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StillIRise1963, 5 months ago to random

I'm watching Morning Joe where they're all shocked by how exclusionary Westport, CT is.🙄

futurebird, 5 months ago to random

The "poisoning the blood" is getting a lot of attention ... as is should.

But can we also meditate on "immigrants"

Not "illegals" (gross term) just... every "immigrant" except when he goes to give examples he says:

“They’re poisoning the blood of our country... All over the world, they’re coming into our country, from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

Yes. "all over the world"

Feel like something was left out of that list?

BrentToderian, 5 months ago to random

Posts about urban biking in #Dutch cities are routinely replied to with something like “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.”

The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter decisions.

randahl, 5 months ago to random

Polish truckers are blocking Ukraine from getting cargo trucks across the Polish border, leaving everything from food to tourniquets to military pickup trucks stuck in Poland — in the middle of a war!

Are there any limits to the hardship we will impose on the warn torn Ukraine, while their soldiers are killed and their cities are bombed?

This must stop.

https://apnews.com/article/poland-ukraine-border-protest-truckers-lines-cbb2524630fdefcd4f58718d3a04d16a

lastrobot, 5 months ago to bookstodon

While I often use the local indie #bookshop, I also am often in remoter places with no bookshop (sob) So I am interested in online book sellers.
Who among the booklovers uses new-to-me Tertulia.com?
Is it even open to folks outside the US? I'd love to hear about anyone's experience/thoughts

Or alternatives you would recommend 🌞

#bookstodon @bookstodon

mrpommer, 6 months ago to random

@pluralistic New frontiers of enshittification: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23952878/microsoft-onedrive-windows-close-app-notification

appassionato, 6 months ago to books

Breaking Twitter

BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. (sic!)

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#Twitter
#ElonMusk

Teri_Kanefield, 6 months ago to random

This won't work.⤵️ It will not fool anyone.

"GOP strategists urge congressional candidates to campaign against a national abortion ban"

"Disturbed by tough election losses on Tuesday, Republicans say the party needs to make clear to voters, in speeches and TV ads, that it doesn't favor banning all abortions."

Their idea: Say the GOP is for "reasonable limits on late-term abortions" as opposed to Dems' "taxpayer-funded abortion without limits.”🙄

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-urge-congress-candidates-oppose-national-abortion-ban-rcna124253

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futurebird, 6 months ago to random

House speaker Mike Johnson blamed shootings on may things... but one jumped out at me: Teaching evolution.

Can someone please ask this man how old the earth is and if dinosaurs are real? Corner him now.

lowqualityfacts, 6 months ago to random

I am going to open a club exclusively for foot fetishists. It will be called All You Can Feet Buffet.

arstechnica, 7 months ago to random

Mysterious rock depicted in 15th century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool

Why medieval painter Jean Fouquet chose to depict Acheulean hand ax remains a mystery

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/mysterious-rock-depicted-in-15th-century-painting-is-most-likely-a-stone-age-tool/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

GottaLaff, 7 months ago to random

Sen. Whitehouse rocks. He's relentless, which is how more MOC should be.

Via Sheldon Whitehouse:

Today, Sen Booker, Sen Blumenthal, Sen AlexPadilla and I introduced the #SupremeCourt Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act to establish 18-year term limits and regularized appointments for justices. #SCOTUS

lowqualityfacts, 7 months ago to random

Nature is crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

lowqualityfacts, 7 months ago to random

I wish I could unlearn this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

b9AcE, 7 months ago to random

The tangerine hate-clown might seek to become Speaker of USA's House of Representatives. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-not-ruling-new-house-speaker-rcna118794
It is difficult to imagine many posts more unsuitable for the megalomaniac sexual molester fraudster.

arstechnica, 7 months ago to random

Sam Bankman-Fried lawyer complains US portrays him as “cartoon villain”

FTX founder's fraud trial kicks off with opening statements.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sam-bankman-fried-lawyer-complains-us-portrays-him-as-cartoon-villain/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

futurebird, 7 months ago to random

Another teacher asked me an interesting question today. "What do you think about this idea of replacing calculus with statistics. After all statistics is more useful."

That's probably true on the surface, but I can't say I'm a huge fan of the "replace calc with stats" craze... even as I lament the poor understanding many people have of stats. It's obvious we need more education on interpreting datasets and visualizations.

But, there is a subtext to this argument I dislike. 1/

So on tiktok there's been a viral sound saying "on average most people have around 15 books in their house". So, lemmy, how many books do YOU have in your house? Is that sound true?

I have way too damn many lol. probably at least 400

BlackAzizAnansi, 8 months ago to random

I just found out one of my friends that I've known since middle school passed and I am not ok.

Radical_EgoCom, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Guy thinks sexual assault was less of a problem in the 1950's

(go and check their comments on their account if they weren't deleted)

Link: https://newsie.social/@Threadbane/111048515799969184

georgetakei, 8 months ago to random

Even when Joe Biden proves he is well up to the task and rigors of being president, the media uses it to bring up his age again, while giving “215 lb” Trump who is already slurring his words and is only 3 years younger than Biden a pass. It’s shameful.