FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

By floating a trial balloon and seeing what happens. Preview for every single race a Democrat anywhere on the ticket wins in November.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Similarly, child “treatment” programs are using improper restraints on children all the time. I’m not talking about overtly abusive places like the Elan School, I’m talking about places that supposedly get regular health and DCS inspections.

This is one in my town and it is in no way unusual if you look at reviews for such facilities.

mywabashvalley.com/…/former-worker-claims-mistrea…

The allegations include complaints that restraint holds are used on children, not because the kids are a threat to themselves or others, but as a form of retribution.

…

Sallee says he witnessed a restraint of a 10 year old boy. The supervisors he observed restraining the child did not use a child restraint.

Instead, Sallee says two grown men, one weighing close to 300 pounds put their body weight on the child’s back and legs.

“I noticed his breathing was irregular, he could barely speak because they were suffocating him,” Sallee said.

Sallee says the supervisors twisted the boys arms and informed him that he was being restrained because he was going to attempt to flee the facility in the snow without a coat or shoes.

Sallee observed the child was wearing both.

And no, DCS didn’t do shit. They had them do an internal investigation:

After reporting what he saw to the department of child services and reaching out to the media, Sallee says Gibault conducted an internal investigation.

The two employees were suspended.

I sat down with a former co-worker who was hesitant to come forward and asked to remain anonymous.

I was told that the employees’ suspension was brief and they did return to Gibault.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Being in a Nevada prison in July without any cooling mechanisms sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me, so I assume if this turns into a suit and that suit reaches SCOTUS, their ruling will be “go for it!”

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

BOOGA BOOGA!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf7ed224-cba4-4182-bae3-650028831994.png

Scary, isn’t it? No? Probably because that’s the very non-scary Sudanese flag.

This is the Palestinian flag.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ddfe8702-d686-479f-8df9-cccf1c733c64.png

So much scarier!

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Although if you think that flag is scary, the Kuwaiti flag has a fucking trapezoid on it!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a85fecd0-7579-49da-b3df-822efb7e1a26.png

And I thought they were supposed to be on our side!

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

There are exemptions from the law, such as those wearing masks for health or religious reasons. But who gets to decide how to enforce that distinction? The legislature’s top Republican insisted police will be able to identify the difference.

Ah, the old “I know it’s a medical condition when I see it” policy that we’ve come to rely on police to assess.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Oh I have no doubt they’ll pull masks off of anyone they feel like. They’ll probably use this as an excuse to pull a transparent oxygen mask from a senior citizen because it “hides their identity.”

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

The sad thing is that I would not even be a little surprised if they tried to claim something maybe only slightly less broadly than that non-sarcastically.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

That’s because, and I’m really sorry to say this, they don’t give a shit whether you live or die. If you die, it’s God’s will, even if they’re the cause.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

You have no idea how close you come to the truth of how many people unfortunately think, including many medical professionals: medicalnewstoday.com/…/medical-myths-that-hurt-bl…

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

The pain sensitivity thing is the tip of the iceberg. Look at the shit they were saying about black people either being immune to or much less likely to contract COVID: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530468/

Their fucking racism will get their own race killed just as much as the race they hate.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Well now these two stories have canceled each other out and we’re back to square one.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a39af94-efe5-4866-b533-8854ee3ee8a7.png

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

I will have you know that both of my dogs are very naughty and I tell them that regularly. Usually right before giving them treats or rubbing their bellies.

I also let them know that they don’t deserve it because of how naughty they are.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

But the evidence Oelofse has seen of reports is reassuring. “We think quite a few people have been bitten by rabid seals, but luckily no human has got infected yet,” he says. “We don’t know why. Perhaps the transfer rate is low? Does salt water in their mouth reduce the viral load?”

This is how it begins.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

That just makes them extra mad.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Look, that was only there in case he or his similarly hot brother has to kill a demon.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

but it is likely one of the whales got into trouble and the rest of the pod tried to help.

They’re more human than we are at this point, in other words.

FlyingSquid OP , 16 days ago

Especially if you’re orbiting the sun somewhere between Earth and Mars!

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Did they discuss how both of their speeches would sound so much better in the original German?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

You may not think much of the guy, but his fellow cartel members think he’s The Shit.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

You’re thinking of Colonel Bat Guano (if that really is his name).

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/82550fd5-e2b0-4b01-8889-fe5a867eecdb.png

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

That’s been their move every step of the way. Tell the people to go somewhere and say they’ll be safe there, then kill them.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Beijing exports more than $300m worth of dual-use items - those with both commercial and military applications - to Russia every month, according to an analysis of Chinese customs data by the Carnegie Endowment think tank.

It says the list includes what the US has designated as “high priority” items, which are necessary for making weapons, from drones to tanks.

RUSI, a UK-based think tank has also cautioned about the potential use of Chinese satellite technology for intelligence on Ukraine’s front line.

www.bbc.com/news/60571253

The only way they could enable Russia more is by directly sending them munitions.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Former Taiwanese legislator Chen Jiau-hua, already blacklisted by Beijing as one of the “stubborn separatists,”

Stubbornness, eh? Off with their head!

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

It’s also the second time OP has posted this. They’re also getting banned right and left, unsurprisingly.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Here is the full comment that the troll OP is taking out of context in order to troll in one of the lamest attempts at trolling I’ve seen in a while.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f6b7052-e9d0-4a7f-ae08-0bcb237e5784.png

lemmy.world/comment/11107815

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

I don’t know what is going on with them. If you look at their comment history, they seemed like a relatively normal person until about 24 hours ago and then they just went off the deep end.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Oh you should. He’s been on this nut train for years.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

I know I’m shocked that aliens are not crashing their highly advanced interstellar craft all the time once they get to Earth.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Sorry, you are suggesting that rather than stay in Florida, they prostitute themselves?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

It’s one of the larger municipalities in Idaho, a state which has a very recent history of white supremacist groups getting very little pushback.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user’s query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks, accompanied by textual summaries and images. Users also have the option of limiting the search to a specific type of results, such as images, videos, or news.

