russrand.bsky.social
Learning the world through various lenses, from microscopy to photography, scholar, scientist, teacher, husband, and father, writing and building, leading by example, critical thinking, fact finding, and dialogue.
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It's an iPhone. Any tech Savvy individual can view it all
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Thanks. Relearn something new every day. Must be a strange community 🤷🏻♂️
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I agree with your overall sentiment, but start acting like a leader, or some semblance of class. Or you're only representing a small minority
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Preach brother
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What's a cryptid?
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If it can hit it one time and still go back to do it again, it isn't much of a Titanic... And probably won't sink
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Oh, will then, purchasing a map book or physical map could conveniently circumvent the printer. A bicycle is probably the best way to learn those roads though. Safe travels✌🏽
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Too nostalgic?
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I hope this clarified my point. Have a nice day
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one in which both man and his environment participate in molding each other. Man is now in the position of actually creating the total world in which he lives. In creating this world, he is actually determining what kind of an organism he’ll be.
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they’re bound to be against him.
Psychologists have demonstrated that our idea of reality is determined by our perception of things, the way our senses interpret things, rather than the way things really are. Edward T. Hall has written that the relationship between man and the cultural dimension is
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Noel McGinnis tells us that what Carl Sandburg means here is that the world cooperates with us by conforming to our expectations of it. The classic example of this is, of course, the paranoid who suspects that everyone’s against him and who, therefore, relates to people in such a way that
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that’s about the kind of folks you’ll find around here.”
And the second wagon moved off and blended with the dusty gray cottonwoods on the horizon while the early sodbuster leaned at his gatepost and tried to figure out why two days of hot winds smothered the life out of a nice stand of wheat.
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And again the sodbuster replied, “Well, stranger, what kind of folks was there in the country you come from?”
The friendly stranger said with a smile: “Well, there was mostly a decent, hardworking, law abiding, friendly lot of people.”
And again the sodbuster said, “Well, I guess stranger, that’s
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the sodbuster replied: “Well, I guess stranger, that’s about the kind of folks you’ll find around here.”
And the stranger had just about blended into the dusty gray cottonwoods becoming a clump on the horizon, when another newcomer drove up.
“What kind of folks live around here?” the stranger asked.
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“Well, stranger,” said the sodbuster, “what kind of folks was there in the country you come from?”
“Well, there was mostly a low-down, lying, thieving, gossiping, backbiting lot of people.”
After a few seconds of reflection,
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hot winds smothered the life out of a stand of wheat, and why there was such a spread between what he got for grain and the price quoted in Chicago and New York. As he was contemplating these notions, a new-comer drove up in a covered wagon.
“What kind of folks live around here?” he asked.
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Let me quote something found in Carl Sandburg’s account of the Kansas sodbuster. Who was that early sodbuster in Kansas? He leaned at the gate post and studied the horizon and figured out what corn might do next year and tried to calculate why God ever made the grasshopper, and why two days of
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The pot calling the kettle black. IYKYK
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Yup
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Word 2010 is still great 👍🏽 the newer ones are fine too. What are you finding challenging with MS Word?
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It's okay, but nanoCAD free still plays better
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Looking forward to a bit of gaming and a lot of studying and outdoor adventures with my girls
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Just a big smile and sweet voice politely telling them to go on and fuck themself. Maybe with a little hand gesture of "now, fuck off" while maintaining the smile and poise
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Simply uninstall/disable all that MicroCrap til I need it. Still running from Mail & Calendar App. Outlook (new) is garbage, and now copilot, what a dumpster fire. About to GPolicy kill those services from the registry level soon...
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www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...
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I'd give benefit of the doctor, as the middle class has been shrinking, and most of that is due to a growing socioeconomic disparity with the majority of the middle class dropping down into poverty, as research shows.
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Looking forward to it
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What is this in response to? Keep practicing those writing skills 👍🏽
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Where?
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Figure it out yourself www.amazon.com/s?k=fox&crid...
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The brainwashed lefties and their party mates know this, but choose copium since that's what they do best IRL. On the other hand, American workers, taxpayers, and hard-working citizens saw right through the blue facade of corporate shills and sexist bigotry. They tried to be Trump, and failed
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Never considered myself to be a burglar. Sorry I stole your heart ❤️
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Majority of Blue sky users were/are Twitter users though... You too, how else would you know how toxic your twitter feed was? 🤔🫢
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Quality meds 💊🥬
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Yeah, I hope for a decent ToC when I do that
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Life. Life is the point
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My naga
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Learn to love thyself, and you'll be loved for eternity 🙏🏼
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And many whom are gullible really could benefit from facts elucidating the post👍🏽
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It can also be called misdirection, misleading, misinformation, and so on. Not the point, hun. I hope you're doing well ❤️🩹
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The point is not all exercise critical thinking, typically not on social media
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I think most people, from all sides of the political spectrum were taken aback by the blatant hypocrisy of Biden and his administration, preaching the judicial system, promising to not use pardon power, then turns around and does it with a poor ("political") excuse. 🤷🏻♂️ Unsurprisingly a typical politi
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It takes good parenting 🤷🏻♂️
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Really? All I've spoken with say they hope so too. Sensing some salt from the OP 🧂
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Pruning improves vitality similar to exercise and hygeine in humans. plant hygiene. I guess one can consider cutting hair and taking a shower as punishment 🤷🏻♂️
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Bsky indeed needs that feature, if the platform wishes to get ahead of or even compete others. 👍🏽 Facts matter