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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, to which we owe the failed experiment of prohibition, still exists. It claimed 5k members in 2012, down from 350k a century earlier.

    On the website it tells you how you join. You print out the temperance pledge, and mail it to Evanston IL along with $20.

    https://www.wctu.org/

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    @jon-nyc Evanston, baby!

    It was a source of never-ending mockery when I went to college there.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      Feels like the Flat Earthers. Or Area 51.

      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        I have learned that Madeleine Albright wrote a book with a mildly interesting title: Hell And Other Destinations.

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          Only non-witches get due process.

          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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            From the preface of the book Information Wars by Richard Stengel: "In 2010, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, said we create as much information every two days -- about five exabytes -- as all the information created from the dawn of civilization until 2003."

            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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              My secret.

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              • Aqua LetiferA Offline
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                Asking the hard questions.

                https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                Please love yourself.

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                  Asking the hard questions.

                  https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

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                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

                  Asking the hard questions.

                  https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                  DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

                  The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

                  Education is extremely important.

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                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

                    Asking the hard questions.

                    https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                    DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

                    The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

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                    @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

                    @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

                    Asking the hard questions.

                    https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                    DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

                    The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

                    There's a plaque.

                    Please love yourself.

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                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                        @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

                        Asking the hard questions.

                        https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                        DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

                        The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

                        There's a plaque.

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                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

                        @Horace said in Mildly interesting:

                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Mildly interesting:

                        Asking the hard questions.

                        https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/scott-morrison-mcdonalds

                        DID THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA SHIT HIS PANTS IN A MCDONALD’S?

                        The answer to the following question implies a great deal about one's own psychology: Would you prefer to live in a world in which the answer to the above question is yes, or no?

                        There's a plaque.

                        No. Plaque is on your teeth. There might be a coprolite in a while though.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                          More here:

                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            jon-nyc
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                            EE7FFF71-4702-4E60-A904-7BC6636F1433.jpeg

                            Only non-witches get due process.

                            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                              EE7FFF71-4702-4E60-A904-7BC6636F1433.jpeg

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                              @jon-nyc 👍👍👍👍👍

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                                Only non-witches get due process.

                                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                  Last Friday I bought some stuff at a convenience store/Shell station on Hatteras Island for $30.80.

                                  Today I was checking the VISA account and there were 2 charges for $30.80, one on Friday and one on Sunday.

                                  I called VISA to report a duplicate charge.

                                  I did buy fuel on Sunday, but I figured there was no way it was exactly $30.80 worth of fuel.

                                  I had a receipt from Friday but not Sunday because the fuel pump printer was broken.

                                  After reporting the duplicate to VISA I remembered that I had taken a picture of the pump because someone had put a Biden sticker on it.

                                  Now I am waiting on hold to tell VISA to forget about the dispute.

                                  So Mr. Biden saved the Blue Whale convenience store from the hassle of disputing the dispute.

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                                      @mark Something to think about when you can't sleep.

                                      How is such a thing even able to be calculated?

                                      What if they're off by say 50 trillion years. Do we need to worry?

                                      Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                        There is hope:

                                        The universe could possibly avoid eternal heat death through random quantum tunneling and quantum fluctuations, given the non-zero probability of producing a new Big Bang in roughly 10^10^10^56 years

                                        from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe

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                                          @mark said in Mildly interesting:

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                                          That belongs in the dark and inappropriate thread. I mean, mostly dark. Really dark.

                                          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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