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Comment · 2 months ago
Seems like the author hasn't been on X in awhile. It is nothing like he claims. Bluesky is the most hostile social media site that has ever existed if you don't go along with the party line.
Comment · 2 months ago
Incompetent nurses in the VA system get promoted to management so they do not harm any patients. I have seen it happen over and over again. They spend their time in meetings all day instead of in direct patient care.
Comment · 2 months ago
I have 4 children so this article is incorrect.
Comment · 3 months ago
Vernor Vinge wrote a book that had this as part of the plot.

The book you are looking for is Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Published in 2006, it features a fictional undertaking called the Librareome Project.

Facebook ·Artificial Intelligence News Key Details from the Novel The Process: Physical library books are fed into industrial machines that shred the pages and blast them through a camera tunnel at high speeds. The Technology: High-resolution cameras photograph the flying paper shreds, and software uses the unique tear marks to piece the text back together (similar to shotgun sequencing in genetics). The Conflict: The story depicts public protests and pushback from people who want physical, analog books preserved rather than violently digitized and destroyed.

Comment · 4 months ago
I am a doctor. Pfizer Covid vaccine gave me a left leg DVT plus a peripheral neuropathy. I will never take another mRNA vaccine again.
Comment · 4 months ago
I quit all news shows since before 2000. I quit all TV for over a year now. Robert Heinlein knew this in the 1960's.

"Remind me... to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers."— Stranger in a Strange Land

Comment · 4 months ago
Another failed communist country.
Comment · 5 months ago
Their Fentanyl precursors have killed way more than Israel or Russia.
Comment · 8 months ago
AI turns you into a NPC.
Comment · 8 months ago
I stopped watching all TV 2 years ago. Unfortunately my family won't let me cancel all our streaming apps.
Comment · 9 months ago
We bought a small homestead 20 months ago. The prior owners only used it for their horses, Nothing had been planted by them. We have slowly been planting fruit trees. We lost a lot due to our drought. I just put in another 20 fruit trees this past weekend. It is good for the soul.
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We have know this for years. I was taught this over 30 years ago in my GI fellowship.
Comment · 11 months ago
Still my favorite FPS of all time. Low gravity sniper rifle CTF was my favorite. Was in the NTHZ clan.

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