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bmacDonald94

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~ Make America Good for Once~
Retired man. Enjoying life to the fullest and especially my friends. I do no cyber coin nor wish to hook up, those games are behind me. No room for hate and I include all as the tapestry of humankind. A weary warrior for peace and a livable world. PhD Geo Physics. I use the Kbuntu flavor of Linux.
Update: New Computer new O/S Now using Ubuntu 22.04. Humor and Empathy
Pronouns: he/him

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Playing for Change
Ripple
The Grateful Dead

https://www.playingforchange.com/videos/ripple-song-around-the-world

ai6yr, to random

Per scanner, they have told anyone not engage with fire to pull back to a safe distance away.

bmacDonald94,
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@ai6yr ~ Where is this?

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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
H. L. Mencken

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"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H. L. Mencken

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"When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent."
Isaac Asimov

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
Isaac Asimov

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Science
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aag2345

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The Nation
This Earth Day, It’s Time to Make Polluters Pay

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/earth-day-2024-polluters-financial-costs/

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Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

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@RickiTarr ~ The name rang a bell and I looked it up. It is a conservation area in Missouri. I found this info 💕
https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/places/saline-valley-conservation-area

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"If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."
Rachel Carson

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Rachel Carson's Detractors cried foul and indeed they are.

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"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept."
Angela Davis

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" We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
Ray Bradbury

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Truly and honestly, I have a great time here, because you all make it great. You boost, you reply, you encourage, and inspire! It is crazy to me that I get to talk to people from all over the world every day. I get to be friends with people I'll probably never actually get to physically meet. I was born into a pre-internet world, and this still feels a little like a miracle to me.

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@RickiTarr ~ I agree. I am a refugee from Facebook and never felt the community I feel here. I have generous and valid help with my linux exploration and just some wonderful times. Be well 💕

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@peterainbow @RickiTarr ~ I have used the Kubuntu version for over 15 years and just last year acquired a Ubuntu Desktop. I will not use Windows or Mac. I am not a programmer, but need some advice from time to time. Plenty of people to help you here. 🙂

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Playing for Change
All Along the Watchtower
Bob Dylan

https://www.playingforchange.com/videos/all-along-the-watchtower-song-around-the-world

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"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Christopher Hitchens

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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
Kahil Gabran

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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Kahil Gabran

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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
Richard Feynman
[This statement was Feynman’s succinct way of telling NASA to clean up its act after the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.}

ai6yr, to NewZealand

NY Times: "New Zealanders Are Crazy for This Fruit. It’s Not the Kiwi.Like the kiwi fruit, the feijoa, or pineapple guava, is not native to the island nation" (GIFT LINK) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/world/australia/new-zealand-feioja-kiwis.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.kk0.tTeV.9m4Uy92yCWKi&smid=url-share

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@ai6yr ~ Much easier to peel. Be well. 🙂

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“I’m going to die one day. I know it’s coming for me, too. I’ll be a mountain; I’ll be a stone on the beach. I’ll be nourishment.”
— Mary Oliver

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What's going on?

Since yesterday, I'm suddenly getting ugly messages from Nazis, transphobes, white supremacists etc.

Of course, I block and report them all, but I wonder: Is it just me, or is the Fedi facing an invasion?

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@mina ~ Mina, you are a target just being you. Blocking works and diligence. I like it here and do not want another Facebook. Sadly, I am block 2 - 3 a day, they proudly boast their fascism and I proudly block. Be well. 💕

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@mina ~ I agree, it had been quite a week with them pounding at my door and I am blocking threads. The moderators must have picked it up because it is once again quiet. Be well. 💕

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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
― James Baldwin

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