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It's all well, and good for them to decide for themselves not to have IVF. It's a whole other matter for them to decide what medical procedures other people have.

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They haven't voted, yet.

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You are most welcome.

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Cool, another fine. Where's that Piped bot when you need 'em? Ah, here it is on Invidio.us (https://invidious.materialio.us/watch?v=8BXoYYwwCFw)

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Oh Honey!

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Sheldon Adelson's widow. yeah, this all makes way too much sense. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient in 2018, from . The wikipedia pic of her shows solemnly placing the medal around her neck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Adelson

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Opting out is easy. Come to Pixelfed, they sure as hell aren't IG.

https://pixelfed.org/servers

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Georgia, the country. Not that it's any better that this bill became law.

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Yes, but that's another discussion entirely. And it's why they are so much fun to hang with. Little Five Points FTW!!

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Both Georgia the country, and Georgia the state of the United States are located on planet Earth. I wanted to make clarification to save people trouble. Is that not ok, with you?

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That's right friends, those Sea-monkeys (https://www.sea-monkeys.com/) you raised as children, it's a fact that this is a major part of Barbie's diet.

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Smae!!! LoL

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Oh yes, please!!

“The fact, I think, that he has no remorse – quite the opposite, he continues to deny his guilt – is going to hurt him at sentencing,” said Jeffrey Cohen, an associate professor at Boston College Law School and a former federal prosecutor in Massachusetts. “It’s one of the things that the judge can really point to that everybody is aware of — that he just denies this — and can use that as a strong basis for his sentence.”

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Anytime one can make or use a portmanteau is a good time. Ain't nobody got time for all those syllables.

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"Tis a narrow mind than can think of but one way to spell a word."

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:-( I wanted an audio link.

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I was imagining something amazing. Drum and Sax like Morphine used to play.

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I caught them live once. Truly the Epic Band of Bass!

Venmo/ Paypal Alternatives (kbin.run)

I've long been annoyed that everyone, including myself uses Paypal/ Venmo for moving money around. What alternatives do you find useful? Here's a list (https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/). GNU Taler looks viable (https://taler.net/en/index.html). I would love to have your thoughts!...

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I've seen Zelle recommended. And as it turns out my bank uses it, as well. From Alternativeto:

License Model: Free, Proprietary
Platforms; Android, iPhone

Zelle® has partnered with leading banks and credit unions across the U.S. to bring you a fast, safe and easy way to send money to friends and family. Money moves quickly - directly from bank account to bank account.

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I like GNU Taler because it's privacy preserving for the customer, is Free, Open Source, and is self hosted. And also because it's not a new/ different currency.

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I'm annoyed by Paypal, Venmo (and other similar vehicles) because they use what should be a simple process (one person giving money to another person) to invade our privacy and to siphon value towards billionaires. I'd rather be able to transfer funds with the simplicity and precision of giving the person standing before me a 'fiver'. And without someone else making bank off the transaction, for clarity's sake.

KYC defined: "The Know Your Client (KYC) or Know Your Customer (KYC) is a process to verify the identity and other credentials of a financial services user. KYC is a regulatory process of ascertaining the identity and other information of a financial services user." https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/wealth-management/know-your-client-kyc/

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Hellifiknow. I'm just some frog on the intarwebs who wants to learn. :-) Can someone elaborate on GNU Taler?

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FedNow looks very interesting.

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Thank you, that's most helpful. And no I won't take your words blindly. Trust, and verify. :-) I'll need to make sure my bank/ credit union is on with GNU Taler, tho' it sounds unlikely, at this time.

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And there are no ongoing studies, clinical trials, etc regarding the existence or non-existence of god. And of course this IS a "shitpost".

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"Eugene V. Debs ran, but didn't win.", Captain Obvious. May the next person to run from jail have similar results.

Eugene V. Debs was in an Atlanta penitentiary, serving a ten-year sentence, when he lost the 1920 presidential election. Two years earlier, Debs, a labor leader, had spoken out against America’s involvement in World War I. He was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, after the prosecution argued that his antiwar speech obstructed military enrollment. The 1920 loss didn’t come as a surprise to Debs, who had run four times before. His fifth and final run, promoted with a campaign button that read “For President Convict No. 9653,” brought him nearly one million votes, says Claire Jerry, curator of political history at the National Museum of American History. President Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/run-president-prison-ask-smithsonian-180974594/

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Not Today, Satan! But let's do lunch later in the week. ;-)

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I hope we don't find out what happens when a convicted felon, insurrectionist gets elected to serve. Would he have to serve from prison? None of this makes sense. We live in the stupidest timeline.

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The "extreme" rarity you claim for charging stations is a myth, possibly propagated by the petrol industry. Plugshare offers accurate information regarding the location of charging stations (https://www.plugshare.com/). And the cool thing about that is there are both commercial and home/ office stations, with more coming online all the time. It's kinda good that EM bobbled the supercharger thing, so it encourages more groups to start providing chargers. The great thing about Plugshare and ABRP (abetterrouteplanner.com/) is that it makes it very easy to see and plan for your next charge. Tho' I do agree that the way to go is make the E-charging cheaper, not to make the petrol more expensive, yet.

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LoL, our power company has a 'pilot program' for EV charging overnight, the price drops to $0.03/kW as a way of encouraging off peak charging. A decent sized EV battery has 77kWh. 77x 0.03 = $2.10 for a full charge. Just sayin'.

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Like 99.9% will be less than 300/d. And one can charge at home, with a 120v or 240v cable. It takes longer than a DCFC, but functionally one arrives home, plugs in, and forgets about it till one needs to drive somewhere. Home charging is being about 1x/wk, for my family. And as much as I like my EV, I frequently remind myself that every hour driving is an hour that I'm not biking.

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LoL, and I would never suggest buying a new car. They lose too much value just driving off the lot, and in the first 2 years. I'm not sure what the current 'sweet spot' is, but unless one is 'fuck you rich' I couldn't understand why buying a new car makes sense.

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A good point. Apparently this is the case. Mechanically speaking they are much simple vehicles, even if they have all the fancy bells and whistles. I so would love to see a Toyota Hi-Lux EV, with manual windows, and the simplest most basic, just move shit around in 3D. Simple, light weight, and efficient. BYD is attempting to drive things (pun intended) in that direction.

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Sounds like a lovely place to visit. Unarmed, naturally.

Atelopus-zeteki,
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Thank you Justice Kagan!

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Shhhh, don't get them started.

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fibreglasses

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Jeanburgers?

Atelopus-zeteki,
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eek!

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And contempt.

Atelopus-zeteki,
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LoL

Atelopus-zeteki,
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Given the opportunity, will actively make everything worse. "Could" implies that there might be any other possibility, which is absolute nonsense.

Atelopus-zeteki,
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LoL, not broke, just don't want to appear to be too wealthy when those defamation lawsuits start calling.

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Energy is neither created, nor destroyed, only changes form. With the 'heat death' of the universe, all the heat spreads out evenly, so it's pretty danged cold by our standards of such things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

"If the curvature of the universe is hyperbolic or flat, or if dark energy is a positive cosmological constant, the universe will continue expanding forever, and a heat death is expected to occur,[3] with the universe cooling to approach equilibrium at a very low temperature after a long time period. "

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I liked when they called it the Great Gnab, as it's the reverse of bang.

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Inconceivable!!

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