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 nostr:npub1eqlh9qkkgthvx3tdseywqqfg0d40axgp404ggxhx35mz8dp0gyzq7r4977 if the authorities had any ... 
 What authorities?  Gee, this is about as lame as getting a threatening robocall from the IRS. 
 I mean your bank doesn't say, "Your mortgage is 1937. Let's round that up to 2 grand, shall we?" 
 What do you mean “actual cost”. The only true price is one that is agreed to in order to complete the transaction.  That’s not how inflation works. 
 #NotSponored
#CouldBeSponsored
#CallMe 
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 Yeah, I’m just mocking them with their own words. 
 nostr:npub189kh5amyutenysvp6e0h62j69y8jx7t68wkjqg8skha50t5tja2s02dh5w How long ago did #Jan6 happ... 
 To quote Hillary Clinton “At this point, what difference does it make?” ;) 
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 Whatever dude. I’m not proposing any restrictions on anyone. I’m offering more choices without taking any choices away. If that isn’t good enough for some folks, that’s a them problem.

I can’t please everyone nor do I care to. 
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 Not being reasonable is a way to be alone with your principles. 

Like I said, if the code can be made to do it I’ll offer it as a separate bot and let people decide for themselves. 
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 I’m a huge free speech guy. But this request isn’t unreasonable and I’m willing to at least look into if I can do it.  No promises but I will try to look at the code this weekend. I’m running a fork of someone else’s code so I didn’t build it from scratch. 

I’m also willing to make it a separate bot so people have the choice to block the original bot and follow the one with content warnings. Again, I think this is reasonable.  Feel free to disagree, that’s fine. I’m not being asked to take the bot down as that would be a hard no even though that had certainly led to a bunch of domain blocks which I think is silly but it’s their instance and they can be silly with it. But if this option allows more people to follow the raw content, that’s ok with me. 
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It's a bunch of hippy aca... 
 Oh yeah it’s always the cities that screw things up. NY, IL, CA, MA aren’t insane outside of the cities. 
 When in Rome as the saying goes. 
 BC gets a bad rap generally but we're the third sanest province in Confederation. 
 Yeah not dating you’re saner than Ontario and Quebec isn’t exactly high praise :) 
 I think so. COVID shots are, essentially, just another variant of a flu shot now. 

It would be interesting to see how much the pharmacy makes on flu shots vs COVID shots. It wouldn’t surprise me if that influences the marketing 
 "Make your dreams reality" bullshit on insta today 

How about this one, my only dream since year... 
 Mgm payed the ransom to get out of their hack. Lol. They are an org who may know people who could... 
 The sad thing is that folks who pay the ransom don’t always get their data back in any reasonable amount of time.  It’s almost like the criminals didn’t spend much time optimizing their unencryption code. 
 red flags on dating sites if you're a white guy:

Asian woman way out of your league matches with... 
 I’ve had that happen to me on LinkedIn of all places.  Blocked long before we ever spoke. 
 nostr:npub1w55lvngpq74f38c3m2ftalc4l0ywuplqc8uptrjzklm7psgkt42qqexmcf Hi, is there any way that y... 
 Hmmm…I’ll have to look at the bot code and see how easy that is. 
 To be fair, there is difference between a doctor checking Google and someone who hasn’t studied medicine. 

It’s like the old joke where a guy is interviewing for a coding job. The boss says “I should only have to pay $35K for someone who will just copy/paste from Github”.   The candidate says, “You’re going to pay me $100K because I know what to copy/paste from GitHub” 
 Well, the CPI turned out to be a nothing burger, but you never know.  In any case, now that the news is out I put on a 5-lot 16-day Calendar with the shorts at 4460C, longs 5 days out.  Vol is still quite low so I prefer to be long Vega.

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 I was watching a YT vid about The Rock's WWE schtick. In one clip Trump was there in the story wi... 
 Trump and Vince became close as WWF/E held lots of live events at venues owned by Trump at the time. 
These events pre-date Rock. 

Possible?  Sure. But I wouldn’t say likely. 
 The locusts are singing already this morning. But it's getting a little chilly so in the words of... 
 Do what must be done, Lord Autumn. 
 I’m look at my own condition. It’s discovered through a biopsy and microscopy. You don’t ne... 
 Tech is, ultimately, a productivity tool. Much like power tools. It may not directly feed or transport you but it enables getting those things better, cheaper, faster, and at scale never seen before in human history.

You could dig a ditch with your hands, a spoon, or a shovel. But construction equipment like a backhow can do it better when scale is needed. 
 I took off the put diagonal today for an 18% loss which sucks but it was much worse earlier in the trade and with expiration day tomorrow (and the fact that I have a surgery tomorrow) meant that I really just wanted to close this one.  Also, it was small trade so the dollar loss wasn't too bad.  I'm in cash until next week.

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 You can’t spend that much of trees…

To be worth that much you have to develop an autonomous árboles, AI-driven eco organic system. 
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 Arachnid viagras 
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 It’s one of the few acceptable things to do on the Sabbath. 
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 One of these things is not like the other.....