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@scottdhansen I was told by my daughter last week that blue moon ice cream is a Wisconsin thing. I found that hard to believe. So far based on the poll results, that seems to be true.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis held a phone conversation Saturday, exchanging views on regional developments and bilateral relations amid rising tensions following recent military aggressions by the …
This was a toughie. If you didn't see the first stream, you have no idea.Devastators, or as it's more commonly known "Hey this looks like that G.I.Joe game",...
Dogs are wonderful until they accidentally ‘ lock ‘ themselves in the bathroom and start doing a number on your trim while you are out running errands. New trim cut today and all is well.
@MummaBear he’s our rescue, he has a nice smile. my oldest while on duty saved him from a hot car on a 95 degree day when some hoodlems left him waiting while going to dinner in a car in the city. He busted the window and pulled him out.
@Zennagain @MummaBear Heinz 57 mostly shitsu although three other are in the mix as well. He’s immune to cold and water. Hates the Mail / amazon / FedEx/ UPS drivers.
@MummaBear My shepherds used to go into the USPS truck and get a cookie. It was so nice until a new driver showed up and had a heart attack when the dogs jumped into his truck! 😂
The most powerful form of influence the media has is what they leave out, from stories they don’t cover at all to details they leave out of what they do cover, as here.
There is very little News in the USA News now. I go to other counties to find out what's going on in my own country. There are also some fairly informative YouTube News. Sign: Living in Trumpland
Actually, the BBC does a much better job than the big US networks in covering Africa and Asia. BBC news in video and audio form is mostly kept away from us foreigners, but the web site is free and open. bbc.co.uk/news/world
I think this better coverage of Asia and Africa is because of the UK's imperialist history.
That's not to say that the USA hasn't acquired a lot of territory since the 1780s. The difference is that most of that territory is now states of the US, and well-covered in the press here.
The only fairly large territory left that is not part of a state is Puerto Rico. The others are all quite tiny.
Oh, and don't forget that the District of Columbia, which includes the capital city of Washington, is also not part of a state and not represented in the national government.
Hey Australians! What about the ACT. Is it represented in the national government in the same way as, say, Victoria?
@David Yes, the two principal mainland Australian territories (ACT and NT) are almost equivalent to the states, with representation in the parliament in both chambers. The eight smaller territories are effectively equivalent to local governments, like a town or city.
The main difference is that the territories do not have their own state constitutions, and are therefore governed directly by the federal constitution.
Here in the US, maybe the easiest fix is to add the territories to existing states. Make all the Pacific territories part of California, and all the Caribbean territories part of Florida or Louisiana.
If it's part of your country, it should be represented in your government.
Aid officials say at least 85 #Palestinians killed by #IDF while trying to get food aid. (NPR reports the number killed was 100). Besides these deaths by gunfire, countless #Gazans are dying by starvation. apnews.com/article/israel-pale…
Sean Davis sur X : "The woman on the right is Ghislaine Maxwell. She trafficked children for Jeffrey Epstein. The woman on the left owns your magazine. https://t.co/dl7V7E6km7" / X
#rock Avons nous produit ce désastre avec ce que nous avons fait, aimé, adoré ? Le plaisir est-il donc, coupable ?... J'ai beau voir ce que je vois, je ne peux pas m'y résoudre... J'étais plus Lou Reed, ma soeur plus rock, punk, etc... De jolis motifs parfois dans ce bouillon de cris fous...
Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle 12,8 M d’abonnés #GunsNRoses
Official Music Video for "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns N' Roses from their debut album, 'Appetite for Destruction.' Featured in Thor: Love and Thunder!REMA...
#rock #soul Incroyable... J'ai. l'impression d'un monde qui s'est évaporé sans laisser de traces. Ma nièce écoute des niaiseries des années 80, de la techno un peu fade, ce que nous appelions, ma soeur moi et les copains avec un mépris appuyé, le "sirop', et mon père encore pire, des "écouillés" (à commencer par le pauvre Chet Baker qu'il habillait pour l'hiver), je ne rate jamais une occasion d'honorer sa mémoire par ce mot qui me vaut les foudres de tous les bien pensants polis sérieux.. Sans la chaleur des cuivres, de la sueur, du beat, les basses, guitares, la batterie, un Chanteur toujours toqué mégalo - et je parle d'expérience ! Ils sont perchés comme personne n'oserait plus l'être ! Il faut le leur laisser !
