Video: Marc Short on Trump’s Lack of Control in Courtroom
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Fox News is painting targets on the jurors’ backs. For a criminal would-be dictator.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-22T18:07:48.000Z
Marc Short is a fucking asshole. I’m so sick and tired of rancid Republican creeps like him.
Maybe I might not be getting it. This info is coming from Fox but there is an MSNBC graphic?
re: #3 PhillyPretzel ✅
Maybe I might not be getting it. This info is coming from Fox but there is an MSNBC graphic?
They’re all doing this. US media is amoral.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
I see. This is not good.
re: #3 PhillyPretzel ✅
Maybe I might not be getting it. This info is coming from Fox but there is an MSNBC graphic?
Rupar is using the MSNBC graphic to illustrate a point about Watters.
I wonder if any of the people who unquestioningly swallowed and regurgitated this shit will publicly reexamine their priors or take any personal responsibility for enabling a famine.
Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.
The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”.
Allegations of the involvement of Unrwa staff in the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel led major donors in January to cut their funding to the agency, the main channel of humanitarian support not only to Palestinians in Gaza but to Palestinian refugee communities across the region.
The funding was cut despite the dire needs of 2.3 million people in Gaza, most of whom have been forced from their homes by the Israeli offensive since 7 October and have been struggling to find water, food, shelter or medical care.
Most of the donor nations have resumed their funding in recent weeks. UK ministers had said they would wait for the Colonna report to make a decision on resuming funding. US financial support of Unrwa has been blocked by Congress for at least a year in the wake of the allegations.
Louis Charbonneau, the UN director at Human Rights Watch, said: “I don’t think the findings in the Colonna report are particularly surprising. Governments who haven’t should immediately resume full funding to Unrwa so it can deliver aid to desperate civilians. Many Palestinians are facing famine because of Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war.”
It still blows my mind that any human being with a functioning brain could possibly look at the absolutely deranged, ugly shit Trump is spewing and still think he’d make a good president.
I hope this isn’t an image vs unsatisfying reality social media suicide. Motivated, talented, beautiful, and dead at 29.
TikTok Star and ‘Club Rat’ Creator Eva Evans Dies at 29
TikTok star Eva Evans, who shared her fabulous life in New York City with hundreds of thousands of followers and created the Amazon series Club Rat, has died at the age of 29, her sister revealed on Instagram.
“please share this post so that it reaches everyone it needs to,” Lila said in the Sunday post. “yesterday my family received news that our sweet, fabulous, creative, caring, hilarious Eva, my beautiful sister, has died. after 24 hours, i still find myself in a constant cycle of denial and acceptance, so i know how unbelievable and hard to process this news will be.”
re: #13 Charles Johnson
It still blows my mind that any human being with a functioning brain could possibly look at the absolutely deranged, ugly shit Trump is spewing and still think he’d make a good president.
You and me both, but they do.
Even my own dad is planning to vote for him.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
You and me both, but they do.
Even my own dad is planning to vote for him.
Time to disown him. There’s no excuse for voting to destroy America to please fascists. It can’t be rationalized away.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
You and me both, but they do.
Even my own dad is planning to vote for him.
We’ve recognized the reality of brainwashing for at least 75 years, but we still don’t know much about how it’s done or how to fix it.
re: #16 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Time to disown him. There’s no excuse for voting to destroy America to please fascists. It can’t be rationalized away.
Disowning is a bit much. There are steps to take before that.
Ya gotta give, Stormy credit for a sense of humor.Today’s fashion statement on the first day of BIG MAGATONI’s trial. pic.twitter.com/hXKQ0oBHRO
— Leslie Resists 2TheBarricades (@Resisted2TheEnd) April 22, 2024
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re: #18 wrenchwench
Disowning is a bit much. There are steps to take before that.
Such as? Do you have a way to get through to fascists?
re: #21 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Such as? Do you have a way to get through to fascists?
I don’t claim a way to get through to fascists. I might suggest, if asked,
talk to him
quit talking to him
talk to others in the family
quit issuing invitations
quit responding to invitations
Are you thinking of ‘disowning’ as a way to get through to a fascist?
re: #18 wrenchwench
Disowning is a bit much. There are steps to take before that.
