RustyBertrand

Warm air vs. cooler air, ventilation.
Is there some kind of a barrier, similar to an air pressure area, where air only leaks in one direction? Assuming no wind.
There are no ventilation systems inside apartments in Iceland. I like it cold, so I'm probably releasing my "expanding?" cold air into the fire escape and hallways.
I moved the litter box into a warmer room (for plants) and they say the smell dissapeared. With window cracked.
So, the cold(er) air was coming in a window slot, directly over the kitty litter box. Then, everytime I opened my front door, I could feel the vaccum pulling my air into the hall.
So I'm guessing heat sucks at the cold. My smells are the only ventilation source.
And the air was coming from right above a cat pooping place.
Is there math for this?
#smell

2024-12-06 22:22:15 CET

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There may be a downside to having a whole bunch of malignant narcissists in one place.
And maybe an upside...

2024-12-06 22:17:32 CET

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Malignant narcissist cagefight for sure.

2024-12-06 22:00:17 CET

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Musk is acting like world president. In the article, he's calling Zelenskyy to insult him, meeting with Trump's dictator friends, the two are already making deals, which means bribery.

2024-12-06 21:53:07 CET

Look at the greed on his face.
Israel seeks Elon Musk’s influence in resolving hostage situation in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/06/elon-musk-israel-trump-gaza-hostage-deal
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2024-12-05 14:19:12 CET

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to #genocide, Amnesty International report finds
Human rights group says #Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/05/israels-war-in-gaza-amounts-to-genocide-amnesty-international-report-finds?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-12-03 00:23:58 CET

If Hekla goes off before the glaciers rebuild, it will completely cure global warming.
No private planes either. Air not included.
The Ragnarok #volcano, myth-maker, eater of the sun, famine, darkness, war, endless winters, creator of mini ice ages.

2024-12-02 23:39:30 CET

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The search is methodology, the answers arent. They were already there.

2024-12-02 23:20:17 CET

I got into a little scrape, is this normal?
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2024-12-02 21:34:18 CET

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Why not protect #Ukraine?
Because Ukraine is largely Jewish and the Zionists need settlers.

2024-12-02 20:01:37 CET

“The story of villains is much more entertaining than the story of heroes, because monsters are not born, they are made.”
They do not emerge from the void or darkness by themselves, but they are shaped by circumstances, by the wounds of the world around them.
They reflect the deepest of human pain, rejection, loneliness, misunderstanding.
A hero is defined by his acts of bravery, but a villain is the result of a heart that was once pure and ended up corrupted.
The monsters, in their tragedy, show us what could happen to us all, if the world turned its back on us.”
- Mary Shelley

2024-12-02 13:52:09 CET

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I can't pronounce it either way anymore. The word makes no sense anymore.
Does that ever happen to you, repeat a word too much and it starts to get weird.

2024-12-02 13:43:46 CET

All the people I brought over from Twitter are there. 4.7k followers deleted. And I can't contact them. And they cannot see me. I'm unsearchable.
Like, my real friends. Completely cut off. Behind a wall.
Even Twitter didn't do that.
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2024-12-02 03:02:53 CET

“Your exact errors make a music
that nobody hears.
Your straying feet find the great dance,
walking alone.
And you live on a world where stumbling
always leads home.
Year after year fits over your face—
when there was youth, your talent
was youth;
later, you find your way by touch
where moss redeems the stone;
and you discover where music begins
before it makes any sound,
far in the mountains where canyons go
still as the always-falling, ever-new flakes of snow.”
–William Stafford, "You And Art"

2024-12-02 02:52:01 CET

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I wanted to do that here in Iceland. A giant geothermal geodome greenhouse. GGGG.
Hmmm, have to rethink that name. Doesn't quite roll off the tounge.

2024-12-02 02:27:43 CET

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Bird poop?

2024-12-02 01:17:41 CET

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The snow is not from a geothermal, mineral rich underground spring.

2024-12-01 23:28:26 CET

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2024-12-01 22:58:33 CET

Don't forget to send out your Christmas cards before the holiday rush!
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2024-12-01 22:52:07 CET

Another #photo from work during #Reykjavik Snowmageddon 2015.
The pool was packed.
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2024-12-01 19:40:38 CET

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Smurf Jesus?
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2024-12-01 19:08:43 CET

How do we follow back?
#mastodon used to show when someone followed me. I thought I had no new followers, now I see this.
It doesn't say which are mutuals and which to follow back.
I have to click on each individually?
Did they lock something on my account?
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2024-12-01 18:31:47 CET

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It's called Jul here. It coincides with Xmas.

