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  • New court records claim Epstein brought a 14-year-old woman to meet Donald Trump

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  • Middle schooler.

  • People like this

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  • ... did I hallucinate you with a christmas-themed burner account, too?

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  • True neutral. Who's gonna fight such a nice balance?

  • Luddite (textile workers who engaged in 'collective bargaining by riot' against factory automation, violently suppressed and smeared as against all technology)

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  • Doesn't break any rules. Editorialization is covered in the sidebar.

  • [Casual Tuesday] The Frisco Futuro House

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  • In 1965, Finnish architect Matti Suuronen began drafting plans for a custom ski chalet that was lightweight, simple to transport, with a nod to the modernity surrounding the space age.

  • Last-minute Xmas Gift Ideas for me (very poor) to get my aunt+family (very well off) who have been helping me out during a very rough time?

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  • Bake something super easy.

    Fudge and/or peppermint bark make great gifts and are both pretty easy to make for any skill level. Dress it up with a dollar store Christmas tin and bow for extra appeal.

    three ingredient peppermint bark

    fudge

  • The American mind cannot comprehend this

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  • winter markets?

  • at what point in life it's too late to go back to school?

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  • The time is going to pass regardless. Take some courses at a community college and test the waters. Maybe you'll end up with a cert in something that interests you.

    Does your shitty factory job do any kind of tuition reimbursement?

  • Can't download book EPUB from wikisource

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  • I tried to find it on Project Gutenberg, but no luck. HG Wells has a fair amount of translations in Hungarian and Finnish, for any curious readers of those languages.

    Here is the Polish language results for available texts.

  • Dick Van Dyke turns 100 today

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  • I think his sense of humor is a little more fucking refined, my friend.

  • Dick Van Dyke turns 100 today

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  • That's a shitty thing to say. Go stand in a corner for five minutes.

  • Damned yellow composite

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  • I approve this message

  • Trier Gold Hoard

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  • ..........

    I found one. It must have fallen.

  • Butter

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  • Butter.

  • How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number

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  • 19/20.

  • Decorator crab

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  • Comparatively slender:

    Oregonia gracilis is the binomial nomenclature way to say Skinny Guy we found in Oregon.

  • Netflix to acquire Warner Bros.

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  • I'm still mad about Kaos.

    I leave it on in the background for my dog sometimes, in case the views help revive it.

  • Buy Nothing Day

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  • I have observed Buy Nothing day(s) since the early 2000s. My personal philosophy is, this is a day set aside to meditate on the difference between want and need.

    Do you need to queue up at 4pm on Thanksgiving night to fill your car with cut-rate b-stock imported consumer goods made specifically for $10 door buster sales? No. Fucking nobody does. Your family hates receiving gifts from you, because it's all bound for the landfill in a few months.

    Do you need food? Yeah. And maybe the produce is all on sale today.

    Think of the labor and the plastic and the waste before you participate in conspicuous consumption. Think of the fuel it takes to get from the factory to the port, across the seas, into a warehouse or a plane, just to be purchased and discarded after a day or a month or a year. This is one of the ways we're dooming ourselves as a species.

    Like everything else, just do the best you can. If you need groceries or gas or medicine, go buy them. Meet your needs. If you want the big TV, and the price is right, do it. But think a bit about second hand goods, or working with what you have, or going without. Refurbishment sites exist, and a two year old item is functionally the same as a new one. Not much changes year over year. They just make you think it changes.

    What are your needs today?