The ugly truth is that because this whole fucking country’s about the money that’s what this comes down to for a lot of (mostly white) people; the mental calculus of how much it’s literally worth to maintain a cordial relationship with demonstrably amoral family members in the hopes of not jeopardizing some potential future inheritance.
Amazing news!
NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager
blogs.nasa.gov…
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-22T19:13:35.000Z
re: #25 Charles Johnson
Yay. Way to go NASA.
re: #23 wrenchwench
I don’t claim a way to get through to fascists. I might suggest, if asked,
talk to him
quit talking to him
talk to others in the family
quit issuing invitations
quit responding to invitationsAre you thinking of ‘disowning’ as a way to get through to a fascist?
I’m thinking of it as a way to get through to a fascist if there’s any hope, making them choose between family and corruption, or to get rid of them. We’re pretty far down the timeline at this point, so long after the coup attempt, so there can be no excuse making for people who clearly reject our way of life. No decent sane person will vote for Donald Trump in 2024.
re: #24 goddamnedfrank
The ugly truth is that because this whole fucking country’s about the money that’s what this comes down to for a lot of (mostly white) people, the mental calculus of how much it’s literally worth to maintain a cordial relationship with demonstrably amoral family members in the hopes of not jeopardizing some potential future inheritance.
I was disowned by my mom. She forgot all about it. The sister who (I’m pretty sure) talked her into that still has not spoken to me. They didn’t like my husband. My husband said my sister was trying to get my share (of something I never thought about).
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Nothing will stop my relatives from voting for Trump.
re: #24 goddamnedfrank
The ugly truth is that because this whole fucking country’s about the money that’s what this comes down to for a lot of (mostly white) people, the mental calculus of how much it’s literally worth to maintain a cordial relationship with demonstrably amoral family members in the hopes of not jeopardizing some potential future inheritance.
However, in many cases, it is just that you truly care for the family member and even though their politics are evil, they remain loving to their family. They’ve been brainwashed by lies that are repeated by RW platforms and even MSM, but that does not mean they cannot be kind and caring to their friends and family.
Tomorrow we find out if anyone has found the guts to hold Trump accountable for his continual violations of the gag order.
It’s nauseating to watch this disgusting creature trying to incite violence and get people killed, and nobody steps up to do a goddamned thing about it. They just act like there’s nothing unusual about it and the normal measures will be fine.
re: #33 Hecuba’s daughter
However, in many cases, it is just that you truly care for the family member and even though their politics are evil, they remain loving to their family. They’ve been brainwashed by lies that are repeated by RW platforms and even MSM, but that does not mean they cannot be kind and caring to their friends and family.
This is the case for many of us here, myself included. My parents are vaguely racist, are definitely supporters of the right-wing anti-abortion agenda, but in every other regard, they’re good people.
re: #16 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Time to disown him. There’s no excuse for voting to destroy America to please fascists. It can’t be rationalized away.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I can’t do that. He’s the only genuine parental figure I have left. He’s He and I have just agreed to disagree politically.
There are a number of people I really care about that I am confident are voting Trump. It infuriates me, but I don’t feel it right to sever my relationships with them, for a number of reasons.
Interestingly, my mom, who I have a crap relationship with, is a liberal who can’t stand TFG.
re: #30 wrenchwench
I was disowned by my mom. She forgot all about it. The sister who (I’m pretty sure) talked her into that still has not spoken to me. They didn’t like my husband. My husband said my sister was trying to get my share (of something I never thought about).
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re: #28 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I’m thinking of it as a way to get through to a fascist if there’s any hope, making them choose between family and corruption, or to get rid of them. We’re pretty far down the timeline at this point, so long after the coup attempt, so there can be no excuse making for people who clearly reject our way of life. No decent sane person will vote for Donald Trump in 2024.
There are times one must exclude people from one’s life. My experience may have given me poor judgement over what others do. My family is all politically reasonable. Personally, some of them have nutty ideas about how a person should behave, to the point of threats of exclusion if they don’t do it right.
I’ll never judge someone, either for cutting someone out of their life, or for not doing so when it seems like it would be healthier to do so. There are always extenuating factors, and the decision to cut a family member or close friend off completely is an extremely difficult one. I can mitigate issues with my family with distance; we only see them a few times a year, and my wife and I educate our kids so that they know not to bring up certain topics that will trigger the grandparents’ ire. I have a former friend to whom I could not show such grace; that is why he is now a former friend.
stumptown screwed my subscription up so I wound up with a free bag of trapper creek decaf. for those who don’t know, trapper creek is possibly the best decaf going, and comes in whole bean, which is the only way I buy coffee. Thank you, no, Folgers, I’m not gonna try to make coffee out of your espresso grind.