2024-12-01 18:10:50 CET

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Yeah, stealing music in the 90s.

2024-12-01 18:07:19 CET

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Yay!
I love finding new old stuff, can't travel with a TV, untill recently, so I was out of touch, and no TV growing up.
Just seeing the world with a boombox, homemade tapes and a guitar. A double cassete boombox, btw!
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2024-12-01 17:56:37 CET

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Of course my horse.
Hogfather, yes, the book.
Long time ago.

2024-12-01 17:46:54 CET

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Is it good?

2024-12-01 17:40:45 CET

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The Yule lads are projected onto city streets downtown. They slam doors, lick your spoons and steal sausages.
The giant lit up Christmas #Cat in the main square is quite threatening.
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2024-12-01 17:33:39 CET

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That part is in "Dracula Untold", the child abduction "programme", drives Vlad to revenge.
It's kind of good. Not child abduction, the movie.
So you're saying Santa was a Klingon?
Jk
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2024-12-01 09:34:31 CET

Wellness influencers introduce ground breaking trend of boiling your raw milk before drinking it.
Not satire.

2024-12-01 07:53:52 CET

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Nope. The black cat is up instead of a tree. Her 12 sons, one for each day of Christmas are the themes. Grýla's sold everywhere.

2024-12-01 06:38:03 CET

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Several parallels to Grýla exist in the North Atlantic region, and these are generally associated with mumming and disguise traditions.
Terry Gunnell hypothesizes that Grýla may once have been associated with similar disguise traditions in Iceland, although such practices have not survived to the present day.
In contrast to later depictions of Grýla, no explicit mention is made of Grýla's gender. Not all counterparts to Grýla identified by Gunnell are female figures, and it is possible that Grýla was originally conceived of as a male monster rather than an ogress. In one seventeenth-century poem about Grýla, which depicts her as wandering between farms in summer rather than at Christmas, she is described as a #hermaphrodite #mythology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

2024-12-01 06:22:35 CET

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We make up myths because reality is too ugly

2024-12-01 06:12:09 CET

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I'm not used to the bias in articles like this, I guess everything is now put out with an agenda. Its not just information, they repeated Turk so many times that my mind easily switched from Moor to Turk, I tend to repeat words I just read, then notice afterwards. "Hey, I used that word twice in one sentence."
If everything is true, then nothing is true.

2024-12-01 06:05:25 CET

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Anyhoo, he is painted as black.

2024-12-01 05:55:09 CET

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"Saint Nicholas [270-310] was once Bishop of Myra ("Myrrh"), a town now called Demre. Anatolia, the territory of modern Turkey, has been the heartland of human civilization since 7,000 BC. Patara, to the west of Demre, had been visited by St. Paul and St. Luke in 55 AD on their way from Miletus to Jerusalem; perhaps from this early date, a Christian community was established at this major Roman Lycian port."
You're not saying they were white before the war?

2024-12-01 05:51:09 CET

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"Then, if the youngster was really bad, they'd put him in a sack and take him back to Spain."
"Saint Nicholas would kick you?"
"Well, not anymore," Oscar said. "Now he just pretends to kick you."
"And the six to eight black men?"
https://www.stnicholascenter.org/around-the-world/customs/netherlands/sedaris
Lol.
Iceland has evil mother Gryla, she has a giant child eating cat and 12 children, their pajamas look like white Santa's getup. (maybe an origin?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

2024-12-01 05:31:02 CET

Saint Nicholas was a Turk. It is well known. He may have also been a Klingon.
Santa Claus: How a Bearded Black Bishop Born in Turkey Became America’s Favorite White Saint.
https://therealblacksanta.com/teach-the-children
Americans are freaking out about black santa.
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2024-12-01 04:10:16 CET

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2024-12-01 01:16:10 CET

The last bit still cracks me up.
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2024-12-01 00:51:55 CET

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I watched all of Stargate when my dad died. Just needed some comfort. It worked.

2024-12-01 00:00:35 CET

Happy Birthday to Billy Idol who turns 69 today!
#Photography by Ben Cook.
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2024-11-30 23:26:09 CET

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The cop has the cannister or mace. He is spraying a lone Palestinian in the face. The man is simply standing on the side of the road with s flag.

