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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • Oklahoma Town Faces 75% Property Tax Hike To Cover Sexual Abuse Settlement

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  • We here in Kansas City are voting today to potentially recall our county executive over massively inflated property taxes.

    This seems to be happening all over the place.

  • California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

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  • Spoken like someone who hasn't had to interact with American law enforcement much.

  • Should access to computers and the internet be a basic human right?

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  • Yes.

  • Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

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  • Yes.

    I had an incorrect understanding of the history of Israel and Palestine, and someone corrected me once.

    I honestly thought it was a conflict whose roots went back millennia, but I way off, and appreciated being corrected.

  • Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

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  • Don't threaten me with a good time.

  • How do people in cities have fun without spending money at every turn?

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  • EDIT: Ope, you did mention volunteering. It's early and I'm tired.

    There are also lots of really cool things you can do for free by volunteering your time, such as comic cons or roller derby. Derby leagues are always needing non-skating officials or volunteers to do various things. You can work the ticket scanner at an MLB game and then, when done, watch it for free.

  • Can you think of any now?

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  • Not sure it's provable, really, but the idea for T-Rex having movement-based vision is (if I'm remembering correctly, forgive me as it's been a while) something that came from the Jurassic Park story, and more specifically how frog vision works, since they used frog DNA to birth their dinosaurs.

  • Can you think of any now?

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  • I could be wrong, and if I am, it's just an opportunity to learn a new thing. I put what I've read elsewhere in the thread.

    Have a great day.

  • Can you think of any now?

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  • I can think of a few.

    • That T-Rex' vision wasn't actually based on movement. (Probably)
    • Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.
    • What we were taught as the 'reservation' system more closely resembled concentration camps, and indigenous people were given a 'choice' between death marches and war.
    • That the US military was actually on the wrong side of nearly every civilian movement for greater rights, from suffrage, to labor, and now freedom of speech and immigration.

  • TIL "Pro-Life in the Streets, Pro-Choice in the Sheets". Disgraced GOP, staunch Pro-life Politian Tim Murphy Coerced Mistress to Abort Affair Baby.

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  • You can't gaslight me. My eyes actually work, and I'm watching Democrats ally with Donald Trump in real time to try and stop Zohran Mamdani from getting elected. This is after watching Dems supposedly anti-genocide president give Israel everything it wanted for four years.

    Dems are just as hypocritical, and as long as Democratic partisans' opinions are based on nothing but party decree, that's what Democrats will be.

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  • personally, if I had 15k to spare right now I would wait for the next big crash and buy in at bottom dollar.

    This could be a good way to go. I was lucky to have a few thou in March 2020 to invest in oil stocks at a 90% discount. I waited two years, sold them at a huge profit, and paid off my student loans and put a down payment on a home.

    But generally, if you don't know what you're doing, it's not the worst idea to just stash it in an index fund and forget about it.

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  • This.

    Investing in VTI or VOO is basically just investing in capitalism, and you'll likely do better in these ETF's or an index fund than trying to pick winners and day trade yourself.

  • Brett James: 'Jesus, Take the Wheel' songwriter dies in plane crash in North Carolina

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  • I guess Jesus really, really wanted this particular motherfucker.

  • TIL "Pro-Life in the Streets, Pro-Choice in the Sheets". Disgraced GOP, staunch Pro-life Politian Tim Murphy Coerced Mistress to Abort Affair Baby.

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  • You wish.

    (And I do too.) It's comforting to think of actual opposition to fascism, but then you watch these Dems hand away what little power they do have, and they're about to do it again when they decide to hand Donald his government instead of shutting it down.

  • TIL "Pro-Life in the Streets, Pro-Choice in the Sheets". Disgraced GOP, staunch Pro-life Politian Tim Murphy Coerced Mistress to Abort Affair Baby.

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  • Every conservative partisan is basically a “rules for thee, not for me” jagoff.

  • What 3 good and bad things do you see happening in the world in the next 12 months?

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  • It's hard to think of these things, but I'll take a swing at it.

    The Good

    1. The human race will endure.
    2. Finance will become slightly more democratized and less centralized to the US, as the post-tariff trade agreements start to take effect. (And best to put a portion of your retirement in international funds before then.)
    3. AI regulation in the US and internationally will likely have progressed (though in the US, only at the state level), which is a good thing as we're beginning to see the negative effects of LLM's on cognition and mental health.

    The Bad

    1. The human race will endure.
    2. If history holds, Dems will take the House or Senate in the US, but it won't matter because they too legislate for the billionaires and not the working poor. (Clinton, Dubya, Obama, Donald, and Biden all had control of Congress and lost it at the mid-terms.)
    3. With TikTok likely becoming nationalized in the US, radicalization of GenZ is going to continue to get worse, and the effects on national discourse and society in general will increase in toxicity.

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • Dems made sure they can't do anything else.

  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • One can only hope, friend.

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  • Don't worry.

    The Dems are just about to write a sternly-worded letter.