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Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in ‘any inappropriate setting’, interview transcript shows
Newly released files from June DoJ interview shows Maxwell detailed Epstein-Trump social relationshipJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
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Scanner: Zero 'spooky' detected.
I have to agree with my spooky detector, but they defo need all the boops 🥰.
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Fun fact... According to the #reincarnation theory...
For which there is super strong support, based on the incredible number of people with documented #NDE experiences...
... Human soul re-enters a new meat bot a couple of months after birth (not all meat bots have riders NB).
Memories of the previous incarnation can be retained up to 3.5years old.
Sometimes you can have super spooky conversations with kids about "the time before they died"
But anyway, these two were Mexican cartel members, I am sure of it.
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What a massively sleazy company Uber is -- see this breakdown of how it profits by systematically screwing drivers and riders.
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Take a taxi, if you can still find one.
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Uber is not a nice company. But they were living off shareholder capital for years, it was obviously unsustainable.
So now that they have market dominance, they raise prices and reduce payouts to drivers. It's no surprise, that was the playbook all along.
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Great article, fascinating research.
In the “path to profitability” section it mentions:
> Divested money-losing non-core operations (e.g., autonomous vehicle R&D, air taxi services)
the latter is one of my favorite bits of Uber nonsense.
**music swells as the rider in the air taxi gazes down on the poor proles stuck in traffic down below**
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Uber Elevate Ready To Take To The Air
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It's something that's puzzled me, why there aren't a lot more small taxi companies? It's always Yellow Cab or something, these huge franchises. Even in Reagan's USA I can still find (a few) small restaurants. Heck I can find (very very few) small grocery stores. What about cabs predisposes them to big monopolies? Is it like telecom, where the government is enforcing their monopoly?
Anyway I think taxi companies have their issues, but they're still sgads better than Uber. And don't even get me started on Waymo. Very much agree.
Huh, so maybe something specific to the USA then? Or the west coast? I haven't been able to leave the west coast in my lifetime, so I don't have much worldly experience.
Maybe I'm just clueless?
But After go through your blog, It put me in an aww... How these giant companies are trying to put pressures on their own employees.
It's horrible to see it.
Find one?
Over here you call (just be happy they don't require sending a fax) to order one friday evening, and if you're lucky it shows up around noon sunday.
Pricing seems to be intentionally set to keep DUI competitive, though to be fair it's probably because they are only interested in customers who are too rich or too drunk to care.
But Uber or anything else that smells like competition for the taxi monopolies is illegal, presumably because without income from DUI fines, the government would have to raise taxes (ok, maybe that's not the official reason, but it's what it feels like*).
*) especially when you hear again and again that the government has a goal of reducing CO2 by significantly increasing the number of people who travel by train, but every time someone suggests something that would do that, it gets shot down immediately because that would require investing in more rail cars. But no worries, we are on track to hitting the goal sometime after the year 8000. Yes, that's eight.
a business model deliberately designed to extract value from labour while avoiding the obligations that normally protect and pay workers, in order to "maximise shareholder value". The capitalists wet dream. FInancialising human effort so it can be treated like a raw material, traded and optimised for returns.
If society leaves it to “the market,” these people will keep doing it, because the system rewards them. If society changes the rules of the game - through law, governance, and culture - then the people pushing these models either adapt or lose their licence to operate.
Or there is always guillotines.
And how did they get there? Infinite money.
They undercut their prices to bancrupt competition for more than a decade.
This is not the free market, this is cartels.
Uber y Rappi (una APP de entregas) dejan de ser la "solución" para el desempleo en la Argentina!
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MSN reports: “Trump administration is likely negotiating a deal to take up to a 10% equity stake in Intel Corp. This will be facilitated by converting grants made under the 2022 Chips & Science Act into equity” - so the govt already paid (prepaid even?) & now gains some equity. Thump again exhibiting his weak grasp of business and/or propensity to lie. But as others in this thread have said, either way it confirms they’re in trouble. (Headlines also full of $$m short selling AI & other bubble-bursting talk)
There is a lots missing here. Government must be giving something, other wise it just stole $11B from other shareholders.
I'm going with Cronyism, rather than Communism*.