2024-11-30 23:21:42 CET

Meanwhile, in Reykjavík...
Don't stop talking about #Palestine
#Iceland is actively deporting them, during their #genocide.
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2024-11-30 22:01:17 CET

Maybe that's what is so addictive about #StarTrek
They believe women. There is no eyerolling, shaming, the whole THING we have to go through every time we assert ourselves, or want to introduce a new idea.
No weak feminine grovelling voices, trying to keep the peace. Speaking in a high pitched baby voice to avoid the rage of man.
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2024-11-30 21:19:30 CET

More #blacklisting on #Mastodon
#blacklist
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2024-11-30 20:52:32 CET

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Thats the fucking problem. It dissapeared.

2024-11-30 19:41:19 CET

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Snow days.
#Reykjavík #photography
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/573/365/643/356/292/original/9f6fc88d364f3c44.jpg
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2024-11-30 18:51:27 CET

An amazing piece of sculpture by the artist Frances Bruno Catalano, which symbolizes the vacuum created by being forced to leave your land, your life, your people... for any reason.
#exile #occupation
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2024-11-30 18:50:20 CET

J. Marion Sims was a gynecologist in the 1800s who purchased Black women slaves and used them as guinea pigs for his untested surgical experiments.
He repeatedly performed genital surgery on Black women WITHOUT ANESTHESIA because according to him, "Black women don't feel pain.”
Despite his inhumane tests on Black women, Sims was named “the father of modern gynecology”, and his statue currently stands right outside of the New York Academy of Medicine. #BLM
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2024-11-30 16:52:13 CET

No news about the 5 black men that burned themselves alive in a #US prison?
The ultimate #protest
Nada? No liberal outrage?
Damn. Cold fucking regime. #uspol

2024-11-30 16:32:10 CET

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It's paywalled, I've contacted them for a free link. #longcovid

2024-11-30 15:48:02 CET

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#Israel put out a statement yesterday saying new Hamas recruits were running all the aid coming into #Gaza. The only reason they would say that is an excuse to bomb aid centers and trucks.
NEW recruits, so just anyone, known or unknown.

2024-11-30 15:00:18 CET

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Maybe it just means I can't go to jail. Some kind of superpower?

2024-11-30 02:42:36 CET

Tell me something I don't know. Damn.
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2024-11-30 02:33:20 CET

The snow falls gently into the hot pools
The steam tries to push it back up
They forget they are made of the same stuff
I used to be a lifeguard here #photography #Reykavik #geothermal
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2024-11-30 02:15:29 CET

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Its right infront of my face, but in the photo, I see that I never put art in my frames, I just left them how I got them. And I still havent turned my grow light into a #startrek shuttle craft.

2024-11-30 02:00:25 CET

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I grow stuff.
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2024-11-30 01:49:44 CET

3,000 tons of reefer?
Port of Reykjavik, #Iceland
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2024-11-30 01:39:32 CET

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It sent out tentacles made of nerve endings to feel itself up.

2024-11-30 01:15:16 CET

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Lol. It only works with the "mankind" version of "man". Bertrand Russell uses it a lot.
I'm just interested, because it changes the feeling, from narrator, to participant.

2024-11-30 01:09:41 CET

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True. We IS us. Lol.

2024-11-30 01:04:21 CET

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Swapping man for woman:
“And what is an authentic madwoman? It is a woman who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
For a madwoman is also a woman whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.”
–Antonin Artaud

2024-11-30 00:56:26 CET

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It hits harder when you change the he to we.
"The years we have just gone through have killed something in us. And that something is the old confidence we had in ourselves, which always led us to believe that we could elicit human reactions from one another, if we spoke in the language of humanity."

2024-11-29 23:58:25 CET

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Yeah, it feels good, connected somehow. Learn the rythms then anticipate.
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2024-11-29 23:15:48 CET

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most of my good shots are accidental. Lol. Or coincidental.

