[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 weeks ago

Go Japan! Hell yeah!

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 weeks ago

How naive of me to think "That can't be a real article. Surely they wouldn't publish themselves saying they crushed living and dead people by the hundreds with an armored bulldozer. They must know how abhorrent, insane, and shocking that sounds. Right?"

No. Of course the worst excesses of violence which had never crossed my mind are being done by the IDF. I'm... I have no words.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago

Here you go. Looks like it'd be about the eastern third to one half of the country getting high speed rail in just 10 years. That's amazing.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't have Facebook but I did come across this

According to The Associated Press, Stines gave a deposition Monday in a federal lawsuit stemming from allegations that a now-former deputy sheriff forced a woman to have sex with him in Mullins' chambers for six months, in exchange for keeping the woman out of jail. He pleaded guilty to rape and other charges earlier this year, The Mountain Eagle reported.

Which is so messed up.

Also, related to that deputy

She also alleged that a male relative of Fields, who he introduced to her, also coerced her to have sex with him because he “had pull with the court.” She said that she talked to Fields on Facebook Messenger, but the other man never sent her any messages. He wasn’t charged because she had no proof.

Adkins said she believes that man is still doing to same thing to other women because she went to court for a hearing on a charge of driving under the influence and saw him sitting in the gallery whispering to another female defendant with his arm around her.

“He was right there in the courtroom, asking her to go out to dinner with him,” she said. “I felt physically sick.”

I don't know what the hell is going on out there, but holy crap they have a lot of problems they need to address.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago

I've noticed a small change in how news media has recently been reporting information provided by Palestine: they're not using 'according to Hamas run (agency)' as often. It's a small but significant change that, I think, indicates more people are no longer buying that Israel has the "most moral army."

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Banned governing body that’s fueling outcry on Olympic boxers has Russian ties and troubled history

Summary-

  • The disqualifications were done in a tournament run by an organization banned by the Olympics.

  • Both boxers participated in tournaments run by this organization with no issues for the last several years.

  • The organization hasn't said why they were disqualified.

  • The man spouting the 'trans woman' claims is the leader of the organization. He's a friend of Putin and described as a drug trafficker.

  • The disqualification for Khelif happened after she beat the previously undefeated Russian boxer Amineva 3 days post fight.

Strangely, nobody who's up in arms about the weird claim has looked into who made it, when, the context around it, or an explanation for it. They just ate it up.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

The great thing about Florida is that the people voted to give them the right to vote back after prison but Republicans in the state's Congress hated that and did everything they could to stop it.

While voting rights CAN be restored, they ensured that the process to accomplish it was a Byzantine maze that could not be navigated. I don't just mean it's hard, I mean it's impossible because some of the requirements can't be met (eg they can't pay all court costs if the government doesn't know, or won't say, the amount owed).

Fuck the will of the people I guess.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Not surprising, Netanyahu was facing fairly large protests against his authoritarian actions before the war started. Protests against Israel’s judicial overhaul kick off at Supreme Court a day before crucial hearing. This was 11 September 2023, just 3 weeks before the war escalated.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Feds Investigating Drug-Planting Allegations Involving NYPD Officers

Seems to be a problem throughout the New York LE community. Hell, maybe it's a problem in a lot more places than just New York.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

I found this interesting article when trying to understand why he's doing what he's doing with Twitter. What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? - NBC News

On the day that public records revealed that Elon Musk had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire and recommended an article imploring him to acquire the social network outright.

Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, a playbook for the takeover and transformation of Twitter....

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

That pressure campaign is against the Anti Defamation League which Musk has been trying to do.

So I guess he's doing it all for far right adulation.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

He's using a metric clock, they were really popular in France in the 1790s for some reason.

[-] microphone900@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

He said approvals on a case by case basis so I could totally see him trying to make it work that way.

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