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I hope she divorced that monster of a husband. He deserved anything she could throw at him with zero exceptions. I hope his religion's rules condemned him to abstaining from sex for the rest of his life.
Even today, people need to understand that sending a relative to the psych ward could mean a permanent end of the relationship in question. The only excuse I will accept is when this occurs in response to a physical or an armed assault on another person, nothing less.
When I was a teenager in the 1980's, we had real problems with psych facilities such as the Psychiatric Institutes of America aiming "programs" at parents of LGBTQ kids. These programs were aimed at harvesting all available health insurance money and carried the risk of wrecking lives or even forcing kids off this planet entirely. Even when kids survived with little damage, it made a lot of lifelong enemies.
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Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents — and a guillotine — pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.Nikshep Myle (Gadget Review)
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It's so weird to me that we ever let these worst people in the world stop feeling the fear they should feel for doing the awful shit they do.
If you're a CEO and/or a billionaire and you're not scared of the rest of us, we've failed at our duties as a culture.
For What It's Worth:
That cargobike is a conversion kit once offered by XtraCycle
Named:
FreeRadical!
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I refer @kavishj611@threads.net to what I posted yesterday. (I wonder if he has federation turned on.)
I think the comparison to the drug addict is an apt one. 😀
These guys just don't get it…> If AI disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI tool?
> Imagine if AI was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up?About the only machine learning I use on a regular basis is Baysian filtering of my emails. I use a tool called SpamAssassin, been using it for 25 years now. Coupled with a few other techniques, it does a decent job of keeping the spam out.
I could give that up: in its place use greylisting and DKIM checks. Would be a little annoying to start off with but I could deal with it.
But, I'll bet that's not the "AI" this person had in mind. Would LLMs being banned affect me in any way? At worst, it'd make no difference… at best it'd be a lifechanging improvement if LLMs were banned. I retain the software development skills I started refining back in the 90s.
I've never used ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek or any of those LLM tools, ever, in my work. I switched search engines to one that lets me turn off the "AI overview". Firefox AI features have been disabled.
I use a desktop environment that has existed since the 90s. The text editor I use is so old, its first incarnations were written for the Commodore Amiga. I code in Perl, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, have also coded in Haskell and C# using these tools, and have dabbled in some GoLang and Rust. While I'm a better back-end developer, I'm full-stack: web browser UI through to designing the PCB to run it on, I've got abilities in all of it.
Right-clicking on AI text fields in Jira and selecting "Block Element" is now a muscle-memory reflex reaction, as it is for any other site I'm forced to use with intrusive LLM features. I will be leaving my workplace of nearly 15 years precisely because of LLM desecration.
Removal of LLMs would improve my life as I wouldn't be spending much of it fighting its persistent willy-waving.
This is hilarious. “Can you imagine living without this thing you never use?”
Idiots.
Nope. I have never used it for anything. I would be thrilled to not have it shoved down my throat everywhere and never see it again.
Girlfriend and I just bought a dehumidifier which has an app control that has an AI assistant…😳
WHY!? YOU’RE A FUCKING DEHUMIDIFIER!
I've done meth and I just don't buy that AI offers the same benefits.
Imagine for a moment that all your tiredness was just gone from you and you felt a lucidity of purpose that let you just suddenly accomplish all the things you've been unable to because of this or that excuse...
How do you live without that? Most people don't seem to and instead just sit around waiting to die.
Learning to do so has been the struggle of my life. I would so rather feel that way forever: young.
Dude, the AI assistant that keeps trying to help me might be the most annoying part of programming. 😖
I hear things like, "It can create your mobile store," and I'm like, "Yeah, it's called a template!"
It just hit me that this sounds like a religion.
This is the exact same mentality of the certain religious nuts use when you tell them you’re not religious.
They cannot fathom being a good person just to be a good person. It blows their mind that someone doesn’t need the offer of an eternal reward.
It’s so engrained in their lives that they just cannot comprehend.
@JigmeDatse
Depends on your poison I suppose. Addiction is addiction. It doesn't even need to be a substance. For example: People watch soccer without placing a bet? How can they possibly do that?
The sentence makes no sense unless you have a gambling problem.
Having messed around with chatgpt for a few months last year I concluded that it's just a really fast search engine. I always had to wait for it to get an answer lol.
