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 A serious question: industries that are reasonably described as necessary to the function of soci... 
 @af0cabc9 should and can are two different questions, most of those industries freaking own too many politicians. 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t There are so many butts whi... 
 @c95f59dc oh there is a nerve in the back of the leg near the butt that when hit with a thai round kick makes the leg go wobbly for a long time 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t I've already muted and surg... 
 @c95f59dc ahhh excellent choice 👍 though my kicking leg is itchy 
 Seriously, white guys my age and older, WTF is wrong with you, and why the fuck do you think you ... 
 @c95f59dc 🤔 well hmm I do not know a damn thing about cars and I know only marginally more about computers, but cooking 🧑‍🍳 that’s another story 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t 
How odd. I thought you sai... 
 @610e1f9a I’ll help you out

Section 230 refers to a provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which protects internet hosts from liability for third-party content. 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t OK. That isn't what you are... 
 @610e1f9a actually no, it refers to the 1996 communications decency act. 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t Still learning to stand ere... 
 @0c0ba540 the anatomy of movement is a great book for learning anatomy & kinesiology if someone is a lay person with an interest or background in dance 
 @0c0ba540 I’ll be on and off today until 4 pm central time but would love to chat when I’m home looking at my library 😊 I used to lend lots of books to people that cover the same information but from different perspectives 
 https://youtu.be/3akMilAHyco?si=-6W0Wovb41eF81iK#ukraine is making progress in the enciof #bahkmut #russia fires general in charge of defense 
 @2476a08f we don’t have #politicians who are leaders we have politicians who are just salespeople for policies that benefit those with the biggest wallets and that’s the damn problem. 
 @610e1f9a @4a23ad3a nope not what’s being referred to you might want to read the article the quote comes from 🤷‍♂️ 
 If Kevin McCarthy wants any Democrats to vote against the motion to vacate the chair that would e... 
 @98042630 that would be if the Dems are actually acting intelligently 🤷‍♂️ 
So far they have squandered a lot of opportunities to force beneficial outcomes, for what reason?
Who the hell knows? 
 #Ukraine & #abortion will be THE issues for #biden in the next election. Trying to tell people who struggle to pay exploding #housing & #food costs the #economy is great or tell people you stand for #blm while #youtube has daily uploads of #cops still acting like stormtroopers isn’t going to do it. 
 “What I didn't like about the training, is that the Americans have no idea what the war is like here,” said Oleksandr. “They give us exercises to climb to the top of a building, shoot down a helicopter with a Stinger, and abseil back down on ropes.” 

“We told them, 'Are you out of your mind? Any buildings will be demolished by tanks and air-dropped bombs as soon as we enter.'"
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#ukraine is not Iraq #russia is not fighting by an imaginary playbook.
The #ukrainian military is  winning their way 
 Did anyone else find "The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers" to be a really weird framing for th... 
 @050dc4f1 truth is secondary to clickbait headlines in what laughinglingly passes for major news media 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t Those are rentals, not hous... 
 @fb6393a7 that’s exactly the point. Many of the homes being purchased by these hedge funds WERE homes that would have been for sale recently turned into rentals. Certain areas have even started barring companies from owning single family homes 🤷‍♂️ 
It’s a major cause of this damn shortage 
 @fb6393a7 while not all states are affected equally yes it is in fact true

https://todayshomeowner.com/blog/guides/are-big-companies-buying-up-single-family-homes/ 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t "That lack of new inventory... 
 @fb6393a7 lack of new inventory 🤔 how many people just died of Covid?
I kinda think it has more to do with this
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“Wall Street has purchased hundreds of thousands of single-family homes since the Great Recession”

