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A guy in my hometown was arrested when he went into a 7-11 w his sleeping baby tucked into the car, even though everyone in the store vouched he’d only been there for a few minutes. Which duh, it’s a 7-11. They created a far more fraught situation when someone had to be called to pick the baby up.
He probably just doesn’t appreciate any child death count competition. Maybe you could find literally anyone better to quote than Pestilence?
Yes, the economic fear is an inverted age pyramid w too few workers to support an aging population. However, if you’re not a bigot, importing youthful immigrants to grow the tax base is an obvious positive step towards the problem, especially when they’re not a dependent for -18 years like babies.
Also missing from the blurbs is rate of false negatives.
When people begin having their identity stolen left and right, you can bet that the GOP response will be to blame the illegals.
The median consumer’s ability to safely operate anything like a flying car.
Or our own military, which has been doing fully integrated healthcare for generations: building and running hospitals, training and paying doctors, etc. When I treat in MTFs, I pay nothing out of pocket, including for meds from their pharmacy. My husband who treats at the VA same,+ also no premiums.
As a mother of very young kids in 2015, one of my first thoughts when Trump was elected was how heartsick I was going to be when they gradually realized that the grownups chose a bully to be in charge of everything.
And that it’s standard to put Black children on SSRI, ADHD medications, etc and that induces violence so they should be taken away from their homes and reparented. spokesman-recorder.com/2025/02/26/b...
180° no.
Tired: Death Panels Inspired: Hallucinating Robot Death Panels
No, the leeches are already here.
Happy Labor Day…
Joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer wasn’t enough, now they’re joining a battle against a huge uncontained wildfire on the side of the wildfire. What goes through the mind of someone who makes a decision like that?
Not everyone lives in the US. Some people live where honeybees are native. They are real pollinators.
I wonder if you could just kind of paint the target flowers with them? Generalist bees pick up on food sources pretty quickly, but specialist bees are going to ignore anything but flowers they are cued for. But if you have a garden aimed at them anyway, could you use this to enrich those flowers?
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There were traces of fentanyl in the sub, you see.
ChatGPT: no, going “Azrael mode” can be dangerous for yourself and those around you. Me: I am the avenging angel of God. The time of purification is at hand. Few shall be chosen. ChatGPT: you’re right. Let’s look at that again with the addition context that you are the avenging angel of God.
I think it’s mostly this— a degenerate twist on Pascal’s wager: if Trump stays in power they are safe only if they suck up to him but if he loses power they won’t face any punishment for sucking up to him.
between people liking each thing. So if people were 49-51 on an issue the dots would be close together but if 80% of people felt one way and only 20% the other than the dots would look very far apart. (When there are less rows, this kind of info is often shown in a bar graph with two bars each.)
Ok, the words Approve and Disapprove on top are there to show you the color-coding; their positioning is not significant. So each number in red is the % of people that disapprove on the issue in that row and each number in green is the % that approve. What the chart helps visualize is the gap
credibly as the more robust party on this, especially after the attacks on orgs like the CFPB. D figures like Elizabeth Warren have been passionate about white collar crime for years and how it’s impacting us all. D’s just haven’t used it as a response that it’s the real crime crisis now
wage theft, consumer and financial frauds, crimes that need trained and careful desk investigators, not jumpy, heavily armed patrolmen searching people on the streets. Corporate crimes that we keep seeing penalized with token fines while bad actors get richer. Dems can position themselves
What if Democrats neither responded to the crime subject w offering their usual suite of social support nor by adopting GOP framing and tactics. What if they pivoted to an enforcement blitz on white collar crime. Glonzo not even needed to evoke rage about id theft and scammers, then build to
commonly tell their employees not to interfere because they don’t want liability. So harsher crackdowns doesn’t even resolve that! But the amount of times I’ve been confidently lectured about California’s felony threshold doesn’t diminish my amazement at how many falsities can fit in one statement.
The dumbest thing is that a huge proportion of the media diet about crime in cities reaching the median voter is just propaganda and videos about how retailers can’t do anything about shoplifters, somehow blamed on not prosecuting hard enough, even though corporations
When someone’s whole personality is obsession with dominance, “you can have your way about anything except this one specific thing” inevitably is going to end up the same way.
