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gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

It’s a real joke-lahoma

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

I mean, with a name like Armada Cannabis we probably should have seen this coming

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

I don’t know if there’s supposed to be any active fermentation in these drinks, but otherwise generally speaking this sounds about right

“A single batch of Armada Cannabis Co. Cannabis Apple Cider (20mg THC) is being recalled because the products were not compliantly produced and there have been reports of cans swelling and bursting,” a Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) recall notice said. “This is attributable to the lack of a necessary ingredient to ensure shelf stability.”

“We received two reports, both from retailers, zero from consumers,” said CRA spokesman David Harns.

I don’t know what you’d call it other than “exploding,” though. If people read that and assume these cans are, like, destroying whole stores in fireballs and not just spraying a little fizzy drink on a grocery store shelf I think that’s on the reader more than the headline writer.

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

I wonder if this will turn out the same way it did for those two cops in Buffalo NY who assaulted a 75 year old in 2020

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

If their people are fighting over which religious/social minority to hate, they’re not talking about the government’s inability to serve them. For more information on this tactic ask literally any Republican elected official in the US.

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

For whatever one random person in the world’s opinion is worth, I really don’t think most people are like this. In my experience, most people most of the time are kind and curious when meeting strangers and like to learn new things.

The problem is it doesn’t take anywhere near majority of people in an area to cause chaos, and when things get chaotic those natural tendencies towards kindness and curiosity get replaced by resentment and fear really quickly.

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

If that was their reasoning it would be another matter, but, as the article discusses, that was not why they did it.

Staff at Frick Pittsburgh believed pressing ahead with its Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art exhibition, which had been scheduled to open Saturday, would be “insensitive” to the Jewish community and others, according to the museum’s director and internal emails reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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Elizabeth Barker, director of Frick Pittsburgh, attempted to explain the rescheduling in comments to the Tribune. “When war broke out in the Middle East, we were as heartbroken as everyone, and we realized that we were about to open an exhibition that a forgiving person would call insensitive, but for many people, especially in our community, would be traumatic,” she said.

Internal discussions at the museum also referenced the conflict as a basis for delaying the exhibition. The Tribune said it reviewed an email Barker sent to staff on 11 October, four days after the Hamas attacks on Israel, fearing it would be “perceived differently”.

The problem with this reasoning was nicely summarized by two other people in this article,

Christine Mohamed, executive director of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), said the museum had effectively devalued the work of artists across an entire region.

“The decision to postpone the exhibition under the pretext of potential harm to the Jewish community perpetuates the harmful stereotype that Muslims or Islamic art are synonymous with terrorism or antisemitism,” she said in a statement.

“This false perspective not only disregards the vast and diverse Islamic world that extends far beyond the Middle East but also undermines the essence of cultural diversity and appreciation that art represents.

“It’s disheartening to witness such insensitivity when blanket statements are made about an entire religion, particularly when they have the potential to incite harm in the Pittsburgh Muslim community.”

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Adam Hertzman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh said the museum should not have linked its wrangling over the art show to events in Gaza.

“As with any community, some people will go see the exhibit and some people won’t. But I don’t think anyone connects it even remotely to what’s going on in the Middle East,” he told the Washington Post. “Just in general, we know that blaming any religious group for the actions of a terrorist organization or a foreign government is an incident of bias.”

Hertzman said the Jewish community would welcome the exhibition, adding: “It’s great to see celebrations of religious culture of all kinds.”

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

That’s only good if you look exclusively at what they said, which in a politically charged environment, could be considered tactful.

Wait, what they said when? With their original communication where they lied to everyone and said they had to cancel the show because of a scheduling conflict, or in their internal messages saying “hey, we can’t show art from Muslim people anymore because some assholes who happen to claim the same religion killed and kidnapped a whole bunch of people”?

Because neither is tactful, the first because explicitly lying is wrong and likely to lead to an embarrassing situation where you get caught in your lie, the second because it’s just straight up racism.

My position

Which, again, has nothing to do with anything that actually took place here and is something you just made up for this discussion

implies the local community might be inclined towards bad behavior. Regardless of how true or false that is, it remains potentially insulting, which would be sufficient reason not to publish the position in the local newspaper.

I wouldn’t say that position is potentially insulting, it just is insulting. Plus, that’s the exact kind of cowardice we shouldn’t encourage or tolerate from museum curators (or librarians, publishers, etc. for that matter). When the people who run these institutions allow themselves to be intimidated by what might happen when they feature work from marginalized voices, the bigots succeed in silencing those marginalized voices.

gAlienLifeform OP , 9 months ago

In general, sure, but a) our campaign finance laws being an utter joke and the prevalence of dark money organizations that spread disinformation doesn’t make for a very fair fight, b) I really have to question the priorities of some of these challengers, i.e.,

St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, a Democrat, dropped his bid against a Republican senator [Josh Hawley] to challenge a House Democrat. ‘I think we have to stand with our allies,’ he said.

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary and localized, and insisted they would not stop Israel from defending itself.

So, after Israel repeatedly telling Palestinians to evacuate to places Israel turned around and bombed anyway, how exactly do they think this is going to work?

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

Also, here - …m.wikimedia.org/…/Abu_Ghraib_prisoner_abuse

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

The problem as I see it, is that someone involved with a newspaper should hold any form of elected or appointed position.

Welcome to small town America, where there aren’t enough people to do all the jobs that need doing.

That should tip you off to the type of journalist they are

The arrested journalist in this story doesn’t hold any form of elected or appointed position. The newspaper’s owner is a school board member but she didn’t write the news story that’s gotten them in trouble.

Gotta stay neutral.

I don’t see anybody sending Fox News producers to prison for their failure to do that, just a journalist who published information that embarrassed the local prosecutor and his boss.

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

Israel’s repeated attacks on civilians is making it pretty easy for them to

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

“successfully [sell] its narrative of resistance.”

gAlienLifeform , 10 months ago

@reversebananimals and @seaj, how’s the Seattle Times as a source?

seattletimes.com/…/seattle-polices-delayed-decept…

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

Sure thing!

e; and thank you for reminding people about how much this one sucked, I had forgotten but your comment made me remember this one repeatedly had awful coverage of the 2020 protests

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

Happy to do it! And thanks for calling out this source, way too easy for information like that to go down the memory hole

gAlienLifeform , 9 months ago

Ooh, yeah, I don’t live in the Seattle area so I’m not as familiar with their media environment/don’t remember all their papers off the top of my head, but I remember the Stranger being a really solid one now that you mention it

gAlienLifeform , 10 months ago

The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.

Odd coincidence that this happened to a family that’s put a cop behind bars. How often does stuff like this happen anyway?

gAlienLifeform , 10 months ago

Looking at Umberto Eco’s list, I’m seeing (at least) 4 5 9 & 10

gAlienLifeform OP , 10 months ago

This is correct, and it’s an important detail because people should be aware of the variety of ways this abuse plays out

[National Domestic Violence Hotline vice president of public policy Marium Durrani] explained that reproductive coercion can take the form of any situation in which one partner is exerting power over another in a way that impacts their reproductive health: forcing someone to engage in sexual activity, refusing to use contraception, restricting a partner from seeing a health care provider, telling a partner they are not allowed to receive abortion care.

That all being said, I’d guess what @ubermeisters meant by their comment (please correct me if I’m wrong) was something more like, “All of these actions are morally equivalent to violent rape,” and I would agree with that