Dwayne

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Dwayne

Dwayne

@dwayneassis

Virginia, USA Katılım Mart 2009
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Dwayne
Dwayne@dwayneassis·
@RoryDuncan1966 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
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not to alarm anyone but is anyone else worried about how fucking stupid everyone is ?
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Acclaimed Journalist@Jonathan_Witt·
They’re making people wear masks on that ship. We learnt absolutely nothing. It will all happen again, mark my words.
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Robert Lufkin MD
Robert Lufkin MD@robertlufkinmd·
I'm not a Republican nor a Democrat and this is not a political channel. But I am enjoying the amazing creativity of the LA mayor's race campaign ads. They are off the charts. Is this the future of politcal campaigns? (and Hollywood)?
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Acclaimed Journalist@Jonathan_Witt·
Massive trade imbalance could be fixed if we just drilled for the oil and gas right beneath our feet. That would also create hundreds of thousands of jobs and cause huge economic growth. Buying solar panels and batteries from China to replace the oil we buy is silly.
Michael Jordaan@MichaelJordaan

SA’s crude oil and fuel imports are valued in the range of R250–350 billion ZAR per year. Massive trade imbalance could be fixed if more cars become electric and we can use our own fuel resources, including the sun.

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Jack
Jack@jackunheard·
If you’re a man driving a jeep wrangler with 20+ rubber ducks on your windshield, you shouldn’t have the right to vote.
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Frontierism@frontierism·
Red button pushers are the same ones returning shopping carts btw
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Geordin Hill-Lewis@geordinhl·
♻️ Jakkalsvlei Clean Up: Our teams are cleaning the canal alongside Langa and Bonteheuwel ahead of winter, as they do regularly. Illegal dumping of tyres, furniture and trash clogs this waterway and causes local flooding. ❌ ☎️ We need your help to report illegal dumping: 0860 103 089
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Dwayne@dwayneassis·
@alx @AlexanderSoros Imagine if he worried about actual minorities in South Africa 🇿🇦 with the same gusto 🤔
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ALX 🇺🇸@alx·
@AlexanderSoros Stop treating minorities like they’re disabled or something. Shouldn’t they be treated like regular humans? You people think they’re so dumb that they can’t even figure out how to get an ID. Stop with the bullshit.
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сняis сндмеLеои
сняis сндмеLеои@chrischameleon·
the idea of ‘lives barely worth living’ is a typically elitist projection. for these people the living conditions of those they deem ‘lives barely worth living’ are intolerable to the extent that they would make their own lives ‘barely worth living’. however, those whose ‘lives are barely worth living’ demonstrably don’t want to not live, they do their best to keep death at bay and, this is a big and, often have more joy and meaning than those who deem their lives barely worth living.
DannyCanTalk 🌈@dannycantalk

We had so much fun with the red & blue death buttons and Newcomb's money boxes, so let's do The Repugnant Conclusion. Can a world full of people whose lives are barely worth living be better than one where everyone's doing great, simply because the less happy world is bigger?

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Jack
Jack@jackunheard·
Zohran: Everything will be free *4 months later* Zohran: So, we ran out of money
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Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.
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Dwayne@dwayneassis·
@RynoJvVuuren Boet, you can’t braai in peace without one of these damn things shrieking at you!
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