GD_American posted:

Yep. Upon reading the details, I don't really have a problem with this. Served 3.5 years of a 25 year sentence in a mental health facility, will be monitored until she's 37 and the sentence runs out. I'm sure if the victim was in my family I'd be mad, but this makes sense.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012330011/judge-orders-release-of-wisconsin-woman-in-slender-man-case

quote:

Prosecutors countered that Weier remains dangerous and will have a hard time making friends, which could lead her to associate with mentally disturbed people.

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Olympics really trying to not let black women run

https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1410880763290132481

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2021/07/02/namibia-400-christine-mboma-beatrice-masilingi-testosterone/

boop the snoot posted:

FTFY

That Works posted:

You don't even need boomers for that one.

https://twitter.com/FirstTake/status/1172538239095332864?s=20

Nick Soapdish posted:

It is a sad historic fact that the Colonial Air Force disbanded after the revolution and only came back in the National Security Act of 1947

boop the snoot posted:

I’m ok with requiring voter id requirements.

…if IDs are free and automatically sent to people along with an obnoxious government funded marketing campaign that starts a year in advance of elections to apply for your free replacement.

They’d still find a way to gently caress people.

Eason the Fifth posted:

I'm 100% okay with showing that women can also, in fact, be incredibly lovely

but like with lovely men, hagiographies are bad business

Defenestrategy posted:

If this person is being genuine and not actually trying to put a collaborator on a pedestal, it's still a really weird thing to post a Nazi Collaborator as an example of Women doing horrible poo poo. I mean hell, post Olga of Kiev for basically firebombing an entire city and then cutting down or enslaving anyone who fled.

CommieGIR posted:

Oh no, I wasn't claiming its new.

This may be the only thing that forces change, actually, as the instance of ransomware is increasing, and Cybersecurity Insurance providers are getting sick of paying out for simple issues.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1412443556363620352

Strong “well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions” vibes from being a racist harassing his neighbors while yelling out his home address on video.

Best Friends posted:

I shouldn't be surprised, but it's still shocking to me how much a nothing the government we propped up for 20 years actually is.

pantslesswithwolves posted:

https://twitter.com/kyodo_english/status/1413122908667269121

What was the point of holding the Olympics again, other than to line the pockets of some officials?

Mr. Nice! posted:

Japan literally cannot cancel them. Only the IOC can.

CommieGIR posted:

Japan could tell them to gently caress off, but the IOC has some crazy contracts, how else do you think they get cities to upend themselves and go on massive works projects they would never do otherwise?

CommieGIR posted:

Through bait and switch?

Grip it and rip it posted:

You really don't enjoy watching the Olympics? It's one of the most entertaining sports spectacles ever conceived. It's also a shared experience for people from all walks of life from all over the planet.

People like the Olympics. Having it during a pandemic seems pretty stupid, bit the games themselves are pretty well loved.

Grip it and rip it posted:

Are you making this post from a Gilligan's island style coconut transmitter?

golden bubble posted:

https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1399449427358752778
https://twitter.com/mikeduncan/status/1399450220342263808

This needs to be sped up. I don't think they can wait for August.

https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1413178759188987908

piL posted:

I'd like to think that's not the case any more, but I haven't really been around a lot of warrants.

Nick Soapdish posted:

Hypocrisy doesn't work with Rs

Sentinel posted:

Huh that's pretty loving neat.
I always assumed lack of O2 would be an issue.
But I guess there must be some air sealed in the cartridge for it to still ignite.

I guess Minmitar Eve ships can exist.

Jarmak posted:

Not to call you out specifically, because you're far from the first person I've seen make this mistake, but Judge Parker is a women.

US Berder Patrol posted:

I would like to impose a Tucker Carlson tax

It's where we tax Tucker Carlson down to a one bedroom apartment and a 150k+ mileage car in a first or second ring suburb but then he has the freedom and opportunity to work his way back up by applying for wage jobs at media companies by his own merits like anybody else

dude is probably the single greatest threat to peace in our time

boop the snoot posted:

My favorite big brained history buffs are the ones who don’t think any of the founding fathers were fascist because they “founded democracy.”

Maybe I’m wrong or not a patriotic american for thinking it’s a bit fascist to own slaves 🤷‍♂️

FrozenVent posted:

While it doesn’t meet the exact dictionary of fascism, a system where the economy relies on part of the population being enslaved on the basis of their race certainly shares some characteristics.

Just because the Greeks did it doesn’t mean it’s good.

