The most accurate description of Felon 47 I have heard yet! #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited
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The most accurate description of Felon 47 I have heard yet! #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited
Amen to that!
If you're new to the Unix or Linux command line, I just want you to know: Me and all my colleagues with years of experience Still get confused between `ln -s` and `ln` daily.
**Overfitting**: When your AI learns so much from its training data that it can recite every detail — like that friend who memorizes all the lines from a movie but still can't get a date!
Maybe a forward thinking HOA could demand that all residents have rainbow sidewalks, but offer to supply paint and labor to make it happen.
It would be cool if businesses and people in that area started repainting their…. Private driveways and private parking lots with rainbows 🌈 Just an idea
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
Not feds. Jan 6 criminals.
Trump is too dumb to do this. This is all courtesy of Stephen Miller, the most evil, psychopathic, monstrous, soulless *thing* to ever walk the planet.
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Taylor Swift has a whole team of lawyers that do nothing but copyright enforcement for her. Zuckerborg’s Meta just met his match and I hope she closes him down!!!
Gonna ask kindly but emphatically that Trekkies please listen to my close and dear friend Girafe’s words about Star Trek Strange New Worlds treatment of biraciality.
My blood is already running cold. This may be the thing that finally turns me into a reptile.
Speaks for itself!
So much for “It is better to beg for forgiveness afterwards than to ask for permission before.” Didn’t work out so well for them, eh?
I never see the Peter Thiels and the Chris Rufos and the JD Vances of the world express the kind of gratitude they demand of the people they want to bend the knee to them. Not once.
Using LLMs as Search engines really illustrates a fundamental misunderstanding what search engines are good for and why one would use them.
#ProudBlue We must NEVER stop talking about Emmett Till and what happened to him. #BrutalRacialCrimesInTheUSA
He’s such an awful person, he’d probably say Dahmer was saving money on groceries.
He's spit in every service members face. She died because she was an insurrectionist, a traitor to our nation. She dishonored every one of those who paid the ultimate price for our nation. As a Veteran I find this a disgrace and a dishonor..... Never forget January 6th, 2021....NEVER FORGIVE.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Big brave men.
I am waiting for the cars with huge, aerodynamically suspect, portraits of the dear leader strapped to the top, like they do in North Korea.
Anything but calling for an assault weapons ban. I can’t with this man.
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Speaking as a veteran - fuck that cunt, she deserved to be shot, as did many of those with her that day on 06 Jan. What a fucking disgrace, that traitor's ashes should be scattered over a wastewater treatment plant.
Speaking as a civilian who appreciates our veterans, I approve of this message.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
In Chicago, we had Forest Preserve cops, Midwest Water Reclamation District Cops, as well as the federal Secretary of State cops. And the railroad had its own cops, too.
I may be a simple, country chicken, but If prayers are working, why aren't they praying to avoid shootings in the first place When they say "thoughts and prayers', I hear "we don't care"
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin
35 years ago yesterday we lost Stevie Ray Vaughan in a helicopter crash. He was also 35 years old at the time of his death. SRV is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. ❤️🎵🎸 youtu.be/t54xyIcgbks?...
They are Bounty hunters and proud boys.
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”
#DM1 #ProudBlue #Pinks 🧵The authoritarian takeover is complete. Trump now has loyalists in our military that will do the unthinkable. The U.S. Air Force said that Ashli Babbitt, the insurrectionist traitor who lost her life on January 1/3 thehill.com/policy/defen...
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
I always liked the informercials that came on later in the evening than the phone sex hotline informercials, about how to make big money running phone sex hotlines. (And, of course, for a small fee, they would help you set it up.)
For real. Who do normies think do most SRE, network engineering, etc.? It sure TF isn't a bunch of neurotypical white guys named Kyle...
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory Do you really want your tax dollars going to fund republican priorities? I sure as hell don’t. Enough.
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
"The public's right to know!" One of my Journalism instructions emphasized that the public has no right to know everything. He said it's just words some reporters use to try to get stories they should leave alone.
Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.
This New Yorker cartoon immediately comes to mind when RFK is being discussed. The hubris of the uneducated, which is classic Maga:
OTOH, in an electrician's forum where people post installations they have done and ask for critiques or about borderline Code issues, it soon devolves into "Well, if you were any kind of electrician you would know that..." kind of responses But among the BS, there is a *ton* of collective knowledge
There were no labels on the machine. I was able to find that the motor was made in Romania, based on an image search of the log on the cover. Others pointed out various similarities to other brands of lathe. Last I looked, he was well on his way to identifying it. (more)
I was born in the '50s and I like Taylor Swift and the Internet, too, though I am getting a bit disillusioned with the 'Net. The 'Net is still great for collaboration and crowdsourcing. For example, the other day in a machinist forum, this guy was trying to identify a lathe he got a good deal on.
