Okay… so we should vote for the guy who thinks Israel is right and needs to “finish the job.”
“I don’t know why they released wartime shots like that. I guess it makes them look tough. But to me, it doesn’t make them look tough,” Trump continued. “They’re losing the PR war. They’re losing it big. But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.”
You can vote for the guy who isn’t doing enough to stop the atrocities in Gaza, or you can vote for the guy who just wants Israel to hurry up. There is no other option.
Why would you ask an LLM, that is known for lying, a question about medical risks? You have no way of knowing how much of that information is just made up or scraped from some old Reddit post.
It is time to protect Ohio’s elections by outlawing foreign campaign contributions
So you won’t be allowing the NRA to spend money supporting campaigns in Ohio? Right?
“With every twist and turn, the story only gets worse for the NRA. After months of dodging questions, the NRA has admitted it took money from one of Putin’s top allies, who is reportedly under FBI investigation.
Glad to hear it. Re-posting something that I posted 9 days ago when this first came out.
This was clearly a request for a quid pro quo arrangement. Pay me this and I’ll do that for you. Very illegal. In case there’s any doubt about that…
In 1976, announcing the Supreme Court’s landmark Buckley v. Valeo decision, Chief Justice Warren Burger set this standard for corruption: “the reality & appearance of improper influence stemming from the dependence of candidates on large campaign contributions.”
The current chief justice, John Roberts, had led an effort to tighten that broad language. Roberts, delivering the McCutcheon v. FEC ruling last year, defined corruption as “a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties.”
He was describing a quid pro quo – the donor’s money in explicit exchange for the politician’s official favor. It’s a felony.
Just to be clear, John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the USA defined corruption as “a contribution to a particular candidate in exchange for his agreeing to do a particular act within his official duties.”
Those are just sample of the hits on my “amazon working conditions” google search. I applaud any company that pays a decent wage, but not when that same company is forcing their employees to endure unsafe working conditions.
And let’s not forget that Bezos, in 2023, made $7.9 million dollars an hour by exploiting these employees. I hope that puts that $15 and hour in perspective. In thirteen minutes, Bezos made more than you will probably earn in your lifetime, subby. Forgive me if I’m less than impressed with his willingness to toss a few crumbs from his plate to the people slaving away for him.
Kramer, a political consultant, claimed in an interview with News 9 that he only sent out the calls to drive home the need for more regulation of AI.
Really? That’s the defense you’re going to go with?
He said that if investigators wanted to come after him, they should “bring it.”
Glad the grand jury decided to “bring it.” This kind of crap needs to be nipped in the bud. I hope the judge isn’t some Trump appointed knucklehead that lets him off easy.
A federal magistrate judge has ordered the campaign to produce by May 31 a list of all discrimination and harassment complaints made during Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential runs
I’m surprised he didn’t just start typing the law on his cell phone and finish it by repeatedly selecting the middle option in the phone’s predictive text.
First, no object could be accelerated to that speed. Relativistic effects make that impossible. However, gravity waves move at the speed of light so there is some delay in gravitational effects. I’m not a physicist, but I’m pretty sure that if your sun-sized object shot through the solar system at 99.9999% the speed of light, and passed between the Earth and the Sun, it would take about 4 minutes for the object’s gravity to be felt by either the Earth or the Sun.
Again, not a physicist, so here’s a bunch of words that sum up to “maybe.”
With the object moving so fast I’m not sure we’d notice anything much. We would only be in it’s gravitational field for a very short time, but it might be long enough to change Earth’s orbit, someone with better math skills will need to field that one.
As for heating the Earth, again that’s a maybe. Gravity is stronger the closer you are to the center of mass. So the near side of the Earth will feel the pull of the object much more strongly than the further side. That will make the Earth want to stretch towards the object as the near side falls towards the object faster than the far side. It would be very slight, think egg-shaped but not to a noticeable degree, but it could be bad enough.
