…pretty sure someone once said something clever about the map not being the territory or whatever…but…before they went on to the menu not being the meal…the map bit?
🇺🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 Map showing the main deposits of selected critical minerals in Greenland, according to the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
looking back at now once again trump loyalists statements on jan 6 is crazy because it really illustrates how they’ve managed to sanitize what everyone knew was going on. the jan 6ers were ultimately successful it seems
Jared Kushner has somehow found a place at Coalition of the Willing press conference with Scholz, Zelensky, Macron, Starmer and Witkoff.Kushner has no official position in the US government.
"they're treating us like we're black lives matter"–is a direct quote from a jan 6 putchist and white woman whining about the kid-glove pushback her lynch mob was receiving from capitol police for trying to murder members of congress and overthrow the republic
thrilled to say i dunno who this particular man is but ive found in general that people who talk like this in public tend to be people who are like incapable of doing their laundry on their own
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.
…so…at some point…how is this different from mass delusion on the level of psychosis…honestly?
I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it
Beginning 2022, I started having arguments with people who didn’t experience the loss of a loved one to COVID & associate “lockdown” with sourdough starters & WFH rather than Zoom funerals.
I just had to accept that we did not have a shared reality, nor were they willing to remember.
there’s a thread on reddit right now called “was COVID really that bad?” and it is interesting to read people’s accounts five years out
there seems to be a collective trauma response where people (outside of healthcare workers) don’t remember how many people died
someone called it anticlimactic
…like…arguably the biggest issue with the whole LLM thing is that a model has no intrinsic capability to comprehend “truth”…there is no validity to falsify…or falsity to verify…& that makes them not only unsuitable but incapable of being a tool for certain purposes…but this is…complicated…because there isn’t really a static baseline of comprehension…so…on the one hand
the author of the thread is 14, so they are asking earnestly. which, as the parent of a 14 year old makes me incredibly curious about how she thinks about COVID
…how it feels to have lived through a period when a lot of things that usually would have happened didn’t while lots of things did that normally wouldn’t followed by a period when various things “got back to normal” & others did anything but…& what’s different…to you…& maybe about you…between now & then…scales disproportionately if the period represents a great enough proportion of your whole existence…& not uniformly…&…in the sense that the stuff eventually “everyone knows” tend to trickle through like they’re capped at the sort of transmission rates osmosis can score…but these days we kind of augmented our ride so there’s worse stuff than nitrous getting injected into the mix…&…that analogy is going to get fast & furiously out of hand well before we loop in blowers & turbos & reverb-inducing exhaust ducting…so…probably worth noting the one poster recalling ’22…their handle ends “PhD MA”
I should pull the studies that showed that Black and Indigenous people were much more likely to lose loved ones to COVID, while white people were least likely. There were also class gradients in terms of “direct” impacts of the COVID pandemic.
I was thinking of this one!
From 2020:
“In the United States, we estimate that on average, under diverse epidemiological circumstances, every death from COVID-19 will leave approximately nine bereaved.” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2007476117
“If, for example, 1,000,000 eventually die from COVID-19 over a longer period, then 8.9 million would be bereaved, representing roughly 3 of every 100 Americans.”
…but…at the heads of the hydra…they honestly seem to have lost their fucking minds…they are…what did they say to the ukranian dude when they ambushed him in that office they’re squatting…playing with world war III[: AKA “the big one”]…for…the white power wish-casting version of viagra…&…shit…you squint right & it seems like…”with this one weird trick”
We could avoid World War 3 over Greenland if the White House staff replaced all its world maps with the Gall–Peters projection
BBC – and most major media outfits "used to be good" map makers. Now they rely on google their default Mercator map projection which really distorts size of land the further north one goes….which maybe reinforces the dumbasses in DC who wouldn't clue in…they are so into "who's bigger."
…the mercator thing is still…uhh…looming large up where it stretches to fit the corners
I think the United States should be shaded pink in this excellent map
I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed.Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.
…it’s…like…the very definition of crazy illegal…extra-legal if you’re nasty, I guess
Reporter to Kushner & Witkoff during Ukraine summit: "I know there's a reluctance to talk about Greenland today, but what value do these commitments have on the very day that at the highest levels of govt in Washington they are talking about seizing the sovereign territory of a fellow NATO member?"
Johnson tells the truth for once: Trumpers are leaving the brutal, corrupt and reviled Chavista/Maduro regime in place, abandoning the elected leaders of Venezuela, and giving the regime free rein to continue pillaging Venezuela and tormenting its people with US support, as long as Trump gets a cut.
…turns out…the animaniacs’ world…is a relic of the past
…but…c’mon…yakko did that shit better…yakko rules, basically
…wait
…is…uhhh…that an option?
