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I *think* it would have been about $100k, adjusted for inflation. Sounds like weregeld to me... if it was paid to the victims heirs and assigns.

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It's never TOO late, but it is getting very late.Let's get to it!

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I'm sure the long-term health issues from childhood toxic exposure will be limited, because Republicans literally do not understand how time or the human lifecycle works.

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Have they tried cutting taxes?Isn't that the best way to fix our government?

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that went over the top months ago . . . if i wasn't 500 miles away, i would have been in jail by now.

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Strength Through Unity: Unity Through Faith

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Snyder is a pusillanimous dick who cried ' the leg made me do it!' and signed right to work into law. Schutte is worse. Way worse. Snyder is term limited. They haaaate each other. Hoping for a pyrrhic primary victory leaving an opening for a Dem to get in (there are some decent candidates - Gretchen whitmer is early favorite).

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"a thousand words" doesn't even begin to cover what that picture says!

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A response that works for all time periods less than infinity and for any rule that kills anyone.

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does it have places to secure pikes?

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psychopathological perhaps?

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Mandatory "pusillanimous" usage upvote

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the problem (if this old remembers correctly) was that the proper additives to prevent corrosion of the existing (inert) lead weren't added . . . because: reasons.

[ can't remember if the main driver was stupid or $ ]

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Yes. And it has nice even ground around it, to make lining up in front of much easier.

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paved tumbrel roads?

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Now that Trump has destroyed the DEA these problems will all go away, we can go back to dying without knowing why like our grandparents did.

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