sagedog.bsky.social
He/Him, American, Husband, Ivy League Undergrad & Grad, Engineer, Medicine Adjacent, Grounded Pilot, Smart/Big Dog Aficionado, Childfree by Choice, American by Choice, Able to Change My Mind, Never Stopped Masking.
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Not a legal expert, but I have been a member of the class in several class action lawsuits.
In EVERY case, everyone "similarly situated" was automatically part of the class unless they opted out.
It will be very unusual to make the class opt-in only.
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The 20 year anniversary of 2008 is coming up. They want to celebrate it with something far bigger!
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But Israel would have authorized the strikes if they thought it would distract the world from what they are doing in Gaza.
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So Tesla sales are falling, and Elon is firing the head of manufacturing.
Me thinks someone has been doing a little too much Ketamine.
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Note that "designed with American values in mind" is not the same as being designed in the USA, like Apple phones are.
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This post inspired me to expand on the life of Niemöller, in case someone is interested.
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He was sentenced to 7 months.
Upon his release after serving his sentence, without any new charges, he was re-arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen, then Daccau.
He miraculously survived there for 7 years till the end of the war in 1945.
He spent the rest of his life atoning, till his death in 1984.
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..of the interference in church matters and the treatment of Christians of Jewish ancestry, while agreeing with the Nazi approach to the "Jewish question."
In 1937, he was arrested and held until his trial for "activities against the state."
Do those words sound familiar? Heard them recently?
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Natural born Americans need to read Niemöller's poem below.
Niemöller was a highly decorated WW1 submarine captain, pastor, and initially a strong supporter of Nazis.
As he soured on Nazism, he was arrested in 1937, convicted, served 7 months in jail, then sent to Daccau till the end of the war.
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People are mirrors. We see in others what we feel we really are.
Does he secretly believe that he belongs in a mental asylum?
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These people may pay taxes, they are not "taxpayers"
"Taxpayers" is a term of art describing people who provide bribes, I mean, big "campaign contributions" to politicians and pay their associates for lobbying.
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Occam's Razor: Trump is a Russian asset, tasked with destroying the USA.
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It is a bigger embarrassment that we elected him.
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Massie missed the point.
JD was talking about the number of couches in the White House.
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I hate to be a downer on your thread....
I felt exactly the same way. Argued with my brother that he should help and even offered $$ to a cousin to take over.
Today, on the 3rd anniversary of his passing, what I wouldn't give to get one of those frustrating calls from my dad.
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1) The one thing you do in college more than anything else is read. Every class has a reading list, sometimes multiple books.
2) Is AI really to blame? Could cognitive decline be the long-term effect of some viral infection that lots and lots of kids got?
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The mullahs are safe & sound, but regular Iranians are being killed.
When you attack a country, any country, the public rallies around the flag, and the government is strengthened.
That is why Bush went from 51% to 91% approval after 9/11, and his critics like Bill Maher were kicked off airwaves.
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Americans know 8 is greater than 2.
Americans are willing to spend $8K for insurance for ourselves, as long as we think it benefits only us (no, it doesn't). We are not willing to spend $2K instead, if any of it helps someone "undeserving"
This is not a math problem. This is a morality problem.
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Deportations will mostly be self-deportations by those here legally, as all migrants & non-whites are targeted. Other countries know that and are actively courting.
The most effective teams are multidisciplinary. Lose 1 key person, and the 4 who stuck it out are less effective.
It's really gloomy.
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🧵I have deep personal & professional contacts with people who receive those funds.
It breaks my heart to say that she won't be that busy when that day comes.
Why?
Because there'll be few qualified people left to accept those funds. Retirement, deportations and poaching will take their toll.
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The "Iraqis will greet us as liberators" crowd are the same people who always think that "This time will be different" despite all evidence to the contrary.
Why attack Iran now?
Netanyahu's Gaza gambit has played out, and Israelis are turning against him. He needs a new enemy and he deeds it fast.
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Election night, I, too, believed that.
Since then, I have met enough unlikely Trump voters to believe he won.
These are low information, low frequency voters. Many were misinformed and manipulated by both social and legacy media.
Others were not ready for a black woman to be president.
Sad.
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Mao killed 50 million Chinese through famine.
How did he do it?
Through misguided & short-sighted policies to make China great again.
Trump's attacks on farm workers will invariably lead to food shortages.
Those who fail to heed the lessons of history are bound to repeat them.
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This is false advertising🙂
I do not see a video of a person failing.
I see a dedicated person learning, practicing, and developing her routine until she succeeds. It shows the effort you put in to get to the flawless performances you typical post.
A better title would be "The road to success"
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Maybe it is just me, but I prefer senators who don't want me dead.
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It is already happening. Foreign institutions are aggressively recruiting not just foreign researchers working in the USA but even US born ones.
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In my lifetime, cancer has gone from a death sentence to a mostly curable disease.
I can not think of one person that I knew personally from my childhood in 1970's, adult or child, who survived cancer.
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I am sorry you are having to experience this. Maybe today is not the best day to say this, but as someone who lost my mom a year ago, I want to say: You'll miss her when she's gone
Let the unkind words roll off your back because one day you will long to hear the voice, even if the words are hurtful
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I have to check to be sure, but I think Newton's 0'th law (the one that comes even before the 1'st law) is that anyone who can do the things you post yourself doing does not have a weight problem.
That is just a fact of nature and not up for debate.
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Two reasons why Trump should pardon Chauvin:
1) It will show any doubters that Trump is a white supremacist.
2) Chauvin's federal plea deal included the provision that he serve both his sentences in federal prison. After his federal pardon, he returns to MN state prison, a place he fears & hates.
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The founding fathers anticipated Trump and wrote a constitution to protect the country from him.
Unfortunately, the founding fathers did not anticipate political parties, which undercut the safeguards and may cost us the country.
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She kept crying for 10 mins. Said that she was holding everyone up but felt invisible to everyone.
We sat & talked for 2 hours.
Maybe I'm delusional, but I want to believe I made a difference in her day.
Look at those around you, not past them. Ask how they really are. You may make things better.
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We must do everything to stop these cuts because it is the right thing to do. But it will not win us elections if we succeed.
If we stop the worst excesses of the Republicans, their voters will keep voting for them because they would not come to any harm.
That is the sad reality.
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Today, I learned of a company in Canada that routinely sends employees to South America. The flights connect in the USA. Employees, Canadian citizens, have refused to connect through the USA.
They now fly to Europe. Spend a day there. Then, fly to South America bypassing the USA.
Are we great yet?
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During the primary for his senate seat, the establishment Democrats were afraid that Fetterman could not win because he was too liberal.
Then he had a stroke that damaged his brain. Now he is a MAGA.
Now, we have empirical proof of what makes someone a MAGA.
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It makes sense. One can not be a real dictator without one.
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A lot of Trump's worst excesses are taking Biden, Obama & Bush policies to their extreme.
Back then, everyone looked the other way because the terrorists deserved it or because the POTUS of their own party must be supported.
Precedents, in the hands of the other party, look & feel very different
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If Trumpty Dumpty is unhappy about the attention he got at the Pope's funeral, all he has to do is arrange his own funeral.
A funeral is the ultimate event for being the center of attention.
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The only way most of us can do half of what you did there is if there were an anti-gravity machine hiding under that floor.
With every video, my respects for your strength⬆️⬆️
Physical strength to do that and mental strength to practice, practice and then practice some more to reach this level.
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Pictures don't lie.
You must be dyslexic, confusing 35 for 53🙂