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Thomas Massie roundup. #40hpw

#tldr we're to believe ky chose a nobody candidate who wouldn't debate and whose only declared position is instituting the draft over a popular incumbent (massie) who is most famous for being among the few still pushing for epstein accountability, no funding other countries, and no war with iran (overwhelmingly popular positions).

And the reason they chose draft guy, we are to believe, has nothing to do with the $9 million spent on massie's opponent by israeli donors.

It's getting obvious. And fyi, of course, I don't think our government has a right to do to other countries what the netinyahoo party is doing to us.

powa to the pepples
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#TIL flatfish have an eye that migrates to the other side of the head after birth. It helps hunting and predator aversion from the ocean floor to have two eyes up. This seems key to epigenetic study by I didn't find multi-generational studies that manipulate environment to see whether the eye migrates even when disadvantageous over multiple generations. Seems to me that the obvious assumption is that we'd find reversibility in this adaptation. And that the calcified institutions would doubt that reflexively.

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Yes, that's the other part, people who take advantage of the incompetent should be lowest low shame, like used car salesmen, and how to handle incapable contractees who nevertheless provide signature, is more complicated.
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Agree, there won't be legal solutions that preserve justice. That's why I mentioned culture. I.E. early education about identifying dishonesty in advertising, perhaps through clever memorizable nursery rhymes or similar, shyster tropes in art, fearless ostracizing of manipulators, well known jokes to preserve the boundaries.
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I would say capitalism in its truest form is a condition of mutually beneficial arrangements that are free of force, fraud, or coercion, that don't harm others. Freedom to trade with each other as we see fit. The weakness is when the surrounding culture doesn't protect those who are of lesser ability to evaluate trades, think in the long term, or otherwise protect themselves in a trade.
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Primary subjective wot. Good source of content outside network, tailored to logged in npub. In corkboards.me I've got a discover tab that shows notes reacted-to, quoted, replied-to, or reposted, but only if from someone not yet followed.