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And, on the Other-Other-Other Hand,

when I was beam dynamics group leader at the IU Cyclotron,

I held weekly meetings!

We would share our discoveries, thoughts, breakthroughs, whatever.

And, they were not a waste of time!

Sometime, I didn't even have an agenda or a goal!

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Has anyone (everyone should have) read "I Buried my Heart at Wounded Knee?".

It goes through the Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of the Native Americans, tribe by tribe, I think hundreds of them. I could only make it halfway through the book.

I'd turn to the next Chapter on the next Tribe to be exterminated, and as usual, it started off:

"Big Chief in Washington wants to talk Peace". And then you knew, they were next scheduled for extermination.

So, when a lawyer, that I'm not paying, asks, "Would like to talk", I can't help but think, "Big Chief in Washington wants to talk Peace".

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Well, of course, the only way Substack makes money, is by taking some small percentage of what I charge, to give me this free service. I'm not a money-maker for them (200$/yr for me). People like Glen Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Matt Taibi and others pay (while getting paid) for this service.

Well I HOPE that is only way Substack makes money ...

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