape-shifting-drone-eyed-for-inspection-tasks?uid=-981537145&uh=dab252&md=230525&mh=b73bd9&Vol=Vol16Issue10&Pub=69&LinkId=2133846&keyword=link_2133846&itemid=388385&frmtrk=newsletter&cid=nl
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Here is a repository for all of the ridiculous buffoonery that politicians have no problem saying out loud anymore. Looky here TabithaSpeaksPolitics_7229308982878326059.mp4
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https://vault.fbi.gov/stephen-paddock/stephen-paddock-part-01.pdf/view kinda crazy we still haven’t gotten any motive and this shit just went away. I know it’s delusional but my skitzo theory is that it was an arms deal gone wrong.
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The indictments are in. The special prosecution just dropped 30 charges on former president shit dick. They're trying to put this mother fucker away for basketball numbers. Lol. I love this for him.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-idCAKBN2VN1WF
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/tons-uranium-missing-libyan-site-iaea-tells-member-states-2023-03-15/ IAEA inspectors "found that 10 drums containing approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium in the form of UOC (uranium ore concentrate) previously declared by (Libya) ... as being stored at that location were not present at the location," the one-page statement said. "The loss of knowledge about the present location of nuclear material may present a radiological risk, as well as nuclear security concerns," it said, adding that reaching the site required "complex logistics". *** In 2003 Libya under then-leader Mua…
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you guys have fallen off. i would've expected five pages of insanity here at least. i don't have any big takes here though. i think you can see a clear through line between the los angeles train break-ins, the rail strike that almost happened, and this, which is that the railroads are singularly focused on cutting their operating costs to find stock buybacks. nothing else explains how cheap the american class 1 railroad is... nothing. even in painting freight graffiti, yards around me are lower stakes. workers don't care like they used to. more trespassing by random people, more junk on the tracks.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64488678
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I am for this bill for multiple reasons. A few being the sovereignty of a nation. If this bill were not to pass then there is a good chance imminent domain over reach in the future could be a side effect devastating legal citizens even further more without any due process all in the name of national security. dirty politics in other words. In a hypothetical scenario if another country was buying up massive amounts of land and these lands have natural resources and the seller where offered enough money to sell the mineral rights with the land. Then I can see a lot of potential harm to local economies for example drilling rights tougher to acquire which in…
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/scientology-leader-david-miscavige-nowhere-found-prosecutors-try-serve-federal-trafficking-suit im interested to see what happens
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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/12/08/bill-would-block-academy-grads-from-playing-pro-sports-right-away/
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https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuums-artificial-intelligence-training-data-privacy/
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-create-a-vaccine-against-fentanyl-180981301/
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https://apnews.com/article/police-san-francisco-government-and-politics-d26121d7f7afb070102932e6a0754aa5
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How it started...
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Under the Bush & Obama presidencies the U.S. gov spent trillions intentionally ending the lives of millions of people around the globe. We consider ourselves an "authority" and not an equal to others, sorta like cops we never find any wrongdoing after investigate ourselves. Torture became a legitimate function of government under Condoleezza, and Hillary helped to sodomize Libya's Leader with a knife. Just doing their jobs keeping Americans safe of course. ssstwitter.com_1669434142067.mp4
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/deaths-reported-virginia-walmart-gunman-dead-police-say-2022-11-23/ This is sad really. Imagine being at your minimum wage job early getting ready to go deal with the non stop 'fuck shit' that is Walmart only to get smoked by your boss.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/cop-resigned-groping-college-student-210600617.html A campus police officer at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth resigned in the midst of an investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him in 2010. That same officer, David Laudon, was then re-hired as a school resource officer at the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District in the nearby town of Blackstone, Massachusetts. In his capacity there, Laudon was tasked with investigating reported sexual assaults and working with students in the public school system who have been sexually victimized, WBUR reported over the weekend. According to the campus p…
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https://www.nola.com/news/northshore/ex-priest-pleads-guilty-in-pearl-river-altar-tryst/article_b85860b6-69c5-11ed-9461-7bb77407e433.html BY SARA PAGONES | STAFF WRITER NOV 21, 2022 - 12:45 PM A former Catholic priest who was arrested in 2020 after a passerby saw him and two dominatrices having sex on the altar of Pearl River church pleaded guilty Monday to a single count of felony obscenity. ——— The tryst was being recorded on a camera mounted atop a tripod, according to court records. Clark and two women, Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng, were arrested in September 2020 after a passerby noticed lights on at Sts. …
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All stories not worthy of their own thread. Garbage in Garbage out. Taxation is theft and so is 12 years dae0831153eee1a36922064666daf2cd.mp4
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https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/egypt-temple-cleopatra-lost-tomb-scli-intl-scn/index.html Martinez and her team uncovered a 1,305-meter (4,281-foot) tunnel, located 13 meters (43 feet) underground, the Egyptian Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities recently announced -- an architectural design experts called an "engineering miracle." "The excavation revealed a huge religious center with three sanctuaries, a sacred lake, more than 1,500 objects, busts, statues, golden pieces, a huge collection of coins portraying Alexander the Great, Queen Cleopatra and the Ptolemies," Martinez told CNN. "The most interesting discovery is the complex of tu…
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Somebody broke into the Pelosi home in SF looking for Nancy and beat her husband Paul down with a hammer?? Goddamn. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/house-speaker-pelosi-husband-assaulted-at-home-assailant-arrested.html
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https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-korean-auto-giant-hyundai-investigating-child-labor-its-us-supply-2022-10-19/ DETROIT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Korea's top automaker, is investigating child labor violations in its U.S. supply chain and plans to "sever ties" with Hyundai suppliers in Alabama found to have relied on underage workers, the company's global chief operating officer Jose Munoz told Reuters on Wednesday. A Reuters investigative report in July documented children, including a 12-year-old, working at a Hyundai-controlled metal stamping plant in rural Luverne, Alabama, called SMART Alabama,…
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