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It doesnt matter how valuable our money is when only 5 people have the majority of it. I'd love to travel with my negative five dollar account balance.

I'd also love an assurance that I'll still have my job and citizenship when I return. And if I could fly without needing my birth certificate, that'd be great.

But then again, it's not really safe to fly after we fired 400 qualified air traffic controllers. We're seeing collisions and near-misses every month, which is an improvement over every week, but still....

Person from a country with the most valuable monetary unit, the most powerful passport and whose language is spoken by most people on the planet: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HARD IT IS FOR US TO TRAVEL

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-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

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WE will pay an extra 19% on their imports. I will, you will. This is a regressive tax. It is a loss.

This is Philippines First economics.

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(Source article also available in Spanish, German, and French.)

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edward and alphonse wandering across amestris for 3.5 years looking for a way to return to their original bodies: mustang can we get a philosopher's stone?

mustang: you have a philosopher's stone at home

the philosopher's stone at home:

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TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

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FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES (2025) dir. Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein

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In Undertale, the healing items you can buy from Gerson are a Crab Apple and Sea Tea, In Deltarune during the dinner party, the two things Gerson offers Kris, is tea, and an apple..... HOW FAR IN ADVANCE DOES TOBY PLAN THIS SHIT?!?!?! DID TOBY MAKE APPLES A BIG THING ABOUT KRIS JUST FOR THIS?!?!

Isn't it more likely that he planned that the other way around, lol

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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“The nation’s greatest evil” and it’s the cutest girl you’ve ever seen. Yes, she can use a gun

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Steve McCurry

Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

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Source: Foreign Country Diary Ikoku Nikki 違国日記

by Tomoko Yamashita

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Leopards, faces, et cetera.....

Remember all of those hefty handouts Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski won in exchange for sealing the deal on donald trump’s behemoth budget bill? It looks like the president has found a way to get out of delivering. “I feel cheated."

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Remember the poem trump loved to read at his hatefests, The Snake? He was bragging on himself. "“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin. “You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in” Maga knew and she knew he's a snake. So, don't cry now.