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randahl, to random
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Israeli official to prosecutor at The International Criminal Court:

"You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@notwithstanding @randahl I would dispute that, yes. You are working really hard to justify racist and Islamophobic claims

bikepedantic, to random
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Oh man, GREAT news in my neighborhood:

MBTA issuing an RFP to redevelop Alewife Station's decrepit 7-acre 2700 space garage!

https://bankerandtradesman.com/mbta-set-to-offer-alewife-station-for-redevelopment/

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@bikepedantic They're gonna claim the neighborhood can't handle the traffic because the train station is redundant

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The Central Bankers of the world will say two things plainly*:

  1. They believe in the "independence of the central bank" from democracy: in absolute, unaccountable, private control the power to design and modify monetary policy

  2. They believe in using this power to advance the ideological agenda that they believe established and maintains US/Western hegemony: namely, upward wealth redistribution resulting in ever-increasing wealth inequality.

*on a friendly stage:
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/conferences/2023/international-symposium-on-central-bank-independence/#

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Jerome Powell's comments above come within a few weeks of his testimony to Congress that rate hikes (resulting in accelerating inequality) were necessary

You might remember because of his contentious exchange with Elizabeth Warren in defense of layoffs in which he repeatedly defends putting people out of work as the Fed's "only" recourse (assuming a future in which Congress does not alter its approach to taxation)

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It was a dishonest defense, because the Fed in its wisdom could have put the onus on Congress, and was choosing instead to dial up middle class misery and increase wealth inequality

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Given the Fed has the power to independently and unaccountably fiddle with monetary policy, the Fed has as much power to say "No, we're not going to act, you should fix it on your end" as it does to say "Yes we'll handle that for you"

What it chooses to do is in fact: a choice. If you don't believe it's an ideological choice: you're not understanding why Central Bankers want to remain independent. (It's because they don't want democracy interfering with their agenda, these are their own words)

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The phrase "neighborhood amenities" is a crime against society perpetrated by municipal planners and their drinking buddies, real estate developers

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"'Infrastructure' sounds like it's a requirement. Let's call them 'bonus features'" - the misanthropes in charge

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Zoom's CEO is telling everyone that he wants to invent AI "twins" that you can send to your Zoom meetings on your behalf, which is a startlingly honest assessment of the value of a Zoom meeting

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A lot of day traders underestimate the power of not trading every day

Like, today, for example, is a wonderful day to not trade and to just watch and cackle

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Nissan Al Gaib

KrissyKat, to random

There is a phenomenon where people will see the same vehicle make everywhere once their mind is activated to look for them, i.e. if someone buys a Ford, then they notice all the similar Fords on the road.

I keep seeing a Tesla Cyber Truck in my area. Is it the same one? Or, are they not as rare they they seem to be and there are more wandering?

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@KrissyKat If you live near the hospital, it's probably the same one I see regularly in Muncie (near the hospital) (it's probably a surgeon)

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rewatching dune 1

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@jepyang

I would say it has parts that deliver and it doesn't have a lot of parts that get in the way of that delivery. As a whole it doesn't really feel very complete. They literally go to war but it was so expected by everyone that it feels like not much happened

It also just sort of ends in the middle of something

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@jepyang This also felt like a well-disguised low-budget version of the first one. There's only half a dozen locations

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The charges aren't really indicative of the crimes they care about

I mean nevermind the fact that if you're poor you can go to prison for life for shoplifting these days, Al Capone went away for tax evasion.

Not because they sincerely cared about tax evasion, but because Al Capone was responsible for dozens of murders, racketeering, extortion, etcetera, and tax evasion was the charge they could stick

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Do they care about business fraud more than they care about inciting an insurrection against the United States of America? Given that it's New York, I sincerely doubt it

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Comparing romanticized depictions of WW1 infantry armor to photographs of infantry wearing armor in WW1

It definitely makes me wonder how we'll depict tanks adorned with anti-drone cope cages 100 years from now

bikepedantic, to random
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Fancy a challenge? Here’s an ooooold Urban Arrow with a Daum motor (who?) and I think roller brakes for $3500 in Brooklyn https://www.facebook.com/share/vg9F6Ga2Zaj6sRSr/?mibextid=79PoIi

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@bikepedantic @Andres4NY

The UA doubles as a boat, so it's not the same

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@bikepedantic @Andres4NY The added utility is easily worth 1 cetma

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Just me, fantasizing about dropping immovably large boulders at the entrances of every street that really ought to be pedestrianized

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Dumpsters filled with cement

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@dx To be fair, volcanic rocks falling from the sky are more likely in some parts of the country than others

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I support roaming around at night with your BMX bike and making ramps out of things with your boi

But please disassemble the ramp when you're done so that the 12 y/o versions of yourself that come along tomorrow don't break their arms

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This particular trio of 12 y/os just chickened out because this ramp is held up by a loose log and they are smarter than that lmao

wegonnaseeno, to random
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Stories of suburban insanity: there is a gentleman who lives a five minute walk from our place. When we moved into the neighborhood, it was one of the first houses we noticed on our walks because of the holiday decorations.
This person drove old corvette stingrays, I believe? As best as I can tell, he’s had at least two, perhaps three in my time here. He regularly wrecks the car because when someone on the road revs their engine at him, he can’t back down from the challenge. (1/x)

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@wegonnaseeno A lot of these facts in isolation are indistinguishable from incompetence, but the saga as a whole is hard to explain without somebody working hard to keep him on the outside

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If you told me you might want a change, then you come to me with research that you did that conveniently supports your change in order to tell me to make the change, and I don't agree with your change, and it's a visual strategy and I'm the resident expert visual strategist AND the resident expert researcher,

then yes I'd be a real fucking idiot not to cross-examine your sources wouldn't I

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“One adviser to major Democratic Party donors provided a running list that has been shared with funders of nearly two dozen reasons why Biden could lose, ranging from immigration and high inflation to the president’s age, the unpopularity of Vice President Kamala Harris and the presence of third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

This is delusional or a deliberate misrepresentation of why.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/democrats-freakout-over-biden-0016004

I say the latter….

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@JoBlakely The first list - the delusional one - is messaging guidance that exists specifically to deny and bury the criticisms in the second list. If they weren't aware of the second list, the first list wouldn't exist

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I got a single stick of Twix (extreme fun sized), and now I'm struggling with what to call it

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@achadwick When I get one of those I usually hold it up and say "This is an insult"

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