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The efforts to exalt himself, however, have accelerated in the past year far beyond his first term and have increasingly come to resemble eccentric regimes in far corners of the world. To those who have spent time in the former Soviet Union, the "Don Colossus" statue bears a striking resemblance to the rotating gold statue erected by Saparmurat Niyazov, the megalomaniacal former dictator of Turkmenistan who called himself Turkmenbashi and even renamed the months of the year after himself and his family.

Even the NY Times is starting to catch on

old pine-sol ad from the 1970s showing a woman cleaning the her tar-colored walls with a mop

we really did make significant progress in reducing smoking didn’t we

Violets are grue
Roses, demonic
Si enil txen siht
Boustrophedonic.

a cat won’t rescue you from an avalanche so this would seem to be a positive development

great big cool space
good salads last time i was there (in the before times), actually surprisingly vegetarian friendly
not stingy w the ice water

and yet we usually just drive by because miasma of cow shit

did you also tell him about harris ranch & casa de fruta

anyway that was a big “welcome to the panopticon” shift for me

maybe a little late, i know

“sure, wear meta glasses, & we’ll all politely leave the room” did seem to have an effect, at least in certain settings

there was palpable chill on seeing the glasses & a quick dissolve of the chitchat

he didn’t wear them the next day or at another event the next year, btw

the guy who was wearing them is bright, talented, kind

but i’ve felt a little wary around him in every subsequent encounter: do not trust

internet access was not widely available there in 2014 due to rural area & the 10x usual demand on the limited local cell service

however this group *did* have limited wifi available. which changed the vibe, esp with the gglass

in iirc summer 2014 i was at a large art/music event & was going to see talks by friends on privacy, psychedelics, technology, etc

and an otherwise very nice man (really!) joined the social conversation afterwards & was wearing google glass

oh i wouldn’t say they had no thought of mass disenfranchisement

feature, not a bug

What is the threat?

All copper mines experience spills and accidental releases.

Email your senators to tell them to vote NO on HJ140 to protect the water system that so many flora and fauna rely on for survival—including humans. It’s also WAY too close to Lake Superior for comfort.

spongeball deathpants

Notice how those who wanted to overthrow the government for being asked to carry proof of their covid vaccination, claiming it’s an infringement on their freedoms, are suddenly all in favor of needing multiple proofs of identity just so they can exercise their constitutional right to vote.

i’m so happy right now. this is a beautiful life

surrounded by family and friends 🥰

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

the account which posted this appears to be an AI agent farming karma before it turns into an advertising bot

Demon core experiment

roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do

you can't wear garments under like. any of those outfits

Holy crap, this is absurd misinformation. 8% of Minnesotans do not have covid right now!

When testing people ***with a respiratory infection***, NREVSS reports for Minnesota (same week):

Covid-19: 5.7% positive
RSV: 10.1% positive
Flu: 13.5% positive

The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent (Popular Science)

Roses are red
Vice is inherent

This Is The LOCUST Laser That Reportedly Prompted Closing El Paso's Airspace The U.S. Army has been acquiring multiple versions of the LOCUST laser weapon system to bolster its ability to shoot down hostile drones.

It's apparently a LOCUST directed energy weapon. It's described as having a power of 20 kilowatts. By way of comparison, handheld laser pointers are limited by law to 5 mlliwatts, so this is the equivalent of 4 million of them.

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we have these which have stood up to a lot of abuse
it's relatively infrequent for me to use for 60 min straight plus i have gloves on - these have never bothered me with intermittent use over a few hours

i have small hands & i can still use these

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Text: Happy Valentine's Day to this amazing couple. Pic: JD Vance leaning against the back of a couch https://x.com/covie_93/status/2022794084528599213

From @covie93.bsky.social but on Tw

I'm seeing this get shared around in lots of places. (So apologies for picking on Judy) But it is sloppy research.

This wire transfer is to "Harper & Associates Inc," which is the name of multiple firms across the U.S.

The former prime minister's company is "Harper & Associates Consulting Inc."

It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the potential to save many lives.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

It's important to have an accurate model of the world. If you're basing your assessment on their free models, consider this: this shit is expensive, the stuff they serve unpaid users is basically low tier slop

Palantir spends billions on AI, and this should be scary to you, because it works.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Are you tryna' tell me that an organization that's only banned in about five countries and has been sued by NEVADA about how they operate, that this organization might be just in it to take as much off the rubes as possible?