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Superstar Billy Graham's head looks Photoshopped onto his body, but no! One can build up muscles on your body but not on your head.Comments
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One point in favor of vacations in which you sometimes do boring and pointless stuff: I just fixed a bug that had bothering me for days before we left.Comments
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Today, we went to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. My dad threw it out there as an option without knowing much about it. Tripadvisor says the top three things to do there are to see some magic show, go on a car safari, or walk on the Lake Geneva Shore Path. I did not want to see a magic show or go on a car safari.Comments
The Shore Path turned out to mostly be this narrow strip through rich guys' backyards, peppered with signs warning people to never stray off the path and onto Private Property. The houses were 75% McMansions. There was also a Bible camp.
Geneva Lake (the lake is named Geneva Lake, and the town is named Lake Geneva) could be very enjoyable, but the government allowed private buyers to own all of the coastal land. In effect, they've bought the lake. There's plenty of more insane things going on these days, but bodies of water that large should not be privately owned.
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During his testimony, Hogan said that he and King Kong Bundy had gone to McMahon to tip him off over Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts in 1986.[367][368][369] Hogan later stated "Vince already knew about it, I just said I didn't think it was a good idea. [Ventura] was running his mouth like usual, trying to get everyone on board, everyone knew".[84] This led to criticism; no professional wrestlers' union has been established.[370][371][372]
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Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thoughtComments
This arrangement allowed Malcolm and Haley to shape the narrative of the Autobiography according to their own interests. This is particularly clear in the first two chapters, which were completed in September 1963. The narrative, which covers Malcolm’s childhood and teenage years, makes no mention of his mother’s political work and only briefly mentions his father’s. Both had been activists on behalf of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, a Black nationalist organisation that advocated for the diaspora to return to Africa and build self-sufficient communities. Malcolm was strongly influenced by Garvey’s ideas about race, history and community development, and spoke about them throughout his life. According to acquaintances in New York, he also read communist literature as a young man and occasionally attended party meetings. The Autobiography, by contrast, attributes his political awakening to a single source: the Nation of Islam. In his biography, Marable suggests that Haley encouraged these omissions to simplify the narrative. To Malcolm, meanwhile, they ensured that all credit for his political work went to his mentor Elijah Muhammad.
Despite the criticism in the article, Malcolm did approve the complete draft:Haley finished a complete draft of the manuscript in February 1965. Malcolm was enthusiastic about the text, especially as it offered a potential source of income for his family in the event of his death.
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Facebook still controls the internet and computing in general in a lot of the world.Comments
Meta has a controversial agreement with telecommunications companies that restricts some users on cheaper data plans to using specific apps and sites including those from Meta.
Intencipa and other teachers in Colombia are concerned their students will lose years of basic education, as traditional teaching methods are no longer effective.
“Here, Facebook is the king,” Luisa Cárdenas, a social sciences teacher in Quimbaya, in Colombia’s coffee region, told Rest of World. Her students “simply copy what comes up in the chat, but they’re not capable of analyzing what they’re replicating.” -
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Just now, nice walking around weather finally hit Chicago. We’re wiped from doing stuff in the heat and humidity, and tomorrow, we leave. But it’s all in-character, so that’s fair.Comments
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Whoa, Jollibee’s is intensely oily. Even by fast food standards. I could not finish my chicken. I really wanted to like a place with a name like Jollibee!Comments
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The federal grants that should have come through for the start of the fiscal year.
A court order is actually being followed, and schools are actually getting the money that is legally theirs. - Comments
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2x8 deadlifts, 2x10 kettlebell swings, 8x10 resistance band throws, eleven pull-ups. I was out of sorts today, so I guess a mish mash workout is appropriate.Comments
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