ahoodedstranger.bsky.social
* Believer in traditional values, like progress, solidarity, and the betterment of mankind through rational means.
* Poly-Nerd: easily excited by science, technology, languages, philosophy, history, anthropology.
* Stoic-ish.
* German
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Does anyone know whether the police have been called and, if so, how did they respond?
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He was a war hero... But I guess fighting the gays was more important when the war was over 😕
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Quick, I need to know: are payments to contractors still serviced? Specifically: is SpaceX still receiving payments?
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Was ist das Problem mit dem Begriff mainstream-Medien? Nur weil einige den abwertend benutzen, ist es doch nicht falsch, dass es Medien gibt, die viele erreichen (mainstream) und welche, die sich um spezielle Interessen kümmern.
Was ich sagen wollte, war: die USA sollten aktuell alle interessieren.
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Vor allem wäre mehr Berichterstattung in den mainstream-Medien wichtig. In Deutschland zerfleischt sich die Politik wegen Pipifax während aus den USA der richtig große Tsunami anrollt.
Leute, wir können uns solche Hazardeure wie den Merz und den Lindner gerade so gar nicht leisten!
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Has anyone actually tried to call the cops on them? I'm /not/ suggesting to SWAT them, but their actions are illegal and police might actually take action unless instructed not to do their job.
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(I'm not saying it's useful for everyone and definitely not for every application, and maybe the environmental costs are too steep for the value we're getting, but there is definitely value for some people and some applications)
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Oh, yiss, please!
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Private servers, you say? Where have I heard that phrase... Ah, I remember. Hillary's emails! Lock them up!
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... and still too few people believe it by far!
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Merz kann es nicht, /weil/ er glaubt, er kann es... als einziger. Wenn man glaubt, als einziger klar zu sehen, dann kann man einem jedes Mittel recht sein, dann kann man diejenigen auslachen, die einem mit Zorn und Entsetzen entgegen treten.
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He'll say that Trump is a corrupt, short-sighted vulgarian, while he's a sophisticated thinker and (the only) level-headed politician who knows what's right and good for this country, so we're safe.
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Did you manage to temporarily pray away the gay? Can't explain so much luck any other way /s
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To be fair, the whole sentence is in quotation marks. You might even say that to quote "Third Reich" here would imply that the person who said it distanced themselves from the term, which they may not have.
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Actually, all democracies should respond with punitive tariffs. This is a case of "at first they came for..." at the international level.
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With every day that passes, it's becoming more of a practical than a constitutional problem. Say, everyone agreed to bugger the constitution and go back to pre-Jan 6.
How do you get the people back that were pushed out, restore the data that was deleted (eg at the CDC), restore trust?
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Missed that. Thanks.
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Actually that's a little different. The WaPo article talks about information provided directly by the CDC. The other post is about retracting papers submitted to independents journals.
Not a big leap, though.
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Great, thank you!
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This!
Just a little thinking reveals that Merz is either an idiot or he doesn't believe the things he says. They're designed to make people afraid and to make the Greens and SPD seem incompetent and callous. The latter would be fine if, again, he believed the things he says.
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Whoever is working weekends in admin is doing so because there's work to do! They don't have time to play his games!
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Careful: this is just the report of a single person.
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Mind boggling if true.
This particular report is just the report of a single person, though.
Not that I doubt it much...
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Merz dazu vermutlich: wenn die alle schneller abgeschoben würden, könnte das nicht passieren.
Und außerdem zeigt das doch die Angst in der Gesellschaft.
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Jupp. Eben: dass und wie darüber geredet wird.
Wenn Merz sagt: "Jetzt, in diesem Moment laufen draußen Täter rum, die Leute müssen sich wieder sicher fühlen", dann ist ja noch nicht einmal klar, was er meint, aber alle die zuhören nehmen zur Kenntnis, dass es gefährlich ist und das alle Angst haben.
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I think I know of one US car maker that won't go down.
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'niger', 'nigra', 'nigrum' is Latin for 'black' - mostly just the physical color - and 'de' is the prefix for 'down' as in 'descent' or 'devaluation'.
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I didn't think you did, or most people do. Maybe it's just selective attention that's making me notice it.
But yes, it's no coincidence that there's a relative of the 'n word' in there. 1/2
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'Denigration' is a word I rarely read outside discussions involving race.
Very often (most of the time?) used by well-meaning people.
It literally means: "to blacken down".
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I mean, seriously, can't it take the water from the ambient air, maybe?
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Par for the course, for this bunch, isn't it: "Daddy is home and he's taking his belt off."
What is it with them to solve every problem by not solving it and making something else worse instead?
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Tell her what? What happened to the last Dumbo who took the stage right after Trump's first election, to explain to everyone that what they knew to be true was, in fact, in conflict with his admin's "alternative facts"? It didn't end well for her.
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As long as they're owning the libs, they do what their base is expecting of them. They just need to make sure there are always enough libs to own and that they're duly owned.
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Oder mit den Grünen koalieren und es auf die schieben, dass man seine angebliche Politik nicht durchsetzen kann.
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Wenn's wenigstens ein schlauer Zug vom Merz gewesen wäre, aber es war so grenzenlos dumm!
Wenn es ihn nicht die Kanzlerschaft kostet, wird man ihn daran messen, ob er seine unmöglichen Versprechen hält! Also: entweder weiter, bis es wirklich nicht mehr geht, oder kneifen. Beides nicht gut für ihn.
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They're plenty stupid, but that's probably not the reason. It's because they know it doesn't matter.
Correct spelling is a sign of respect for the reader. They don't have any.
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Problem with this is: they have to understand it first.
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I want to say that's the most apt characterization I've read... And then I fear he might be a bit - though not much - more subtle than that.
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I kinda remember that Obama was getting some heat for the number of executive orders he issued...?
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A lot of Nazis back in the day weren't Nazis.