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Ann! What Have You Done Now?

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"I'm annoying, but I mean well."
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venusamabile

for non argies: congress just voted in favor of giving milei delegated faculties

they just voted in favor of the privatization of the national airline, radio, public tv, energy, water and all railroad services

they just voted in favor of leaving 9 out of 10 women and 7 out of 10 man without the possibility of retirement

they just voted in favor of a labor reform that includes benefits for the employer who doesn't register their employees, up to a year in trial positions, no compensation if you get fired, ability to fire without cause...

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we are divinely obligated to feed each other. may every hungry person be filled

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autumntides

"We are yet to understand: if I am starving, you are in danger." -James Baldwin (1924-1987)

Any who are tolerated to starve provide the opportunity for any other given person to become one of the starving. Only by ensuring no one goes hungry do we protect against our own hunger.

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Apparently there was a Japanese magazine publication that featured a fake example Pokemon card illustration, which would not be notable except the illustration in question is basically a Hieronymus Bosch Pikachu

you guys have no idea how sad I am that this isn't a real card

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uss-edsall
Pilots started asking the battalion commander to come up with actual missions to fly, so we could feel justified with being there and have a chance to practice our trade. Assault pilots train . . . to develop the skills necessary to put troops on the objective in a very rapid and precise manner, and then they want to go do it for real to be validated. The problem was, when an assault battalion goes looking for actual work, it means actual troops were going to be delivered to actual targets and some shit was going to go down. . . The unit offered services to customers who weren’t requesting our help through the normal channels. When those offers made it to commanders of stagnant units who were also wishing for some action, we had a dangerous combination: a bunch of operators out there looking to pick a fight. . . and an extremely effective way to show up. Units naturally labeled these operations as whatever it took to get approval. . . . It doesn’t take much for there to suddenly be areas of ‘potential threat’ that ‘need to be searched,’ and pretty soon you have a pack of trigger-hopeful troops suiting up to go on a mission. Any unit commander could justify this action with the slightest indication of threat, and depending on how you read the intel, there is always some threat. . . It’s not unlike an overambitious police officer looking for trouble. You can shape probable cause out of just about anything.

War & Coffee: Confessions of an American Blackhawk Pilot in Afghanistan, by Joshua Havill

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i would like to say that Prince Albert is a really funny nickname for a ballplayer named Pierce Johnson and i'm mad i didn't come up with it myself