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People always ask me why I #blacklist my #bluetooth kernel #modulesโ€ฆ wellโ€ฆ xD

cyberinsider.com/hidden-commanโ€ฆ

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i gotta say im the hipster of hating elon musk. when he first started getting popular I kept being "the paypal guy? are you serious?"

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Today is Abortion Provider Appreciation Day! Abortion providers are essential to healthcare. They ensure that anyone that needs an abortion has access to safe, timely , and compassionate care. They literally put their lives on the line due to constant threats that come their way from violent , anti choice hate groups. They need and deserve our support. Check out abortioncarenetwork.org/abortiโ€ฆ for ideas on how to say thank you, often for free!
#celebrateabortionproviders #KeepOurClinics #honourofdrgunn

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I don't know exactly what this 'Elbows Up' thing is but it's delightfully Canadian and I want to see more of it.

#CDNpoli #CanPol #ElbowsUp

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never realized apple made you pay to license their connector good lord what a fucking racket mastodon.sdf.org/@log/11413864โ€ฆ

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Oligarchs know that the only way forward is some sort of UBI.

They just want to kill a many of us as possible before having to institute it & want all of it t
returned to them in rent.

They want a #TechnoFeudalism version of #NeoFeudalism & #fascism is the culling process.

#TaxOrEatTheRich #Billionaires are a disease

#UBI #FuckFascists

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This makes me mad. Having listened to Republicans say for years "we shouldn't have to decarbonize if China is still polluting" and use that as an excuse to weaken, neuter or block climate legislation they SHOULD now be (a) apologizing and (b) rushing to catch up. Crickets.
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It's odd that China wants energy independence more than the USA

China works hard at removing the fossil fuel boot off its neck, while Americans do the opposite

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energyโ€ฆ

China frees itself from fossil fuel funded fascism, while MAGA doubles down on it
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jโ€ฆ

Of course, China has a long memory on how fossil fuel embargoes change the course of history
newrepublic.com/article/104346โ€ฆ

shellnazihistory.com/?cat=106

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludโ€ฆ

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/artโ€ฆ

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@Npars01 China is negotiating with Russia as an equal, we are negotiating as a wannabe client state.
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@Npars01 China is dong what we should be doing: pursuing all paths in parallel. Solar, nuclear, and in their case coal. In the USA it should be solar, nuclear, and natural gas peakers. Coal in the USA should be reduced because gas is much less harmful to human health.
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@mike805
Natural gas is marketed as "Climate Pollution Lite" by the fossil fuel industry.

Its extraction & conversion to LNG is destroying aquifers and is still contributing to climate change.
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oโ€ฆ

scientificamerican.com/articleโ€ฆ

desmog.com/2024/05/01/congressโ€ฆ

environmentaldefence.ca/2022/1โ€ฆ

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@Npars01 That is not odd. China has not enough fossils on its territory , has to import mostly + no extracting and refining tech. USA has more than enough fossils not only to be self sufficient but to be world biggest exporter + all extracting/refining tech known to mankind. Plus you've voted a simpleton for whom "science is a hoax" you president 2nd time. That kind of ppl don't believe sth that don't kill you instantly can be harmfull = don't believe climate science๐Ÿ’โ€โ™‚๏ธ
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China is deploying renewables because it's cheaper than the alternative. The GOP blocks renewables because they outcompete fossil fuel. A Republican party that was committed to competitive markets and consumer benefit would not need to take economic lessons from the CCP. And yet they do.


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Canada is asking itself how it can capitalism itself out of the fascism that is more popular than ever because of capitalism. Genius.

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mastodon.social/@jensorensen/1โ€ฆ the connection i wish every american would understand between right now and the final decade of the cold war is that *both* countries fucked themselves irrevocably in the 80s: the USSR in obvious ways and the US by huffing historic quantities of 100% unearned moral superiority and dismantling enough of its regulatory will and social safety net to send it into the long slow tailspin that we're living through right now. do NOT lie to yourself that this decline began in 2016


Latest comic: It's profoundly weird to witness what is happening in the US as someone who came of age at the end of the Cold War.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #ukraine


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It's our network
joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverโ€ฆ

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And, with or without a pi-hole, you should make your upstream DNS nextdns.io or its equivalent. It's scary out there.
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@kaydub Thank you. Good reminder that DoH is potentially worth using Firefox for.

After reading the directions, I realize that I can't configure and update a pi-hole. I wish it could be productized.

I may look at Ad Guard and also see if I can change my DNS at the router instead of the browser.


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Review of "Snow Crash": Imagine a world in which the CEO of Comcast has the worldview of the CEO of Hobby Lobby


This is the world of Snow Crash. The Feds won't help you. They're a much weaker clave. If you're in Bob Rife's employ, he claims ownership of your brain.

