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jpreston2005

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  • John Henry was a Convicted Laborer Worked to Death After His “Sentencing” in 1866

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  • That was very interesting. I had always thought him a mythical hero as well, but no. A 19 year old, sentenced to a felony for stealing something worth ~$10 (at the time). Then through the urging of a private company that utilized prison labor, worked him to death on the C & O railroad.

    He wasn't driving down the steel spikes that hold the trail rails down, but instead was tasked with punching 6 inch holes into sheer rock, so that dynamite could be set inside. Miners who were familiar with the practice, would refuse to work in the holes until the dust settled from the dynamite blasts, which was delaying completion of the tunnel. But if they used convicts, instead of professional miners, then they could push the workers back into the tunnel while it remained filled to choking with silica dust. This private company, worked these young men to death, then shipped them back to their prison, where they were unceremoniously buried in a mass grave behind the prison. This is the fate of the famous John Henry.

  • Four killed in Kentucky mass shooting before suspect turned gun on himself

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  • I initially clicked the link to see if the suspect used a "bump" stock, or AR-15, only to slowly realize, Florence KY is right outside of Covington, just south of Cincinnati, and I have a bunch of family there.

    Gun rights and regulations, the arguments and drama and bullshit, all pale in comparison to the loss of a loved one.

    Guns don't only do one thing. Sure, they kill people. But they also destroy families. They make kids grow up without fathers, make parents bury their children.

    I hope my loved ones are safe. I wish I didn't have to worry about my family and I being shot for nothing everyday.

  • This Wouldn’t Be the First Time an Incumbent Stepped Aside. Here’s What Happened Last Time.

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  • This Wouldn’t Be the First Time an Incumbent Stepped Aside. Here’s What Happened Last Time.

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  • These kinds of posts are actively harming our chances of avoiding a fascist take over. Can you not? The convicted felon was just listed even more times on the infamous pedophiles private docs, is there not an article about that you can post? gotta make sure everyone keeps talking about how an old man had an old man moment. An old man that's helping the IRS go after the 1%, helping the EPA regulate carbon emissions, helping medicare lower drug prices, helping student loan borrowers reduce their burden, helping fucking Ukraine while it defends itself against the soft-launch of WWIII... I'm sure there's more I'm missing.

    I'll vote for a corpse over fucking fascism. Biden passing would mean a strong black woman gets put in charge, and however much I disagree with some of her positions, I would take almost any black woman over drumpf. 99% chance of them being 1000x better for working families than the convicted felon pedophile rapist.

  • Alien invasion

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  • I don't get it. But I'm also fairly sure there's nothing to get. Why is this comic?

  • Judge dismisses all charges in Panama Papers, Operation Car Wash cases

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  • The defendants in that case were acquitted because the income of money from illicit sources could not be determined, according to a court statement.

    Sounds like the judge did their level best to find some random way to weasel out of doing their job. "Oh, wait, you can't prove definitively that every single penny of the laundered money was from illegal sources? Guess that means everyone is innocent!"

    It can't just be me and my perspective. The world is just legitimately getting worse, in almost every respect. WTF.

  • 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots

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  • They did an interview with one of the inventors of this technology that's pretty interesting. He seems to waffle around the idea of whether or not this collection of neurons has consciousness 🤔

  • Judge orders surprise release of Epstein transcripts

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  • Epstein took his own life in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial over federal sex-trafficking charges.

    Odd how the BBC would just lie like that.

  • One Neighborhood’s ‘Bizarre Culture War’ Over Bike Lanes

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  • “The vast majority of the people in the community did not want these bike lanes and do not want the bike lanes,” he said. “They were just put up there against our will.”

    Fray said that the lost parking spaces on one side of Oceania Street had a ripple effect. Residents who can no longer park there now compete for the spaces elsewhere in the neighborhood. “Everyone here drives,” he said.

    Dumbasses and their wild assumption that everyone is just like them. name a more iconic duo

  • Toxic PFAS absorbed through skin at levels higher than previously thought

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  • Awesome. The guys at Dupont, Chemours (a subsidiary of Dupont), and 3M who put this shit into everything despite their own testing in the 70's showing that it accumulated in humans and caused an increase in cancer must be super proud of themselves. They made their CEO's millionaires, and all they had to do was poison everyone they ever knew, loved or cared about (plus everyone else).

    Dupont CEO's

    Charles B. McCoy (67-73)

    Irving S, Shapiro (73-81)

    Edward G. Jefferson (81-86)

    Richard E. Heckert (86-89)

    Edgar S. Woolard Jr. (89-95)

    John A. Krol (95-98)

    Charles O. Holliday Jr. (98-08)

    Ellen J. Kullman (08-15)

    Edward D. Breen (15-20)

    Marc Doyle (20)

    Edward D. Breen (20-Present)

    3M CEO's

    Bert S. Cross (66-70)

    Harry Heltzer (70-75)

    Raymond H. Herzog (75-80)

    Lewis W. Lehr (80-86)

    Allen F. Jacobson (86-91)

    Livio DeSimone (91-01)

    James McNerney (01-05)

    Robert S. Morrison (05)

    George W. Buckley (05-12)

    Inge Thulin (12-18)

    Michael F. Roman (19- present)

  • Microdosing and tripping on mushrooms is on the rise in U.S.

