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Marshall

@mpzrd.bsky.social
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old guy, not from around here

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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 11h
didn't I hear Russia is having some sort of trouble with maintaining enough refining capability for it's own needs
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
what are the men getting out of having kids when as soon as kids are old enough to talk to level they have left to forge their own identities someplace else, and don't want to hear it big expense and trouble to go to and be worthless and obnoxious old baggage
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Riverside feeling left out
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
at the store this morning with a hankering for basic Corn Flakes ... found them hiding behind a pillar and they cost a dollar more than anything nearby no respect for tradition anywhere any more
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
that's another problem, nobody drinks enough water 3.7L? www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-life...
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
have you read the Book of Joshua
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
eke is that u
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SINCE gender is multi-dimensional, and gender roles are largely socially constructed, why is it necessary to insist on the "ontological" status of the binary category of "men" and "women". seems to me we ought to put Categories aside and every unique person can Let Their Freak Flag Fly
"The first issue with conceding the ontological claim that trans people are not the gender we say we are is that from a scientific perspective, it is simply not true. Sex is multi-component; chromosomal, gonadal, hormonal, morphological."
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
when you see the Abomination of Desolation standing in the place where it ought not to be, nbd, small price to pay
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.ebay.com/itm/20410274...
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Japanese Kotatsu Table 47.2x29.5 in 120x75cm Heated Low Table 100V Tansu no Gen | eBay
Perfect for staying warm and cozy in winter while functioning as a standard stylish coffee table all year round. This electrical heater operates on AC 100V with a Japanese Type A plug. • Country of Origin: Indonesia (Table body).
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
get the smallest possible heater to put under the blanket. Warming your feet warms your whole body. Japanese make lovely little charcoal burners, but only for use in *very drafty* houses (CO2), electric prob to be preferred
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"the spark of humanity" totally a thing that can be defined and studied
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
assume the conclusion and you can prove the premise, it is known
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the attempted annexation of Kosovo because History, was "Not a civil rights or social justice cause"?? resisting such was def a legit sj cause where I was
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"people who can defend themselves physically in their minds"
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
human thought cannot be represented meaningfully by mere "text", as the longish article referenced makes very logical, thank you for this clarifying addendum
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
took me quite a while to figure out what the issue was
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
thinking in part of R. Daneel Olivaw in Azimov's book, which points to the issue. The prof found my essay not even wrong and so obvs unacceptable nothing more need be said, and she soon made an opportunity to accuse me of plagarism and fail the semester. ...
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this is the exact issue that got me kicked out of Eng 1A at UCB 50 years ago. The prompt was "What would be the difference between a human and a perfect imitation of a human?" I took the line that "perfect" => if you cant tell the diff, it doesn't make a diff and the imitation deserved rights ...
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you're suppressing the immune response the vaccine is designed to induce, are you sure you aren't messing with the target immunity? don't know, asking where this protocol comes from?
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
if you're gonna carry you really gotta be proficient with your weapon, plenty of range time before you walk out it's not a magic wand
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
are you getting Santa Anna winds? It doesn't count as weather until you get the Santa Anna
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you didn't want bench seats any more, you wanted your own exclusive luxury ass cushion, this is how that works
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"an ONTOLOGICAL difference" if you don't think machines can do the Thinking then you need some extracorporeal spices in the human stew, and he's got that well covered, with two thousand years of theology on tap I for one applaud him for saying plainly what so many go to extreme lengths to avoid
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
and conversely, that humans don't have instincts but act "rationally" or at least from their training human essentialism has been a core value of liberalism for quite some time
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
point is, there's a group of people who long ago made up their minds that there's some things that Only Humans Do that not only forbids AI but also animals from having feelings and reacting from being situated, aware of self and world rather than just "behaving" by "instinct"
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
isn't every circle of friends like this?? ... doesn't extend to a non-fascist state-level society tbs
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
similarly, Native Americans off the reservations were referred to as "wild Indians"
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what do you propose as an alternative??? doing somebody a favor creates some kind of reciprocal obligation, like if Fat Sal tells you "I'm gonna do you a Big Favor here", you gotta think what's coming next so it's polite for Sal to wave that off seems to me it's give and take. not emotional state
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
do you mean "PERSONS have rights" or "PEOPLES have rights" there's a lot of trouble being made around the idea that various collectives have specialness for ethic or religious reasons, whereas the facts of whatever matter apply first and foremost to individuals in their individual situations
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
DFCs for tanker boom operators??? "The awards have come at 15 bases, given out to groups ranging from a single fighter pilot in Alaska to 12 tanker pilots and boom operators at a single ceremony at Fairchild Air Force Base"
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"understandable explanations" -Dogen, Maka-Hannya-HaraMitsu
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
that's the Atlantic ... things are jumping in the Pacific
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ekchewily anybody anywhere could be doing it
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what 10 Mb looked like in '74 ... Illiac IV, useful for aerodynamic simulation
Illiac IV data storage
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a lot of you whippersnappers don't realize how popular country was with the youths in the '60s
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
... where "we" is "people who agree with the consensus" and "the consensus" is words we agree with, and people who don't agree and repeat those words are class enemies beneath contempt
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY!!! Join the MAGA Resistance & make your voices heard. Accountability. Is. Coming.
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you don't think resentment goes the other way? even if I don't tell you how much I paid for my starter house
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"[Crooked] Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.” it was a policy choice, the technology is a cover story
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
imagine thinking life was ever otherwise
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
you kids get off my lawn
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
only good can happen
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
yes, it's crazy to be betting money on whatever random shit thinks he's lebron or something
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026
“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent
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Marshall @mpzrd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
personally I would vastly prefer a nice clean assassination to a military takeover
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