…we…just need a wavy transition & descending xylophone
…meanwhile the ostensible leader of the purportedly free world making himself at home despite that part supposedly being for the brave not the existentially-shook…has a weaker case than the cartoon lab mouse from the kids’ show…for *gestures wildly*
…& I’m somehow still out here trying to find new ways to politely tell people I can’t solve their problem because they won’t listen to the multiple ways I’ve explained that they *are* their problem…that the errors in their shit are not spontaneous creations of gremlins…that when I do the things I said would do the thing the thing is done & everything works…that if “it” does something else when you *say* you did that…what you’ve actually said is “I asked a question I didn’t understand a bunch of the words I composed that from & I listened to less of the answer than I understood of my own question & what I expect is for you to make it impossible for this not to work even if I consistently do stuff that would be expected to result in a different outcome because if I don’t get what I want I’ll act like a fucking child & throw a strop”…theoretically because if I somehow can engineer a way to stop them fucking up their own shit by actively not knowing what they’re actually doing while believing they are an infallible element of the equation…they might pay me money I can spend on things I don’t wish I didn’t have to be in the same room as…which…they won’t if I tell them what their actual problem is or how to solve *that*…so…that part’s…my problem, I guess
…still…they aren’t claiming to be the ultimate arbiter of reality or a head of state or anything…so…I guess I can’t complain?
…I mean b dolan isn’t bill hicks seeming to be able to do a bit from beyond the grave because so many of the names stayed the same when junior called “WMDs” on the play…but…that bit…is legal drinking age in places that include some states…& I’m not even sure ’07 is the first time I’d heard him do the poem part…which I think that one kind of shorts you on…the quality ain’t great but after he rags on a boston crowd the way henry rollins likes to troll a crowd for an intro to “liar”…he starts in about 2m30s into this one
…&…it sounds…jauntier when akala does it
…& the wu-tang didn’t get all up in their drake about the implied diss about C.R.E.A.M. missing the point…but then sometimes it’s not about “the word”…so much as what you think it stands for
…&…technically…the verses in that one aren’t the stuff you get from the genius even if it was GZA’s album…it was killah priest…&…not all the pillars of that gospel are entirely of sound foundation
I even learnt Caucasian were really the Tribe of Edom
The white image of Christ is really Cesare Borgia
And uhh, the second son of Pope Alexander
The VI of Rome and once the picture was shown
That’s how the devils tricked my dome
I prophesized to save a man, but no one gave a damn
For my nation, the seed of Abraham
Blessed with the tongue of Hebrew
Now we’re strung on needles and some are plunging evils
So study and be wise in these days of darkness
Peace to my nephew Marcus
…sketchy interpretive history with a…motivated…perspective on the murky “science” of tribal affiliations & who ought by rights to be in line to be inheriting the earth…is not in fact the sole preserve of the melanin-deficient department…but…basic instructions before leaving earth…I can get behind…even if I never much aspired to a plural congregation
…but…I don’t remember signing up to put up with the proselytising from the perfunctory-faith fuckwits with the missionary zeal of the recent convert in the land of the burning heritic…&…maybe we all have to…but…I’m not above invoking my birthright status that says as sure as the king’s got ears to make a toby jug proud…I will fucking complain about it like there’s no tomorrow…for as long as the wheels keep rolling us all along for this ride
…fuck a better mousetrap…my kingdom for…the other thing?
…or…fuck it…we try the mandatory weed thing
…maybe with the added incentive they solve for cars that drive themselves before we wind up with “the deliverator” out of snow crash?
Gangster nation (derogatory)
…argh…now…I…gotta do it
…#sorrynotsorry
…but…also sorry?
…I mean b dolan isn’t bill hicks seeming to be able to do a bit from beyond the grave because so many of the names stayed the same when junior called “WMDs” on the play…but…that bit…is legal drinking age in places that include some states…& I’m not even sure ’07 is the first time I’d heard him do the poem part…which I think that one kind of shorts you on…the quality ain’t great but after he rags on a boston crowd the way henry rollins likes to troll a crowd for an intro to “liar”…he starts in about 2m30s into this one
…&…it sounds…jauntier when akala does it
…& the wu-tang didn’t get all up in their drake about the implied diss about C.R.E.A.M. missing the point…but then sometimes it’s not about “the word”…so much as what you think it stands for
…&…technically…the verses in that one aren’t the stuff you get from the genius even if it was GZA’s album…it was killah priest…&…not all the pillars of that gospel are entirely of sound foundation
…sketchy interpretive history with a…motivated…perspective on the murky “science” of tribal affiliations & who ought by rights to be in line to be inheriting the earth…is not in fact the sole preserve of the melanin-deficient department…but…basic instructions before leaving earth…I can get behind…even if I never much aspired to a plural congregation
…but…I don’t remember signing up to put up with the proselytising from the perfunctory-faith fuckwits with the missionary zeal of the recent convert in the land of the burning heritic…&…maybe we all have to…but…I’m not above invoking my birthright status that says as sure as the king’s got ears to make a toby jug proud…I will fucking complain about it like there’s no tomorrow…for as long as the wheels keep rolling us all along for this ride
…fuck a better mousetrap…my kingdom for…the other thing?
…or…fuck it…we try the mandatory weed thing
…maybe with the added incentive they solve for cars that drive themselves before we wind up with “the deliverator” out of snow crash?