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White House Plumbers
Anybody watching this show? I watched the first 4 episodes over the last few days. It is interesting subject matter but I hate the way they have stylized the show. It is like "Tarentino does Watergate" or something. The scary thing is that there are operatives like Liddy and Hunt who have made a life out of ratfucking and…
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Is ending the divide/coming together for common good, having civil discourse even possible today?
I wonder. My wife directed me to an Instagram site called startswithus whose mission is stated thus: 87% of Americans are tired of how divided we are politically. This is according to a new YouGov online survey of U.S. adults commissioned by Starts With Us. We are the # 87percent A better way forward Starts With Us! I…
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RIP Gordon Lightfoot
Great song writer... Canadian legend
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botched execution in oklahoma...
seriously, wtf is up with this?? how do you botch something like this? the man was conscious and talking even after he was declared unconscious, and he clearly suffered and died of a heart attack. then he was rushed to the hospital to be revived so they can kill him at a later date. there needs to be a moratorium on all…
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Waco-How Long Before....................
The perps are referred to as "thugs?" Anywhere?
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As humans, are we abandoning our creative potential to ChatGPT?
I think so. Reading other sites that tend to talk about this more, I am seeing a huge surge in the interest and embracing of the new AI technology that indicates to me that we are abandoning our creative potential and willingly and eagerly handing it over to the machine. I would venture to guess, the younger the person,…
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Banned Books
So I got this email from a co-worker concerning the banning of booked. Just found it interesting. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/freq ... edclassics
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The Pending Indictment(s) of joe biden and Family
Its all smoke in mirrors, people. Below is the real story, the story they are trying to distract you from. No, trump's not going to jail over a misdemeanor offense that the statute of limitations already ran out on. This is just another attempt by the left to make trump look bad in the court of Public Opinion, because they…
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*** DONALD J TRUMP HAS OFFICIALLY BEEN INDICTED ***
NUMERO UNO. Well, impeachment took 3 years. How long will it take for all his nefarious activities to catch up with him, leading up to his indictment? Place your bets. Post your thoughts. Post newsworthy articles. Donald Trump's life took quite a drastic turn on Saturday November the 7th. Will be interesting to see how…
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Alert: FYI, info you may want to know
Massive 'Hole' Spotted on Sun's Surface. Know What It Means For Earth According to NASA, coronal holes appear as dark areas in the solar corona because they are cooler, less dense regions than the surrounding plasma. Science Edited by Amit Chaturvedi Updated: March 29, 2023 4:49 pm IST Massive 'Hole' Spotted on Sun's…
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Rewording mid 20th Century novels- yea or nay?
This morning, I came across this article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/26/agatha-christie-novels-reworked-to-remove-potentially-offensive-language Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have passages edited by sensitivity…
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Knowing what you know now would you still support the withdrawal of troops from Iraq
http://youtu.be/tLteUGkvpOc Oh to be back in 2009-10. The good old days. Stable Iraq...arab spring...green revolution. Opportunity lost.
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AUUKUS
AUUKUS is a pact between the US, Australia and the UK for South Pacific alliances established in 2021 and to keep China in check. Yesterday the US agreed for the first time ever, to share our nuclear propulsion with these two countries so their fleets will be as effective as ours. Pretty big deal with this transfer of…
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Critical Race Theory
This is a hot topic of late. A few states, 8, have banned it from curriculums. There are a bunch of articles on it. I'll put one for and one against and let the discussion begin. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05…
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Murdaugh Trial
This is a good summary (gift article)…
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The risks and possible consequences of war with China
I Found the information in this op ed article article to be both interesting and rather concerning and perhaps worthy of discussion here. Gift article from NY times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/opinion/a-war-with-china-would-reach-deep-into-american-society.html A War With China Would Reach Deep Into American…
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The demise of The Great Salt Lake...
...and the environmental catastrophe it may lead to. I won't quote the whole article here, but it is well worth reading. It will take a the strong will of the people of Utah and anyone else concerned to resolve this tremendous issue- if it is even possible to resolve it at this point.…
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When past is present
gift article op-doc..... A Warning From the Past: ‘You Haven’t Learned Anything From Our History’…
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who killed the electric car?
i saw a preview for this movie called "who killed the electric car?" imdb has several celebrities in the movie, including martin sheen, tom hanks, and mel gibson. anyway it looks pretty interesting, but i was wondering if anybody knows what did happen with the electric car. it seemed like a huge deal a few years ago, and…
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Unite the Right
Found liable for the events leading to the death in Charlottesville. The federal jury awarded $500,000 in punitive damages against all 12 individual defendants and $1 million against five white nationalist organizations. * 2:52 p.m. Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler and Christopher Cantwell and others found liable in deadly…
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Brave New World Revisited for today.
No doubt, may of us have read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Great book, prophetic, brilliant, everything we've ever heard about it. But what about his book, Brave New World Revisited? I wonder how often that follow-up book gets overlooked? It's a bit hard to understand myself, but it was by me, until recently. And what…
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Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. 7.8 magnitude.
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/turkey-earthquake-latest-020623/index.html Big earthquake out there and buildings are just collapsing. I’ve never seen buildings go down like that. Massive help mission being formed by country’s…
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New Zealand
Woke up to another earthquake on the news this morning. This time in New Zealand. Thoughts with you all!
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Malaysian Plane Possibly Shot Down?
http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/07/malaysian-passenger-plane-crashes-in-ukraine-near-russian-border/374616/ Please say it not so, 295 possibly killed. Peace
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Joe Manchin
Is a piece of crap and probably the biggest blockage to anything worthwhile getting done. Also he isn’t helping Dems case for the midterms. This is the place where we pile on the waste of a senate seat that is Joe Manchin an old white southerner, that is well past his usefulness.
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Boris Johnson resigns.... So does LIZ TRUSS AFTER 44 DAYS!!!!
https://apnews.com/article/boris-johnson-resignation-60da3c4b29a4e9c93c7db9f53034ad0e
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Hatchet Hitchhiker saviour now wanted for murder
ELIZABETH, N.J. - New Jersey authorities have issued a murder warrant for a homeless hitchhiker who gained Internet and television celebrity after using a hatchet to attack a man who ran over a California utility worker. Police said Thursday they're seeking Caleb Lawrence McGillvary in Sunday's beating death of Joseph…
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AI revisited (again).
A while back, dancepartner posted thoughts on artificial intelligence. This months Mother Jones has published an article by Kevin Drum, entitled "Terminated" which talks about the likelihood of AI becoming a reality twenty years or so from now. The article (which I don't find on-line this early after publication) covers…
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Donald Trump 3
This discussion was created from comments split from: Donald Trump.
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Human population: Is it a problem? If so, what are the solutions?
For quite some time, I've been tempted to ask these questions but hesitate to do so with the concern that doing so may be taken wrong. So let me state from the outset: I do not hate children. Though I have never had children, I have been a teacher, I have help raise some of my nephews, I have godchildren and great…