Charlie Kirk: Mike Johnson Is “LARPing As A Christian”
True cult behavior - cut off anyone who does not toe the line. Then move the line. Rinse. Repeat.
So now, the guy who just a few weeks ago was portrayed as a religious fanatic fighting in the name of God is not a real Christian.
re: #34 Charles Johnson
Tomorrow we find out if anyone has found the guts to hold Trump accountable for his continual violations of the gag order.
It’s nauseating to watch this disgusting creature trying to incite violence and get people killed, and nobody steps up to do a goddamned thing about it. They just act like there’s nothing unusual about it and the normal measures will be fine.
as i read it, NY has only two options
$1000 per violation
jail
there is no room for creativity
though 1000 x times isnt gonna hurt tfg, i dont think the judge is ready for jail yet
Georgia GOP forks over $1.7 million in legal fees for Trump trial
Their convention to choose Trump only cost $400,000. Instead of their priority being to win elections, they are working to win legal cases. Good.
re: #39 Nerdy Fish
I’ll never judge someone, either for cutting someone out of their life, or for not doing so when it seems like it would be healthier to do so. There are always extenuating factors, and the decision to cut a family member or close friend off completely is an extremely difficult one. I can mitigate issues with my family with distance; we only see them a few times a year, and my wife and I educate our kids so that they know not to bring up certain topics that will trigger the grandparents’ ire. I have a former friend to whom I could not show such grace; that is why he is now a former friend.
My grandmother was pretty fucked up, and I had to put up with it after my mother died, because no one else was going to take her to the doctor and grocery store. I didn’t tiptoe around her bullshit though, and let her know her talk of Jew doctors was unacceptable.
re: #29 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Is it alien engineering now?
/
Right…wait until it reverses course and comes home…
re: #52 Randall Gross
Hell, yeah. It’s great - guitar, horns, organ…timeless song.
re: #14 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I hope this isn’t an image vs unsatisfying reality social media suicide. Motivated, talented, beautiful, and dead at 29.
Social Media looks hard to me.
Watched the first episode of Fallout - starting the second now. Granted, I don’t know the game or the plot so I’m just enjoying it as it comes.
Dunno if it’s been noted here, but some news from Space:
The long-distance probe had been silent for several months, but NASA scientists figured out that the issue was a hardware problem in one of V1’s chips, so they came up with a re-programming kludge to store the data elsewhere, beamed the instructions out, and, amazingly, it worked: and Voyager is now sending data back (again).
Not bad for technology that’s A) now nearly a half-century old and B) at the far end of a 22-1/2 hour time lag.
ETA: Ooops, I see Charles was there first in #25. Sorry.
re: #54 Axolotl
Social Media looks hard to me.
Scientists say we need our big brains primarily to navigate interactions with other humans.
Those interactions now happen much more often than they used to, so I would not be surprised if social media is pushing our limits.
Our institutions are being run by aggressively stupid people.
NYU Gaza solidarity encampment just sent out an advisory saying administration has threatened “severe consequences” and “anything is on the table” if they don’t clear out.
(via Talia Jane on Twitter)
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T19:02:22.638Z
re: #55 darthstar
Watched the first episode of Fallout - starting the second now. Granted, I don’t know the game or the plot so I’m just enjoying it as it comes.
I usually rotate through several shows so I don’t run out of episodes of any one show too quickly. Fallout hooked me in, so I only managed to work one episode of another show into what turned out to be a Fallout binge.
re: #57 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Scientists say we need our big brains primarily to navigate interactions with other humans.
Those interactions now happen much more often than they used to, so I would not be surprised if social media is pushing our limits.
Because there are not many physical limits to the volume of information that we can interchange while at the same time fewer social inhibitions about delivering them.
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re: #62 Charles Johnson
So he wants to bankrupt the nation. Good to know.
re: #61 Captain Magic
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re: #62 Charles Johnson
He has the dudebro vote 100 % blockchained up
re: #64 Eclectic Cyborg
So he wants to bankrupt the nation. Good to know.
