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- Reminder not to engage with any Washington Post content Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LY2jViybLQPsgsm7hVo75V8aHNu5DUEZXB8vwc60YZo/edit
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage
- This platform kinda sucks
People are more hostile here than on Reddit. I barely participate anymore and any time I do my inbox gets filled with horrible responses. It's like the worst people from Reddit have decided to be here permanently.
- If you see a pale, confused-looking software engineer out on the street looking lost and unsure of what to do next it's because #GitHub is completely down.mastodon.social Daniel Nazer (@danielnazer@mastodon.social)
If you see a pale, confused-looking software engineer out on the street looking lost and unsure of what to do next it's because #GitHub is completely down.
- Jesse Watters was invited to speak before a group of executives. His remarks led to an 'epic meltdown' | CNN Businessamp.cnn.com Jesse Watters was invited to speak before a group of executives. His remarks led to an 'epic meltdown' | CNN Business
On a Friday morning in April, Fox News talk host Jesse Watters walked onstage to a room stuffed with hundreds of insurance executives and agents. Watters was the featured speaker at a breakfast for the Big “I” Legislative Conference, the signature annual event hosted by the Independent Insurance Age...
"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!"
- I can't wait for my lab-grown tendies to be ready
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/good-meat-lab-grown-chicken-safe-to-eat-fda/
- How is METI not a capital crime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI
Even if you don't subscribe to the Dark Forest Hypothesis it's extraordinarily unethical to violate the cosmic privacy of the entire human race without their consent- at worst it's essentially summoning the obliteration of all life on Earth; at best it's scientifically experimenting on the entire human race present and future without our consent.
We should be locking up people who do this or conspire to do this for life so they don't do any more damage.
- NYC's Congestion Pricing is being watered down to irrelevance
It's the same old story- a good regulation is proposed, the worst offenders get exempted, and ordinary folks have to follow pointless rules just for them.
- "Nobody wants to work anymore!"
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Always Sunny screenshot where Charlie and Mac are making mock crying gestures in suits and tophats. Caption: "Oh, I'm sorry, did someone get addicted to a low-wage undocumented workforce that they could abuse with impunity?"
- Texas and Other Southern States Without Power
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Map of the US with the following caption and data table, which reflects its content. Electric customers without power: 0+ 10k+ 50k+ 100k+ States and territories by customers out Texas 86,667 Oklahoma 66,319 Louisiana 23,780 Florida 5,010 Virginia 4,564 Last Updated: 2023-06-22 07:31:30 AM EDT
When will Texans admit their government is so corrupt that they're having rolling blackouts?
- Things that keep me up at night
A four panel comic.
Panel 1 A brain asks, "Hey, you goin' to sleep?"
Panel 2 A person in bed replies, "Yes, now shut up," and closes their eyes.
Panel 3 The brain says "There's a version of Nelly's 'Hot In Here' re-recorded by Nelly in Simlish."
Panel 4 The person in bed is wide awake.
- Trapped Under Trucks: The Inside Story of the Government’s Failure to Prevent Underride Crasheswww.propublica.org Trapped Under Trucks: The Inside Story of the Government’s Failure to Prevent Underride Crashes
For decades, federal safety regulators ignored credible scientific research and failed to take simple steps to stop gruesome roadway crashes involving heavy trucks. Meanwhile, the bodies piled up.
- ProPublica: How Arizona Stands Between Tribes and their Waterwww.propublica.org How Arizona Stands Between Tribes and Their Water
As it negotiates water rights with tribes, Arizona goes to unique lengths to extract concessions that limit tribes’ opportunities for growth and economic development, according to a ProPublica and High Country News investigation.
- SBC 2023 in a nutshell
Image description: "Who killed Hannibal" meme. Eric Andre, labeled "Southern Baptist Convention" shoots Hannibal Buress, labeled "Sexual Abuse Victims". In the second panel, with the gun smoke fading in the air, Andre (Southern Baptist Convention) says, captioned: "Why would women pastors do this?" End of image description. --
Reference to this article: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/ap-top-news/2023/06/12/saddlebacks-rick-warren-ramps-up-appeals-to-southern-baptists-to-let-church-with-women-pastors-stay