And they are painting the U.S. side. Is that to keep people from leaving?
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
#Pinks #ProudBlue #EndGunViolenceNow
MAGA was worried that we would have a taco truck on every block. Instead it will be a morgue truck.
DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards
70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. When you see “MAGA,” realize THAT was the America Trumpers are saying was “great.” I want a GREATER America than that. We all should.
We are close to wiping out all professionalism from the agencies of the United States government.
christian nihilism or whathaveyou (whatever bad things happen it's cause god wills it, if someone dies it's ok they're in heaven now, etc) is fine as a personal philosophy to help cope w inevitable tragedy I think but kinda shitty as a basis for any type of practical irl politics
How amazing would it be if local police start writing tickets for illegal plates on ICE personal vehicles. You know they are using fictitious plates right.
During the Dark Ages in Europe, the Arab world kept science alive. Perhaps we could ask them nicely to repeat the favor.
I remember wondering why we bothered making software to restrict access to properly cleared people, when the properly cleared people kept giving it away.
I understand. In the 80s/90s, I was working on Multi-Level Secure software for protecting classified data. There had been several cases of moles and other authorized people selling national security information to adversary nations. (More)
Yet another reason why I am not just an ex-pat, but also an exile. BTW, a lot of engineers and programmers are on the autism spectrum. Ya gonna institutionalize all the engineers?
Perhaps, but suppose she goes out on work release, and gets disappeared by ICE. They can say that she went AWOL, and they don't know where she is, and it eliminates the need for a suspicious suicide. Remember that Maxwell knows what she knows, and they have to keep her happy enough to dummy up.
One of the nice things about old age: in 30 years or less, I won't have to deal with all this weird, scary BS anymore. It will be someone else's problem. Sometimes that thought is very comforting.
Or the White House.
Before there was ASCII art, there was Baudot art (actually ITA2 art), passed around on five-level paper tape via Sneakernet, to be displayed on Model 15 Teletypes.
When they start banning typefaces by Latino designers like José Manuel López Rocha, Alejandro Lo Celso, Francis Ramel, y Gabriel Martínez Meave, we will know we have come full circle.
In theory, there is nothing wrong with the idea of making government websites more beautiful and easy to use. But this administration's leanings, along with the name "National Design Studio", keep making me think of Nazi architecture and Nazi typography.
The text that turns from gray to black as you scroll down reminds me of "desktop publishing syndrome", where early DTP publications would use 17 fonts on each page just because they could. It certainly doesn't enhance either the beauty or the readability of the site.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Kind of like if Germany decided that Auschwitz would be a nice place to build a jail. Luckily for the rest of the World, and for humanity, they would never do that. Only in America....
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Imagine thinking scientists, historians, scholars, economists, and journalists devoted their lives to deceiving you — but a reality-TV star, proven in court to be a lying felon, is your beacon of truth and honesty.”
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Infuriating man.
I hate it when that happens!
I really, really, really hope this is a fake, and that she doesn’t know the size of her dad’s junk from personal observation.
So is this saying that if a female dog climaxes, the puppies have souls?
And the slots make it easy to see if there is a CBP officer waiting on the other side. Sounds a lot like of very expensive security theater.
I don’t understand this. I have a 23-foot extension ladder. I’m sure Mexico has them, too. (I suspect that my ladder was made in Mexico.) So you could just set the ladder against the wall, toss a rope over that is anchored to a tree or something, and slide down the rope.
I never served, but I did see “An officer and a gentleman”, and if the obstacle course in the movie is anything like the real thing, what ICE has is nothin’.
That aged poorly.
So much to love about this but I especially enjoy the fact that they have seven people painting a 15-foot stretch of fence
I don’t collect silly childish shit, but I have friends that do, and I don’t get the appeal of Labubus, either. But every time we travel, my wife’s caregiver’s girls (3 and 9) are on the phone with her every day, begging her to buy them more Labubus.
We can come up with: $2MIL to turn the Rose Garden into a Fuddruckers. $200MIL for a ballroom. $1BIL to upgrade an airplane Quatar couldn’t sell. $450MIL (so far) for golf trips. $2BIL to paint a few 100 miles of border wall. Yet kids with cancer must stop being so needy.
Everyone thinks sending her to Club Fed with work release was doing her a favor. Suppose she goes out on work release and get disappeared by ICE. "She never came back from work release! She went AWOL!," they can say. Much tidier and less suspicious than another mysterious suicide.
Of course they do. Didn't you watch "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"? They're the Black Lectroids.
Dark. And even darker: It’s called “Fort Bliss” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
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