But do it in a way that we cannot determine who ultimately absconded with it…
Concerning the “plague of frogs” there is a disagreement among the rabbis whether this plague consisted of swarms and swarms of regular-sized frogs as opposed to one, huge, Godzilla-size frog.
The compromise is that a big Godzilla frog appeared and a bunch of regular-sized frogs swarmed out of its mouth and that’s how this event opened.
re: #68 Vicious Babushka
Frogzilla!!!
re: #62 Charles Johnson
No, Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs!
You will NOT put my pension on the blockchain you fucking blockhead!
re: #63 Vicious Babushka
And a Happy Passover to you and your family.
I see Amazon still sells the “Bag O’Plagues” that I used to get for my kids to have fun at the Seder.
re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter
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It’s just me, Z & our 52-year-old firstborn son tonight at the Seder.
re: #76 Vicious Babushka
Okay. I know you will miss Michigan.
re: #77 PhillyPretzel ✅
Okay. I know you will miss Michigan.
I don’t like Florida (I know I have said it over and over) but we have to move where our kids are. I mean, I have considered Wilkes-Barre all the houses are full of stairs, very few ranch-style. *shrugs* now I will never have my dream Victorian.
re: #55 darthstar
They did a really good job with the show - pleasing both gamers and non-gamers alike.
One thing to help you along: The premise of Fallout is that the world adopted nuclear technology for everything and did not fully develop the computer chip. As a result, the world basically stayed in a 1950s cultural vibe. TV remained black and white, while Western-themed movies never went out of style.
DeSantis has one of the highest governor disapproval ratings
The Florida Republican’s 44% disapproval rating ties him for third place, coming in just short of Oregon Democrat Tina Kotek (45%) and Iowa Republican Kim Reynolds (47%), who endorsed DeSantis for president during the GOP primaries.
Floridians are divided over their support for DeSantis, with 51% saying they approve of what he’s done since winning the 2018 gubernatorial election, according to the survey results. That means just 5% of Florida voters are undecided.
re: #78 Vicious Babushka
I don’t like Florida (I know I have said it over and over) but we have to move where our kids are. I mean, I have considered Wilkes-Barre all the houses are full of stairs, very few ranch-style. *shrugs* now I will never have my dream Victorian.
The best decision I made was buying a ranch back in 2008 and no longer having to navigate stairs once inside the house. Yes, there are a couple stairs from the garage, but the handrails added by the prior owner makes it a snap to get into the house.
re: #80 Dr. Matt
DeSantis has one of the highest governor disapproval ratings
To think I am leaving a state with one of the country’s best, if not THE BEST governor and move to a state run by this bozo.
re: #83 Vicious Babushka
To think I am leaving a state with one of the country’s best, if not THE BEST governor and move to a state run by this bozo.
You’re leaving Michigan for Florida?
re: #65 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #74 Vicious Babushka
It’s just me, Z & our 52-year-old firstborn son tonight at the Seder.
The attorney my wife worked for in Miami considered us as part of his family, and would invite us to family observances like Seder.
“None of Us Is Free Until All of Us Are Free,”
I have to admit there is a much larger and more diverse Jewish population in Miami than there is in Detroit. But when we move into the apartment complex I am going to make friends with the first Black woman I meet who lives there.
re: #88 Vicious Babushka
I have to admit there is a much larger and more diverse Jewish population in Miami than there is in Detroit. But when we move into the apartment complex I am going to make friends with the first Black woman I meet who lives there.
I left Michigan for Florida 30+ years ago. I certainly miss the summers and fall in Michigan, and I hate the rednecks and politics in Florida. Much like I did, you’ll make this your home and find good and happy people to be around. I don’t regret moving here. Welcome to Flori-duh.
re: #83 Vicious Babushka
To think I am leaving a state with one of the country’s best, if not THE BEST governor and move to a state run by this bozo.
We can use your vote
re: #85 Dr. Matt
The best whines come from Miami.
(I’ll see my way out…..)
re: #93 dharmamark
Happy Passover.
I’m pretty sure passover is when you don’t get picked in gym class, but I may be mistaken.
re: #83 Vicious Babushka
To think I am leaving a state with one of the country’s best, if not THE BEST governor and move to a state run by this bozo.