James Brown "Soul Power" live in Kinshasa Zaire, 1974.9
I swear every single company is making every shitty decision possible all at once. I'm going to have to become a FOSS sperg out of necessity at this point.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHgc5LsX58Ys-YysMi/ Why do people fear socialism, but not fascism? Why does the idea of workers owning the means of production scare millions, while police states, corpora...
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTHgc5LsX58Ys-YysMi/ Why do people fear socialism, but not fascism? Why does the idea of workers owning the means of production scare millions, while police states, corpora...
Yep. Fascism is notoriously difficult to define. I was effectively a socialist for years before I looked into it and realized my ideals already had a label.
This episode of the Palestine Declassified assesses the outcome of the 12-day hard war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Zionist colony of Israel.
literally me when i told my sister that everyone is skipping Sunday that week and when she asked my dad he just said "yeah it's how the calendar works, no sunday this week, one less day in the weekend"
I could just download Arknights boss themes and play them over Slice and Dice instead while goofing off at work. I already do half the time when the Arknights stamina is dry
"Archives / Vacarme en réunion #5 / Émission du 3 novembre 2013 En duplex depuis l'inauguration de la Toison d'Or, urbanisme, centre commercial et vol en tout genre."
Archives / Vacarme en réunion #5 / Émission du 3 novembre 2013
En duplex depuis l’inauguration de la Toison d’Or, urbanisme, centre commercial et vol en tout genre.
"Venez manifester aux côtés des gazaoui•es dont les familles subissent la famine et les bombardements orchestrés par Israel en ce moment même, votre présence compte et ne sera remplacée par la présence de personne d'autre"
Venez manifester aux côtés des gazaoui•es dont les familles subissent la famine et les bombardements orchestrés par Israel en ce moment même, votre présence compte et ne sera remplacée par la (...)
Free Palestine TV Laith Marouf and Hadi Hotait travel to the village of Qabrikha close to the borders of Lebanon and occupied Palestine to inspect the seen of a Zionist attack on the Hijazi family,…
There's no such thing as the Wayland standard, there are specifications that desktops choose to adopt but there's no requirement for anyone to actually adopt...
hahaha yes, I successfully triggered the iOS "your NFC secure element is too full, please delete some cards" UI!
for the unaware, Apple Wallet cards are really Java Card programs stored on an embedded Secure Element chip, separate from the main processor
this chip has limited storage! if you overfill it — say, by wasting $40 on TAP transit cards — it forces you to make room for more with this rarely-seen popup
I am amused by the thought that you might be the third human to ever see this pop up: the first being the programmer who made it, and the second a QA tester who verified it functions as described. 😀
"Sabotage et guérilla, exploration de stratégies anti-autoriataire. Nous republions la traduction anonyme d'un texte paru le 13 mai 2024 sur Indymedia-DE."
China reported better-than-expected economic growth for the second quarter in the face of an ongoing trade war with the United States, as diversification efforts to non-US markets buoyed exports.
GDP expanded 5.2% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) at a press conference on Tuesday.
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"Ce texte est issu d'un travail collectif entre des membres des collectifs l'AG Antifa Paris 20e, Extinction Rebellion, Désert'Heureuxses, le Mouton Numérique, la SAMBA (Section Antifasciste Montreuil Bagnolet et Alentours), Soin Collectif
Ce texte est issu d’un travail collectif entre des membres des collectifs l’AG Antifa Paris 20e, Extinction Rebellion, Désert’Heureuxses, le Mouton Numérique, la SAMBA (Section Antifasciste Montreuil Bagnolet et Alentours), Soin Collectif Île-de-Fran…
Years ago, when I lived in Washington DC, there was an incident on the metro when a train got stuck in a tunnel that was filling with smoke.
Metro authorities told everyone to stay in the train cars, even though they were filling with smoke and it’s generally a bad idea to stay in an enclosed space filling with smoke. Metro also has evacuation instructions posted by every door.
An elderly woman eventually did die from smoke inhalation. More people had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
And I recall getting into an argument in, like, the comments section of an article on Popville about how *you should not stay in an enclosed space filling with smoke because you will eventually die.*
And a number of other people chastised me for saying this, because People In Authority had told everyone to stay put and it could have been very dangerous to open the doors and evacuate. Someone might have died!
But someone literally did die from following those instructions.
