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Sometimes I have to remind myself, it's not the masculinity, it's the toxic that's bad. Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be a cis white male American human. Except the human part. I'ma hold on to that as tightly as I can.

You maroons go find some other way to measure your tiny funny shaped disgusting dicks besides "who can fuck up the planet the most" or whatever the game you're playing is called.

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We have to get him to inject more courtesy into his remarks.

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"The essential point is that this money, on entering Brazil, will be under the control of the Brazilian Bolsonaro people."

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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,And swallows calling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

Robins will wear their feathery fireWhistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not oneWill care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor treeIf mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,Would scarcely know that we were gone.

-Sara Teasdale

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That would be a nightmare. I suspect many Wonkettarians, including me, are uninhibited behind their Disqus aliases in a way they couldn’t be if the snark and dick jokes were attributed to their IRL selves. Not to mention that move might pull in FB posting rules which would chill what gets said here. Nope, nope, nope.

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Lula...

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Which is nothing.

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Its been forgetting who I am all week.

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The oxygen content of the world's biomass is about 0.05% of the oxygen content of the earth's atmosphere.

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Do you mean contribution? I’m not seeing how the content of the world’s biomass is related to the rate at which it cycles CO2 into O2.

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Bolsonaro and his friends LIKE the fires; they are cheaper forest clearing tools than people and bulldozers. Don't ever think that these guys won't burn our house down to grab all of the insurance cash.

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Yeah, I finally remembered the site that did it, it was Thrillist. A few of us were there when we used to read CA Pinkham's columns where he posted letters from people in the service industry. When they went to FB comments, someone created a disqus spot where we would comment because most of us didn't want to use FB comments for those exact reasons you named.

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On average, the world's biomass cycles CO2 into O2 at a rate of 0%, since it is mostly in a state of equilibrium.

Neglecting that fact, the net oxygen contribution of land photosynthesis is about 16 Gt/year, or 0.001% of the oxygen available in the atmosphere. Ocean photosynthesis contributes about 10 times less, because almost all the free oxygen produced remains in the water, where it is consumed by ocean life.

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I'm glad I made my visit to the Amazon in 1984 (yes, really).

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It's cool though cuz Jair sez we can just breathe every other day.

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Meanwhile, Bolsonaro et al are crapping on the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, who are fighting for their way of life. If that’s not colonialism, I don’t know what is!

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