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Interesting little game.

@DefiantLs My family has played this since my childhood. We played it in the ‘60s in Montana as Murder in the Dark. My kids have played it with friends here in Oklahoma where it’s known as Mafia.

The answer doesn't have to be in your head; you can look outside yourself. If you're truly looking at things objectively, you must recognize that the probability of you always having the best answer is small and that, even if you have it, you can't be confident that you do before others test you. So it is invaluable to know what you don't know. Ask yourself: Am I seeing this just through my own eyes? If so, then you should know that you're terribly handicapped. #principleoftheday

I don't need to search the world for things to be concerned about. My concerns are the ones right in front of me: my family, my friends, my town. I get that neocons will neocon. But even a handful of people on the actual right are cheering about Iran. How are house prices doing in America? How about the lost souls wandering the streets of our cities at night, or the conservative families who did everything right but their kids got caught in the trans hideousness anyway? It is the left that, bored with bourgeois life, historically inverted this natural order. Rousseau was all tears and pity about the earthquake in Lisbon, but put his own children in a foundling asylum. John Lennon wanted world peace, but had no contact with his son from his first marriage. The best line in the Tucker Carlson interview of the heretical Mike Huckabee was when Huckabee said that without Iran we wouldn't have the problem on the border with Lebanon, and Tucker responded, the way a conservative would, by saying: what problem on the border with Lebanon? I'm not having a problem on the border with Lebanon. I live in Maine. And we weren't born yesterday: no right winger, observing the American regime, thinks to himself: these people care deeply about the Iranian public. But as our own country crumbles, the temptation to get excited about foreign adventures increases. It's a perverse paradox. I promise you, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin do not steer you right, and they are not steering you right now. If you're on the right, you have an appreciation for the precariousness of the human condition. You certainly do not think: if the regime deposes a man it dislikes, this will lead to a better outcome. You do not know that. History is not kind to that kind of naïveté, and if there's one thing right-wingers are not, it is naive. The true heart of America is not Ben Shapiro but John Quincy Adams (and Henry Clay, and so many others who echoed the same sentiments): "[America] has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. "She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.... "Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. "But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. "She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. "She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."

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The government's intrusion into the healthcare market has led to record stock prices for insurance companies and higher consumer costs, highlighting the unaffordability of the "Affordable" Care Act.

Hurray!

This has been needed for so long!

@Rainmaker1973 Buddy🩷

If this dog was yours, what would you name it?

@Rainmaker1973 Reading

What's the best way?

Rocket reusability isn’t just an optimization - it’s a phase transition. When you throw rockets away, you’re limited by factory throughput (~16 rockets/year). Reuse them, and you enter a different regime of launch volume, economics, and ambition.

My father was an intelligent, funny, complex man who, unfortunately, was also a pedophile, and you have no idea what a blessing it is for you to have a father you can miss when he’s gone. Decades ago, when my daughter was born, the first thought to cross my mind when the doctor said, “It’s a girl!” was, “I’m glad my father’s dead.” I’ve missed the idea of having a dad, but I’ve never missed my father.

It's just my Dad and I in the hospital tonight. I'm gonna tell you what this is like because no one ever told me and I wish they had. It could be hours or it could be days but he is dying. I read this short book called "Gone From My Sight" which lays out step by step every aspect of the dying process. It gave me great comfort. This is natural. In some ways, it is as beautiful as childbirth. That's not what the book said. Just the overwhelming emotion I was left with. He stopped eating almost entirely about a month ago and stopped speaking 4 days ago. I am very fortunate and grateful that he and I had a tear-filled conversation on the last day he will ever speak. It was so beautiful I don't even have words for it. He had withdrawn from me two months ago but that is exactly what dying people do. I just didn't know and I doubt he did either. His eyelids remain slightly open and you can see him looking around as if in a dream state. To me, he is likely reliving fond memories and reconciling any items left undone. He moves when I speak to him but I believe it's just the familiar voice of a loved one that causes him to stir. He is not truly present. A few toes left on earth and the rest of him lifting away from me towards his next chapter. He is not gone. He will not be gone. He will just be gone from my sight. If anyone had told me that the week my Dad died would be one of the best of my life I would've thought they were crazy or sociopathic. But that's what this has been. I've never felt closer to him. I have never felt closer to God. To hold his hand as he dies is life come full circle. He was the first to hold my hand and I will be the last to hold his. I have done my duty as his Son and he did a great job as my father. Don't get me wrong. It hurts. Terribly. But only because the bond runs so deep. I love you Dad. It's OK for you to go.

@dom_lucre Wonderful photo!

Conservatives does this video of Black women with guns offend you?

@johnkrausphotos Wonderful photo!

Not AI.

We Found the Hidden Reason Car Insurance Rates Have Skyrocketed youtube.com/shorts/PAfjQKT… via @YouTube Anything that is not evaluated by a real person creates its own disasters.

@otherside_X42 Jazz it up, SpaceX!

Oh God it's all over the screen literally

@catturd2 I’m 65. Beat you.

Good morning X. It’s my 61st birthday. Yes, I’m old.