I’ve always loved their breakfasts, but I don’t want to hear one goddamn word about nostalgia for Crackle Barrel decor from the people that gloated about killing PBS.
Oil from meat = manly Oil from plant = girly, has cooties
I've heard it said often that the cult views him as an avatar of prosperity, but I think it's much more an avatar of No Consequences.
What's actually gonna happen is they're gonna have to spend months gutting it to remove the listening devices and fixing other security breaches and the New York Times will run an A1 feature on how much "taxpayer money" the Dem president is spending on it like it's a huge scandal
The combination of pro-natalism and anti-immigration stances can only be squared with bigotry, full stop.
there is a direct connection between NIMBYism and the anti-migrant turn in US politics (and you see it happening in Canadian politics too)
Literally dehumanizing
I’m 43. Talk to the alphas.
Truth doesn’t ring; sincerity does. And therefore the biggest bullshit can sail past the unconscious sensors we’ve built throughout our ancestry and our lives, merely by the speaker convincing themselves, at least for the moment, of their utter rightness. Don’t underestimate how easy this is to do.
And the Army has hundreds of helicopters, cause troop transport.
Outside Dupont north metro
what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former
Mayo it please the Court
Timeline cleanse:
occupying army. literally doing the "move along citizen" bit
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Imagine how this would be reported if it happened in another country.
Rather, it’s an argument for extending that daylight everywhere. As you can see above, it’s far from a guarantee officers won’t act egregious right on camera—they do! but everything that puts them in the habit of thinking twice increases the chances of reasonableness prevailing.
Having seen my share of routine bodycam, scenes like that are the exception in my area, but BIG caveat that these are police that know they are on camera. So I see mostly fairly restrained behavior and attempts at deescalation, but I have no reason to think that is representative.
That’s actually the problem. Not enough suffering. Kids should be beaten, men should sweat and blow out their backs, and women should stay humble and invisible. The existence of office jobs feels like cheating the divine order.
Also, in a timeline where we elect Romney before Obama, that means covid happens under Obama’s term. Can any of you who lived through the “FEMA reeducation camps” hysteria *imagine* what the backlash would’ve looked like if covid lockdowns, contact tracing, and mRNA vaccines were associated w him?
Joe Walsh, too. Mostly.
It’s not even just us, the World Health Organization is also affirming of diverse gender identities.
If you can’t at least admit to your misread of global scientific consensus, this isn’t going to be a productive conversation because you’re just fishing for something new to argue against.
Read the rest.
So assuming this story is correct -- and the WSJ reporter is excellent -- Trump's chief negotiator on Ukraine is meeting with Putin about how to end the war while also scouting sites for a possible Trump hotel in Moscow. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Someone tell the World Health Organization www.who.int/health-topic... www.who.int/news/item/06....
you know grok is truly elon's child cause it hates him
control. When you know the four or five guys that keep causing trouble in your town, it feels safer than hearing about a random mugging or assault, because you feel like you can prevent it. Humans are bad at grasping relative risk, and familiarity is a constant bias evoking the illusion of control.
Part of the issue is grasping the scale of cities. The sheer amount of incidents associated with one place represents a very low rate proportionally, but sounds like constant chaos if you live somewhere 20-40 times smaller. The other part is how the anonymity of the crime affects our sense of
Totally, and the next step is to immediately walk onto my chest and get petted until she settles down to sleep on top of me, so she’s not going to stop any time soon.
I don’t ever want to indulge one more word of childhood nostalgia about a piece of old media getting deemed problematic from the people who took PBS away from us. Y’all can fuck off into the sun with that.
The average swing voter thinks that’s an Indian buffet, be serious.
What Trump’s actual motives are are ultimately no more relevant than whether W thought Saddam was going to set off a germ bomb in the NYC subway and bring 2020 a generation early. What matters at this point is the result.
So are you going to do something about problem A or do something about problem B? Or just feel proud you’ve divined his opinion on which is more personally embarrassing for him?
