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thank you Biden and Congress for ignoring the railroad workers of America who said we can't keep going on like this
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UPDATE: A controlled release and burn of the chemicals in the derailed cars begins at 3:30pm. Anyone still in the red area FACES THE GRAVE DANGER OF DEATH. Those in the orange area face long-term injury. PLEASE ENSURE ANYONE YOU KNOW HERE HAS EVACUATED. on.wews.com/3HB6iRt
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gonna gently posit it's because the entire industry is a scam and prone to collapse the moment anyone calls its bluff
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"Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best way they can contribute - this is the only way of human life."
-W.E.B. Du Bois, 1 October 1961
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DuBois was obviously a socialist, and had some sympathies towards Marxism, but it's a stretch to say he was a Marxist thinker. Definitely not a Marxist in the same sense as Huey Newton. twitter.com/MarxMidwest/st…
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Ohio Governor DeWine urges residents in one mile radius of East Palestine train crash to evacuate as risk of massive tanker explosion increases; roughly 500 people not evacuated despite earlier orders
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East Palestine: Residents living within a mile of the train derailment site who have not yet left their homes are asked to immediately evacuate due to the potential of a major explosion.
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it would be terrifying if China had a map of the United States
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You’ve got to be kidding me. The balloon spent a week over our heads, mapping the country from west to east, completing its mission, and only after it was done Biden RECEIVED PERMISSION FROM CHINA to shoot it down— and you are calling this a win for us?!
Uniparty is right.
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The Ethics and Election page says that the city code prohibits candidates from taking contributions from any contractor with contracts over $250,000 in the past 2 years, yet Koch contributes every election.
He consistently rakes in more than a million annually
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It's a real boom-time for the All-City Fence Co., the company that installs post-sweep fencing.
$1.5 million annually in city contracts. Owner Rick Koch donated to multiple mayoral candidates, including Mayor Bruce.
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Last night, there was a fire in a boarded up house. As I walked by the site, fencing had just finished being installed, and SPD was doing a walkthrough of the property. The fire happened because people were desperate to stay warm. We need affordable housing. Vote YES on I-135.
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Dude did you seriously like this person's tweet and then immediately think "how could I make this worse"?
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The whole balloon thing really shows that America is a nation of school shooters that voltron together to form the geopolitical equivalent of a school shooter
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On February 4, 1999, 23-year-old Amadou Diallo, unarmed, was fatally shot by four New York City police officers on an unrelated stakeout. Forty-one shots were fired, hitting Diallo 19 times. An investigation found that Diallo had pulled a wallet, not a weapon, from his jacket
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it’s cool that china’s top secret high tech surveillance program is a mix of high speed non ballistic flying objects only visible on FLIR that have been haunting the US Navy for decades, and balloon
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really glad he put that "so to speak" in there for people who would otherwise think that actual tables were being literally turned re: the intel balloon
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Notable: US officials say they were able to block the balloon from gathering intel during its overflight of the US, while the US military was able to turn the tables, so to speak, to gather intel on the balloon itself and its equipment.
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"labour will not be able to spend their way out of the mess created by the tories" is so fucking funny when the mess was created out of an uncomplicated refusal to spend money
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Describing Labour's plans for NHS privatisation, Starmer said:
"What we've put on the table is a partnership model where, with an agile, active state, working in partnership with private business, we deliver together."
Starmer added that model would be used elsewhere, too.
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Pentagon sources are estimating that the 2024 military budget will increase to at least $1.4 trillion to cover the cost of the balloon operation. This assumes no further balloon incidents moving forward.
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government: the weather balloon was packed with sensors and weapons. EMPs. Neutron bombs. all very chinese and very scary.
people: I am from 2003 and have some amount of memory. can we see this evidence please.
