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  • Star Trek: DS9 Was "Never Going To Go Into A Movie" Says Kira Actor

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  • Wouldn't that be fantastic? I doubt Brooks would want to be involved though.

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    I'm going to hit them in the head with a pipe.

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    Fearless businesswoman who broke mafia code of silence to secretly record Sicilian mob boss Matteo Messina Denaro's cousin says 'The Devil has returned to Hell' after godfather's death aged 62

    www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-12575033/Businesswoman-broke-mafia-code-Matteo-Messina-Denaro.html

  • What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world

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  • I never made the argument that he wasn't terrible

  • What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world

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  • If it's very important to you then you could get signatures supporting changing the name to America's Day or you could petition your state or local government. Things can be changed it just needs someone to enact that change.

  • What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world

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  • That's entirely your right

  • What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world

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  • I didn't say that we should judge him by the standards of his time. I did say that he did terrible things.

  • What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world

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  • I call it Columbus Day.

    Many people hate this name because they find the character of the man reprehensible. Many also argue that since he wasn't the first person from the Eastern Hemisphere to come to the Western Hemisphere his name shouldn't be enshrined in the name of a holiday.

    To my knowledge there isn't a single historically significant person who we today could call a wholly good person. Setting this aside momentarily. Columbus is arguably one of the most significant people in all human history. We describe the Americas before European contact as Pre-Colombian, we could describe the entire world similarly. It would take too long to list all the ways the world is different after Columbus. Just listing the foods would take too long. Just listing the places named after Columbus is exhausting: a country, a Canadian province, two us state capitals, the us capital, the second largest city in Panama, cities/towns/villages all over the Americas and streets, rivers, and lakes as far off as Italy and the Philippines.

    Most people know that Brazilians speak a Portuguese dialect while the majority of South and Central America speak a Spanish dialect. This is because in 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral accidentally discovered Brazil while trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope. In some alternate reality there's a Cabral Day and a pre-Cabralean America and all those placenames are named after Pedro Álvares Cabral.

    It isn't the man that causes me to call it Columbus Day it is the immensity the historical significance that does. The man did some terrible things. Unfortunately, when you study history that's how it just goes. If you discount every historical person based on whether they meet modern ideals of good and evil then history books will become rather slim. History is full of people who do good things and bad things but they all do significant things.

    If you want to call it Indigenous Peoples Day thats great. The same day can have multiple holidays. If you want to call it Columbus Day that's great too. Let's just remember that it's easy to celebrate what we see as good while forgetting what's uncomfortable and they should go hand in hand.

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    Salvatore "Toto" D'Aquila

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    Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello

  • Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration

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    NYC Mafia killer wants life sentence tossed over bad legal advice

    www.nydailynews.com /2023/09/11/nyc-mafia-killer-wants-life-sentence-tossed-over-bad-legal-advice/
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    Italy Police Take Down Chinese Shadow Network Laundering Mafia Cash

    www.usnews.com /news/world/articles/2023-10-04/italy-police-take-down-chinese-shadow-network-laundering-mafia-cash
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    Italian Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies of cancer months after capture

    nypost.com /2023/09/25/italian-mafia-boss-messina-denaro-dies-of-cancer-months-after-capture/
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    Salvatore Lucania a.k.a. Charles "Lucky" Luciano

  • Remember when Jay Leno visited Quark's bar in 1996? ...me neither!

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  • Well it's actually James Douglas Muir Leno

  • What's a word you haven't heard used in years?

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  • I will always love those old modem tones