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Meta Following Elon Down The Road Of Making Verification An Upsell Is A Terrible Idea

And here I was thinking that the last few months of Twitter shenanigans with Elon Musk at the helm had done something nearly impossible: made Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership of Meta (Facebook/In…

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Apparently the world has a lot of practice shooting balloons.
https://youtu.be/yqC9ICdfhQM
Shootin' Balloons: A History

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The F16 that shot down the Chinese balloon used a $400k Sidewinder missle. The F16 also has a 20mm gatling gun that costs $3k per one second burst. WTF
Just saying
Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in

Today, beer is marketed to men and the industry is run by men. It wasn’t always that way.

The Conversation
“Do not listen to powers that be who pretend that getting infected w/ COVID multiple times is now no big deal. They’re asking you to lower your guard for a nasty virus that can invade the brain, disregulate the immune system and damage the vascular system” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/
Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay | The Tyee

We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.

The Tyee

Any pundit who is criticizing Pres. Zelenskyy's attire is failing to read the room, but moreover, they're just completely missing the point.

A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats have no time for suits and neckties.

He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes or epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He's wearing what women and men who are fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine are wearing.

He's wearing the urgency of the moment.

That's the point.

Despite OUR Elected representatives public pronouncements. The planet is not on track to mitigate the effects of climate change. The attached video would be funny if not so sad.

https://youtu.be/1FqXTCvDLeo

Honest Government Ad | Net Zero (feat. Greta Thunberg)

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Afghanistan is the ONLY country in the world that bans girls and women from education

"Clearly the IRS failed to conduct the audit of the president of the United States." -Rep. Dan Kildee, member of the House Ways and Means Committee

#news