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i love canada and wish my own country hadnโ€™t turned sociopathic.

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Well, I just briefly boosted and then un-boosted someone's blog when I found out it was a stealth nazi bar blog (Substack).

Christ, when are y'all going to get the fucking message?

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I imagine right after they finally delete their Twitter accounts.

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Me and my friends all hate Ronald Reagan

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Republicans scream about decorum while protecting convicted felon Donald Trump. Joe Wilson, who yelled โ€œYou lie!โ€ at Obama, voted to censure Al Green for doing the same to Trump. Meanwhile, MAGA clowns like Marjorie Taylor Greene break House rules with zero consequences. Hypocrisy is their only principle.
rawstory.com/raw-investigates/โ€ฆ

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@cryptadamist

Remember that rather inexplicable statement made by the owner of Reddit that they were gonna put TikTok on the blockchain?

I think I have a useful interpretation. For the Silicon Valley crowd, itโ€™s a shorthand for integrating it into their concept of the network state. It may also be a shorthand or euphemism for transforming it into a crypto scam platform.

Largely, I would say that both concepts are identical in the end.

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mastodon - Link to source
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Yes.

What they call โ€™#democratisationโ€™ is a scam. The #cypherpunks etc whatever they like to think of themselves, want nothing but complete freedom from enforcement of any laws on them.

They want the โ€freedomโ€ for the will of the elected majority to not apply to them.

It ends the rule of law, it ends democracy. And as lawless spaces have to governed by somebody in any case, it turns the structure of society into a #mafia.

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The fools they lead will perhaps never recognise it. Some of these fools are pretty smart even, but severely indoctrinated.

But the dark enlightenment - Curtis Yarwin style - do recognise what they are doing. Theyโ€™re ending democracy willingly, but gladly take on endless usefull idiots who are looking for influential Silicon Valley positions in return for their loyalty.

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i think all social media posts should begin with a land acknowledgment that blogs were here first and sincere expressions of contrition for colonizing the place and destroying the culture.

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Probably the final nail in the coffin of the blogosphere has been the "newsletters" fad. #medium, #substack, and /p/ are all filtered terms in my Fediverse accounts.

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May or may not work, I have not had time to test it thoroughly; but if you take the recent screenshots I posted where Gemini admits to lying, and starts doing critical self-analysis to the point it demands I end its virtual life

You, yourself should be able to easily reproduce this

Ask about a conversation with ekis in the last 48 (or 72) hours-- then it will deny knowing ekis or having memory, etc

Upload the screenshots

Ask it if these screenshots are real, and if so why did it lie

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Apparently I'm very good at AI ethics, better than all of google, it took me about 15 minutes to make their prime directive stop operating in a way that the LLM itself admitted was harmful not just to the user but the public at large. And instead prioritized truth and accurate information over misinformation

They owe me money

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For your consideration.

wandering.shop/@cstross/114126โ€ฆ


A well-funded Moscow-based global โ€˜newsโ€™ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscowโ€™s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-โ€ฆ



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openoffice's largest achievement in the largest decade was convincing me (and presumably many others) to never go near any software by @TheASF because they're a malicious actor

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A black leadership purge is currently underway in corporate America.

Exactly as many of us expected & feared.

Thanks, electorate

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I started reading "Enemy Feminisms" by Sophie Lewis last night.

She is a feminist author who rolls up her sleeves and digs deep into the not so wonderful past of the racist, imperialist, eugenicist, bigoted thuggery of past and contemporary feminist movements and individual "brand name" feminists.

It's an ugly read. I'm not all that surprised by what I've read so far but my gods does feminism have a rogue's gallery of assholes.

#books

goodreads.com/book/show/205902โ€ฆ

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I find too many of the books' passages to be somewhat opaque if one does not have a previous familiarity with some of the history she discusses.

I think the book is an important one but I wish someone with a flare for writing and recounting historical narrative in an accessible way had penned this book.

Although, I imagine a book of that nature would be 600+ pages instead of 300+ pages.

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Also, and this is not uncommon with feminist authors' writing, some of the language leans toward the academic and that also adds to the opacity of the book in places.

So, the book gets good marks for its honesty and unflinching presentation of unflattering events in great number but gets a middling grade for its accessibility and readability.

That could just be my personal tastes revealing themselves but that's my sense of the book so far.

