When somebody tells you who they are it’s best you believe them.
They’ve been telling us who they are for decades, and who they are is the unburied remnant of the Confederacy coming back for round 2, because Grant didn’t let Sherman finish the job.
Citing a “profound crisis of violence and social disintegration,” Mexico’s Catholic bishops are staking out an aggressive new role in national security, going so far as to sit down with feuding drug traffickers in one blood-soaked state to hammer out a truce....
“My kid is freaking out and yelling ‘KOBE!’ when he shoots the basketball because of the solar eclipse! Is Kobe some new sun god these woke heathens are making our kids worship in schools instead of JESUS?!?”
It was a really good interview, Lina Khan was essentially a guest that Apple TV had blacklisted from Jon’s now cancelled show, they break down some of the ways the Tech Robber Barons have been undermining regulations and laws, while making boatloads of money and manipulating the stock market. They then go into some of Jon’s issues with Apple, his former employer, and why they had Lina Khan blacklisted as a guest on Jon’s now cancelled show, and after hearing her speak I can see why, she’s smart, and knows the topic well, and has some good ideas on how to fix some of the issues we have with regulating and controlling not just tech, but all out of control businesses. Then they discuss AI, how corporate leadership is going to fuck workers over completely using AI, and how AI is currently just a bunch of bullshit being used as an excuse to take our jobs and pay us less.
I channel that into anger, rather than hopelessness, but I absolutely get you, it’s hard being unable to stop things from happening that you see a thousand miles away, and being fix some of the easiest stuff to fix. Now with the political climate with one side of most governments leaning very fascist, and then what’s going on economically, everything is harder and more frustrating, much more expensive. But that’s why I choose anger over hopelessness, because fuck these assholes, I’m not going to let these bastards grind us down, and you shouldn’t either.
My advice would be to try to force yourself to live in the moment more, stay informed, but find other outlets for your life, even if it’s just trying some pot and hallucinogenics, and channel your hopelessness into something positive, something that helps, even if it’s just something that helps you, also music, listening to it, or playing it if you can, I can’t, but music is always very therapeutic. Books or audiobooks work pretty well too.
Good luck, I really hope you find a way to overcome your sense of hopelessness, I know it’s not easy, but life never is.
More bad news for anyone who wants to ever own a home: Home prices just went up again. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose 6% in January, data released today shows; that’s up from a 5.6% increase in the previous month, setting the fastest annual gain since 2022. “On a seasonal adjusted basis,...
A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...
In a blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida conservatives opposed to the measure, the state’s Supreme Court on Monday approved a recreational marijuana constitutional amendment for the November 2024 statewide ballot....
As a Florida resident there’s two things everyone should know about ballot measures here, the first thing is that most things needs a 60% super majority to pass, the second thing is, the Florida GOP has consistently undermined and subverted most ballot measures they don’t agree with.
So absolutely please vote for this measure, but be ready for disappointment, and be ready to fight the state government to make these measures stick once they voted for.
Time to break out my favorite Barry Goldwater quotes:
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.
And:
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Or:
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Fellow Republicans, it is the cause of Republicanism to resist concentrations of power, private or public, which enforce such conformity and inflict such despotism. It is the cause of Republicanism to ensure that power remains in the hands of the people.
Last one for now:
I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A,” “B,” “C” and “D.” Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism.”
This Republican Senator was telling it like it was all the way back in the 60’s.
You’re acting like the Catholic Church is well regarded in England at all, lol, a certain British King put an end to all of that, and the Catholic Church helped wage a proxy war in Ireland for centuries in retaliation, with the poor Irish caught in the middle being used and abused by both sides.
My point is, the BBC absolutely reports on priests/clerics getting in trouble for pedo stuff all of the time, both Catholic and all of the other flavors, including Islam. Sure the BBC is a biased government controlled media entity, but in this regard they do plenty of reporting on religious pedos, now if only they would out some of the government pedos in the British government.
I hate how the left hand panes look Ron DeSantis, and cutting carbon emissions isn’t something that asswhipe would discuss since he and his predecessor, Senator Rick Scott, like to pretend climate change isn’t real and it’s “wokie/DEI/SJW/Socialist/Communist/Chinese/etc. bullshit”. However he would definitely get mad at work from home, regardless of how much it betters the state of Florida, gotta keep those slaves in the fields where can see them, right?