govt: no
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now that they’ve popped the balloon I’m looking forward to the federal government telling us more about the nefarious surveillance technology the CPC put onboard [nobody ever mentions the balloon ever again]
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Eyewitness video reportedly shows suspected Chinese surveillance balloon being downed by US planes off Carolina coast
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the value of twitter to companies was "all of your customers are here and you can talk to them easily, for free!" and now your customers have to pay $100 a year to have their posts show up and you have to pay $12,000 a year to keep people from fraudulently posing as your company
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also $12,000/year is only going to be the start of the billing for companies that want to stay on twitter, since the twitter API is likely to drastically increase in price and CRM companies which offer twitter integrations are going to pass the cost through to their customers
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also having to pay $600 per employee year for a verified checkmark is the end of news outlets getting all of their writers checkmarks
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first startup that makes a mastodon instance with asks, a built-in white-box client that can replace a support chat, and CRM integration is going to make infinity dollars off of companies that want a support channel that works like social media but doesn't cost $12,000 a year
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A fun thing to happened to me today, as an adult, is Elon Musk’s security guy shushed me and made a little zip-it motion as I was asking questions
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Highlight from the video of the intervention: one bystander yelling, “We’re much more scared of the fucking police in this situation than this guy.”
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THIS. This is what we’re talking about when we say “we keep each other safe.” Huge SPD response for a person in mental health crisis, with one cop pointing his rifle at the person. Bystanders intervene and force the cops to leave. MORE OF THIS, PLEASE. 🧵
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at least in the '60s and '70s the US government realized that to look like you were participating in geopolitics in good faith you would _occasionally_ have to admit some things were weird, unintentional fuckups instead of an evil plot against you
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yes, china spent all the time and effort to build a guided surveillance balloon that was detected immediately, and then chose to fly it directly along the direction of the prevailing winds aloft for a day
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hilarious that there's a balloon over the midwest that china claims is a weather balloon without guidance, and the US military claims is a balloon with guidance that is both definitely intended for surveillance and of limited strategic value, and anyone takes the US seriously
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My favorite thing about the Economist democracy index is that Saudi Arabia, which literally doesn’t have national elections and hasn’t held local elections since 2015, is rated as more democratic than countries with multiple political parties and elections, even competitive ones
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The long decline of global democracy stalled in 2022, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from @TheEIU econ.st/3l3cLxb
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the ios twitter app api access key that can be used to build bot libraries that look like legitimate users and dont require paying $100/month: IQKbtAYlXLripLGPWd0HUA/GgDYlkSvaPxGxC4X8liwpUoqKwwr3lCADbz8A7ADU
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dunno why the makers of these kinda projects never seem to understand that the compelling part isn't the "infinite entertainment", it's the way it plays into and out of cultural understandings of genre, expectations of humor, collective watching, live-ness
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kramer said she should sell a type of brownies that contained chocolate-covered potato chips that he called "chippiz"
I would watch an actual episode of seinfeld about chippiz
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I watched it for about fifteen minutes and the only thing it produced that resembled seinfeld was a scene where jerry announced that the city made it illegal to sell brownies in the park and in response elaine immediately decided that she would start selling brownies in the park
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the infinite seinfeld stream throws to jerry's standup after every scene because it obviously has no capacity to create a storyline that lasts for more than one scene
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disappointed but unsurprised to find out that the "nothing, forever" guys are also AI grifters who think that their dumb infinite seinfeld thing is a first step toward a bright future of unlimited generative content instead of an awkward, surreal freestanding riff twitter.com/somanyshrimp/s
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If they had a good sense of "AI" capabilities, they wouldn't be pushing it.
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It would be awesome if the people most visibly pushing AI had a good sense of what AI is and is not good at. twitter.com/somanyshrimp/s…
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The US House bill that passed “denouncing the horrors of socialism” cites two slave owners and proponents of Indian removal, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as foils to the socialist ideology of “totalitarianism.”
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I tend to agree that skepticism and patience pay off with stuff geopolitical intrigue. However using a balloon floating over Montana to justify canceling a top diplomat visit from the No. 1 world power to the no. 2 world power is some cartoon Cold War shit
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(i hate to say this) but once i saw them cancel that meeting it makes me think theres something to this balloon issue we dont even have a hint to yet
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The balloon thing led Blinken to cancel his visit. We are continuing our march into global power confrontation while cutting off our hands diplomatically. What about the balloon could possibly justify cutting off contact?
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"Since the outset of his presidency, Biden has been sensitive to Republican criticisms that he is insufficiently tough on China..." washingtonpost.com/national-secur
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Don't look away. These are the circumstances people are staying in this very moment while the windchill outdoors is -28°C. It should not be a political debate that people should not be abandoned like this with nowhere to go. Warming centres are at capacity; we need more now.
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