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Nevertheless everless, you have described the conundrum perfectly grasshopper.

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I subscribe to the theory everything went to hell when real new sites put up pay walls.

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Capitalism/socialism is a simulation we put ourselves in, and it clearly doesn’t work, no country has been able to make it work in 100 years. Yet like crazy people expecting a different result, new politicians get elected every year with expectation that something will be better.

Who said that we should be trying capitalism/socialism indefinitely? I think after few tries, in 1930s we should have said - this system doesn’t work, let’s not waste time trying for another 100 years and ask scientists to come up with nether new system.

Maybe it’s like feudalism before it, few centuries should pass until everything is destroyed and new society is built.

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I’m gonna get grief for this… but it’s not as bad as it looks. By combining big subsidies for renewable energy w/ very strict limits on motor vehicle and power plant emissions, Biden has turned the corner. We still have a long way to go to reach zero emissions, but we’re now going in the right direction, as long as we keep Trump from getting back in— and we will.

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I don’t know, man, I disagree. There IS an objective reality, and those of us attached to it ARE more sane than those that aren’t. The chemtrail people ARE more insane than those of us who live in reality. Equating the adrenochrome nutjobs with lefties who are pulling their hair out because adrenochrome nutjobs aren’t laughed off the stage is…insane :)

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Covid is STILL A PANDEMIC😷 Cases are rising again. It's not over.

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I live around a bunch of anti vax folk. I mask still frequently. Auto immune issues. COVID is still real to those of us it will kill.

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It's still real for everyone even if they're in denial😷 And I'm sorry your neighbors suck ass🫂 Stay safe💕

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That’s what we know but not what the Gubment is saying, Jasmine. It’s all around Austin and has been.

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I know😔 No they aren't🤬 But they're taking every precaution for themselves.

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Or what comes next out of a very poor choice of locations to perform this research. Shouldn’t it be hundreds of feet below ground like in Andromeda Strain ? In the good ole USA? We can get the bat guano there and fly it here. Why would any sane person trust the Chinese to access or run this facility?

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Why wouldn't we trust them? The Chinese didn't put out vaccine disinformation, the US tried to undermine China's vaccine with dangerous disinformation. Looks like China can't trust the US.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-15/pentagon-ran-secret-anti-vax-campaign-to-undermine-china-during-/103982430

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I’ll just quote the late Leonard Cohen as I bow out…”There’s truth that lives and truth that dies, I don’t know which so, Nevermind”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3HbrfV0hJM

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Not to be confused with Nirvana’s Nevermind.

Cohen’s version, some may recognize, was the theme to True Detective Season 2.

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I've been struggling just to come to grips with what I've been sure other people have also been realizing... Everything you said here. It helps to know that at least I'm not crazy by myself.

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Also, “everless” is a much needed addition to the ‘Merican vocabulary.

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Perfect perfect perfect. Have you been visiting some of your same thinking commentators in our sleep because, dude, you’re spot on?

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Kudos on the flamenco accomplishment. I myself learned to do flamenco dancing BUT on a unicycle. Crippling anxiety, indeed, my friend.

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Spot on Mr Michael Ian Black. You just can't blame people for being crazy in a crazy world.

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