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Bless-ed blezzed bles-sed bleced

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I became conscious while walking through LAX airport holding my moms hand as we approached a strange smiling man with an afro and handle bar mustache (turns out it was my father)

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These people have to be faking it. No way chopping my neck with their hand is fixing anything. Just stupid human brain placebo at the little popping noise(s).

We should honestly burn these people on crosses for the pure heresy they excrete. Fucking tricksters. Honestly could sympathise sooner with a mass murderer than a chiroprater. Freaks. Total freaks man

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Lately I am having a hard time getting any of the 3rd party front ends for social medias to work properly. Is it just me?

The site doesnt load, it can't find the media, etc. Sometimes I can get one item to load but then can t get another on same instance.

Twitter, reddit, YouTube mainly but sometimes I want to see something on tiktok or Instagram.

I use libredirect/Firefox on desktop and as a last resort on mobile. I regularly re-ping the instances list although it doesnt seem to reflect which ones actually work. On mobile I prefer newpipe or another app if available.

Not sure if VPN is getting in the way, or adblocking on mobile etc. Sometimes turning it off helps but other times it does not.

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Do I just order the Lil' Prankster's Kit?

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Stumbled onto this shitty game trailer on youtube and instantly clocked it as ai art

Cant really put to words why exactly they're so instantly recognisable

Something about the wierd sharp lines and doll like faces

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Obviously it is not theory but as a piece of dystopian fiction what do y'all think of it. Is it as overtly propagandist as Orwell's works?

Edit: I'd also love to hear opinions on Grapes of Wrath which I did not read in 8th grade. Really I'd love to hear about Steinback in general, my great grandfather knew him in highschool (or so my grandmother claims)

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spoilerJk you all get an owl pellet

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Obviously, police and military monopoly of power is last resort.

What do, though?

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Genuine question. I was listening to shit about Facebook and made me think how much damage Harvard has done to the world just from that alone.

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I'm editing a story right now, and they use this construction with no speaking verbs a lot:

Rachel was finishing washing the dinner plates, “I know this will be hard on them, but Shelby needs to go on home."

I know you could replace that comma with a period, but I wonder if it's common to use a comma or semicolon to avoid slowing the reader too much?

This next one makes more sense to me because laughing could conceivably be a speaking verb:

Maddie's laugh was laced with sarcasm, “Mark, looks like you’ve got a friend.”

That one could even be a colon...

Am I overthinking this? Should I just replace them all with periods?

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I mean the dismantling of bourgeois democratic institutions and other such things. Fascism, basically

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...that do not require friends nor involve cabbages.

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I keep yelling at them to reverse it but they keep refusing too! Why does the evil Kabal of stock boys making $15/hr keep doing this to me???

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idk wtf I did but I woke up 2 days ago with this pain in my shoulder right inside where the shoulder itself meets my chest and man it hurts. It's so bad in the morning I can't lift my arm over my head. But as the day goes on (and taking some nsaids) it lessens a bit.

What did I do to myself?

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Like, in a practical sense? Do you have any stories or examples from your life?

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richest country on earth immediately stops paying its entire civil service when there's a disagreement on the budget which is something that literally only happens in the USA as far as I know.

I'm sure there's some 🤓☝️ reason like the govt runs on a blockchain that uses proof-of-anti-communist-law-passing to mine new blocks or something

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IG there's nothing wrong with matrix.org, just wondering how it works. I've run synapse before so I get not wanting lots of users on there.

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