Meanwhile there's literally an f'n school named the Bronx High School of Science, or better known around the city as Bronx Science, this school has literally produced Nobel prize winners, Neil Degrasse Tyson is one of the many notable alumni of Bronx Science:
I've known quite a few people that went to Bronx Science, obviously not all of them are famous people, but it's a highly regarded school within the borough.
Dems like Hochul and Mayor Adams are the worst, truly representatives of modern conservativism within the party.
This is why if MAGA loses in November and if a GOP collapse from being broke and lacking support happens we'll probably see the Dems go back to being the Right/Conservatives while a new Left/Progressive party emerges, or at least that's what should happen in a functional adversarial democracy.
The best thing about it is that it's forcing Drake to defend some of the questionable things he's been accused of, while doing a terrible job of doing that defending. So we've gotten a master class Rap beef out of these two, and hopefully we get a bit more, and a bit more of pedos and sex traffickers in and around the rap world being outed to hopefully face some accountability. This beef is becoming rap's #MeToo movement.
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he'd accept this year's presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
Kari Lake is already pulling the same schtick in Arizona, other repugnicans have tried as well all across the country, so no definitely not going away anytime soon.
Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....
Love how not just this cop but all black cops carry water for white supremacy. Sure law enforcement needs to be done, but they don't need racists, homo/transphobes, antisemites/islamophobes, ideological nationalists, or any other extremist piece of shit in their ranks, shit just further erodes public trust, just like this cop's statement and stance does.
If the US military gets rid of them the cops should too, and the US military now does, hence what Tommy Tuberville's promotion block was all about, because that scumbag wanted to reverse the ban on white supremacists and Nazis in the military because he said they were "patriots" too, fuck that noise.
Cops need need accountability, oversight, and standards, immediately.
This fucking guy and his sycophants are causing a shit ton of damage to this state, and I hope this state wakes the fuck up and lets them know how unhappy we are on election Day. Fuck DeSantis, and the rest of the Republican party/right wingers in general.
Railgun tech isn't there yet, the bottleneck is currently what's bottlenecking a lot of higher tech, and that bottleneck is energy generation, storage, and consumption, so that's why we don't see more railgun and laser based tech.
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly...
This shit was too wild for me not to post when I came across it this morning, I knew this organization existed but this guy's vision laid out is dystopian AF.
I work tech in the states and Indian managers are usually f'n brutal, had to sit through a few tense meetings where my Indian director was practically yelling at one of the project managers, and this was one of his favorites. Indian interviewers are pretty harsh as well. However Indian coworkers are usually pretty cool, especially the few Sikhs I've met.
Christoph Waltz kills any role he's in, and the weirder and creepier the better.
There's a Prime series called The Consultant it's so creepy, weird, yet fantastic, and Waltz plays the titular character and when he shows up in the series he cranks the weird up to 11.
Even after living in Oregon, off and on, for 30 years, I still tend to drive through a few towns there without looking right or left. One of these is Grants Pass, which has, as the Oregon Encyclopedia delicately puts it,...
It's wild to me how these "God fearing Christians" basically want to put poor people into concentration camps, because that's just like Jesus would do. /s
Maybe if we had more public housing, better healthcare, that includes mental and dental, and easier and cheaper access to higher education and more affordable housing while being educated, it's not rocket science, sure we'll have people who choose the nomadic life but most of these homeless people have been pushed out of society by debt or by their health issues and the addictions that come from those health issues and poverty.
“Hillary Clinton used a similar tactic against me when I ran for president in 2020, accusing me of being ‘groomed by the Russians’.”
