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FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Officers responded to Terminal J around 11:30 p.m. after reports of a stabbing, officials said in a news release. The victim was eating a meal while sitting on the floor when, officials say, Love attacked her without provocation, stabbing her about 18 times in her face, head, arms, shoulders, neck and legs before he tried to throw her over a safety retaining glass, officials said.

“The victim was able to escape the attack and ran down the stairs to the third-floor level, which is where the officers found her,” police said.

Airports that late are just creepy in general considering how empty they are. I’ve been in them and rarely seen anyone beyond a handful of passengers and some janitors in those concourses when I was waiting for a late night flight. I could absolutely see someone being attacked in one for any number of reasons. I’m glad she was able to escape and he was caught.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

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FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

The U.K.? This is not a good sign… you know what this usually means…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/aadf0416-7b12-4f9c-abf6-46fdaa1cf96d.png

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

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FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Any cents a minute is wrong. They were sentenced to be incarcerated, not sentenced to have to pay for telephone calls.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

It’s even worse than you think. Their steer-by-wire system has a noticeable lag.

jalopnik.com/watch-the-tesla-cybertrucks-laggy-st…

Good luck if you need to quickly turn to avoid hitting something, like a small child. Probably for the best you won’t be able to see them over that high front end.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Sure, why not? Couldn’t hurt.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

I have this image in my head of Hindu priests chanting in front of an idol of Ganesha and really, really good memes just popping up out of nowhere on social media.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

This is a test for her. Seeing how she meets and responds to a world leader who Americans have an extremely divided opinion about. It’s a tight rope walk.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

“She might meet a foreign leader who is doing bad things, so I’m not decided between her and Project 2025.”

Really?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Do you know nothing about Project 2025? It will cause more genocide. Genocide in your country.

Do you want to see Latinos carted away and queer kids committing suicide after being forced into “conversion therapy?” Because that’s exactly what Trump will bring.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Yourself? This isn’t about you.

How about all the other people? Millions of people. Fuck them? Because she’s just having a meeting with the perpetrator of a different genocide on the other side of the planet? A genocide that Trump will also perpetuate and has already said he would make worse?

So essentially your refusal to “support genocide” in another country will make that genocide worse and add more genocide to the mix.

But hey, this is all about sparing you from potential harm, right? Fuck all those illegals and homos.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

For fuck’s sake, it’s also not about me.

It’s about millions of other people. People whose lives you apparently don’t care about. I guess they’re too brown or too queer to be part of that whole ‘humanity being equal’ thing.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Look what Musk did when Don Lemon asked him not especially challenging questions.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Honestly, at this point, now that he has the biggest golden parachute in history, I doubt he cares about the fate of Tesla.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

So how many Trump supporters have you personally killed?

Or is this an armchair general situation?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

“Woke” means “alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.” I’m not surprised you don’t want people to be alert to such things.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

There is no point. They drag the social media CEOs in front of congress regularly, give them a stern talking-to, and then it’s back to business as usual.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

If that is what he’s trying, he should try it with someone else. America was pretty united on the hostage situation in 1980.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Are you serious?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

They wrote that, “even if substantive due process is not itself overturned, Obergefell should be, because the right to same-sex marriage is neither carefully described nor deeply rooted in the nation’s history.”

Where is marriage “carefully described?” As far as “deeply rooted in the nation’s history,” would that include the lifelong bachelor, president James Buchanan? How about Thomas Jefferson and his slave he was not married to, but took around publicly as his mistress? How about Ben Franklin fucking every woman, married or unmarried, that was willing?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Did you see the John Adams miniseries HBO did a few years ago? Tom Wilkinson as Franklin was hilarious.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

I hope you’re right. Otherwise, it would leave the nation in a legal quagmire as marriage would be legally defined differently in different states. And I think that it could also usher in the re-introduction of anti-miscegination laws.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

This, unfortunately, happens every Olympics.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

On the most extreme end, Charlie Kirk of the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA and far-right activist Laura Loomer suggested, without evidence, that Biden may be dying or already dead.

