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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

~ Stephen J. Gould

Would be nice if more people knew this quote and spent some extended time thinking about it on every level.

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@IAmSpartacus

Drones are not ballistic missiles. We're talking about things that come all the way over via the stratosphere.

That said, I bet the real cost is $28

It is extremely frustrating to me that people use the insult 'carrot top' to describe people with red hair because carrot tops are green thank you for listening and another thing red hair is rarely actually red also red onions are clearly purple who is naming all this stuff.....

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Subject: word games and oppression

'It's not fair"
"Life isn't fair"

"Black lives matter"
"All lives matter"

"Women are exploited and marginalized"
'Men get discriminated against too"

"I'm scared to go on the school bus"
"Your sister never had any problems with it"

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If the fascist version of cognitive dissonance is ignoring reality so that you can justify and enact authoritarian measures, the anarchist version is ignoring reality so you can skip from step one to done.

The people that think collaboration can't happen remotely are also the ones who only get their ideas implemented by being loudly wrong and basically a bully. They need face to face interaction because how else will they float around, sprinkling their bad ideas, and pushing for features that both no one asked for and don't meet user's needs.

Police told Winstanley he is not under arrest, but they’re confiscating his devices on the off-chance they can find evidence.

normalisland.co.uk/p/everyone-

Rather than condemn all atrocities and seek justice for the victims, governments try to pretend the atrocities of their allies are acceptable. Only enemy atrocities are "real" atrocities. It spits in the face of the victims and of humanity everywhere.
hrw.org/the-day-in-human-right

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