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Wind and solar are the future.

Trump is not the future. He is the bankruptcy of ideas. He is black lung. Trump is closed mines.

He is the intellectual and moral failing of an addled fascist using corrupt oligarchs.

America is better than this.

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It still blows my mind that I learned this from a random stranger on the internet

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I know a company that does both these things and no surprise, when you shop there, the employees are always miserable and agitated.You should kill your managers in such situations imo. The only reason I receive treatment slightly above this is i'm lucky enough to have managers who are also bothered by these business practices. The water one is especially bad if you have heat intolerance, I was so sick regularly before I switched to a department with more leniency regarding water.

Depending on where you live these things may violate labor laws though so if you're in the same situation look into it. However in my experience any labor law violations happen without consequence regardless

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me when the mutuals post

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The longer I exist as a loudly proudly gay man the more I think that cishet men aren't actually attracted to women.

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Did a school visit today and asked a group of 8th graders if they could define the term "contemporary art" for me [for context, I work at a contemporary art museum], and one of them said "Is it art that's made with contempt?"

And unfortunately that's the funniest thing a student has ever said to me in 10 years of teaching

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We've got 99 problems and a surprising number of them can be boiled down to "The existence of billionaires is incompatible with democracy"

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When being homeless is criminalized but owning multiple homes for profit isn't, it's very clear that "criminal" is an oppressed class and not a moral failing.

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Painted over by the state government in the middle of the night.

Republican governance, both bigoted and cowardly about it.

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Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.

Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.

We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.

If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.

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“Take year 3 student Emma Glenfield, who started with a simple question about magpies and wound up conducting some cutting-edge research almost by accident."

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ooh when you think the meeting with the lawyer’s gonna make you feel slightly less suicidal abt your impending court case and then!!!!! it makes you feel!!!! so much worse!!!!!

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there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

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my potion #MyPotion

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse