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>dm guy on instagram >he has ai autoreplies turned on >somehow the AI knows I'm Catholic >ask how it knows >it says I "told it" >tell it I didn't, ask if it's trained on private DMs >no response >ask again >it says "no" and links me to the privacy policy >claims I have it in my bio >check >I have nothing referencing religion of any form in my bio
Nothing serious. Ty tho. I just had an extra busy day and there were ppl in my office so I couldn't do my normal Tuesday stuff. I mean i could've.. lol but i didn't want to with them there.
NBA star Anthony Edwards told the court he has no issues with his ex Ayesha Howard having full custody of their daughter, weeks after revealing he doesn't...
It's a block or two before you head west towards Magdalena if I recall. Small, single-story, non-descript building. I assume you did the walking tour? If you're going to be here in October you absolutely HAVE to check out the Trinity Site at White Sands, just a little south of Soccoro. But it's only open one day out of the year. First Saturday in October.
my parts got tempered down to more like 45 rockwell, which is lower than expected but at least they won't be prone to cracking. next challenge will be post weld annealing the heat affected zone. i could probably do this tonight i guess. no reason not to.
I watched a video recently about cast iron stick welding. When he finished he recommended putting a welding glove on top the metal to keep it from cooling down too quickly and cracking. I'm no welding expert, much less on cast iron, but the part could have easily fit into a garbage can of vermiculite, which is what I use to anneal my forgings prior to hear treatment. I wonder why this isn't more common, or if it's overkill.
As you begin to awaken to reality and spirituality, you will begin to realize that the phrase "productive member of society" is simply a euphemism for "good little slave"...-Gary Williams
The public prosecutor's office will also investigate those companies that Heinz-Christian Strache has named as financial backers, which vehemently deny this. If you want to learn about Irena Markovic's involvement in the conflict, you can read the following article markovic-irena.at/deutch.
The Economic and Corruption Prosecutor's Office (WKStA) wants to investigate FPÖ National Council member Markus Tschank on suspicion of inciting embezzlement. It has asked the National Council for its consent to prosecute the parliamentarian, i.e., filed an "extradition request." According to the authority's suspicions, Thank, a lawyer, allegedly ordered the board of Wienwert AG (which has since gone bankrupt) to donate 10,000 euros to the non-profit association "Economy for Austria," which is within the FPÖ's sphere of influence, and thus to "provide services without concrete consideration." It is clear from the WKStA's request to the National Council.
Thank, formerly a functionary in the association, denied any accusation when the affair, which arose as a result of the Ibiza video, came to light: "I resigned from my executive functions in the associations in the summer of 2017. In my responsibility, there were never donations to a party or party-affiliated organizations." It is still open when the immunity committee of the National Council meets.
Further investigations
In addition, the WKStA will investigate unknown perpetrators of the companies named by Strache based on the Ibiza video, in which Heinz-Christian Strache had reported significant donors. Specifically, according to the application to parliament, which is available to the STANDARD, it is about responsible persons of Signa Holding, the gambling group Novomatic AG and Glock GmbH. They are suspected of having given "at an unknown time before the National Council election on October 15, 2017, to a non-profit association under the influence of the FPÖ (Economy for Austria) sums of money between 500,000 euros and two million euros as undeclared party donations". Since this had been done without any concrete consideration, the suspects had "violated rules that serve to protect the assets of the companies they represent (...)".
The companies have already denied the accusations in the past. DER STANDARD points out that the presumption of innocence applies. Novomatic emphasizes, "We are not aware of the content of the extradition request. There are no payments to the addressed association 'Wirtschaft für Österreich' on the part of Novomatic AG." Signa's lawyer emphasizes that Strache has retracted his claims that Signa has never made any direct or indirect donations to the FPÖ or associations close to it. Glock GmbH also informs its lawyer that it has "neither directly nor indirectly made donations or other payments to the FPÖ or to the association above.
Association already audited
Last week, an external auditor also published the results of an investigation into the association's management. According to this, there had been no receipts from the persons and companies mentioned in the Ibiza video. In addition, no payments had flowed to the FPÖ or party-affiliated institutions. From the report, it is not clear who the association's donors were, which has 141,220 euros in the account.
Strache's charges in Germany
The Ibiza video case is also being investigated in Germany: Ex-FPÖ leader Strache has filed criminal charges in Hamburg and Munich "against all persons who are jointly responsible for the production, distribution, and publication of the so-called Ibiza video." The applications are directed against unknown persons. "Süddeutsche" and "Spiegel," which published the video, are based in Munich and Hamburg, respectively.
Strache's lawyer in Austria, Johann Pauer, believes further legal action is possible. "The filing of a criminal complaint in Spain is currently still under consideration," he told the STANDARD. Strache himself on Facebook: "It's about full clarification, dignity, justice, and truth against the completely out of context overall context of the criminally created and edited together 7 minute Ibiza video." (Renate Graber, David Krutzler, 6/4/2019)
We need to end this idea that Conservatism is a valid alternative. It has posed an existential threat not just to marginalized groups, but to the entire planet through climate change denial. It puts every single one of us in danger.
I was honored to have met Grandfather Thomas Begay in 2008. I and a friend sat with him, as he shared his story as a Code Talker, and his participation on Iwo Jima. We sat and listened for 3 hours. As a gift I gave him an Elk hide I brought.
As we were leaving, Grandfather's grandson came running out. In his hand was the bright orange cap with "CODE ...
TALKER" on the front, that Grandfather had been wearing. On the bill of the cap, it was autographed to me. There was a message in Navaho for me, and it was signed by Grandfather. I donated it to the USMC recruiting station, here in Vancouver Washington, where I live. I also gave them a photo book with his photo and story, along with fellow Code Talkers.
Next to my family, it remains one of the highest points of my life. What an honor it was, I cherish his time always. Thank ...
Karoline Leavitt went off during a press briefing on Tuesday, calling out the hypocrisy in the Democratic Party over President Trump’s tariffs and using their own words against them.
In a compelling exchange, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confronts Democratic leaders' contradictory stance on tariffs, citing their previous statements.
"When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set." -- Original by Walter Savage Landor in 1846, rephrased by Lin Yutang
Thins one is borrowed from the future with my auto-toots that happen every morning UK time, so you'll see it come around again in just over three months.
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
The US Conference on Catholic Bishops (USCCB), who made billions off of its illegal alien resettlement programs from the US government, announced on Monday that they would not renew their agreements with the US government for their refugee and illegal migrant resettlement programs.
The US Catholic Bishops' decision to terminate their refugee partnership with the government raises critical questions about the impact on vulnerable populations and the ongoing fight against human trafficking.
The Trump administration is seeking to spend as much as $45 billion over the next two years to expand its illegal-migrant detention program by building more facilities and adding services, according to a request for proposals posted online last week by the administration.
A federal judge has sided with the Associated Press, overturning the Trump administration's ban on Oval Office access, amid a contentious dispute over the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.
The Trump administration is seeking to spend as much as $45 billion over the next two years to expand its illegal-migrant detention program by building more facilities and adding services, according to a request for proposals posted online last week by the administration.
wait! Don’t we have a bunch of empty buildings now that Doge cut all those departments and all the people that were working from home? Use them. Don’t build new ones.
The Trump administration is revoking the protected status of nearly one million people who have entered the U.S. using an app created by the Biden administration that allowed them to enter the country first and then schedule a court hearing on their legal status.
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Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas… Approves Impeachment Of 5 Lower Court Judges In His District. “We Have To Start Addressing The Problem”
#Passover begins this Saturday evening. If you are a #Jew and you aren't calling out #Israel's #genocide and other #atrocities, you are no better than those doing the killing.
The #Torah may have once commanded Jews to wipe out the Canaanites, Amalekites, and the Midianites, but certainly no Jew today is equating #Palestinians with the Canaanites.
Even if there's a shared ancestry. An ancestry I might add that also includes #Lebanese, #Jordanians, as well as #Ashkenazi and #Sphardic Jews as well.
Souvenirs is a collection of short and sparkling pieces that allow Anna to display her amazing voice and temperament - See her sing "Barcarolle" from Offenba...
Naja, vor der Wahl war sie all überall medial präsent. Dann wehrte sie sich zähneringend und händefletschend gegen das Wahlergebnis. Und nu isse wech. Da muss man sich als empathischer Mensch doch Sorgen machen. Wie soll das denn gehen, so von jetzt auf gleich in keine Talk-Show mehr eingeladen zu werden?
