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me: i would like healthcare and enough money to eat and pay rent please

rich and powerful people: no that's communism

me: okay i'm a communist

r & p people: no wait

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Wikipedia
- Strict editing policy
- Plenty of citations
- Mobs of roving quality editors
- Not okay source

80% of the rest of the Web
- No editing policy
- No citations
- Moderate to poor quality
- Perfectly acceptable source

We need open mesh networking now more than ever. More and more governments are using Internet shutdowns to gain control of the the people.

This will only get worse.

For the first time, I proofread my article before posting. I know, thanks, thanks! 👏

Just throwing this idea out there: a good, ethical person with humility would not allow themselves to become a billionaire.

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Banksy: "Oi mate, Mickey Mouse is all about consumerism, innit?"

Thanks, chief, very insightful

putting "safety control rod axe woman" in the experience section of my resume

@ghostwife @hightithe

Infidelity is a sin. You cannot have your Kate and Edith too.

Still not over Kubrick 

BOOM! Good work, everybody! Google correctly saw that unmoderated hate speech violates it's terms of use for the store. #IsolateGab #Spinster #Transrights

Just like "apocalypse" doesn't mean "end of the world" in Greek, people misunderstand "Ragnarok", for it is as much the start of a new world as it's the end of an old. Reading the conflict between gods and jötnar as between society and nature, it is even completely analogous with societal collapse brought on by climate change. Perhaps we would not despair so if we had more trust in what a changed world could look like.

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... I'm hardly a good debater in the first place, but it is an area of discussion I find uniquely frustrating, and I still don't know how to introduce the more useful ways of thinking about the issue in a way people take seriously. I really appreciate the idea of focusing on what parts of modern society we want to keep and which we don't, however....

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... or in making the personal choice not to travel by plane.

There was no acknowledgement of the fundamental link to capitalism, hell, not even of the fact that so much change is held back by eg oil companies. And it can be a difficult thing to explain to people who don't already believe capitalism is something that needs to be done away with; a lot of people take it as a neglect of "personal responsibility" if you argue that consumer behavior is not how we counter-act climate change. ...

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