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lauren, to random
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BREAKING: Jordan drops out of House Speaker race, Republicans in House in total disarray attempting to plan next steps.

klausfiend,
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@lauren It's almost like a party with no extant strategy and people by extremists more interested in stunts than public service are so bad at leadership they couldn't coordinate a piss-up at a brewery.

lauren, to random
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Really, this is pretty simple. Netanyahu was spending so much time working to create a far-right, religious theocratic dictatorship with himself as Fuhrer, that he played right into the hands (eyes wide open for his own personal gain) of the country's traditional adversaries. One of the worst traitors to any country in history.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Countertheoretical: what if this was Bibi's plan, i.e., this is his Reichstag Fire and he's going to use a war context to consolidate power and squash dissent? George W. Bush wasn't a fascist but the damage the response from 9/11 wrought on the US has taken years to untangle, and we're nowhere near done. The political situation in Israel before Hamas started war criming last week was already precarious, and I've never seen a tyrant who didn't love a war ...

klausfiend,
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@lauren Hrm, yeah, good point. Still don't trust him to be a wartime leader, though.

nixCraft, to random
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๐Ÿ˜‚

klausfiend,
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@nixCraft not all heroes wear capes

lauren, to random
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Even though he was the nominee, Rep. Steve Scalise drops out of House Speaker race, throwing GOP House into even more disarray as critical issues pile up, demonstrating the GOP leaders are a sick joke.

klausfiend,
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@lauren hey now, let's not slander sick jokes by comparing them to the GOP.

lauren, to random
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Presumably I'm not the only person who, while watching documentaries where interviewed persons happen to have visible clocks in view with them, watches to see how the time jumps around as various parts of the interviews happen to be edited.

klausfiend,
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@lauren nope, me too

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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This is America.

klausfiend,
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@BlackAzizAnansi what the actual fuck

flexghost, to random
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Former astronaut and Heisman Trophy winner George Santos faces 23 additional counts including conspiracy, wire fraud, false statements, falsification of records, aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud

No word yet if he was offered a top position at the Trump Org for his efforts.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/congressman-george-santos-charged-conspiracy-wire-fraud-false-statements-0?s=09

klausfiend,
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@flexghost gonna really interfere with his work leading the team curing cancer and putting humans on Mars.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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is now permitting suckers who pay for Twitter to restrict replies only to other suckers who pay for Twitter.

klausfiend,
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@lauren it's the ciiiiiircle of deeeeerrrrrp

b0rk, to random
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we initially printed 1500 copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging and in less than a year they all sold out!!!

we've ordered new copies so they're back in stock now :)

get it here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide/

klausfiend,
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@b0rk neat!

mekkaokereke, to random
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Psshh! Newsom wants to veto everything else, but signs the Skittles ban?! He couldn't just veto that one too? Why not his usual "While we agree with the law in principle, we feel that existing California laws already provide enough protection from Skittles."

klausfiend,
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@mekkaokereke I'm annoyed that he vetoed the psychedelic decriminalization bill. I'm not going to miss brominated vegetable oil as much as I am the possible closing of another front in the War on Drugs.

anneapplebaum, to random
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"Open brutality has again become celebrated in international conflicts, and a long time may pass before that changes."

There are No Rules:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/israel-war-hamas-terrorism-ukraine-russia/675590/

klausfiend,
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@anneapplebaum I recall a few back a really incisive podcast with a former Blackwater mercenary turned author who argued that the Treaty of Westfalia, and the ensuing political order it created, is now rapidly breaking down. With civilians increasingly more often the target of paramilitary tactics, and special forces the typical response, it's hard to dispute that assessment.

mjg59, to random
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It's perfectly reasonable to buy a $25 thermostat and then spend hours figuring out how to bodge an ESP onto it rather than buying a $150 "smart" thermostat that's going to demand cloud access, right?

klausfiend, (edited )
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@mjg59 I have a smart thermostat that I got for free and I fucking hate that impertinent, disobedient lump of silicon.

