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 nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx “Your society… charges ... 
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Our society would charge you for air, if it found a way to make that happen. 
 nostr:npub1a807ue627e78s2xlpjhahmddkat3ygd0pn83d6n4n5l345lv8tms27n4e5 I don't think I've ever tri... 
 @3967703f I've made it out camping with a cast iron Dutch oven. 
 nostr:npub1a807ue627e78s2xlpjhahmddkat3ygd0pn83d6n4n5l345lv8tms27n4e5 It seems to me that if one ... 
 @3967703f I like carrots, but I like pineapple upside down cake a lot more. 
 My sister told me she went to the grocery store to buy a piece of carrot cake. She went to the re... 
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Is there something special that I need to know about carrot cake? My search engine told me something about it being delicious, which I am disinclined to believe. 
 The penalty for shutting the government down should be 1 month without salary for each day it's c... 
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I'd settle for a recall election of every member of Congress every time a government shutdown occurs. 
 Remember when the Panama Papers came out? Remember that it evidenced a global network of tax-dodg... 
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"We were full of righteous anger and dreams of vengeance when we got here, and a couple of blowjobs and hangovers later, it’s like nothing ever happened."

-James S.A. Corey, *Leviathan Wakes* 
 nostr:npub1a807ue627e78s2xlpjhahmddkat3ygd0pn83d6n4n5l345lv8tms27n4e5 Dunno. Doubtful. Maybe that... 
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From Dolph Lundrgren's Wiki page.

"However, while preparing for the move to Boston, he was spotted in the nightclub where he worked in Sydney and was hired by Grace Jones as a bodyguard, and the two became lovers." 
 If you don't think what happened in Libya or Morocco can happen to you, think again. 
 @3967703f This hurricane season has the potential to do this. 
 Still waiting to go to the OR. Amused to learn that the racist, antisemitic, hillbilly, Darryl Cr... 
 @40cd5708 Hogan's Heroes is another example. 
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Reminds me of this quote ... 
 @242b83c8 @3967703f 

My Communication Preferences, in order:

1. Old school letter typed with a typewriter.
2. Handwritten letter / Postcard
3. Other types of letters delivered via USPS
4. Email
5. SMS
6. Phone call
7. Showing up at my front door. 
 @40cd5708 I used to be able to climb like that when I was a kid. Although I don't think I  could have gotten over to the one side. 
 nostr:npub1a807ue627e78s2xlpjhahmddkat3ygd0pn83d6n4n5l345lv8tms27n4e5 A lot of those employees wo... 
 @3967703f I don't like living here, but I'm trying to help turn the state blue. 
 nostr:npub1a807ue627e78s2xlpjhahmddkat3ygd0pn83d6n4n5l345lv8tms27n4e5 Soon, it will be 100%. 
 @3967703f Texas is a Fyre Festival. Companies are moving here, and conservatives are giving themselves whiplash from patting themselves on the back.

Nobody ever stops to ask WHY are companies moving here. 
 Do not send your child to college in Texas. You'll pay money and they'll get an inferior education. 
 @3967703f 

I work in Fort Worth on industrial software. About 80% of our team was not educated in Texas. Although I've been told that UNT has a good Computer Science and Music schools. But I haven't heard that lately.