BUG JUG posted:

yeah you're definitely wrong. fascism is an ideology born out of modernity and pluralist culture -- mainly as a reaction against it. the founders were (generally) -- despite their many, MANY issues -- Enlightenment idealists who believed that a democratic, open system was better than t he quasi-feudal one they were living under at the time. fascism would be completely foreign to them, and once it was explained to them they'd find it abhorrent.

quote:

- a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of traditional solutions
- the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right
- the belief that one’s group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action without legal or moral limits against its enemies
- dread of the group’s decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences
- the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possibly or exclusionary violence if necessary
- the need for authority by natural chiefs (always male), culminating in a national chieftain who alone is capable of incarnating the group’s historic destiny
- the superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason
- the beauty of violence and efficacy of the will when they are devoted to the group’s success
- the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group’s prowess in Darwinian struggle

Best Friends posted:

I dipped into the Hell of Presidents podcast and got my mind blown by the idea that to the founders, 'liberty' = 'property'

Went a long way to clearing up the contradictions that have always bugged me

Mr. Nice! posted:

Dubya is crying about the Afghanistan withdrawal because Afghan women and girls will suffer unspeakable harm.

Bored As gently caress posted:

https://twitter.com/kathrynw5/status/1415306113726226436?s=19

I nay have opened up a can of worms but I found this tweet too funny not to share.

KirbyKhan posted:

Grip it and rip it posted:

Calling cover for a heart attack

joat mon posted:

The wobble, that we've known about for almost 300 years, slightly increases tides over a nine year period, and sightly decreases them over the next nine years. It's just that there are some new calculations that factor in that data, new tide level data and climate change data.
So statistically worse tides, but not apocalypticly worse tides.

quote:

Why will cities on such widely separated coastlines begin to experience these higher rates of flooding at almost the same time? The main reason is a regular wobble in the Moon’s orbit that takes 18.6 years to complete. There’s nothing new or dangerous about the wobble; it was first reported in 1728. What’s new is how one of the wobble’s effects on the Moon’s gravitational pull – the main cause of Earth’s tides – will combine with rising sea levels resulting from the planet’s warming.

In half of the Moon’s 18.6-year cycle, Earth’s regular daily tides are suppressed: High tides are lower than normal, and low tides are higher than normal. In the other half of the cycle, tides are amplified: High tides get higher, and low tides get lower. Global sea level rise pushes high tides in only one direction – higher. So half of the 18.6-year lunar cycle counteracts the effect of sea level rise on high tides, and the other half increases the effect.

The Moon is in the tide-amplifying part of its cycle now. However, along most U.S. coastlines, sea levels have not risen so much that even with this lunar assist, high tides regularly top flooding thresholds. It will be a different story the next time the cycle comes around to amplify tides again, in the mid-2030s. Global sea level rise will have been at work for another decade. The higher seas, amplified by the lunar cycle, will cause a leap in flood numbers on almost all U.S. mainland coastlines, Hawaii, and Guam. Only far northern coastlines, including Alaska’s, will be spared for another decade or longer because these land areas are rising due to long-term geological processes.

hypnophant posted:

It’s a uk paper and british science reporting is an abyss

Lake of Methane posted:

Maybe the South Dakota National Guard was just ahead of the curve. Or they get [quotethe Tennessee junkyard mogul's money and do nothing but say, "yeah thanks, but sorry Governor, we can afford to send only three people as observers."

https://twitter.com/StevenBeynon/status/1415425257943572482

quote:

The House passed a bill to reimburse the National Guard and bolster Capitol security in May. The Senate is still crafting its own bil, but it is unclear how long it will take to pass its legislation once finished.

One lawmaker pointed out that the Capitol Police will also run into funding issues soon.

"Without Senate action, the National Guard, which provided protection to the Capitol after the attack of January 6, will have to begin cutting training in August," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement. "Senate Republicans have refused to join bipartisan negotiations to address these urgent security needs, and now the Capitol Police risks running out of funding this summer."

A spokesperson for Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the top Republican on the committee, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

hobbesmaster posted:

It really takes off in the second tweet.
https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429333397786636

I don't actually think very much American "treasure" was invested in the country.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1415429335452950533

I'm not sure how Karzai being a land surveyor or a slave owning plantation owner would help. I'm sure they'd have a lot of notes to share on grifting though. https://ivn.us/2016/11/28/modern-lessons-george-washingtons-expense-accounts
edit: i'm not as familiar with washington's land speculation but I'm sure theres some spectacular self dealing there

ASAPI posted:

Remember our hopes and dreams concerning the piss tape? Well... Russia has something:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Wouldn't it have been better to refuse his orders and speak to the press to explain what he's trying to do and why the military is opposing it? Wouldn't mass resignations create lots of empty seats that could be filled with yes-men? It's not like trump would care about the optics

Platystemon posted:

https://twitter.com/cheetah_spotty/status/1415693905916538881

https://twitter.com/DanniPilger/status/1415631667750916097

https://twitter.com/SchifferJana/status/1415697491685744658

quote:

It is concluded that the new Inde River has developed towards its pre-defined guiding principle within its anthropogenic restrictions caused by the open-pit lignite mine Inden and that it has reached its goal of being a natural river. Especially due to the length (13 km) of the new constructed riverbed, the Inde River is a very good study area and a representative example showing that achieving a dynamic morphological equilibrium after a river relocation and restoration is possible after only one decade.