Als Sarah alleine war, warf sie sich auf ihr Bett und weinte bitterlich. Das zaghafte Klopfen an der Tür ihres Schlafgemachs nahm sie in ihrem Schmerz gar nicht wahr. Erst nach einer Weile dämmerte es ihr, dass dort wohl ~~Gernot~~ ~~Georg~~ Oskar stand, ihr liebsorgender Gemahl. "Herein", rief sie zaghaft mit gebrochener Stimme. Und in der Tat, es war ~~Oswald~~ Oskar, der treue Rappe. "Gräme dich nicht", seine sanfte Stimme streichelte wohlig ihr Gemüt. "Ach ~~Wilhelm~~ Oskar!", sie warf sich an seine gestählte Brust. "Du weißt ja nicht, wie schlimm es ist, von deinem Volk, das du so sehr geliebt, so schmählich im Stich gelassen zu werden." "Ei wohl, Treuliebchen mein, ich weiß es wohl." ~~Hartwig~~ Oskar neigte seinen Kopf und küsste sanft ihr streng zurück gekämmtes Haupthaar. Sein gesenktes Einhorn fing die hellen Strahlen des Vollmondes auf und schimmerte ätherisch. "Auch mich", fuhr er fort, ein verirrtes Härchen aus seinen Nüstern schnaubend, "auch mich hat einst mein Volk verraten. Die roten Socken, gewahrst du dich? Die einst nach Godesberg dem Fafner, giftig geifernd des Sigurds Hort bewachend, jählings, schmählich sich unterwarfen, sie waren es, die meinem einzig Streben, ihnen, dem gesamten Volk zu endlos ew'gem Glück zu helfen, gar jäh ein Ende machten."
Interrogée sur LCP, la ministre de l’Éducation nationale, Élisabeth Borne, a déclaré que les élèves doivent commencer à réfléchir à leur orientation professionnelle « dès la maternelle ».
"The more I learn about the Vietnam War, the more I'm convinced that several people in our government wanted us to lose."
"There is a great documentary called 100 Missions: Surviving Vietnam. After 100 missions pilots got to go home so apparently Olds was erasing how many ...
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flights he had been on when he got up around 80-90 because he wanted to stay with his men as long as possible."
Unlucky Pair of US Pilots Stall in their Race to 100 Missions Surviving Vietnam | Smithsonian ‘Wild Weasels’ pilots served as a kind of bait, allowing themselves to be picked up by Vietnamese radar and then firing a missile to identify the source. It was a dangerous job with a high mortality rate.
‘Wild Weasels’ pilots served as a kind of bait, allowing themselves to be picked up by Vietnamese radar and then firing a missile to identify the source. It ...
Reporter ohne Grenzen beklagt die Zunahme körperlicher Angriffe auf Journalist:innen in Deutschland - vor allem bei Demonstrationen. Beim dem Thema Nahost sei zudem der Meinungskorridor innerhalb von Redaktionen verengt. #Pressefreiheit
Reporter ohne Grenzen beklagt die Zunahme körperlicher Angriffe auf Journalist:innen in Deutschland. Neben rechtsradikalen und verschwörungsideologischen Protesten seien vor allem Demos zum Nahostkonflikt gefährlich für Medienschaffende.
CNN’s Senior Data Reporter, Harry Enten, delivered unwelcome news to Democrats who rage against President Trump and call him a “king.” According to a recent poll, a majority of Americans disagree.
In a striking analysis, CNN's Harry Enten asserts that President Trump is redefining his second term with unprecedented executive orders and a bold approach to presidential power, challenging traditional expectations.
Quoting Meron Benvenisti on IDF spokesperson's media manipulation in the case of the Rafah ambulance massacre:
[…] As a journalist, working with the IDF spokesperson is a frustrating matter. You send detailed questions and receive, at best, a concise response, usually lacking details, often delayed after requests for postponement from the IDF spokesperson. The response itself is typically loaded with deliberately vague or distorted expressions (for example, when there was video documentation of settlers beating left-wing activists, whose version was also supported by the police, the IDF spokesperson insisted on using the word "friction," as if it were a two-sided incident). In the worst case, you receive a response that is clearly incorrect, but very difficult for you to prove wrong. At least that was the case until the incident of the attack on ambulances and the killing of their crews in Rafah, in which the lie of the IDF spokesperson is proven in black and white. Or more precisely, the lie flashes like emergency lights in the darkness at the outskirts of Rafah.