* By Communism, I'm assuming you mean Soviet State Capitalism (rather than Chinese Hybrid Capitalism).
This is even scarier than it may seem because Microsoft is heavily working with this regime and if they decide to exert control, they could, for example, issue a microcode update that adds what could amount to being basically a backdoor (this would effectively be before even kernel level!) and since Intel handles their microcode via software instead of firmware, MS could push it out overnight without even telling anyone.
At least if they control AMD we could just not update the MB.
This is actually a proper buy-in like other countries have done to save important companies. Intel is in a very bad place. They would not have lasted very much longer. Trouble is: they are so far behind other companies like ARM and TSMC that there is a real chance that they won’t make it even with this support.
Would be kind of ironic if Intel was yet another company to add to Trump’s list of business failures. He’d be known as the president who let an American icon go bust.
Bu-buh-buht, muh "communist socialist woke Democrats!"
Every accusation is a confession with these Repussycunts, Istg
#Fascist is as fascist does; without corporate complicity WW2 could never have happened.
Fiat and Siemens outlived those tyrants, so Intel may be hoping to be as lucky.
People aren't going to get any power over the means of production here.
This feels more like "Italian/traditional fascism" and so it's really not much of a surprise.
I'm convinced US administration will bankrupt in a few years. Import tariffs solution won't work as expected.
Companies working shoulder to shoulder with them will go after it. Sorry for all the people in the US. In Spain, after XVI-XVIII imperialism, had 150 years of nothingness and recovered partially with our EU union. History repeats like spicy sausages.
I don't think this is how communism or even socialism works. Even if the government held 100% of Intel, Intel would not be worker owned and managed, they would still overproduce to satisfy the market, be opaque with respect to their internal mechanisms and extract profits.
Even if Intel was an entity that somehow is socialist they would still operate in a capitalist system, potentially even be abused for its benefit, because there is a whole economy running besides it.
Poor, poor, poor Big Corporations/Industry. Woe is them. :::sad violin music:::
After dumping BILLIONS of dollars into Trump’s campaigns and after-election bribes, gave expensive gifts, wasted time listening to his crazy bullshak, flattered his ego, and kissed his…um…ring, in hope that Trump would screw over workers, consumers, and the environment by ditching all the pesky rules, laws, & regulations which protect them, they are are shocked to discover they’ve been screwed.
“National security” was the excuse used to lock up 100K+ Japanese Americans in concentration camps
“National security” was the excuse used to ban Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany
“National security” was the excuse used to illegally invade Iraq & Afghanistan
So as you see the Trump regime claim “National security” to lock up Latino Americans in concentration camps, know that this is the oldest fascist trick in the book.
Don’t fall for it. Reject it. Uphold justice & due process of law.
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"National security" kills wind farms too.. They are so dangerous !!
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This is fucking crazy!The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
How much more of the future will we let them destroy?
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This lying is so exhausting. "DC has some of the highest crime in the world" People just eat this up. I don't even think that was true back in the days when DC had a crime problem. Now? It's just nonsense. Lies lies lies.
And Vance is saying "well the stats are fake" Just as a throw away line. No follow up.
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I live in the South Bronx and it's so insulting and infantilizing to have this clown tell me that *I* don't really know if there is crime or not WHERE I LIVE. That people who live in cities shouldn't have and damn say in what problems we want addressed or how to address them. That is OUR call.
Because a lot of us care a lot about these cities and love them and we've worked hard to make them the kind of places where everyone wants to live. Why do you think the rents are so high?
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I would love to live in DC and the only reason I don't is because I live in NYC which I like even better.
And you know, maybe it's not for you. That is fine. But we've worked hard to make living in cities worth it.
They are going to ruin it all.
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I will never forget as long as I live reading in the WSJ in June 2020 that *the block of PDX I was standing on with my dog* had been "ruined and set on fire" by "rioters".
I've never trusted any mainstream media source again, and my skepticism has served me really well.
It's very inconvenient for Republicans that major cities aren't racked with crime and so they have just decided to lie about it and implement their playbook anyway.
If you don't live in a big city in the US please understand there isn't a "debate" about it. Crime isn't the top worry of the people who live in these cities. And the way they the fed is addressing it isn't what we'd want at all.