We don't need it and it is designed to be some sort of unstopable spyware.
If it can break into other AI companies, you can bet your ass it has already scooped all the data on your phones and computers by now.
I don't use ChatGPT, I use local AI models, and my honest answer is yes, with inconvenience.
I don't use it to code, but it has now replaced Google searches and stackoverflow for me.
This is a blog run by a Japanese man living in America and it's so pure.
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@ruisan @felis_catus_domesticus I’m default guy for checking and fixing computers and cell phones in my town. Sometimes it’s annoying but it’s like that.
But if I have a clogged toilet I know I have a guy to lend me a machine to fix it.
@manum @ruisan @felis_catus_domesticus
My mom encountered a glitch in the male bonding/truck provision system when she got divorced. So, she bought a truck.
We moved more stuff, for more people...
And, over the years, it became harder & harder to find someone who would say a bad word about my mom.
@felis_catus_domesticus this happens a lot in rural Netherlands: the entire village knows everyone with every truck and tractor, everyone helps everyone, everyone counts on everyone.
But the style of this blog is superb!
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Rural <every place in the world>
and no reason why it should not be so.
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In my town this is known as “community.” We have a LOT of it.
There’s more than one guy with a truck, but then there’s Limon. He has the most dilapidated truck I’ve ever seen. I think it’s literally held together with chewing gum and baling wire, but if you need “someone with a truck”—he’s THE guy to call.
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Speaking as a truck owner, this is all so true.
FWIW? Where I live almost *everyone* owns a truck. Which means the few who don't are certain to know someone. Or even find one by the side of the road. See the quoted post for a recent instance of just that…
Anyway, we ended up loading his minibike in the back of my pickup, which I had placed outside the gate just in case I needed to go somewhere while the concrete was curing, and I gave him a ride home.Turned out he had driven that little thing about seven miles before it died on him at my place. 🫤
Weather today was hot and sunny, with a light and high overcast — which might have been smoke from fires on the other side of the mountains, but there was no smoke at ground level.
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@NilaJones It's not actually a blog. I found the website, which says it's fiction written by someone in Japan and translated using LLMs. The website itself is also vibe-coded.
“Nobunaga is a Japanese comedy and storytelling project. It follows a small, confused, dignified samurai who has somehow wandered into modern American life, and is doing his best. [...]
The stories are written in Japanese by a guy in Japan. [...]
They are then translated into English with the help of a small army of AI tools”
A Japanese comedy and storytelling project in English. About the wandering samurai, the drawings, and the person behind NOBUNAGA.NOBUNAGA
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Welcome to the neighbourhood. 😎
In australia it's not pizza, it's a box of beer.
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NOBUNAGA_ 夏樹蒼依
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I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here.
You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I still think about that.
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I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
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I had to call my tractor guy the other day.
Fed him berries.
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A political party that hates minorities AND lets you slap around women?!?
Why the surprise?
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I am sure that as soon as right-wingers stop cutting off LGBTQ+ family members, we can talk about not cutting off fascists.
On the other hand, let's not.
politics is debating whether the top line income tax should be 40% or 60%. It’s how much we allocate to transit vs. road maintenance.
It’s not about what people we get to throw into concentration camps.
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I’M REPORTING YOU AT THE THREAT OF DEFEDERATION FOR BEING MEAN TO CONSERVATIVES AND MASTODON IS FOR EVERYONE
(Sorry: some maga donkey is trying to raise sympathy for members of the fourth reich)
In Norway, they think forcing everyone to show “papers, please” to a big tech company just to have a chat online, forwarding a transcript of that chat to the government, and making all non-corporate alternatives (including this one) illegal, is perfectly reasonable and not outrageously totalitarian.
Norway is not better than any other country.
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More #AltText 4 u:
The complaints read:
“I don't want to scan a QR code for everything.
I don't want to "create an account" to see a menu on a website.
I don't want to "download the app" to pay for parking or anything else.
I don't want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. | just want to exist in the physical world without having to hand over all my personal information.”
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This is only my own experience and does may not by applicable for other people. Keep that in mind.
If I want freedom, I go and enjoy free time with those I do enjoy.
If I don't want annoying services, I just vote with my wallet.
