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The New Yorker has an in-depth article about what caused the Titan submersible disaster. I was initially going to leave it for the Sunday Good Reads this weekend, but the longer I thought about the ...
by angryea
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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���� Ageism is the last permissible —even supported— prejudice on the left. But� like all bigotry, it seeds vulnerability in everyone buying into it.
���� And it doesn’t really matter whether ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Thu Sep 01, 2022 at 04:30 PM PDT
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First, they arrived to avoid persecution. But when they established their homes, they set about eliminating the indigenous, because the indigenous were not like them. Then they cut down the forests and homes of the wildlife, that the indigenous needed...
by david5372
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on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 02:24 PM PDT
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Matthew McConaughey made news today. I’ll just post a few quotes before I outline a response. Why? Because there’s talk of him getting into politics and because it’s a good segue to confront a few of the misperceptions people have about liberal...
by hamez
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on Mon Dec 07, 2020 at 12:23 PM PST
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She was a scientist, a 32-year veteran at the CDC, who had risen to the position of its assistant deputy director. She was explaining the course of the virus as it was understood by the CDC at that time, and in particular appealing to Americans to wear...
by Dartagnan
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on Fri Sep 18, 2020 at 02:40 PM PDT
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I wrote this piece for Street Prophets way back when. It’s my re-telling of a story I found many years ago in an old, discarded reading book. I no longer remember the title of the story ...
by quarkstomper
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on Fri May 01, 2020 at 05:46 PM PDT
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Caitlin Oprysko wote on 13 March in Politico magazine that the Orange Shitgibbon, DJT, said ““I don't take responsibility at all,” Trump said defiantly, pointing to an unspecified “set of circumstances” and “rules, regulations and specifications from a...
by Obiwan711
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on Sat Apr 25, 2020 at 11:53 PM PDT
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If we are to maintain a, home of the brave enough to sustain all life in America, regardless of political persuasion, sexual preference, gender or skin pigmentation, unlike Senate Republicans, we’ll need to heed the Senate’s 30 January 2020 opening...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Sat Feb 01, 2020 at 08:57 AM PST
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Arrogant, adjective. The definition of arrogant is someone who is full of self-worth or self importance and who tells and shows that they have a feeling of superiority over others. At the same time the person longs to be admired and respected for their...
by grobertson
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on Sun Dec 15, 2019 at 09:09 AM PST
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This is a book Senator Byrd wrote during the Bush Administration and Bush was not nearly as arrogant as Trump. The book is called “Losing America”. This was a warning. The Late Senator Kennedy, the Late Senator Byrd and General Wesley Clark warn us...
by Vetwife
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on Tue Apr 23, 2019 at 08:35 AM PDT
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Response to “Another Hoax Pwning...”
Good diary. Concur with your view of how many supposedly astute individuals can easily be hoaxed. How? Could it be that many think that they are too “intelligent” to be fooled/scammed? I am not surprised that...
by SoldierTeacher
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on Sun Oct 07, 2018 at 11:21 AM PDT
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As always, humans depend on our natural world. Despite all of our technological advances, we still rely on physical, chemical and biological processes beyond our control, and which we only partially understand. And yet, we progress, thanks to...
by greenandblue
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on Sun May 20, 2018 at 03:03 PM PDT
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Arrogant “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli will spend the next 7 years in prison — NOT because he unnecessarily increased the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim by 5000%, but because he defrauded investors.
The judge insisted that the punishment was...
by Puddytat
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on Fri Mar 09, 2018 at 11:27 AM PST
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Trumplethinskin and his minions keep saying two conflicting memes.
1. Anything critical of POTUS is “fake news”, or…
2. Leaking what the administration has already declared fake news is a treasonous act. What?
If it's fake, how can reporting...
by Vegas Dave
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 03:12 AM PST
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How many times over the next several years are we going to respond to something PEOTUS Trump is or will be doing and know it’s unprecedented? And not very presidential either? How often will we ...
by TexDem
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on Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 07:30 AM PST
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When someone is out of control or is doing bizarre things, we typically say, "What is wrong with him or her?" Objective Americans who are concerned about the future of their country are probably asking the same question about America as it prepares for...
by melshim
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on Sun Nov 06, 2016 at 05:34 PM PST
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Some things are not OK.
Transportation is a need. When I was young my ex and I used to walk miles with our infant in a stroller to the grocery store. We used the stroller as a carrier for grocery bags, always being extra careful to not allow...
by tecampbell
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on Tue Aug 16, 2016 at 02:26 AM PDT
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From my initial introduction to West Side Story as a musical, generally, back in the summer of 1962, during a stint at a day camp out in Tucson, AZ, through the music, courtesy of another girl in the group I was with, who'd brought in her...
by mplo
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on Sat Apr 16, 2016 at 01:50 PM PDT
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I am going to try to keep this short, and to keep a lid on the disgust I feel for some of the diaries I have seen today.
What Kos said:
The party's activists are busting their butts for Obama, while Clinton's campaign is counting on low-infor
by whereistony
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on Mon Mar 14, 2016 at 11:21 AM PDT
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My friend, a fellow therapist asked me about the book I have just written and is about to be available for sale called Unloved Again . I explained to her that it has to do with adult unwittingly ...
by elangolomb
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on Wed Mar 09, 2016 at 05:00 AM PST
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