PLEASE don’t make any decisions based on my comments! Everyone is in their own unique situation. You gotta do what’s best for you!
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PLEASE don’t make any decisions based on my comments! Everyone is in their own unique situation. You gotta do what’s best for you!
good deal. So is your boss - he has a free perk to offer you instead of paying you more. The damage is really done by Bezos, when he chooses to sell products made in China at marked-up prices that are still too low for local mfrs to match, eventually putting them - and their workers - of business.
The deviousness of consumerism… Bezos now has captive consumers, buying HIS products and services, by making people think they’re getting - and giving - “free” perks. And the corporate network has captured thousands, or millions, of consumers for Bezos. But don’t get me wrong: you ARE getting a
Not in my lifetime. But maybe after a few generations of genetically selected “civilized” males. Never say never.
Miss who?
Feel "FREE" to RE-Post. These dirt bags are trying to destroy our country through Propaganda and ushering in Fascism.
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I think that somewhere in this discussion is an inspiration for a certain new objective in the science of genetic selection and modification, led by female scientists. Just need to find a quiet female sponsor with a load of money, and a desire to make the world better.
Seems that you forgot the first rule of Fight Club…
Agreed. It will take time. Women have fought back for at least 177 years. Each generation has its own challenges & triumphs. That said, the current situation has some significant opportunities. Like exposing ALL of the Epstein files, & especially the hidden male culture that enables such behavior.
The learning most men get is from their fathers. It’s why so many boys follow in their father’s footsteps, & why the infrastructure of emotional learning *during school* is so closely controlled, typically by the men, banning books, controlling curriculum all to control the culture of the community.
As an unregulated but also unaggressive man, I completely agree. The behavior you see in the Regime today has occurred in corporate culture for decades. But because it is behind closed doors, no one sees it until the corp execs get elected into power and their narcissistic behavior is exposed.
The best thing about this is that it doesn’t negatively impact everyday Americans, since most “American” products are NOT made in America!!
JB Pritzker Bernie Sanders Kamala Harris Stephen Colbert Jon Stewart Jasmine Crockett @altnps.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social Take your pick. Find more voices in the resistance. MAGA gave Donald Trump superstar status, and believe he can do no wrong. Don’t make the same mistake!
Please do not give Gavin Newsome superstar status. Nothing good can come from it. Yes, he is a voice that the resistance needs right now. There are other voices, as well. But not a superstar. Jesus Christ. Please.
It’s like grieving a lost friend, who has gone into an alternate imagined reality. I’ve learned that I cannot change another person’s mind. The most difficult part of the Serenity Prayer for me is “the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” I’ve learned to just get on with my own life.
They both know that the American’s are stupid enough to pay the staggeringly dishonest taxes. That’s all they need. BUT, if enough Americans decide that the “special” doll for their granddaughter is NOT worth an extra 25-50% tax to the U.S. government, the economy will collapse and THEY WILL LOSE.
This is a deliberate opulent shellacking of the PEOPLE’S White House, to prove to his opponents that he controls the people. Follow the money - he has NEVER used his own money. He has “borrowed” this from somebody, likely NOT American. This alone should be grounds for impeachment for treason.
He has NEVER used his own money.
And more importantly, is this now the property of the PEOPLE’S White House, or does Trump still expect to be buried with all of “his” gold?
He’s good meme material.
I think too many people believed what they were hearing before the election, because they were listening to Fox or other “conservative” media, and they never heard the truth that the rest of us have known for a while.
Consumerism is bad for everyone but the billionaires. Congratulations on your recovery! I, too, have avoided Amazon. My wallet seems heavier lately.
Also, it’s reports like this that confirm that the GOP has no need nor desire to disrupt the midterms. Definitely shows that the resistance has a steep hill to climb.
Even when the Republican candidates do not believe in republicanism. Fascism has infiltrated the Republican Party. It was as easy as Trump grabbing them by the pussy. “GOP” stands for “Grabbed Our Pussy.”
Republicans are raised from birth to ALWAYS vote Republican. Democrats not so much; they will vote for either party, or not vote at all, if the choices just aren’t “right.” But there is NEVER a good choice. They’re POLITICIANS, ffs! So, eventually, the Republican candidates get the most votes.
That point was passed in 2016.
We WILL have midterm elections. Don’t get caught up in pre-surrender thought-washing…
Consider that the bullies don’t want the limelight, only the power. Their proxy, JD, is not charismatic enough to carry on for the fallen fuhrer. The resistance must focus on winning the midterms. If the GOP “Grabbed Our Pussy” party loses control of Congress, then the regime loses power.
You’re getting closer. When it’s impossible to prove citizenship, THEY will decide, using the only way remaining: the color of your skin, the culture of your dress. THEY will decide if you look distinctively male or female. And they will be holding a military rifle as the “authority” to decide.
No. Not smart enough.
An imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world. I think it is not enough to just deny the imagined reality ourselves, but also to disrupt the force exerted on others to believe it.
