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How are you doing today, friend Oshi?๐ซ๐
GM, Frens. ๐ซ๐ฅฐ๐๐
THANK YOU for adjusting my vocabulary... Language and communication are of critical importance, and you have helped me to replace CAPITALISM with TRADING in my day-to-day speech.๐โค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐๐
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Reformation begins with repentance. It must necessarily begin with recognizing and acknowledging that the church has been going down an evil path, and has been ignoring all of Scripture in order to do so... It has in fact been in league with the devil. I'm sorry, but I just don't see this happening at an institutional level. It's got to happen in the individual hearts and minds of the people sitting in the pews... God can, of course, work in the hearts and minds of leaders, but this is going to involve even greater levels of change of mind and heart. They will have to, one by one, COME OUT of the corrupt organizations...
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Possibly ancient history? Early pop tops were not captured by the can, and became a litter nightmare... I think the innovation to keep them attached to the can was introduced in the early 1960s? ๐ค๐ง๐โ
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Corporateocracy in action.jp November 5, 1935. New York City. Edwin Howard Armstrong stood before the Institute of Radio Engineers with a paper titled "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation." Then he turned on his inventionโand the room fell silent. Not because nothing was happening. Because for the first time in history, radio was silent. No crackle. No static. No distortion. Just pure, crystalline sound. A voice came through his speakers as clearly as if the person were standing in the room. Music played without the hiss and pop that had plagued every radio since Marconi. Armstrong had invented FM radio. And he'd just made every AM station in America obsolete. It should have been his triumph. Instead, it became his death sentence. Armstrong wasn't some amateur tinkerer. He was already one of the most important inventors in radio history. In 1912, he'd invented the regenerative circuit, which made radio receivers actually practical. In 1918, he created the superheterodyne receiverโstill the foundation of nearly every radio and TV today. He'd made radio work when everyone else was still struggling with the basics. But every invention put him at war with the corporations that controlled American radio: AT&T, Westinghouse, and especially RCA, led by the ruthless David Sarnoff. When Armstrong demonstrated FM in 1935, RCA had a problem. They'd invested millions in AM radio infrastructure. They owned the patents, the stations, the equipment manufacturers. FM threatened all of it. And unlike Armstrong's earlier inventionsโwhich they could license or stealโthis one couldn't be controlled. FM was fundamentally different, fundamentally better, and it made their entire empire vulnerable. So they destroyed him. Armstrong built his own FM station network on frequencies between 42 and 50 MHz. It worked beautifully. FM stations began appearing across the country. The future Armstrong had imagined was happening. Then in 1945, after years of intense corporate lobbying, the FCC made a decision: FM radio would be moved to a new bandโ88 to 108 MHz. On paper, it was a technical adjustment. In reality, it was sabotage. Every FM receiver Armstrong and his allies had built became useless overnight. Every station had to rebuild from scratch. Years of investment, thousands of radios, an entire networkโerased with the stroke of a regulatory pen. The FCC also limited FM stations to lower power, crippling their reach compared to AM. RCA pushed television instead, framing FM as obsolete before it even had a chance. And then came the lawsuitsโendless, exhausting patent litigation designed not to win but to drain Armstrong's resources, energy, and will. For years, he fought. He spent his fortune on legal fees. His health deteriorated. His marriage strained under the pressure. The man who had revolutionized radio three times was being systematically destroyed by the industry he'd helped create. On the morning of January 31, 1954, Edwin Howard Armstrong put on his overcoat, hat, and gloves. He wrote a note to his wife, Marion. Then he opened the window of his 13th-floor Manhattan apartment and stepped out into the winter air. He was 63 years old. Marion would later say that RCA didn't just take his inventionsโthey took his life. But here's what they couldn't take: the technology itself. Eventually, FM won. Not because corporations wanted it, but because it was simply better. Today, nearly every radio station broadcasts in FM. Every time you hear music without static, every time a voice comes through clearly, every time you tune to 88.1 or 107.9โthat's Armstrong's invention. He never got to see it triumph. He died believing he'd failed, that the corporations had beaten him, that his life's work had been for nothing. He was wrong. Every song you've ever heard on the radio clearlyโwithout crackle, without distortionโexists because a brilliant engineer refused to accept that static was just "the way radio is." He imagined something better. He built it. And when the powerful tried to bury it, his invention survived anyway. Edwin Howard Armstrong gave us the sound of clarity in a world of noise. And though the corporations silenced his voice, they couldn't silence what he created. The frequency may have changed. The stations may have been rebuilt. But every time you turn on the radio and hear music the way it was meant to be heard, you're listening to the legacy of a man who deserved so much better than what the world gave him. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, please reach out: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 (US) https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122265427454023150&id=61550694509985
Freedom is precisely what all governments (the ones we've experienced all of our lives) have desperately prevented, restricted and oppressed... The state is an evil beast that needs to be put down... Walk away and establish a completely voluntary, alternative system... https://peakd.com/library/@creatr/the-kingdom-of-jesus-god-the-heavens-my-library-shelf
Due process in America was lost decades ago... ๐ ๐ก๐คฌ
If you have kids, it's okay to be strict with them; I was, raising mine. However, if I had it to do over again, I would simultaneously, profusely, show them how much I love them... Lots of hugs. Lots of physical contact. Lots of encouragement. Don't wait. Do it today.๐ซ๐๐ฅฐ๐๐
Truth...
Make us jealous, why don'tcha... ๐๐คฃ๐
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