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Hexadecimalkink , in QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty and made a heartfelt apology in Jan. 6 case, has changed his mind and wants his plea reversed

Policial theatre

Iwasondigg , in QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty and made a heartfelt apology in Jan. 6 case, has changed his mind and wants his plea reversed

Throw his ass in jail.

Alenalda , in Florida ocean temperatures peak to almost 100 degrees amid heatwave: "You really can't cool off"

As the arctic ice continues to accelerate it’s thaw, water levels will rise a foot in the next 30years. This is going to continue as temperatures rise. Better move to higher ground Florida. Your state will look like Atlantis in the next 100-200years.

solstice ,

No see, governor rick scott (Republican) banned his administration from using the term climate change, just like governor desantis (also Republican, surprise surprise) banned covid. So Florida is safe from both of those without any action required. Freedom!

/s because Poe’s Law

lasagna ,
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It will be continuously wrecked by heat and storms in the mean time. 100 years is now beyond being only a highly optmistic timeline for these places.

It’s like that meme about a high voltage station. It will not only die but suffer a lot while dying.

thepianistfroggollum ,

I legit wish it was possible to purchase land in Greenland.

Odusei , in A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job

ACAB

ohlaph , in A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job

Usually if they don’t announce his termination, he eas reassigned until things blow over.

sweeny , in How America fell out of love with ice cream

Who weighs their ice cream? I’m surprised this measured by weight and not something like pints or calories.

Anyways, I wonder if this has to do with the rising trend of plant based diets. I still eat ice cream occasionally but the vegan ice cream I get wouldn’t be counted as ice cream in this data (understandably so)

Coreidan ,

Pretty much anything measured in large quantities is by weight. It’s the most accurate and consistent method.

poquito_cabeza , in A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job

He probably got a promotion.

Arotrios , in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned over false claims that COVID-19 was "ethnically targeted"
@Arotrios@kbin.social avatar

Keep calling out this deranged motherfucker. He's responsible for countless deaths:

During the pandemic, Kennedy has become a near-ubiquitous source of false information about COVID-19 and vaccines. Earlier this year, Kennedy was named one of the “Disinformation Dozen” by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which says he and the Children’s Health Defense website are among the top spreaders of false information about vaccines online.

....note that the Children's Heath Defense organization is Kennedy's personal charity, and...

The AP found links to Children’s Health Defense articles all over Facebook. While many were shared as posts on the pages of fellow anti-vaccine activists, many more could be found in the comments sections on pages that people turn to for reliable information, including official government Facebook pages in all 50 states, and in health departments in nearly every state.
“The vaccine was not created to save us all from a pandemic. The pandemic was created to get us to take the vaccine and more,” one person wrote in February below a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Facebook post.
Then, they linked to a January Children’s Health Defense article that claimed 329 deaths following the COVID-19 shot had been reported to VAERS, a federal vaccine safety surveillance system that has been misused by anti-vaccine activists.
“Every Friday, the true American hero Robert F Kennedy Jr. pulls the data from the VAERS report. Here is the latest up until 1/22,” the commenter wrote. Another user replied that the comment had been reported for dishonesty, but it was still up 10 months later.

...as a result:

Since January, Children’s Health Defense’s COVID-19 vaccine-related posts were shared more frequently on Twitter than links to vaccine content on mainstream sites including CNN, Fox News, NPR and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Indiana University’s Observatory on Social Media, which tracks COVID-19 vaccine-related content on Twitter. In some weeks, it found, CHD COVID-19 vaccine content was shared more often than that of The New York Times and The Washington Post.

AP Sauce

ArugulaZ ,

Just out of curiosity, there wouldn't happen to be a Sirhan Sirhan Jr., would there...?

Arotrios ,
@Arotrios@kbin.social avatar

You know what's really weird? RFK supported Sirhan Sirhan's release - went against his entire family to do so too. I think the guy has some dark daddy issues.

