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And Trump is leading in the polls.

He’ll sure make things better.

Fucking America… he’ll crash the economy even harder than last time when he declares himself dictator “for a day” and then that day keeps on adding days. This election shouldn’t even be close.

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Norfolk Southern Railway reported fourth-quarter 2023 railway operating revenue of $3.1 billion, down 5%, and railway operating income of $808 million, down 32%, compared to Q4 2022 results.

progressiverailroading.com/…/Norfolk-Southern-pos…

Not even a quarter’s worth of revenue.

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This is still more than was done under the Trump administration and more than will be done if Trump gets in again.

I’ll take my wins where I can.

Railroad agrees to $600 million settlement for fiery Ohio derailment, residents fear it’s not enough (www.opb.org)

Per this source, a 25 mile radius includes 585,000 people. That means (before lawyer fees so imagine half in actuality), Norfolk-Southern wants to give $1,000 per person for permanently poisoning not only their property but their body which is now forever scarred. This was filed for approval by the Plaintiff (people hurt) but as...

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Corporations are people. People with more rights than you or I.

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Bloomington expected 500,000 people.

Here’s their big eclipse event at the IU Memorial Stadium.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d25c860-789d-4ad2-b891-8065510034f8.png

Sorry about the weird angle. I didn’t take the photo.

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Most of Ellettsville was blocked off, but two places were charging $40 and $50 respectively for eclipse parking.

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I’m in Terre Haute, which was in the path of totality. We went to a park south of town where there’s a pioneer village and they were having a mini festival. It was a decent-sized crowd, but nothing massive. We were able to drive home pretty much right away.

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The Founding Fathers wanted Americans to have the right to shoot as many bullets as they want as quickly as they want wherever they want. They definitely foresaw high-capacity magazines when drafting the Bill of Rights.

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That painting will be part of a special exhibition in a couple of decades.

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44140200

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I rarely encounter places that offer straws that aren’t plastic, so I don’t know that it’s been much of a revolution.

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It’s not unlike an employer ignoring gigantic safety issues and then getting in legal trouble when people finally die.

Except these parents actually got the punishment they deserved.

Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)

In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...

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You think drafting a bill is as easy and cost-free as just sitting there and doing nothing? Really?

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Now you’re changing the subject from what you just claimed. This is what you said:

They are either getting paid to try to advance progressive issues or they are getting paid to sit in their asses and promise to try once they have enough people.

Are you going to admit that drafting a bill costs more taxpayer money than not doing so?

Because just hiring legal experts alone, which should absolutely be done before drafting a bill, costs more money than not hiring them.

Musk Admits He Doesn't Fact-Check Himself and Has Two Burner Accounts on Twitter (www.rollingstone.com)

Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right...

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I assume you think Trump is a very stable genius.

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If you know that I have them, you can tell me what they are.

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Do you drink soda or alcohol? Vice.

If you drink one glass of wine a month, that is neither bad nor a habit.

Do you eat comfort foods when you aren’t strictly needing substance? Vice.

Again, if you do this occasionally, it is neither bad nor a habit.

Do you binge watch television? Vice.

How is that a bad habit?

Do you doomscroll? Vice.

How is that a bad habit?

Do you do anything at all that you look back on and say ‘maybe that’s not the thing I should be doing’ and then go on and do it again? Vice.

I do everything I can to avoid this.

No one is so virtuous as to be absent of vice and your self-aggrandizing, holier-than-thou sentiment is disgusting and abhorrent and in my estimation, a vice.

“Saying you don’t have vices is a vice” makes not more sense than “saying you’re not a racist means you’re racist.”

I never said I was virtuous. I said I don’t have any vices. You certainly haven’t shown that I do, you’ve only shown that you don’t understand what ‘habit’ means and you have a very conservative idea of ‘bad.’

Habits are something I try to avoid unless they are beneficial.

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I meant on average once a month. Come on.

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What cis women play in the NBA?

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Several cis women play college and professional baseball.

That is what you said.

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