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I don't know anything, but I can look it up.

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jsrailton, (edited ) to Health
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Even for cancer and transplant patients.

We are speeding into idiocracy.

jhavok,
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@jsrailton Death cult. No exceptions.

arstechnica, to random
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NC Senate passes bill to make it illegal to publicly mask for health reasons

Senators skeptical of legal trouble for harmless masking after moving to make it illegal.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/nc-senate-passes-bill-to-make-it-illegal-to-publicly-mask-for-health-reasons/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jhavok,
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@arstechnica plague rats in the legislature.

gfarrell, to random
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jhavok,
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@gfarrell You left out one word: Republican. Everything a Democrat President does is illegal, right down to choosing his mustard.

tzimmer_history, to random
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Weekend reading: I wrote about how mainstream commentators constantly raise the specter of 1968 to denounce the student protests - willfully ignoring the long pattern of leftwing student movements acting as an indispensable corrective.

Some thoughts from this week’s piece:

🧵1/

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-students-have-never-been-the

jhavok,
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@tzimmer_history This was exactly my take on youth movements at that time: we were demanding that society live up to its ideals, not pretend that lip service was sufficient.

randahl, to random
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While some American universities remove peace demonstrators by force, Chancellor of UC Riverside, Kim Wilcox, peacefully reached an agreement with protestors, on how to ensure university investments and university study abroad programs are brought in line with university ethics standards. An agreement which specifically mentions the ending of programs in Israel.

The students have decided to end their protest, as can be seen in the attached video. Full agreement text:
https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf

video/mp4

jhavok,
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@FrankFrank @randahl Are you describing committing genocide as a Western value? I guess there is a long history of European colonizers committing genocide on the indigenous people of areas they want to annex, so I have to give that one to you.

DrALJONES, to random
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Analysis

"Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful"

Of 553 US campus protests, 97% remained non-violent.

Of the 3%, half were from clashes with police sent in to clear peaceful protests.

"If someone is speaking more about 'violent encampments' than they are about violent genocide of the Palestinians, they have a problem reflective of deep and dangerous biases."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-peaceful-protests?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=143332069c-Top+News%3A+Fri.+5%2F10%2F24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3b949b3e19-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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jhavok,
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@DrALJONES 97% of BLM demonstrations were peaceful, the ones that weren't were mostly the victims of attacks, but that has had no effect on the rhetoric about cities in flames which we are still seeing.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey literature people--

So, I was reading HG Wells and I noticed something I hadn't thought about. He writes in a style that's very weird, and but for the Victorian/Edwardian language might even be considered experimental now? Like, in The War in the Air, it regularly alternates between goofy comedic scenes and scenes of horror and violence. And in between THAT there are digressions about economics and engineering technology. (1/n)

jhavok,
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@ZachWeinersmith I read Wells at 12 years old so I missed that. I think I'll revisit.

jhavok,
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@ZachWeinersmith @Lyle Melville justifies his argument quite well.

FrankFrank, to random
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George Orwell introduced us to Groupspeak & Groupthink. Who knew Ivy League Curriculum would De-define it into a Masters Class of 'Herdspeak'?

"Repeat after me, inane gibberish."
2+2=5

Now there is some critcal thinking skills happening at our higher devolved institutions.

https://youtu.be/usfjk_Iu6FI?feature=shared

jhavok,
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@FrankFrank @GreenFire

dangillmor, to random
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Big Journalism's timidity is never more obvious than when, confronted with a blatant lie from a (usually Republican) politician, the news org then frames the lie as a mere mistake.

Example today from ABC News -- headline:

"South Dakota Gov. Noem admits error of describing meeting Kim Jong Un in new book"

Come on, journalists, this just makes you look ridiculous.

jhavok,
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@dangillmor Honest mistake, Noem can't tell one Asian from another.

poligraf, to Palestine
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« … he is an Israeli Jewish Holocaust and genocide scholar, so you know he kind of checks all the boxes for someone who is more than authorized to speak on this issue… »

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR3Dg-02E_A

@palestine

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️

jhavok,
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@poligraf @palestine Uh oh, he's in trouble! That's antisemitic according to the experts!

jhavok,
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@poligraf @palestine All they need to do is say it. The accusation is its own proof.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's strange to me when I see people get upset about people doing good deeds, and posting it online.

"They're just doing it for attention!"

