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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
Must you comply?
Did you see the story of United Airlines and the dead dog? A stewardess on an internal American flight insisted that a dog that was on the flight, in the cabin, was placed in the…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
Deleted and reposted...nothing to see here.
Steemit had a four hour brain fart after I posted this, so I have reposted. Hope that's okay.
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
The biggest mass murderer in history?
I love science. I am a rationalist. If science can’t get a handle on it, then the likelihood is I don’t want anything to do with it. But bad science? Bad science can be the most…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
Are you living, or are you dying?
I know I am not alone in thinking about my own mortality. It sort of creeps up on you as the years tick by. A year like 2016, when so many celebrated, famous people shuffle off…
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matbaker (47)in #politics • 8 years ago
Mass Immigration and the Liberal Boogeymen
I decided last week to change how I operate on Steemit. As much as I want to make some money on here, my attempts to appeal to a large audience have, by and large, not been…
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matbaker (47)in #politics • 8 years ago
Universal Basic Income – A cure for poverty?
If you are unfamiliar with this concept, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a relatively new economic idea that advocates paying every adult (perhaps everyone, from cradle to grave)…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
Enough is enough!
Like a lot of people, I have been trying to find my feet on Steemit. I see those succeeding, and I have tried, superficially, to emulate what they are doing. I am trying to find…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
WTF Nature 2: Meet Mr Blobby
Look, we all know that looks aren’t supposed to be important. It’s inside what counts, right? Try telling that to the ugliest animal in the world (and no, I am not talking about…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
WTF Nature 1 : Cordyceps and the Zombie Ants
Consider the bullet ant. A fairly formidable insect, native to Central America, its bite is said to be as painful as a being shot by a bullet. That sounds like an exaggeration to…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
Are you capable of murder? Probably, it seems…
I know that you think you aren’t. Me neither. I am no saint, but, as a rule, I don’t tend to kill people. Generally speaking, killing people is bad, and anyway, I am far too…
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matbaker (47)in #photography • 8 years ago
There's snow business...
So, we had a little snow. I say a little, but for us it's a lot, and this is just the start of it. And being a country that doesn't tend to get snow, it has caused quite a ruckus…
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matbaker (47)in #steemit • 8 years ago
Building up a head of Steem – one month in the Cult of Steemit!
Reputation 46.8 SMD $42.961 Steem: 15.781 Voting Weight: 167 SP (with a little help from a friend) VESTS: 32219.624095 Followers: 114 Following:…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
New word for the day : FINAGLE
I love to play with language. It's amazing, really. We make a load of sounds with our larynxes, and depending on what noises we make, we can engender wonder, amusement, tears…
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matbaker (47)in #movie • 8 years ago
Films you have to see: the 70s
Something staggering happened to film-making in the 1970s. It was a zeitgeist thing, to some degree. On the back of the swinging sixties, pervasive moral attitudes were changing…
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matbaker (47)in #blogs • 8 years ago
You’re not as clever as you think you are.
I am not an expert, but I would think that blogging 101 would suggest that you really shouldn’t start off by insulting your would-be reader. It’s okay though, because you’re in…
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matbaker (47)in #blogs • 8 years ago
Modern life is (confused face symbol)
I was on the Steemit Bloggers Discord page and we were discussing emoticons. Well, I say “we”, but really it was me rambling on about them like the nutter on the bus that no-one…
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dr4mohamed (45)in #funny • 8 years ago
How God Created Animals (According To Twitter Users)
How God Created Animals (According To Twitter Users)------------------------------------------------------------------------------see more : @dr4mohameddon't forget follow me and upvote this post !!
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matbaker (47)in #steemitbloggers • 8 years ago
Say hello to my little friend...
Yes, I have gone full Tony Montana! It’s time bring out the big guns in my quest to conquer the internet. And nothing bosses bandwith more than our feline friends. So…meet…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
"my cold, dead hand"
I was talking to a very interesting American on Steemit just last week. It was a fascinating exchange (he had some well thought out and considered views) and we covered a lot of…
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matbaker (47)in #blog • 8 years ago
Look out for the reality enforcers!
Trust me, you know a few. Hey, you might even be one! Let me explain. From a human perspective, there is no such thing as a fixed, universal reality. From a cold, scientific…
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