I guess no need to be groomed by Russians when you’ve already been groomed by fanatical Christian Extremists so your values basically align with the current Russian regime’s:
Gabbard became an anti-homosexual activist before the same-sex marriage debate took hold in Hawaii.[3] Between 1991 and 1996, Gabbard founded the organizations Stop Promoting Homosexuality Hawaii (renamed Stop Promoting Homosexuality International), Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, and the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values.[10] Gabbard became well-known for his advocacy for Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 (1998). This amendment, approved by voters 69.2%–28.6%,[11] gave the state legislature “the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples” under the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996.[12][3][13]
Of course he was, he's a skirt chasing country boy from Arkansas, however, he was at least compassionate enough to open some of those doors for our LGBTQ allies, DOMA was shitty legislation but after it's passing many other steps were made to help these folks.
I'm not sure how old you were in '96, but I was a Jr in Highschool at the time, most people still used "fag" and "homo" to joke around about stuff still. We only had two completely out gay dudes in my highschool, I was cool with both of them and knew them through some girls that we all were mutual friends with. At one point some of the more "white trash/racist kids that I'd already had a problem with started harassing these gay dudes pretty constantly and pretty aggressively and the girls we were mutual friends with got my friends and I to handle the situation for them, we out numbered the homophobes by quite a bit and they chose not to fight at that time.
Now mind you, this is on Long Island, just a short train ride to NYC, the Village, and Stonewall, and Pride parades happened each year at this point, so while there were only two out gay dudes in my school most likely many of us had a LGBTQ person we knew back then that was out. Now imagine how this situation would have gone down back in '96, in Arkansas, I can tell you exactly how it would go down based on my experiences living in Florida during the early 90's as well, but also by how it would go down even now in Arkansas.
So sure saying Clinton was as homophobic as the rest in 1996 is pretty much saying that water is wet, most people were ignorant, and even worse many of us still believed the HIV based homophobic conspiracy theories, because AIDS was a huge problem at the time.
Meanwhile the Right loves to call Michelle a man, but both sides are the same amirite? I'm just saying both Clinton and Obama are absolutely more accepting of homosexuality than their right wing counterparts, whatever bias you may feel towards them, that should be clear, because the other side wouldn't want to use you, hell most of them just want to end you, so maybe keep that in mind for some perspective.
You should see how many American politicians are just as corrupt for less money, I was surprised when I saw Devin Nunes was only making $15K from one of the bribery schemes that was supporting him while he was in Congress. I guess it all comes down to knowing your worth to the scumbags you work for. 🤷♂️
Just greedy short sighted fools who are willing to abase themselves to scum, or they are sociopathic monsters who don’t care about anything but whatever they want.
The guy is literally a wannabe Stalinist Communist from Austin freaking Texas, he’s been there since 2014 fighting and propagandizing alongside the Russians this whole time, he’s apparently been an avowed socialist since he was 16, yet you’re trying to act like the CIA had anything to do with this fucking idiot.
He was arrested over selling pot in the 90’s and started hating America and was too brainwashed, desperate, or mentally inept to realize that Russia was never really a communist country, especially not under Putin, and kept working with the Russians despite all the bad shit they do.
I guess you haven’t seen all of the news reports and government outcry over Russia basically luring these guys to Russia then kidnapping Indian and Nepalese dudes and forcing them to fight, same with North Koreans, a whole bunch of South Americans, and several other Americans.
Mercenaries fight for money, these kidnappings and enslavements, along with the Russian conscription process in particular, are more along the lines of a slave army, since it’s absolutely not voluntary for many of those people.
A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday....
This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a “service” or a “portal,” but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money. The greatest lie in tech is that Facebook...
“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”
Solter-Hunt thinks that the perturbations caused by the conductive shell could poke holes in Earth’s protective magnetic shield, potentially allowing more harmful cosmic radiation to reach the planet’s surface. An extreme, almost apocalyptic scenario could see the weakened magnetosphere allow solar wind to begin stripping away Earth’s atmosphere as it had done to the atmosphere of Mars billions of years ago. That, however, is certainly not an immediate threat.
