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Rats? They drive me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. It was a rubber room full of rubber rats! Rats? They drive me crazy..

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · Dec 11

Poverty is a choice

but it's not poor people that make it.

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 2h

Topologically speaking, there are actually only four food groups: rice, steak, bagel, and Swiss cheese

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 6h

No, willful ignorance is being told the evidence exists and dismissing it as a false claim

Lying is knowing the evidence exists and saying it doesn't

He is lying, he knows full fucking well, there is no ignorance

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 6h

He's not ignorant, he's lying

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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 6h

America, 1775: “No taxation without representation.”

America, 2025: “No kings equals no paychecks.”

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 6h

If no kings means no paychecks it sounds like we need a new economic model

In this proposal I will include quotes from Plato and Karl Marx,

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 21h

"The customer is always right, in matters of taste" was originally a luxury slogan popularized (and maybe invented) by the founder of the chain of hotels now known as Ritz-Carlton. It means that if the customer wants an ugly hat, you sell him an ugly hat even if you know he's going to return it.

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 22h

Same reason they skip the "in matters of taste" part of "The customer is always right" or the "It is impossible to" part of "pull yourself up by the bootstraps"

Because they fear an informed public.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't know that PBS stood for Posting Bullshit

"influential activist" what the hell are you afraid of, losing your government funding?

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

"Protesters are throwing rocks"

> the rock is a tear gas canister

> the second tear gas canister hits a cop

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a CRYPTO expert - I don't fully understand the double-SHA256 procedure, for example - but I am knowledgeable enough about cryptoCURRENCY to state with confidence that it is less useful than all existing forms of non-crypto currency.

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

In a PoW system you get better odds of minting a block by having more processing power. In PoS, you get better odds by staking more tokens. The system rewards not spending the currency and punishes spending it.

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

PoS is like PoW, but the difficulty target is different based on the wallet that signs for the block - the more unspent* tokens in the wallet, the lower the difficulty.

The reward system is the same: mine a block, get the block reward and the fees for transactions in the block.

* (for some time)

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

This right here is PRECISELY why The Onion deserves to own InfoWars

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

For that matter, where did they get the guns

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 1d

Establishment Democrats are always like "progressive policies are unpopular" and then they PROUDLY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY go to bat for genocidal Zionism for years, which is wildly unpopular and loses voters, so maybe it's not about messaging. MAYBE THEY'RE JUST FASCISTS PAID TO OBSTRUCT ANTI-FASCISM.

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

If you could hover your mouse over the profile image of the account you are asking, you would find your answer: they are located in Chicago

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

He found it. And kept it.

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

We need to have a VERY serious discussion about unsubstantiated accusations of violence on television when all this is over

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

We need to have a VERY serious discussion about unsubstantiated accusations of violence on television when all this is over

stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 1d

Boy you sure love to spout those crypto scammer talking points though, that's two in a row.

Proof of Stake is a "he who has the most money makes the most money" system which is even worse than proof of work.

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