A Dream Like Mine: Archive

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Did you know, if you could bore a hole between any two points on the surface of the Earth, maintain a vacuum in the tunnel, and run a mag lev train through there, you could travel from one end to the other solely using the acceleration of gravity in about 40-45 minutes?

Calculation of the exact time is left as an exercise in physics and calculus for the reader.

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“Tumblr is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Tumblr is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” —Karl Marx (via antisocial-socialist)

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#Yes I'm an Apple fanboy

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Watching My Little Pony

Because screw gender stereotypes.

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“One of the two major parties, the Republican Party, has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.” —

The authors of the newly released book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, talked to NPR about the ideological extremism of the modern Republican Party and how it has led to a political climate more dysfunctional than ever before.

“I don’t believe in a golden mean; I don’t believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don’t dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that’s so ideologically based, that’s so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it’s frankly hard to take seriously.”

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“Is it wrong to trust in a beautiful lie if it helps you get through life?” —Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness: A Novel (via lastdaysofmagic)

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anticapitalist:

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests.

The police filed for an emergency court order yesterday to prohibit Karn from publicizing any of the documents, which should never have been released. The cops’ reasoning? “Defendant Mo Karn is a known and admitted anarchist.”

The documents, however, have already been published online. And buried in the training guides are insights into three trends in law enforcement that have been occurring not just in Virginia, but nationally: the demonization of protest, the militarization of police, and turning local cops into “terrorism” officials.

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“The life-serving market system we want and the life-destructive capitalist system we have feature very different structures and operate by very different rules. A healthy market system in designed to facilitate the beneficial self-organizing exchange of goods and services in response to people’s self-defined needs. The capitalist system, by contrast, is designed to concentrate economic power to support the expropriation of wealth for the exclusive private benefit of the system’s most powerful players. The rules formulated and enforced by government ultimately favor one or the other of these competing systems. The tension between them defines the political struggle of our time. Government makes the rules that determine the economy’s structure and priorities. Its choices commonly favor Wall Street capitalism over Main Street markets, because Wall Street controls the money and the media that drive Washington politics. The public rarely hears about options supportive of a healthy Main Street market system, and such options do not find their way into the platforms of the major political parties.” —David Korten (via azspot)

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“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.” —

Vincent Van Gogh (via black-tangled-heart)

I love this.

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You and me both ,buddy

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Pretty much.

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