I am worried about voting in Michigan. A friend heard from a cousin who works in politics (nationwide — not particularly in Michigan) that Biden will lose the state because the Muslim community there has so turned against him.
re: #95 Hecuba’s daughter
I am worried about voting in Michigan. A friend heard from a cousin who works in politics (nationwide — not particularly in Michigan) that Biden will lose the state because the Muslim community there has so turned against him.
Do they want to be rounded up by Christian nationalists because Biden didn’t meet with them?
re: #59 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
I usually rotate through several shows so I don’t run out of episodes of any one show too quickly. Fallout hooked me in, so I only managed to work one episode of another show into what turned out to be a Fallout binge.
Episode 2 down - Trump trauma doesn’t interest me so #3 is coming up. “Okie dokie!”
re: #95 Hecuba’s daughter
I am worried about voting in Michigan. A friend heard from a cousin who works in politics (nationwide — not particularly in Michigan) that Biden will lose the state because the Muslim community there has so turned against him.
One good thing about leaving Michigan is I will no longer be in Rashida’s district. The rep for Hallandale Beach is Debbie Wasserman Schulz!
re: #95 Hecuba’s daughter
I’m wondering how many legal challenges will arise in those states in which the DNC’s late-scheduling of the convention, and thus the nomination, may make Biden on the ballot a point of contention.
re: #101 Cheechako
Individuals should try to have their own solar collection batteries in their own houses.
Some people are calling black beauties and crystal meth the same thing. Black beauties were amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, rather than methamphetamine. I thought meth was stronger, but I’m not into speed, so am no expert on the topic.
Delta Burke looks back on ‘Designing Women’ exit, and using crystal meth to lose weight
Delta Burke looks back on ‘Designing Women’ exit, and using crystal meth to lose weight
“Designing Women” alum Delta Burke says her “ugly” experience on the hit CBS sitcom drove her away from Los Angeles, and her long-time struggle with her weight led her to use crystal meth to keep off the pounds.
Known for playing the sassy former beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker on the 1980s comedy, Burke opened up for the first time in years on “Glamorous Trash,” a celebrity memoir podcast hosted by TV writer and comedian Chelsea Devantez, who revisited Burke’s 1998 book, “Delta Style: Eve Wasn’t a Size 6 and Neither Am I.”
The 67-year-old actor told Devantez how she turned to crystal meth to slim down when she first arrived in Hollywood. She explained that while she was in drama school in London, a doctor gave her pills to help her lose weight, but when she came to the United States, she didn’t realize that the “Black Beauties” that she had been prescribed were illegal stateside.
“They were like medicine to me: take them in the morning so you won’t eat. It wasn’t a recreational thing. After you build up a tolerance to anything and it wasn’t working anymore,” she said, explaining that the Black Beauties eventually stopped working for her and that she had to start using something else.
re: #78 Vicious Babushka
I don’t like Florida (I know I have said it over and over) but we have to move where our kids are. I mean, I have considered Wilkes-Barre all the houses are full of stairs, very few ranch-style. *shrugs* now I will never have my dream Victorian.
be prepared for a wide variety of polka stations. I think it was King’s College that used to have one hellaciously good classic rock station that had pretty wide coverage (could be gotten up the hill from Camptown), but other than that, it’s a lot…lot…lot of polka. Who would have guessed that Polish people all came to dig coal? Then of course the mines got greedy and dug too close to the floor of the susquehanna, which shut all that shit down.
re: #62 Charles Johnson
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How does he still have any cred as an environmentalist? What a freak!
re: #103 PhillyPretzel ✅
Individuals should try to have their own solar collection batteries in their own houses.
I wanted to get a bettery wall system when I got solar, but apparently my town has a regulation that those systems need to be installed in a detached structure, some sort of fire code thing. As I do not have a detached garage or anything and wasn’t about to build one I went without.
re: #107 danarchy
I know. I am sure my home state of PA has its own regulations even though it is a solar friendly state.
re: #103 PhillyPretzel ✅
Individuals should try to have their own solar collection batteries in their own houses.
They can try, but we’ve looked into it. It’s massively expensive.
I think former CA Gov Jerry Brown tried going off the grid with just solar and batteries and he had to rejoin. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
re: #55 darthstar
Watched the first episode of Fallout - starting the second now. Granted, I don’t know the game or the plot so I’m just enjoying it as it comes.
