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[SallyM]

Possibly untrue science news

It is my considered option that our universe is something that a bored teenager in some higher dimension cobbled together at the last minute for their school’s science fair.

[Millie_Fink]

Healthcare Deform

This a long, twisted tale of a hospital takeover gone wrong - a healthcare tale as old as 2010 (when mergers & acquisitions accelerated). A non-profit system was purchased by a for-profit company, hospital services were gradually reduced, facilities were closed, and now the purchaser has declared bankruptcy. Even though the sale happened 8 years ago (and reductions/closures and attempts to sell facilities have been making news for the past 4 years), now the public outcry is on FB. I don’t kno…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

This makes sense to me. I’m sure that for some people living under an authoritarian regime would be boring and safe and maybe even nice. The privileged, the elite, the ones who think they are elite. But only some few people. A lot of people would be persecuted and die. Injustice would be rampant. Everyone else would be exhausted trying to toe the line, afraid all the time, and anxious because they could at, any time, have their entire life destroyed. If not outright taken.

[SallyM]

The thread that glows in the dark

That reminds me; anyone who lives within about 50 miles of a nuclear power plant should get some iodine pills in case of an accident. The city of Toronto gives them out for free, but you have to send in for them, and they will mail them to you. Other cities might do the same. My brother and his family live very close to a power plant, and they get iodine pills automatically. They have a shelf life of about 12 years. I rarely say “You should” to people, but this is one of the exceptions.

[MagicFox]

Political Cartoons

trump can’t be The Penguin. Ozwald has a successful casino.

[SallyM]

Healthcare Deform

As a patient, I do not want to be part of that. [Rant] There are certain things I’d do if I had access to time travel, but near the top of the list is to eliminate the person who first decided to call what we have now “AI.” It’s not. But as soon as the first person did that, instead of mocking that person, everybody decided they needed to call their shitty code “AI” too. NO CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IS AI!!![/Rant]

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

“I’m going to kill your dog, cut down your rose bushes, and set your car on fire. Can I borrow a cup of sugar?”

[SallyM]

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

This might be a good time to point out that one can read publications like the NYT, WSJ, and WaPo online for free and without logging in via one’s local public library. (Libraries are good at protecting the privacy of their patrons.)

[SallyM]

The game of spying

I am unsurprised by these revelations. Trying to claim that there was someone other than Oswald as the killer has always been nothing but a fucking distraction. Same with UFOs, same with other conspiracy theories that involve some sort of “deep state cover up” or WTF ever… Pretty much all the REAL conspiracies are shit like taking out Fred Hampton or domestic spying by the CIA - and this stuff will eventually come out.

[mindysan33]

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

We have policies here in the library about using your personal devices for work related matters. There are some cases where it’s allowed – 2FA for your account verification, for example, but not required. We very specifically have rules spelled out in great detail about not using your personal device to log into our patron database to create or alter patron records. Patron privacy is very important to us, although I’ll admit it falls a little short of war plans. If we can somehow manage to be t…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

It IS a very stupid administration doing stupid things, stupidly. And their stupidity may slow them down or divert them at the margins here and there, and maybe some wheels will come loose, but I doubt any will fall off. Right now, I don’t see their stupidity stopping their rolling, ongoing coup. It is still a coup, whatever adjective is put in front of it - until that adjective is something like ‘failing’, or even better ‘failed’. They may be stupid to the extent of being in some respects som…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Well, that’s just wrong. As a third declension noun, the plural of Dukakis is clearly Dukakes.

[SallyM]

Space Exploration

What did Space X rapidly disassemble now?

[SallyM]

The problems of the Democratic party

This is the thing, all these arguments against a third term begin from a rule of law / “The Constitution says” POV. If, instead, you go with “L’État, c’est moi” authoritarian POV, there are no barriers. “The law is what I say it is” is part and parcel of authoritarian rule. We are amazingly far gone down that road for only 2 months into Il Douche’s lawless regime.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

“An old fashioned term that we use – groceries. I used it on the campaign. It’s such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it.” This is Trump in his “I didn’t know this before” mode, where he assumes no one else knew it either. Specifically, it’s a word he’s vaguely aware of, (probably from movies, tv, etc.) but never had to use it before himself. Neither he nor anyone in his social circle has ever been to a grocery store, has ever p…

[MerelyGifted]

Weird, odd stuff

Newsmax Newsmin

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Maybe we should have a new scale for evil only? Like the RPG Chaotic/Evil, Neutral/Good, etc. Stupid/Evil/Ineffective, Stupid/Evil/Neutral, Stupid/Evil/??? Suggestions welcome!

[Millie_Fink]

Strategies for Survival

Lately I’ve been thinking about the different forms our resistance might take. It started because right now, I don’t have the mental, physical, or spiritual energy to be out there at protests, fighting the good fight. I’ve felt guilt about my lack of action on the front lines, guilt that leads to even less energy and action. No good. Recently I reframed it in my mind and it’s helped a lot. So I thought it might also help some here if you’re experiencing similar energy-sapping guilt. In a very…

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration

Speaking of the Chevron doctrine mentioned earlier in that post, Chevron is a really good example of this very thing. Chevron was decided in 1984, at the height of Reagan’s power. Prior to Chevron, administrative agencies still had some power to interpret and reinterpret laws and agency rules, but the federal courts had more of that power. At the time, the federal judiciary was still (barely) dominated by liberals, not conservatives. The Federalist Society was just two years old and Leonard Leo…