The data show this. The people will tell you this. If you hear someone say it push back hard.
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I people still have ideas of New York that are out of movies.
I "knew" this but at one point, two decades ago, I'm running through downtown at night to a computer store, trying to get stuff to repair an important multimedia display. And I realized . . . yeah, this is OK.
Then some years later I'm walking around doing job interviews and was again reminded of the bullshit spread abut a pretty nice place.
People who live in cities are emotionally configured to believe they live in a neighborhood. I dare say your concept of "where you live" is even smaller than South Bronx, right?
Thus, city people see themselves in context of maybe a thousand people. Suburban people don't even know their neighbors.
Here's a flex - when we moved in here, I took fresh bread around to all my immediate neighbors. That's a city thing to do, in an apartment building,
Looks from here more like the Republican way of doing society is murder, literally.
Top worries when I lived in a "big" city
- why is the bus late? did they change the schedule again? oh no...it just started raining...
- why is the street car/light rail late? did they reduce service?
- what do you mean that street is closed and you're making me bike through the construction with traffic?!?!
- pot holes, so many pot holes
- a bridge you had to cross getting raised during your commute time (I lived in Portland)
(I now live in a small city, my biggest worry is someone in a car is going to kill me while I'm on my bike and they won't even notice...)
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I’ve lived in a few supposedly “bad neighborhoods” in “big crime” cities since the 80s. They’re invariably peaceful. The only threatening presence I ever felt was the cops.
I suspect that people hear about crime on the news and then the “confirmation” they receive from the world, if any, is observing through a windshield a person wearing a big pack, or searching for food in a dumpster, or walking on the sidewalk while black.
How can people live in small towns?
Spouse watches a lot of murder mysteries. There are so many murders in small towns. How do people live in small towns? I mean, between the dead bodies and the people being carted off to jail it doesn't seem there'd be much population left
Is it small town population control? Kill 3 people a week, solve the murders in
one hour?
Cabot Cove has a much higher murder rate in murders per population than any big city
Small towns are dangerous!
If it weren’t for family obligations, we’d have moved to NYC years ago. One day…
(Prolly worth pointing out that NYC has a lower crime rate than Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, but for some reason Texas isn’t being mentioned by the powers that be…)
Cities conflict with the moral narrative.
When you say "they are going to ruin it all" it's not happening by accident.
(Cities create the economy; if you want to guarantee your incumbency, you don't want a thriving economy; you might want all the money, but that's different.)
“Why do you think the rents are so high?”
Umm… to make real estate grifters rich, obviously.
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As someone who actually grew up in one of the cities with the highest per-capita murder rate in the country: n'ah, DC is pretty tame. It does get its unfair share of sign-this-petitioners (for obvious reasons), but whatever.
(I was involuntarily conscripted into a drug-running conspiracy in DC once, but it was marijuana, so you know what? Don't care. As long as my cab driver wasn't smoking it behind the wheel, I hope he had a swell night.)
like, when I lived there for 8 !!! years a decade ago, I can think of 2 people who had actual street crime happen to them. And one incident that happened since I moved and was bad enough to make it to me.
So besides stats, it's so comparatively rare that every incident during my time is something I can remember vs. blurred together.
They are just saying it to cast doubt since the numbers make it so obvious they are lying they have to say something.
This whole thing is totally political.
There are over SIXTY cities in the US with more crime than DC.
And frankly people in republican areas see higher crime rates so they just assume it MUST be worse in the cities. Because if it were... what would that mean? It doesn't align with their assumptions about reality.
Because #MAGA is a racist group. They think of DC as being a black population and in their minds that means they are all drug dealers, welfare queens, hookers & pimps.
It's why trump still has over 40% support. Racists love him when they see hispanics and black people targeted by him. That's what they voted for
... and sorry to say, a lot of hispanics and black people voted for him too because he promised to hurt people they didn't like and because they wouldn't vote for a woman
But DC *does* have the highest crime in the world.
It started in 2016 and the shitheads responsible have stolen at a minimum over £3.5 billion from you.
You can find the criminals behind this in the White House.