For a search provider, its engine is part of a distributed computing system that can encompass many data centers throughout the world. The speed and accuracy of an engine’s response to a query is based on a complex system of indexing that is continuously updated by automated web crawlers. This can include data mining the files and databases stored on web servers, but some content is not accessible to crawlers.

There have been many search engines since the dawn of the Web in the 1990s, but Google Search became the dominant one in the 2000s and has remained so. It currently has a 91% global market share.[1][2] The business of websites improving their visibility in search results, known as marketing and optimization, has thus largely focused on Google.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

Please take this information and use it to find out what the fuck a non-binary child is.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Migrants claiming asylum at the border are not who is smuggling in Fentanyl.

Americans are. Because they aren’t searched as thoroughly. This really should be obvious to anyone who looks past the anti-migrant rhetoric and just uses basic logic for a second.

npr.org/…/fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-bord…

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

He did bring home the bacon. Bacon is, I am told, the key to many people’s happiness.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Have you ever broken the speed limit? Because crossing the U.S. border illegally is a civil violation, not a crime, as is breaking the speed limit. So you’re the safest driver in the world, right? Either that or you might be a bit hypocritical.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

There’s still the public library.

For now.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

It hasn’t gotten anywhere yet. But the idea will not die, just like the idea of Palestine won’t die.

Of course it’s a bad thing. No one is suggesting anything otherwise.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

But then so much of the Israeli claim to diversity boils down to “we have every kind of European”.

Your ignorance and your bigotry are both showing:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Jews

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassians

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Israel

I do look forward to finding out why those people all count as European. I’m kind of wondering if “Jew” = “European” to you for that matter…

Describing China as “majority Han”

When did I describe China that way? Please quote me. Unless, of course, you’re trying to dishonestly put words in my mouth. Is that what you’re doing?

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

China has been a so-called communist country for over half a century and the number of private billionaires has grown, so this whole “billionaires happen during the gradual transition to communism” argument doesn’t really work when you start with zero billionaires with Mao and now have 814 billionaires.

Or am I to believe the number of billionaires keeps going up and up and then -bam- elimination of market economies?

But I’m sure Roderic Day, who appears to have no academic credentials, can find all kinds of explanations.

And in 20 years when there are over 1600 billionaires in China? Communism is just around the corner, baby!

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Do tell me which workers control Nongfu Spring Water’s means of production. Because as far as I can tell, the control rests in the hands of Zhong Shanshan, China’s richest man, and not the company’s 20,000 employees.

But I’m sure if we wait another half-century, at least two workers can control the means of production at that company.

(Now it’s your turn to tell me that the workers controlling the means of production is not something that helps define communism.)

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Ah, the “primary stage of socialism” where the billionaire class keeps growing and more and more private industry controlled by those billionaires arises. Yes, they’ll get there any day now.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

“Han Chinese” is, at least I think, an idea closer to pan-ethnicity, than it is it’s own ethnicity.

The problem is that there are lots of other ethnicities in China which are not in any way part of that supposed “pan-ethnicity” and pretty much every high-up government official that is in charge of anything outside their own ethnic group is from that “pan-ethnicity.”

As I showed this person I was talking to already, you can make the same argument about Judaism, that it’s a “pan-ethnicity.” There are Ethiopian Jews, there are Yemenite Jews, there are Russian Jews. There are, in fact, even Chinese Jews. That doesn’t make Israel any less of an ethnostate and defending either country’s bigoted practices by couching behind what does or doesn’t count as an ethnicity is really missing the point.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

Ok, fair enough.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

In other words, you can’t quote the relevant passage where an ever-increasing number of billionaires who control the means of production is a feature of communism.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

I’m pretty sure, based on the Marx I have read, that a pillar of Marxism and communism is that the workers control the means of production, but you have taught me that what is meant by “the workers control the means of production” is “one multibillionaire controls the means of production for tens of thousands of workers.” So thank you, I had no idea that all this time, the U.S. was a communist country too.

FlyingSquid , 16 days ago

He doesn’t control it. He administers it on behalf of the workers’ state.

Now that’s just nonsense:

Zhong Shanshan (Chinese: 钟睒睒; pinyin: Zhōng Shǎnshǎn, born 1954) is a Chinese entrepreneur.

He is the founder and chairperson of the Nongfu Spring beverage company and the majority owner of Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise.[1]

As of 2022, he was ranked the wealthiest person in China, garnering a net worth of $62.3 billion.[2][3] His source of wealth is derived mainly from his business stakes and interests in the Chinese beverage and pharmaceutical industries.[4]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Shanshan

He literally earned $5 billion in one day and became the sixth-richest person in the world because his company became publicly traded.

web.archive.org/…/chinas-bottled-water-mogul-gain…

Entrepreneurship and buying and selling stocks, publicly traded companies… Things China didn’t have for decades back when it was apparently less communist (who knew Mao was so non-communist), but which the U.S. also has now.

Once again, sure sounds like the U.S. is just as communist as China.

But hey, I’m sure the fewer than 300 billionaires in China with their over $4 trillion in wealth back in 2020 have distributed it all to the workers now, right?

cnbc.com/…/chinas-billionaires-see-biggest-gains-…

Or is hoarding wealth also a big part of what makes a country a communist one?