[…] They were not shot as 'terrorists,' and the soldiers who shot them had no way of knowing if they were 'terrorists' or not at the time of the shooting. They were 'promoted' to the rank of terrorists after their deaths.
Benvenisti exposes IDF's military spokesperson routine lies:
Initial deception: when questioned about missing paramedics, IDF spokesperson claimed ambulances approached "suspiciously without lights" - a complete fabrication
Stalling tactics: despite repeated inquiries, spokesperson delayed responses for days while families searched for loved ones
Shifting narrative: first claimed 9 "militants" killed, later changed to 6, with no evidence provided
Selective information: refused to answer direct questions about victims' whereabouts while knowing they had been killed and buried
Deflection: when pressed for details about alleged militant identities, redirected journalist to English-language tweets rather than providing substantive answers
Forced correction: only acknowledged "serious mistake" after New York Times published video proving ambulances had lights on, making continued denial impossible
No accountability: even after proof emerged, blamed "incorrect field information" rather than admitting to deliberate misinformation
כעיתונאי, העבודה מול דובר צה"ל היא עניין מתסכל. אתה שולח שאלות מפורטות ומקבל, במקרה הטוב, תגובה תמציתית, בדרך כלל נטולת פרטים, במקרים רבים בעיכוב לאחר בקשות דחייה מצד דובר צה"ל.
A high-ranking CIA official who played a controversial role in implementing the military's Covid vaccine mandate has been dismissed, raising questions about the legality and ethics of the mandate itself.
Obituary for the greatest monument to logical AGI. After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will.
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My condolences to American nerds who are going to miss out on tons of cool shit — and my strong encouragement to Europeans and the rest of the world in ramping up their nerdery to make up for the dampened American market.
We’re delaying opening pre-orders for Framework Laptop 12 in the US. We’re still opening orders for the other countries we ship to tomorrow (April 9th), now at 10am PT.
Framework assemble their laptops in Taiwan so will incur tariffs of 32%. Few companies, few products, and few markets have margins that high, so they'd likely have to increase US prices by that amount (or something close to that amount) to make any money at all on each American sale.
I suppose Trump's vision would be that they employ a ton of people in the US to assemble them instead — at higher cost than workers in Taiwan, and while incurring 32% on each part imported...
...and that eventually, in four five decades, all those parts would be manufactured domestically, so no need to incur tariffs at all! Except now every part of the supply chain will have the added cost of US labour applied, making things vastly more expensive than today.
Meanwhile global trade and innovation will continue, with other markets benefiting from cheap goods and from an increased demand for their own domestic production.
Americans will have to stew in their own juices. I have been following the price of a particular premium cell phone I want to buy. The moment the #trumptax was announced it went up by a third in the US. The price is unchanged in #Canada. Happy Liberation day!
Learning about the abuser mindset makes me read differently the arguments people make in seeking justice or trying to get people and systems to stop being abusive.
When abuse is the point, "Stop doing this because it's harming people" won't work.
My client, Natasha Helfer, was excommunicated from the LDS Church for a number of things, including calling out abuse of authority. I'm editing letters of support people sent that Stake President, for inclusion in the book.
They're like, "I'm a true believer, please don't excommunicate Sister Helfer, this is how she helped me escape abuse, or helped my daughter process her assault, or helped my gay kid, or saved my mental health from debilitating shame," and I'm reading them with President Daley's authoritarian mind (yeah, sue me, prick, your actions are clear), or with the mind of "the system," and like, naw, hun, this will not phase an abuser, who thinks you deserved it, your child needs to change, that guy is an acceptable casualty for the Lord, and haha you suckers you haven't even begun to figure out how this works, have you?
And I was thinking last night about the word "predator" while watching a homesteading show. Where the bears and cougars had people crying and ready to give up. You think "predator" is an insult to someone who does those things to women and kids? Naw, hun, that's a BADGE OF HONOR to some of those creeps. They like people crying and running around helplessly failing to stop them. They get off more on that than on the predation. Even better when they can trick a congregation full of "christlike" people to defend them and heap further abuse on a victim.
Some abusers are unconscious, and maybe this kind of language might sway them or at least shame them. For sure.
