Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
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@JamesGleick #AgentOrange seems to have difficulty coming to terms with reality. Mostly he lives in his personal Wonderland where he snaps his fingers to make it so, then he slides out of his cocoon faced with the reality that no matter how badly he wants it, he’s just not the super villain genius he thinks he is. From his shadows the ignoramus shimmers, staring back at him. 🤔
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Pro tip. When you’re texting a co-conspirator about your plot to conceal, cover up, and falsify evidence in order to obstruct justice, do NOT use “shushing” emojis.
(I think Stringer Bell would agree.)
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#Palermo #Sicily #tourism #summer American tourist talks about her time at the beach in Palermo and her wonderful time getting stuck at the airport. #wildfire #PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene https://www.tiktok.com/@psalmie11/video/7259791194207636778
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I've run into a couple of belligerent people, but blocking or muting them takes care of them. I don't think the positivity is too good to be true. I've been here since November and I would never go anywhere else. There's no need to.
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@CivilityFan @Huntn00 @gwensnyder Interesting spin on the reasons for cutting appropriations and increasing tuition. I don’t disagree. I went to Utah St. Univ from 1969-72, then graduated in 1975. Then worked on MA at BYU 1976-78, and PhD at UoAz 1978-82. Didn’t finish either grad degree. Later went back to USU for MEd degree (2006). I’ve taken out no loans, but that would be impossible today. My kids made it thru on scholarships, so no loans.
@CivilityFan @gwensnyder I grew up Middle Class, I had a 4 year USAF ROTC scholarship and my parents could easily afford room and board at Syracuse University. I want to say that tuition if I had to have paid it was about $1500 a semester. I had no college loans to pay. I graduated in 1975. Now think about college tuition today. How higher educational has changed. 🤔
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@Huntn00 @gwensnyder I attended SF State from 1969 to 1971 while Reagan with CA governor. My student loan was for $1500 and besides my college expenses, I also used it to buy a stereo (a record player with an amplifier and AM/FM radio), and covered my rent and food. The students then were demonstrating against the Viet Nam war and for civil rights, which conservatives found appalling. In the years following, they pursued the policies to raise tuition and cut public spending on higher education to cause financial pain to anyone seeking an education because those are the folks whom they know are their enemy.
Yesterday #UFO hearings in US Congress. I forgot to watch. 😐
Why was this a blip? You need to have a space ship land on the Capitol Mall before anyone pays attention…🤔
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/4-shocking-moments-congress-ufo-162628296.html
A Department of Defense whistleblower made a number of shocking claims about unexplained aerial phenomena — or UAPs…
Among his many claims made under oath, former U.S. intelligence official David Grusch told the House Oversight Committee that “non-human” beings had been retrieved from spacecraft.
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Putin announced that Russian state (read: propaganda) media will start working in African countries soon: TASS, "Russia Today", RT channel, VGTRK and "Russian Newspaper".
"We suggest to prepare the grounds for creating a common information space in Russia and Africa, within which objective unbiased information about the events happening in the world will be broadcast to the Russian and African audience" - Putin said during the Russia-Africa summit.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
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This week's exclusive for Post: The GOP's dangerous embrace of Viktor Orbán https://post.news/@/atrupar/2T9ysLMzGkiws3WqxJq2wy65piJ?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=creator_organic&utm_campaign=atrupar&utm_content=july27
@Snoro The only way this can be solved is for the world to stop fucking around and make this top priority, to achieve unprecedented levels of international cooperation, not be some initiative buried at the bottom of national budgets. PS, we just don’t have it in us. We’ll sit and roast marshmallows in the flames until we succumb to our selfishness. 😞 And Capitalism is not an economic system that will respond adequately to the crisis. Hey, can I get rich if I chip in? 🤔
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The incoming head of the UN climate science agency said on Thursday the world would exceed the Paris deal warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, adding that states' policies had not been ambitious enough
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate
@servelan The shareholders (account holders) better take a close look at this. Donny has a terrible history of not paying his debts. I’d pull my funds and put them in a more reputable establishment.
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Why does a billionaire need to borrow money?
A Small Bank Loaned Trump the $225 Million he Needed to Run for President in 2024: Report - The Messenger
@anubis2814 There are climate deniers everywhere, even people who give lip service to climate initiatives might bulk when it actually hits their wallet. It seems like regardless of 4 decades of warnings, rank and file humans are unable to register the magnitude of the problem until they are specifically adversely effected by it. Then they will cry Boo Hoo! And everyone will pay as millions show up to live in smaller habitable areas. Capitalism will stress.
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
