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Mel Gibson has unveiled the first look at “The Resurrection of the Christ,” the director’s long-delayed follow-up to 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ.”
“Part One” has been postponed just a few months, with plans to debut on May 6, 2027. “Part Two” was bumped a year, from May 6, 2027, to May 25, 2028.
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Why is Barack Hussein Obama meeting with world leaders while President Trump is in office?
This is a coup.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Welcome back to Canada, President @BarackObama. Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us.
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I will never understand how 77 million, of our fellow Americans, looked at this imbecile and decided he was qualified to lead our country.
Republicans against Trump@RpsAgainstTrump
Trump: I ended 8 wars. A ninth is coming. Nobody's ever ended one war. Who's ended one? Nobody
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@konstructivizm I don’t think there is anything on this earth life wise that is relevant to a billion years ago - is there anything?... @grok
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Thanks to a large-scale computer model, NASA scientists have pinpointed the exact year of the End of the World.
According to their calculations, the last day on Earth will occur in 1,000,002,021. That's when "deoxygenation"—an inevitable consequence of increased solar flux and atmospheric destruction—will reach its peak (in other words, the Sun will burn our planet to ashes).
So humanity still has at least a billion years to choose a new habitat.

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@Lancegooden 1.) Removable, portable hoops were added to the 1950s Eisenhower-era tennis court, allowing it to function as both a tennis and basketball court. Cost: ten grand.
2.) FDR's small pool was for polio related therapy.
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@wakenminds A system of apprenticeship and guilds can lead to great collaborative achievements but on its own is a flawed model to follow.
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@LasVegasTodd @the_transit_guy Outside NYC would include Boston, Chicago, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto (it's close enough), and to and increasing degree, Los Angeles. All pretty accessible for millions of people via a robust mass transit systems (LA is getting there...)
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@LasVegasTodd @the_transit_guy I ride the train every day. Takes me 45 min to get to work. Driving my car the same distance from south brooklyn to manhattan would take me about two hours.
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@the_transit_guy We have trains in other cities and they all lose money and nobody uses them because its easier to get around with cars.
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@MingoCentralXC @bkattic @archeohistories Stupidity doesn't keep people from working -- we have plenty of rich stupid people. And there are fewer genuinely lazy people than most would assume. Almost nobody physically able is unwilling to do meaningful work.
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@bkattic @archeohistories Bingo. There's a reason they were jobless to begin with. Of course some people fall on hard times but most are either lazy, stupid or a combo of those two. You can fix lazy but stupid you cannot.
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In 2017–2018, Finland quietly ran a national experiment where 2,000 unemployed people were given a guaranteed monthly income with no work requirements, to see how removing conditional welfare would affect stress, motivation, and everyday life rather than employment alone.
From January 2017 to December 2018, Finland conducted one of the world’s first nationwide universal basic income (UBI) experiments. The government randomly selected 2,000 unemployed people, ages 25–58, and paid them €560 per month, tax-free, with no work requirements and no reduction if they found a job.
The goal wasn’t just to see if people would work more. Researchers wanted to measure stress levels, mental health, trust in institutions, and overall well-being when welfare conditions were removed.
The results surprised many critics. Employment levels were only slightly higher than the control group, but recipients reported significantly lower stress, better mental health, improved concentration, and greater life satisfaction. They also expressed more trust in society and public institutions.
Importantly, participants were more willing to accept short-term or gig work because they didn’t fear losing benefits, a common problem in traditional welfare systems.
The experiment cost about €20 million total, a relatively small figure in Finland’s national budget, but it sparked global debate and influenced pilot programs in countries from Canada to Spain and discussions in the U.S.
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