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Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts
Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts
washingtonpost.com
8:35 AM · Oct 23, 2021 //

the hypocrisy is the point, and the media are exposing theirs in a big way here. Were they not alive during the Donald Trump years? Because I seem to remember a distinct lack of outrage at the many horrible things said about the former president, his supporters, and Republicans in general. //

At no point do I recall the media ever complaining about the gross things said during the Trump years. Now, a non-vulgar saying goes viral and they are deeply concerned? Consider my extremely skeptical there’s any actual care about decorum here. Further, the two signs cited in the Post’s article also didn’t include vulgarities.

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A Florida man has been accused of breaking the copyleft license of Mastodon by running an online instance of the software without providing its source code as required.

And not only that, the real-estate baron and wannabe tech tycoon has been told he has a month to fall in line with the fine print or put himself potentially at risk further action.

Mastodon is a Twitter-like microblogging service that you host yourself. Servers running this software can form a larger, decentralized social network. //

The aforementioned Palm Beach businessman, known for his failed casino, discontinued line of steaks, and a recent stint in public office, chairs an online media group that this week promised to launch a social network for selected users next month. A wider rollout is expected in the new year following a period of beta testing, apparently.

Who knew? Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent and current murderous dictator of Russia is more woke about wokeism in America than are Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.

The Russian “president for life” slammed wokeism, correctly saying it is causing societal ills, and claiming it is no different than the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Putin made his extraordinary remarks in Sochi, where the topic was “Global Shake-up in the 21st Century.” His remarks were translated by an interpreter and the video was uploaded to the Russian government’s website.

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Putin blasts Wokeism and compares it to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, slams CRT and the practice of calling women "birthing people"
Putin blasts Wokeism and compares it to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, slams CRT and the practice...
notthebee.com
1:58 PM · Oct 22, 2021

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13 hours ago
Wait a minute. Affirmative Action has been a real "thing". For like 50 years. Everything the federal government touches is infused with racial policing and many liberal metro enclaves have been run on a racially-driven basis for decades.

Consider the case of Oakland. It has a department of Race and Equity in the municipal government. Look up the ghastly tale of the "Ghost Ship" fire and see how much good that did.

This is why you should not be able to get out of Sociology 1 or maybe even high school history without learning about the Moynihan Report "Crisis o the Negro Family". The stunning reality that black and white social statistics were roughly equivalent in the 1950s has to be considered in light of what has come since.

There is a false premise that "nothing has changed". No, every statistical indicator has gotten WORSE. Except for one: income, which did go up in part through lessening of legal discrimination but largely by the acquisition of public sector jobs. There is a treasure trove of historical material at a web site called TheBlackPast. Look at the page they have on the Moynihan Report; the story is encapsulated in one graphic at the top of the page.

Education itself, what should have been the Great Levelor, has instead been weaponized by corrupt political elements who I would accuse of outright sabotage because they want to cultivate dependence on the government.

But remember you get another cohort to educate every year. Look up the young man who was the first black Valedictorian in the long history of Oakland Technical High School, whose story I first learned about right here (it "went viral" later after his speech went up on Youtube).

I appreciate Condi stepping up to this extent but we are not where we are because of what happened in the distant past. We are where we are because of policies that were implemented SINCE that past was over. And now Harvared and Yale discriminate AGAINST Asians while a newly-annointed Nobel Prize winning economist endorses it? (That's Card the one from UC Berkeley).

I went to segregated schools till we moved to Denver. My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice. But they also told me “that’s somebody else’s problem, not yours, you’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.” And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids. //

One of the worries that I have about the way that we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past. //

The former secretary of state also said she doesn’t think it’s “very productive” that “black people have to feel disempowered by race.” She continued:

I would like black kids to be completely empowered to know that they are beautiful in their blackness. But in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white. So somehow this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction. //

If leftists truly wished to diminish the impact of racism, they would focus more on doing what Rice said: Empowering black people. Instead of lowering learning standards so that more black students can graduate, it would make far more sense to focus on improving the quality of education that many black students receive. Despite constantly asking for more funding, they have not done much to provide better education for minority children. Indeed, they oppose measures like school choice, which would empower black parents to ensure their kids attend the best schools. //

During her appearance on “The View,” Rice never pretended racism didn’t exist. She never even downplayed it or pretended that it has no impact. Her contention is that black people can succeed despite the effects of bigotry. It is a sentiment expressed by people like Malcolm X, who routinely chastised black Americans for not focusing on building in their own communities instead of soliciting whites for relief.

