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@avstorm Did they put the cocaine back in it?

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@toobaffled My understanding is SV40 is what they use to give mice cancer when they want to study mice with cancer.
But they don't know what affect it has on humans?
Sure they don't.

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@GuntherEagleman Maybe because their frontal lobes haven't fully developed.

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@atensnut I had a friend who's job was to count the dead bats under the wind turbines, he had to do it early in the mornings before the daytime predators snatched them up.
Huge amounts were killed, apparently the blades create a negative pressure that turns their lungs inside out.

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@TaraBull Hypercolor clothing, the stuff that changed colors at different temperatures, that stuff was all the rage for a while.

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@lisamurkowski Any argument against secure elections is just weird.

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@spencerpratt I wonder if the hose supplier is related to someone in office, probably no kickbacks involved in the purchase of 6 miles of 8 or 10 inch rubber hose.
Seems like they'd just fill the reservoirs for fire season, they couldn't be so neglected they don't hold water could they.

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@ClownWorld Bro dodged a bullet.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Is knowing literally NOTHING a prerequisite for being a communist? OPM inflates costs. Every time.

Healthcare: $2 TRILLION/year - Medicare/Medicaid.
Housing: >$400 Bn/year - section 8, MID
Food: >$200 Bn/year - Food stamps, farm subsidies
Cars: $90 Bn automaker bailouts, cash4clunkers
Utilities: >$50 Bn subsidies for "green" energy, $26 Bn for SoCo
Tuition: >$1.8 TRILLION federal student loan & grant portfolio, non-payment covered by taxpayers

And it's not just that these commies are bafflingly economically ignorant, but the smugness with which they level their impotent retorts is wild. They are just bitter, self-loathing people who know nothing, and because they don't understand basic economics, they call everything "exploitation".

No, lady, your ignorance is being exploited...by filthy communists running a shell game on taxpayers. Let me explain basic economics for you: If the average student defaults cuz they can only afford to repay $20K for tuition, colleges will charge $20K for tuition. If the federal government will backstop a $200K loan after the student defaults at $20K...colleges will charge $200K...that's why tuitions have risen at 2-3x CPI immediately after they started heavily subsidizing tuition.

20-30% of hospital costs go to medicaid/medicare compliance. Plus, that 3rd-party-payer creates a moral hazard, just like with tuition...they rack up the charges cuz it's OPM. Again, this is why hospital prices have skyrocketed way higher than inflation, and cash patients pay 80% less than insured patients. Ever since Obamacare made taxpayers subsidize private insurance companies, too...it's gotten out of control. When government picks up the tab, neither cost nor quality matters. OPM til it's over.

Again, this is basic economics that even Dom Kennedy understands better than these people.

[Collin surbert @CSurbert]

@JayInslee Climate change is a hoax.

[S2 Underground @s2_underground]

First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times.

Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye.

Note the argument:

"You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL".

Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal.

That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation.

Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to.

They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates.

They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please.

And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME".

You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys".

We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try.

For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court.

That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.

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@Humanspective I guess the tooth fairy was onto something, she knew sooner or later those baby teeth would be worth big bucks.

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@adamcarolla Until they figure out wireless charging for electric cars tweakers are going to keep stealing the cords.

[Vijay @VijayInWA]

Stop the Washington Income Tax.

Vote YES on i-645. Voting begins on October 16th this year and ends November 3rd. Mark your calendar NOW.

Retweet if you want to stop the WA income tax.

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@GovBobFerguson Do us all a favor and abolish the carbon tax.

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@GeneralPatton83 What kinda crazy weirdo does that?
Eating a hotdog without ketchup.

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@SenSchumer Why wouldn't you want honest elections?

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@EmeraldRobinson Cheating machines, call them what they are.

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@HomerPavlos @golgoonza Greece is an amazing country with a rich history that deserves respect, it's absurd to cast anyone who's not Greek or at least looks Greek in a film based on Greek history. It's actually super weird when you think about it.