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oxbow

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11. Floods and poisons don't care if you're a racist

Reply to Javaman (Original post)

Tue Aug 22, 2017, 02:11 PM

Aug 2017

The just and the unjust alike will suffer because of unchecked industry. From that perspective, I've had little free energy to put towards punching nazis,

I have refocused on using education and technology to prepare us for the future. You need to have blinders on in some sense in order to keep working for solutions that will have real impact down the line.

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Floods and poisons don't care if you're a racist oxbow Aug 2017 #11