Notice how close Panama is on the map. I’m thinking he’s stupid enough to try to take back the Panama Canal.
Notice how close Panama is on the map. I’m thinking he’s stupid enough to try to take back the Panama Canal.
Notice how close Panama is on the map. I’m thinking he’s stupid enough to try to take back the Panama Canal.
Notice how close Panama is on the map. I’m thinking he’s stupid enough to try to take back the Panama Canal.
An imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world. I think it is not enough to just deny the imagined reality ourselves, but also to disrupt the force exerted on others to believe it.
An imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world. I think it is not enough to just deny the imagined reality ourselves, but also to disrupt the force exerted on others to believe it.
Well then, we should remember: Aim for the mask.
It’s funny how the rich felons all seem to get reincarnated / non-incarcerated in Florida…
Okay, my 101-year-old grandfather is really enjoying the responses he’s gotten here, so I’ve finally convinced him to let me share something he’s been working on for years; a series of sculptures he calls “Trumpinnochios.” Here’s one of his best. I’ll share a few more in this thread.
Their head is out their ass, so everything is upside down.
Reuters’ report was about Meta, who owns Facebook. Until about 3 hrs ago, that report appeared on bsky and on the web, but not on Facebook - suspicious. To know this, you would have had to review each branch of this thread to the end. Apologies for tweaking your sarcasm reflex. It’s been a long day.
Ugh. They are ALL just POLITICIANS! You NEVER get a “good” choice to vote for. So ⅓ of voters choose not to vote at all. Of those that vote, most are voting AGAINST the one they DISLIKE the MOST. It’s not a democracy, not even a popularity contest. It’s a race to the bottom. Worse yet to come.
Ugh. They are ALL just POLITICIANS! You NEVER get a “good” choice to vote for. So ⅓ of voters choose not to vote at all. Of those that vote, most are voting AGAINST the one they DISLIKE the MOST. It’s not a democracy, not even a popularity contest. It’s a race to the bottom. Worse yet to come.
Yes, It’s there.
It’s on FB.
It’s on FB.
Well it did finally show up. (53 minutes ago, would be about 7:20pm EDT)
Agreed. Ohio will be next; they’ve already mentioned it. I just wonder how the usually “leave me out of it” conservatives will react to southern republicanism when they feel the harsh downside to being indentured servants and poorly paid workers (“slaves”).
I wish you luck with the senators. At least yours are D’s. Mine are R’s, and I know they are too occupied trying to breathe, what with their heads deep in Trump’s ass.
I’m gonna ask if you really saw it… “Taylor Swift chatbot” search in Reuters page turned up nothing…
I suggest following the link and submitting your questions on NPR’s form. It has a much greater chance of being answered, or at least reviewed.
I suggest following the link and submitting your questions on NPR’s form. It has a much greater chance of being answered, or at least reviewed.
I suggest following the link and submitting your questions on NPR’s form. It has a much greater chance of being answered, or at least reviewed. (There is a response area about availability in your area.)
I suggest following the link and submitting your questions on NPR’s form. It has a much greater chance of being answered, or at least reviewed.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but they come with restrictions. NPR wants to know your questions about the new guidance.
I just like how they *assume* that they will “own the libs” by using and abusing their constituents.
Maybe he’s only concerned about HIS rule of the law. Poor guy. Definitely not self-aware.
Maybe.
Well, FB won’t allow anyone but the page admin to post. I am leaving FB by the year. After I download and delete all “my” data. (I may keep my account open just to lurk around.)
So, I did a search on FB… I love how AI is so impossibly UN-self-aware.
The whole point is that Reuters has 8.2 million followers on FB. THEY need to post it. I find it “interesting” because they either have chosen not to post it, because they don’t want to jeopardize their market on FB, or they have *agreed* not to post it, because …oligarchs (?).
Interesting how this story doesn’t show up on @reuters.com FB page… Maybe just too soon.
MAGA’s brainwashing is the “software” version of a lobotomy. So, yeah.
So, who holds the ™? The people talking about it, or the people implementing it? Oh, well, I guess it doesn’t matter. The ™ is the perfect touch, adding capitalism and consumerism into the discussion. Truly, The Great Enshittification™ !!
Or a Bob Ross painting, with our friends, the happy little trees!
![Dark Waterfall painting by Bob Ross [downloaded from CascadePBS.org]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gp34ndvbrozzn22ccfz2prf6/bafkreihc5hqgg2gamug7nz5c2jt6ittqolwvrt3dpt7kezgf3dboes5qze@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I tend to prefer the “grass-roots” movements of “Homegrown National Park” homegrownnationalpark.org (in the U.S. ) and wearetheark.org in the UK.
I’m not so sure about the science part. On one hand, I try to upload observations every day to iNaturalist. On the other hand, in “The Society for Useful Knowledge” I learned that Enlightenment science was geared toward exploiting Nature to benefit society. If it wasn’t useful, it was discarded.
