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Reply to comment by Golluk in An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire. by Chino_Blanco
I think that's accurate. The book of Mormon is fan fiction of the sequels of the Torah.
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Reply to Bloomberg: Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System. Plastic wrappers and parcels that start off in Americans’ recycling bins end up at illegal dumpsites and industrial furnaces — and inside the lungs of people by ombx
Plastic can't be recycled. It can only be buried in landfills. Please don't put plastic in the recycling bin, it contaminates the batch.
The solution is to carbon tax plastic manufacturing. They'll switch to more sustainable packaging if it's too expensive to profit off of making landfill.
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Reply to comment by typhoidtimmy in TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival was only active for four years (1968-1972), with seven studio albums. They still hold the record for most singles (nine) to reach the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 without ever scoring a #1. by Torley_
I'm sure you're right. It's just my personal gut feeling, it doesn't have meaning for anyone but me, probably.
That said, a bunch of white boys from the Bay Area don't get to claim they're not fortunate sons. Just saying.
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Reply to comment by Liesthroughisteeth in TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival was only active for four years (1968-1972), with seven studio albums. They still hold the record for most singles (nine) to reach the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100 without ever scoring a #1. by Torley_
I also grew up listening to them, and there was just something...off with CCR to me. A friend bought tickets to Forgery in the 80s, I went with him, and it still didn't pass a smell test, but I couldn't figure out what or why.
After watching the Netflix doc, everything fell into place and I was finally at peace with my gut instinct. They were fakes. They grew up in well-off families outside of San Francisco, but their songs made us think they were poor bluesmen "Born in the Bayou."
His affected persona shone through in his vocal phrasing and lyrics. I'm not saying I don't still listen to CCR. I'm just saying I couldn't put my finger on that internal nudge I got from them, and then last year I finally fingered it.
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Reply to comment by BrassBass in Louisiana's juvenile detention centers filled to capacity; state asking judges to let some out of jail by InflationOk300
Correct, it's about profiting off of childhood trauma and poverty cycles. It's itself an act of criminality on par with war crimes. If a foreign nation was caught doing this to our kids, we would declare war on them.
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Reply to comment by lucyjayne in In win for butterflies and loss for Texas Republicans, feds move to protect rare plant by Happy_Traveller_2023
Lol, exactly. Today's GOP has the same intentions and agenda for America as our foreign enemies.