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YouTube video by Bob TheHumanBeing Rachel got off the plane

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbXG...

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

It's basically just ice cream, so if you like ice cream...

I had one of their frozen custards once and liked it.

Seeing the 2010s-era turn against refugees in developed countries is distressing enough in itself; there are people being hurt by this right now.
But thinking about the enormous number of people I expect to be displaced by climate change, I also see it as the harbinger of something so much worse.

What is the other event/discourse you're alluding to here (please)?

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

I feel that we need to acknowledge that Marx was possibly the only funny German

I think "use lots of complicated rules" is a better description of what happens better than "remove unrestricted comprehension". To figure out that you can resolve RP by removing unrestricted comprehension, you first need to properly formalise naïve set theory into a lot of complicated rules.

it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them

In big cities, no one gives a fuck about you (laudatory)

There was a working human Lyme disease vaccine but the manufacturer took it off the market after they got bad press nd a lawsuit about supposed adverse reactions... turned out to be nothing but America has been deprived of Lyme vaccination for decades because of this

Larry Summers (World Bank/Clinton admin/Harvard president/Obama admin) yukking it up with Jeffrey Epstein about women being dumb and society coming down too hard on perverts makes me wonder how all women are not constantly Becoming The Joker

👇 the only thing keeping me from being utterly consumed by thirst for vengeance is my boundless compassion for the entire human race

seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email

Just in the movies we see that Gungans have negative attitudes towards the humans, that they seem to live entirely underwater despite being amphibious, and that Naboo's representative in the galactic government is a human (until Jar-Jar helps save the planet)... vibe I got was humans run the show

Do you mean Attack of the Clones or the animated series? (Or the other animated series?)

It took more than eight HUNDRED years for Naboo to get its first Gungan senator.

Decolonise Naboo!

Isn't he literally written as one of the indigenous people of Naboo, whose society has long-standing tension with the human settler population?
It's fair to criticise the quality of how he is (and how Gungans are) written, but the "indigenous" thing isn't a metaphor here, it's just in the text.

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I'd be more curious about what is actually going on; even if the other characters are okay in principle with the hivemind, it's odd to me that not one of them is trying to dig in to how it all works. (I guess that's going to be part of Rhea Seehorn's arc?)

Satellite imagery of part of Canberra, showing the Black Mountain Nature Reserve.

Canberra is not built up enough for my taste but one of the things I liked about it was having a big nature reserve in the middle of the city (my daily commute went through this one).

Are those all actually cafes & restaurants in the Vietnam pic? That's cool.

I remember when I first properly looked up taqiyya sometime in the second half of the 2010s.
I had a general idea of (b) from incidental exposure to right-wing blogs & comments since 2005ish. I was shocked (I guess I shouldn't have been) when I realised how flagrantly & outrageously false this was.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The "diffuse" typo in place of "defuse" seems particularly egregious when made by a Khornite, since it removes the bomb metaphor

There is a similar right-wing narrative about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, and like with Zohran it involves a spectacularly, obviously wrong reading of who he is as a person and politician.

Always found it slightly interesting that baseball doesn't actually have a time limit and can in principle go on indefinitely--unlike cricket.
(Of course the reason for not having a time limit is that in practical terms the games don't last long enough to need one.)

this is exactly what's happening