FirstCircle

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[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

"blow up"? Not "smash" or "demolish" or "set fire to" or "ravage" or ... any other playground-speak clickbait headline-phrases?

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

A plague on all headlines telling me "what to know". I'll decide for myself what to know, and once that's done, I may, or may not, read your article to see if it contains information about any of those things. A pox on you, nitwit clickbait headline-writers.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

How about "smashed", "hit with" and "under fire"?

I remember a recent commenter elsewhere refer to this as "playground speech". I guess if you have the mental capacity of a gradeschooler then you can't help but click on playground speech links. Clicks that inevitably seem to lead to a tiny narrow block of content down the middle of your wide screen, surrounded by miles of whitespace, lots of pictures, not much to read.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 months ago (2 children)

earmarking $45 billion to detain 100,000 migrants

$450K per migrant. I wonder which MAGA-sponsoring corporations are going to see that payday, and I wonder what % of it they'll be kicking-back to Orange and Elmo? We've got a lot of citizens here. Kidnapping them at government expense will be extremely profitable, even at today's rates.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

Attorney General Pam Bondi has launched a different lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education that would pull funding primarily from poorer students and students with disabilities. “That’s a separate complaint they filed a few weeks ago, it’s only a one-page complaint that cites no authority, no case, no law,” Mills said. “We’ll see them in court on that one as well.”

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[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago

Yup, the orange weakling caved again. I'm looking forward to much more such caving. It will just take a lot more entities to, like Maine did, stand up to the little diaper tyrant and this thugs. It will be entertaining to watch him cave to China and to all the other nations and economies he's been trying to harass.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Oh I doubt he did that. He'd lose prestige down at the Yacht Club! I'm sure he just laid off some of his poverty-wage crew.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I wrote the previous comment I was thinking that "electronic lock" was referring to a fob-activated lock that you used in place of a key-activated lock. The things that are constantly blasting their honks and beeps throughout the neighborhood when we used to have just quiet. Bad enough, but it sounds from your comment that it's much, much worse than that.

It sounds like you're describing a lock that the vehicle is in control of! No, my cars have no such things. I didn't realize they existed. I've rented a few cars, incl. one "good" (meaning, one that people might envy me for owning, thus increasing my feelings of prestige) European car within the past 10 yrs and didn't notice the car deciding to lock the doors w/o my consent. If this was happening it must have been a silent anti-feature, or at least very quiet.

I can't imagine needing or wanting the car to decide when to lock/unlock the doors. I only lock them when I'm parked, and sometimes not even then (not really paranoid about break-ins ... I've left the Miata top-down on my street overnight before, and the horrific end result was ... a dead leaf or two on the seats, maybe an insect visitor as well, a little extra dust). Locking and unlocking the doors is a simple as putting a mechanical key into a slot or pushing/pulling a lever on the inside. Nothing could be easier, and it's not a decision I'm about to cede to the car (and its manufacturer) for no good reason.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Of course! Miata is a 5-speed, Jeep is a 6-speed. I can't imagine driving a Miata w/o a shifter. Pure heresy that would be. If you're on FB you might like the "Manual Elitist Jerks" group.

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

I used to see tons of Bs still on the road in Florida back in the 80s. I liked the looks but preferred the TR-6. Spitfires were nice looking too. Dream car would have been an E-type but that was going to have to wait until I became rich & famous. Still haven't got one! :-(

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

how difficult it could be to evacuate people wearing wrist and ankle shackles

No need to worry about such niceties once it's openly admitted that these are just Death Flights in disguise. Murder the prisoners in mid-flight, or hand them over for murder after landing, the results are the same.

Republicans/MAGA have long loved the idea of Death Flights. MAGA Warms to a Murderous Chilean Dictator

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

electronic lock

Why TF would anyone have a car with such a device? Key ... key in hand ... insert key into lock assembly ... turn key .... door unlocks and can now be opened. It's simple, effective, proven tech that doesn't need computers or come with any "burned up in the car because door locked" risk. Sure it doesn't make any loud noises that draw attention to you when you lock/unlock, but that's a positive thing.

 

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.

 

Police officers responded at 11:30 a.m. to the school, 4106 N. Cook St., after school officials called 911 advising a student had a weapon in his possession, according to a Spokane Police Department news release. Another student reported the information to school staff, police said.

Spokane Public Schools resource officers contacted the student, took away his backpack and found a loaded handgun inside, according to police. The boy fled the school after 911 was called.

Patrol officers located the student a short distance away from the school and detained him. Police learned the student had showed the gun to another classmate, telling him not to say anything, according to police.

The student, 12, was arrested on suspicion of possession of dangerous weapons on school facilities and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. He was booked into the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center.

 

The union represents factory workers who assemble some of the company’s best-selling planes.

The strike is stretching on as Boeing deals with multiple other issues. It has shut down production of 737s, 777s and 767s. Work on 787s continues with nonunion workers in South Carolina.

S&P Global Ratings put Boeing Co. on its “CreditWatch Negative” list this week, citing increased financial risk because of the strike.

The addition to S&P’s CreditWatch means there is an increased likelihood of a credit downgrade, which could make it more expensive for the company to borrow money.

Shares of Boeing, which is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, fell almost 3% at the opening bell Wednesday and the stock is down 41% this year.

 

Asked about the report during an interview Tuesday with Howard Stern, Harris said Woodward’s reporting was an example of why Trump cannot be trusted as commander-in-chief, because she said he is easily manipulated by authoritarians he hopes to befriend.

“He admires strong men, and he gets played by them because he thinks that they're his friends, and they are manipulating him full time and manipulating him by flattery and with favor," Harris said. “Remember, people were dying by the hundreds, everybody was scrambling to get these kits ... and this guy, who was President of the United States, is sending them to Russia to a murderous dictator for his personal use.”

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