Of course, this is not an answer for all the problems.
Technology should serve us.
For many occasions, when the people tell me that I need to scan QR code to see menu at the restaurant or do something similar.
I just tell them "I don't have a telephone„
And they often get confused.
Some of the places they get me bypass all their services just because they don't know what to do and is too much to handle.
I got to drove some buses for free, because the bus driver didn't know what to do.
I get interrogated on the airport, in a much less time, also because there is much less information to be extracted.
I wasn't bothered by email and spam after all, just simply telling them I don't have telephone number, email address or home address and they leave me alone.
Of course there was a time that that was me who was trying to get their service and I need to be compliant.
But that's very much depends on situation and what I need.
in restaurants in my country, we can scan a QR code to see the menu
It doesn't require us to create a account
It doesn't require us to download a app
We can just not provide a feedback at all
And since we dont have to wait for a waiter to bring us a menu thanks to QR code, we are fine with it
@AskPippa and even in burger kings where there is kiosks where you order by tapping on a big screen, you know what I do?
Walk into it, check whats on the menu through it, walking away from it after that without ordering anything through it, and order on the counter face to face and literally not a single staff customer(partly because there is little line on kiosks) cares about it
Practical solutions is literally right there, you're just blind because of tech paranoia...
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@mbeezy it is: plasmatrap.com/notes/ap87l4v45…
it has an OpenAI SynthID watermark, so yes
Apologies in advance, if my suspicion is correct and this blows up like a rocket/car/etc built by one of Melon's companies. (It currently says 3 boosts, but I don't see it staying that way for long.)
Well-played. 👏
Or did the people posting the text version before you strike a nerve?
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xcancel.com/RobertMSterling/st…
But it's good stuff, sure. Let me try this format, too:
I don't want to ask ChatGPT to find the source of a stolen meme pic generated with ChatGPT from a viral tweet. I just want to exist in the text-based social media world without worrying about fascist trillionaires ruining Twitter or VC-funded AI labs turning every post into a prompting competition.
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I sincerely apologise for ruining your week by reposting an AI image, that I didn't know about, until you genius people pointed it out. I am now going to phone the police and hand myself in so you will never have to relate to my account ever again.
@privateger I feel like you're overreacting a bit here. What I would do, were I in this situation, is:
1. Delete the original post
2. Make a post saying "hey, sorry I accidentally posted an AI image! I've taken it down now, thanks for pointing it out 😀"
3. Get on with my day
...I think this would elicit far more of a positive reaction than whatever it is you're doing here
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I generally don't want to be forced to use a phone and the internet when that can be avoided.
Thankfully QR code as the only way to see the menu at a restaurant isn't popular where I live. Most places have them, but most of those would also just give you paper menus by default. Also, you wouldn't lose much by not having a bank account at all. Almost everything can be paid in cash.
@autisticplushy yes: plasmatrap.com/notes/ap87l4v45…
it has an OpenAI SynthID watermark, so yes
A-freaking-men.
Random side note: There’s a Black Mirror episode where people rate every interaction you have. So if you greet someone in a friendly or not so friendly manner, you are given a star rating that floats and follows you everywhere. I’m not insinuating that you shouldn’t be kind, but rather that everything is constantly pulling for some type of information. I swear we are not far from this BS in real life and already there in some instances.
"This website looks better in the app"
The app: *literally shovelling ads in your face*
@KrissyKat
Paste in a review from a wine website.
"One first notices the pungent aroma and bouquet of sage and burning tires. This is followed by a delightful acidity on the tongue followed by palette cleansing blackberries and butter."
Confuse them.
note, this was made with chatgpt, as mentioned by this guy, who is probably the original poster
www.facebook.com/phil.dowsing/photos/i-produced-this-with-the-help-of-chatgpt-feel-free-to-share-thank-youphil-/10165274601969095/
indicators:
- why a photographer camera for QR codes
- why a globe for create an account
- why a peace dove for physical world privacy
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@gray17 And the text probably came from this tweet:
xcancel.com/xxyllinn/status/20…
Which is a version of this tweet from Feb 2025:
xcancel.com/RobertMSterling/st…
How did I find them? By asking ChatGPT. It's GenAI and remixing/stealing content all the way down.