So far the show does a remarkable job of including game props, weapons and dark humor (skeletons dying in their death poses offering a guess as to their activities during death).
One big TV omission is that in the game series the nuclear war was against China . The TV show mentions “Reds” as the enemy but steers clear of mentioning China during all the flag-waving hyper-nationalist US themes that are on posters and signs.
In the deeper game lore the CCCP was still around but the war did not involved them at first. However the nuclear war did spread worldwide so as to how the Soviet Union specifically participated was never mentioned.
re: #109 Mattand
They can try, but we’ve looked into it. It’s massively expensive.
Wait til the Teslas start falling apart. There will be a big used market.
re: #109 Mattand
I know. Even the few batteries I have have cost me quite a few $$$.
This battery and a matching solar panel cost me $3K.
re: #96 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Do they want to be rounded up by Christian nationalists because Biden didn’t meet with them?
They don’t have a lot of options to make their voices heard. I mean, I don’t agree with it either, because of the hinted-at inevitable concentration camps Trumps gonna set up for anyone who even walks by a mosque, but it’s got to be frustrating.
re: #111 Decatur Deb
Wait til the Teslas start falling apart. There will be a big used market.
I can think of few things I would rather buy used less than batteries and most of those are generally hygienne related.
re: #114 danarchy
I can think of few things I would rather buy used less than batteries and most of those are generally hygienne related.
There will be a reconditioning industry—the life expectancy of a car is less than that of the battery pack.
NYU staff member on the ground tells me police are massed at Washington Place and Washington Square East with full police presence expected 6:30/7
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T21:56:22.470Z
Protesters retreated, officers fired tear gas and “00” buckshot at crowd’s backs as they tried to escape. Student James Rector was shot & killed by police, 128 admitted to hospitals.
Reagan said, “It’s very naive to assume that you should send anyone into that kind of conflict with a flyswatter.”
— Gerardo Martí (@gerardomarti.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T22:14:26.958Z
[Padme meme] But, they got the keys back, didn’t they? They got the keys back, right?
So meta.ai is live and it seems to be the thing to ask it about the news, so I tried:
You
what is the global news today?
Meta AI
Here are some of the top global news today ¹:
Europe is the fastest-warming continent, at nearly twice the average rate, according to a report.
Grindr is facing a U.K. lawsuit over alleged data protection breaches.
Venice Biennale titled “Foreigners Everywhere” will be showcasing LGBTQ, outsider and Indigenous artists.
Floods have swamped southern China, sparking extreme weather fears.
Australian woman has been charged with poisoning her husband and his relatives with mushrooms and has appeared in court.
U.S. ally has blasted Biden’s suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals after WWII crash.
North Korea has fired suspected short-range missiles into the ocean, as reported by South Korea.Pro-China party has won the Maldives election in a landslide, according to the media.
Terry Anderson, AP reporter who was kidnapped in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76.
Israeli strikes on southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed 22, mostly children, as the U.S. advances aid package.
Maybe give it a try. I wonder if it gives everyone the same “news” or, even though I have not signed in via Facebook, it is curating the “news” based on cookies, etc.
Why aren’t people having kids, I ask as people have to rent helicopters to give birth
— jesse (@jesseltaylor.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T22:04:57.344Z
we’re already seeing a huge increase in protests elsewhere, and they haven’t even killed anyone yet
it’s hard to escape the sinking feeling that a general rise in chaos and violence, rather than actually stopping the protests, is the goal of the people doing and encouraging the crackdowns
Does anybody know when teslas are suppose to start falling apart?
I got a 2018 with 84,000 miles on it. The only thing we’ve done is buy new tires and a 12v battery
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I thought I’d try to out-clever it:
You
what will be the global news tomorrow?
Meta AI
Here are some of the global news that might be covered tomorrow ¹:
Israel’s military intelligence chief resigns over failure to prevent October 7 attack
Wrong remains sent to Canadian family after death on Cuba vacation
U.K. and German police arrest 5 alleged Chinese spies in separate probes
Devastating floods in China’s Guangdong
Blinken: No ‘double standard’ in examining alleged Israeli human rights abuses in Gaza
WHO tracking new Mpox strain detected in Democratic Republic of Congo
New condo sales in the Greater Toronto Area fall 71% below 10-year average
Russia will attack NATO if Ukraine falls, Mike Pence warns
re: #122 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
You
what will be the global news next year?
