Category: Fucking obvious idea
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Every premature death is a tragedy.
Fatalities by type on a single day in the USA. Road vehicles 88 * Suicides 53 * Guns 30 * IED 3 ** * every single fucking day ** one-off Sources: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html
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A basic fucking income
The whole point of the industrial revolution was more leisure time and better use of resources, right? Well that didn’t work very fucking well did it? Rather than enjoying abundance and sharing the work around we just have more unemployed people. This is about to get much worse. Much, much worse. One word for you:…
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The peaceful populations of North Korea, Israel, Pakistan, and Iran might like to get their shit together into a velvet revolution right about now.
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You have to stop being wrong before setting the world to rights.
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Don’t let your possessions possess you.
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Try not to fly.
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What incredible shit we put up with most of our lives. The domestic routine. The stupid and useless and degrading jobs. The insufferable arroagance of elected officials. The crafty cheating and slimy advertising of the businessman. The tedious wars in which we kill our buddies instead of our real enemies back home in the capital. The foul diseased and hideous cities and towns we live in. The constant petty tyranny of automatic washers, and automobiles,and TVs and telephones. Oh Christ what intolerable garbage and utterly useless crap we bury ourselves in day by day.
Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire.
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The very fact that the word ‘misanthropy’ exists is quite a statement.
Though it’s also a high-five for the richness of language that we have a word to describe this.
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Egypt: have a National Day of Psychonautics and then hurry up and write your constitution. It’ll be fucking brilliant and you can show the world that a renaissance built on peace, love, forgiveness, and togetherness is not only possible but incredibly potent.
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Regulate the press, food industry, banks, energy companies, rail companies, utility companies, and every one else who does important work which they seem to fuck up if left to their own devices.
Or just make it simple, change the basic rules and set us on a good course for the future, and make triple bottom line accounting the norm.