This is called a tidal effect and would generate some heat if we’re in the gravity well of the object for long enough. It would also cause fault lines to pop all over the globe. The object would shoot by very quickly though at 99.9999c so we might be spared the worst of the effects. Again, someone with better math skills could give a more accurate answer.
FYI tidal effects are why the moons of the gas giants aren’t frozen ice balls. The constant flexing as they orbit their planet generates tremendous amounts of heat.
So they want the war to end, but they’ve lost so much prosecuting the war that they don’t want to lose what they’ve acquired? A nation willing to keep getting people killed over a sunk-cost fallacy.
Temperature is a measure of kinetic energy at the molecular/atomic level. That said, the gasses falling into a black hole would likely reach such hypothetical temperatures as they near the event horizon.
They can’t solve it. Look at what happened with abortion. They used it as a political hammer for decades. Then McConnell and Trump managed to stack SCOTUS with enough religious zealots that they actually overturned Roe v. Wade. Now, Republicans are getting their asses handed to them in elections all over the country because the majority of Americans didn’t want it overturned.
If Republicans actually solve the border “crisis” they will get beat up even more. The American agriculture industry relies on immigrant labor. It cannot function without it. If Trump and the Republicans solve this and kick out all immigrants, we as a nation will be screwed. Produce will rot in the fields. We’ll have no one to slaughter meat animals. You cannot find enough American citizens that are willing to do that work for what the industry pays. Inflation will shoot up like never before and Republicans will again get assaulted at the polls.
People will have no choice but to take those jobs or starve.
I know your comment is a joke, but it really doesn’t work that way. Florida has passed a draconian law banning hiring undocumented immigrants and farmers are suffering because of it.
Actually I’m hoping that the independent voters are rational and can be reasoned with. There are not enough Republican voters to doom us on their own. I do have to acknowledge that history suggests I’m being unreasonably optimistic.
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Corporations should not be running hospitals with shareholder profit as the primary goal. Hospitals should be owned and run by the communities, or more likely the state, with the goal of providing the best reasonable level of care.
These 11 LGBTQ federal judges are making history - and are all appointed by Joe Biden (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Homophobic GOP Senate candidate spent thousands in donor money on strip clubs & shoes (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Texas Appoints Extremist, Who Said 9-Year-Olds Are Fine Giving Birth, to Maternal Mortality Committee (www.jezebel.com)
13-year-old rape victim has baby amid confusion over state's abortion ban (abcnews.go.com)
Ohio governor calls special session to pass legislation ensuring President Biden is on 2024 ballot (apnews.com)
Senate Democrats Open Inquiry Into Trump’s $1 Billion Request of Oil Industry: Committees are seeking information from oil executives about a dinner where the former president proposed a quid pro quo (www.nytimes.com)
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Whenever a leftist argues for a 15$ minimum wage, remind them that Amazon does that too (www.aboutamazon.com)
I seen it on reddit and thought to share it here.
Political consultant indicted for AI robocalls with fake Biden voice made to New Hampshire voters (www.wmur.com)
For the Women Who Accused the Trump Campaign of Harassment, It’s Been More Harassment (www.propublica.org)
Arizona state lawmaker used ChatGPT to write part of law on deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)
[Physics] Does gravity have 'elasticity'? If a solid sun-sized object zooms across space at the speed of light, then abruptly stops, does it take gravity some time to 'settle' around it?
Is it a stable/static effect no matter what, or is it a bit more stretchy/bouncy depending on how the object is behaving?...
Well, children aren't THAT important (lemmy.world)
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now (arstechnica.com)
Is there a temperature so hot that relativistic effects are noticeable?
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)
The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely (arstechnica.com)
Republicans close ranks against Senate border security deal (thehill.com)
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise (www.cnn.com)
After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians (apnews.com)
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Some Trump-appointed judges keep sneaking Biblical reference into court opinions (www.salon.com)
MTG is 'absolutely' racist, Texas Democrat says after their heated exchange in House (www.usatoday.com)