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\nStay calm. Don’t panic until they send in RFK, Jr and or Dr. Oz, then panic.
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\n\nElon Musk’s DOGE henchmen eliminated the staff and programs to monitor and prevent screw worm. Now we have screw worm outbreak.
\n\nThe cattle industry should sue Musk personally.
\n\nMeanwhile, we have only Trump to deal with this new screw worm plague. Think about that. Doom.
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The electricity used by AI data centers is nothing compared to the power used by all the sump pumps the giant Florida mansions of billionaires use trying to keep these places dry.
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\n\nI think we need to put some major limits on how many pardons the President can give out to anybody, but especially convicted criminals. No President, of any party, should be handing out trainloads of pardons.
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\nI’ve heard the song many times, love it, but I just saw this official video for the 1st time today and the dancing is just astounding. A must watch if you have not seen it.
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\nHeadlines: Texas says Trump dropped the ball on screwworm outbreak and it will (yet again) raise beef prices. You know it’s bad when Texas blames or says anything critical about Trump.
\nForget buying beef, eat Soylent Green instead.
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\n","url":"https://talqix.cloud/bradenslen/91745595","date_published":"2026-06-08T09:32:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad Enslen ","url":"https://ramblinggit.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F08%2F8742.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bradenslen"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-08 09:32","date_timestamp":1780911130,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91728496","content_html":"Read: RIP Anthony Head: Our 10 favorite moments of Buffy‘s Giles | Ars Technica
\n","summary":"","url":"https://ramblinggit.com/2026/06/07/read-rip-anthony-head-our.html","date_published":"2026-06-08T00:57:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Brad Enslen ","url":"https://ramblinggit.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.talqix.cloud%2Favatars%2F2025%2F08%2F8742.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bradenslen"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-08 00:57","date_timestamp":1780880246,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@bradenslen/116711768805986541","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cisej7mll4x4ff33ip4g7kgo/post/3mnqhzqilps2r"]}},{"id":"91704756","content_html":"10 out of 10 cats completely ignore AI.
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\n\nI’m noticing how many XTwitter and YouTube posts are titled “They lied to us” or are about how science or doctors or engineers, etc were all wrong and yet this one simple thing solved the problem they could not.
\n\nBeware: when you see that we are being manipulated.
\n\n#darkpatterns
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\n\nOur Founding Fathers didn’t anticipate that we would have a total bounder as President, a spineless Congress (both Parties) bought off by the wealthy and a corrupt Supreme Court majority all at the same time. It’s a perfect storm.
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\nTried to get a haircut this AM but the place was closed for remodeling. Drove around looking for another haircutting joint with no luck. Went to ACE Hardware and bought caulk and weedkiller so the trip and expensive gasoline burn, wasn’t completely wasted.
\nSigh.
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\nIMO both are right in that everything is broken and the old definitons no longer work. The problem is the different sides disagree on who to blame. And it gets more complicated because we have an entrenched two party system and the elites of both parties are to blame.
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\n\nAt least New Mexico is moving forward.
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\n\nLizard men?
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\nWhat strikes me is that there is dissatisfaction with The Establishment from both the Right and the Left throughout many parts of the Western world, not just the US.
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\nJust think, soon they will be New and Improved with built in advertising.
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\nBack in the day, the attraction of cable TV was no ads, and then ads slowly trickled in. Same with streaming I guess.
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