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I don’t believe ACAB. But I understand how anyone who has repeatedly witnessed or been victimized by the actions of corrupt cops would. And let’s be clear: The “few bad apples” assessment is bullshit. The problem isn’t a handful of rogue individuals responsible for isolated incidents. The issues are institutional and systemic. You take an
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Yes, they are a little bleak. These aren’t my hopes or wishes. Just how I think the upcoming year will play out. And if I get half of these right, I expect to be hailed as a most perspicacious profit.
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I’ve never felt compelled to write an Amazon review of anything. Until now.
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If you really want the world to know how banal and unimaginative you are, please post more slop. Start by replacing a word in some common term or cliché with an inelegant near-rhyme befitting a drunk toddler. Then throw that drivel into your nearest AI garbage maker and crap it out into the vapid ethersphere
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“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”– John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics, Temple University Change is inevitable. Sometimes, we initiate it, with intention and agency. Often, however, it is foist upon us by circumstances beyond our control. And with that sort of change
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I can’t sleep. I can’t, because when I close my eyes, my defenses drop. The distractions cease, the denial fades, and I’m gripped by the horrifying realization of just how fucking crazy it all is. How impossible. How… surreal. Sometimes I feel like I’m the one who has gone crazy, not this country or more
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What I love are ideas. Thick, rich, meaty ideas that envelope and consume me. Ideas into which I can disappear. Expansive ideas that spill out and flow through other ideas; not so much interconnecting as intertwining, interweaving, breathing in tandem as a nascent life. Sometimes, these unions manifest as puzzles, with distinct elements that join
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I once read that the best way to kill a fly is to come at it from two directions at once. Flies have very small brains and can’t process a lot of simultaneous information. When presented with too much and/or conflicting data, its primitive nervous system overloads and momentarily freezes. This also reminds me of
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Rain has come to break this pernicious spell and disperse the hazy swelter we’ve worn like a hairshirt for weeks on end. Heavy and dense is the morning canopy that shields us from the vengeful sun. Even a brief reprieve is welcomed. A moment to breathe. A rejuvenating respite. I love the rain. For reasons
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