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The issue of trafficking people who are undocumented is a big problem. But the solution isn't to shrug our shoulders and toss the victims back to the wolves through deportation to other countries and their prisons. The solution is immigration reform and a path to citizenship.
Gets me every single time. I automatically read it wrong.
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5/5 This science does NOT support telling women to ditch birth control. If anything, it shows that hormonal contraceptives can support mental resilience and healthy coping! Musk saw "emotional impact" and automatically went to the root word for "hysteria".
4/5 Birth control isn’t simply about reproduction, it can give some women a psychological boost, making it easier to remember the good moments and tune out the bad.
3/5 Hormonal contraceptives don’t just prevent pregnancy; they may help women let go of negativity, reducing overthinking about the past. That’s a mental health win, not a drawback!
2/5 It found birth control users remember fewer details about unpleasant events when using emotion regulation. This could really help protect their mental health and help them move on from bad experiences.
1/5 Just goes to show that neither #Musk or nor the other #incel -adjacent commenters read the study, which shows that women using hormonal #birth control can bounce back faster from tough times, distancing themselves from negative memories, which boosts resilience and emotional well-being.
5/5 This science does NOT support telling women to ditch birth control. If anything, it shows that hormonal contraceptives can support mental resilience and healthy coping! Musk saw "emotional impact" and automatically went to the root word for "hysteria".
4/5 Birth control isn’t simply about reproduction, it can give some women a psychological boost, making it easier to remember the good moments and tune out the bad.
3/5 Hormonal contraceptives don’t just prevent pregnancy; they may help women let go of negativity, reducing overthinking about the past. That’s a mental health win, not a drawback!
2/5 It found birth control users remember fewer details about unpleasant events when using emotion regulation. This could really help protect their mental health and help them move on from bad experiences.
1/5 Just goes to show that neither Musk or nor the other incel-adjacent commenters read the study, which shows that women using hormonal birth control can bounce back faster from tough times, distancing themselves from negative memories, which boosts resilience and emotional well-being.
Hopeful. I will feel hope stir in my bones once again.
Roko's Basilisk is going to make hell so much worse for those of us who laughed at this.
Union power is the kind of people power we need the most right now, maybe worse than it's ever been. vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/labor-day-...
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, if we start learning Mandarin now, we will be in prime position to interact in the coming world...of Firefly. The whole strength of the US has been corrupted by a cancer that should have been hanged in 1865, to the last individual cell.
Sad. 😔
Well, apart from J6, when else was this widespread abuse and spitting on cops occurring? Spitting is an assault violation and good cop or bad cop, NO cop is going to let that slide without an "enhanced" takedown and arrest.
Donkey looking at the camera person and going "Hey, Scorsese, if you're going to stand being useless with your phone, maybe go get a bottle of milk ready for daddy's little donkey?!"
Canadians are forest elves. Americans are orcs.
Three words: transient ischemic attack.
Surprised he didn't list "his" fully name as Roy Batty, to really drive home the point.
This is why drummers are so skinny. Watching that workout made me tired.
3/3 ...is about to heat up again with a lot of hot button topics involving him. He's back to shitposting, which is his second favorite kind of autofellatio, but he's going to avoid public appearances while he feels puny and weak.
2/3 This could have caused some major cognitive problems like slurred words, vision issues, balance, and while he's back on two-legs now, they are making sure his appearances are under very tight control. The real story will be told this coming week. Congress comes back and the news cycle...
1/3 He's physically able to walk, though he looks slumped over more than usual and all the photos of him show his mouth hanging open. My best guess is transient ischemic attack...a mini-stroke. He's been under observation and recovery for the last few days and with a lot of clot-buster drugs.
Excellent, thank you! I will give it a look! I'm working on something that will watch my photography ingest folder on my NAS and then query a vision model to get alt-text that is then written to the sidecar file on the photos.
Right, yes, (and I am a novice on this, so please bear with me) but it will serve to my network? I'm playing around running various models on my Macbook serving to some apps running on RPis on my network. Anything that does that better or more efficiently, I'm intriqued.
This is just for working directly with the models, right? It doesn't serve locally so I can use other things to talk to the model?
There are no gods, only monsters.
That wouldn't surprise in the slightest, especially since MAGA is sympathetic to the kind of Canadian politics Jorpy represents.
Reminds me of when mom and dad would send me into the grocery store to buy cigarettes from a vending machine in the back by the bathrooms. ;)
Indeed, and the Black Vultures are even weirder when they alight, like a bunch of goth kids smoking cigarettes behind the school. These turkey buzzards are a near continual presence in this area because there is a major highway nearby that provides them with an unfortunately steady diet.
I'm doing what I can to make friends. This one will stay at a distance but meow at me and then rush to the feeding area when I leave. First contact might come someday!
Tennessee is strongly pitching a combination of Texas-laxness on things like regs and no income tax but with a better climate and scenery. Land prices have been skyrocketing as a result and we are getting characters like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Jordan Peterson making big purchases here.
I tracked down the stats as best I could. Looks like they are based on Cornell Roper Center, Pew Research, and Rutgers CAWP exit polling and analysis. Here's a Roper screenshot and link: ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-v... Again, it comes down to how much credit you give exit polling.