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-single-family-homes-and-put-them-up-for-rent.html 
 So that awesome #economy ? 
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CBS
“Homes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average American”
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#Housing & #food prices disagree with the awesome 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housing-prices/ 
 nostr:npub1v2sycpx32th4h4aude3jq4g0kgj0p2t5062059l0fx0vcn8njs8spcmqq5 I can’t say I’m shocked... 
 @f8c3ea1c @62a04c04 I think it was stripped out to pacify the billionaires who do business with Russia and with China etc.
They fear a return to the days when people no longer believe doing business with authoritarian regimes will eventually lead them to the light of liberal democracy and back to the evil days when they were more restricted in their international business dealings 
 Trump's being covered by most of the MSM like a normal candidate rather than someone who tried to... 
 @d9766f53 They aren’t the towns people the media are the damn tailor who sold the cloths in the first place 
 Trump is calling for vigilantism.
Trump is calling for violence.
Trump is calling for extrajudici... 
 @d9766f53 yeah, he should have been arrested years ago, but “billionaire in America that hasn’t stolen other billionaires money” soooo 🤷‍♂️ 
 @cf776af4 Musk will be running for president in 2028 you can bank on it 
 NPR publishing anti-union propaganda from Steven Rattner, a multimillionaire who owns homes in Ma... 
 @fb8a9177 I’m not sure if any major #news #media reports fairly on #union issues these days not a damn one 
 Interaction on Mastodon has dropped so much for me since I started that I’m starting to wonder ... 
 @9a6e00db works for me, but I filled tons of people and made individual interest lists. 
 Imo, when you die in office at 90, you stayed too long. Government service shouldn’t be a retir... 
 @30700d9a Thank you!
I was hoping someone had the guts to say the obvious, all this sweet b.s. was making my teeth hurt. 
 Now do Mitch McConnell! 
 @38a90308 that’s a really gross visual this early in the morning 🤢 
 In honor of national #starbucks day I will go to a #union Starbucks & tip well.
If there isn’t a unionized Starbucks near me I will go to a locally owned #coffee shop instead 😊 
 It’s not surprising that the court found Trump committed fraud, or that a former loyal aide now... 
 @fee69b7c His business would still be trucking along if he never ran for president.
Makes you wonder how much fraud multimillionaires are committing as a matter of course every damn day. 
 @4078695d @ff67f405 You tube has strangled actual informative video & information coming out about the conflict in Ukraine 🖕YouTube I have been relegated to the OSINT discords it’s damn obnoxious.
I mean I know the international techbros hate the war and want Ukraine to just give in but between this and Elon’s b.s. it should be clear it’s time to reign business in and bring them to heel 
 We are slightly insulted right now, but recall how the #corporate #monopoly on the #egg supply led to outrageous #inflation even though there was no real shortage. #billionaires will do it again
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“Restrictions on food exports are overflowing. Countries are trying to protect their own stockpiles…”
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#food #economy #economics
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2023/0928/Global-food-supply-chains-have-slowed.-What-s-behind-the-decline 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t The podcast covers quite a ... 
 @33b0a4fd 😊 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t Yes. Yesterday in Philly wa... 
 @b962ff8f it’s the lack of accountability that has people losing their minds.
While all the pro police people chant about personal responsibility in service to cutting benefits that help people get out of poverty. 
 @b962ff8f it’s the lack of accountability that has people losing their minds.
While all the pro police people chant about personal responsibility in service to cutting programs that help people get out of poverty. 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t Another false promise. The ... 
 @b962ff8f The false promises on law enforcement reform are particularly painful every damn time a new incident hits the news. 
 @b962ff8f A lot of people believed, those younger folks won’t believe again, they will want action with reciepts 
 nostr:npub16kgmftxymwdu3ccg37vj7dusuqgt9eextz82dckh4fgry7d4ucxskzhh7t That's exactly what they wa... 
 @b962ff8f it’s nuts. Absolutely nuts. 
 So the guy (1) unanimously adjudged a rapist by a federal jury, (2) whose namesake company was co... 
 @abb65a6d what’s really baking my cookies is why the hell the #dems aren’t plastering this exact message on every damn Sunday show, every 10 second YouTube ad, every soundbite any Dem party functionary or politician has a chance to give 🤷‍♂️ 
 This is a horrendous decision: Rosebank, the largest untapped oilfield in UK waters, has been app... 
 @33b0a4fd the rich, in general, are not heroes. They are sociopathic causes of societies ills. 
 @33b0a4fd You won’t fix your political problem until you follow the money. Find out who is pulling the strings. The corruptors will just corrupt the next person if you don’t go after them and elect people who specifically want to build safeguards in. The rich, in general, are not heroes. They are sociopathic causes of societies ills. 
 @549838b7 so that’s part of the plan to fight climate change and also balance the books, gifting money to the wealthy to crank out more fossil fuels? 
 Until CNN gave Trump endless free and unedited airtime in 2015-16, no media organization came eve... 
 @f8d9bc1c the lesson learned is modern news media gives no damns about anything except ad revenue and keeping production costs down 
 @45fa203e enough with #bighbrother or should I say #bigtechbros Orwell had it wrong, it wasn’t government that got us, it was the billionaires 
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 @6e6f8594 I’m pretty scatterbrained and jump all over really.
I try to scan through my Ukraine list once a day lately (usually in the morning) and boost key posts.
I am on defmon’s OSINT discord but life keeps me pretty distracted 
So I’m not sure how consistent or how much help I would be 
 @6e6f8594 have you met @1ac4ec76 
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 @98042630 I’m so happy the democrats were on top of things noticed such a blatantly obvious plot in the halls of power and moved to counter it, boy were they on the job 🙄 
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 @a3328adc #Fgoogle #google is now working for the #police which #cops pretty much all of them 🤷‍♂️ 
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 @826f7fe1 #profitsoverpeople is the slogan of business 
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 @57ccb1d2 I for one am very glad there are people like you here on the fediverse who made it a place worth staying for people like me.
Thank you 
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 @c95f59dc 😂😛 
 @c95f59dc who should I kick in the head for you?