Let's be clear here: He is _not_ the director of the FBI, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
It's complicated
787 followers 1,623 following 972 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Let's be clear here: He is _not_ the director of the FBI, but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
What if the malign intent behind this was to disrupt the fragile, ad hoc equilibrium that the US is clinging to? For Steve Bannon et al to get their dream of burning everything to the ground and starting again? As others have been saying, the Reichstag moment for Trump?
deploy technology and only then ponder what the dangers and appropriate uses of it are.
Social media being an instance of the Internet's promise to allow anyone to publish to the world, often seems like a bad idea, particularly at times like this. A great example of the old saying "just because you can doesn't mean you should". Also another sad case of our tendancy to create and [1/2]
Ah, this explains why the US is running away from dealing with climate change. The Swiss murder rate is 0.6 per 100000 people. The US rate is 6.8 per 100000, ergo climate change is going to have to get a lot worse to surpass that figure and prompt some action in the US.
Amongst the weary, insipid uproar from all sides regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination, I feel compelled to repeat this quote: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Elizabeth Beatrice Hall, "The Friends of Voltaire"
"With the country so divided both sides have people on edge!" Yes! That's exactly how _they_ want it. The last thing they want is an informed, unifed populace. I will leave it to your imagination to figure out who they are.
Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Kim Jong Un all live for distractions from their treacherous and treasonous acts.
Farage is just a posh thief.
so what does he do? Everything he can to prolong the crisis, the emergency that literally is keeping him out of jail. Question is: What kind of crisis is Trump going to manufacture to try to pull this same stunt? [2/2]
Here's the deal: Trump would very much like to join the gang of Putin, Netanyahu, Kim Jong Un, and other authoritarians who are just fine with conflict and war, because it keeps them in office. If things ever calm down for a few weeks, Bibi will probably end up in prison, and he knows it, [1/2]
It is very disturbing to discover that there is a sizable contingent of people in this country who most definitely do not believe in or approve of democracy, a lineage that goes back to before the founding of the country. Ignoring this would seem foolish.
But I'm sure she was "deeply concerned".
With the growing level of social unrest and anxiety we are experiencing globally, I can't help but wonder: Is our food doing it to us? gist.github.com/techn0mad/eb...
-- Davis, William. Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight (pp. 25-28). (Function). Kindle Edition. Long story short: Has big food poisoned all of us with high fructose corn syrup, etc.?
People report liking their families and coworkers better, a renewed desire to converse with strangers in line for coffee at Starbucks and gather with friends, and a tendency to cry more at movies. They also report being better able to understand the views and opinions of others. [9/10]
including the disappearance of L. reuteri and the accompanying loss of empathy and desire for human connection, be at least part of the explanation? I believe it is. Restore this lost bacterial species, and many experience a flood of empathy and desire for human connection. [8/9]
Could the loss of the oxytocin-boosting L. reuteri be at least one cause behind these disturbing social trends? Surely, these are complex issues with many potential causes, but could the modern devastation of the helpful organisms in the thirty feet of GI tract, [7/9]
Loss of L. reuteri and its oxytocin-provoking effects means that modern people have lower oxytocin levels than people of fifty years ago. We live in a time plagued by increased social isolation, record-setting rates of suicide, skyrocketing divorce. [6/9]
Oxytocin is the hormone of empathy and connectedness.It is the hormone that surges when you are in love or feel closely connected to another person or pet your dog.Oxytocin helps you see the other side of an argument, cultivates sympathy for the plight of other people,and reduces social anxiety. 5/9
which has been demonstrated through an elegant series of experiments conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Think about that: a microbe living in your GI tract determines an important aspect of your brain’s functioning.18 [4/9]
Today, only 4 percent—fewer than one in twenty people—continue to enjoy the presence of this marvelous species.16,17 Among the many benefits of L. reuteri is its unique capacity to trigger the release of the hormone oxytocin from the human brain, [3/8]
Indigenous people living in jungles and mountains, as well as chickens, pigs, and other creatures, carry this microorganism, suggesting that it plays an essential role in survival. But modern life has eradicated this species from 96 percent of people in the Western world. [2/7]
Here's a stab at it: "L. REUTERI: THE LOVE BUG The bacterial species Lactobacillus reuteri is a star in the world of intestinal microbes, one that yields spectacular effects for its human host. [1/6]
We need to be careful here: This was not done by one man alone. He has been aided, encouraged and abetted by an army of enablers, sychophants and grifters, who were in turn encouraged and supported by an even bigger group of people. It is our country that is broken, and that will not be easy to fix.
Yeah, it's like he's Lindsey Graham's long lost son or something.
Hmm, Ross Douthat would be the second person who just wants the whole thing to go away. But why?
Amazed that there's not more discussion of this topic. See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...
So it really is a government of and by the people?
This is what they used to shoot it down:
Epic work by Mr. Eminem and friends!
Hey, don't hate the player, hate the game. BTW, how did those morons get on to the supreme court? It wasn't the tooth fairy, was it?
"otherwise western civilization collapses" Your proposal is acceptable.
Brutally honest? In my opinion every Trump voter falls into three categories, Rich, Racist or Rubes. Rich people: I get it. If my sole goal was to get the highest score in life then I too would vote for the person who will cut my taxes or give my companies big fat government contracts. READ MORE:
It's true, isn't it? Thanks to the MAGA movement (whatever that is), now no Republican in the country can get elected without Trump on the ticket. If he exits the scene, they will all drop like stones to the bottom of the pond.