(Turn their rhetoric against them. It's the only effective way to tackle it. Agree with them, then point out where it's happening - it's them. It's always them. They are the ones doing whatever the fuck bad thing it is they are saying is happening. Every single time.)
Judge blocks #Trump from cutting #funding from 34 #cities & counties over ‘#sanctuary’ policies
A judge ruled late Friday the Trump admin cannot deny funding to #Boston, #Chicago, #Denver, #LosAngeles & 30 other cities & counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal #immigration efforts.
#law #SanctuaryCities #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #Federal #States
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US District Judge William Orrick in #SanFrancisco extended a preliminary #injunction blocking the #Trump admin from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds for so-called “#sanctuary” jurisdictions. His earlier order protected more than a dozen other cities & counties, including San Francisco, #Portland & #Seattle.
#law #immigration #SanctuaryCities #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #Federal #States
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In his ruling, Orrick said the #Trump admin had offered no opposition to an extended #injunction except to say the first injunction was wrong. It has appealed the first order.
Orrick also blocked the admin from imposing #immigration related conditions on two particular #grant programs.
#law #SanctuaryCities #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #Federal #States
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One #ExecutiveOrder issued by #Trump directs AG #PamBondi & #DHS Secy #KristiNoem to withhold #federal money from sanctuary jurisdictions. Another EO directs every federal agency to ensure that payments to #state & local govts do not “abet so-called ‘sanctuary’ policies that seek to shield illegal *aliens* from deportation.”
#law #immigration
The cities & counties that sued said billions of dollars were at risk.
Orrick, who was nominated by Obama, said the EOs & “executive actions that have parroted them” were an #unconstitutional “coercive threat.”
In May, #DHS published a list of >500 “#sanctuary jurisdictions,” saying each one would receive formal notification that the govt had deemed them noncompliant. It also said it would inform them if they were believed to be in violation of federal #criminal statutes.
The list was later removed from the #DHS website after critics noted it included localities that have actively supported #Trump’s tough #immigration policies.
The #DOJ has also sued #NewYork, #LosAngeles & other cities over their #sanctuary policies.
There is no strict definition for #SanctuaryCities, but the terms generally describe places that limit cooperation with #ICE.
Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids
Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-NazismJason Wilson (The Guardian)
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RFK Jr. Cut Grants for Autism Research While Vowing to Find a Cause — ProPublica
Slashed Autism Funding: RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions in funding for autism research. Silent on Rollbacks: Once an ardent environmentalist who took on big polluters, RFK Jr. has been silent on Trump’s dismantling of efforts to combat climate change and pollution. Conflicting…
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RFK Jr. Cut Grants for Autism Research While Vowing to Find a Cause — ProPublica
- Slashed Autism Funding: RFK Jr. promised to identify the causes of autism but has eliminated parts of his agency actively investigating them and has cut millions in funding for autism research.
- Silent on Rollbacks: Once an ardent environmentalist who took on big polluters, RFK Jr. has been silent on Trump’s dismantling of efforts to combat climate change and pollution.
- Conflicting Priorities: RFK Jr. helps lead an administration that is reversing regulations on pollution and chemicals, including some linked to autism.
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While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals, including some linked to the condition.ProPublica
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So, as a point of clarification:
No, whether or not you cry crocodile tears for noted bomb walrus John Bolton is not going to have much of a bearing on whether or not the fascist Trumpenreich will use its state security forces to harass, terrorize, or harm you. They will do that, regardless of whether or not you "speak up" for John Bolton and let me remind you:
"Collaborators get the wall."
Who'd Bolton use to work for and what did he do in that capacity?
Right. Fuck that guy.
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Like, this is not even me saying "well maybe if the Cheney family didn't want to be enemies of a dictator in the White House, they probably shouldn't have devoted their lives to giving whoever is in the White House the powers of a dictator under the guise of "fighting terrorism."
John Bolton worked for Trump. Directly. He was really excited about it too when he thought Trump would let him bomb Iran. That guy walked into this with his eyes wide open and said "this is fine."
Fuck Bolton.
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@AnarchoNinaWrites The executions will continue until morale improves.