2024-11-29 23:11:21 CET

Is Trump Cthulhu?
A gigantic entity worshipped by cultists
The source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level
The thing that should not be
A caricature of human form
Will cause worldwide insanity and mindless violence before finally displacing humanity forever
#horror #uspol
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2024-11-29 22:51:00 CET

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This one was during snowmageddon, I was waiting for the bus.
#photography
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2024-11-29 22:20:32 CET

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With this setting you can see where the light is coming from, I was just learning the settings, I still can't get shit in the dark, though Time did post one of my Aurora Borealis pics that time Reykjavik turned off all city lights so people could see the show.
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2024-11-29 22:13:03 CET

Hólavallagarður graveyard
#photography #Reykjavik
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2024-11-29 22:06:10 CET

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Not quite as bad, I guess there is a spectrum. Lol!

2024-11-29 21:21:35 CET

I'd watch this reality show! At least the highlights.
C'mon Biden. If you're really gonna hand a fascist the keys to the deathcamps, at least hide some cameras in their private areas so we can watch the stupidly. The banality of evil.
Like young Kissinger, he overthrew a democracy and installed the Shah of Iran, just to get noticed by his superiors. No reason other than that he could, and didn't like the President's liberal ideas.
Iran, too liberal for a dispicable American operative.
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2024-11-29 20:52:42 CET

Lots of people will go in the pot this year.
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2024-11-24 23:03:34 CET

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Same. Nazis massacred everyone on the bus. My greatgrandma and 8 of her 9 children.
One survived. The youngest. She died giving birth to my mother.
Karelians, "the Exiles." Russia took their land during the Winter War. They fled north, but were then killed by Nazis in Lapland.
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2024-11-24 22:30:51 CET

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Figures are not historic, art is.

2024-11-24 22:05:31 CET

Whatever you do, do not look up what just happened to that 47 year-old billionaire's face. The one who spends 2 million a year trying to reverse his age. The one who's son is his "blood boy."
Like WTF? A fat donor? Any transplant is dangerous, but...
I just cant.
Who are these doctors?
Why did he do a video about it? What world is he in?
Project Baby Face!
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2024-11-24 17:55:27 CET

Can't post with images.
Test to see if words still allowed. #rateLimited

2024-11-24 17:44:52 CET

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It will pass. I have PTSD from coercive control, its a full body reaction to the fear of punishment. They used to burn my diaries and put tape over my mouth for saying the wrong words. #cult #childrenofgod

2024-11-24 17:28:15 CET

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Yeah. So much pain and people have keep attacking me.

2024-11-24 16:51:07 CET

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2024-11-24 16:20:31 CET

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How?

2024-11-24 14:04:07 CET

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I am being deleted here.

2024-11-24 14:03:40 CET

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NO, I AM BEING REMOVED FROM MASTODON AGAIN.

2024-11-24 06:40:04 CET

I believe I will dissapear soon. I guess it's BlueSky.
Is everything really dead?
They won.

2024-11-24 01:19:53 CET

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No problem. I'm the same with left and right.
I played rugby in Sweden and they would yell "left" or "right" from behind me, in Swedish, so I could grab the ball. It blended my brain after awhile and now I always have to do the righty tighty, lefty loosie thing.

2024-11-24 00:24:52 CET

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He actually sounds like this. But it's real.
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2024-11-24 00:14:45 CET

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It really fucks with my head, because I have a mental image of everything, almost the whole world by now, then someone says "inches", I just go blank, of if I look at the wrong side of the measuring tape. Lol.
I can figure it out, but I hate it.

2024-11-24 00:05:55 CET

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I mean Isreal admitted to the phone and pager bombs. This is just the next step.

2024-11-23 23:56:30 CET

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Just a tiny explosive would do it. And they don't have to know till they turn on their masters.

2024-11-23 23:50:47 CET

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Elmo says he already has Navy Seals on retainer, to join him when the shit hits the fan. All those bootlickers would love to protect him for free, but Enron doesn't want to deal with them on a daily basis.

2024-11-23 23:34:50 CET

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Hope their insurance is good.
"Brick 'em Danno"
Have you seen Repo Men?

2024-11-23 23:23:47 CET

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I looked it up. I'm 10 years behind on tech. Sigh.
Some kind of intranet update that fucks with your head?

2024-11-23 23:15:08 CET

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Just replace their ribcages with claymores.

2024-11-23 21:19:18 CET

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2024-11-23 21:02:46 CET

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The gram is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.
Drug dealers do not guess.

2024-11-23 20:58:27 CET

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A liter is a wet kilo. A kilogram 1000 grams, metric system. Same for Kilometers. Greek.

2024-11-23 20:48:15 CET

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Yes. -40°. Inside the arctic circle.