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Good Morning! I talked about coffee and Hawaii this week in my economics and personal finance class, vis-a-vis tariffs against Colombia and Brazil.
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Good Morning! I talked about coffee and Hawaii this week in my economics and personal finance class, vis-a-vis tariffs against Colombia and Brazil.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not worried about a Terminator future, I'm worried about a mad Max future. Maybe the fire guitar will be worth it.
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I found this only partway through.
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Please excuse my ignorance.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Case in point, the person behind the big bang theory, and you!
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
You sound deflated
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Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Freedoms and security to do what? Make money as they saw fit, whether it was crossing the Appalachian mountains or to the ability to own slaves on their own terms. Take a look at the April 12 Halifax Resolve from Halifax, NC.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
That may be the point. Everything Trump is doing is helpful towards brics and yuan hegemony.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
The revolution was about mercantilism versus capitalism.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
We need to give Pauli Murray some love.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Jane crow.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
You're not wrong but you're forgetting one thing. The government is a currency creator, not just a currency user. We'll do fine as long as those idiots from the balancing a checkbook brigade don't show up.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like the buildup to the war of 1812 all over again.
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ChuckGPT?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this like how people who enjoy hockey are secretly there for the fighting?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
@pattonoswalt.bsky.social, you're on strange new worlds?
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I think we're going to finally get our third amendment landmark case...
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
There is a fantastic book called The Rape of Europa about the art stolen along with the care different museums took with their art to keep it from Nazis.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Boston historically has not been crazy about soldiers in their city.
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Impeach
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Cell phones have been ubiquitous for the new century this far. It certainly hasn't helped with shootings.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean it was negotiated, with bombs.
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@greenleejw.bsky.social how's the puppers?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
They are responsible for the QANON that got him elected.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that when you ask people whether they chew or swallow the host?
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@alyankovic.bsky.social they're going after your hometown!
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Good.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Umm...how far have we gone? Slavery is still legal in jail.
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What happened
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, the wildcats called, they want their era back.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Is he aware that non academics are the reason why we have vaccines cause autism?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Who wrote that line for the Simpsons?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Splitters.
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Were there more soldiers in our capital after January 6th?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you read Patton's book?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Rules are for thee, not for me, etc.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
No love there.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social)
@kairyssdal.bsky.social @planetmoney.bsky.social are white collar jobs being outsourced and that is why there is such a death of jobs?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that legal? Not that it matters, I suppose.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
This may be crazy, give them homes? Seems to work every time they do it.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Wasn't that what the shootout at the OK Corral about?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Why did I think she converted to Christianity?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Well...yeah.
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What happened?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Judging by all the rape happening, no.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
The shooter at the cdc?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
This is so incredibly stalinist it's not even funny. Are they going to create a jewish autonomous region next?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
It was smack dab in the Jim crow era. Back during that time, the industrialist focus of the white supremacists Democrats drove the Agrarian section away into the populist party creating the fusion movement.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
The irony is that Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina had black representation during the 1880s and 1890s, when no other states did.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Yigail yadin, get your bones over here!
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
What about the quality of the series?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Give people a bunch of money for taking a loss on their houses.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
The issue with this is that people using GPT will act as though they are engaging in research level AI. This would take Dunning Kruger to a stunning level.
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Dagnabit, sorry. Want me to delete my post?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I really feel like @greenleejw.bsky.social should be a part of this conversation.
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The only thing more Texan is this scene.. youtu.be/9cHLoHou8uY?...
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Rapeublican.
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If I WERE Robert Dudley, my first order of business would be changing the pronunciation of Leicester to LAYSESTER.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I think about the fact that William of Orange supported Johann Dewitt getting eaten.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Real men think about 1588 and the Spanish armada!
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Well he definitely had stuff to say and he had died just a few years before. What i also find fascinating is he may have been involved with the Denmark Vesey execution/murder in South Carolina.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you read David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I wondered when the cftc would show up.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Weird AL movie was on there, right?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I get this from the adag, I am rubber you are glue what you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Every accusation is an admission. Dude's low IQ.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Forgive me ignorance.
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Congress needs to do that.
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Every crazy accusation this far has been an admission.
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Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
If only for the golf factor.
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Glasgow/st Andrews Atlanta/Augusta.
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Also, I think the person you're talking to before is a tankie.
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Between the Holodomor, Gulags, the great Terror, and everything else, I would say Stalin was on par with Hitler.
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Also, when are you coming to the Durham area?
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If you chew your nails while doing this, that's cannibalism...
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Wouldn't getting this message to Nazis be a good idea?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
What did he say?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
The Middle
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
True, but he was not nice to Rushdie.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember cat stevens who is now known as Yusuf Islam after he converted to Islam and Iran declared death on a certain author
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I deserve that. Just like the Palestinians deserve a state.
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Good luck.
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Looks like Israel will be having...(Puts on sunglasses) Nunavut.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
I have no inherent problem with them recognizing Palestine but I have to ask, who's in charge, what's the capital, etc?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Do UBI and universal healthcare so that people can opt out of jobs that pay them less.
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Anytime. Keep being awesome. How's the new book doing?
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@stephaniekelton.bsky.social book is amazing.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Your taxes don't fund the government. Do you remember Musk talking about finding the magic money computers? fortune.com/2025/03/19/e...
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Currency is created by the federal government. It is a currency creator.
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
The question is not whether he's stealing money from us, as the federal government is a currency creator. The question is why does he get access to those resources and we don't?
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Porque no los dos?
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TPS reports getting you down?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
There really is a horrifying sect within our community, isn't there?
Joel Simons (@nceconandhistory.bsky.social) reply parent
Did wonder why your pinky kept lifting up?
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How can we help besides buying the book?