Yes, I'd like to pay nearly $200 for shipping of a $30 thing. Or free shipping that will arrive on the same day.

I was going to adopt her, but I just lost a dog and I'm dealing with a bunch of other shit that takes priority. I'm totally trying to find her a home though.

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BOB’S PETS / PIRANHA $29.95

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While their owners sleep, nervous little dogs prepare for their day.

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ESPRESSO

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Florkofcows.com

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“Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.”

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Scientist hell

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PSYCHICS ASTROLOGISTS & MEDIUMS

ETERNAL DISCUSSION GROUP

PISCES

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The Estonian Festival Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Järvi, is on tour in China and was scheduled to perform at Wuxi Symphony Hall, in eastern China, with the local orchestra on October 23.

The Wuxi orchestra toured Russia last year as part of an official China-Russia Years of Culture event and has performed with the Russian National Orchestra.

After learning about their partner's background, the Estonian musicians refused to take part in the joint concert.

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The cancellation could cost the Estonian Festival Orchestra hundreds of thousands of euros, although the exact amount is not yet known.

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According to the Estonian musicians, going ahead with the concert would have conflicted with their principles and caused irreparable reputational damage.

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Patriot Act Titles

• Title I: Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism
• Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures
• Title III:
  • International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-terrorist Financing Act of 2001
  • Bank Secrecy Act Amendments and Related Improvements
• Title IV: Protecting the border
• Title V: Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism
• Title VI: Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families
• Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection
• Title VIII: Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism
• Title IX: Improved intelligence
• Title X: Miscellaneous

See also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Patriot_Act
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_the_Patriot_Act
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001 - similar law passed in the UK the following month
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act - followup passed by Obama in 2015 to make permanent some aspects of PATRIOT which were due to sunset

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/41313938

I'm here with a new community for you folks. It's dedicated to games created without using genAI. I'll be sharing games that I find myself, and I encourage anyone interested to do the same.

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“Egad! It’s Professor DeArmond—the epitome of evil amongst butterfly collectors!”

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The idea at the core of the book, published in 1976, was thrillingly simple: that a living organism is just a gene’s way of making more organisms that can carry the gene down the generations.

Back then, The Selfish Gene seemed pretty harmless. Dawkins’s ideas tracked with mainstream sociobiology. It was a popular book that covered exactly the sort of ideas that my lecturers were already teaching.

Re-reading it now, with decades of scholarship in the history of biology under my belt, it seems less benign. The determinism baked into the “gene’s-eye view” in the book troubles me, as does the passivity of the organism in Dawkins’s telling — a “vehicle”, a mere “replicator”. The implication: that traits such as aggression are hard-wired into people. Fortunately, over the past couple of decades, new tools, fresh models and scholars in many disciplines have begun to embrace the complex reality of biology. Readers in search of an understanding of life on Earth today would do better to reach for books that take a broader view.