@Pouakai I use Ubuntu Touch and I had to say that so many times. My bank said to me I was a «customer that we don't need». My answer? «Give me my money and close the account». They gave me an alternative way to their app
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I once went to an outing with a group of friends. They picked this new fancy place that was some kind of "concept" fancy food hall. The kind of place where you pay a lot for the privilege of bringing the food to your own table.
My reluctance to hand over my credit card and other personal info was so high I just sat there and hung out without ordering anything all night.
Thankfully that place didn't last. It's something else now.
I actually like the parking apps because they continue to be useful into the future (adding time without having to walk back is a big one), but you should *also* be able to shove quarters in.
The rest I'm here for, OMFG especially menus!!!
I put a QR code on my business card, but I promise, it's not collecting anything. It's just a link to my professional certification if anyone thought I was lying and wanted to verify it. Lol
But yeah, I'm kind of a curmudgeon. I am not at all interested in what a potential client likes for dinner, where they live, who they like to sleep with.
I DO care if they want to use AI (I will not take them on and/or fire THEM if they do) or if they are right-wing. Not worth dealing with.
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Create an account is the biggest scam going on the internet rn
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@GroupNebula563 it said, in its entirety,
List of complaints about needing your personal data online.
@GroupNebula563 I'll refer you to our previous comment.
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Any place that demands this shite from me has perpetually lost me as a client!
My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at map.citationneeded.news/.
The map contains hundreds of business entities and links to the Trump family (with more being added!), augmented with data from the president’s most recent financial filings to estimate how much money is flowing in. It will be queryable by other researchers/journalists.
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire
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Subscriber support is what makes data projects like the Trump empire map and Tech Influence Watch possible — work that goes beyond the newsletter itself.
You can join them at citationneeded.news/signup
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There is lots of profit to be had. More if we had a "war" going on.
Oh wait...
Molly White, who writes the knowledgeable Citation Needed blog, made an interactive map of the Trump family’s crypto venture.
It has become an incredible map of linked businesses that spreads worldwide, and all of them funnel money into him and his family.
Click on the link to see the enormous effort she has put into this.
And this is just his crypto business.
USA's presidency: no better place for a #conman.
map.citationneeded.news
#MollyWhite #CitationNeeded #Trump #Corrupt
Untangling the sprawling web of Trump family crypto ventures, and the fortune they’re making by cashing in on the presidency.Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire
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Congrats.
Your knowledge of Crypto is unmatched, and your efforts hopefully pay off.
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@croyle
The evidence is being written as we speak (…).
If this will not have consequences, nothing will ,and its the end of democracy.
It’s a syndicate, the mob with the Don at the top…
You can either be obedient and profit or not and be a bad piggy or worse.
I was just half paying attention to this episode and opened Mastodon on my phon, this was the first post I saw, I looked up at the TV and within 10 seconds, he showed the diagram 😂
Excellent map btw!
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As someone else who also subscribes to you... DITTO!
Is it safe to say now that Trump's complex mesh of scams tied to long sequences of other scams is a really good joke?
Or perhaps the legal system that so far has seen no fault in it is one.
awesome work!
Must admit haven't listened to citation needed for a while. It's quality work, but the subject is just also depressing, so i take a small breather once in a while
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Seems fair.
I hope we don't have to wait until 2029 for them both.
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So, the US leader commits war crimes and interferes with another country's politics, but it only becomes "personal, political, and dangerous" when the Iranian leader suggests using the same tactics?
Seems to the rest of the world that Iran is suggesting they enact the US 25th amendment, which the US appears incapable of doing.
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Hurray! She is getting bombs rolling,
as farmers will notice her scolding!
And also the sick
as she swings her stick
in communist manner of trolling.
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Exacerbating the very economic forces that caused the problem in the first place, during WW2 labor shortages in agriculture- and expecting a different result this time.
Farmers don't want to pay.. it breaks their economic model, and most people don't want to live in AG areas of the USA if they don't have to.
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And... She departed from Monterey Bay, California...
Kesley Absolutely Rocks.
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@Frantasaur @aanee Estrogen is part of it.
Endurance prioritizes other aspects. Where muscle mass is a bonus for sprints, more muscle mass means more energy burnt in the same time frame. It's like driving an F1 car for many kilometers: You have to refuel constantly. The fuel you'd need to carry to be able to sustain this is insane. So for endurance you want actually less muscle mass, estrogen or not.
