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Hey bea, tried to fix this video with this embed, but for some reason every time I save it it saves with the new embed and I can't make it work. Could you possibly give it a try for me?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpAeNZNd9IE

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*dead

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Yeah, I noticed that when I was self-employed (read that as being a freelancer), my taxes went way up. I now owe back taxes. It becomes difficult to remain solvent. It's like the high taxes are there to discourage people from competing with the larger companies, and I've almost caved multiple times and gone back to working for corporations. I shudder to think.

And then there's the problem of where your money is spent. It's not locally generally. A lot of it goes to wars and death. I'd much rather spend locally and help those I have a chance of encountering daily.

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being self-employed may or may not be turning me into a libertarian. i feel like i'd rather take 20% of my income and just hand it over directly to my elderly neighbors than send it to the pilfering sociopaths in washington. ... i'm currently researching the best ways to commit tax evasion.

http://art.videosift.com/talk/Sifter-Art-Gallery-Calling-All-Artists

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hey lucky,
we were just discussing this in the lounge and i was asked to run it past you:
there are quite a few talented artists on the sift.... so we were thinking about some kind of gallery days for vs artists to display their arts for all of sift-kind to marvel at and feel inspired by and maybe purchase if both parties felt like making the transaction. like.. some kind of virtual gallery party?
i don't know the best way to go about this, because while i'm certainly a nerd on a computer, i'm not the computery kind of nerd. i'm not sure if it's even possible. but the lounge is in favor of it at the moment. and it sounds neato.

let us know what you think,
xoxoxo
bea

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LOL, sorry I bailed on you. I forgot I was chatting!

Hi, you might find this amusing:

http://videosift.com/video/Men-you-are-living-under-a-gynocracy

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You will find my avatar in this video
http://videosift.com/video/The-Dentist-Of-Jaipur

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oooh to be so beautiful and so delicious!

btw, wtf is your avatar?
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Look how pretty. http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/06/02/pei-blue-lobster-584.html

Look how pretty. http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/06/02/pei-blue-lobster-584.html

http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/File:Atheistsex.jpg

Although I largely disagree with shinyblurry, I will concede that if we were not a civilized society, people with either physical or mental disabilities would be at a much greater risk of death. MOST new genetic mutations are deleterious, that is to say, they cause harm to their respective owners. And while I fully understand that Darwin didn't coin the phrase, it doesn't change the idea that some people are vexed by their genes in one way or another.

However, I DO agree that writing said people off as "genetic baggage," as he put it, is callus and unkind. We could just as easily say that "love" is simply a chemical reaction in the brain, and can be written off as such. But it's the value we place on those feelings, the choices we make to assign it meaning, much like the choices we make to care for one another, that give our own lives meaning and purpose.

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you don't know what i do for a living, so i'll skip the part where i yell at you passionately kids with downs/people with disabilities/kids with syndromes.
furthermore, survival of the fittest was not a phrase coined by darwin. and did not originally apply to the evolution of organisms. applying it to people with genetic disorders further offends me.

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