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Jim Sharkey
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Husband, father, gamer, actuary, metalhead. Everything else is just BS.
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This being a fuel from Chevron feels just a little too on the nose given this year's SCOTUS decision.

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Anyone who believes the 1890s were great should look up pictures of NYC tenements, or the infant mortality before Nathan Straus set up pasteurized milk stations, or the brutal strike breaking, or...

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I assume you can still donate money to help rebuild?

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I've said this elsewhere, but it bears repeating: sooner or later, the actuaries for these casualty insurance companies are just going to tell their bosses, "We cannot issue policies to certain areas profitably anymore." Maybe that will finally get the money people's attention.

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Very normal and good behavior

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People who are well off and can go to the doctor when they're sick are less likely to kill themselves seems like the least surprising thing I will read today.

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👏 “A lot of nature conservation is a long game. You plant a tree, you're not going to in your lifetime see that it reached its full potential. But within three months of that river being re-wiggled the salmon were spawning in that one kilometre stretch for the first time in over 150 years”

How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding
How restoring rivers' natural curves can prevent flooding

For centuries meandering rivers have been straightened – but experts say restoring their natural bends and curves can prevent flooding and create healthy habitats for wildlife.

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DeSantis sucks, but a hurricane has nothing to do with his odiousness. When people are suffering, we need to STFU and work together to help them.

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The Hour of the Dragon is so good. You might think the longer form would dilute Howard's prose, which seems made for the short form, but it really doesn't.

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"PAY ME." Uncle Harlan would be proud of you.

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Jim Sharkey
@jsharkey67.bsky.social
Husband, father, gamer, actuary, metalhead. Everything else is just BS.
100 followers119 following649 posts