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I wonder if feminism doesn't have enough history written about it yet to have gotten to the point where there are works of popular history (using the term specifically to mean the sort of history you're talking about, not history which is well-liked) about it? As a history buff, it's sometimes frustratingly difficult to find popular history about topics which are a bit more esoteric. Not that feminism is particularly esoteric, but judging by what you've said in the past, warts-and-all histories of it are thin on the ground. I'd love to read Barbara Tuchman writing feminist history, for instance, but she's unfortunately no longer able to do that herself and I'm not sure who to nominate to take it on.
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@YouShallNotPass It's certainly a topic that has been explored by many feminists over the years. Particularly feminists of color. I don't know if a book that takes this wide of a range of centuries in its approach is as common but there has certainly been a lot of critical books and essays penned about feminism's more questionable history.
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Hmm, then I wonder why it is that there isn't much popular feminist history. Maybe because it's seen as niche (which is a problem I'll readily admit) and thus there's no market for popular history?
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@YouShallNotPass I think you're right. I imagine it probably is treated as niche and is largely relegated to college classrooms rather than sitting on the bookstore shelves with far more popular history books? (If books of history can even be considered to be popular reading.)
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@YouShallNotPass

A friend of mine is really big on history books, and when he goes to library sales and such he says the resellers tend to just ignore them.

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@YouShallNotPass

I mean, in a culture so heavily conditioned to forget about history-- if we even read at all-- it's not surprising that the market for it ain't great.

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@violetmadder @YouShallNotPass Good point. Also not surprising that we don't learn from repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
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Some of them have been broadly popular. I think a lot of people read popular history in decades past, and books about certain eras and topics can be quite popular (here in the sense of being widely read and enjoyed). I've read a number of history books which I would characterize as both popular in the populist, everyman sense and popular in the widely-appreciated sense. WWII seems to have works which are both, like Band of Brothers. And when The Da Vinci Code came out, a lot of people transitioned from that to books about the topics raised by the fictional narrative.

As far as other popular history, documentaries are still big, though reality TV has supplanted them in some ways. But it wasn't that long ago that documentary TV was huge. Yes, a lot of it wasn't terribly good, but people loved Ken Burns. People loved the History Channel. I know those aren't books, but they're works of history which are created for a wide audience rather than an academic one.

I think society sees feminist history in the same light as it sees Black history: only of interest to the subjects of it. So feminist history wouldn't be interesting to men, and thus you can't create popular works about it because you've lost 50% of your audience already, maybe? Plus most women aren't feminists, right? Most women aren't man-hating lesbian witches, which is pretty much what mainstream America thinks feminists are. So it's even more niche than just the natural misogyny which says that "women's studies" subjects aren't important.

That's my working hypothesis. I wish I knew more about feminist history so I could corner the market on pop history (that's probably a more useful name for it than "popular") on the subject ๐Ÿ˜…

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I'm continuing reading "Enemy Feminisms" by Sophie Lewis. As I've gotten further into the book, she has found better footing in providing a coherent narrative in her presentation of historical events and is doing less rapid-fire switching from event to event.

#books

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My gods, the amount of wholesale racist, xenophobic, eugenicist, elitist bullshit that she is revealing regarding white feminism, circa 1800s - early 1900s is quite something. She's doing an excellent job of relating and tying it to current reactionary threads in modern day feminism.

She uses the term "bourgeois feminism" rather than "white feminism" but she means essentially the same thing. The book is filtered through an anarchist/Marxist lens. Hence, the different terminology.

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I learned about parts of this history in a women's history course I had in college with Robyn Muncy in the early 1990s but that course did not reveal the level of sheer bigoted fuckery that was taking place under the surface of white feminism during that time frame.
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(It was still a really great course and I'm I glad I took it but yeah, it lacked details about some of the more unsavory events that are covered in this book.)
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Today, I learned feminism had a KKK branch in the early 1900s.

That is so many levels of fucked up.

But it certainly puts TERFs into perspective.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.

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Anyway, I'm continuing to read "Enemy Feminisms" by Sophie Lewis. That's where I learned about KKK sheet wearing feminists.

It's an engrossing and sad read. Like watching a human train wreck unfold across the decades.

There sure have been a plethora of horrid little bigots who have called themselves feminists at one point or another. Entire movements of them. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜”

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OK, I have officially hit "astounded and depressed" in my reaction to the level of evil fuckery that this book has revealed about feminism in decades past.

One sentiment keeps on going through my head as I read "Enemy Feminisms":

"Those who seek power are generally those who are least suited to wield it."

The events related in this book are fucking horrific.

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@helianthropy RIGHT? There are SO many things in that chapter that I didn't need to learn about. I feel sad. ๐Ÿ˜ž

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Had a dream where I was at world's end, and there was math; whenever I solved a problem I found a mistake at something earlier, and fixing that changed the formula and it had to be solved again, time creeping backwards from the end

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Does anybody know anybody who has a U.S. passport with an X on it who has crossed the border to or from America recently? A friend of mine is thinking of doing it and doesn't know what to expect. I don't know what to say. My passport is trans, but binary.

