Private company AmeriStarRail proposes cross-country Auto Train service with Amtrak


"Billie Eilish: “I think porn is a disgrace. I used to watch a lot of porn. I started watching porn when I was 11. I think it really destroyed my brain.

I would watch abusive BDSM. It got to the point where I couldn’t watch anything unless it was violent. The first few times I had sex I was not saying no to things that were not good.

I’m so angry that porn is so loved.”

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#PornCulture #MaleSexualDepravity #MaleSexualPolitics #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Feminism #Feminist

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ACIP Members Show Inexperience, Lack of Understanding at First Meeting, Experts Say

— To trained ears, meeting sounded like a "college epidemiology class"

Who would have thought.....

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in reply to Marc Veldhoen

Exactly this. There was a recent article (in The New Yorker?*) arguing that, in distinction to the “space lasers” branch of the Right, someone like RFK does debate in something of a reasonable or even scientific style, because he does refer to studies, evaluations, and research.

But in reality it's all superficial half-truths. A prime example being pointers to the total number of self-reported adverse effects of Covid vaccines, for example, and claiming those are “the most for any drug ever”. But without understanding that the severity measure, for instance, is relative to each type of symptom, so that, for instance, you might have entries for “severe abdominal discomfort”. Obviously it is NOT in fact “scientific" in any way to juxtapose that kind of number with the risk of an equally (terminology-wise) “severe” case of the actual disease, where “severe" means you ended up in the ICU, just because both are statistics.

Point being: there is nothing scientific to merely pointing to studies and statistics without understanding what they actually mean and say.

* I remembered correctly:
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05…

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France24
Gaza : le Hamas dit discuter de "propositions" de cessez-le-feu reçues des médiateurs
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#israel #palestine #Hamas #Cisjordanie #Gaza #Trump

Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area Starts Service #DPRK kfauk.com/wonsan-kalma-coastal…

Reminder that Dodge filed a lawsuit over Ford Motor Company because Henry Ford wanted to operate FoMoCo in the interest of the employees rather than the shareholders. Ford wanted to pay employees more, offer better benefits, and even hire more employees with profits made by the company.

FORD LOST THE SUIT. Michigan Supreme Court said Ford shall not be a "charity company" and was for profit only. Ford was required to pay a dividend of 19 MILLION dollars.

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When "both-sides" folk try to demonstrate the notion of “what may be legitimate criticism of Israel being expressed in exaggerated and therefore antisemitic terms”, they point to things like calling Israel “evil” (as opposed to "in violation of international law” etc).

But literally taking away food from starving babies ⋅is⋅ evil, in absolutely every sense of the word. It's the kind of behaviour the word evil was invented for.

Now, as an Israel-apologist you can attempt to claim the episode didn't happen, or that it was an overzealous individual, not policy (you'd fail, because it ⋅did⋅ happen and because the individual in question was merely ⋅applying⋅ official policy, which bans the bulk import of baby formula by truck, to private baggage).

But to go with “Actually, taking food from starving babies in order to make their parents helplessly watch them die is NOT ‘evil’ when Israel does it — and it's antisemitic to claim it is!”... not only are you confirming that you consider Palestinians to be subhuman, but you are dehumanising ⋅yourself⋅, and everyone watching can see that you yourself, you really are evil too.

#Gaza #genocide

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Revealed: UK's Labour Government Is Secretly Allowing Israeli Military Planes Involved in Bombing Gaza to Land in Britain dropsitenews.com/p/revealed-uk…

#gazagenocide

WATCH NOW: 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' – The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See

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Exclusive: The powerful film the BBC refused to air is out now, released globally by Zeteo. It documents Israel's destruction of Gaza's hospitals and the killing of Palestinian doctors.

BREAKING: Republicans Fail to Advance Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ After Four GOP Votes No—Democrats Celebrate

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Laura Loomer is an advisor to Trump, and she's quite clear that what's going on is not "deporting criminal aliens" but the ethnic cleansing of all 65 million Latinos in the US. In fact she's pretty clear she wants this to be the genocide of the US Latino population.

I'm not sure many people recognize we're already a few lines into the "first they came for the..." poem. But we are.

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Es gibt einen neuen UN-Bericht über die Unternehmen die von #Besatzung, #Kriegsverbrechen, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit und #Genozid gegenüber Palästinenser*innen profitieren, diese Verbrechen ermöglichen.
Nicht nur die Staaten wie #Israel, USA, Deutschland und UK sind Täter, auch diese Unternehmen. Und sie sollten genau wie die Staaten zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden. #Gaza #Westbank #Palestine

»From economy of occupation to economy of genocide«
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Hier geht's nur um die Spitze des Eisbergs, - die besonders involvierten Unternehmen. Hier findet man einen Beitrag der kurz erklärt um was und wenn es geht.

»UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.«
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Re this from @jenniferplusplus: YES.

My first job out of college, I successfully built several high-profile executive darling software projects. I was celebrated for it (someone once use the phrase “white knight,” yikes), which was heady for a 20-something fresh out of college.

Despite that, I don’t think a single one of those projects actually mattered diddly to the company in the long term.

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

I think I did only two things that really mattered to that org in the long term:

1. Stopped them from buying a really dubious CMS / web app engine that would have cost the org (a nonprofit) millions it didn’t have to be vendor-locked into a dead-end platform that would have set their site back years.

2. Selected a new developer hire who was far more dependable and mature than I was, and became their lynchpin. She wrote tons of software that did actually matter, and stayed with them for years.

Whatever dev skills I had turned out to be good for (1) saying “stop, don’t” and (2) recognizing an excellent person in a job interview. Note that neither involved the code I wrote.

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The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations unlimitedhangout.com/2025/07/i…

Yang Zwing Ming

108 Yang Style Tai Chi Long Form

This was removed from youtube public access but is archived

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