I routinely think about this essay, about the sinking of the ferry Estonia in the 1990s, which made a huge impression on me and which I’ve plugged before:
“People who started early and moved fast had some chance of winning. People who started late or hesitated for any reason had no chance at all. Action paid. Contemplation did not. The mere act of getting dressed was enough to condemn people to death, and although many of those who escaped to the water succumbed to the cold, most of the ultimate winners endured the ordeal completely naked or in their underwear. The survivors all seem to have grasped the nature of this race…”
In this particular case, the disaster unfolded so quickly and dramatically that there was no real chance for people in authority to tell people to stay put. But they were also of little to no help to anyone else.
When you sense that you are in danger, listen to that sense and act to protect yourself and anyone else around you who is willing to listen. Do not wait for orders. Do not worry about appearing embarrassed about overreacting. Trust yourself and take action.
One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place in 1994. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives when a luxurious ferry sank below the waves.
All of this came to mind when I read about the disastrous flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas on 4 July. The camp had been built in a flood plain. Its owners knew this and had deliberately sought and received zoning exemptions to build buildings that were unsafe. They had received flash flood warnings that night and waited more than an hour before taking any action to evacuate their children at the camp.
“As the water encroached, the teenage counselors, cut off from others, were left to make frantic life-and-death decisions.”
27 campers and counselors died that night, and six more are still missing. You cannot rely on systems and structures of authority to help you in an emergency. You must trust your judgment. Act and act fast.
Hierarchical authority relies on stable and predictable systems to work. They require an environment that is legible to the people in positions of authority. They require clear communication of orders down the hierarchical chain.
None of that exists in a genuine emergency, especially one that affects people in authority and their subordinates equally. And, critically, for those systems of authority to work in ways that might be useful to you, they require people in power to have better judgment than you about your own immediate circumstances, and they require people in power to care as much about you as they do about themselves.
In short, act as if no one is coming to save you or the people next to you.
For Californians- If Cal-Fire tells you to evacuate, go! They do know what they are doing, and they really hate finding burnt corpses. Your property is not worth your life.
@c_merriweather But, if they haven't told you to evacuate but you think you should and have the means to do so, it's probably a good idea to get out early before there's an order. Similarly if the government doesn't require you to wear a mask in a setting but you think there's a good chance of catching a disease or being harmed by wildfire smoke there, go ahead and wear the mask instead of worrying about who won't think you're compliant enough.
Cal-Fire issues precautionary evacuation orders far ahead of time. In rural areas, they want people out of the way and off of the roads, so they can get their equipment to the fire.
I have been in two evacuations, so far. Been there.
@c_merriweather @PedestrianError I know people who lost everything in deadly freeway-jumping, neighborhood-annihilating wildfires that moved so fast there was no time for evacuation orders to go out.
Especially now that the various emergency monitoring and response services are getting cut willy nilly, don't count on getting warnings.
It's probably worth noting that this was a conservative Christian all girls' camp. The teenage counselors were not only minors but minors who had been socialized to see themselves as second class citizens not cut out to lead or take decisive action. Training them to wait for 'God' or his representative in the form of a man to save them helped kill them and the younger children with them.
this reminds me of a concert I attended recently, where the fire alarm system went off during the start of the show... nobody was sure what was happening, the show was occurring on the 4th floor of a large building, I'd estimate only about 10% of the audience got up and reacted to the alarm (which sounded for about 15 minutes straight before authorities made a statement of false alarm)
I can't help thinking about what would have happened if it wasn't a false alarm... if there was really a fire only the people who left early would have had a chance of making it out alive, the rest likely would have just been burned up in a tall building fire because they sat around ignoring the fire alarms waiting for a statement tbh
to make this worse, most of the audience happened to be elderly people who would struggle to escape in a rush too
Note that in the Metro situation, if it is the tunnel not the train filling with smoke things get more complex. It is the tunnel from which you must either escape or move far enough within to get upwind or out of range of the smoke.
The train car itself may or may not hold off the smoke, but if you wait in it until it gets too smoky it will then be even worse in the tunnel.
The final complication is this: if the train still has 3ed rail power Metro will presumably try to back it out of the smoke. Metro really needs to tell passengers right quick in these scenarios whether that will be attempted or not. If it works, its the best way out of the smoke for everyone. If it cannot be done passengers need to know fast.
I think about this lately from a bit of a longer perspective. I'm always depressed because I think the world is ending, but I still work and pay off my mortgage and prepare to retire. I have been thinking that I might be more at peace if I stopped worrying about fiscal stuff if I really believe that we have maybe a decade before most societies collapse.
