I just read the manuscript of a forthcoming book, in which the author repeatedly used the verb "to dun." I didn't know what it meant and had to look it up.
If you came across a phrase such as "I dunned my editor" which of these meanings would you think most likely?
Not many people can say they were stuck behind a slow-moving swimming pool while driving. But I can, because it happened to me this morning.
He knows that taking out one Representative isn't going to save him from the blue tsunami that's coming next month. But the point here is probably personal. He detests black women, especially when they have power. This is as much about hitting out at her personally as it is about swaying the election.
For the election, his move will have to be something much bigger (probably refusing to seat newly-elected Democrats). He's already been hinting about this at his rallies.
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There are reasons for the policy of not announcing investigations into political figures just before elections. It's to avoid even giving the impression that investigations are being used to sway elections. It's to protect democracy.
Trump is launching an investigation against Rep. Ilhan Omar precisely because he is an authoritarian with no respect for democracy. It's the action of a fascist.
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People tend to focus on the hypocrisy, which is pointless, because the fascist has no shame about what they're doing and doesn't see these things as contradictory.
Focus on the fascism, which is the real problem..
Apparently children have to be protected from picture books that show same-sex parents, but it's okay for them to see a man being executed. To the fascist, these things both make sense.
Children have to be forced to recognize the fascist view of the "natural order" of things, which includes heterosexual families only.
And everyone, children included, has to be trained to see that the government inflicting pain and suffering against designated enemies is right and good.
I'm getting my Covid, flu, and pneumonia shots this afternoon.
I had planned to finish sanding our side porch tomorrow and then stain it. I'm not sure that's going to work out.
Now we get to watch and see whether the tech bro billionaires race each other to lick Trump's behind...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117396098979159597
It looks like Putin is attacking cargo ships in NATO members' territorial waters. I'm curious what his plan is.
Create a supply-chain crisis by making ships stay in port?
Try to convince Nato countries that it will be damaging for them if they continue to support Ukraine?
Create tensions in Nato as they argue about how/whether to respond?
Provoke a military response so that the Russian people rally round?
Go out in a blaze of glory?
All of the above?
I finished sanding down the back deck this morning, vacuumed it to get rid of the sawdust, and then stained it. I was in a rush so I could get the stain down during a 24-hour dry spell. The urgency made me a bit tetchy with my partner at times, which I always find embarrassing. That's not how I want to be. And for the last ten minutes of the staining my lower back muscles were starting to spasm. But the deck looks pretty good, given that it's a mix of new, old, and even older wood.
What would I look like in the 80's?
A bit like this...
The whole point of the "AI will wipe out humanity in 10 years" is that it gets us talking about how to regulate AI rather than how to get rid of it.
It seems like a tipping point when five out of six of the stories on the BBC Europe news page are about Russia waging asymmetrical warfare on Europe.
I can only hope that Europe is retaliating in some way.
RE: https://journa.host/@videnskabdk/117246792751092114
Danes are more active than Britons with more likely to cycle to work, for example. and have more time and energy for recreation, because Britons work, on average, the equivalent of three weeks longer each year, and their work hours are more unpredictable. DK has a comprehensive system of childcare.
So Danes live longer, survive more cancerous diseases, and experience higher well-being.
A country's primary aim should be its inhabitants' wellbeing, not its business owners' enrichment.
There are few things as shocking as a justice system that is unjust.
'Holly recalls approaching police as she fled a sexual assault, covered in cuts and bruises. She says an officer accused her of just trying to get a "free lift home" in a police car.'
Re a 13-yo repeatedly raped by gang members: 'The men were arrested on drugs offences ... when she later asked about the progress of the rape investigation, she was told that police officers had "bigger fish to fry".'
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117198218728894705
It seems a company called IDScan is the source of more than 153 million scans of drivers' licenses. The company hasn't alerted anyone to this theft, so either they're covering it up or they don't know about it. Either way, it's bad.
I work on being tolerant, but occasionally someone steps into your comments and you have to wonder, WTF is up with this guy?
RE: https://connectified.com/@masukomi/117150332573835763
I second this. It's not just a hilarious interview, but gives insight into precisely what kind of nation Donald Trump has just declared a trade war on.
RE: https://mastodon.nu/@janhoglund/117152001748094118
Canadians are mad as hell and are overwhelmingly behind Carney. Americans are embarrassed by Trump and are overwhelmingly against him. Who do you think is going to win this trade war?