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Writer / Reader / Jack of All Trades
OBX, USA Katılım Kasım 2010
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@night_hawk1984 @TheXReportCard @DeshawnAdams18 Micks, Dagos,Wops, Polacks, Gypsies. They were other. They were “not white”.
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@msmithobx @TheXReportCard @DeshawnAdams18 It’s a pretty simple question, sweetheart. What race were they considered to be before they started “emulating whiteness” as you frame it?
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An initial impression listening to ATC audio — it would appear one controller was simultaneously working ground and directing aircraft (as evidenced by go-around instructions to Delta flight after accident).
This raises serious concerns about staffing.
Thenewarea51@thenewarea51
Pure chaos at LGA - LaGuardia, NY just now. The airport is closed. It sounds like a vehicle has collided with an airplane. Audio via @theATCapp
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NY Times has essentially confirmed that Israel played a role in stimulating the violent regime change riots that left around 3000 dead in Iran this January 8 and 9, but which were marketed in the West as pro-democracy protests.
It was well understood by the Mossad that those riots would help stimulate military action by Trump.
Israeli intel merely needed to convince the feeble-minded president that a wave of decapitation strikes would unleash a massive upheaval to immediately topple the Islamic Republic. The January riots were presented to Trump as a preview of what was to come.
Western media, including the NY Times and The Guardian, played a central role in legitimizing Israel's deception by falsely characterizing the violent regime change riots as mere protests, massively inflating the death toll and covering up the fact that many were murdered by the Israel-backed rioters themselves
The whole of Western media and the Western human rights industrial complex deliberately misrepresented the real character of those riots. But now that the war they helped to instigate is going badly for the US and Israel, that same media is now free to reveal a few kernels of truth.

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This is why California Democrats are freaking the F out. Chad Bianco is polling number 2 in the latest poll for the governor’s race.
Not only has he seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election, he’s an election denier and had ties to the Oath Keepers, which he acknowledged years ago.
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Did you know Goodwill made $2.1 BILLION in revenue last year?
They pay executives 6-figure salaries.
They pay workers sometimes less than minimum wage via a legal loophole.
They get their inventory donated for free
then sell it back to the public.
The thrift store for “poor people” is one of the most profitable nonprofits in the country.
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@msmithobx @TheXReportCard @DeshawnAdams18 So Irish people “emulated whiteness”and then one day they were considered white? What color were they considered before that happened?
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10 reasons Israel is NOT a Jewish state:
Jews worldwide don’t vote there.
They don’t choose its leaders.
They don’t live under its laws.
No state can represent people without consent.
Israel represents Israelis not Jews worldwide.
Judaism is a faith, not a nationality.
Jews existed for thousands of years without a state.
Zionism is modern politics, not Judaism.
Criticizing Israel is not antisemitism.
Jews represent themselves.
Stop confusing Judaism with Israel.
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@Tazerface16 I seriously want to be a fly on the wall at the Joint Chiefs right now. The stupidity of not just doing this, but telegraphing to the world that we’re doing this?
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Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart.
Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel.
A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states.
A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely.
Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help.
The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives.
A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently.
In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.
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reading books on a phone and reading paperback books are two different things
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The big story here is Sturgill debuting at #3, the first physical only release to reach the top 10 in 9 years. (!!!).
billboard@billboard
Harry Styles Spends Second Week Atop Billboard 200 With ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’ billboard.com/music/chart-be…
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@AvivaKlompas Israel HAS been doing this in Palestine for years. And is currently doing it in Lebanon. Sit down and shut the fuck up.
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