(Like in your Estonia example me worrying about my 401k is like someone worrying about putting clothes on before jumping in the water.)
No no Ben this is your story of truth. In collaboration with the CCP renowned for their willingness to share accurate data with the western world. Do tell us more Ben.
You are willing to bet your life that zero mining took place in China 2022-2023? I will take the other side of that bet. Seems highly illogical. No one has real data on China and you know this. Unless you are a moron?
Well they did. And bitcoin mining went from 70% of the world share to invisible on the graph in three years. And I explained that to you when you didn’t understand. And I invited you to supply evidence to the contrary and you declined. So if I’m the moron here I’m not sure what adjective is left for you.
No Ben the year is 2025. You couldn't supply any current data on the amount of mining in China today so you showcased a small subset of data from 22-23 and purported that the data was empirical on a nation where it is impossible do so. You are the height of intellectual dishonesty aka a fucking moron.
This weekend Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, released hundreds of documents she says are evidence that a huge numbers of Democrat offic...
Good stuff. Of course, that picture of him in an orange jumpsuit is fake.
1. even if they are off the 'limitations' hook, the participants in this shit show need to be fired from their cushy government jobs. 2. there are other crimes, including murder, which may be pinned on some of these morons. and some crimes do not have time limits. who killed Seth Rich? (for example)
Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest,
again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say
ages, more like 5+ seconds every time I opened a new terminal, that
sort of thing can add up. This is just...
"Le futur s'est donné rendez-vous en 2025 et a bloqué la date du 20 septembre pour empêcher que le monstre vorace Cigéo nous exproprie aujourd'hui et confisque notre avenir. La lutte d'hier à demain vous invite ainsi à une grande manif contre la poubelle nucléaire ! ☢️ Parce qu'à Bure, c'est aujourd'hui que tout se joue :
Le futur s’est donné rendez-vous en 2025 et a bloqué la date du 20 septembre pour empêcher que le monstre vorace Cigéo nous exproprie aujourd’hui et confisque notre avenir. La lutte d’hier à (...)
At least 73 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, in one of the deadliest days yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.
Il n'y a pas que dans le génocide à Gaza mené par les états israéliens et américains où l'état français s'illustre par sa passivité et sa complicité active envers des atrocités. Au Togo, la France et…
Coca-Cola's 1985 transition to high-fructose corn syrup in the United States was primarily a #business decision, the company said. The change coincided with rising sugar prices and agricultural policies that made corn syrup a more economical alternative.
"Indeed, one of the strangest things about the Epstein case is that it's the rare instance in which right-wing conspiratorialists care about actual people, rather than imaginary ones."
@pluralistic Care about actual people? Not really. I hear a lot of talk about the list and who's on it, not much about the victims and making life better for them. That's true for both MAGA and anti-Trump voices.
One thing that struck me many years ago about "conservatives" is that they don't ever want the government to do anything that doesn't somehow involve hurting people. Possibly people who deserved to be hurt, but the hurting was the important bit.
@cptbutton Yea - there is (or at least was about 20 years ago), a lot of talk about "conservative morality". Jonathan Haidt et al.
There is no Conservative morality. It is just a set of rationalisations for cruelty - more often than not against their own people.
I was constantly bleating on about "You guys are demanding that the same punishments handed down by the IMF in South America in the 80s be imposed on yourself as though it's some sort of moral imperative". Well. Here we are.
@cptbutton Conservatives are fundamentally broken people.
From the very foundation of the ideology. Preserve the shitfuckery and dont move forward, to as you say, hurt people.
My observation about conservatives. As insightful as yours that I would like to share, is that, Conservatives do not look at the whole picture.
They never try to encompas the entirity of an issue, but focus on a specific, isolated aspect of it. This gives them the ability to retrofit whatever fucked up reasoning they desire onto it, to justify it.
If we survive this stage in our development. We will develop vaccines for conservativism. Identify the afflicted children at pre-school level. And cure them.
a lot of the everyday people are far more worried about the enigmatic and generic "children" affected by pedophilia instead of the actual, very real and specific people affected by it. Because by now, they are adults and it's harder to care about them.
agree. It's similar to the anti-choice stance. Nebulous voiceless children and foetuses are easy to pretend caring about. They ask nothing of you. You feel you're automatically correct.
Yet, instead of protecting any real children from real child abusers - in the home, in churches, in schools and sport - they make stuff up. Pizzagate. And then they ignore the fact that their main guy was pals with a known, actual child abuse facilitator.
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