FirstCircle @ FirstCircle @lemmy.ml

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Oh, I see. It was satire.

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. (wikipedia)

Not to be confused with sarcasm. In writing it's a well-known (I'd thought) technique going back thousands of years. In pre-Idiocracy times, roughly before the widespread use of cell phones and when people read written texts to become informed and for pleasure, satire was common and there were writers who were well-known for specializing in the mode. The quality of the satire was always debatable (as with the quality of any art offering) but it was normally always recognized as satire by people who were able to read it in the first place. In the case of written satire, while it might be accompanied by illustrations to emphasize one point or another, it didn't require images or animations or the equivalent of "emojis" near the text in question in order to signify to the reader that satire was being employed. The text was self-evident as being satirical, or if not, could be understood from the context to be satire (if it was contained in a satirical book for example).

As for what I wrote, I would have expected that the absurd concepts (government-controlled turbines designed to change the weather both by harnessing the power of winds and by creating new winds by acting as giant fans; describing these "fans" as being able to move people and extremely heavy machinery with great accuracy, again under government control) and borrowed nutter phraseology along with depictions of nutter-like outrage, would have made it apparent that satire was what was on offer. I understand that some may think if to be of poor quality, but I'm surprised that some people cannot recognize the writing as satire at all.

Pre-Idiocracy this would rarely have been a problem, even when the writing appeared in a low-context medium such as an isolated web page or in a forum or Usenet posting. It may be that the satirical written form is now, in Idiocratic times, extinct except to specialized academics and historians and other educated elites. That would be a shame because it was a powerful (influential) communication tool and is a pleasure to write and to read.

A what?

$4 off per bag seems like a fantastic deal to me. Over $12 saved on three bags, money you can plow into something else dull now, like cans of tuna or index funds. When the stores sell at such discounts, while still not losing money (I assume) on the transaction, it shows how high retail markups are.

I don't know where the Wx radars are around here, but you don't have to drive more than an hour to see a hell of a lot of wind turbines sharing space with crops out on the Palouse . Those turbines absorb wind and therefore they change the weather, right? I'd be very surprised if they can't be run in reverse to generate winds - winds designed to blow farmers and their giant pickups and their farm equipment wherever the government wants them to be. Full government control. Fortunately I see that the small-town intelligentsia are starting to fight back against this kind of out-of control wind turbine government overreach.

My only interaction with UW in Spokane has been through their volunteer portal. https://www.volunteerspokane.org/ This UW portal offers a one-stop dashboard for people who want to volunteer (anywhere in the region, not with UW specifically) to hook up with nonprofits/charities that need volunteers. A lot of local orgs use this portal for outreach and volunteer communications.

I've no idea if the local orgs are now going to get cut off from that service or if the national UW will keep it running and maintained. If the local orgs lose access it's going to cause a lot of pain I think - not many of them are going to have the IT skills available to replicate it or to migrate to a different volunteer platform and even if they did it will cost them money.

Desperate laborers, and, I'm guessing, no union troubles.

Update: https://www.turnto23.com/news/in-your-neighborhood/bakersfield/witness-attorney-speak-out-following-hearing-on-hot-car-death-case

The approach the defense attorney seems to be taking is interesting. Seems to be leaning heavily on a "she's just a kid, doesn't have an adult brain yet" assertion.

Ian Bleu, who was inside the spa with his dog and a friend at the time of the incident, said Hernandez mentioned having children but never disclosed they were in the vehicle outside. Bleu described a calm atmosphere inside the business until an employee discovered one of the children in distress.

“The kid, it was like, sweating — red, purple — like, it was real bad,” Bleu said. “And then Maya walked in with the other kid and he was just, like, limp.”

Bleu told police and emergency responders that he had walked his dog near Maya’s vehicle and saw no signs that the air conditioning was running or that the windows were down, contradicting statements Hernandez reportedly made to authorities.

He also said she appeared emotionally detached as emergency crews attempted to revive the children. “She didn’t even look like she cared,” Bleu said. “We were about to cry, and the cops thought we were the parents.”

Hernandez’s defense attorney Teryl D. Wakeman urged the public not to rush to judgment, emphasizing that her client is only 20 and that the legal process is still in its early stages.

“She’s barely 20. And a charge is not a fact — it’s a charge,” the attorney said. “You would want someone to look into all the aspects of the case — medical, mental health, background — before deciding.”

Wakeman also suggested the case reflects a broader issue with how young adults are treated in the justice system, arguing that brain development continues into a person's mid-20s.

Suicides, every one of them.

And those countries won't accept you if they think you might be a "burden" on their social services budget/infrastructure. Young, in the prime of career, in-demand skills, maybe a job offer, or just filthy rich? OK, maybe you can get in. Maybe. But if you're older or just a regular schmuck without any family in those countries to depend on, then probably not.

Ah, I see. Well looky here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Antenna Notice how They're trying to cover up the purpose of the lasers with some kind of scientific hoohaw, and not a word about how they'll be controlled by The Jews.

Good point. I heard somewhere they're going to spend like $150B on ice too. They're definitely up to something - that would be enough ice for every glass and cooler in America. Maybe they'll spread chemtrail ice for the radar to interact with?