Yes, racism does exist. Yes, it has an impact on black Americans and, by extension, the United States. But attempting to villainize nonracist white people is not the way to help black America.

On July 24, as I reported, we had already paid out $2 billion not to build the wall.

Earlier this month, they canceled the contracts — in the middle of a border crisis — and this is what they are spending the money on instead.

The unspent cash that Congress allocated for wall construction will be spent on environmental projects — including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region — instead, according to the statement. //

According to the NY Post, Department of Homeland Security money to the tune of $456,548 — almost half a million dollars — was shelled out to a Delaware construction company to build fencing around Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth Beach. It’s listed on USAspending.gov, which tracks federal spending. The project started on September 21 and is expected to be completed by December 31.

Biden not only gets a wall, but the Secret Service has created a checkpoint to get past an intersection on the way to the home and they’ve also created “security zones” in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal and Atlantic Ocean, not to mention frequent restrictions on the airspace in the area. I’m sure that’s not at all bothersome to the neighbors.

Meanwhile, while Biden is safe with his wall, the Border Patrol revealed that we had the highest number of people entering illegally across the southern border since 1986 — 35 years ago — with 1.7 million migrants. It’s anticipated that 400,000 will enter illegally this month. //

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NEW: Texas AG sues Biden administration, demands continuation of border wall construction, "Let's Go Brandon. We'll see you in court!"
2:14 PM · Oct 22, 2021

Corey A. DeAngelis
@DeAngelisCorey
Congressman Fred Keller: Why are women-held positions disproportionately affected by COVID-19?

Inez Stepman: That's a question you should take up with Randi Weingarten
12:39 PM · Oct 21, 2021

Stepman’s response is more than just a mic drop moment. It is a moment of clarity that we need to touting over and over again. The Democrats are trying to fix problems that they created by making more problems which will require more legislation in order to fix the problems that come from the solutions to the problems they made in the first place.

It is utter insanity and hypocrisy and should be called out as such at every opportunity.

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I have been wondering why only electrons revolve around protons instead of protons other way around. They have electrostatic force and I think mass factor has nothing to do here. Then why?

Electrons do not "revolve around" the nucleus. They have a probability to be found near the nucleus, and they have the property of angular momentum but you really should not imagine it as proper movement... –
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Sep 20 at 13:32

A:

NB: I interpreted the question to essentially mean, why do protons rather than electrons reside in nuclei?

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The initiative, however, received no recognition from President Biden. One of Musk’s followers on Twitter asked: “The President of the United States has refused to even acknowledge the 4 newest American astronauts who helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for St. Jude. What’s your theory on why that is?”

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The Biden administration’s apparent refusal to acknowledge the mission comes after it snubbed Tesla, which Musk also leads, by not inviting it to an electric vehicle summit — because the firm does not have unionized workers. //

The Democrats turn their backs on Musk for two reasons. For one, many Democrats are radicalized and hate billionaires. They consider their wealth to be an egregious corruption and proof that the capitalist system is evil. They think the billions of Musk and others like Bezos should be taken from them and given to government programs.

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While Musk is looking up and thinking about how to bring humanity the stars, the Democrats are looking at you and wondering how they can bring you under their rule. They can’t rightly do that if you’re too busy cheering on and wanting to support their enemies.

Democrats are not about the future of humanity, they’re about the future of their rule.

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This gives Relativity some crucial advantages over SpaceX. 3D printing is one of the fastest methods of production, Relativity claim they can build a functional rocket capable of commercial launches in just two months. This means they can do rapid prototyping and out develop their competitors. This is why their rocket engine, Aeon 1 has already had over 500 test fires, and is already a proven and refined engine, despite only being a few years old.

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Their company Renergen is almost ready to start producing both natural gas and helium, placing South Africa on an elite map with helium reserves that could be the richest and cleanest in the world.

Those first tests revealed helium concentrations of two to four percent. In the United States, helium is extracted at concentrations as low as 0.3 percent.

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