![Book Cover: The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America By Jonathan Lyons From Booklist: [review] While the colonies were securing political separation from England, a group of Americans were instrumental in establishing American intellectual and scientific freedom from European tradition and in developing a vibrant and distinctly practical culture for the new nation. The leading proponents of this independence were the remarkable Benjamin Franklin and his associates (the Junto), including botanist John Bartram, astronomer David Rittenhouse, physician Benjamin Rush, and industrial visionary Tench Coxe. In this highly readable account of the societies (the title one, later the American Philosophical Society, being the prototype), academies, mechanics’ associations, and other social institutions the group engendered that believed science and experimentation to be collective endeavors, Lyons illuminates a formative period in American cultural history, the theme being that “the value of learning and knowledge . . . is directly proportional to its practical import and utility.” While this emphasis originated with early colonists’ need to adapt to an unfamiliar environment, Lyons’ focus on Franklin and Quaker Philadelphia is apt, though he rightly credits an English precedent with the Royal Society. The book will be compared to Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club (2001), which covered a comparably germinal group a century later. --Mark Levine](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gp34ndvbrozzn22ccfz2prf6/bafkreidnjuxhj7u3p64e4u4cnz3mevju2qhwkgkuwaelbnnczz7vsx52ee@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Actually, I learned a lot from this book. Like, why America was divided from the beginning.
When America got started, indentured servants were often white men from poorer parts of Britain and Europe. I didn’t learn that in school, btw. I read it in a book. “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America”, by Colin Woodard
Like fortune tellers? Yup, I agree!
I’ve already figured out my response when a “conservative” says that it’s all so much Hate aimed at Trump: He reaps what he sows.
Yes. They live in the past. It’s all about “conserving” the ways of the past (at least the ways that benefited them). “Make America (dah-dah) AGAIN.” The ideals of strict republicanism are destroyed if all individuals have a say in how things are run. A smartphone in everyone’s hand is anathema.
So, that leads the thoughtful person down the path toward indentured servants and slaves. You know, the way America got started…
Are you sure that is the biggest lie ever told?
There WILL be midterm elections.
Does this include approving the projects that are NOT wanted by the local community?
And we must never let him forget that those good times are his most exposed, most sensitive parts, and EVERYONE wants to see them! EVERYONE wants to put him in the same position as his old friend Jeffrey, who was such a liability that he knew his life was even less than worthless.
Oh, no, not at all! It’s not a distraction, it’s all part of the plan! But the Epstein files are Trump’s Achilles Heal, and cannot be allowed to be forgotten, especially by Trump himself!
See how it works? All this shit going on, and nobody asked Trump about the Epstein files today.
Irony has been replaced with morony.
“Mental illness” is a term used to demean and dehumanize anyone who is struggling. EVERYONE has a “mental illness.” Some are just less socially acceptable than others.
Doh!
When it starts “for real” remember to tell everyone to aim for the mask.
I remember he got booed for saying it at one of his rallies! Too bad he’s wishy-washy on stuff he can’t understand.
You’re preaching to the choir, here. This needs to be put in front of the Republican voters, like on FOX NEWS!Most of them do not agree with this behavior! And if they complain about it just being more Hate against Trump, just remind them that he reaps what he sows!!!
My acre is surrounded by 100’s of acres of crop land. In 20 years, I’ve planted 50 trees on this 1 acre, which is now an oasis of Nature in the farmland. All of Ohio was rich, wooded forests only 250 years ago, now just a forgotten memory. There have been no beavers in “Beaver Creek” ever since.
I think you did a GREAT job of telling it like it is in the Old Testament. After reading this contemporary translation, in which you actually do not have a speaking role, I am convinced that “REALITY” will always win.
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Who would believe ANYTHING coming from this [***] regime. [***] - there are no appropriate words to insert here that properly describe the incompetence, idiocy, destructiveness, corruption, etc., etc. of this regime.
There are at least 50 other senators who have their heads in Trump’s ass, and didn’t even need to hear from Kennedy to know that he was the PERFECT idiot to incompetently serve in the position.
We don’t need to turn the Fed over. We just need to STOP giving our money to the corporate interests that prop up his regime. Stop buying the imported stuff he’s taxed, expecting to raise revenue from it. Why should we give our money to his regime? #ShutItDown
I hate AI because it’s the OPPOSITE of Nature. It’s a little bit of information, stored in a hot, noisy, energy-burning warehouse the size of Texas. Nature stores eons of information in a tiny little egg. Excellent report, @imogenwk.bsky.social !
“America’s Game” is not baseball. It’s fleecing fans, consumers, & citizens of all they have, funneling it to the few, all the while subtly encouraging & praising them for supporting their team, their city, their country, with NO reciprocal loyalty. Consumerism at its finest. The American Dream.
“America’s Game” is not baseball. It’s fleecing fans, consumers, & citizens of all they have, funneling it to the few, all the while subtly encouraging & praising them for supporting their team, their city, their country, with NO reciprocal loyalty. Consumerism at its finest. The American Dream.
But it desires their money - bigly!