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  • Deregulating the electricity industry has been a complete and utter disaster.

  • The month before, the justice had borrowed $267,000 from a friend to buy a high-end RV.

    Just cut back on the avocado toast.

  • Left4Dead2 can be played by 1-4 players. Empty player slots are filled by AI bots.

  • Who else played Star Trek: Armada?

  • the Oregon Trail generation

    This is the one.

  • This is the earliest movie I'm aware of that acknowledges the existence of non-binary people, and portrays them in a sympathetic (if not accepting) light. Ahead of its time. Still an Ed Wood flick so don't expect much.

    PULL THE STRING!

  • Country roads take me home to the place I belong ::: spoiler spoiler West Virginia :::

  • If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals

  • I know. It just seemed funny that the other three directions are represented.

    If/when Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state, it should take the name East Puerto Rico, just to be fair.

  • Probably went like: There are->There're->They're->They are

  • It just occurred to me that there are no states named East Statename.

  • Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

  • In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. These messages are between ships at sea, they could be between units, military units in the field. We have a very extensive capability of intercepting messages wherever they may be in the airwaves. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.

    If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

    Now why is this investigation important? I'll tell you why: because I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.

    -US Senator Frank Church, 1975

  • If aborted babies automatically go straight to heaven, then what's the problem? Sounds like a neat loophole.