They’re talking about Democrat Hakeem Jefferies taking over the speakership since the margins are that thin, I guess we’ll see, but great timing for the MAGA/GOP to keep showing that it’s a shit show.
No, the US leadership is dealing with a bully with nuclear weapons, sure we can take a chance, do some surgical attacks to limit any launches and such, but that would be a big time escalation, and we’re not there yet, and that escalation would mean a lot more people would die, a lot lot more.
The main strategy has been to try to strangle Russia economically and isolate them to wear down the populace and hopefully force either a retreat or a change in leadership, all while providing Ukraine with what they needed to halt Russia’s advances. However, thanks to the MAGA/Putin alliance they have successfully stalled our resupply efforts to Ukraine, thus giving Putin more time to keep pushing and costing Ukraine lives that they can’t waste while fighting a numerically superior opponent.
So ultimately Trump’s lunatics are who aren’t afraid of winning, they don’t want Ukraine to win, because Trump is Putin’s cock holster and they are Trump’s cult who follow his signals for everything and anything. There’s no fear of winning, only betrayal and treasons prolonging the problem.
It’s all such a tricky situation, we all know Putin isn’t going to deal in good faith, so you just have to kinda walk this tightrope, and that’s what Biden and NATO are doing, and why Ukraine wasn’t just brought into NATO already.
Trump is more likely to win than we are to see Putin toppled.
While you’re definitely right, that just means we still have a problem until Puty dies or gets dethroned, and once Puty dies it’s going to create quite the anxiety inducing power vacuum.
Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State....
Yeah basically, because in our system there has to be a “conservative” party and a “progressive” party, and you’re right, the old guard Republicans and Democrats that lean more conservative and more authoritative should team up and become the new non-batshit crazy conservative party, as the MAGA(GOP) party loses its legitimacy and slinks back into being the ostracized Far/Alt Right, as they should be.
Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy endorses Trump’s plan for mass detention and deportation of migrants (www.sltrib.com)
1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds (www.pbs.org)
Bills trade Stefon Diggs to Texans (www.nbcsports.com)
The Stefon Diggs era is over in Buffalo, as the receiver is headed to Houston in exchange for draft picks.
Catholic bishops meet with Mexico’s cartel bosses to plead for peace (www.washingtonpost.com)
Citing a “profound crisis of violence and social disintegration,” Mexico’s Catholic bishops are staking out an aggressive new role in national security, going so far as to sit down with feuding drug traffickers in one blood-soaked state to hammer out a truce....
Just look at how much anxiety he is having (lemmy.world)
Nasa to create time standard for the Moon, where seconds tick faster than on Earth (www.independent.co.uk)
Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) needed due to differing gravitational forces...
Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims (arstechnica.com)
Renting will be cheaper than buying for years, especially as home prices keep setting new all-time highs (fortune.com)
More bad news for anyone who wants to ever own a home: Home prices just went up again. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose 6% in January, data released today shows; that’s up from a 5.6% increase in the previous month, setting the fastest annual gain since 2022. “On a seasonal adjusted basis,...
TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory (math.ucr.edu)
A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...
Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic (futurism.com)
Florida Supreme Court gives voters final say on recreational marijuana (www.tallahassee.com)
In a blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida conservatives opposed to the measure, the state’s Supreme Court on Monday approved a recreational marijuana constitutional amendment for the November 2024 statewide ballot....
The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement (www.theguardian.com)
The conservative obsession with purity and control is being achieved by increasingly punitive means...
Outrage as traditional Ghanaian priest, 63, marries 12-year-old girl (www.bbc.com)
An influential traditional priest aged 63 has sparked an outrage in Ghana by marrying a 12-year-old girl....
There is zero need for millions of office drones to be on the road daily. (lemmy.world)
Fugitive US Militant Ammon Bundy Geolocated to Utah - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Wake up sweetie, the next stage of work has dropped. (lemmy.world)
wsj.com/…/that-new-job-comes-with-a-bigger-title-…...
Johnson Speaks to key Republicans with Speakership and Ukraine Support on the Line (saynewsy.blogspot.com)
The West has the capability to halt Putin's brutal war - but does it have the resolve? (news.sky.com)
They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war. (www.nbcnews.com)
Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State....
GOP Is Using Imagery of White Women Victims to Stoke Anti-Immigrant Fear (truthout.org)
The death of Laken Riley, who Trump called “an American daughter,” is at the center of right-wing immigration rhetoric....
Is the GOP Gonna Break Down? (talkingpointsmemo.com)