FirstCircle

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[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I refuse to click through from any headline, anywhere, that references this guy using his idiotic nickname. That results in me not knowing anything about him, and deprives "news" platforms of a billionth of a cent of ad revenue, both of which I think are for the best.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

fear that the hot temperatures would spark a nuclear disaster

Like ... the buried radwaste would for some reason start to fission or undergo fusion, all because of higher-than-normal surface temperatures? Or do they think the waste would for some reason start to leak out (more)?

There may be waste storage problems but it sounds like they've been watching too much "Space 1999".

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no, they're very sane. They just love weapons, violence, and cruelty more than most people do.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

Rural hospitals? Well, are they Christian? And are you a Christian? If so, you're all set. If not, what's wrong with you, Jeebus will provide after all!

The Heritage Foundation Christofascist types want to see all "public" services transitioned to non-governmental (in claim, if not in fact) Christian "charity" orgs. Preferably white-controlled, evangelical ones of course. If you're a person with medical needs, really bad ones, and can't get medical help, then why haven't you signed on the line and pledged your vote, tithes, and soul to Jeebus? That's the MAGA Jeebus mind you, not that old-fashioned Socialist one. MAGA wants these rural hospitals to go out of business. That will provide them with millions of new, suffering, desperate people and a situation where MAGA can blame their suffering on the "mismanagement" and "inefficiency" of the government-supported hospitals, now defunct, and will provide their Christofascist friends with a fire-sale on facilities and medical specialists with which to start their Xian "charity" services.

You the individual will either do as you're told by MAGA in government (because they're terrorist thugs) or by MAGA in "churches" (because they'll (maybe) provide some kind of "charity" aid that's no longer available elsewhere), or you'll die. Either way, MAGA wins.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

The "Heritage" Foundation and all the tax-favored entities like it (incl. "religious" ones) will need to be dealt with.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, nope, nope. The Hitcher (1986). Fans seem to appreciate Hauer's performance, it's not as clear to me that they liked the film in and of itself quite so much.

Hauer would go on to say that critics misunderstood the film, calling it an allegory in which Ryder represents evil. The film has since been acknowledged as a cult classic and one of Hauer's most iconic roles -Wikipedia

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's good to see that M$FT is tackling the important problems:

The sight of a Blue Screen of Death will also be a thing of the past, too. Microsoft is now officially redesigning its BSOD so that it’s black and not blue.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"The other side" is catching on, realizing the utility of "emergencies" as an excuse for exercising authoritarian power. https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-washington-mayor-declares-state-1203356

This mayor is thought of as "left-leaning", which, in Spokane, describes anyone who isn't a Christian Fascist, or not yet anyway. In the event described at that link, she declared this "emergency" as justification to allow city cops to violently attack and arrest peaceful protesters, and to clear the area around the ICE building with a declaration of a curfew so that the latest pair of kidnapped dark-skinned people could be transported out to a temporary prison ("processing" center) on the other side of the state.

Watch what "emergencies" the Iran War brings about. "Only one of the 'Enemy Within' would complain about inflation, unemployment, high gas prices, cuts to domestic spending, and curtailment of Constitutional rights, when our soldiers on the Iran Front are suffering so much in this Emergency. Such talk against the government is deemed traitorous and shall be punished severely by the Emergency Tribunal."

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump has recommended eliminating this and some other programs that fall under the Older Americans Act, a landmark 1965 law that provides social and meal services for older people. The U.S. House also proposed eliminating the employment program’s funding

Why? What ever could be their motivation for doing so?

In 2019, about two-thirds of participants were women, and about 44% were Black

Oh, well, there's the problem.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Check out the two bored-as-shit guys in the pic. Top center with the dyed hair and LSD tie, bottom left looking for all the world like a former BigOil exec. I think they're texting each other while searching that old Sears catalog online to see where Julie got the high fashion 1975 threads.

Tie dye: Hey, check it out there it is, page 287. Looks like it came in Avacado green too. That would have matched the furniture around here better.

