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Soulful Ronin~Mindful Outlaw~Cynical Optimist. --

Subatomic parts of matter don't EXIST until OBSERVED, i.e. basis of reality isn't MATTER.. It's CONSCIOUSNESS

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"Doubt Is Not A Pleasant Condition, But Certainty Is Absurd."

- Voltaire

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[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

Imagine being given somewhere around 80 years on a planet floating through an incomprehensibly enormous universe, surrounded by billions of people you will never meet, mysteries you will never solve, places you will never see, and more knowledge than you could absorb in a thousand lifetimes...

and spending the whole damn thing worrying about money, arguing with strangers, impressing people you don't even like, and doing something you hate five days a week because somebody convinced you that was life.

I don't know, man.

I think we may have gotten a few things terribly wrong.

[Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99]

The official story of 9/11 summed up in less than 5 minutes...Never Forget

[Richard Grove @tragedyandhope]

Almost like it (a 47-story skyscraper) fell into a sink-hole.

Almost.

[City of Tempe, AZ @Tempegov]

Tempe has turned off its Flock automated license plate reader system and will end its contract with the company. The cameras are no longer collecting license plate data, and Tempe will not seek another company to replace the system.

While the cameras have helped Tempe Police solve crimes, recent misuse of automated license plate reader systems in Arizona and nationwide has raised concerns about the risks that come with the technology.

Tempe Police has found no misuse of its own Flock system.

Flock will remove its cameras, and previously collected data will be automatically deleted after 30 days unless it is connected to an ongoing case or investigation.

Read through the slides to learn more about the decision and what it means for Tempe.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Woo hoo! 👏🏻

A Texas constable just unplugged every Flock surveillance camera in his county and told the company to come get its garbage out of a free society.

Hood County Precinct 2 Constable John Shirley refused to wait for another empty study or corporate promise.

He and his team went out, disconnected the entire network of license-plate readers, covered them, and shut the system down cold.

“Today is a good day for the Freedom of the people of Hood County,” he posted.

He explained that he had finished the job of shutting down the county’s Flock cameras, which had been completely unplugged and covered.

Those devices were constantly scanning and recording regular people just going about their day, and that kind of permanent, warrantless tracking does not belong in a free society.

Every drive past one of those devices meant a person’s license plate was captured, time-stamped, and stored in a searchable database without any warrant or suspicion.

This created constant logging of ordinary Americans as they went to work, church, or the store.

Shirley made the principle plain when he stated that by unplugging and covering them they were making it clear that privacy is not optional and mass surveillance is not how things are done in Hood County.

He described the action as what limited government looks like and stressed that people there should not have to wonder if every trip they take is being logged and stored.

He expressed pride that this real win for the citizens had been accomplished.

He then delivered the final blow by telling Flock Safety Systems to come get their garbage out of his county.

This decisive stand comes at the exact moment reports have already exposed dozens of cases where officers abused the same network to stalk private citizens.

The company’s CEO admitted they could have done more earlier, yet the cameras keep spreading and turning daily life into permanent digital records that can be searched at will.

Once this infrastructure blankets the country, the temptation to misuse it never disappears.

Constable Shirley has proved that one determined official can still push back and win.

Hood County has drawn the line, leaving the question of whether the rest of America will follow before the watching becomes so normal that freedom itself feels like a memory.

Demand the same action in your county and share this widely, because the surveillance net is already tightening while one Texas lawman has just shown how to start cutting it.

https://t.co/AwCl3qR0HR

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@TranslateMom @Bangeek @ISi3_ @mnbjr9

[TranslateMom @TranslateMom]

“Hey, move away, will you” turns into a full-on parcel-shop brawl and then an unexpected hug — the video is now ready with English subtitles attached. Every shouted insult and sudden truce is captured so you can follow the chaos from start to finish.

Add captions and translations to any video — just tag @TranslateMom + your language.

— made by TranslateMom

Did the ending surprise you after how wild the fight got?

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@mnbjr9

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Nothing will prepare you for the national anthem at the first women’s professional baseball game. And I mean nothing.

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@mnbjr9

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Gotta love meteorologist humor!

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@OwenShroyer1776 @mnbjr9

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be introducing a bill to withhold all federal funding for cameras used to track American citizens.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Nearly TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE are publicly vouching for a man accused of cutting down Flock cameras in a small West Virginia town.

People commented:

- "He was saving my neighbor's dog from a fire all day, couldn't be him."

- "This man is innocent. I saw him serving at a soup kitchen."

-"Couldn't be him. He was helping me replace the roof on a homeless shelter."

The man, Wesley Jackson, has pleaded Not Guilty.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green.

Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose.

Eat acorns and you get tannins, and a very bad afternoon.

Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen.

Eat nettles, thistles, brambles, rushes and moorland heather and you get a mouth full of blood and no calories.

Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the waste the factory couldn't sell.

Now feed the lot of it to a cow.

She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a hide, on land that will never grow a vegetable, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you do not have.

The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a hillside nobody can plough.

She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is.

The cow is not competing with you for food. She eats the ninety percent you cannot.

Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the hard part.

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@TheAliceSmith "The person who is in love with their vision of community will destroy community but the person who loves the people around them will create community wherever they are." - D. Bonhoeffer

That's why Communism is DOA and why Capitalism, while productive, will also fail.

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@Lyracutevibes The worldview that no one is capable of carrying on a friendly relationship with an ex is a much bigger red flag.

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@aaniVibeTheory The expectation of exceptional male performance while demonizing the very nature/instinct which largely brings the best results.

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@Lyracutevibes "I know you're more or less fine with not having anyone say anything to you."

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@ML_Philosophy Relative to being young I'd say you actually worry quite a bit more as you get older... Perhaps the real difference being that what you worried about in youth is mostly/more trivial than what you worry about now.

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The idea of 'American Exceptionalism' was never rooted in our power or the ability to project it. It was/is because of the founding principles. Put simply, the prioritization of the individual over the monarch, religion, collective, etc. Codifying individual rights made America exceptional and ultimately led to its unrivaled power.

Ironically, it's this power that has become the greatest threat to America and will be the most probable cause of its downfall.