Time to go and re-watch "Blazing Saddles", a timeless work of political prophecy.
Wait, what if _Trump_ had a mental health disorder?
That's the most believable bit of information I've seen today.
In Soviet Russia, we _knew_ it was propaganda.
Pretty much sums up our miserable existence...
This sounds great, until ICE shows up and deports the Hitachi people. Just saying...
one of the weird things about comparing the current era to the gilded age is at least during the gilded age the capital class was generally aligned with construction, rail roads, electrification - all trends that would radically improve human life. now they're 100% degrowthers
Everytime I see Tom Homan, I'm reminded of the South African bad guys in "Lethal Weapon"
Yup, and any day now you'll hear him crying and whining about how people don't respect the court and the law anymore. Gee. I wonder how that happened?
stupid is as stupid does...
You lack imagination...
Read Nancy McLean's "Democracy in Chains" if you want to learn all of the gory details. [2/2]
The Federalist Society, The John Birch Society, Leonard Leo, et al; bottom dwellers who have been feverishly laboring for generations to dismantle this country, and who never believed in democracy, the constitution, or the founding principles of it are finally having their moment. What next? [1/2]
I can't wait for the sh*tstorm that will erupt when Roberts soon sticks up his neck and whines about how the public doesn't respect the court or the law anymore.
x.com/acitrano/sta...
Obviously it's time for Kavanaugh to have another beer.
It's an interesting thought: What if Americans started thinking (with significant empirical evidence) that a lot of their politicians are not the best of them, but rather the worst? Which way would the body politic lean when people started to distrust professional politicians and influencers?
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
The Supremes were an R&B group from the '60s, and more useful than this lot.
Wow, is that Vance guy ever full of sh*t.
Ah, you mean the leader of the gang of British twits who objected to paying their taxes and as a result engineered Brexit (with a lot of help from Putin and the tech bros) is sensitive about it? Who knew?
not to mention the walking embodiment of the evils of not pulling out in time...
Putin, Xi, Iran, North Korea, et al:
My long running complaint: For decades, outrage and indignity about illegal immigrants; and yet not a f*cking peep about the people who employ them. What the actual f*ck?
"such as countering a more aggressive alliance of authoritarian nations" WTF? You don't have time for that sh*t: You need to get busy repressing your friends and neighbors on behalf of Il Douche.
Second time today: Elections have consequences.
Well, can't disagree with much here. Better late than never.
and another discovers: Elections have consequences.
That says it all!
Let's revise this: ...studying WWIII we were assured that Americans did what they did because of what Wall Street did and the devastation to the American economy. I sometimes wonder though…was it really economic anxiety or were they just aholes with wounded pride and a victimhood complex?
All for-profit media has failed, despite their owner's lame promises that they would always do the right thing, until they didn't.
Did we get here by an innate and natural path, or are there hidden forces or actors at work? Does anyone even want to acknowledge the possibility?
I wonder: Is the relationship between corruption and money linear? sub-linear? exponential? geometric?
I wonder how long it will be before Trump nationalizes ADP "in the interests of the country"?
Also keep in mind that a majority of said billionaires are where they are because they were lucky, not because they were some kind of geniuses (regardless of what they tell you). Also, if you can get any of them to admit this, ask them what they did with their luck. Who did they serve with it?
At least Yeltsin could blame the vodka...
It's not so much as whether I should trust the Supreme Court, I'm more concerned about whether I should trust the monied interests who installed the justices. P.S. Who. Is. Leonard. Leo?
I'm suprised anyone can find anyone in the middle class anymore. I thought they'd gone extinct some time ago. The species that literally made America great, by the way.
I'll bet he wishes he was back at Michael's, doing some custom framing.
ssd.eff.org
"Realism is unimpressed with the notion that humans today are better, smarter, or wiser than those of the distant (or recent) past—man has been, and remains, a potentially very dangerous animal who, especially when pressed, can descend into barbarism." -- Jonathan Kirshner
"... a society characterized by radical polarization and an embrace of unreason—and described by Raymond Aron, an eyewitness, as a country defined by little more than its vehement internal divisions." -- Jonathan Kirshner
Is it just me, or are we seeing a replay of the digital music wars, only over in the energy sector? I keep seeing headlines about the breakneck speed at which solar energy is being deployed around the world, and our quivering, pearl-clutching fossil fuel industry runs to momma for handouts.
Yes.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Not terribly surprising when your approach to life, the universe, and everything is: Financialize anything you can. Historically, the banking/finance sector provided a useful service for about 8% of the economy's take. We're beyond 25% now. A change or a crisis was inevitable.
Even before that, shouldn't they know something about arithmetic?
"There will be no west if this continues." Your proposal, is acceptable.
www.facebook.com/share/p/16S3...
If the targeting scope is swamped by one giant blip, well you go after what's there.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Putin sighs "Excellent!"
They want to kill all of YOU, so there's more left for THEM.
"Donald Trump is going in the wrong direction" Wow, that's profound.
That's because she's a FOREIGN OPERATIVE!
President Xi Jinping of China: "These are not serious people."
I'll keep saying it: Their plan is to kill all of the peasants.
Did you notice? IT WASN'T HIS MONEY.