But the ones who are fully aware of who they are? Who have created an entire worldview around their impulses?
For clarity, I am not dishing on the letter writers. Trust is not a crime. Naivety is not a crime. Giving one's best shot at defending someone from a miscarriage of spiritual justice is not a crime. Processing things with what you know about this world is not a crime. Their words will (editor willing) go into this book and stand as testament against religious authoritarianism, and against President Daley specifically.
I am simply referencing their approach as a way to educate on how we do need to change our thinking, in that someone who acts the way Daley did is not persuadable using ideas like "compassion" because he doesn't understand that worldview the way you and I do. And we need to get wise to that so they can stop running the world.
Have you ever thought to yourself, "You know, I could just *stop* trying to be a good person, or stop trying to do X thing they say I'm supposed to do... I could just lie and go on doing that thing"? And then you probably decided, naw, my reasons for doing the good thing are fairly solid, so I will keep trying to do what I'm supposed to even if it's hard."
Yeah, there are people who take the other fork. They stop trying to be kind, or be honest, or be giving, or trying to protect the weak, or any of those things. They decide that so long as they don't *get caught* they'll be fine.
Religion is supposed to help with that problem, because God knows everything and the myth goes that they'll be caught in the end. But there are many, many ways for a determined person to weasel their way out of that threat. Either they stop believing that myth and instead of leaving they stay and *pretend* to believe, or they rationalize that the ends according to them justify the means, or that they're inherently such a good person it's ok if they bend the rules now and then.
They took a different fork than you took. And they exist. They're out there. Or *in here*, wherever here is to you. And they get very, very good a lying.
Religious settings are perfect for them, because it's easier to lie about things that can't be seen, touched, heard, or proven. The Bible says this, God wants that, I had a dream, I felt prompted, and all the people who took the fork of continuing to try, but who believe the Bible and God? They eat it up.
That's why Christianity in the US is a bastion of Abuse Culture. Because this cycle has been going on for thousands of years.
After all, the God of the Christian Bible as widely interpreted is awfully authoritarian. You couldn't find a better example of squishy principles, double-standards, might makes right, the ends justify the means, cruelty is the point, justice as defined by punishment, punishment that vastly outsizes the crime, transactional love, exclusion as a definitive value, hierarchy based on birthright as the perfect system, torture as a test of character, speaking love but not practicing it...
Almighty makes Alrighty.
It's a perfect fit for abusers. They shaped God into that figure, as the Bible was being written thousands of years ago, in how it was translated and encoded into traditions centuries ago, and in how they interpret it today. Whether at the top of the chain as a prophet or pope, or in the downline as a impoverished drunk who beats his kids, authoritarians are preferenced in the religious culture that has claimed a monopoly on love and morality.
And nobody really wins. Not the prophet or pope, and not the impoverished drunk or his kids. After a time, the system is the only entity that "wins" as it feeds on every human being involved.
I've certainly consciously entertained the idea of giving up on being a good person, a few times in life. Like, "What if I just lie?" But for whatever reason, I never took that fork. In two cases, the time I decided to make integrity my highest value, and the time after I left Mormonism trying to figure out what was real, I used reason to determine my values. (Essentially, using today's slang, if I become a leopard and ate people's faces then I'd allow that stronger, smarter leopards could eat mine.) But the other times, well, I guess it just wasn't in me. I didn't have the drive, or the will, to actively hurt people. I basically don't *want* to. It doesn't feel good.
It raises a lot of deeper questions about free will, nature vs. nurture, the nature of consciousness, what is "goodness." At that point, I have no conclusive answer for why things are the way they are. Neither do philosophers... nor psychologists.
Long bird flu conversation with friend from an agriculture trade association this morning. A person very much immersed in the normie political and regulatory world. This part of my work did not cross over with my anti-lockdown/vax work.
We talked a lot about animals testing positive with no symptoms. We talked about the lack of science supporting risk to humans. We talked about the fucking masks.
When I related this all back to covid, my colleague was visibly shaken
FIRST ON FOX: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will announce new policy changes Tuesday prohibiting law firms which have diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from working with the attorney general's office as outside counsel.
Florida AG James Uthmeier will introduce a new policy Tuesday targeting private law firms that engage in outside legal counsel for the state's office if they affirm DEI/ESG mandates.
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