Thea Michelle

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She/Her. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trying to figure things out. Very Christian but In a chill way

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

“The Manhattan Project ends up looking like a bubble.” There is *presumably* a version of this argument that would be productive and interesting. The Manhattan project was funded by the government. In what *material* ways is that really so different from private markets? (…)

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The Manhattan Project ends up looking like a bubble: Physicists convinced one another that it was possible, then convinced politicians it was worth attempting. Substantial resources had to be marshaled in order to build the physical infrastructure necessary to construct a bomb, and this had to happen in parallel with the bomb's design. All of this required new methods and scarce inputs-someone puzzling over atomic reactions couldn't devote that time and brainpower to more pragmatic and measurably rewarding tasks like designing conventional weapons, and every pound of steel used for an isotope separation facility was a pound that wasn't going into a battleship or tank.
Desionino the bomb meant sequestering a few hundred of the

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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In a sense there is a relief that the US will no longer be a dominant superpower, but at the same time there is such a large grief from all of the people that will be impoverished or killed from the US's current actions. I pray that this terribly clarity can be used for good.

Its the worst time to Trans because *points at state of the United States* but its somehow also the best time to Trans because if it was anything else but true the state of the world would convince me to not go down this path. The anxiety and despair is clarifying in a way that peace wouldn't be

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sympathetic of course but some of you are not "celebrating Advent before Christmas," as you have claimed, so much as you are "scolding people about Advent instead of celebrating Advent"