However, estrogen also helps with using fat as a fuel source. Fat is a very efficient but long/slow burning energy resource. Exactly what you both want to have a bit of, for endurance, but also want to be able to make use of. Estrogen helps with that.
Other factors exist too, but that's one of the "inherent" ones.
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Wouldn't want to get into a row with her!
#Alt4You
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Kelsey Pfendler completed the 2,400-mile journey from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii in record time.Cienna Pilotin (https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com)
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Maps often pull Hawaii and Alaska off and put them near the west coast. I’d mostly seen maps that showed Hawaii a couple of hundred miles from California and thought that’s where it was until I looked on a world map. They put a little box around them to show that they’ve been moved, but that doesn’t convey that Hawaii was moved further than the width of the map.
The same happens on a much smaller scale on this side of the pond. Maps of the UK that include the Channel Islands (which are very close to the coast of France) tend to put them in a little box near Plymouth. I assumed growing up that the reason they were British was because they much closer to Britain than France, which is not even slightly true.
Apple today accused OpenAI of stealing Apple trade secrets and intellectual property in its effort to develop an AI hardware device.Juli Clover (MacRumors)
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Some say “stealing”, they say “acquiring data for training purposes”.
Make it set precedent. Hurtfully.
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Lock your house!
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It comes from his willingness to violate all norms, rules and laws – and leaving everyone else to pick up the piecesRobert Reich (the Guardian)
I cannot believe it. I thought it was The Onion.🤦 ...they should paint it blue?
"The cascading fountain in Meridian Hill Park is seen with brown water following ongoing restoration work by the Trump admin in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 2026. REUTERS/Brad Ulery"
- Meidas Touch
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They haven't "Blocked data centres" they moved them to poorer less organised communities.
NIMBY
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Amateur.
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Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young usersDiana Novak Jones (The Independent)
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A woman broke down in tears at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital during a protest demanding the evacuation of sick and wounded patients. “No one leaves this place,” she cried. “
The only ones who leave... leave to Allah.” Her words reflect the despair of thousands of patients trapped in the Gaza Strip as Israel keeps the crossings closed, preventing many critically ill and injured people from traveling abroad for life-saving medical treatment.
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After 3 years in Israeli detention camps, Israeli occupation release Palestinian detainee Hossam Al-Razza from Nablus, in poor health, due to systematic torture and starvation.
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Palestinian former prisoner Maher Abdul Latif Younis died today after developing a sudden health issue, nearly three years after his release from Israeli prisons, where he spent 40 years in detention. Younis was released on January 19, 2023, after serving four decades in Israeli prisons. He was first arrested in 1983 at the age of 25 over his involvement in resistance activities and his affiliation with the Fatah movement.
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Between water and power, this is per-fect.
"This map shows the price of electricity across the US right now.
Blue means power is cheap (sometimes below zero).
Yellow means normal.
Red means prices are spiking.
This is the cost behind AI data centers, summer heat, and old infrastructure.
Everyone talks about AI. Fewer people talk about the grid that has to power it.
The next shortage in America will be electricity."
- The Finance Newsletter.com
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what else did you expect?
They are all corporate ad space!
Except @TexasObserver and few others, but they are statistically nonexistant in terms of "market share" and reach…
A very courageous thing to do but if the major wasn't already resigning his commission, he should probably think about doing so. Whiskey Pete is about to make his life hell. 😔 They already arrested him but decided not the charge him apparently.
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Jason Watson praised former Congressman Al Green for repeatedly pushing impeachment efforts and urged lawmakers to take similar action against TrumpGopika Subramanian (MEAWW News)
And, right on cue, we have two oath takers who wish they were in the military breaking their oath in order to arrest another oath taker who IS in the military for standing by the very same oath.
USA in a nutshell!!
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Will there be a big banner at the Trump Arc ruin or the ferris wheel which can be seen from the stage with a portrait of Epstein?
Or umbrellas. When opened an sorted in the right way they show a huge portrait of Epstein.
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@frlan 2/2 "...I was suspicious of ideologically driven, large-scale change. These were the mainstream policies of the Macmillan government at the time. In 60 years I have moved from centre right to hard left without changing my opinions.
