Beltalowda!

You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

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Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick but out by us it’s just three thousand light years wide. We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point, we go around every two hundred million years and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed thereis. So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space because there’s bugger all down here on earth.

I get the reason gOS only supports the pixel, its the most secure hardware. Would never want them to water down their security for anything. I would very much like fairPhone to meet or exceed gOS security demands. That way they could be paired together to achieve a true completely degoogled secure phone.

That’s cool. At least its degoogled. GOS’s security is a must for me though, after using it I don’t ever want to go without. But I’m glad fairPhone is offering alternatives.

In the room.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

I really wanted one but it’s hardware isn’t supported by grapheneOS. I wish these two companies would partner up, that would be the best of both worlds.

Either way we’re getting fucked.

Been calling things what they are for over a decade.

Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you’re going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster.

More healthcare doesn’t make billions of $/year for 4 corporations that own our government and who dictate our foreign and domestic policies.

Precursor

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Odd Fellows lodges were first documented in 1730 in England from which many organizations emerged.

While several unofficial Odd Fellows lodges had existed in New York City sometime in the period 1806 to 1818, the American Odd Fellows is regarded as being founded with Washington Lodge No 1 in Baltimore at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey along with some associates who assembled in response to a newspaper advertisement. The following year, the lodge affiliated with the Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity was granted the authority to institute new lodges. Wildey had joined the Grand United Order of Oddfellows in 1804, then joined its splinter order, Independent Order of Oddfellows Manchester Unity, before immigrating to the United States in 1817.

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In 1842, after an elementary dispute on whether the American lodges were to be involved in decision-making procedures, in a split along racial lines, some American Lodges formed with exclusively whites-only membership and a separate governing system from the English Order. In 1843, they changed the name of their organization to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.[8]

19th century

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In the following years, lodges were instituted all over the country, first in the east and later in the west. After rejection from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows due to race, an African American sailor, Peter Ogden, petitioned the Grand United Order of Oddfellows for a charter which was granted.[11] Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America are still headquartered in Philadelphia.[8]

On September 20, 1851, IOOF became the first national fraternity to accept both men and women when it formed the Daughters of Rebekah as an auxiliary organization. Schuyler Colfax (Vice President of the United States (1869–1873) under President Ulysses S. Grant) was the force behind the movement.[12][8] Both the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs have appendant branches known as Encampments and Patriarchs Militant.[13][14]

The American Civil War (1861–1865) shattered the IOOF in America; membership decreased and many lodges were unable to continue their work, especially in the southern states.[15] After the Civil War, with the beginning of industrialization, the deteriorating social circumstances brought large numbers of people to the IOOF and the lodges rallied.

Over the next half-century, also known as the “Golden age of fraternalism” in America,[8][16] the Odd Fellows became the largest among all fraternal organizations (at the time, even larger than Freemasonry).[8] By 1889, the IOOF had lodges in every American state.[17][18] Compared to Masonic lodges, membership in the Odd Fellows lodges tended to be more common among the lower middle class and skilled workers and less common among the wealthy white collar workers and professionals.[19]

In 1896, the World Almanac showed the Odd Fellows as the largest among all fraternal organizations.[16]

By the late nineteenth century, the Order had spread to most of the rest of the world, establishing lodges in the Americas, Australasia, and Europe. According to the Journal of the Annual Communication of the Sovereign Grand Lodge 1922, page 426, there were a reported 2,676,582 members.[20] While this data from 1921 may not be the exact zenith of its membership, the organization experienced a loss in membership of 23.5% between 1920 and 1930, explained in large part by the development of the commercial insurance industry,[21] and has continually declined.

20th century

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Odd Fellows celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Oddfellowship in June 1919 at Duluth, Minnesota.

The Great Depression and the introduction of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal brought a decline in membership. During the depression, people could not afford Odd Fellows membership fees, and when the New Deal’s social reforms started to take effect, the need for the social work of the Odd Fellows declined.[15]

In 1971 the IOOF changed its constitution, removing its whites only clause. In 1979 the Order had 243,000 members.[22]

Some branches of the order (i.e., some countries) have allowed women to join the Odd Fellows itself, leading to the Rebekahs’ decline in importance. Also, the appendant branches and their degrees are, in some countries, becoming regarded as less important or too time-consuming, and are gradually being abandoned.[citation needed]

21st century

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Although there was a decline in membership in fraternal organizations in general during the 20th century, membership in the 21st century started to increase.[23]

The Odd Fellows scholarship has extended financial assistance to the youth for their education from time to time.[24]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Order_of_Odd_Fellows

The soundtrack is fucking awesome as well.

I remember the MTV premiere of the video for this track. It was insane!

https://archive.org/details/the-prodigy-smack-my-bitch-up-directors-cut

This game is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Such an incredible work of art!

LostLemmings

Was thinking about a comm called The Full Set. Where people would post whole albums, live shows and the like. Don’t know if another music comm would take off, and I don’t really know why one couldn’t/wouldn’t just post long sets to the other music comms. Probably a good thing I have no interest in moding.