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FlyingSquid ,
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That sounds like a pretty standard campaign move to me.

FlyingSquid ,
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The fool. It’s the Tour de France.

He was supposed to kiss his mistress.

FlyingSquid ,
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He was that night, am I right guys?

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Now to be appealed to SCOTUS where they will declare white supremacy to be not only legal, but mandatory. With Clarence Thomas writing the decision on behalf of the majority.

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Getting rid of Chevron puts the entire environment at risk. Now any case of a corporation spewing out any sort of toxic crap anywhere doesn’t end up getting halted by the EPA, it gets put in front of a judge. And believe me, it will only take a few of those before we get to “corporations are presidents, my friend” in terms of what they can legally get away with.

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That’s extremely cold. Also, Kelvin is spelled with a K.

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I’m sure this article was meant to be negative, I would be more concerned if that was not happening. If people are worrying about Biden’s cognitive abilities, that’s who needs to be involved.

Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour (www.theguardian.com)

Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...

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I honestly don’t know the solution to this beyond, obviously, pay these people more. Because if you don’t train an AI to go through this sick shit and get rid of it, you need to get people to do it. The only other option is to just leave it up and I don’t think that’s a good option.

AI sucks for a lot of applications and I’m sure it will not be effective enough in this instance to go without any humans involved in the process entirely, but if we don’t try to get humans out of this process, we’re forcing people to look at murders and child porn to get rid of it.

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Mostly? Well, that sounds safe.

FlyingSquid ,
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I like cornbread and I like hot dogs, so why I have I never liked corn dogs?

FlyingSquid ,
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Which, of course, ignores the fact that there are likely multiple people from various races, ethnicities, genders and other identities which are all about equally qualified and getting a black woman in an administration run by a white man could bring needed perspective.

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s what it always has meant. It threatens the heteronormative Christian patriarchal power structure to have anyone but a white man in charge of anything. And it doesn’t matter that a woman is saying it because it’s a woman who doesn’t understand that the leopards will eat her face too.

FlyingSquid ,
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I will take a hundred KJPs over one Scaramucci.

FlyingSquid ,
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it just means more qualified candidates may have been passed over in favor of her because she’s more diverse.

You’re taking this statement from Lauren Boebert and assuming there’s some validity to it. I just wanted you to know that.

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I’m saying she’s not very good because of her many gaffs and avoidance of questions.

Yeah, totally unlike this very qualified white lady.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8c164a5d-e7a8-44d6-ad68-86dac79b1953.png

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Something like that would be way beyond my price range. I’ll be lucky if I can afford a metal plaque.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Because, in general, the carvers don’t accept a dead person’s Mastercard.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Are you familiar with this book? It’s a lot of fun.

byanyothernerd.com/…/stranger-days-39-mysteries-o…

FlyingSquid OP ,
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People put their religion on their gravestone. That’s just corporate branding under another label.

Afghanistan has been through everything. Now it wants to dust off its postal service and modernize (apnews.com)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have adopted a creative approach for connecting. They use mosques as drop points for bills and cash, a “pay and pray” system....

FlyingSquid ,
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  1. Americans never voted Trump into office because he has never won the popular vote. He got into office in 2016 due to the archaic Electoral College system.
  2. Even if a majority voted for Trump, many millions will not have, so why do they deserve what you’re cursing them with?

Head of group responsible for Project 2025 threatens violence if people challenge their "revolution" (www.salon.com)

“And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” he said.

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Some of it. I don’t know that even a sizable portion of this country wants to raise prescription drug prices. I also think a very small percentage wants to get rid of no fault divorce or contraception. Even most Catholics are fine with contraception. And use it too.

Raising the retirement age? I’d guess that their sizable voting bloc in their 60s wouldn’t be good with that.

Honestly, I think the more people learn about this, the more they will find things they don’t like about it. Even Republicans.

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If I have a choice between an AR-15 and an attack bear, I’m going with the attack bear. Plus, it will enjoy belly scritches on its off hours. If you scritch an AR-15’s belly, it doesn’t kick its leg.

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That is the question- why isn’t he going through that due process right now?

The answer, of course, is that he’s a Republican. As usual, they can get away with this shit somehow.

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That was exactly their point. That he’s lying.

FlyingSquid ,
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Then you’ve never had a good breakfast burrito.

FlyingSquid ,
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This is the community for American news, so…

FlyingSquid ,
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The whole reason World News exists is because this community is for American news.

I can’t believe someone takes so much offense at a flippant remark about American breakfasts killing them.

They’ll kill you too wherever you live. Happy?

JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts (finance.yahoo.com)

The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth...

FlyingSquid ,
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$15 a month for a bank account is less than 1 hour’s work at Canada’s minimum wage. That’s more than two hours’ worth of work at US minimum wage.

Not ridiculously expensive all things considered, but still worth noting how much a poor person would have to work just to maintain a bank account at that rate in the U.S.

FlyingSquid ,
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Depends where the machine is. If it’s in a gun store, probably no easier because someone will shoot you for trying. If it’s outside a 7-11 and you do it at 3 am?

FlyingSquid ,
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Leaving the ammo out on a shelf outside a 7-11 is not the same as keeping it inside a vending machine outside a 7-11.

