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Forgive me for thinking that instead of keeping them out, Israel had been allowing them in and then murdering them ‘by accident’.

To drop out is a whole different verb phrase than to drop.

Exactly. He and others in his party have been telling journalists for quite a while that they preferred a matchup against Biden. Naturally he flip-flops on that the moment the situation changes.

I’m so sick of the new meaning of “drop” being nearly the opposite of the old meaning. Ugh

Climate “ambitions”, huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an “ambition” now…

This just happened as I opened this post to read about this stuff… Gemini chose that very moment to message me for the first time offering to be of service in my future use of Google messages. That’s both creepy and kind of hilarious. I wouldn’t be surprised if their system is (anonymously, but still) intaking the content of all Google messages regardless of what they or their legal and privacy departments say about it.

oh never mind, guess I can’t upload an image with this comment, but the content of the message from Gemini was “Hi, I’m Gemini in Google Messages. Chat with me to draft messages, brainstorm ideas, plan events or simply have a fun conversation.” 🙄

excellent and on point

Ouch. I read this and followed links to read numerous other posts of his. Seems spot-on in his analysis and entirely parallels what I think and feel about our world. I’m struggling to avoid sheer terror in addition to the already present crippling anxiety and burnout. The only comfort, much of the time, is that none of us are truly or purely alone in all of this. The catastrophe surrounds everyone we know, regardless of whether their personal circumstances have yet broken down to a degree that allows them to witness it consciously.

This was a good read and you beat me to posting it by minutes :)

(see other person’s same-level comment too)

good point and true. Not the case where he’s going to be charged with treason, anyway, but you’re right, I should take care to refer to the case properly. Especially if my reason for commenting is to clarify which matter is being discussed!

Good point, and true; and the way I put it probably plays into the pattern of Trump voters thinking “well yeah, that’s morally questionable but not illegal and not worth this big of a systemic reaction.”

I will adjust my mentions of this in the future.

That’s in one of his other court cases. This is about the one where he paid a prostitute to keep quiet after he paid her for sex.

I too am wondering what’s dumb or otherwise wrong or undesirable about a second coat of paint. Seems context dependent but they left the context general/generic

I’m still angry that the naming of a large sewage treatment plant in San Francisco after George W. Bush didn’t stick.

He was never fucking charming…

I mean, granted for sure he’s gotten worse, but I don’t trust people who gave him a pass before the past couple of years.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that a similar, perhaps in some ways better system exists to this day in the world of Islamic finance. It’s far from perfect and has plenty of real-world flaws and downfalls, but it was cool to learn about the spirit and morality behind it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance

My favorite way to visualize the meaning of “asshat”: the person is such a sad waste of human life that their entire upper body is effectively just a hat for their posterior.

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They’re self-convinced, against nearly all studies and evidence and expert consensus, that capital punishment is an effective deterrent.

I almost decided to mention that earlier/above. I’m not convinced yet that Russ Baker isn’t a little off the deep end overall, but that whole story certainly is a fascinating and disturbing read, as is much of the material on his site.