Oil: Yeah, you're right, good catch. Whoa, turn the page. Look at that. Wanna order her a tube top? Rayon. Pink!

Tie dye: And some Frye boots! And black lace panties. We'll ship it all to her office. Heh heh heh. Hey cool, there's a COD option on the order page, let's get that too.

Oil: COD, what the fuck is that?

Tye die: It's some kind of fish. What are you, a moron? Old time people used get their oil from them.

Oil: No shit? My oil sponsors aren't going to like that.

Tye die: Never mind. Get some stamps and an envelope, we gotta get this order in the mail. Check out J, she's been standing there forever with her butt all pinched, she's gonna have to hit the john soon or take a fucking dump right here on-camera. If she makes a break for the restroom you chase her and check her parts.

Oil: Fuck no! It's your turn, I checked her yesterday! She's probably still OK but you and I have a deal!

Tye die: Christ, I remember. Couldn't get the smell off me afterwards last time, it was awful. I had to take an extra hit of acid, maybe it was two, after I got home.

Oil: I get it, that's why you've got the fucked-up tie. Hey don't we have interns here, ones from the Panhandle? We'll get them to do crapper security, protect the children and all that shit. They live for that kind of thing.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's one butch-looking senator they've got there. And all decked-out in those eye-catching Satanic colors. The whole outfit looks 100% polyester "male-ordered" from a 1970s Sears catalog. Some kind of odd kink I guess, I'll have to check Reddit for the explanation. No judgment from me, the 70s were weird fun.

 

According to testimony at his trial, Nelson ignored his training and moved to arrest Sarey by himself, resulting in a scuffle that ended when Nelson shot Sarey in the belly at point-blank range. Testimony and video showed that as Sarey slumped to the ground, Nelson cleared a malfunction in his handgun, looked around and then shot Sarey a second time in the head.

“Using unnecessary violence was nothing new for Nelson,” Eakes wrote, noting Phelps had already concluded during an earlier ruling that Nelson had a pattern of using violence “during routine and nonthreatening situations when someone showed him disrespect or failed to acknowledge his authority.”

Sarey was Nelson’s third fatal shooting as an Auburn officer. The city has paid about $6 million to settle claims against Nelson, including $4 million to Sarey’s family.

 

The leaders of the Greater Idaho movement have asked President-elect Donald Trump to support their efforts to have counties in eastern Oregon join Idaho – a state they say is more in tune with them politically, economically and culturally.

“Unlike typical politicians, you have a unique ability as a practical problem-solver to get things done, and your support can bring a peaceful resolution to Oregon’s long-standing east-west divide,” the three leaders said in a Dec. 4 letter to Trump.

Matt McCaw, the executive director of Citizens for Greater Idaho, said Thursday morning that the group has not yet received a response from Trump.

“It takes time for these things to filter through, but we are hopeful that somebody from the administration will reach out to us and pick this up,” McCaw said. “This is an idea whose time has come.”

The letter added that “eastern Oregon residents recognize that representative government will never come from Oregon because we are outvoted on every issue the progressives put forth, leaving us completely disenfranchised

 

On a recent snowy morning in Derby, Letourneau accompanied a reporter up to the hill near his home, pointing out along the way a large “Trump 2024” flag he had strung up nearby. Along the road at the foot of the hill, he has a large white and red sign telling state and federal law enforcement to “beware” and stay off of his land.

But he does allow the government to lease a slice of that land to operate a surveillance tower, a deal Letourneau said he signed off on because he thinks the tower is an important tool for local U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. He said he’s heard for years about those same agents arresting people who attempt to enter the U.S. on the road that runs along the hill and, at points, parallels the Canadian border.

“We need something they can work with to catch those aliens,” he said, referring to people who cross the border without authorization. “They’re coming right and left.”

 

We were losing slowly. Now we are losing quickly. Democracy, accountability, human rights, social justice – all were rolling backwards as money swarmed our politics. Above all, our life-support systems – the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, ice and snow – have been hammered and hammered, regardless of who is in power. Donald Trump might strike the killer blows, but he is not the cause of an ecocidal economic system. He is the embodiment of it.

Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth, ripping up US climate commitments and reverting to unrestrained fossil fuel extraction and burning. If he follows the Project 2025 agenda, he will leave the UN climate framework altogether, making his assault on Earth systems much harder to reverse.

His evangelical base, eager to advance the biblical apocalypse, will love him for it. Most simply deny climate breakdown. Others perceive events such as floods and fires not as warnings, but as joyous portents of the end of times: a great cleansing, in which the righteous will be uplifted to sit at the right hand of God, while their enemies will be cast into the fiery pit. What we will see under a new Trump presidency is a neat alignment of the interests of fossil fuel companies and a constituency gunning for Armageddon (and hoping that Benjamin Netanyahu will assist its delivery).

 

Nazism has nothing to do with race and nationality. It appeals to a certain type of mind.

 

Lt. John Rodgers, a 20-year sheriff’s veteran in Clark County, where Springfield is the county seat, made the statements in several posts on Facebook, WHIO-TV reported. In one post, he reportedly wrote: “I am sorry. If you support the Democrat Party I will not help you.” Another said: “The problem is that I know which of you supports the Democratic Party and I will not help you survive the end of days.”

The sheriff’s office said Rodgers, who has commanded the department’s road patrol, would remain on duty, with a written reprimand for violating the department’s social media policy.

 

Humor. Harper's Magazine, August 1992.

 

While Boeing did not specify what would be taken away from Thursday’s offer if it were to fail, Holden said that could mean cutting any number of gains, including canceling a commitment to build the next airplane in the Puget Sound region, backing away from a 38% wage increase or losing a 1% decrease in health care costs.

On Friday, some workers were heeding Holden’s warning. Sitting down for an interview with The Seattle Times, Holden had just finished a Zoom call with more than 500 members who questioned him closely about the new offer and his recommendation to accept it. He had told them about the risk of losing the earlier gains.

The response from those on the call, he said, “led me to believe … they’re looking to accept it.”

For sure, there are still Machinists unwilling to bend. Rob Davis, a 13-year Everett employee, said he’s still a no vote and dismissed the union leadership as “a finger puppet of Boeing.”

Andrew DeFreese, an equipment operator in Everett, said Friday he’s also sticking with his no vote. He wants to hold out for more paid time off and quicker steps to progress through the wage scales.

 

Another fired worker, Hossam Nasr, said the purpose of the vigil was both “to honor the victims of the Palestinian genocide in Gaza and to call attention to Microsoft’s complicity in the genocide” because of the use of its technology by the Israeli military.

Nasr said his firing was disclosed on social media by the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism more than an hour before he received the call from Microsoft. The group didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on how it learned about the firing.

The same group had months earlier publicly called on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to take action against Nasr for his public stances on Israel.

Nasr, an Egyptian-raised 2021 graduate of Harvard University, is also a co-organizer of Harvard Alumni for Palestine.

Google earlier this year fired more than 50 workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war. The firings stemmed from internal turmoil and sit-in protests at Google offices centered on “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021 for Google and Amazon to provide the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services.

 

A Kootenai County magistrate judge with numerous reprimands who appeared in court dressed as Darth Vader on Halloween is up for re-election in November. A campaign led by a former litigant of a divorce and custody case he oversaw in 2012 hopes to remove him.

Judge Clark A. Peterson, 57, was appointed to the bench in 2010 and has faced complaints over the years that his fantasy role-playing hobby interfered with his judicial work.

Campaign fliers call Peterson “Demon Lord” in reference to his former avatar: the demon prince Orcus, Lord of the Undead. He posted hundreds of comments on online fantasy message boards while at work, according to a 2013 Spokesman-Review story.

The judicial council’s investigation also looked into other allegations of misconduct by Peterson. On Halloween, he appeared in court dressed as Darth Vader, walking out from his chambers with Star Wars music playing on his cell phone.

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