Pretty much the theme of the episode of Twilight Zone that MeTV ran just a few ago (The Mirror). When someone achieves power he sees enemies among his friends. General Clement was executing a man a day for a week when his own people turned on him. Such people, always angry and always fighting something or somebody, Each win isn't win enough, ever.
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Cumulus Soaring also likes Bienno batteries.
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If you get an extra Bienno battery, you need to get a sailplane to go along with it.
Here's a fixer-upper!
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And the Ka-6 is a good choice on days of weak lift:
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VINTAGE vs MODERN. Flying a 1960s K6 in the Alps. Can It Compete?
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If you watch a lot of videos from Stefan Langer, then you're halfway there!
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Prepping for the Finals – Sailplane GP Training in France
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That's a lot more expensive than equivalent (30aH AGMs)
Is the lighter weight really worth it?
Oh I'm not really buying that about lifespan
Sure, it's possible to kill a lead acid battery in 2-4 years if you try hard. But it's also perfectly normal to have them last 10-15 years, if you just charge them up after use
We haven't had enough lithium batteries around for enough time, to tell if they actually last longer
I can tell you the batteries in my computers don't last that long
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Not my area of expertise but as we look at risks in our building it seems like the biggest is from people “strapping together” lithium batteries and charging them in their homes/apartments
Unfortunately this often means cheaper e-bikes in buildings with less fire safety
There probably needs to be better regulation/standardization of batteries
That would allow for safe battery exchanges and storage to be located outside of people’s units
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"When you have power, you have no friends. You have followers, you have compatriots, and you have enemies.".
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#HashtagGames
#AllOrNothingAnything
You either do or do not.
There is no try.
#Yoda
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#HashtagGames
#AllOrNothingAnything
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing
And you gotta have it all
If you wanna be with me.
#BillyPreston
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Count the names of the horse I've been to the desert with. Go ahead. I'll wait.
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A Horse Named The Set of All Sets Which Are Not Members of Themselves
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*BLEEP*
"Vacate entry port, Program."
"Hey, who you callin' a program, program?"
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@darrenmorin actually I may have a cbd mint
don't wanna do a regular edible because my head already kinda hurts and I don't want to make it worse
Christian Zionist ICJ judge, Julia Sebutinde says she is "standing with the Lord " in the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel.
She says she is under a religious duty to stand with Israel in the case.
Her position breaches the ICJ's duty of impartiality.
The ICJ can use special reasons to prevent a judge from sitting in a particular case. This ought to be one such special reason.
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'The Lord Is Counting on Me to Stand on the Side of Israel': ICJ Judge Reveals Her Bias
Judge Julia Sebutinde, a Christian Zionist, was the sole dissenting vote on the ICJ ruling on Israel's illegal occupation and the only one to vote against all six 'provisional measures' for Gaza.Alonso Gurmendi (Zeteo)
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religious cultists who use religious mythology to support literal genocide through their positions as judges should be removed and tried along with the Israelis.
Powerful figures who occupy positions of authority, when using that authority deliberately to protect and further mass murder, are accomplices to mass murder.
♲ @npr_news@social.gibberfish.org:The EV tax credit ends soon — but there's a little bit of wiggle room for car buyers
A federal EV tax credit worth up to $7,500 ends Sept. 30. But the IRS has just clarified that shoppers don't need to actually have the keys in hand by the deadline to get the credit.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Q: "Are you going to fire Lisa Cook, the Fed Governor?" President Trump: "Yeah, I'll
Q: "Are you going to fire Lisa Cook, the Fed Governor?" President Trump: "Yeah, I'll fire her if she doesn't resign. What she did was bad."EUROPE SAYS
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“#Texas approves GOP’s redistricting plan as senator threatens a final filibuster
Carol Alvarado posted on social media: ‘Republicans think they can walk all over us. Today I’m going to kick back’”
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Finally woman and man are united.
You know you want to do it. Shirk off the expectations. I have a nose and ears, do what you must. Don't forget to take care in selecting where you pin "ass", it does not need to be the colon egress.
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Hegseth removes general over Iran strike assessment
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Pete Hegseth has dismissed a senior general whose agency delivered an initial intelligence assessment on the extent of damage to Iran’s nuclear sites.
