@tannenzaepfle
πΊπΈ > π©πͺ (2015). π»βΎοΈπ₯¨. Wiki editor; union member; Frank Zappa fan. Learning π·π΄. Trans rights are human rights; no liberation without π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ liberation. pfp: a cowbell
Another terrible thing about AI: archive.org used to mirror most news articles. Now, many websites have hard paywalls and block automated crawlers (including the Wayback Machine) because of the relentless AI crawlers sucking up bandwidth. This is terrible for researchers and for Wikipedia.
This pattern in the current Trump cabinet is the same as under Bush: "I don't know how they'll find someone worse than John Ashcroft to do the job, but I'm confident they'll rise up to the challenge in an unexpectedly horrifying way."
If you can, please send some money to Bex. She's been through a lot and she needs food and some help with utilities. If you're not familiar, she's fighting cancer and she's doing it without support or a safety net. Show up for her, please. She's always there for others.
Congratulations on quitting tobacco β terribly difficult but worthwhile.
Do you have any recommendations for what to look for when shopping for one?
www.schaeffler.de/de/produkte-... there was a German ball bearing company named FAG but they've been absorbed into Schaeffler group and not really continued as a separate brand. I had a cloth bag with their logo on it from an expo.
Getting news via radio is great. No images, you can't endlessly doomscroll.
Trump will blame Biden for the fallout as he stuffs his pockets with whatever bribes he can extract before the wheels fall off the whole enterprise. I live in Europe and we won't be spared either.
A frame from the 2017 film Death of Stalin showing a dictator lying on his back in a pool of his own urine while his ministers stand around.
Can you at least add an exception for heads of state?
It's the right decision but I was looking forward to having photographs of the athletes taken by the White House official photographer, because they're public domain and can be added to Wikipedia.
Rebeka asked for $8, but their need is so much greater than that.
They need $1250 to cover URGENT basic needs. This does not include transportation to their appts or to the hospital, or food, toiletries and other necessities.
We have watched them lose everything to cancer. Please contribute?
Fwiw, I always read "pizza" in the original dnc emails as being a bunch of dumb boomers talking about smoking pot, then it turned into pizzagate and they couldn't exactly say it was just weed.
Glad to see people appreciating Frank.
youtube.com/watch?v=TJYO... obligatory German safety training video.
A chart comparing English incomes, not percentiles, against life expectancy. On average, Americans are richer and die five years earlier.
The average American now has the same chance of a long and healthy life as someone born in Blackpool, the town with England's lowest life expectancy. And another damning chart.
xcancel.com/jburnmurdoch... pictures and supporting text on Twitter - you don't need to log in with the xcancel domain.
A chart showing how Americans at every single point on the income distribution die earlier than the English. And this is by percentile, not even ppp adjusted terms (Americans are much richer than the English)
There's more charts in this series but this is already pretty damning, and the others are worse.
Was* π₯°
Operation warp speed, maybe, but he's run from everything vaccine related since.
Glad to hear you're doing better!
My grandmother just turned 100 and she was recently telling me she wasn't allowed to go to the public pool because of polio as a child, so when Salk's vaccine came out, everyone was so eager to get it. She would have been about 30 when she got the polio vaccine.
Jews don't recognize Jesus, Protestants don't recognize the Pope, and Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
Why don't Baptists have sex standing up? They're worried it might lead to dancing.
America poured billions into science education when Sputnik orbited overhead.
The economics of "install once and get free energy forever" are too powerful to be stopped. Even if CO2 were harmless, renewables would be the right choice on price alone.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller...
"Even before seeing the Mueller report, Barr had already decided not to charge Trump with obstruction of justice. To this end, upon receiving the report, he tasked the OLC with writing an internal memo that would provide a pretextual justification for his decision."
I recommend installing ublock and sponsorblock. For mobile, Firefox is better than the official app because it lets you install extensions that block ads. The ui isn't as good but no ads.
TΓ’rgoviΘte is nice at Christmas time.
And please thank lawyers doing this work. Weβre carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances.
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. Theyβve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_L%C... your quip reminded me of a Bertolt Brecht poem.
Homer Simpson entering a storefront with a sign "Bloodbath & Beyond Gun Shop", from the episode "The Cartridge Family" (S09E05).
If Walmart pays wages that require employees to be on Medicaid and food stamps, that's a government subsidy too. Can you add that cost to their tax bill?