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I tried to write an introduction and it was so empty it collapsed inward on itself

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darq,
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I personally prefer spaces where everyone can voice any shit. Censorship is for lazy minds and a dull audience. IMHO.

I always find this take to be remarkably short-sighted.

Because if you actually want to hear diverse opinions, you have to cultivate a space where diverse people, with diverse experiences, feel free to speak.

Pretty much every space that tolerates open bigotry becomes deeply unpleasant for the targets of that bigotry. Which means those people tend to leave.

Which in turn means that those spaces soon turn into the dullest echo chamber, populated only by people unaffected the bigotry. Sure no views were censored. You just harass everybody different off the platform. The net effect is the same.

Massive Martian 'dust devil' filmed by NASA's Perseverance rover is 5 times taller than the Empire State Building (www.livescience.com)

The Perseverance rover has captured footage of an unusually large twister, or "dust devil," moving across the Martian landscape. Based on images of the swirling storm, researchers estimate that it could be more than a mile tall.

Central Florida is a hot spot for leprosy, report says (www.cnn.com)

According to a research letter published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Central Florida reported among the highest rates of leprosy in the United States. The region accounted for 81% of cases in Florida and nearly 1 out of 5 leprosy cases nationwide.

Mysterious purple plume emitted by Portland waste plant Thursday morning (finance.yahoo.com)

A mysterious purple plume that rose above the Portland skyline Thursday morning was most likely caused by a larger-than-normal amount of iodine in the waste stream at ecomaine's waste to energy plant, company officials said. The purple plume, tinged with pink, began rising from a stack at the plant on Blueberry Road in Portland...

Weekly Weird News for 7 July 2023 (sharonahill.substack.com)

Man, it’s a hot one this week. We had record global temperatures for several days in a row. And it’s not even that far into northern hemisphere summer yet. Yuck. Scientific models have been very close to predicting the changes due to global warming but they underestimated the impacts, such as sea level rise and wildfires,...

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