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Paths Peculiar

PathsPeculiar

[thread on XP for gold] #DnD is a game about burglary, and this is apparent in the older rules. The reason I like "XP for gold" is that it downplays

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The feeling you have now is an intentional frustration, a weaponized apathy and powerlessness that's meant to make you feel like politics and society could never possibly improve and so

floozy w/ no following

bitchnotbutch

all cops are “bad” because all people are inherently susceptible to the delights of authoritative power. we cannot secure liberation by changing the players because all players are powerless to

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

bethsawin

That feeling of so much going the wrong way at once has to do with the interconnection of complex systems. Change feeds on itself, it gets going faster and faster.

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

Judges who just stayed the TX ballot dropbox decision: Don Willett — appointed by Trump in 2017 to a vacancy created in 2012James Ho — appointed by Trump in 2017

Chel Diokno

ChelDiokno

Studied Senate Bill No. 1083. We should be very concerned about these provisions: (1/5) SB1083 gives the Anti-Terrorism Council the power to authorize the prolonged detention of suspects arrested without

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

The problem with the both sides-isms is that they draw false equivalencies between one side that is trying to end the republic and the other side that is trying to

ArtfulPrudence

ArtfulPrudence

Noble Qualities of Strong Character-Thread- DetachmentIt is your imagination that effects terror, thoughts weigh down your sensations and awareness.A detachment from everything that is not yours is necessary and productive.

Duke of Qin

qin_duke

The Chinese Communist Party as an anti-liberal filtering mechanism. An interesting quirk of the Party is that it locks out potential liberal infiltrators from any real power. Most countries are

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Lacci

Decibels are interesting unit of measure. The scale is actually the bel scale named by Bell Telephone after Alexander Graham Bell and invented for measuring telephone signal power. A decibel

Sydney Butler

GendoWasRight

OK, so people are confused by the price leal for the Series S. How can it be so cheap? Surely it's not as powerful as XB1 X!It makes perfect sense

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viriyaakarunaa

9 is always looked to as something it's not. everyone is so afraid of endings yet have no issue coming to life path 9s for help. the solution to most

Jennifer Cobbe

jennifercobbe

Platforms are political The thing is, you can't have a neutral platform. Such a thing doesn't exist and cannot exist. Doing nothing is not neutral. Moderating is not neutral. Recommending

Sam Byers

byers90

I’m sorry but has everyone lost their fucking mind. What about when parliament was illegally suspended and not only did no-one face any legal consequences the same government was voted

Dr Benjamin Janaway

drjanaway

Psychiatric medications have value, either as a bridge to enable meaningful therapy, or as a way of addressing risk. No serious psychiatrist thinks any more or any less of them

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shroudofthesea

the most applicable lesson i’ve learned from my months of quasi-historical quasi-research is that you can’t fall into the trap of thinking that we simply need a Good person in