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“You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you!” Part time escapee to La Isla Nena. Realist, nearly-retired with respect for the Earth. He/him. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 “If you want to change the future, start living as if you’re already there” -Lynn Conway “In a world of chaos, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists” - Eric Hoffer

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StillIRise1963, to random
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We don’t all need to buy the exact same things that we use occasionally. We should have organized borrowing.

bouriquet,
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@StillIRise1963 Agree but COVID changed a lot about sharing, especially in a country where many do know who their closest neighbor is, much less talk to them. We’ve become an isolated society, untrusting of mostly everyone. Yes there are exceptions in small towns but not for the general population in a world where so many of us relocate often for work.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff NFL. And this trial is for perhaps the worst crimes against the people and national security of the United States of America. There has to be a way to move this along again. No single judge should ever have this much power. What about the right to a speedy trial? Does it not also apply that right to the People?

GottaLaff, to legal
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New 🧵starts HERE. 1/…

Plz remember to use "NFL" (Not For Laffy) & remember: typos are theirs, not mine. No time to correct.

Inner City Press (aka Press):

They're back.

Trump's lawyer Blanche: Half an hour ago, we learned who the next witness is - and we have some objections. Invoices from Michael Cohen are not business records of the Trump Organization. If she stamped them, sure

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff NFL
I would prefer that he had to take food and comfort packages to homeless people on the streets or in shelters and have 10 minute conversations with each, documenting it in a report back to the judge.

GottaLaff, to random
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CREW:

The fact that Tim Scott is refusing to say he’d follow the law and not try to overthrow the results of a free and fair election should scare anyone listening. This is how democracies end.

👇🏼
WELKER: Will you commit to accepting the 2024 election results?

TIM SCOTT: At the end of the day, the 47th president will be Donald Trump

WELKER: Wait -- yes or no, will you accept the results?

TIM SCOTT: That is my statement

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff Tim Scott can grovel all he wants but consider if a 77 year old would-be-dictator in less than optimal physical condition would choose such a man as VP to ascend his throne or if his loyal followers would.
Highly unlikely.
Maybe he’s hoping for a cabinet position.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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1/... Via Kevinly Father on Twitter:

The Republican party is literally suing to prevent legal votes from being counted.

Bartiromo: I see that the RNC is filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day.

Lara : Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over.

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff I thought the saying was “the election isn’t over until all the votes are counted “ no matter how long it takes.

juandesant, (edited ) to random
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From the Rebel base in the Hoth system (aka ALMA in Chile)…

Image by our colleague Pablo Bello (https://www.instagram.com/pablitocl)

bouriquet,
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@juandesant Looking like something out of a sci-fi movie
Great photo!

augieray, to random
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I've spent long weekends in two rural Midwest areas in the last two months, and you know what we didn't see? Trump signs. We didn't see Biden signs, either, but in past elections these areas were blanketed in Trump signs and flags. Maybe it means something, maybe not, but I'll take a little hope.

bouriquet,
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@augieray They probably still have the same values as before but no longer care about what goes on in Washington DC.

plaguepoems, to random
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When they tell you
(and they will tell you)
that only cowards
wear masks in public
reply by telling them
that in these dark times
the bravest thing
any of us can do
is take care of each other.

bouriquet,
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@plaguepoems That mentality is the same excuse for not wearing seatbelts, not using safety glasses, not wearing ear protection. It’s not being a coward: it’s making sure you’re still alive and able to enjoy your family and friends using all of your senses.

indivisibleteam, to random
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We read Trump's
Time interview so you don't have to. Throughout, the leader of the GOP talks openly about his dangerous ambitions for a second term -- including allowing states to arrest women who have abortions, using the power of the presidency to influence criminal investigations, and deploying the military to round up millions of immigrants. 🧵 https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/

bouriquet,
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@indivisibleteam It is a waste of time to interview someone who not only doesn’t understand the issues, he also does not understand the implications of his answers to the questions on the issues.It appears that he fabricates half-responses because he has no idea: “well it depends, we’ll see,” etc. The frightening answers are the ones that show a strong tendency to make all decisions without Congress or laws. The President does not have absolute power like this. This is why he will not debate.

augieray, to random
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The casual dismissal of continuing risks drives me crazy. This chart notes that 2023 concert revenue "shatters records in Post-COVID comeback."

Post-COVID?! In four months of 2023, over 21,000 people have died of COVID. That's more than the gun homicides in the US in ALL of 2023. Where is this "post-COVID" world everyone talks about?!

https://www.statista.com/chart/32177/box-office-gross-of-the-global-top-100-music-tours/

bouriquet,
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@augieray This is only bragging about the fact that fans are paying exorbitant amounts of cash to watch a performance while rolling the dice on catching a virus that may degrade the rest their life.

GottaLaff, to Texas
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NEW: Border communities in have purchased a technology that tracks people through their Bluetooth and WiFi signals. It can track you through your wireless earbuds. The product is called Trafficatch & it's integrated into license plate reader systems

https://www.notus.org/technology/war-zone-surveillance-border-us

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff NFL:
And the border we’re worried about is not Mexico but the ones with other states.
There’s gotta be something unconstitutional about this.
Or just wrap all your personal electronics in tinfoil and put in a metal box until you’re safely across plus 20 miles or so.

skykiss, (edited ) to lies
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If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.

Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/fox-news-dominion-lies/index.html

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/09/1103690822/group-aiming-to-defund-disinformation-tries-to-drain-fox-news-of-online-advertis

bouriquet,
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@JSharp1436 @skykiss And if we enter another Trump administration, what do you suppose will happen to our internet as well as social media but from internal sources such as unknown agencies? Along with collecting information about your web habits and where you visit?If you thought the Patriot Act was bad…
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

GottaLaff, to climate
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The G7 has agreed to shut down coal plants by 2035, UK minister says, in a climate policy breakthrough. The US declined to comment on the agreement https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/climate/g7-end-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-intl?Date=20240429&Profile=cnnbrk

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff Ask the current senator from West Virginia

evacide, to random
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I priced out a new sectional for my living room and holy shit the price of new furniture has gone up.

bouriquet,
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@evacide Find an old couch with good bones and get it reupholstered or try it yourself if you’re adventurous. Even buy new foam for cushions

GottaLaff, to random
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MEANWHILE, at , via Ryan Reilly:

Supreme Court Trump immunity arguments underway.

"There can be no presidency as we know it" without presidential immunity, Trump lawyer John Sauer argues. 🤦🏻‍♀️

bouriquet, (edited )
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@GottaLaff NFL
So it’s okay for a special prosecutor to go after anyone else in Congress for political reasons though? Why is just a President immune?
What makes something a political reason vs a legitimate concern? There needs to be a circuit breaker to protect the country against a rogue President. No one should have absolute power.

GottaLaff, to random
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Whoever would have guessed?🤦🏻‍♀️

Conservative justices appear skeptical federal law requires emergency care

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/supreme-court-arguments-abortions-emergency-emtala/

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff But massive bailout funding to save the life of a poorly managed bank is fine?

flexghost, to random
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No, he didn’t.

This is something a battered spouse would say if you were watching “Cops”

He is the reason aid to Ukraine was stalled, he is not some shiny Mister Smith savior.

FU, Newsweek. FU in the face.

bouriquet,
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@flexghost This is the game GOP leadership plays…act like they’re finally trying to do something positive, then pull the football away just as the kicker gets close to a viable solution, saying it’s not ready yet and blame the Democrats.
Remember? They did a similar tactic on the border…

mathowie, to random
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Why is the biggest TV ratings star in sports getting paid about the same as an office manager in a moderately successful company?

bouriquet,
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@mathowie Because she accepted the offer?
Just say no and see what happens. You might be able to find a job with better hours and treatment elsewhere, maybe even as a sportscaster.
Please don’t get upset for this comment, but after all the hype, this is ridiculous.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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A random thought on a Sunday morning as I look at my backyard:

Interior decorating is easier than landscape design because the furniture and pictures don't keep growing. Everything stays the same color and the same size.

Adding: I live on the Central California Coast, so by color I meant that the succulents sometimes turn yellow and during flooding I get green stuff on the bricks.

bouriquet,
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@Teri_Kanefield But the changes and growth mean that it’s never the same, day after day, season after season.

GottaLaff, to random
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Lotta misinformation flying around. I’m packing, just sharing what I’m seeing in news alerts:

Jerusalem Post: Multiple Israeli defense sources: Iran LIED about shooting ballistic missiles. It has NOT so far.

bouriquet,
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@GottaLaff Could be a ruse to see what Israeli and US response might be? Then blame Israel for a first strike if there was a response?

histoftech, to random
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Online Conference➡️
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context

April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due

July 18, 2024: Date of online conference

https://uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the-inevitability-of-ai/

bouriquet,
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@histoftech AI may fizzle and go the way of 3-D television, 5-channel surround sound and laser disc movies. Yes, it’s novel but without proper curbs, filters and probably additional software to help it discern fact from fiction, it has no credible product.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Trump Endorses Throwing Doctors in Prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDwxukuD-SU&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

bouriquet,
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@realTuckFrumper Then let him go to an attorney the next time he has a medical crisis.

tinyrabbit, to random
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Can we all just marvel for a second at the fact that NASA has found the error that caused Voyager 1 to send bad data, and is working on a solution?

The probe is 163.163 Astronomical Units from the Sun. That's 24408837426 km, and counting (rather quickly at that).

NASA can work around hardware issues in a 46 year old device in outer space. What does that say about the commercial hardware and software industry?

bouriquet,
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@tinyrabbit They don’t build stuff like that anymore.

The Computer Command System (CCS), the central controller of the Voyager spacecraft, has two 18-bit word, interrupt-type processors with 4096 words each of non-volatile plated-wire memory and almost 70k of RAM.

Folks learned to write efficient code…in assembler.

bouriquet,
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@shalien @tinyrabbit Actually,a steam engine is a very adaptable piece of engineering. All you need is a heat source to boil water and make steam. Doesn’t matter if you use coal, oil, wood, sawdust, sugar cane or something else that burns. Sure different fuels produce more heat but in a crisis, it’s very adaptable.

jackiegardina, to journalism
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Meta blocked a story critical of its climate change ad policies on all of its platform. An independent journalist asked permission to repost the story verbatim on her substack. It was blocked too.

Here it is.

#media #law #lawfedi #censorship

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

bouriquet,
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@nf3xn @skykiss @jackiegardina The only solution is degrowth. That is really only possible with a rollback of population numbers and the way we all use energy. (Yeah, everyone, globally). We’re talking revolutionary significant upheaval, generations of time and a lot of discomfort and probably pain, suffering and death.
A good parasite never kills its host, but humanity sure tried hard. It’s gonna be a rough ride from here.

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