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If anyone tells you that they can explain all of the craziness of the world in a single theory be skeptical. The world is complex and many factors drive history.
I do think there is one vector of pressure that we don't talk about directly very often that is playing a role in a lot of political edginess. From nativism, to the rightward swing of the UK and US the silent actor is climate change.
Because at this point wealthy people know that it is real and I think some of them are panicking.
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Their panic takes two forms, one more apocalyptic than the other.
The first is the sobering realization that if there were wider public awareness of climate change it would mean that people would expect their governments to "do something" and this would disrupt a balance of power that is currently working for them.
The more extreme version of this panic is a kind of bunker mentality.
There will be more refugees in the future, not fewer. Food prices will be higher.
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Some people find this terrifying. Their first thought is: close the borders! invade greenland!
And to some degree I think the wider public is becoming more aware, it won't help when they realize that they have been tricked that the seriousness of the problem has been hidden from them and downplayed.
In the UK our giovernment surely knows this, and the best they got is:
"Look at the immigrants in the expensive hotels, if it wasn't for them we would be able to make everyones lives better and deal with problems, it's all their fault!"
When it's our government who refuse to process the people and them who chose the hotel, and them who are not doing their job properly --
And the most hilariously unfunny thing is, supposedly intelligent people are falling for this simple ruse!
I think we can do this.
I'm not scared of climate change. I'm scared for biodiversity and I'm scared of the short-sighted frightened men in power and how their fear could lead to catastrophic suffering.
But humans are gonna thrive if we can get them out of the way and simply focus on the problem.
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They don't even want people to realize that the problem is real.
That's not leadership.
I have references!
We know the super rich are worried, they straight up asked a tech futurist about their bunker plans.
theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/…
Or from "we're not in this together: There is no universal politics of climate change "
"Tillerson and those he works with are not in some kind of shadowy conspiracy. The Rex Tillersons of the world have taken a look at the same data, the same trends, the same underlying social and political conditions, and they have noticed that in the probable world in which nothing changes for them, business-as-usual, they end up on the “winning” side of a sharp global and local dividing line. Every structural incentive serves to reinforce such thinking. The best outcome in such a position is to push on with business-as-usual; the costs of climate change will largely be borne by those who already bear the cost today. Indeed, as I will argue, that other people will be bearing those costs helps keep the system going as long as possible and makes the Rex Position of maximal extraction for maximal maintenance, or cashing out, that much better. Even modestly successful climate mitigation and adaptation for the vast majority of people would require socioeconomic and political changes that would pose a steep loss to the Rex Position.
thebaffler.com/salvos/were-not…
The Trump administration makes so much more sense as a smash and grab trying to steal many resource for the super rich as they can, while letting the ordinary people die.
Heck even the push for AI, fits in with this story of the super rich looking to replace their dependence on the working class they're trying to kill off.
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The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequencesDouglas Rushkoff (The Guardian)
Disaster preppers are unaware of just how miserable it would be to be stuck in a bunker with nobody but them.
I really Douglas Rushkoff had interviewed the guy with embassy security experience more.
In the article he mentions that after talking to the billionaires panicking about how to maintain control over their guards, a guy with real world security experience approached him and shared his plans for responding to "the event".
"He felt certain that the “event” – a grey swan, or predictable catastrophe triggered by our enemies, Mother Nature, or just by accident –was inevitable. He had done a Swot analysis – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats – and concluded that preparing for calamity required us to take the very same measures as trying to prevent one. “By coincidence,” he explained, “I am setting up a series of safe haven farms in the NYC area. These are designed to best handle an ‘event’ and also benefit society as semi-organic farms. Both within three hours’ drive from the city – close enough to get there when it happens.”"
I feel like "preparing for calamity required us to take the very same measures as trying to prevent one" is an excellent insight.
@alienghic
My thought reading that article was that "safe haven farms" are also not actual prepardness for disasters.
Where does he imagine he would be getting fertilizer from?
How does he imagine he would survive a hurricane running over them?
Who is running the hospital that does not exist on them?
And so on.
Forcing him to confront that might have made him realize "preparing for calamity required us to take the very same measures as trying to prevent one" actually means.
There is no wonderful modern way of life with microwave food and movies on demand without millions and millions of people.
