Shame that AI and data centers are offsetting all that good.

They’ve already picked up people with proof of citizenship on them, claiming they thought the papers were fake. And once you’re picked up, there’s no due process so there’s no chance for you to prove your citizenship before they chuck you into a camp.

I saw a post saying to show up at your biggest local post office in the afternoon/evening of the 15th (when news channels are covering last-minute filers), with signs to Tax The Billionaires.

There’s a negotiating technique where you demand absolutely insane things, then “back off” to things beyond what you originally wanted. The Republicans do it a lot.

They won’t. They switched it because it’s easy to justify spending any amount of money on “defending” yourself. If they switched it back, it would cost them some support.

Ah, that old GOP favorite, the “Schrodinger’s Joke” defense against encouraging stochastic terrorism …

They’re deporting non-citizens without due process, which means that anyone can be deported. All they have to do is claim they thought someone wasn’t a citizen, at which point there’s no due process for you to prove that you are.

Department of Homeland Security

This is something that’s always chilled me since they created it. To me, “Homeland” always had that echo of Nazi Germany’s “Fatherland”.

It depends on when you were vaccinated. If you were born in or before 1957, you’re presumed immune. If you were born after 1957 and vaccinated before 1967, they were using a not-quite-as-good version of the vaccine and should get a booster. If you were vaccinated between 1968 and 1989, you probably only got one shot; in 1989, they realized it should be two shots for longer, stronger immunity, and you should get a booster. If you were vaxxed in 1990 or later, you’re fine.

People may want to consider getting a DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) booster at the same time. It doesn’t hurt to keep your tetanus resistance up to date, but whooping cough (pertussis) is also making a comeback, and that’s an absolutely miserable disease as well. [Fortunately, diphtheria remains in check, as that has a 5-10% mortality rate, compared to covid’s 1-3% mortality rate.]

It was carrying 8500 gallons of gasoline. The hatch to the tank hadn’t been secured properly and the tanker exploded when it crashed. Then the fire burned for over an hour.

I’m not sure how I feel about this: I agree with Donald Trump.

Except I think we may have differing ideas about how the country is about to go “Boom!”

why was the witness we saw in the video left unharmed?

Two witnesses. There was the lady on the sidewalk, and there was a driver in the car parked at the curb that he walked in front of (you could see the brake lights flash).

It’s not just the AI bubble, it’s a distinct lack of faith in Huffman and as a CEO. He’s not forward-thinking enough, he hasn’t understood where the company’s value lies, and he’s ridiculously distracted by the latest shiny tech things (reddit NFT avatars, reddit crypto, reddit AI).

I fully expect Google to buy reddit at some point, exclusively harvesting all the info for their search engine, all the content for their AI models, and all the submission/view/voting data for their user profiles (what are you interested in, what do you think of these concepts, where are you connecting from, here are more ads we can send you, and these are arguments that might sway you in purchasing or other decisions).

That was really interesting -thank you for sharing that video!

Yeah, we know.

We knew it was going to spread on spring break, and it’s going to spread more when the college kids head home for the summer. :/

They were already classified when they sent the information. Your can’t retroactively declassify something.

I really wish the signs didn’t say “paid for by Canada” on them, or at least not so prominently. Because I just know some people are going to read it as “tariffs are a tax on Americans paid for by Canada”.

Given what happened during the pandemic, I don’t have much hope for this, either.

A whole bunch of Americans oppose it as well!