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Yes, not "business leaders" but the Fraternal Brotherhood of the Lesser Broligarchs.
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La Q-caracha
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Ah, the ol' Ollie North playbook
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and also The State
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Psychopathy has a clarifying effect, or so I've heard.
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Hazard of the job in both cases I guess.
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Pretty much.
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A mansplainer says what?
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Winning bigly.
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They are not just bought and paid for, they are OWNED.
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Why not both?
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I've never understood why the people who advocate for "running the government like a business" seem to think that business should have less revenue.
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"We hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of obsequiousness, fealty, and perversion of the truth..."
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Most people do not think critically or question their sources. The last thing this world needs is more low-quality "news" or outright mis- and dis-information flooding the proverbial zone with excrement.
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With all the hand-wringing about AI in some circles (much of which is overblown) and the giddy exuberance about AI in other circles (much of which is overblown), it things like THIS that are actually worth paying attention to.
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It's easy to contact your congressional representatives:
protectmypublicmedia.org
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It's easy to contact your congressional representatives:
goacpr.org
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They all need YOU, but you don't want ALL of them...
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Super profesh.
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"Work Sets You Free" ?!?
I did Nazi that coming.
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Landlocked. 🤔 As opposed to all those other cities in the Valley that have a seaport?
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Meanwhile, in the group chat ...
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Now I'm no rhetoretician, so take all this with a grain of salt and a twist of lime...
But I think your "self-own" story becomes even MORE instructive when you realize you were right about the purifying properties of plants—which, it must be said, are always a thoughtful gift! 🪴
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Here's that study: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
The only "failure" I see is that you immediately deferred to the perceived authority of your science-y friend and, having decided you'd been foolish for thinking you could know something they don't, you proceeded to overlook or misread the evidence.
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Wait just a minute. It seems you have indeed "failed," but not in the way you think.
The NASA study mentioned in the PolitiFact article *supports* your original claim: plants remove toxic organic compounds from the air.
It debunks an unrelated claim that they produce enough O2 to keep one alive.
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(somewhere at Seer, a spreadsheet just automatically updated a number in the "Thankings" column by +1 ...)