And somehow our phones are part of the System. I assume there's an app for that, something that lets me dial in whatever wx I want, for anywhere, anytime. What's it called? Goddamn, another $ubscription I bet.

Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, the founder of Veterans On Patrol, told the station he posted a sign warning of other radars being targeted near weather radar. He said he believes the government is modifying the weather, according to the article.

"They can embed their technology and civilian infrastructure in every home and every household utilizing the phones and their network towers to not only control the weather, modify the weather, but they can (target) individuals," Meyer said in the article.

Control the weather. Target individuals. How can anyone get this stupid?

Pic of her here, apparently taken from FB.

She killed one of her kids, and would have killed two, in order to get an anus on her face.

But then, who wouldn't? Priorities, priorities.

This is the first "mugshot" I've seen of the perp.

She killed one of her kids (and would have killed a second) to get a friggin' anus on her face.

I hope a decent caregiver can be found for the surviving kid. That is, if he's not brain-damaged from the heat and doesn't have to be institutionalized for the rest of his life.

This sounds almost identical to the PFAS problem west of Spokane WA.

https://westplainswater.org/

The so-called "West Plains" area is home to both the Spokane airport (GEG) and Fairchild Air Force Base. The latter is a huge refueling base with tankers flying in/out all the time. It's surrounded by a lot of cropland and has one of those common "military towns" adjacent to it - the city of "Airway Heights". Trump 2024 signs everywhere.

From what I understand, the problem originates from PFAS chemicals used in the base's firefighting operations. I've been told by an employee of the local power company that the base has all of its water pumped uphill from the Spokane river now. I don't know what Airway Heights or surrounding residents do ... maybe they just drink bottled water and avoid bathing.

They usually don't even say it will put them out of business. They say something like "not polluting the groundwater with toxic wastes would place an undue burden on our industry". Which translates to "we won't maximize our profits". And the brainwashed among us think "oh yeah, I get it, they are required by law to maximize corpo profits on behalf of shareholders" (not true) "so of course they have to be allowed to {pollute, enslave, hire children, provide unsafe working conditions, lie, misrepresent, not clean up up after themselves (uncapped oil/gas wells, nuclear waste, mines leaching chemicals, "superfund" (public $) cleanup sites, etc} or the poor dears might be in big trouble all because of us Poors".

the New York Farm Bureau (NYFB), the state’s largest agricultural industry lobbying group

“It must be mentioned that many agricultural workers come from very weather countries (sic), via the federal H2A program, such as Mexico and Jamaica, and working (sic) and would feel very comfortable working in New York in the summertime,” the memo stated.

"very weather countries". These lobbyist scum have sub-zero IQs apparently.

The NYFB’s claims are nothing new. Pseudoscientific theories about non-white laborers’ ability to withstand extreme heat date back centuries. In 1851, Samuel Cartwright, a Louisiana physician, justified the enslavement of Africans in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster, claiming that white people are naturally unsuited to work on hot cotton and sugar plantations but for the enslaved Africans the work “proves to be only a wholesome and beneficial exercise to the negro.”

Chinese laborers in Hawaii sugarcane fields were also viewed as being more adaptable to the harsh climate than white laborers. Japanese fruit pickers in California were believed to “endure the heat found in a few localities better than most other races.” Mexican laborers who worked in the smoldering Pennsylvania steel mills in the 1920s were also believed to “endure heat well.”

I think that wealthy white corporate management and its lobbyist flunkies would endure jobs in arctic gulags much better than anyone else. Efficiency is the name of the game, and there's already a big federal domestic terrorist-military org that can help these people get up there to the northern wastes, an org, appropriately enough, named after frozen water.

"The car was parked in a space facing west during the hottest part of the day."

Hernandez was getting a lip filler procedure at the Always Beautiful Med Spa Sunday, according to reports. Those same reports say she didn’t check on her children until two and a half hours later.

“In a normal person, it’s not gonna happen,” said Gricelda Anaya.

Anaya works next door and saw people scrambling into the building to try to save the boys.

“What we see on the camera is that they’re trying to put cold water right here on the reception, and it was something very sad that never had to happen.”

Those scrambling people are probably going to have some kind of PTSD now too.

Oh and Dad's in prison for some other unspecified reason.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/never-had-to-happen-court-documents-reveal-horrific-details-in-death-of-1-year-old-in-hot-car/ar-AA1HVbMl

Leaving your baby children alone in a running car ... you parents out there ... clue me in, but isn't this the pinnacle of irresponsibility, even on a cool day? I thought "you don't leave kids alone in a running car" was a widely-known and accepted principle, probably since cars were invented. Fold into that the fact that the kids would be in a hazardous environment (protected only by the integrity of the A/C system) as well as in an unprotected environment (car break ins maybe, kidnapping, crashes (even in a parking lot), battery fires ...), why would anyone think it would be preferable to leave one's kids in such a situation, when

Earlier in the day, Hernandez had texted the nurse performing her treatment to ask whether she could bring her children, to which the nurse responded, “Sure if you don’t mind them waiting in the waiting room,” according to the police report.

No, no, much more convenient to leave them in SoCal sun in a parking lot in your car, for hours. And all this just to get your duck lips. FFS.