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On the political situation in the UK, thanks for summing up this so nicely!

U.K. faces prospect of fourth prime minister in 18 months as Conservative Party turns once again on own leader

Firstly, you should note that they are no longer ‘asylum seekers’ but ‘illegal immigrants’. The Tory scum already passed laws that say any entry to the UK without permission is illegal. Claim your asylum before getting here (except that the Tories have removed all methods for doing so) and if you come from a safe country (99% of them now arrive on ‘small boats’ from France) then claim asylum there. Why Rwanda? They wanted to emulate the Australian model and in Rwanda they found a country dumb/g…

[MerelyGifted]

Late Stage GOP Fascists Events (Part 4)

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[Sally_Mahoney]

Hazardous chemical cloud at Disneyland injures employees

On a similar tangent, DO. NOT. store pool sanitizer and muratic acid (“PH Down” or similar) in the same storage bunker, unless you like huffing chlorine gas directly… Learned that lesson the hard way; fortunately, I wasn’t injured, but a hand tool that was in the same bunker was rusted to the point of ruin. (by ‘storage bunker’, meaning one of those outdoor ‘bench storage’ boxes that are used to hold stuff like chair cushions or tools out of sight and being useful when closed.)

[TornPaperNapkin]

Nikki Haley's horrid sweaters

I guess that makes her a fascionista.

[Sally_Mahoney]

AI-generated article hallucinates Christmas Day murder in small New Jersey town

Another way of looking at it: THEY’RE ALL HALLUCINATIONS, THE AI DOESN’T, AND CAN’T, KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. Nothing, at all, ever, that a generative engine produces can ever be relied upon to be “true”. It is repackaging what it sees into a different form through opaque algorithms. There is no “understanding”, and there is no “analysis”, and there is no “critical thought”. It is not a “summary”, or an “analysis”, or a “report”, it is a semi-random squeezing of mechanically recovered content pas…

[smulder]

@ficuswhisperer

had a few minutes to look around the code in Dev Tools, here’s the Adblock rules I’ve found that you can use to get rid of all this AI shit

[smulder]

@PPK

Oh my goodness - instead of ‘explain’, I tried to get it to translate ‘randomically’ into English. It appears I broke it’s LLM:

[Sally_Mahoney]

Trump: Civil War didn't need to happen, could have been "negotiated"

A brief and incomplete list of attempts to negotiate to prevent the American Civil War: The 3/5ths Compromise The Missouri Compromise The Wilmot Proviso (which failed) The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 The Crittendon Compromise (which thankfully failed since it would have formally enshrined slavery into the Constitution) Trump thinks the Civil War is a conflict that just sprang into being in 1861, I guess, with no history behind it whatsoever. There were almost 100 ye…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Speaker Johnson defies far-right Republicans while Marjorie Taylor Green threatens to vacate seat (video)

I was under the impression that Congress gets things done by compromise. Have we switched to legislation by temper tantrum?

[Sally_Mahoney]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott declares that Texas law supercedes Federal authority and hints at secession

Allowing Texas to secede in 2024 would be a terrible idea for the same reasons that allowing Texas to secede in 1861 would have been a terrible idea. The human beings who live in Texas should have their fundamental human rights protected no matter who happens to be running the place at any given time. We don’t give in to slavers, fascists or those who would seek to make Gilead a reality.

[DukeTrout]

Hasbro in talks to sell Dungeons & Dragons?

OVERHEARD 1d6 1 … The wizard Hasbro is seeking to sell a valuable and ancient artifact of which the true use and value is a mystery to the wizard. 2 … A mysterious figure was seen lurking around the wizard’s tower, is believed to be Tencent the Nimble 3 … The wizard has imprisoned the spirit Xagyag which some say is connected to the ancient artifact. 4 … The goblins have poisoned the brown ale. 5 … The town crier shouts gibberish that seem to bewitch the villagers into jumping to conclusio…

[Sally_Mahoney]

New study reveals that almost 1 in 4 adults in the United States who had COVID also developed long COVID symptoms

I have a lot of the symptoms of long COVID. However, I don’t think I have long COVID. Why? Because I had those symptoms long before I got COVID. And I think that’s part of the problem with studying this. A lot of the symptoms are symptoms of lots and lots of chronic illnesses. And just like with a lot of those other chronic illnesses, there’s rarely a definitive test you can give someone and know for certain that they have it. So we know there’s a problem, but it’s hard to define and it looks si…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Two teens charged in Kansas City Super Bowl mass shooting that started with an argument

Agreeing with all your words, and adding… You’re also more likely, no matter how level-headed when at home, to act like an armed person. Threat avoidance goes down. In 1973 the journalist Ted Simon set out from the UK to travel around the world by motorcycle. He wrote about it in the book Jupiter’s Travels, which I enjoyed very much. Early in, he wrote about his decision whether or not to bring a gun. After mulling it over he realized that carrying a gun increased his chances of getting shot,…

[Sally_Mahoney]

"You shouldn’t be doing that" mansplainer lectures PGA pro Georgia Ball on her golf swing (video)

So when you flip tables, try to follow through completely, so that your arms are straight overhead and your thumbs point backwards. That will add a lot more rotation to your rage throws.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Please Lord let "3 Body Problem" be good

Maybe not every book we like must become some kind of video experience. This compulsion to adapt stuff is really irritating, as it leads to a) books being written with adaptation in mind, often distorting the storyline and b) a lot of bad adaptations of good stories. Why can’t a book just stay a book?

[MerelyGifted]

RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump spreads the Great Replacement Theory

The crime family will sink the GQP in both name and money. It’s just matter of time and what extend of collateral damage associated with it. In their spiral into irrelevancy, they will try to destroy everything. Our job is to prevent it from happen. Go vote. We need to keep the orange menace out of office. It will buy us some time in short term because the GQP doesn’t have his spiritual successor right now. In the meantime, broken SCOTUS will need to be fixed. All loop holes Tr*mp used to worm h…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Uber and Lyft say they'll leave Minneapolis rather than pay drivers its new minimum wage

If your business model relies on underpaying your employees, your business should fail. The solution to all this, by the way, isn’t just reforming taxi regulation, or increasing regulations on ride share services. It’s public investment in public transportation. I’m not going to hold my breath for that, but that’s what we need to prioritize.

[Sally_Mahoney]

"We're not stupid": MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says defense of Trump bloodbath speech is "bullsh*t" (video)

He didn’t mean a litera-- … actually, he did. In recent conversations with his good friend Viktor Orbán, Trump has learned a great deal about the creative skincare regime practiced by famous Hungarian Elizabeth Báthory, and is eager to try out her legendary “blood baths”, immersing himself fully in a bathtub filled with human blood. Of course, the “woke” of Bathory’s day criticized this activity, going so far as to suggest that Bathory might have bled her servant girls and peasants in order to …

[Purplecat]

Are you ready for four-color traffic lights?

I think the French call that a chemin de ferret.

Bravo! An absolutely perfectly placed pun.

[Sally_Mahoney]

LA mall owner panics over teen pushback over chaperone policy

Malls are welcoming places only so long as the people inside are ready to buy something. One reason public parks and libraries are so important is because there are precious few remaining public spaces where people can simply exist with no expectation of spending money.