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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Nothing could honor the memory of Alfred Nobel more than letting folks know what everyone else will say about them when they pass away. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_P...

There is a popular story about how, in 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled "The Merchant of Death Is Dead", in a French newspaper.
It was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died; the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered.
This inspired him to change his will.
Historians have been unable to verify this story and some dismiss the story as a myth.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 7h

Steve Bannon is a troll. This talk of a third term is projecting a false future with Trump in it to make him seem like less of a lame duck.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 7h

The stairs lead to nowhere *now*.

“The Volkshalle (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksˌhalə], "People's Hall"), also called Große Halle ([ˌɡʁoːsə ˈhalə], "Great Hall") or Ruhmeshalle ([ˈʁuːməsˌhalə], "Hall of Glory"), was a proposal for a monumental, domed building to be built in a reconstituted Berlin (renamed as Germania) in Nazi Germany. The project was conceived by Adolf Hitler and designed by his architect Albert Speer. No part of the building was ever constructed.” — Wikipedia

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 10h

“Speaker” apparently means going on news shows to say you don’t have any power and you can’t do anything.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h

I guess that's like tautologically true but someone making minimum wage at Wal Mart will not starve to death without SNAP, they will just have to start living out of their car or forego medical care or make some other horrible accomodation to poverty because of the money they now must spend on food

Deep Learning State Machine @collapsedsquid.bsky.social · 20h

Classic Iron Law of Wages reasoning that you can't pay people less than they need to live, by definition. I mean not if you expect them to continue to show up for long.

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“China better not commit Supreme Court interference”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“Canada agreed to stop the ads”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Actual second to last text was “this, to me, is accountability.”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve got McDonald’s at home”

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, there isn’t necessarily a lot of overlap in impacted groups, you’re just spreading out the pain across categories and getting folks to wonder who’s getting taken care of

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

There’s letting snap run out of money, then there’s letting snap run out of money at the same time some of the medical care shenanigans start hitting home

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Shareholder lawsuits

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

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Breece Hall pumping up his passing stats (4 yds. 1 TD)

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all fun and games until you charge right through a door and you forget you demolished what was on the other side.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, I still don’t rate his odds of winning the 2020 election.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, I still don’t rate his odds of winning the 2020 election.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“Look what happened to our country when a crooked moron became our President”

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Churchill showed he meant business by letting one rip at the end of his “Blood, Tears, Toil, and Sweat” speech.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

I would have to agree with Stephen Colbert though. youtu.be/vQBdQrSSVvo

Gary Oldman watching his characters with added farts

YouTube video by Inne Klipy

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

“Do you like… ballgames? Do you like… barbecues?”

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Ronald Reagan, master of psyops from beyond the grave

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 1d

Foreign interference with the Supreme Court blah blah

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2d

I’m interested in why they got rid of the Susan B. Anthony question, and whether they got rid of other questions.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a blue jacket sits on a chair holding a milkshake

Alt: Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2d

You have to assume Stephen or a similar nitwit told him the Reagan clip was AI, but the man just isn’t doing any critical thinking, he’s running with it.

ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 2d

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ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 3d

Donald said Ronald was bad on trade back in March. youtu.be/s0sTUjDI-ow

President Trump Takes Swipe On Ronald Reagan During Discussion Of Chinese Tariffs

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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