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We could probably halve gun sales if we had a law that all guns had to be pink and cute.

#guns

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#evolution #economy

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imagine if during presidential debates, the candidates were hooked up to lie detectors and we had real-time fact-checking.

#politics #musings

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EVERY New Young Billionaire Is Nepo Baby

And more evidence the economy is f**ked

#breaking points #inequality #capitalism #late stage capitalism #economy #Youtube

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Things I’ve learned being homeless for three months

· things like salt and butter become luxuries

· without an adress, it’s very hard to get your life in order

· toilet paper $6, bread $2, canned beans $2. $10 is one week of living off of bread with beans and being able to go to the bathroom.

· just to apply for unemployment and/or disability is an entire day job.

· the system is set up against you

· you suddenly understand all the hobos on the streets, and you would give them money if you had any

· people will humiliate you, look down on you, hurt you and offend you, just because of your living situation.

· you realize that a lot more people than you think are homeless

· homeless does not mean uneducated

· homeless does not mean dysfunctional, sick, or incapable

· There are homeless people everywhere. You can’t see on someone that they’re homeless; they can still attend college, drive a car and dress nice. Most of us look like you, and many of us have degrees and jobs.

#my bff is homeless - living in a broken van - and I can confirm all of the above #there is so much hate for the unhoused and not nearly enough help

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got an idea for a delivery service that brings you food for half-price. calling it shop-lyft.

#I think i'm funny

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Why are people acting like another Trump administration couldn't possibly have any lasting consequences, when we're still dealing with the aftermath of the Reagan administration now.

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You know those lullaby versions of rock music for babies to relax and fall asleep? That's what Lo-Fi is for adults with adhd.

#lo fi #I'm here for it

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Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.

Stephen Fry

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WHO EVEN DOES THIS

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Trump's brain is still working at 100% ability, while Biden's at, say, 90%. But Trump's maximum ability is that of an imbecile while Biden's is that of an actually intelligent statesman.

#politics #biden #trump #Not a big fan of biden but he's clearly an intelligent guy even with his senior moments while trump is just a very loud idiot

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1957 High school student debate/forum. India, Pakistan, UK, Philippines. Subject: Prejudice pt. 3

I randomly came across this and it is FASCINATING.

#racism #bigotry #prejudice #history #colonialism #Youtube

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Every worker deserves a thriving wage.

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10 hour work week

AI is gonna start drastically reducing the size of human teams. Say a team of 20 going down to a team of 4. Gonna have a lot of unemployment and inequality. Moving to a 10 hour work week seems like a good way to help reduce both those issues and make work-life balance actually great.

#ai #work #economy

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"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!"

What's amazing to me about people without empathy for others is their apparent deficiency of imagination about themselves. They're endorsing a system of privilege without ever wondering what it might be like if *they* didn't have privilege.

Meanwhile, I wanted to reblog this bc of how much people like tucker carlson and the maga right seem to love dictatorships.

#russia #politics #leopards eating faces party #maga