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Just saying

I mean, it's realistic. I know people who were at protests, and got arrested, and when they couldn't find a way to charge them with crimes, they put them in psych hold for a minimum of 72 hours, and there are known instances of people having this done that ended up in for long times.

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Need to yak? Skip emetics, hear about what the world's Most Moral Army's up to

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Yeah Amandla Stenberg, the black actress who was 12 when she was in the Hunger Games movie, was being asked what it was like to play a child with all the bad stuff happening, like how she made herself act like a child, and she replied "I am a child" , from the interviewer's reaction you could tell they were caught off guard, and weren't thinking of the fact that she was actually 12

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Yeah, I have a friend who was in the CBGB scene from the late 70s, though the 80s. She has pictures of when Madonna was hanging out there, before she was famous, but as she was getting notoriety for her voice, drumming, and sex charged performances, which were a lot more punk at the time. She has pictures of her participating in anti-authority events from the time, and shit.

Now though? A whack job, deeply into cultism, and way disconnected from the girl sleeping on the floor, and hanging out with the hardcore punk, and goth, bands at CBGB and Mudd Club.

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Updated: CyberTruck “Slices Deer in Half”… Elon claims that it is safer for pedestrians.

there is a guy who lives about 2 miles away from me that owns one. I used to see his truck around, and see it while I was out walking parked in his driveway. I stopped seeing it for a few months. Then I was walking by when I saw him outside doping something in his yard and asked what happened to his truck. He said it was too much trouble, I said yeah, i heard they have some serious issues on the news. he replies "On top having to take it to the shop almost once a month motherfuckers just kept vandalizing the thing. It just was not worth owning."

It's a thought that makes me smile.

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Ok.

Years ago, I was walking through a college campus when I walked past a group of these people. As I walked past one lady asked what I felt about abortions and I said "They are sad" and before I kept going she asked if I wanted one of these. I looked at it and said "Oh, hell yeah, definitely". She looked at me for like 2 seconds and then said "No, not for you."

I did not get my rubber fetus that day :(

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Apropos of nothing 😇

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Yes from what I can find, depending on the type of concrete, it takes 4-30lbs of sugar per ton. The point is not to keep it permanently plastic, it will set, but its structural integrity is greatly compromised and it will crumble under stresses far, far, lower than it will need to deal with.

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Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such

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Spending time on Chinese social media has shown me platforms that read exactly like the garbage from the right wing talking heads here on Twitter. Extreme nationalist sentiment is very, very, common. I have seen soooo many memes expressing desire to just wipe out the Philippines, and just repopulate it with mainland Chinese. Memes about their eventual control over Africa, which uses surprisingly western racist stereotypes to portray Africans. So much discussion that mirrors MAGA like behavior, in many ways, but just discussing the greatness of China, instead. So many who, at least claim, to wholeheartedly believe revisionist, extremely idealized, versions of China's past, often including things that just are not physically possible. There is a lot of open talk about what China is going to do to so many of it's neighbors when it over takes the US, and NATO recedes from the region. I stopped going on their, because it was just becoming more, and more, X-China. Then my translator stopped using social media there, expect for work, as well, and now I just can't.

Friends of mine who have spent the past 20+ years living in China are reporting seeing more, and more, of it offline too, when politics was not something Chinese would publicly really talk about, especially to foreigners. However, especially in the past 10 years, they said their open expression of xenophobia, hardline nationalist sentiments, desire to take, and punish other countries, has become almost common in certain social spaces there, and it is worrying them. These people moved to China after studying Chinese language, culture, and history, for many years, including attending Chinese universities. They loved it there. Now they are talking about how it is sounding more, and more, like the rhetoric you get from flag wavers in the US.

So I do not trust China to maintain it's non-expansionism once NATO not longer controls so many of the waters around them. Nationalism is popular their, and the idea of finally taking revenge for the century of humiliation only grows.

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Should've just picked a better password

Me, as I pour some water on myself: Oh, look, it doesn't damage me at all, in fact, it feels kinda nice! Let's see how well you deal with water being poured on you!

Computer: Your, password is fine, actually, nothing else needed!

Me: No, no, you are gonna find out what happens when I pour water into you power supply.

Computer: No need for that! You know, Linda really is a bitch! You have been dealing with a...

Me Pouring water: Yes, she is, isn't she?

Computer makes some fizzle, and pop noises, then completely silent, monitor blank: ...