Everything is contrived, the human condition is something we ourselves contrived over ten thousand years, Chesse didn't invent itself, neither did mothersday, they deserve it, and thanks for the reminder!

I saw Brizille a while ago and its one of the strangest movies I've ever seen. BTW, retro future means that its a version of the future created in the past. Usually when its clearly been overtaken by events.

You are absolutely right. Right when I started on Stemit I kept telling people to upvote the replies they thought were good, it makes it likelier more good comments will be made. My two highest payouts

If central banks fail whatever caused such a thing would mean that making sure you had gold would be only one of many madmaxian worries you'd be attending to.

I don't know for sure, but there was a point where we certainly weren't counting everyone who took a boat here and got off. I understand the worry from all people who have to compete with legal imigrants

@grey580 Yeah, that's his article for next week.

There's a difference between the power we have and the power we use. When Obama took office his philosophy as regards military action was "don't do stupid shit," so he didn't want to intervene

Well, I'd start with a book called Postwar, a history of Europe Since 1945. The entire narrative of this post is filled with such out their implications and assumtions that I can't even begin to correct

Have you read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie? Its the first in a trilogy. If you like good characterization and worldbuilding I highly recommend. I'm always on the lookout for good books, and I'll check

Cool post. As I've gotten older I've realized that simple things are sometimes more complicated, that the refinement of the self is an ongoing process, and that there's always another box to get out of.

@salamanca1987ar Didn't you know? Those supermarkets are all subsidized by American bankers and were given the power to operate by the CIA.

.@hunterisgreat For starters, Read a fucking book

If I wrote a post about all the good things America has done, the value of that post would be $0.00. Some people get off on conspiracy theories. It is what it is. America, like every country in the world,

At the very least, its currently necisary and I'd argue its more than that but clearly currently necisary is the laziest argument you can make for government. If I had the power to say the name of a country,

Its lucky there was patriotism in the United States or we wouldn't have stopped the Nazi's. And for people upset about how anarchists argue, don't take it personally, this is how communists argue. They

War of 1812 was fought because the British were kidnapping our sailers and forcing them to work on british ships, and because they were saulty about losing the revolutionary war. I don't really give a

Seems like your arguments for beauty contradict your arguments for shitposting. "What needs to stop is this sensationalist talk about what "we should do" and what "we should not"

Well the moms might be crazy, but little kids don't carry around all our baggage so its totally possible, and likely that as long as the kids weren't made to feel awfulthey hey had a great time while it

I agree with the people who say money is screwing with peoples insentives Clearly, for most people Steemit is not a get rich scheme. The idea of monetizing upvotes is a good one, but the only reason I

Is there a link where I can track steem to usd in realtime?