Hyperreality

And according to the promotional video, it will pleasure you with a special dance.

It was already spreading from mammal to mammal. IRC there was that Mink farm last year and I think seals too. There were also cases of H5N1 jumping from birds to humans.

Given H5N1 can make the jump from birds to mammals(including humans), and from mammals to mammals, it’s not a huge shock that it’s made the jump to humans from other mammals.

H1N1 killed 50-100 million people, so the danger has always been there, and scientists have been warning about it for decades. For example, here’s a journal article from almost twenty years ago discussing this scenario:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1096898

Humans are mammals.

The ford mondeo (I think it was called the fusion in the US) was ‘inspired’ by the Aston Martin Rapide. This was at a time when Ford owned Aston Martin. Fisker and Porritt, who worked at tesla when the model S came out, also worked for Ford/Aston Martin.

It’s not just me either. For example, here’s a ten year old thread on the tesla forum which mentions it:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ford-mondeo-copying-s-design.42767/

The tesla model S looks like a decade old eurospec Ford Mondeo.

Certainly look more alike than a porsche and a byd.

What are we going to do, shoot them?

Yes.

I really don’t think genocide on home turf will go over well.

See above.

What happens when something requires maintenance in a month/week/day?

Insert more poop emojis.

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when israel releases the 3000+ Palestinian hostages they hold in concentration camps we can reach a ceasefire.

In other words, you would rather that Israel continue bombing Gaza, than that Hamas and Israel sign a ceasefire today.

Almost as if you don’t actually care about the innocent men, women and children who are dying, as you find it politically convenient the conflict continues. Especially in the run-up to the US election.

They were getting more radical anyway.

Some examples for those reading:

“Both Sides Threaten Democracy”

“Biden Is Just As Bad As Trump”

“Even the libs have accepted at this point Biden can’t even do worse than Trump when it comes to supporting this Genocide. As Biden is 100% all in on Genociding every last Palestinian.”

“Fuck Biden and Fuck Trump. At this point Biden full well knows the Genocide he’s in for. He seems to care more about flattening Rafah than “saving American Democracy”. The libs thinking they can shame people into voting for Genocide are the reason Biden thinks he can keep doing this.”

“Both parties are the same on Israel. But democrats will throw in a little lip service here and there, mild fake condemnation.”

“Candidate 2: I’m going to give guns and money to the person killing ponies but tell them they shouldn’t do it. Leftist: Either way ponies are going to be killed. Let’s try something different. Centrist: Noooo, you have to vote for the proxy pony killer who can’t use his position to do anything or else you’ll get a pony killer in power who’ll use his position to do everything.”

Relevant wikipedia page:

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.

Meh. I think not giving your friend a standing ovation or defending him after he’s been convicted of rape is a good start.

Not suspected:

… a judge in New York, Lewis A Kaplan, said that when Carroll repeated her allegation that Trump raped her, her words were “substantially true”. Kaplan also set out in detail why it may be said that Trump raped Carroll. … “The jury … was instructed that it could find that Mr Trump ‘raped’ Ms Carroll only if it found that he forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s vagina with his penis. “It could not find that he ‘raped’ her if it determined that Mr Trump forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll’s private sexual parts with his fingers – which commonly is considered ‘rape’ in other contexts – because the New York penal law definition of rape is limited to penile penetration.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/07/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll

Trump denied the allegations, prompting Carroll to sue him for defamation in November 2019 … A verdict in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll … Judge Kaplan clarified that the jury had found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word. … In September 2023, Kaplan issued a partial summary judgment regarding Carroll I, finding Trump liable for defamation via his 2019 statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump

Yeah.

This is why I bought myself some blink cameras. Obviously, privacy is shit (and I’ve factored this) and you’re affectively forced to pay for use their cloud service, but at least the (initial) purchase price is cheap.

But I’ve ‘bought’ cameras for far more, only for them to hobble functionality a few years down the line. And they’ve had vulnerabilities or whatever.

For the sensitive stuff, I have a camera with an SD card, but obviously phone notifications is a big selling point of systems like this.

There’s a small part of me that hopes this election will actually be less close than the media are portraying it to be, because they have a motive to keep people watching and less people will watch if they think it isn’t close, and because their coverage suggests it’ll be close this will hopefully ensure high turnout among anti-Trump voters.

Although the polling doesn’t look great. (And I say this as someone who knows about confidence intervals, margins of error, and weighting)

You are quite right to raise this point.

Relevant wikipedia article for those who are unaware:

Public opinion in Britain throughout the 1930s was frightened by the prospect of German terror bombing of British cities, which had started during the First World War. The media emphasised the dangers, and the general consensus was that defence was impossible and, as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had said in 1932, “The bomber will always get through”. However, the Royal Air Force had two major weapons systems in the works: better interceptors (Hurricanes and Spitfires) and especially radar. They promised to counter the German bombing offensive but were not yet ready and so appeasement was necessary to cause a delay. Specifically, regarding the fighters, the RAF warned the government in October 1938 that the German Luftwaffe bombers would probably get through: “the situation… will be definitely unsatisfactory throughout the next twelve months”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

The whole article is worth a read. TLDR: Chamberlain’s legacy and foreign policy has been (partially) re-evaluated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski#Sexual_abuse_case

The Oscars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnNOBj26lk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein#Sexual_abuse_convictions

The Oscars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItdTkVlKrk

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_in_the_American_film_industry#Accusations_of_complicity_and_criticisms

Convicted rapists’ friends condemn convicted rapist.

he’s trying to take a small sliver of Ukraine which voted to secede from Ukraine

He just wants access to the port in Sevastopol, he just wants Crimea, he just wants a bit of Eastern Ukraine…

Peace in our time!

Acting like you can’t act is difficult. This is spot on.