From your comment to the ears of @thegodpodcast.com.
The memory of being in the cold, single computer lab first thing in the morning at my school, shared by all for our daily one hour computer course, and hearing the startup beeps of 30 machines being powered on.
That's the color of the 80s in my synesthesic brain, just as "wood paneling brown" is the color for the 70s. Bright orange is the 60s. Yellow is the 50s.
I guess the best takeaway from this is though we were all disappointed the other day when it turned out he was still breathing OUR air, all is not lost. SOMETHING has happened. Not sure what, but clearly something is going on. Something has changed and there is an effort to downplay or hide it.
Handsome Joe still out there charmin' and smilin'.
Thanks to seeing this story on a few other accounts and my own incessant need to thoroughly understand cool technology things, my Youtube suggested feed is now chockfull of sand battery and related tech explainer vids and "ain't it cool" types of content. Not complaining, just saying.
He's a grifter in the same vein as Young Earth Creationists and appeals to the same groups of people (God might be interested in who 😉 ). I looked at their shared origins, which even they get wrong, here: vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/from-ellen...
I think the reports on which demographic voted for which candidate comes from exit polling and applying statistical sampling to make a more generalized claim. It's not 100%, by any means, and it could really miss big pockets of anomalies, but it's generally reliable for making some bird's eye claims
He's a grifter in the same vein as Young Earth Creationists and appeals to the same groups of people. I looked at their shared origins, which even they get wrong, here: vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/from-ellen...
Totally wasn't returning from a sex worker's location and totally wasn't at fault in the "high speed rear ending" of his car that was retold to make it sound like some kind of Maximum Overdrive movie scene.
He reached settlements with the Freemans to allow him to keep his home and some of his stuff. There is payment being made or already made but the source has been kept confidential and undisclosed. The MAGA world also created a bunch of PACs for him to cover legal expenses.
Labor Day isn’t a picnic. It’s a receipt. vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/labor-day-... #LaborDay #Unions #PeoplePower #UnionStrong
I left the day Muskollini got the keys to the building and came in carrying that stupid sink. I had been on Twitter for 11 years prior.
There's definitely a dungeon he didn't show her on camera. And she was never heard or seen again.
Sounds about right. The number going up also is predictable given the changing social views and more acceptability (same thing happened with left handers when they stopped forcing kids to be right handed in school, interestingly enough).
Yes, I watched that entire video and I like Candy Owens even less than I did before.
But "mainly" is just a result of how things shook out culturally, with HIV impacting the LGBTQ+ communities first and hardest due to the looser sexual inhibitions in that time period for everyone (and without the focus on condom use among gays as there was among hetero populations).
Painting racism as imaginary or “made up” gaslights lived experience and facts, mountains of evidence show ongoing disparities in policing, housing, and schools. Facing these realities is not “victimhood,” but refusing to accept injustice.
Asserting black voters are duped or enslaved by Democrats insults their intelligence and agency. Black voters support candidates based on policies about justice, healthcare, and the economy, not because of political “masters.” Candace Owens doesn't think much of black people.
Portraying black conservatives as “punished” ignores that public figures of all ideologies face criticism. Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas...all have prominent platforms. Dissent is a sign of a vibrant democracy, not oppression. No one is entitled to criticism-free speech.
Claiming Democrats “break up black families” with welfare policies is a lie. Study after study shows factors like job loss, redlining, and incarceration, often driven by BIPARTISAN policy, are more responsible for family instability.
School-provided meals are lifelines for poor families, aiming to fight hunger so kids can succeed, not to “remove traditional responsibilities.” Blaming parents ignores systemic poverty and unemployment, which stem from broader economic inequality.
Equating social programs and schools in black neighborhoods with “virtual plantations” misrepresents both context and intent. Social safety nets were created to address poverty. This is propaganda from the white conservative opposition to social safety nets stemming largely from anti-Communists.
Claiming one party is solely to blame for slavery ignores history. Southern Democrats defended slavery pre-Civil War, but political parties changed. By the 1960s, Democrats led civil rights reforms, with many segregationists joining the GOP. The Southern Strategy was real. It's documented fact.
Nothing was show. It was literally all legal and justified and now a part of the Congressional record.
Again, this isn't the case. Transmission can be through vaginal sex as well. Nor is anal sex some kind of "gay man only" thing.
No. Now you are appealing to a small school of thought within education wonks. What you are using is not that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura...
Nothing was made up. It's all factual. The claims about "bias" don't matter to the facts.
LOL, PragerU's little video is from Dinesh D'Souza. Please explain how the Democrats built a time machine and planted the receipts for the Southern Strategy all over the 60s and 70.
Sooooo, you're posting antisemitic white nationalists like Candace Owens, who in turn preaches debunked Thomas Sowell "plantation" nonsense?
He doesn't know what he is even posting? That's the defense? This guy has no idea what he is posting and he is just posting antisemitic recycled conspiracies for the lulz? Also, he's not pro-Jew. He's pro Israeli. There is a big difference that is steeped in White Christofascist Nationalism.