Despite war and sanctions, Russia becomes a high-income economy (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

Despite sanctions by Western countries against Russia due to the Ukraine war, the country has become a high-income economy from an upper-middle income economy. In its latest rankings, the World Bank has promoted the Russian economy to the top income category.

FlyingSquid ,
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The latter two are clearly better sources, which makes me wonder why you didn’t use them.

Hmm… maybe it was because this was in the NPR one?

Russia is paid by receiving revenues from China, India, Turkey and other buyers of Russian oil products and a big part is so-called non-oil-and-gas income which economy produce itself.

Maybe also this part?

So that’s why we’re talking that Russian economy is now operating on its maximum capacity. And I don’t see any signs how it can grow faster. And when we are looking at this bright figures, about 3% of GDP growth or this super low unemployment rate, we need always keep in mind what there is behind. And behind is Vladimir Putin impossible trilemma for 2024, because he will need to fund the ongoing war against Ukraine, maintain the facade of business as usual for population and safeguarding the macroeconomic stability, which is quite complicated because Russia abandoned lots of institutions like budgetary rule or predictable tax system. So the situation looks solid, but it’s very fragile.

Is it that you didn’t think I’d read them or is it because you didn’t read them yourself?

FlyingSquid ,
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Biden did not force Putin to invade Ukraine. No one forced him to do it. In fact, Russia explicitly pledged not to do so in exchange for Ukraine’s nuclear weapons.

“They wanted Ukraine to join NATO” is not an excuse to break that pledge, nor is it an excuse to invade Ukraine and annex part of it.

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Once again, you either didn’t read your link or you didn’t think I would:

Those documents provided that Ukraine would transfer all strategic warheads on its territory to Russia for elimination and, in return, would receive security assurances, compensation for the commercial value of the HEU, and Nunn-Lugar assistance to help with the disposal of ICBMs, ICBM silos, bombers and other infrastructure on Ukrainian territory. Perhaps as importantly but less tangibly, the Trilateral Statement removed what would have been a major impediment to Ukraine’s development of normal relations with the United States and the West.

What ‘security assurances’ do you think they were talking about?

FlyingSquid ,
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Please quote my saying it was a lie. It should be easy for you to find.

FlyingSquid ,
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Ah, so I didn’t say it’s a lie, you just think that’s what I implied. Of course, you could have asked me what I meant rather than just assumed you knew.

Too late now.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yes, I understand that you assumed you knew what I thought rather than just asked me. I already said that.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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So unlike what happens with every other such tax, like on cannabis or tobacco? Because none of them get spent on good things.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Slow news day in Saskatoon?

FlyingSquid ,
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I’d tell you if I could, but I have no idea and they’re both most likely dead by now, so I doubt I’ll ever know.

FlyingSquid ,
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I assumed nothing. What I said was this:

But I think calling her a racist for what she did when she could be Muslim herself is going a bit too far.

Lying about what I said in order to continue to berate me is not a good way to go about doing things and I do not advise you either lie or call me a bigot again unless you wish to take a long break from this community. Rule 5 in the sidebar is very clear:

Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect!

You are engaging with neither good faith nor respect. And you will have one more opportunity to do so.

Incidentally, I literally talked about Iranian Armenian Christians in another comment, making your lie an extremely silly one.

FlyingSquid ,
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True. It’s assuming you can’t know someone’s religion unless they let you know what it is.

Unlike you, I do not define people for them. I let them define themselves.

You have no problem declaring this woman isn’t a Muslim even though she’s never told you her religion. I wonder if you feel the same way about people and their gender? Would declare about someone whose gender you didn’t know what their gender was based on a news article?

I sure wouldn’t.

And again, I notice you haven’t said anything to the misogynists including the racist who does think Iranians are Muslims. And Arabs.

I do like how you accused me of believing all Iranians are Muslims and when I point out that I was talking about Armenian Christians from Iran, you pretended you never made that accusation. So it’s very amusing that you say you stand by such a silly lie.

I do appreciate your returning to civility, however. Thank you.

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I am not worried about their environmental impact, but I hate seeing my dog spending the evening shaking because of the explosions. Even sedatives aren’t enough. If you could have fireworks without the big booms, I wouldn’t care, but the big booms scare the shit out of a lot of animals.

FlyingSquid ,
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Mine did a little better this year because instead of trying a prescribed sedative, the vet suggested we try catnip because (I never knew this before) it has a calming and sedating effect on dogs and it’s safe for them. We tested it first because apparently it doesn’t work on all dogs, but at least that time only the big fireworks scared her and she was able to be okay through the little ones. But she was still shaking and panting a lot. I was just glad she was able to go to sleep after the big ones ended.

I’m not a vet, so don’t just take my word for this obviously, but I thought I’d put that out there in case anyone wanted to ask their vet about it. I did some research after they recommended it and (I have a good vet, but you never know) it seems like there’s no health issue if you use it in moderation.

Edit: Our dog is 60 pounds and the vet suggested a half a teaspoon sprinkled in her food.

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Cool. Enjoy your hail corporate lifestyle. Hope that works out for you. I’m sure you’ll never get overcharged by any corporation when it turns out you didn’t have to be. And if that does happen, I’m sure you’ll berate yourself for lacking the intelligence to not be cheated. Because you feel the same way about yourself than you do about a stranger on the internet you know you can get away with berating since you’re not in the same room.

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