You can last ten years, but not twenty. Your kids will live like subsistence farmers.
If we want to keeps this? We have to keep it all.
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I have on occasion tried to work out the material conditions different sized groups of people would be able to sustain in different conditions.
Sometimes some tens of thousands of people might not do too badly.
But that is "chocolate is a once a year luxury".
I remember this from 1970s-idealism space colonization. Something like 50,000 is the functional minimum — in a situation where you've stacked everything in favor as best you can (technology, resources, automation, good governance). After a disaster? So much more.
Surviving almost anywhere in space is much more difficult than surviving anywhere on Earth's surface; even after the worst possible climate change.
Either way, "live together, die alone".
And the same for coffee and tea.
I’d like to think that there might be positives. Like more brewing, baking nice bread, making interesting pickles, and finally seeing the end of tech bros and social media influencers as a ‘career path’.
On the other hand I really don’t want to live in a world without good sanitation and plentiful toilet paper.
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There's an interesting Corey Doctorow story exploring these themes... It's the fourth story in the "Radicalized' short stories. The other stories include one which predicted Luigi; another subscription bread; the other predicting America's response to pushback against blatant racism. The fourth is about the two paths you are discussing here: the billionaire bunker, vs. the "community works together". I highly recommend borrowing it from the library.
ps. There are many solutions to toilet paper, went down that though path a long time ago. Natural materials being the most familiar to those in the backcountry (grass, leaves, etc.). Our recent ancestors used scrap of old fabric, which they (urp) washed and re-used (gross--and sanitation is definitely an issue-- but we still do that with cloth diapers, which are way more eco-friendly than the plastic most of us use. This is probably why our ancestors were happy to have bleach around LOL).
@ai6yr @michael_w_busch @alienghic
We did the cloth diaper thing with our first daughter back in the day. Bleach definitely becomes a key resource. It wasn’t a bad option but we did find it was more work, and time. Convenience won out with child #2.
Choosing to do that was fine, but it’s a really hard pill to swallow when it’s ‘you must do x’ instead of ‘you can choose to do x if you like’. I imagine the post-apocalyptic teen rebellion stuff will be pretty intense.
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I must admit, I feel defeated.
Timeframe:
From 1958 to 2025 is 67 years.
Total estimated extinctions:
150 species/day
×365 days/year
×67 years
≈3,668,250 species
Part of me has become detached to deal with it. Because in the long line of this planet's history other destructive species have existed, thrived and died. Biodiversity ebbs, flows. So really we are destroying all of this for ourselves. We will never get to see or know what we have destroyed.
Are we exceptional enough to realize and minimize further loss?
Or are we just another creature that will spam the fossil record with our numerous bones?
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The problem is within our species, there are both people who are very much aware of that, like yourself, and others who are totally oblivious. And everything in between.
“The difference between what is said & what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil." - Mon Mothma
I am reasonably sure anywhere from 20-30% of the American public will jump straight from “it’s not real” to “Jewish space lasers to turn children gay misfired and that’s why it’s so hot now” without stopping at the “we were tricked” station.
I take no pleasure in this assumption.
The worst of the worst is leading America & the world to the worst outcome.
Could be mitigating climate change but there’s not enough money in that.
100s of millions of people can do all kinds of things. I would not want alienate 100s of millions of people. Have you met people?
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strongly agreed. I believe the #1 task for climate mitigation is “make sure fascists aren’t in power when the refugee population is reaching 10-100x current levels”. Which feels ridiculous since it isn’t directly climate related at all, but I think the alternative is almost too horrific to imagine.
I suspect one good path to achieving that is solving other problems: e.g. fix the housing crisis -> greatly reduced anger for fascists to exploit *and* better prepped for new neighbors.
there are ants;
some ants become infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, and selfishly seek to improve wealth's wealth, for wealth's sake.
while others just naturally want to do good for their hive.
remember, you don't need to be a Camponotini to be brainwashed;
propaganda comes for us all.
@rowlandm As well as the physical effects of covid, which affects the brain and cognition. Here's just the earliest summary I could find, from 2021.