Being polite is a good thing. No one said it's a requirement.
Sounds like something you made up then. Nothing like that exists and there is no such requirement.
They are a minor and I blocked them. My engagement isn't really for minors.
He was literally trying to be accepted and welcomed by Democrats and old money interests in NYC, the story of his whole life. Same reason he tried to buy an NFL team, was denied, and became antagonistic to the NFL ever since. He only fully became a Republican when Obama mocked him on stage.
The Nazis hated those groups because Nazi ideology specifically stated that white Christians were superior to all others. It was baked into their whole ethos, right down to the eugenics. Speaking of eugenics, now you have RFK Jr. openly hawking it once again.
No, that's cult mentality speaking. Trump's actions have not been "positive" for anyone but White Christofascist Nationalists and billionaires.
HIV was passed into humans via eating poached ape meat in the early 20th century. Anal sex is an oddly specific thing for you to bring up since any sex can transmit it, which it was likely transmitted in the 1960s somewhere in Africa to someone who brought it to the US and Europe.
Reminds me of this "troll" where they pretended to make a white power sign and then, you know, kept making it.
BTW, the "America First" slogan was specifically used in the same way that Trump uses it. And since Trump has never had an original slogan, it's clear where he got this one from. Even "MAGA" is taken from Reagan.
How is it trolling if he is just posting the stuff that his base posts on his site? What's the troll there? That he's pretending to be QANON by doing all the things that give a nod to QANON and thus somehow that's trolling?? At what point does it become indistinguishable from simply giving a nod?
Weird how it keeps happening, though, right? Like when DHS posts a tweet about American manifest destiny that's exactly 14 words and has two capital Hs in the sentence over the top of a painting depicting white colonizers running non-white natives off and into the distance?
Cultural Marxism is literally Nazi propaganda. The Republican party and associated "think tanks" have been influenced by literal Nazis since the 1950s, starting with Laszlo Pasztor, the Nazi who helped Nixon “Reach Out” and founded the Republican National Heritage Groups who later supported Reagan.
They were fully legal and binding and supported by evidence and followed all processes and laws. And the legal trials outside of impeachment are also fully legal and binding. The Democrats' best shot at winning is promising to impeach him again.
Oh, and then there is QANON, the modern recycling of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy theory that was so popular among the Nazis. Trump is back to posting their imagery and memes again.
But your moral view on political parties and positions has no bearing or authority for me, least of all enforcement authority. And the Christian Communists would also like a word with you about your misconceptions.
The Democrats are a right wing party who adopted the Republican Southern Strategy with Bill Clinton, adopted Reagan-era policies, and never looked back. Not much daylight between Obame/Biden Democrats and Reagan Republicans. I'm old enough to have watched it happen in real time.
Every time Bluesky is featured on the news in some way ("Bluesky is dying", "Bluesky users are mad about something", "Bluesky users think Trump is dead"), I see an uptick in engagement from rando bots and spam accounts. I can't tell you how many "just a girl from China" messages I have received.
So you found all the times when he was trying to pander to and fit in with the Democrats???
Facts are facts, regardless of where they are accessed. I used Pentium processors back when they used to sometimes do math wrong too.
"Likely promoting"?? So you are just speculating without evidence in order to justify the action post hoc? That's cult mentality. He removed enforcement for ALL Title IX enforcement. That means lesbians and gays too.
HIV is caused by a virus. That virus can be transmitted sexually or through many other bodily fluids, including blood. LGBTQ+ people exist and so does their place in history. Trying to strip that is precisely what Nazis did. In fact, Nazis shared your hatred of trans gender people specifically.
The Southern Strategy is unfortunately still alive and well (I'm in Tennessee and seeing up close).
Trump hasn't listened to you since he got the vote he told you he wanted. He literally said he doesn't care about you, he just needed your vote. He said it. Right to your faces. And it's not his own only National Socialist nod or move. vagabondvisions.beehiiv.com/p/the-nazis-...
Oh, some of you noticed. That was the point. And if you didn't notice, why not? It was pretty blatant and odd. At a certain point, coincidence falls far short to explain how often it keeps happening.
There are no such people as "Social Marxists". That phrase doesn't even hold any meaning? Did you mean "Cultural Marxists"? The original German coined by the Nazis was Kulturbolschewismus. No one was "indoctrinated" or "mutilated" and the sports issue was hyperbolically overblown as a proxy war.
When the definition is narrowed you end up with an even worse ratio per capita to the point that the 5< trans shooters becomes mere statistical noise. Here's what ChatGPT said about my initial math and the inputs and assumptions I made:
He has been impeached. Twice. And he has indeed been sued over those things. And lost. The most recent case involved his tariffs being largely ruled illegal. And he will likely face impeachment against if the Democrats retake the House. Once he leaves office, he still faces more criminal charges.
I'm neither but I would have the right to be either.
Ben Shapiro can only ever offer tepid criticism of Trump, at best. And Democrats aren't National Socialists. Republicans are much further right wing than Democrats. The Democrats would rather knuckle under to fascists than to share power with any sort of actual left wing.
BTW, your list appears to consist of campaign and PR events by Trump as he faced re-election.