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

It’s still (moderately) difficult to find a bunch of 6 year olds with guns. But the way things are going, I’m sure that will be remedied before long.

Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!

Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city’s economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will…

Along the same lines, let’s not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers’ convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.

Tim Watkins, energy-based economics writer from the UK, had some interesting observations about this in his blog today. Scroll down to the third/final subheading, “Advertising doesn’t work that way”.

https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/07/d-day-dummies/

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Exactly. Even if he gets an appeal, even if he wins such an appeal, even if his sentence gets commuted or otherwise obstructed or diluted, we can truthfully refer to him forever and always as a convicted felon on 34 counts.

If I shared the same insane and impotent obsession with the future, I would pay more to be turned into a fossil, all my cells replaced with minerals. Much more durable and the same zero chance of ever living again.

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.” 🙄

(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

Same here, then it pops up a prompt to install the website’s ‘app’ 🙄

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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