Imagine we go extinct because satellite and plasma dust allows our atmosphere to get stripped by solar winds, similar to what it’s like on Mars, that is a wild f’n scenario to consider, life is just so delicate to maintain.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fight during House hearing ( www.usatoday.com )
Mastodon appears to be the place for really experimental music ( mstdn.social )
New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don't know what a computer is ( abcnews.go.com )
Drake Drops New Track Inviting Kendrick Lamar Out To Coffee So They Can Clear Things Up ( www.theonion.com )
“The truth is, Kendrick, I think you’re a sweetie / Does 2 p.m. work, or maybe 3?” Drake raps in his new single titled “I Miss You, Buddy,”...
Sen. Tim Scott dodges on whether he would accept 2024 election results ( www.nbcnews.com )
The senator, who ran for the Republican nomination for president last year, repeatedly refused to say whether he'd accept this year's presidential election results, regardless of who wins....
Chicago police won't discipline 9 officers tied to Oath Keepers extremist group ( chicago.suntimes.com )
Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol....
rule conditions ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Michelle rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Bill Barr says Trump often suggested executing rivals in heated White House outbursts ( www.independent.co.uk )
Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November...
Florida ‘callously’ strips healthcare from thousands of children despite new law ( www.theguardian.com )
Why you should always respect your elders ( i.postimg.cc )
Kristi Noem defends killing her own puppy ( www.motherjones.com )
Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail ( www.theguardian.com )
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison...
Ron DeSantis says Florida isn’t going to follow Joe Biden’s new LGBTQ+ supportive rules ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
The Tech Robber Baron who wants to take over San Francisco ( newrepublic.com )
Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly...
Twilio cofounder Jeff Lawson appears to have just bought The Onion ( www.businessinsider.com )
T-mobile gets FTC approval to buy Mint mobile
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/t-mobile-wins-fcc-approval-to-buy-budget-provider-mint-mobile
He's surely one of the best actors out there right now. ( lemmy.world )
‘Mike You Suck’: Columbia Students Let Loose on Speaker Johnson ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Ralph Fiennes To Star In ‘28 Years Later’ For Danny Boyle And Sony Pictures ( deadline.com )
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/10934427...
The Supreme Court Takes on Homelessness. What Could Go Wrong? ( washingtonmonthly.com )
Even after living in Oregon, off and on, for 30 years, I still tend to drive through a few towns there without looking right or left. One of these is Grants Pass, which has, as the Oregon Encyclopedia delicately puts it,...
Tulsi Gabbard repeats false Hillary Clinton ‘grooming’ claim in new book ( www.theguardian.com )
Ex-Democrat, reported contender for Trump running mate, sued Clinton for Russia remark but dropped case...
German politician ‘filmed taking Russian money’ ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
A German politician has been filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, Czech intelligence has claimed....
US citizen who fought with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine reported dead ( www.theguardian.com )
Russell Bentley, 64, reported killed in Moscow-occupied Donetsk by Russian state media and confirmed by his battalion...
Maryland high school student arrested after authorities discovered a 129-page document detailing school shooting plan, police say ( www.cnn.com )
A Maryland high school student was arrested and charged with threat of mass violence after police say they discovered evidence revealing the teen had plans to commit a school shooting, authorities said Thursday....
At least one society is decent enough to take out their antisocial billionaire parasite trash... ( lemmy.world )
Good thing we (the US) lost the war, or this lady would probably have her own team of lobbyists running their country.
They're Looting The Internet ( www.wheresyoured.at )
This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a “service” or a “portal,” but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money. The greatest lie in tech is that Facebook...
Right-Wing 'Reacher' Fans Flip Out After Alan Ritchson Calls Trump A 'R*pist And A Con-Man' ( www.huffpost.com )
“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”
Or, you know, you could just get a job and pay for it yourself. ( midwest.social )
Ok? Still prochoice. ( midwest.social )
Debris from burning satellites could be affecting Earth's magnetic field | Space ( www.space.com )
The US has so much space ( lemmy.world )
When you are part of two cults at once ( midwest.social )