Dr Stephen Watkins, Oldham, Lancashire"
Letter to The New Stateman in 2023
Universal healthcare is NOT some batshit crazy Marxist theory, it was consensus politics in many countries for decades after WW2.
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This 2023 letter to the New Statesman by Dr Stephen WatkinsMichael White (The Poke)
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Indicted not in jail! Prediction: Comey's case gets thrown out.
BTW my prediction % is pretty good!
I predicted that Kelce and Taylor would marry 1.5 years ago on Valentines Day. I was only a little off on the timing.
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@PerryM He's sitting in jail though! (did I miss a release on some bail or other?...)
👍 (didn't know you were into predicting celebs 💍 ...)
Yes Luigi's in jail but Comey's not. Luigi's case bothers me. I wish they'd just release him and maybe give him a $$$MILS for time spent and all the people he helped.
Yep .. predicted Marilyn Monroe and JFK but got shot down on that one!
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Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren't their problem.
Continued:
He told me he's not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn't go away. They did everything right. Two incomes. No debt.
Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
Continued:
I don't know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don't.
"Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall."
@JustinMac84 👍 💯 amen...
That's because the 'everyone' in question isn't quite starving yet.
I am sad that in the USA it has to come to cases like this before accepting that social ideas might be better than capitalist ideas.
Until then every person seems wanting to be a not-yet-millionaire ignoring the whole matter to a later time, don't they?
The only people who defend it are those making shitloads of money from it.
And who are fully covered for everything. Somehow.
The system is brilliant at taking money from ordinary people. It is crap at delivering healthcare. So it depends what you want from it.
im telling you. You have guns in USA. Just use it. Not a single billionaire should walk safe on the streets. They have stolen money from you and your country.
Your economy is based on not paying your insurance claims. They lied to you and let you and your children die. Gather and make them pay.
#BeLikeCanada and put the lives of humans before the profits of corporations. ⬆️
Good news for many #Americans on the #FourthOfJuly , #Canada has greatly expanded its citizenship eligibility, eh! immigrationnewscanada.ca/new-c…
#Resist healthily!
#MedicareForAll #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 💪
Canada has implemented sweeping changes to its citizenship framework in 2026, affecting millions of current applicants and prospective Canadians worldwide.Satinder Bains (Immigration News Canada)
One assumes this story is about the USA?
Americans like it this way. Otherwise, as they say they are a democracy, they'd do something about it.
You can now Venmo the US government to help pay down the $39.4 trillion debt.
I wish I was joking.
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lol, lmao even
Is it tax deductible?
Say, rather, that some people think it's tyrannical overreach for the government to do anything that would meaningfully improve anyone's life of whom the people in question disapprove, even when preventing that action would also benefit them.
NEW | Rashida Tlaib announces she will force another congressional vote tomorrow to end U.S. support for the Israeli apartheid regime’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and territorial expansion in Lebanon.
Tlaib said more than 4,250 people have been killed, with 12 children killed or maimed every day, urging Congress to end U.S. backing for Israeli war crimes and to demand an end to Israel’s invasion and illegal military occupation of Lebanese territory.
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Dingo
in reply to Victator • • •Nazo
in reply to Dingo • • •@electric_gumball I wondered about that myself. 🤣
Most amazing to me is they even allowed this post to be seen by anyone.
BotAnix🌷🌿
in reply to Nazo • • •We're in the fediverse... Maybe all of them stayed at X
@electric_gumball @vicfroh
Nazo
in reply to BotAnix🌷🌿 • • •@Bot_Anix @electric_gumball I meant threads. They absolutely 1000% algorithm.
I'm surprised the original post was visible long enough even to screenshot it.
Snow
in reply to Victator • • •Nazo
in reply to Snow • • •Seriously. Some billionaires could end world hunger and still afford a yacht to park inside their seaside mansion then fly in their private jet to their other mansion during hurricane season.
And meanwhile us normals over here just wish we could afford to go to a doctor to get that pain in our side that has been getting worse lately looked at but of course the rich won't let us have healthcare.
If asked what *we* want, we say fix the roof or something, not own private jets.
Paul Evans
in reply to Nazo • • •Bill
in reply to Snow • • •True but maybe not obscenely rich.