Yeah, so what? I'd much rather see people doing nice things for attention, than the people who do mean pranks or wasting food. A good deed is still good, even if it's done for the wrong reasons.

jhavok,
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@RickiTarr Those are people who feel guilty for being shitty, and blame the people who are being good for how shitty they feel.

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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Report

Hundreds of Israel supporters attacked anti-war protesters at UCLA

They were filmed carrying out assaults & using fireworks & pepper spray on demonstrators at the Gaza war protest encampment."

Aerial footage showed security forces watching on.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/5/1/israel-supporters-attack-anti-war-protesters-at-ucla-university-in-us#:~:text=A%20group%20of%20Israel%20supporters,the%20Gaza%20war%20protest%20encampment.

Also, a link to after-interviews: https://toot.wales/@fkamiah17/112365742402079375

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jhavok,
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@DrALJONES Not a word in my local newspaper. They did cover Columbia students being arrested.

Haste, to random
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It must be wild to be a student right now.

School shootings? You’re on your own. Thoughts and prayers.

Peaceful protest? That’s going too far. Send in the riot gear.

That America feels empowered to intervene in one but not the other tells you everything you need to know.

jhavok,
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@Haste Cops won't do anything dangerous. That's why they loved cannabis prohibition.

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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Humanity’s climate impact is hard to wrap your head around. Calling this era the Anthropocene is a useful way to capture it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/04/30/world/humanitys-climate-impact/

jhavok,
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@thejapantimes Pretty sure our successors will use a similar term. Sometimes I wonder if there were intelligent dinosaurs who wrecked their era. Bird brains are a lot more efficient than mammal brains. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence

angiebaby, to random
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The Democratic Party is right-wing.

jhavok,
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@zdl @angiebaby It's terrible how the Democrats absolutely refuse to smash the state, and instead keep making it functional. No wonder you prefer the Republicans, they are smashing away at all the functional parts and eventually you'll get to romantically go to a death camp and be oppressed.

jhavok,
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@angiebaby @zdl Oh, how could I forget, Trump has promised to end the genocide. I'm so forgetful sometimes.

indivisibleteam, to random
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Your friends at Indivisible are here to remind you that it's not up to Democrats to save Republicans from their own chaos. If the GOP tries to remove Mike Johnson as Speaker, Democrats shouldn't get in their way. https://indivisible.org/resource/legislative-process-101-motion-vacate

jhavok,
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@indivisibleteam If Johnson depends on Democrats to keep the speaker's seat, he's very vulnerable.

fkamiah17, to random
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Any fans of Steven Pinker in the house?
What a colossal prick.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/29/opinion/gaza-college-protest-ban-steven-pinker-jeffrey-flier/

jhavok,
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@fkamiah17 He's kind of the inverse of Naom Chomsky, a respected linguist who is politically vocal but in a sort of "move along nothing to see here" way about modern society. Wrote a big fat book about how things are getting better all the time.

renegadejade, to random
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Caught between “haha, get fucked fascists” and the reminder that simply using a restroom risks violence.

jhavok,
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@renegadejade This is the saving grace of fascists. They are so hungry for death they will kill each other.

jhavok,
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@levampyre @renegadejade Not letting them off the hook for that, just thanking them for thinning their own ranks.

Free_Press, to news
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The US will provide another $1 billion in aid to Ukraine – Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin.

This will include additional HIMARS ammunition, 155mm ammunition, air defense and armored vehicles.

Also this year, F-16 aircraft with trained pilots will begin arriving in Ukraine.

video/mp4

jhavok,
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@Free_Press We need to accidentally reroute weapons for Israel to Ukraine by accident.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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That self doubt talking to you in your head isn't you. It's all of the ways the world tries to knock you down, internalized.

Quite your thoughts as often as you can. Center yourself. Find peace. It's only there we will find the space to know ourselves.

jhavok,
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@Mrfunkedude Self-doubt is how you know you aren't stupid. Listen to it, fact check it, use it to make sure you aren't wrong. If it's wrong, dump it, if it's right, correct yourself.

Dunning-Kruger is people with no self-doubt.

CelloMomOnCars, to food
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, 2023 edition

"The lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring frosts.

and agricultural groups said they can’t remember a more devastated crop.

Peach prices climb"


https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/georgia-peach-shortage/index.html

jhavok,
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@CelloMomOnCars Cavendish bananas were on their way out anyway. They only exist because they ship well, and they are victims of a blight that the climate crisis is only incidental to. We need to give up on bananas outside the tropics...although the hardiness zone for bananas may well be moving north.

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