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Police Think They Seized $60 Million in Bitcoin

5 Feb 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Lorren

There, fixed that for you. I read an article today with the headline “Police seize $60 million of bitcoin! Now, where's the password?” If they don’t know the password, have they really seized all that Bitcoin? My answer is: no. A man in Germany fraud...

Satire | D'Amelio sisters, Addison Rae, and more influencers sue Boston Dynamics over robot dogs

5 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments SocraticDingo

Addison Rae (left) Boston Dynamics robot dog (right) NEW YORK — Charli and Dixie D'Amelio, Addison Rae, Jannat Zubair Rahmani, and other prominent TikTok influencers filed a class-action lawsuit against Boston Dynamics. The complaint sta...

Getting some context: Latin America and Cryptos

5 Feb 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Kazna

   I'm from Argentina. A century back in time was a potential land to achieve anything an everything, but we've missed our path as a society. Some of this is happening with Latin America in general, being ruled by thieves, by people who, in open mics...

Almost Done with my First Week of Work

5 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95

While work this week did not start off as I had hoped over the course of the week that has changed. Some things though are hard to get used to on Capitol Hill. In the morning showing up to work you see a couple of National Guard members but for the m...

Had you told me 15 years ago that in 2020 and 2012 I would be....

2 Feb 2021 1 minute read 5 comments LyonCoDad

I just can not say I saw ANY of this coming! Had anyone told me back in 2015 that in 2020 and 21: Bo Duke would be a social commentator I respect... (https://youtu.be/-BCn3TKtyzQ) Earthworm Jim's creator would also make that social commentator respe...

"Confucianism view of divorce"; another old paper I wrote...

1 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments LyonCoDad

Confucianism view of divorce To properly understand the Confucianism view of divorce requires a short look back at the view of marriage. Marriages are usually arranged by the father of the groom who approaches the father of the bride and the marriage...

Will Depopulation Change The Face of the Western World?

31 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Lorren

The cost of living has made it difficult for Millennials, and now Gen Zs, to get an apartment and eventually buy a house on their own, at least in the United States. When I lived in Italy more than a decade ago, the story was similar. A recent articl...

Ebenezers Scrooged: More than Just Memorials Is at Stake

30 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments LyonCoDad

Dr. B.J. Ward writes: “Monuments are an important part of history. They are books that never go out of print and require no new editions to bring them up to date. They are the milestones of the centuries, the oracles of the ages. They inspire the you...

Another Day that Should Live in Infamy

30 Jan 2021 4 minute read 1 comment LyonCoDad

"If we called December 7th , 1941 – a day when 2,403 Americans lost their lives in Japan's sneak attack at Pearl Harbor--- “a day that will live in infamy,” then what should we call January 22th, 1973 –of that miscarriage of justice known as Roe vs W...

School Shootings A Matter of the Heart

30 Jan 2021 3 minute read 0 comments LyonCoDad

"Our nation is a nation that currently seems to be plagued by so many social problems, among them racial strife, an opioid crisis, and a multitude of school shootings. A news program I was recently watching stated that there had already been twenty s...