It’s finally happened. Trump’s business empire is on the verge of total ruin as his decades-long practice of fraudulently inflating his property values led a NY judge to CANCEL the business certificates of the Trump Organization entities.
Kudos to NY Attorney General Letitia James for bringing this all to light and achieving accountability against Trump. He’s a fraud. He’s a rapist. And he’s a clear and present danger to our democracy.
But justice has caught up to him, and it is glorious to see.
@tommyyum@georgetakei@actuallyautistic theyre dragging everything out and hoping he dies before there are repurcussions. There wont ever be actual consequences for him...maybe for his kids, but not for him.
It's taking so long because nobody in charge actually wants to hold him accountable.
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Carrey always had ridiculous talent like that, especially during his In Living Color days. The sheer expressive capabilities this dude had were amazing!
Volkskrant en NRC waren wat lauw over de nieuwe roman van Tommy Wieringa. Ik begrijp dat niet. Het si een prachtig boek en het komt ongetwijfeld (terecht) vandaag hoog binnen in de CPNB Top 60. In Vlaanderen alleen lovende recensies en het publiek staat voor Nirwana in de rij.
@JeanMarcvanTol ah, dank! Ik las die recensies ook en was heel verbaasd. Niet dat ik het boek al gelezen heb, maar ik heb van Wieringa gewoon nog nooit een slecht boek gezien. Dank voor de heads up dus (en misschien even nog @ boeken @ a.gup.pe gaan volgen en taggen :)
Start each #haiku with the same first lines below:
MORNING SUN…
or
SEASHELLS….
Post haiku in comments, as ever enjoy mulling over the first line & considering your options at different points during the evening or day depending on your time zone.
It could be encouraged by those interested in slowing things down but I think that is from deeper in our societal and collective minds. I heard a podcast once from NPR's Throughline arguing modern Western thought can be broken down into whether you follow Hobbes or Rousseau's view of human nature: are humans naturally selfish and need strict authority or are we naturally cooperative and need complete freedom?
Probably because Rebel News is well known right-wing propaganda outlet run by a racist fuckface with a tenuous grip on reality, when they aren’t just outright lying.
I'd say stay on here and follow #actuallyautistic and perhaps @actuallyautistic
Whether you participate or just lurk, you can see if what people are saying resonates.
Ditto. I'm a couple of months into my journey of self-discovery and, by and large, the most helpful resource has been following and interacting with people here on #ActuallyAutistic.
Books are great. Self-assessment tests are great. But joining communities and connecting and relating with other autistics is really what helped me understand myself better.
Odd thought - is there a book review site that focuses on the simple yet not so simple question of which edition of a book is likely the best? Ie comparing physical print to ebook to audiobook and coming up with an opinion as to which edition is the best (and why) relative to the others.
Perhaps with nuance like some ebook editions might be recommended only if you use a color screen / tablet for graphics heavy works but not if you use a B&W ebook reader
Starfield's second update fixes infinite money puddles, but not flying cities.
I've read several comments here and elsewhere that Bethesda's Starfield is "a mile-wide but deep as a puddle", or variations on that theme. Said commenters might be tickled to know that there is, in fact, a puddle in the game's Akila City that contains infinite loot: by dint of peering into it, you'll magically gain access to a nearby store's inventory. Strip the shelves, then wait a day or two, and you'll be able to do so again, forever and ever. Or at least, that was the case till this week's Starfield patch, a small update consisting of exactly ten bulletpoints, including one that tackles "an issue that allowed for a vendor's full inventory to be accessible". Boo! Time to go looking for another convenient in-game metaphor, I guess. Perhaps there's something incredibly clever you can say about all the flying cities.
This study became very famous and we got a lot of comments, especially anthropologists, economists, philosophers. They didn't like this at all. Because they had decided in their minds, I believe, that fairness is a very complex issue, and that animals cannot have it.
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