https://truthout.org/articles/as-trumps-dhs-ravages-us-schumer-says-his-job-is-to-fight-for-aid-to-israel/

Chuck Schumer does not represent his constituents, he represents his campaign contributors.

I worked on one of these games (and a PS3 launch title). I feel like this post makes it sound like I should be living in a retirement home instead of still trying to figure out how to become a first time home owner.

I’ve never had tuna salad with avocado, and now I really want to try it. Thanks for this!

Children don’t have money, why would the US govt care about them?

My partner got a pair for work when they first came out (her job involves creating social media content). I was impressed by the speakers and it’s the same style of sunglasses that I normally wear daily, so I got a pair for myself. It was so nice to be able to listen to stuff and take calls without carry around headphones or putting them in when the phone rang. I was already uncomfortable with the association with meta, but was able to isolate that aspect at first. As they continued to add features, I’ve started being less comfortable with them. I accidentally left them somewhere a couple months ago and decided not to replace them. It’s such a bummer that all the cool tech is now not just spying on you, but on everyone around you. Fuckin capitalism ruins everything.

The people living paycheck to paycheck are ones who would make the most impact by striking, but are least able to as they will starve, be evicted, lose utilities/cell/internet if they do.

The people who are making enough money to be comfortable are afraid that if they upset the people above them, they will become the people living paycheck to paycheck.

The independently wealthy and top tier capitalists are the ones that have the most financial freedom to protest, but have the least reason to, are the smallest group, and are mostly fine with how things are (at best) or actively making things worse (most likely).

Because it would be a shame if the military had to pay a little visit to your country if you don’t.

It sounds like you don’t like pop music. 1989 is an objectively good album. I don’t know anything else about any of her other music, but that single album is DENSE with well executed main stream pop.

Having said that, should tickets to see her be as expensive as they are? Should people be as obsessed with her as they are? No on both counts.

This is why it feels bad. Only one of you didn’t think this was the right partner to reach that eventuality. It’s not wrong to mourn the loss of a future you believed was assured.

I feel like this isn’t the “sex” talk, it’s the “explaining where you (the child) came from” talk. Framing your existence as the product of love is helpful to make the child understand that they themselves are loved… and also why kids feel like they could no longer be loved if their parents explain divorce as no longer loving each other.

He didn’t “tip them off” about an action he was taking. He CONSULTED with them to see if it was an action he SHOULD take. If they would have said they couldn’t do anything, we wouldn’t be in this situation. If they wouldn’t have said the problem is Maduro, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

“They want to go in, and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they’re going to represent us well,” Trump said. “The infrastructure is rusty, rotten, most of it is unusable. It’s old. It’s broken. You see pipes lying all over the ground, nothing’s been invested for years.”

“The country is a mess. It’s been horribly run. The oil is just flowing at a very low level,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Even if it was badly run, it should have more income, more oil than what they do. So we’re going to have the big oil companies going in, they’re going to fix the infrastructure, they’re going to invest money."

He didn’t “tip them off” about an action he was taking. He CONSULTED with them to see if it was an action he SHOULD take. If they would have said they couldn’t do anything, we wouldn’t be in this situation. If they wouldn’t have said the problem is Maduro, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

“They want to go in, and they’re going to do a great job for the people of Venezuela, and they’re going to represent us well,” Trump said. “The infrastructure is rusty, rotten, most of it is unusable. It’s old. It’s broken. You see pipes lying all over the ground, nothing’s been invested for years.”

“The country is a mess. It’s been horribly run. The oil is just flowing at a very low level,” Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Even if it was badly run, it should have more income, more oil than what they do. So we’re going to have the big oil companies going in, they’re going to fix the infrastructure, they’re going to invest money."

That analogy breaks down as Germany isn’t the only nation founded as a refuge for Christians and only Christian majority country whose official religion is Christianity.

There is a closer tie between Israel and Judaism than any other nation and a single religion. For that reason, I think it’s important to make a distinction between the two. Treating either as interchangeable for the other is, in my opinion (as a Jew), antisemitic.

For example, I am disgusted by the concept of Zionism and have been opposed to all of the historical faith/culture/ethnic based aggression against Muslim people by Jewish people, especially everything that has happened as a disproportionate response to Oct 7th. I think the actions of the IDF are genocide and they should be treated no differently than other armed forces who have committed genocidal acts.

On the other hand, while I don’t practice any of the faith based acts or observe any of the traditions or restrictions of Judaism, I absolutely love the core of the religion, which focuses (as most faiths do) on treating others as equal to yourself, but also on questioning the lessons of the past and trying to consider all interpretations of it.

I did.

The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s.

The verb “to lynch”(like the city of Lynchburg) comes from the same family. Literally. Charles Lynch is older brother to John Lynch (abolitionist and founder of Lynchburg).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching#Etymology

One did. On a date. This made mainstream news 2 months ago: https://youtu.be/tx5F6llyaVw

https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-altman-plutonium-oklo

Maybe it’s just me, but if the president can fire them at a whim and replace them with whoever he wants, they don’t seem very “independent.”

I want to find some reliable numbers, but I think it’s going to take time for this google doc spreadsheet that is collating numbers to have accurate estimates. Especially since it community driven, using news articles that don’t have good data themselves. For example, I’ve seen drone footage of the San Diego march that clearly shows more than the 25k that is being used. SDPD said there were “over 25k in attendance.” Analysis of the video puts the crowd size closer to 35-40k (and that’s just for what was in frame for the video, at the time it was taken).

The article says he was “encountered during a targeted enforcement action.” That sounds like they grabbed him while doing something else and everything they’re saying after is an attempt to justify accidentally arresting what they later found out to be a cop who legally immigrated to the US.