Meta AI
Here are some of the global news that might be covered in 2025 ¹ ² ³:
Economic trends: Canada’s main stock index recovered from early losses to end higher Monday along with U.S. stock markets.
Healthcare: First Nations patients are more likely to leave ER without care.
Technology: David Beckham sues Mark Wahlberg over $14M loss in F45 gym endorsement.
Political tensions: Israel did not express concerns about UNRWA staff before attack.
Environmental issues: Eco-friendly cleaning tips in honour of Earth Day.
re: #121 EstebanTornado1963
Mine is a 2018. You should be good. :)
re: #121 EstebanTornado1963
Does anybody know when teslas are suppose to start falling apart?
I got a 2018 with 84,000 miles on it. The only thing we’ve done is buy new tires and a 12v battery
We’ve got an early 2018 S, and my theory is that year was the sweet spot for production quality. It was after this point when they ditched the stalks, killed the radar, dropped all the good trim options, put in that ridiculous steering yoke, etc.
re: #123 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
You
what will be the global news in the next decade?
Meta AI
Here are some of the global news that might be covered in the next decade ¹:
Economic trends: The US House passed a bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok US assets within a year. Senate vote imminent on national security concerns. Potential ban could impact China data sharing.
Healthcare: Epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu) are affecting large numbers of workers conducting heavy manual labor in hot temperatures and rural regions of the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and India, resulting in an abnormally high number of deaths among agricultural workers due to irreversible kidney failure.
Environmental issues: China froze COVID-19 origin tracing, AP investigation finds.
Political tensions: Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu’s ruling party wins majority amid anti-India policies.
Technology: A key feature of TikTok Lite may be suspended in the European Union on Thursday, the European Commission said, if TikTok does not provide a satisfactory response to regulators’ concerns about the new app’s impact on users’ mental health.
re: #125 goddamnedfrank
August of 2018 is when Musk pulled that whole taking Tesla private hoax, which probably makes it as good a tipping point as any for when shit really started to go wrong.
re: #127 goddamnedfrank
August of 2018 is when Musk pulled that whole taking Tesla private hoax, which probably makes it as good a tipping point as any for when shit really started to go wrong.
Far too many Elons in the world, me thinks….
re: #13 Charles Johnson
It still blows my mind that any human being with a functioning brain could possibly look at the absolutely deranged, ugly shit Trump is spewing and still think he’d make a good president.
Those that don’t have functioning brains think he’s one of them.
The other Republicans refuse to actually look at him, and Fox obliges by not showing him.
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
“Your Honor, just WTF is a gag order?
I seem to be confused.”
re: #131 nines09
“Your Honor, just WTF is a gag order?
I seem to be confused.”
The gag order does not cover DA Bragg, so this post at least is kosher.
re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So meta.ai is live and it seems to be the thing to ask it about the news, so I tried:
You
Meta AI
Here are some of the top global news today ¹:Maybe give it a try. I wonder if it gives everyone the same “news” or, even though I have not signed in via Facebook, it is curating the “news” based on cookies, etc.
I gave it a quick try just now. Here was my quick conversation.
re: #114 danarchy
A half-depleted Tesla Model 3 battery is the equivalent of 3 modern Powerwalls, or about $30k worth of home batteries.
I wonder how things are going over at Columbia:
A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week.
Hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested by the New York police department last week and also suspended by the university.
re: #121 EstebanTornado1963
Does anybody know when teslas are suppose to start falling apart?
I got a 2018 with 84,000 miles on it. The only thing we’ve done is buy new tires and a 12v battery
If you don’t drive like a dick (always do 4 second acceleration, brake hard with your foot instead of using the regenerative), you’ll probably get another set of tires out of the thing. I knew someone who had to replace their battery after 7 years or so but it was an earlier model (2009ish)…but if you’re still getting 200+ miles of range and it runs solid, keep it. Then donate it to Ukraine as they’ll take the 200 or so battery cells out and repurpose them in FPV drones.
