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Gradually_Adjusting

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A difficult person doing their best to be less unpleasant, while remaining funny enough to use humour as a coping mechanism; wish me luck.

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https://piped.video/watch?v=jJVaUX79RZc&t=6

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I love this idea. Steam library sharing would be amazing if it can be seamless.

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You take that back, my slop is of almost entirely tolerable quality

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I am faced with the knowledge that I have masa harina just sitting around.

I'm gonna go have a religious experience.

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This genuinely made my day, thank you

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' ( kyivindependent.com )

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine's partners "are afraid of Russia losing the war" and would like Kyiv "to win in such a way that Russia does not lose," Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

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Different... Participants... View... Conflicts... Differently?

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Smells like AI, maybe mildly edited?

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This is absurd. Rooks move in straight lines.

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American mode: takis

British mode: shoestrings or Dick's Drive-in style

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The medium is the mess

Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?

So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I'm mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people who...

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Debt jubilees used to be a thing. I guess we kind of get a limited version of that with student loan forgiveness

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If you don't like radiation, just don't gaze upon the elephant's foot! Jeez, can't a guy eat his star shaped pickles in peace?

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Don't worry, at some point he'll say one normal thing and people will remark on how he's so reasonable compared to the others.

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The smallest coil of shit turned out onto the chests of voters in decades!

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Flame wars must be, while we defend our lives against a butthole who would devour all; but I do not love the quip for its sharpness, nor the meme for its oddly specific irony, nor the troll for his lulz; I love only that which they defend

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Like a single piece of perfect popcorn hand delivered by an angel

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Boomers without any entitlements are just loosers

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Sounds peaceful. Mine goes like mad sometimes, it's even woken me from sleep.

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No I know

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For me it's like there's another me inside my head who just talks at random. I can usually control it, or maybe it controls me, or maybe it is me, or just a part of me. I think a lot of who I am as a person consists of the words bouncing around in my head and my relationship with them at any given time.

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Unironically, though; There's a lot of work to do restoring the norms of governance that made America seem "exceptional". We might still be the biggest dog in the room in terms of real power, but our soft power is a shadow of its former self.

Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview ( www.mediaite.com )

Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....

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Thank god for that. If I laughed too often I'd need healthier and more expensive coping mechanisms than just comedy and alcohol

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  1. Fuck those chumps, this country isn't their problem any more
  2. The only way this country stops sucking so bad is if lefties get very serious in a big way
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Dude... Come on. I just want it to write my most boring emails so I can burn out of my career path slightly more slowly.

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Thanks for the grins. "...and here's a sexy depiction of that injured fisherman's hand injury, with the hydraulic net reel as a hentai personification who is very tsundere about it."

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wAtCh tHiS SpAcE

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The secret service got real good at making it hard to kill presidents these days. They're kind of intense about it after... All the times people tried.

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Be sure to mention me in your manifesto, champ

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If they're not from the Deity region of France they're just sparkling aliens.

US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel ( taskandpurpose.com )

He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...

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I'm all for this kind of symbolic gesture. I hope more follow his example until policymakers really feel the heat.

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For an entire community space without any centralised leadership that lasted about one calendar month, the garden looked alright:

https://crosscut.com/environment/2020/06/seattles-chaz-community-garden-takes-root

Edit: further interesting background https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/12/43897621/meet-the-farmer-behind-chazs-vegetable-gardens

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I recall the one you're thinking of, but did not find it. This is a textbook case of how photography is just another aspect of journalism that can be very biased depending on what you decide to show and the context in which you place it.

For my part, isn't it more interesting to know that it was started by a scholar of energy and sustainability who used the opportunity to promote gardening skills and raise awareness of the history and politics of land use rights?

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What can I say except that I hope you're wrong about food production? The allotment system in the UK is a good example of this, and could be expanded on to good effect for the overall goal of more mutually supportive communities. Obviously we're not going to turn every city into homesteaders, but reducing the imbalances in our economic systems is worthwhile.

As for CHAZ/CHOP, I find it more useful not to judge it based on whether an impromptu short-lived anarchistic community can govern itself perfectly during that chaotic moment in time (especially as police had every reason to try and subvert it - after all, they did lose that precinct), but based on its vision and the hope it gave people. It only lasted a short while, but hopefully the memory of it can live on as a hope for what could be, and as a part of the dialogue between communities and state forces going forward.

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In such times, the lessons of history seemed less distant.

Corporate real estate is on a 'cliff edge' as firms race to rethink communal spaces ( www.bbc.com )

As more employees work from home in the hybrid-work era, many companies are finding they need smaller offices. Compared to pre-pandemic floorplans designed to house as many workers as possible, more businesses are looking towards more compact but higher-quality spaces for the future....

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TARPs, you say?

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Fuckin love ubuntu despite knowing it's a cold take. How about that dogshit?

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Next time I'm not feeling it I'll tell my wife "let's ask my parents".

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I wish we could strike at their production facilities. I've read they're making about 100 tanks per month. It's great that AFU seems to be destroying them faster than that, but I'd love to see their ability to replenish also weakened.

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Well no, the tanks are made at Uralvagonzavod, it's like 1000 miles away from the nominal Ukrainian border, and further still from the current eastern front. I'm just dreaming.

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I was going off this. Happy to read a better source than Forbes though, if you've got one.

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No biggie, new and old seem to burn the same

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The real joke is how annoying it is to clean plastic waste before recycling it, only for it to end up not getting recycled at all

We have been played for actual fools

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I just figured out I can see my own playback stats. For this year, my top ten in order of most played:

  • Last Podcast on the Left
  • Behind the Bastards
  • Harmontown
  • Hardcore History
  • Wizard and the Bruiser
  • That Happens
  • The Bugle
  • State of the World, NPR
  • Hood Politics with Prop
  • The Rest is Politics

I think I like your list better.

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This would all be so much funnier if I lived on a space station

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More detail from Pravda:

Shuliak told Ukrainska Pravda that the following will not be eligible to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine: those who have committed premeditated murder, rapists and paedophiles, corrupt officials, those who have committed crimes against the foundations of Ukraine's national security, and those who have held a particularly responsible position, including MPs and ministers.
Persons convicted of the illegal production, acquisition, distribution or possession of drugs will also not be permitted to serve in the Armed Forces.
Shuliak added that all other prisoners who could potentially be mobilised would be subject to the same condition: they must have no more than three years of their sentence left to serve.
"Prisoners who have a longer period left to serve in prison – and those sentenced to life imprisonment all the more so – will be immediately rejected without the right of reconsideration," she said.
Should a person released on parole to serve in the Armed Forces reoffend while serving, the unspent part of their previous sentence will be added to the new sentence.

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Ah cheers. I just got annoyed at Barrons' complete lack of detail. Felt like an article designed to elicit a kneejerk reaction.

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Good, it shouldn't, if you know any actual details about the proposed legislation.

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I don't know that it is, and it's far from certain it was even part of their thought process.

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