@futurebird
The hidden long-term cognitive effects of COVID - Harvard Health health.harvard.edu/blog/the-hi…
The hidden long-term cognitive effects of COVID
it is becoming increasingly clear that COVID-19 affects the nervous system along with the respiratory system. Research is suggesting that this may result in long-term neurologic damage in those who...Harvard Health
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mutable Earth
Perhaps we are in the hallway of a great reckoning. e e Mother Earth is old, tired, sick of slatternly bastard brats pulling her teats, calling rude names, fucking her over and over e Mad Earth gru…Wind Song Myths
Trump knows it's real, or is listening to people who do.
That is why he wants Canada and Greenland.
I try to explore mass #migration scenarios via fiction. In case anyone is interested, check it out: tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
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A New Faith
Parts 1 and 2 are available for free to all - online or download in DRM-free EPUB/PDF formats.TinJar
I do this. I try to explain the craziness of the world with a single theory. But I only do this because that theory is easy to understand and demonstrate.
However, I only use this reductive method as an intro to:
* more refined models theories that support my views
* other reductive theories and why they are demonstrably wrong
"The Event"
youtube.com/watch?v=aWSN5kaQ1o…
Mitchell and Webb - The Event
Did David Mitchell and Robert Webb have a crystal ball and saw the Coronavirus (COVID-19) way back in 2009? I think we should be told!YouTube
I live in Sydney, Australia and we've only had three days without torrential rain this month.
It's flooded the rivers, created hundreds of potholes, and affected the economy, the road-accident mortality rate, and I would say the mood of five million people.
It's not supposed to be like this. I think a lot of people are thinking about a future where the weather is like this all the time.
we haven't evolved like birds. Birds have been tempered on the high road. They can't take more than they can carry aloft. It taught them to live a life, and to live it well. The shear love of life they embrace is breathtaking. We're newbies and we suck.
Gave it my best shot!
📰 Ukraine war latest: Ukraine hits Russian drone base in occupied Crimea; Kremlin says Putin-Zelensky meeting 'not ready at all'
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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine hits Russian drone base in occupied Crimea; Kremlin says Putin-Zelensky meeting 'not ready at all'
Key developments on Aug. 22: * Ukraine hits Russian drone base at occupied Crimean airfield, Navy claims * Putin-Zelensky meeting 'not ready at all,' Kremlin says despite Trump push for peace deal * Ukraine shoots down Russian Orlan 'mother drone…The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)
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The military occupation of D C. is being justified as a "CRIME EMERGENCY" "Public Safety Surge." And the deployment of troops inside the US is being justified as due to an "invasion" "emergency."
In his important book "On Tyranny," historian of fascism Timothy Snyder wrote: "Be alert... to the fatal notions of *emergency* and *exception*... The most intelligent of the Nazis, the legal theorist Karl Schmidt, explained in clear language the essence of fascist governance. The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of the *exception*. A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety."
There is not a crime emergency in DC. Each of the states sending National Guard troops to DC has cities with higher crime rates than DC, according to the FBI. This, like the deployment on L.A, is just one more stepping stone to complete military occupation of our cities, because as someone else wrote, fascism is colonialism turned inwards.
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why are they paying for tips.
I thought he said the crooks were all over the place, running in the streets.
This a tacit admission that he was lying?
How repulsively desperate of them. Quick! Manufacture a reality for Trump!
Did the USSR ever offer rewards for ratting out people to the government? Is this a reputation to strive for?
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ohh yes! I know of someone! It’s horrible. They are a child predator and molester in Washington D.C. Yes officer they are still rampant and on the loose… the address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
😉 (spread the word)
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Oh, dear.
They really don't know how this internet thing works, do they?
#USPol #DC_Occupation #TrollsArise
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So, what they are saying is that they need your help because the orange cockwomble and his brown-noses don't have a fucking clue what they are doing and they don't want to admit that their whole reason for existence is based on a fucking lie
I know of 500 men breaching their authority and therefore breaking the law. Can I collect $100,000?
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$500 for J6
$500 for emoluments
$500 for the Epstein stuff
$500 for illegally deploying the military on U.S. soil
$500 for each pending sexual assault charge
We’re talking real money here
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They're really using the word _detain_ to mean _arrest_...
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