#truth
Funny, That
And This is Where We Are
I Don't Know, Karen. Why Don't You Tell Us?
Not Funny But True
And It Would Cut Into Their Revenue Stream
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The internet brought knowledge to the people then social media created widespread ignorance.
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Quote Of The Day
If the U.S. can no longer serve as a leader then let us serve as a warning. 'Don't let this happen to you!'" ~ Anonymous
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We live in a world where people buy anti-virus for their pc/laptop but not for their children.
I Feel Your Pain, Charlie Brown
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Websites that don't let people use adblock don't discourage them from using adblock, they discourage them from using their website.
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If Breaking Bad had been set in the UK it would have been a very different show. A chemistry teacher gets cancer, gets treatment, goes into remission and then carries on with his life.
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If this was 1943, Google would have blurred the concentration camps to keep business contracts with Germany.
Last Pretty Much Every Night at 4 am
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Monday
The Gun Is Our Moloch
From Jon Gruber at Daring Fireball:
THE GUN IS OUR MOLOCH
Garry Wills, writing for The New York Review five years ago, after the Sandy Hook grade school massacre:
The gun is not a mere tool, a bit of technology, a political issue, a point of debate. It is an object of reverence. Devotion to it precludes interruption with the sacrifices it entails. Like most gods, it does what it will, and cannot be questioned. Its acolytes think it is capable only of good things. It guarantees life and safety and freedom. It even guarantees law. Law grows from it. Then how can law question it?
Its power to do good is matched by its incapacity to do anything wrong. It cannot kill. Thwarting the god is what kills. If it seems to kill, that is only because the god's bottomless appetite for death has not been adequately fed. The answer to problems caused by guns is more guns, millions of guns, guns everywhere, carried openly, carried secretly, in bars, in churches, in offices, in government buildings. Only the lack of guns can be a curse, not their beneficent omnipresence.
Our gun laws are insane. We, collectively, have agreed that regular mass shootings, often at schools — schools! — are a reasonable price to pay as a nation for unfettered access to military-grade killing machines for anyone and everyone who wants one.
It's sick. Everyone outside the U.S. knows this. A majority of Americans knows this and supports stricter gun control.
There are new gun laws being drafted. But you know what most of them are for? For making guns even easier to purchase legally, without background checks.
This idea of gun=god was actually explored in an episode of American Gods last year.