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And still in Texas
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Good sex protects women but not men from cardiovascular risk in later life
Having sex frequently - and enjoying it - puts older men at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems. For older women, however,
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I know I shouldn't post this (or laugh) but I can't resist .....
A pyramid scheme surely involves $money.
- and -
BUT !
The characteristic that prevents the religion pyramid scheme from collapsing (unlike the others)
is that religion takes the $money now, and promises reward in the next life.
That's a scam design impervious to pyramid-scam collapse unless there actually IS a next life.
THEREFORE !
a) If there IS an afterlife, you'll get ripped off.
b) If there is NOT an afterlife, you already have been.
Continue to attend church, BUT !
Don't be "late".
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But it does involve money. Tithing. The collection plate. Etc. And it's a pretty good extortion racket - the mob could take lessons.
But it does involve money. Tithing. The collection plate. Etc. And it's a pretty good extortion racket - the mob could take lessons.
Thank you for corroborating my position.
Worth noting:
pyramid schemes do not collapse because of revenue they derive.
They collapse because their revenue is not sufficient to satisfy their liabilities.
"A fool & his $money, soon parted." cliché
BUT !
We can acknowledge that religion is vulnerable to corruption & incompetence
without asserting throughout its history from the shaman of the cave-dwellers
to our new millennium, that religion has never been of benefit.
Unquestionably there are believers who are too closed-minded to consider change of mind.
There are disbelievers that are just as closed-minded.
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The law said it was protecting women. For some women, that protection came with a pink slip.
In the early 1900s, reformers fought desperately to make American workplaces safer. The need was undeniable. After the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 workers, many of them young women, the demand for labor reform became impossible to ignore.
But some reforms carried an assumption that would soon infuriate the very women they claimed to help: women needed protection whether they wanted it or not.
New York prohibited women from working overnight in certain factories, part of a broader era of protective labor legislation. The reasoning often went beyond workplace safety. Women, especially mothers, were expected to be home at night.
For Ella M. Sherwin, a Buffalo printer and Linotype operator whose newspaper work required nighttime hours, “protection” meant losing her job. She eventually found daytime employment, but it paid less and required longer hours.
She was not alone.
Margaret Hinchey, a transit guard, and Mary A. Murray, a ticket agent, also became casualties of restrictions on women’s employment. Murray’s situation exposed the contradiction brutally. A widow raising five children, she needed work that fit around motherhood. Her ticket-agent position reportedly paid $32 a week. The daytime work she found afterward paid just $18.
The women eventually joined forces through the Women’s Equal Opportunity League, founded by working women who believed reform had crossed a line.
Their argument was remarkably simple: protect workers from dangerous jobs, yes. But if a job was considered safe for a man, being a woman should not automatically make it illegal.
They weren’t fighting against women’s rights.
They were fighting for the right to decide what those rights should look like.
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Christian nationalist propaganda is fueled by misinformation like the quote in this video. America was not founded as a Christian nation, and extremist politicians have no right to force their narrow view of Christianity on American public school chi
Christian nationalist propaganda is fueled by misinformation like the quote in this video. America was not founded as a Christian nation, and extremist politicians have no right to force their narrow...
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And back to Texas
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Anti-lgbtq Republican politicians when no one is looking
Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment
An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the office, in a car and in campaign-paid hotel rooms — and that roughly $200,000 changed hands when the staffer threatened to go...
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150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
Michelle Starr Mon, September 21, 2026 at 6:00 AM GMT-5Following the atomic devastation of WWII, the world found new, more benign uses for radioactive decay. Power plants, medical treatments, scientific research, and industry all blossomed under a benevolent nuclear glow.
But with the nuclear revolution came a significant problem – what to do with all the thousands of tons of radioactive waste generated in the excitement.
For Europe, the solution was relatively simple.
There was a perfectly good seafloor at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that, as far as the authorities were concerned, no one important was using.
So, between 1949 and 1982, that's where it went – more than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste, totaling more than 150,000 tons, mostly dumped at depths between 3,000 and 5,000 meters (9,840 and 16,400 feet).
For decades, no one really knew what had become of them.
Now, scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate – and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor.
150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.
Well, well, well. If it isn't consequences.
What could possibly go wrong ?