RappingBoomer

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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
I grew up back in the days when many more people read books...there were used book stores everywhere...men sometimes carried a paperback book stuck in their back pocket...but that's not to say that everyone read a lot...but there was m
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
gerrymandering has the potential to increase homogeneity of voting districts...more homogeneity means that the electorate is more united and can therefore force the politicians to do what the voters want.
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it." the elites don't want "unapproved" ideas getting into the minds of malleable youth...shaping the minds of yo
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
yeah, it could be said that much of science has been tainted and even crippled by mandatory adherence to certain dogma/narrative talking points
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
yeah, the article is full of de rigueur dogma & talking points, so much so that it verges on word salad
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
social media is replacing the traditional ways of communicating ideas (which have been tv, radio, newspapers, and school curriculum & textbooks)...but now the elites cannot really control social media, as much as they want to control so
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
i am gonna guess that oat milk costs a lot more than milk... yep, $5.19 for a quart at walmart....as for milk? $3.50 for a gallon... same thing for artificial meat or even soy protein--easily more expensive than regular pork/hamburger&
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
it hurts to make decisions based on our current knowledge that is a child's knowledge
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
but is it not hubris to think that we really know much about the origin and outcome of the universe? is it wise to make decisions based on this modicum of knowledge that we currently have regarding thermodynamics and the universe? I suspec
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
if you read around on the internet, in various and sundry forums, there is a rising acknowledgement among people that maybe their friends who accidentally got their girlfriend pregnant in high school and then got married and started working
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
twidget ahoy
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
yeah, it was the same back when i was on a fast attack sub in the 1970s...and here's the fun part--2 other dudes shared my bed/cot...it's called hot racking...I sleep for 6 hours, then get up and go aft to stand watch or do m
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
maybe they should reduce their bills? Me, i am retired and pinch every penny till it screams...i get food from food banks...all my clothes and furniture are from the free section of craiglist and from thrift stores...I drive old junker cars
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
a lot of desktop use of ubuntu ...but android tablets and phones are getting so powerful and cheap, why use a desktop PC at all?
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
yeah, but protein-dense plants cause flatulence
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by RappingBoomer 4y ago
the rallying cry used to be "a chicken in every pot!"....now it will be "a gigantic chicken in every pot!"
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
i recall hearing these old stories back in the navy nuclear power school in the 1970s...i was a navy nuclear reactor operator back then...Electronics Tech Reactor Operator...as I recall no one was really sure about the derivation of the nam
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
this is why i am not gonna buy another desktop when this one goes down for the count...just gonna go to my cheap android tablet that cost me $69...and when that one goes down, I will just put out $59 or whatever for the next one...so long t
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
why is it any of the author's business how much his customers drink? Nosy nanny state paradigm going on here...
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
genetics and random chance are huge factors
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
one huge problem is that the corp-gov-media monolith has adopted climate change as an official narrative. (it used to be called 'global warming' and then it was changed to 'climate change' after detractors started pointi
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
but um global warming...err, I mean climate change...
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
yeah, as far as i am concerned, his juveniles were by far his best...and nothing after those came close
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
doubleplusungood
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
there are a lot of reasons, many good ones given in this thread, but here is another one: men are less physically active due to more office work...less physically active means less sex drive, generally
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
did you read and understand the article?...i got out because I COULD get out...lots of teachers cannot get out or are pushed out before they can find an exit option. You think you understand, but you do not...
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
yeah, I understand your meaning, but you fail to understand the situation...did you read the article? NO ONE can do the job...
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
lol...did you read the article? It's the same all over...i was the rule, not the exception
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
most teachers will tell you the truth--it's there from birth, and basically incurable
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by RappingBoomer 5y ago
one other problem is that the classes are not separated as to ability anymore...now in each classroom you are going to have one or more kids who have mental issues and who will wind up in prison, maybe for most of their adult lives...think

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