Others, including billionaire hedge fund boss Bill Ackman, raised doubts over the president’s letter announcing his decision, baselessly suggesting his signature wasn’t really his.

They know it’s bullshit. Their fans eat it up despite it being ludicrous.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

They’re also the ones who say it’s not about guns, it’s about mental health after every mass shooting and then vote against giving people mental healthcare.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

You’re saying that if someone is convicted for election malfeasance and is running in another election, their opponent shouldn’t mention it? Really?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

He’s literally a felon who has been convicted of campaign finance fraud. But oh no, don’t mention that since he’s in the midst of another campaign. That would be too political.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

The Conversation does know the year is only half-over, right?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Nixon goes to China and US opens official office in Beijing

There’s an opera about that. I don’t even like opera (I went because a friend did the costumes) and I really enjoyed it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China

Edit: Discovered a French opera company did a production that was televised and put on YouTube. It won’t be as good as seeing it live because it’s a real visual spectacle, but I recommend it regardless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G72JjpMEdKs

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

I really want to keep pushing the fact that Trump donated to Harris. I know it’s just as meaningless as this, but I will enjoy showing that canceled check to MAGA people for the next few months.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

‘All right’ is two words unless you are trying to mean that something is satisfactory.

(I’m not on Reddit anymore, but that was what you wanted, right?)

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

I saw video of the explosion earlier. And all of those idiots standing there with their phones because they decided they were out of harm’s way.

What if that was a smaller explosion before a bigger explosion? Stupid fucking people…

FlyingSquid OP , 3 days ago

Right? Enjoy something positive for a few seconds!

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

He’ll have more time to spend at home with the gold bars the FBI didn’t manage to find.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

“They’ve been coming for our guns” my entire 47 years of existence. I wish they’d hurry up already, because this is a near half-century of diabolical planning.

FlyingSquid , 4 days ago

How many days did Putin say they would be in Kyiv by again?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Holy fuck. I have a friend in Turkey I haven’t talked to in a few years. I should hit him up and see if he needs anything. I’m sure this isn’t just a restaurant and tourism issue.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Dude, the bad apples spoiled things long before any of us were born.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Unless they are running for office, you should only be hearing about the president if something important is happening. Just because Trump turned the office into a federal reality show doesn’t make that the norm.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Did you really just compare yourself to Martin Luther King?

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

Martin Luther King was someone who denounce the majority persuasion

I see, so you think Dr. King denounced white people. Yes, that’s what he did for sure. He literally went out there and told white people to go fuck themselves for being white.

Very accurate reading of history.

FlyingSquid , 3 days ago

That’s not what that phrase means. At all. That might have been the majority opinion.

When you say something like “the majority persuasion,” it means white people.

And you are putting the entirety of the civil rights movements on the words of one man, which is incredibly unfair to the huge number of very hard-working Americans, including some who eventually were in the U.S. government and endorsed that horrible, evil, racist Joe Biden you hate so much- notably these two:

John Lewis

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ef5fe098-04c4-417d-b2da-41740d899ca1.png

and Bernie Sanders

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0aa7d695-ec1e-4c4b-9d98-a97a996bbc84.png

If you are going to use phrases you don’t understand, at least don’t use them when completely mangling American history.

FlyingSquid , 4 days ago

7 in 10 Americans… wonder what skin color those 7 in 10 predominantly have…

FlyingSquid , 4 days ago

None of which applies to redressing the balance by hiring someone in the minority who would normally not be hired for the job despite being just as skilled as a member of the majority

Was it racism when Mae Jemison was selected to be the first black woman to be an astronaut? Or was it because most astronauts before her were white men, so it was about fucking time?

FlyingSquid , 4 days ago

There may not be a next time.

FlyingSquid , 4 days ago

Stop flagging posts as political. If you do it again, you will be banned.