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  • I took mushrooms, high dose and micro, while on SSRI's. There's the smallest, most miniscule chance of seretonin syndrome. But 9999 times out of 10000 you'll be fine.

  • Minnesota GOP Candidate Accused of Throwing Tarantula at Alleged ‘Squatter’

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  • Oh man, she got the crazy eyes. Don't mess with someone like that, don't engage or make eye contact.

    So, makes sense she's republican.

  • Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

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  • From the study itself:

    These (UPFs) products are characterised as industrial formulations primarily composed of chemically modified substances extracted from foods, along with additives to enhance taste, texture, appearance, and durability, with minimal to no inclusion of whole foods.

    What is a "whole food?"

    I looked further into the paper they used to classify UPFs

    A practical way to identify an ultra-processed product is to check to see if its list of ingredients contains at least one item characteristic of the NOVA ultra-processed food group, which is to say, either food substances never or rarely used in kitchens (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated or interesterified oils, and hydrolysed proteins), or classes of additives designed to make the final product palatable or more appealing (such as flavours, flavour enhancers, colours, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners, thickeners, and anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing agents).

    So I guess a "whole food" is a food that doesn't contain High fructose corn syrup or additives. But if they are making this direct link between ultra-processed foods and increased mortality, then surely it's these specific substances that are responsible for it? So why aren't we banning high fructose corn syrup and these additives?

    Surely it doesn't need to be more complicated than that?

    "What happens when we eat these substances?"

    "we tend to die more quickly then if we didn't eat them."

    "so let's ban these substances."

    "OK."

  • Rock Eagle Flag

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  • This is where Finland and Sweden excel. Because they have mandatory military service, everyone with a gun has been trained in all aspects of it's use/care. Finland is one of the top 10 countries with the most firearms per civilian, and yet their rate of firearm deaths is minuscule in comparison to the U.S..

    At this rate though, I don't see how any meaningful gun regulation can be passed. The nra stopped universal background checks from being passed after Sandy Hook. I lost faith in republicans since then. They're bad faith actors, that when faced with the prisoners dilemma, choose suicide.

  • Rep. Jamaal Bowman loses New York primary to pro-Israel George Latimer, most expensive primary race ever

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  • Remind me why it's legal for a foreign government to fund election campaigns in the U.S. against it's critics? When mbs ordered the killing of Jamaal Kashogi, and people were outraged, did we let him pay for the election campaign of his critics opponent? Who's Saudi Arabia's candidate in congress this year? how about China's? Russia's?

    Remember when Bernie almost won and only took transparent, U.S. based small money donations? Remember what it was like to have a candidate that you actually trusted?

  • Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • The world needs more babies.

    Does it?

    Or do we just need to embrace migrants?

    “A reduction in the share of workers can lead to labor shortages, which may raise the bargaining power of employees and lift wages — all of which is ultimately inflationary,” Simona Paravani-Mellinghoff, managing director at BlackRock, wrote in an analysis last year.

    "Have babies," said the billionaire, "or else who am I going to exploit in the future?"

  • Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war

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  • Getting real sick of all these different foreign governments abusing shitty campaign finance laws to fleece Americans out of tax money while shielding themselves from the consequences of their own actions. Everyone standing in the way of campaign finance reform is explicitly on the take, it's never been more obvious.

    Anyone else also hesitant to comment on stories like this because you just know some zionist POS is gonna pop up out of the woodwork to say some dumb shit about hamas?

  • Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death

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  • For Bacon, Lewis’ son, the lack of charges is an open wound. He worries no one will remember what happened given the passage of almost four years — and the number of others killed by police under questionable circumstances.

    At this point, the damage is done. A child has to grow up without his father. They had the trooper in jail for 100 days, paid the Bacon family 4.5 million, and only agreed not to prosecute the trooper because he signed a pledge to never work in law enforcement again. So they know he F-ed up, but what's with the slap on the wrist for the trooper? He shot this black man in the forehead, 1.6 seconds after stopping his patrol car. I don't even understand why he got out of his car so quick after successfully pitting the guys car. The guys car is perpendicular to the road, in a ditch, with your squad car behind it. Why are you jumping out with your gun drawn? God, you'd think he'd be jumping out to make sure the driver was OK, but nope.

    Someone driving intoxicated should be punished, not murdered.

  • My Health Insurance Company Is Trying To Kill Me

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  • When I started my first "real" job, where I got health insurance, it was an absolute nightmare trying to find a therapist through their network. I remember having to call them to figure out if they would cover visits to a specialist in trauma. Sat on hold for an hour and 45 minutes, just to get some random woman who would NOT give me any information until I told her "why" I needed to see a therapist.

    After trying unsuccessfully to skip past the question, she kept asking, so I said fine, and trauma dumped all over her. I'll save you the details, but I could tell she was shaken once I finished. After all that bullshit, she still couldn't even tell me if the provider was covered or not, and instead sent me a 90 page non-searchable PDF listing a bunch of random therapists in random order located all over the state (which was negative help). I was so upset I just hung up on her.

    Medicare for all. Health insurance is a scam that bankrupts Americans, puts barriers between you and care, and actively harms all of us collectively.