Clayton Oppenhuizen

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

YouTube video by RandomStuff Black Dynamite remembers Vietnam

I was immediately reminded of this youtu.be/kVLukeA8EdM?...

If you know anything about this industry, the fact that John Deere is pushing this vision should be an occasion for skepticism at the very least.

Real threat here is less the technology per se, and more the intellectual property regimes built around this tech. Agriculture is already on the bleeding edge of hyperextractive IP.

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

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to know this I would need to determine if our illiberalism is born out of how our political systems operate or if it our negative sociality.

the biggest lie of all is that this administration is somehow "populist" and not the highest, clearest expression of elite politics.

A survey of Harris and trump from Siena in 2024

I think far too many consultants lean on surveys like this: archive.ph/UQlsj

And think "ah these people think shes too liberal! Moderate from the moderate stance!"

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Along with their spines.

Yeah, the "we're better than this literal flaming trash can" isn't a strategy that has staying power.

We have who we have in charge of Iran-scapades because we never made an example of those who did Iraq.

We didn't because we never made an example of those in charge of Vietnam.

Call me a Cold War historian, but I trace the failure of the 21st century to at least the mid 20th if not the 1870s.

Fwiw, I think the smallest domino could be significantly larger, and depending on your preference, it could say "failed reconstruction" or "failed to hold Nixon/Reagan accountable," and it would suffice.

I'm from there. If you're concerned about white supremacists going there I have bad news about a great many people who already live there.

So, the closest seems to be any Caribbean resort and/or Mackinac island.

I think far too many people thought we were being hyperbolic, saying everyone from Bush to Cheney to Rice needed to be tried at the Hague.

BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient The battery can add a staggering amount of range in under 10 minutes. Here's just how quick it is, and how it compares to the best Western designs.

The Republicans, led by their felon in chief, refer to everything climate-change related as the “green new scam.”

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world…

We’ll be choking on diesel fumes while the rest of the world rides in silenct style.

The person who filmed and streamed this event is a GOP precinct captain from Linn County, OR. He’s the former treasurer of the Linn County GOP as well.

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

The inverse is also true. Iran was facing a water shortage before this all began

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Lindsey Graham’s Quest to Sell Trump on Striking Iran Few others in the president’s ear argued for the attack as effectively as South Carolina’s senior senator.

If a US Senator wants the US to go to war against another country, he should introduce a war authorization and push for a vote in the US Congress.

Not subvert the Constitution to achieve that end.

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I really wish the 2nd hand academic book market was cheaper/more reliable.

It seems to be nearly the initial price of free to take from any uni library, but the scholarship is 35+ years old. Maybe I'm not searching well enough.

God this shit is so ugly, just so, so ugly

Here is the range I observed in the valley. The worst case is still $2+ cheaper than your worst case example.
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Gas at my favorite “never get gas there” station, arguably one of the most expensive in DTLA, is up to $8.25/gal

Even knowing how much they gouge it, that’s more than a dollar raise in prices in less than a week

I'll use this as an excuse to say: the ppl running the valley village chevron and the mobile station on cahuenga right by the 101 aren't gas station owners they're extortionists.

Case in point, they're outliers today at $6 and $5.80 respectively.

They're between $4.80-$5.50 in the east side of the valley (studio city to burbank) right now.

Good time to buy an Ioniq or some other EV.

Every day, I read the news and wonder why the hell I gave up smoking 9 years ago.