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  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • It's never happened before because the working class has never been unified nationwide before. Soybean farmers in Utah are not connected to teachers in Boston or steelworkers in Pittsburgh or auto manufacturers in Michigan or nurses in San Diego. There's never been a singular cause that affected all of those groups of people at the same time.

    If it ever could happen, it would be because the President was a colossal dipshit who fucked every aspect of the economy across the country, except that would almost certainly cause the legislature to put an end to such rampant and corrupt tyranny.

    Right?

  • What are some physical items that should be available at libraries for people to borrow?

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  • Telescopes would be fun. Everyone doesn't need their own, if you can sign it out on a clear night and return it in good shape.

  • Trump Admin Suffers Blow in James Comey Case

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  • I fully believe that this is an attempt to proactively delegitimize any attempts to prosecute former Trump officials for their actual crimes. You can just hear the dipshit chorus of "You protested when we prosecuted Comey and James, and now you're trying to do the exact same thing to us!"

  • M. Night Shyamalan Is Directing a Live-Action Magic 8 Ball TV Series Written by Brad Falchuk

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  • Yes, but will they be able to capture the true narrative complexity of asking a desk toy to provide randomized platitudes and admonisitions? How can they please the built-in hardcore fans without alienating the newcomers who don't have an encyclopedic understanding of the extensive lore? Will they tackle some of the more problematic canon events that have aged poorly in a more enlightened society? Or will they gloss over those moments and modernize the deep mythology on which the intellectual property is based and risk abandoning the edge that made it popular in the first place?

    Concentrate and ask again

    Fuck.

  • Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?

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  • Bull, and I cannot emphasize this enough, shit. Everyone is not a little bit bigoted. That's something bigots tell themselves when rationalizing their own prejudices. You should probably take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself if you're the problem.

  • Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?

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  • "Progressive" describes a position, not a person. A person can be many things. A person can hold contradictory viewpoints, and fully believe two incompatible thoughts at the same time. It's tragically naive to assume that people are rational or consistent.

    Can a person think they are progressive and also be a bigot? Of course a person can. Everybody is the hero in their own story.

  • Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?

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  • There are thick, uncrossable lines, and there are a lot of people who don't mind crossing them. You cannot compromise with a bigot. You cannot find common ground with a person who would subjugate you, or someone who sees you as less than human.

    We can have disagreements about many political issues, but when you are standing next to pedophiles, rapists, fascists, and bigots, you shouldn't be surprised to be called a Nazi.

    So the question becomes, what is the test of "purity"?

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  • This is the guy in charge of medical advice for the United States. Lacking even basic scientific knowledge.

  • Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: "I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals"

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  • If that were true, and I don't believe it is, then you are a moron.

  • Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

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  • Yeah, this is a weird way to frame this story. Did he also "lose" at Jeopardy and the NLDS? Just because he said he wanted to win doesn't mean he was either nominated or considered.

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    Recommendations for where to commission short graphic design work?

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  • Oh yeah, that's a point I hadn't considered.

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    Recommendations for where to commission short graphic design work?

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  • Is fiverr still a thing? I had luck there years ago, but I don't know if it is still around and legitimate.

  • A majority of Trump supporters back extending Obamacare subsidies, poll finds

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  • Polling matters not to a narcissist.

  • Five years ago, I added a bag of RJ45 connectors to an order to meet the free shipping threshold. This week, i bought a crimper with the intent to terminate some new ethernet.

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  • I think that's the AI function that would be most valuable to me. Just have an assistant on my phone building a catalog of resources and tasks on my to do list and creating priority lists. "Can you help me remember where I left the miniature paints?" "I'm afraid I can't do that. You haven't finished spackling and painting that spot in the bathroom."

    Firmware patch notes: ADHD workaround. Temporary fix.

  • Five years ago, I added a bag of RJ45 connectors to an order to meet the free shipping threshold. This week, i bought a crimper with the intent to terminate some new ethernet.

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  • My personal mental illness is that I won't be able to finish a project because I can't find the tool or component I need that's squirreled away in a bin, but I won't look for it because that would mean a whole day of organizing my storage shit, and I won't buy a new one because then what was the point of hoardingstoring the one I had for all this time.

  • For the First Time in 133 Years, Maxwell House Rebrands as “Maxwell Apartment”

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  • No press is bad press, I suppose. Doesn't make me want to buy their coffee.

  • The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

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  • Like, Imagine you had a van. The van has passengers, and you're one of them, but you're way in the back. The driver can't hear you and doesn't care what you want or where you want to go. Then a new driver comes in and takes the van offroad. They drive in the wrong direction, and they keep hitting potholes and pedestrians and shit. Some of the people in the back are hootin and hollerin like it's some awesome roller coaster, and also they hate the pedestrians and like when they are killed. And you're like, please, just stop.

    And then the driver threatens to turn the car off.

    I mean, yeah, you need the aircon, and it would be nice to be going somewhere, but the driver is definitely not going in the right direction, and the longer he drives, the more damage he does to the van.

    Right now the government is worse than shut down. It's actively doing bad things. I'd rather the government start doing good things, but that's not currently an option available to me.

  • Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel

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  • Don't go back.

  • TIL that the U.S. Department of Energy accidentally invented an orbit cannon in 1957

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  • This is one of my favorite stories about petty malicious compliance. Brownlee knew that welding the cover in place was a fools errand and a waste of time, but a superior insisted it be done to contain the blast. Brownlee acquiesced but also installed a high-speed camera pointed at the cap to capture exactly how stupid the idea was. Turns out, the high-speed camera was not high speed enough, because the cap vanished between frames, meaning it was either blown off at a speed that would escape Earth orbit, or it was instantaneously vaporized.

    I like imagining the meeting where Brownlee presented the findings on the cap experiment.

    Like imagine if you could get away with that at your job. Some pompous middle manager insists on a stupid idea, and you're like "OK, we'll do it, but we're also going to set up instruments to detect precisely how badly this will fail, just so we have it on record."