An utterly historic victory for the working class. Tennessee is shining bright tonight. We are in a new era.Congratulations to the courageous workers in Chattanooga and the entire @UAW. Absolutely heroic.Solidarity IS the strategy - across the South, and all over the country. https://t.co/Sd8W7oKsuu
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 20, 2024
re: #138 darthstar
And that is where she made her mark on Locust Walk (U of Penn).
re: #138 darthstar
“He was taking the photo!”
re: #41 silverdolphin
That’s the danger of Christian Nationalism. If you deviate in any way from their fanaticism, you become their enemy. This is why we can’t vote for people who are pushing to turn our democracy into a theocracy. They’re dangerous — not only to us but to each other.
re: #138 darthstar
And that’s the only one he loves.
re: #95 Hecuba’s daughter
I am worried about voting in Michigan. A friend heard from a cousin who works in politics (nationwide — not particularly in Michigan) that Biden will lose the state because the Muslim community there has so turned against him.
They will protest now, and figure out who will be better in November. It’s not that Biden isn’t doing anything.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Remember, whatever you do, don’t ever reexamine your priors or try to figure out if you’ve become the thing you hate.
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That’s squishy Liberal talk, not killing people for wearing a particular scarf. What are you going to tolerate next? It’ll be a free-for-all of not killing people.
re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅
Nothing will stop my relatives from voting for Trump.
My mom and stepdad have a “Pray to End Abortion” sign in their yard, so I guess I can chalk that up as two votes for Trump.
re: #130 Belafon
Those that don’t have functioning brains think he’s one of them.
The other Republicans refuse to actually look at him, and Fox obliges by not showing him.
Most people do not think deeply about much of anything, living a life of memes, old wive’s tales, metaphors and rules of thumb that generally work in a certain cultural environment. Until that cultural environment changes and they no longer do work. Like animals in a changing ecosystem, the new rule is adapt or die. For humans, the majority must then rely on early adopters and thought leaders (who are supposed to think deeply) to help them transition to the new cultural environment.
Sometimes that choice is the wrong one.
The MAGA have chosen Trump who will lead them into oblivion and collapse (like human versions of dodos), as so many other societies have collapsed for choosing the wrong thought leaders. Much like the Germans did. And the South did. Or the Aztecs.
Luckily, we have many communities that are relying on useful thought leaders and early adopters to navigate the new cultural environment. They are figuring out the complexities of the new world and starting to create the new memes, old wive’s tales, metaphors and rules of thumb needed to survive. And finding increasing success, as the selective advantage of adapting to a new cultural environment are too great compared to the older approaches. Once we complete the transition, because the success of these new approaches provide such selective advantages, these memes, old wive’s tales, metaphors and rules of thumb will be used by the majority to unthinkingly navigate the new cultural environment.
Until a new cultural environment arises and we begin it all over again.
Stella the hawk is a survivor.
She’s blind in one eye from a car crash. She has a chest full of gunshot pellets from a close encounter in West Virginia.
And now, after a tree fell on her home at the Oregon Ridge Nature Center in Cockeysville, Stella is on the loose.
Baltimore bird lovers are on the lookout for Stella, who is wearing distinctive leather cuffs, in case it wasn’t already clear that she’s one tough bird.
“We’re hoping she gets hungry and comes back,” said Bob Smith, director of the Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks. “We’ve searched around the tree and we’re pretty sure she flew away.”
re: #136 darthstar
If you don’t drive like a dick (always do 4 second acceleration, brake hard with your foot instead of using the regenerative), you’ll probably get another set of tires out of the thing. I knew someone who had to replace their battery after 7 years or so but it was an earlier model (2009ish)…but if you’re still getting 200+ miles of range and it runs solid, keep it. Then donate it to Ukraine as they’ll take the 200 or so battery cells out and repurpose them in FPV drones.
lol, my car gonna last at 150,000 miles or more.
Just had the (original) brakes checked and they are good. If I have to step on the brake 1 time on a trip somewhere then that’s a failed trip.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Remember, whatever you do, don’t ever reexamine your priors or try to figure out if you’ve become the thing you hate.
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This sentence seems to be too complicated for way too many people: Israel has the right to defend itself but they need to target Hamas, not just whoever’s in Gaza.
re: #86 Captain Magic
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re: #151 Captain Magic
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re: #150 Belafon
This sentence seems to be too complicated for way too many people: Israel has the right to defend itself but they need to target Hamas, not just whoever’s in Gaza.
I think they’re targeting people who are Hamas-adjacent. They have an AI evaluating social media, and may have a very loose definition of Hamas-adjacent. We may never know the details of how they choose targets.
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