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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Agreed" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here. Like for values of a long, drawn out war and slaughter coast to coast with many, many broken promises…

[-] [email protected] 102 points 1 month ago

Had to click through to change my downvote to an upvote, lol.

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[-] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago

They need to get the fuck rid of that executive. Whoever has been running FF the last couple years has done a terrible job in picking directions for them to go, IMHO.

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From the link, which is terribly presented…

Join Pima Animal Care Center’s clinic staff as they bring their mobile medical unit, Karen’s Karing Van, to Summit Park, 1800 E Summit Street, to provide FREE services on May 1, 2, and 3! (7am to 2pm)

Available services:

On May 1: Check-in beginning at 7 a.m. (40 spots available): Spay/neuter, vaccines, and microchips. Large-breed female dogs will get first priority; other pets will be accepted based on availability.

On May 1, 2, and 3: From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (150 spots available each day): Vaccines, microchips, and wellness exams.

Vaccines provided will be FVRP and rabies for cats and DHPP and rabies for dogs.

This event is for Pima County residents only. Cats should be in carriers and dogs should be on leash. There is no limit to the number of pets one person or family can bring, but please be aware that you will be waiting in line and only bring the number of animals you can safely handle in that scenario.

Please plan to arrive early and wait in line.

[-] [email protected] 142 points 1 month ago

None of this is false is the thing. He's literally a criminal. He literally gave out a massive stock tip before reversing direction on tariffs again…

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Just Bel doing Bel things. I nearly pulled something laughing at this one, though. 😹

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Neal Asher has a new book out called Dark Diamond. The dedication page in it is quite frankly pretty horrifying.

Five years ago, I watched the two Falcon Heavy side boosters come into land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Honestly, it was like something in a game animation and seemingly too perfect to be believable. Others, I've seen landing on drone ships with names taken from lain M. Banks' Culture books. Just recently, I saw a huge booster for the Starship come down to be caught between two metal arms - y'know, they caught something the size of a skyscraper like a dropping stick - and that was an astounding feat of engineering. But these are not in isolation, since SpaceX, as of last month, has launched over a hundred rockets in 2024.

Meanwhile, the guy who brought this about, the guy who is aiming to make humanity multi-planetary by putting us on Mars, has a few other projects on the go, like building electric cars, burrowing tunnels under cities, putting up a satellite internet system and, perhaps the most important of them all, preventing the totalitarians of our world from killing free speech.

So thank you, Elon Musk, for bringing to reality, right before my eyes, those things I read and dreamed about as a teenager.

That… is a REALLY unfortunate, given Musk's apparent aspirations to be a Culture-level Bad Guy™. It's like Asher's paid absolutely zero attention to the fact that the Starlink is considered pollution on a massive scale, from an astronomy perspective and numerous environmental aspects. And that Elon's Boring Company is widely acknowledged to have been a ploy to stop Cali from approving light rail projects. And that his purchase of Twitter was in fact a splurge to destroy a free speech platform and bend it to be another disinformation platform instead. Yuck.

I should add that while I personally don't really enjoy Asher's books all that much to begin with, I was utterly unaware of his politics until now. I will strongly recommend against him going forward, much like I do with Orson Scott Card, despite an extreme fondness for some of Card's earlier works.

Do you guys worry much about the politics of the authors you enjoy, or is it more of a me thing?

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Everybody get out there and enjoy! Looks like cooler weather ahead too, so should be a great day for it.

[-] [email protected] 156 points 2 months ago

I feel like unless you bought an Incel Camino or a brand new Tesla like in the last year, you really shouldn't be on the receiving end of quite so much hate, TBH. They were the car that finally got EVs off the ground as an acceptable alternative, so it's a shame early adopters are possibly being lumped in with MAGA truck owners.

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Tuesday was the last recommended day to mail ballots back, so if you mail it now, it might not arrive in time to be counted.

You can drop it at any polling place in the sealed, signed and dated inner ballot envelope. (Outer envelope is not required for this activity.)

Credit to u/SubGothius on Reddit; just cc'ing this info on here for anyone that needs it.

[-] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago

Weird, very weird. Not demure, not mindful.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
  • They attended a ceremony in a part of the cemetery off-limits to photography and political events, due to some sort of dealings instigated by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
  • Trump was told he could only attend in a personal capacity and that no hangers-on would be allowed in.
  • When an official tried to enforce these limitations on his visit, a large staffer physically pushed her aside, claiming that photography was allowed, so he and at least one or two staffers were there instead of just Trump himself.
  • Trump has (of course) posted this crap all over his social media, using it for political purposes, in spite of the conditions under which his visit was supposed to take place. (Honoring a fallen soldier in a civilian capacity.)
  • And after it is all over and starting to blow up in his face, his response is unsurprisingly to lie about it all, despite photographic evidence (of the politics and extra staffers) and eye witness confirmation of the physical aspect (by Army personnel) that it happened.
[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago

To be fair if you’re anything past Boomer, at this point you should be too embarrassed to vote for any GOP candidate. When the party decided to support Trump—a guy with proven sexual assault charges, pending fraud charges, pending classified document charges, a penchant for insurrection that he happily acknowledges, and more and more video surfacing of him unable to be coherent, hopefully most everyone with any connection to reality has realized it’s time to kick him and the GOP to the curb.

[-] [email protected] 183 points 2 years ago

Slightly OT, but this is also why we absolutely need ranked voting ASAP. How much better would a candidate like Sanders do if people knew that voting for him as first choice and Biden as second was possible?

[-] [email protected] 116 points 2 years ago

TLDR version is that Amendment 14 Section 3 says if you were involved in an attempt to overthrow the government you no longer are allowed to hold public office.

Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

[-] [email protected] 94 points 2 years ago

This definitely feels like a “you made your bed now sleep in it” situation. If they underbid to get the grants, that’s their problem. I am so tired of corporate socialism.

[-] [email protected] 99 points 2 years ago

So tired of all the asshat sites that only test in Chrome and call it a day. Did none of them live through the IE-only era of the web??

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