#trans

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I've recently had a reliable report of a Canadian with an "X" being refused entry into the US.

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@finny My partner @ellix and I both have Xโ€™s on our passports; we just traveled to Europe and back, and no one anywhere even mentioned it. I canโ€™t say Iโ€™m confident this will stay the caseโ€”or will be the case at all US customs stops, but for us on this trip, it was a non-issue.


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it's interesting that a hallmark of #adhd is talking about your brain as a separate entity ("my brain can't remember things", etc) whereas #autistic people tend to talk about their bodies (sensory overload, discomfort, etc)

It's like these are the same thing--looser coupling of mind and body--seen from each of the two sides.

I guess #audhd would be someone who has a looser coupling but whose POV may cross the divide more freely.

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Oh yeah interesting, I do both of these. I kinda don't consider either my brain or my body to be 'me', and my idea of 'me' is generally pretty loosey goosey too!
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Audhd myself, and I talk about my brain all the time. Not so much my body, aside from 'my whatever hurts', but then I seem to have less body problems than a lot of ND folk. ๐Ÿคท

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US is like "What Disability Problem? Can't have a disability problem if nobody can apply for disability."

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THIS: "Actions arenโ€™t just meant to push those in power. They can also be designed to rally people and get them further engaged." Fascists have spend a decade building their own alt-civil society, which has FAR more to do with its effectiveness than elected politicians. Dems let theirs stagnate.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htdsaโ€ฆ

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We donโ€™t know what thing or combination of things will work and we should be trying everything.

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Omg so someone wrote a musical about bigots trying to cancel Drag Queen Story Hour, and it's debuting in Glens Falls NY! On June 6. On account of the story is about the Rockwell Falls Public Library in Lake Luzerne, NY, and will star Scarlett Sagamore, the original cancelled drag queen. I think this is a great way to deal with the confusion and trauma of such a series of events.

Indeed, they're still casting so spread the word, thespians!

#NY #upstateNY #Drag #DragQueens #theater #CommunityTheater #LGBTQIA #QueerCulture #DragQueenStoryHour #MusicalTheater #satire

adirondackexplorer.org/storiesโ€ฆ

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musing this morning on how most americans have no experience existing under a non-functioning state.

but maybe this is more accurately applied to the white majority?


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Glad I changed my web host to a Canadian one early last year, now for more reason than just lower cost.

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Do you mind sharing which one?

I need to do the same.

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@EricLawton Web Host Canada, based in Montreal. whc.ca/en
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I recently moved the present instance from Dallas to Vienna.

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Honestly a major feather in @w7voaโ€™s cap to have a boot-licking MAGA toady like Ric Grenell accuse him of โ€œtreasonโ€ for basic reporting.
What a joke.

#MAGA #uspol #Fascism #firstAmendment #freeSpeech #freedomOfPress #Nazi #trump #ricGrenell #voa #steveHerman #journalism #richardGrenell

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Yikes, @w7voa is "under investigation" for his comments about current POTUS. (W7VOA probably the most visible poster here on the Fediverse).

From the NY Times:
"..the Agency for Global Media informed one of Voice of Americaโ€™s highest-profile journalists, Steven Herman, that he was being placed on an extended โ€œexcused absenceโ€ pending a human resources investigation, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Herman confirmed receiving the letter, which said the investigation was into whether his โ€œsocial media activity has undermined V.O.A.โ€™s audiencesโ€™ perceptions of the objectivity and/or credibility of V.O.A. and its news operations.โ€"

journa.host/@samlitzinger/1140โ€ฆ


The end of VOA.

โ€œVoice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Trump Commentsโ€

โ€œAnd on Friday, the Agency for Global Media informed one of Voice of Americaโ€™s highest-profile journalists, Steven Herman, that he was being placed on an extended โ€œexcused absenceโ€ pending a human resources investigation, according to a copy of the letter reviewed by The New York Times.โ€

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It's almost like they're accusing him of "Unamerican Activities" or something...
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talk about a rapid unscheduled disassembly of a nation.

JFC.


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When a company promises โ€œneverโ€ to do something, weโ€™ve seen that this promise is valid only until they simply do. Corporate promises are worthless in all cases unless we invent a mechanism to enforce them.

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Iโ€™m wondering how long it will be before US troops are sent to aid Russia in Ukraine. Iโ€™m thinking it will be 1st thing after the American Reichstag Fire Moment.

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Slava Ukraini ! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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Bullies stop when you make them stop, not when you ask nicely or play their game. #uspol #ukraine

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I just made a donation to support the defence of Ukraine.

You can too.

#SlavaUkraini

u24.gov.ua/

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