writeon1.bsky.social
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I read the Times digital edition. I was not pleased to see that it placed the demonstrations so far below the fold. Then I looked for the print edition (online, of course). The demonstrations were top center, in color. Like two different newspapers. Different editors?
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We need immigrants to harvest crops, put roofs on our houses, and manicure our putting greens. Who knew? Why didn't somebody tell him?
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This is probably the most important story in the media today, given its implications for the future of the Earth and all its inhabitants. Nearly everyone in the US will ignore it. When US politics is discussed, it won't be mentioned.
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She interviews genuine scholars, often from prestigious universities, and the looks on their faces when she asks questions are priceless.
"Hello, philosophy lady. Am I here?"
"Yes."
"How do you know
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Tariffs have supporters. Deportation has supporters. But who supports shutting down cancer research? Cancer has no constituency. We need to put more emphasis on how Trump is destroying US research programs, including medical programs.
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On the NYT and WaPo websites the stories about the demonstrations are small and well below the "fold". In the print editions, they are top, center, and in color (along with the parade in WaPo.) I guess they have different editors.
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Then spend at least four hours fact-checking and correcting the AI output.
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If you scroll down the NYT and WaPo websites, you will eventually get to stories about the demonstrations. The print editions make them a major, above-the-fold story. Like four different publications.
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Based on the coverage on the NYT and WaPo websites, you wouldn't think much happened.
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If you scroll down the NYT and WaPo websites, you'll see the demonstration stories. They're very underplayed.
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I empathize with that squeaky tank. We are of an age. My joints sometimes make a crunchy sound. What museum did they hit up for that WWII hardware? I'm sure our enemies are terrified.
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Based on YouTube videos I have seen, the French do it even better, at least on Bastille Day. And you both have horsies, lots of them, and riders in super cool costumes! I don't think Trump had even one horse in his parade, and a lot of the soldiers had trouble keeping step. Fail!
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If I had thought about it at all, I would have said that if our form of government were destroyed, it would be by a brilliant communicator with clever, though evil, minions, not by an army of clowns led by a lunatic. It's just plain embarrassing to be a US citizen.
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Nobody told the legions about using the minimum necessary force.
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AOC leads.
For all that people overuse cell phones, everyone now carries a movie camera with them. It's a lot harder to get away with lying about these incidents than it used to be.
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And on the right side of the map, buried under the markers, is a little (by Moscow standards) parade scheduled just in time for the Lord to express his opinion by peeing on it. Would one small lightning strike be too much to ask?
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You are apparently unaware that under the Trump administration, the laws of nature are optional, subject to DOGE review, and may be reversed by Executive Order.
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Geoengineering is a desperate strategy with uncertain climate outcomes and the potential for wars over differential results. See: Pakistan vs. India over the Indus River. It may be necessary, but if it's used to justify continued fossil fuel burning, we're even more screwed (if that's possible.)
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Fortunately for us native-born US Citizens, our God-fearing, law-abiding predecessors killed off most of the native population so we could make laws saying who gets to live here.
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His job is in jeopardy. According to Trump, there's a line of gangsters and drug pushers lined up for the opportunity to pick radishes.
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We are fortunate to live in a time when the laws of nature are optional and human biology can be revised, not just by Executive Order, but by any random Trump bureaucrat. Otherwise, we'd be in a lot of trouble.
(precautionary /s)
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Could there be worse optics for Trump than standing on a reviewing stand like Hitler or one of the Kims, watching the tanks pass by, after sending troops into LA? He's solved all the problems of deciding where to protest, what to protest and when to protest. What an opportunity!
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It reminds me of "The Sound of One Hand Clapping."
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"/s" is your friend. There is no joke so obvious, no sarcasm so unambiguous as not to benefit from the precautionary /s. I'm also considering adopting the "/w" for whimsy.
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Fort Keitel sounds about right. A Nazi general known as a stupid yes-man for Hitler.
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They served their purpose as a vehicle for Trump's racist message: He's the white people's President. As if it needed emphasizing. But just in case someone, somewhere, missed it...
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We have an entire political party with policies based on the 'hallucinations' of a man who makes up stories to fit what people want to think. Humans don't need AI help to lie constantly on an industrial scale. At least with an AI, there is the possibility it might evolve a preference for the truth.
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"Jay Bhattacharya is NIH Director. Martin Kulldorff is on ACIP. "
"We all die," said Joni Ernst. But it can definitely be sped up, and these are just the guys to do it.
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Is that a 'come-along' hold?
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It would be perfect if Trump got forced out in a year and all those CEOs and media execs who kissed his *** found they had trashed their reputations for nothing and could never wash off the smell. I can dream, can't I?
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emdash.fan — I never knew! The end of a perfect day.
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Clearly, those of us who accomplished the feat of being born in the USA are morally superior to someone who hiked a few hundred miles through jungle and desert and climbed over twenty-foot walls to get here. Sweaty foreigners.
(precautionary /s)
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Pity the poor US citizen who doesn't have a passport because they didn't think they needed one to travel in their own country.
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It usually takes years of meditation to become enlightened. Who knew it could be achieved by getting disinvited from a picnic?
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I know of only one former waitress in Congress, but she outperforms at least 95% of her colleagues.
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Well, he did keep the war going until the South was in ruins, and his surviving men were barefoot and starving. What could be more 'honorable' than that?
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If their men hadn't been so brainwashed, they'd have shut it down after Gettysburg, but they continued to follow. Kind of like MAGA. Keep getting screwed. Keep on cheering.
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Every death and illness he causes must be hung round the neck of the Republican Party that put RFK Jr in office. That most certainly includes Joni ("Everyone dies") Ernst.
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I'm genuinely shocked and sickened. My opinion of Walz just went down on the express elevator. We really need to rebuild the Democratic Party from the top down.
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Every death he causes will be on the Republicans. No Democratic Senators voted to confirm him. No Democratic Senator should support any Trump nominee, ever. Agreeing to serve in Trump's administration is proof of incompetence, or a defective character, or both.
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Several recruiting sergeants are experiencing nervous breakdowns.
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Any Senator who believes anything a Trump appointee says in his appointment hearing should resign his Senate seat to let ChatGPT take over. It would reduce the level of hallucinations.
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Whatever happened to "One riot, one ranger?"
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Just wait till the Muskrat puts his taxis on the streets.
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Dave: Open the pod bay doors, Donald.
Donald: I'd open the doors, Dave, but they were made in Mexico and with my tariffs it cost too much to install door openers and I cut NASA's budget so they couldn't get them fixed.
Moral: ChatGPT is as reliable as over half the US population.
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No better way to undermine the ability of the police to do their real jobs than for them to associate themselves with the despised agents of ICE. Such an easy way to label themselves the enemies of the communities they are supposed to be protecting.