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Superversive humanist. Prolific graphomaniac. Newsjunkie. Reading, thinking, writing things🖖🏼

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Indio Gringo™ de Tennessee, ruthlessly pursuing #Joy

Use simple words to share weird, interesting ideas.

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Nuclear reactors were invented to kill people. Within a year of the first full-scale reactor coming online at in 1944, they were the key to killing almost 100,000 people in .

"Born Violent: The Origins of Nuclear Power"

@sts @histodons

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333617931_Born_Violent_The_Origins_of_Nuclear_Power#fullTextFileContent

paninid ,
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@bojacobs @sts @histodons

Yes, and the reactors in modern submarines are order of magnitude more powerful than the bombs over Japan, but they cannot be detonated.

paninid , to philosophy group
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“ has turned so many into public relations professionals who pursue likeability instead of . That’s why people speak along pre-vetted party lines and silence their edgy ideas. First to others, later to themselves. When anything you say online can be instantly accessed with a Google search, the costs of independent thinking aren’t worth the benefits to most people.”

  • David Perell

https://perell.com/essay/how-philosophers-think/



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paninid , to bookstodon group
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People who ban books so so from a place of intense fear, deep insecurity, and sense of self-seriousness.

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from
Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration






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https://theintercept.com/2024/05/13/rafah-doctors-european-hospital-un-employee-killed/

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@plink @palestine @israel

The evangelicals call this “martyrs bearing witness”

oatmeal , to israel group
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/ UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid

[…] The 193-member world body approved the Arab and Palestinian sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions.

https://apnews.com/article/un-resolution-palestinians-membership-rights-us-assembly-875560e897f27d6600090420f36404e4

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I think this accelerates U.S. leaving tne United Nations.

are pot-committed to denying sovereign statehood to certain groups that are inconvenient to the , and it always has been.

The Nazis learned from us.

paninid , to bookstodon group
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Nobody else read Johnny Got His Gun in middle school?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun

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paninid , to histodons group
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Hi, it’s me, I’m the problem, I know

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paninid , to histodons group
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It was a nice country while we had it, y’all.

Remember the good times.

Write down your memories, thoughts, and feelings.

Future historians will use them to reconstruct what happened.

That was literally the premise of A Handmaid’s Tale.

https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/joe-biden-white-house-comments-campus-protests-gaza-israel/

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