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It is! After I quit I lost contact with a few international acquiantances, but nothing major. And it gave me back a lot of time and peace of mind.

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My mind went to "72 hour choke hold" and for a moment I approved.

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I’m not sure that I agree wholeheartedly. Caputo has to be somebody’s batshit uncle. Smh

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Interesting. 😰 The cokeheads are on Wall Street. They probably have some weird elite version of Reddit that we’re not allowed on.

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Nah, he’s just a paranoid asshole who’s angry because he didn’t rise as high as he thought he should.

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Douche. Not you. 😁

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If only debrainwashing tapes were a thing!

Semi random aside: everything is starting to feel like a science-fiction novel. Dystopian crazy shit of this Turner Diaries variety. And then the environmental orange sky catastrophe that has adventure story elements (people escaping from the fires by the skin of their teeth). Showing once again that if we had to do four minutes of what heroes in adventure stories do we’d have severe PTSD and be lying on the ground weeping.

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Yep. And the phrase “not all but any“. Which has so many applications.

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Awwww, Lowell Weiker! Don’t remember anything about him except that he was liked at our house. Super odd for a Republican.

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Jefferson looks so chagrined.

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Yep and one of the main thing space command did was -- satellites!

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Only the best people.

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Hess was also the very last prisoner held in the Tower of London, put there for four days of interrogations. He was held in one of the officers' quarters.

He pleaded amnesia then and at Nuremberg.

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It's not an iceberg, it's a (quasi-sentient and ambulatory) fatberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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I am more terrified of IT (trump) and ITs henchmen than I am of the coronavirus. Congress is doing absolutely nothing to stop this insanity. I fear for all of our lives. This is only a couple of percentage points away from total dictatorship. As someone who'd spent a fair amount of time in the former East Germany (I earned a BA and an MA in German), I can assure people who think that a dictatorship under IT will be a really fun time that it assuredly will not.

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Thank you for the stern talking to and sage advice. Will keep putting one foot in front of the other, have my plans in place and will do what I can to keep despair at bay.

Ot will help when i am working again in two weeks and both have structure in my life and kni am at least making a positive difference on a very localized level.

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