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This one's easy to Alt. Image of a smirking Trump decked out in a khaki jacket with sewn patches on it, one of which is Space Force's. Text = FULL METAL JACKASS
This one's not easy to Alt because it's a long list of Trump's failures. The header reads: " Trump: I'm 'really smart' and 'a very stable genius'.
"We still have so much power to act in public..."
How Himmler made the practical and "humane" case for expanding the German concentration camp system. And why we're on a different path from Berlin 1937... for now.
Watch the whole NEXT COMES WHAT on how to prevent a full-blown dictatorship: youtube.com/watch?v=oldNLnCJy5…
Police State Blues | How to Prevent a Full-Blown Dictatorship | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What
The budget bill unleashes a detention system that threatens every American, but we can still act.Read the post that inspired this episode: https://degenerate...YouTube
Maybe someday, but not any day soon. In a society that voted Trump in to office, not once but twice, I am not seeing a whole lot of concern for humanity in the American society today.
Biden was not a choice he was an alternative. Which was the only reason he won. I had predicted, given his history, that he would lose against Trump. I was wrong. Personally I would vote for a drunk dog with mange problems over Trump. Though unfortunately (for me) others believe he is competent.
We could stop spending trillions on unnecessary military 'superiority', *or* we could save a few million by firing all the people who keep our nation at the forefront of research.
But hey, at least ICE is getting a $72,000,000,000 bump in funding...
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My Son's First Book (Published)
My son, Jamie Robillard II, has finally released (published) his first book. If you enjoy SciFi/ Fantasy then you should check it out. It is available on Kindle Unlimited for a few months as well.
He has completed this series and started another and will be releasing subsequent volumes periodically. Check out Unholy Mask the first of the Final Chapter series!
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The problem with this meme is that it perpetuates the unrealistic view of a billion. People just do not grasp how much a billion is. Consider this 500 x 365.25 = 186,625 now 186,625 x 5000 = 913,125,000. So why are these numbers significant? Think about it this way. If I gave you $500.00 everyday for 5000 years then you still would not have a billion dollars. Think about that. Obviously a billion dollars in our largest denominations is not going to fit in a lot of buildings let alone a wheelbarrow.
The next time you here about a billion (or a trillion) really think about how much that really is (especially in relation to debt).
I feel like if you get shot on active duty for the US military, it ought to just be an automatic citizenship, or something...
hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/06/24/u…
U.S. Army Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport from Hawaii
Kunia resident Sae Joon Park, a decorated Army veteran, was given three weeks to return to South Korea, after 48 years in the U.S.Annalisa Burgos (Hawaii News Now)
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That is a whole new level of F'd-UP.
In my opinion anyone who is allowed to serve in The United States military should be made a citizen (nationalized). Whether shot or not they served this country. It should be an automatic. Besides we should not have non-citizens serving in the military, it is a security issue. So when they are vetted and allowed to join it should be an automatic citizenship period.
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As the witches were those that were practicing medicine by today's standards. Yes, we should have been very afraid of those that burnt witches, and most average people were. That is how they got away with it. People were to afraid to oppose the church. After all they did kill those that opposed them. It was just not a healthy thing to do.
This one paragraph sums up a decade of MS-DOS use for me:
"The original MS-DOS Editor represented a major step forward for Microsoft's command-line text-editing capabilities at the time of its release. Before 1991, DOS users suffered through EDLIN, a line-based editor so primitive and user-hostile that many people resorted to typing "COPY CON filename.txt" and hoping for the best."
Microsoft's relaunch of EDIT for Linux implies that they're relaunching QBASIC for Linuxarstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux
It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Edlin was a MS/DOS compatible version of the Unix ed utility and it was awkward to use. I was very happy to see edit though I was not using it long before I migrated to GNU/Linux and found I preferred vi and later vim which I still use today.
If someone is a basic developer on GNU/Linux I am sure they would find gambas far more useful than qbasic though I do have a soft spot for these nostalgic applications. 😉
So I did build a copy of edit and installed it on my system. 😀
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Not sure how a photo of a page in George Orwell's book 1984 is copyrighted to Dandelion Salad? Here is a free copy distributed under the Fair Use clause of copyrighted material.
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Feeling Overwhelmed
I lost some sleep today. Not because I had to be up though because I could not calm the monkey (monkey brain). My to do list keeps growing because I keep freezing instead of reacting. It is almost funny how different we can be versus how people perceive us. Keep in mind I do not deliberately try to fit in or appease people's expectations. Though that is just a part of my insecurities. Most people that know me believe I am very confident. Not so much. I am actually very insecure and spend a lot of time reading, researching and studying. Just to be sure that what I want to believe is actually something that is real. Insecurity is a huge motivation in my life. I am very concerned about not knowing. Though I do realize I cannot know everything. I like to be informed about those things that do interest me.
It is time to go to work and I will consider this more when I have the opportunity. I am not really trying to get anywhere with this line of thought. I am just trying to clear it from my head. 😀 😉
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Thank you so much, that's very kind and helps greatly! 🙏
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Thank you, that's wonderful! Very grateful and it makes a real difference to keeping these all going 👏
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