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Would this rather silly (but with a serious message) Android game work? (Google Drive Link to video):

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/10oQTh4B7lPStf6FQfJKUUrtG6miXR_2b

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talented guy Karl!

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Brilliant Karl! Well done!

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Thanks ANW. Actually, I'm trying to find testers for the Google Play Internal Test. If you have an Android device (especially a bit older 5-6 yrs or tablet, else whatever you have) and wouldn't mind trying it out, it would be a great help. This goes for anyone else who happens across this reply.

No bother if not, otherwise I can be contacted on whackapplication@gmail.com.

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Dear Ms. Rogers,

I plan to visit Shedd Aquarium in the near future, and have a question for you. With the increasing recognition of the rights of the LGBTQ community today - such as the recent move by Target stores to allow biological men (who have only XY chromosomes) identifying as women into women’s washrooms - and with which I am sure you fully agree – I would like to know if you will allow me, in the interest of intellectual and moral consistency, to similarly use the dolphin pool as a “washroom” at Shedd Aquarium, should the need arise during my visit, just like the other dolphins at Shedd do. You see, Ms. Rodgers, I have always identified as a dolphin – I love swimming, taking baths, and really enjoyed watching Flipper as a child. I knew very early on that I was a dolphin, despite the oppressive human-centric bias against us who identify as dolphins, and despite my having two legs and opposing thumbs (which I hope to remedy soon through publicly funded surgery).

I do hope you will provide the same respect to us dolphins who just happen to have different chromosomes from what we identify as, in addition to a human-like body, and that Shedd will quickly approve of us in the LGBTQ-D community. (Yes, the “D” stand for “dolphin” - although I don’t want to offend the “porpoise” community either - and while you may consider this absurd today, ten years from now I am sure you will look back and understand that I was just ahead of the times a bit.) You may also wish to consider providing litterboxes at Shedd for people who identify as cats – see this woman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gWXwbToNpA, or hay in your cafeteria for this former person who now identifies as a horse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rc1GG7L8bM

Copying a few others here who also identify as dolphins. Perhaps we’ll all visit as a group!

Finally, Ms. Rogers, could you please provide the rationale behind your denial, should you answer in the negative re. my using the dolphin pool? I am very curious to understand why biology is determinative in some cases - e.g., your Shedd Aquarium restricting us human-appearing dolphins (who self-identify as dolphins) using the pool as a washroom like the other dolphins - but not determinative in all cases, such as in the Target bathroom situation – which, as noted, I’m sure you support - where people who have only XY chromosomes are now allowed to use women’s washrooms.

Eeee-yeee-eeee (that’s dolphin for “thank you,” which I’m sure you know, working there at Shedd; I am currently working through my pronunciation class in my Dolphinese 101 class, so apologies if I mispronounced a few words) .

Flipper Jim

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Yes, I really did send this to Chicago Shedd aquarium, at the height of the letting men in women's washrooms kerfuffle in N.C a few years ago. I also went into our local dept store and told the manager - graciously, respectfully, and taking only a few minutes of his time - that I would never shop there again if they let men in women's washrooms. Same thing with Kroger groceries paying for out of state abortions for their employees. Wrote mgmt in Milwaukee, then walked in with my frequent shopper card, told the manager I spent maybe 10s of thousands of dollars a year in their store, and since mgmt would not respond to my concerns about their employees getting out of state abortion paid for, I was leaving. Gave him my card, told him to cancel it immediately.

Sadly, I'LL BET I WAS THE ONLY ONE OUT OF THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS TO DO THAT. And thus, we lose everything, plus gain God's judgement, not with a bang, but whimper.

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They forced me to read the vile, evil, disgusting, putrid - oh! and did I say "vile" yet? Alinksy while at university. Still had his Rules for Radical decades later in my office until it fell apart from age. And YES, it DID have a dedication, forward, whatever you want to call it, on the front overleaf. They always lie about that "Gee, it wasn't a forward." No, it was on the overleaf, whatever, you want to call it, it WAS there. Call it whatever you want. And yes, the equally vile Hilary called him her mentor - along with actual last literal KKK member, Sen Robert Byrd, WV as "my mentor."

Anyhow, one of Alinsky's rules was ridicule.

And I learned that well. I also became a radical, just like my fasco-Marxist profs wanted me to. Only, NOT the kinds they wanted. I am a very radical (from the root word radix, or root) conservative/libertarian/pro-freedom type, and have been published in Canada's Financial Post (now National Post), Ottawa Business news, on Ottawa's largest rock station, CJMJ, maybe 200,000 listeners total, and in the US in various news outlets (we live in the US now). And I am NOT going to shut up. Not now. Not EVER. And a Swiftian form of ridicule is my modus operandi. See following this one as one example. And as our dear Jane Fonda's husband wrote in his Steal This Book, hopefully you can steal below what I wrote

Hint to the fasco-Marxists from the H8TE filled radical gays. I'm here, I'm NOT queer. And I'm not ever going away. Get used to hit.

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