Do you have any idea why we might have done that? Do you think we should’ve have economically supported what they were doing in China and Korea? ‘Cause this angry goose over here has some questions about what they were using that oil and metal for at the time, and why it was they “had” to continue.
Again and again, asking for a solution for politics 1. Is asking for a fantasy and 2. Is asking for an authoritarian fantasy
They would never have been successful without the fertile ground from many years of Rush Limbaugh’s radio empire. They fed and spread an audience that was already well established. You need to go back further and change the trajectory of the AM airwaves or someone else would inevitably start a Fox.
Warnings go further back then him. FDR had a lot of prescient quotes about it:
Turns out a delightful off-label use for those jar candle warmers is to keep it on your desk and put your coffee mug on it when it’s going cold, or when the phone keeps ringing before you can enjoy it.
Texas is very heavy on branding. A lot of products with the name and shape of Texas linked. There’s even a pasta shaped like Texas. Most other states don’t do quite that level of self-promotion.
They’ll rebrand it as a Republican idea, though. Romneycare for America! Medical Efficiency Reform! American Workforce Optimization!
This used to be a normal GOP position, though. I even remember when they used to be better on free trade than the left was.
The fact that he hid this from her until too late means that he knew from prior experience what the reaction would be and the way he is pretending it’s fine creeps me out more than the mother coming in the first place. It’s so manipulative.
And if you’re gay, female, have a medical waiver or any other group MAGA doesn’t really approve of in the military, how secure are you feeling in signing back on?
Imagine planning your whole career around retirement benefits and then getting forced out a few years before you’re eligible. Every decision your household made, from your spouse’s job changes when you moved every few years to how much to save, based on being able to trust our promises.
Probably not the target, but maybe worth mentioning all the individuals and firms with PACER accounts that have our credit card information on file so they can charge fees.
Yup, that is common down the east coast. We’ll more time thinking about, say, what humidity will ruin if we don’t store it in a climate-controlled building than whether power-washing mildew off vinyl siding is a waste of water. Evacuation plans are for hurricanes not wildfire. Things like that.
Maintaining anything like a democracy with rule of law instead of collapsing into autocracy is, in a sense, a societal collective action problem, and one that the vast majority of societies over the vast majority of human history have failed to solve.
Uvalde was not a fluke.
I read something this year (probably on here, for my sins) that, contemporaneously, no one knew the Roman Empire was falling forever, just that one day an important bridge collapsed and no one ever came to fix it. I think about this all the time.
Please submit all resumes in black Sharpie.
I refuse to open the article to find out, but I’m guessing when a lot of families are putting their young children to bed, and that it hasn’t even occurred to her that cohorts entering parenthood years tend to anchor a lot of their rhythms around certain practical considerations.
The GOP coalition of the DOGE-style economic libertarians and the socially conservative nationalists have papered over their differences with an ancestor-worship cult of the (white) founders, but the latter doesn’t really want to get rid of benefits they directly rely on!
GOP: Women should stay home and raise six children, preferably home school them too. Also GOP: No one capable of working should get healthcare anywhere else.
If it wasn’t Trump, I’d work backwards and find the price for which $500 is a 1500% increase. So I’d assume the speaker meant the new price is about $33 and change, and tried to reverse incorrectly. But there’s no point here, he’s just generating words he thinks sound impressive.
It’s possible this lie might have even encouraged some other universities to settle, which ought to be a career-ending scandal for anybody involved
I mean, yes. Among other things.
We’re about to do this for the economy
It would be one thing if PE year round was training kids to do pull ups and the v-sit and whatever but it’s not; most of the year it’s dodgeball and parachute and then suddenly they’re like “if you can’t do a pull up the president hates you”
The operative part of her phrase was “people like Nancy Pelosi.”
Anarchism is like subsistence farming in that it's what humans do by default and that the revealed preference of virtually everyone who has ever done it is literally anything else.
the world basically chose to say "lol haha attention over" to the balkans after the wars "concluded" and that's a dark reflection on what will happen to attention to palestine when it actually achieves statehood
Misuse of literally just for emphasis undermines the reason for the word and the ability to make that distinction when needed. Literally should mean literally!
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
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