ArugulaZ ,

Dude's got more issues than National Geographic. And is about as useful as post-Fox National Geographic.

radialmonster , in How America fell out of love with ice cream

I stopped buying ice cream when people started licking them in the grocery store

magnetosphere , (edited ) in QAnon Shaman, who pleaded guilty and made a heartfelt apology in Jan. 6 case, has changed his mind and wants his plea reversed
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

I read this story just to laugh at this loser some more. Meh. Not worth it. He’s just a stupid, boring asshole. (I’m not complaining about your decision to post the story, OP. I’m just complaining about the idiot the story is about.)

MicroWave OP , in How America fell out of love with ice cream
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In 1986, the average American ate 18 pounds of regular ice cream, according to the USDA. By 2021, the most recent year of the data, that was down a third to just 12 pounds per person.

12 pounds per person still feels like a lot.

Blamemeta ,

Per what time period? Life time?

Num10ck ,

per year.

MicroWave OP ,
@MicroWave@lemmy.world avatar

Per year if I’m reading the article correctly.

Burninator05 ,

I agree. I don’t eat anywhere near that so one of you must have increased your consumption by a third to pretty close to 24 pounds.

I also think it’s weird that they are measuring in mass when it is almost always sold by volume.

zombuey OP , in Sony and Microsoft agree Call of Duty stays on PlayStation

Whats hilarious to me is that Microsoft wouldn’t have done this in the first place lol. They have been porting their own traditionally exclusive titles to PC.

thisisnotcoincedence , in Canadian Politicians Who Criticize China Become Its Targets

China needs to stfu, all they do is complain instead of staying in their own corner. They’re the biggest hypocrite on the planet.

fubo ,

Cultural diplomacy should be positive, so that it doesn’t cast a pall on everything else that the originating culture does.

Cultural diplomacy is typically not a bad thing. Here’s a nice example: Thailand sponsors Thai restaurants abroad, with pretty golden elephant decor and pictures of the King. As a result, everyone thinks Thai food is great and feels positively towards Thailand. So, it is possible for a government to “propagandize” foreign civilians in a positive way, one that doesn’t harm relations between the cultures.

Chinese cultural diplomacy has turned negative: employing violent control of Chinese-language media to attack individuals overseas. This makes Chinese media a local problem for other countries, a source of disharmony, thus promoting the view that (e.g.) Chinese internet services like WeChat and TikTok are vectors of malicious attack, rather than cultural connection.

And so, a lot of people in the Internet security business now expect that anything from China is an attack vector. And regional & national governments are starting to agree — e.g. banning TikTok from government-owned computers. Relations between the cultures are harmed because of the visibly violent control of China government over Chinese cultural media, and the harm done to other countries through these media.

lemmyshmemmy ,

Well said. There’s a lot of nuance and I think this is a good summary.

As China, Russia, Iran, and various other strict authoritarian governments challenge the status quo of increasing democracy and peace, it’s important to look at the alternative they’re promoting.

CoderKat , in *Permanently Deleted*

As usual, the US’s approach to the war on drugs can be summed up in one word: yiiiiiiiikes.

Congress is incapable of doing anything positive where drugs are concerned. Heck, “positive” for the US with drugs is usually along the lines of “we’re now crushing fewer orphans than last year!” Drugs are such a minor crime that it’s crazy to make companies snitch for that.

Litany ,
@Litany@kbin.social avatar

It's not going to get fixed, because if the war on drugs was won, there'd be no one to fill up the run-for-profit prisons.

smokeandgears ,

The war on drugs was won. By drugs.

keet , in How America fell out of love with ice cream
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I get the whole health conscious thing, but part of the blame shouldn't be aimed at consumers. Hitting all the major brands with the grocery shrink-ray from 1/2 Gal to 1.x Qts and raising the price didn't do them any favors. Same with the newer formulations that barely let them be called true ice cream anymore.

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