JThomasAlbert
Call me Tommy.
Graphic designer stuck in the Florida panhandle, Tabletop gaming enthusiast, he/him, the good kind of weird
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- Harold von Braunhut. Jewish-American novelty salesman. Creator of the name "Sea Monkeys" for selling brine shrimp as pets. He also invented many of the novelties you could order from comic books. He became a White supremacist and supported the KKK and Aryan Nation.
- Gary Dahl is a better guy. He invented the Pet Rock and used the profits to open a bar, He named the bar, "Carrie Nation's Saloon" after the founder of the Temperance Movement that led to the Prohibition era.
- Raising children accounts for a 17% loss in lifetime wages for women and poverty is disproportionately experienced by single moms. Let's recognize on Mother's Day just how important universal basic income is to supporting all moms and recognizing all their unpaid work that's essential to society.
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- Pronatalists are eugenicists. They only believe their "superior" genes should be passed along. They want to fertilize their "superior" ova with their "superior" sperm and have them implanted into surrogate mothers who will do all the labor of raising the child.
- It’s disrespectful to call them kids. They’re altar boys.
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- An angry ghost is preferable to a disappointed one.
- The Republican plan to rip away Medicaid from tens of millions of Americans has hit an unexpected challenge: from the far-right. From Steve Bannon to Laura Loomer, there are warnings that MAGA voters will revolt at the cuts. My write-up: buff.ly/LRLOira
- This feels like "good cop/bad cop." Neither cop has your best interests in mind.
- American kleptocracy
- The latest episode of "Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)" is quite disturbing. It lays out how crypto is used for criminal activities and how getting Trump and crypto-friendly Senators & Representatives into power was part of a massive plan to empower crypto and scam us all out of our money.
- two is just carelessness
- if I owned an F/A-18 Super Hornet I could easily prevent it from falling into the ocean www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
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View full threadmmm, I think it would be too hard to pull off fake-sinking a plane off an aircraft carrier, too many witnesses as to the *why* of it all, that’s above my paygrade
- I'm sure incompetence is the most likely cause, but the chance it's not is above zero percent.
- Or maybe they sent them somewhere they don't want anyone to know about?
- if I owned an F/A-18 Super Hornet I could easily prevent it from falling into the ocean www.cnn.com/2025/05/06/p...
- . . . Are they reporting them lost overboard then selling them on eBay?
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- Has the "Why don't we try appeasing the authoritarians?" strategy ever worked out well for anyone? Outside of BDSM play, I mean.