Category: this modern world
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Trumpoem #9
tremendous strides have been made I think the vaccines we’ll have a report of that but the vaccines working together with other countries we’re also working with other countries many other countries and we all want everyone else to be first we’re very happy but we are very far down the line on vaccines we’ll… Read.
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spacewalk selfie
People have been taking selfies since the camera was invented. Astronauts are no more immune to the temptation to snap photos of themselves while they’re on the job than the rest of us are. Here’s astronaut Jessica Meir, who is currently orbiting her home planet aboard the International Space Station, as she snapped a photo… Read.
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making change
I paid cash for my lunch at the grocery store the other day. Didn’t expect the high school guy at the register to count back my change the way cashiers used to, but I did expect him to be able to add up the values of the coins as he was making change, which he… Read.
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no secret
I was investigating some fraud earlier this week, because that’s what they pay me to do, and I had to find out which bank used a certain routing number, which is the number that’s printed at the bottom of your checks, if you still write checks. Luckily, I work right next door to the office… Read.
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offer accepted with conditions
We got a letter in the mail last week, an actual hand-written letter which My Darling B opened because who even writes letters any more? The only handwritten mail we get now is the occasional birthday card from close family. We get a lot of letters soliciting donations that appear to be handwritten but at… Read.
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Fighting The Man
I went on a business trip to Racine today and used Google maps to navigate. I used to use Siri but the last time I did that she steered me into a construction project that sprawled over half of Milwaukee and I spent twenty minutes trying to get out of that, so Siri can go… Read.
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concentration
A congressional delegation inspected facilities operated by the Customs and Border Patrol agency where asylum-seekers were being held in inhumane conditions. The delegation included Pete Aguilar (CA31), Joaquin Castro (TX20), Judy Chu (CA27), Madeleine Dean (PA4), Veronica Escobar (TX16), Sylvia Garcia (TX29), Joe Kennedy (MA4) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY14), Ayanna Pressley (MA7), Rashida Tlaib (MI13), Norma… Read.
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a lot of heat
the great Paris accord how is Paris doing lately? how is Paris? how is Paris doing? send all the money to countries that the people never heard of and raise their taxes I ended that one, too I thought I was going to take a lot of heat on that one Read.
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climate change
A few random thoughts about climate change, in no particular order: I don’t “believe in” climate change. I’m not entirely sure what the phrase “believe in” means. It’s most often used in the context of “believing in” god or supernatural phenomena or something for which there is no hard evidence. Until I see some hard… Read.
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get ready
After I rolled out of bed this morning and started the morning pot of coffee brewing, I checked in to Twitter to see what’s new in the world and the first thing I see is OH MY GOD TRUMP IS GOING TO BLOW UP SYRIA! “Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired… Read.
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