lauren, to random
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The events in Israel today represent an enormous failure of "military intelligence".

klausfiend,
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@lauren I saw the headline from the AP and I'm reluctant to even dive in, because American reporting about Israel is so warped by the US commitment to Zionism-at-any-cost.

klausfiend,
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@lauren I grew up shaped somewhat by pro-English coverage of The Troubles, which was always keen to highlight IRA atrocities and yet would unfailingly elide past the systemic political disenfranchisement and labor/housing discrimination practiced by the UK government in NI. Learning that history as an adult obligates me to reevaluate internecine national conflict stories. Shooting rockets at civilians is still terrorism, but I worry Bibi's response will not be fair.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Yeah. I can't fault Palestinians for wanting something better than the status quo, but I can't see that happening while both sides appear committed to the other's total annihilation.

flexghost, to random
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RFK Jr will be speaking a CPAC

The same CPAC that displayed โ€œwe are all domestic terroristsโ€

The same CPAC that cheered low Covid vaccination rates

The same CPAC that had a literal golden Donald Trump idol

The same CPAC, that hosted dictator Viktor Orbรกn โ€” who called for an โ€œend to race mixingโ€

Totally not a right-wing plant.

๐Ÿ‘

klausfiend,
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@flexghost coughbrought to you by Steve Bannoncough

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Report: serving unattributable, unblockable, unlabeled, unreportable, unidentified ads - https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format

klausfiend,
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@lauren Isn't this, like, actually illegal? I thought the FTC required the platforms to identify sponsored content.

lauren, to twitter
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Elon Muskโ€™s X faces advertiser backlash after placing marketing for major brands on notorious white supremacist account - https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/media/x-advertisements-reliable-sources/index.html

klausfiend,
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@lauren This feels like one of those subjects that's easily amenable to automation, because it seems to me by now that Xitter placing ads for major brand next to Nazi shit is just the new "normal".

mekkaokereke, to random
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The mayor of NYC is going to South America on a "fact finding mission," to understand why migrants are here.

What will happen when he discovers that one of the biggest drivers is climate change? Will he then come back and be all in on the Green New Deal? Or will absolutely nothing change, and he'll still ask people to come back into the office, commuting unnecessarily, just to prop up commercial real estate prices?

Climate changes. Crops fail. People go hungry. People start walking North.

klausfiend,
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@mekkaokereke I think the part of the calculus that gets overlooked re: xenophobes is "and we kill them when they show up". That's always been the tacit message for me that's shot through all this anti-immigrant rhetoric, the willingness to go to violent extremes when they feel threatened.

klausfiend,
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@rysiek @mekkaokereke This is one of those times to be reminded that working while illegal is a misdemeanor, but employing illegal labor is a felony ... and yet somehow the government never seems to pursue the felons.

lauren, to random
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The position of House Speaker is one of the few places where today's trash talk, lying, misinformation-spewing generative AI systems could usefully do a better job than anyone in the GOP leadership.

klausfiend,
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@lauren A ham sandwich could do a better job. Or at least, no worse a job.

lauren, to random
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In the end, whether or not Kevin McCarthy was a Smart Speaker is highly questionable.

klausfiend,
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@lauren He is a conniving power-seeker who made a deal with MAGA that runs counter to their core interest of destroying the federal government. Surprised it lasted this long.

lauren, to random
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These Congressional clowns (and the deepest clowns are the GOP crazies) are patting themselves on the back for delaying a government shutdown for a month and a half. And we'll be right back in the same spot then, but it will be even worse. Wait a minute, I apologize to genuine clowns for the above remarks.

klausfiend,
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@lauren As not originally from here, it blows my mind that this is a thing that can just happen because a dozen assholes refuse to see beyond their own noses.

lauren, to random
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Jimmy Carter, now in hospice, turns 99 this Sunday. He was arguably the most intelligent president this country has ever had. No other nuclear engineers on the list.

klausfiend,
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@lauren Definitely the most decent person who's ever been POTUS in this country.

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