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jordanlund Mod ,
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Hey, hey, hey... don't forget the 70 year old with the worm in his brain and mercury poisoning!

jordanlund Mod ,
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The DNC convention is in August, and no, they aren't going to swap out a sitting President unless there's a huge medical event between now and then.

RNC is July, that might be what confused you.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Voting 3rd party throws away your vote. Every state is going to either Biden or Trump. Period. There is no viable 3rd party.

So you can put your vote to Biden, or you can help out the guy facing 88 felony charges, wants a war with Mexico, and through Project 2025 would establish an authoritarian state unheard of in American history.

jordanlund ,
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Just got out of the hot tub, feeling pretty good about everything right now.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fa30a1dd-0fc4-4bc1-becf-e887980292ce.jpeg

jordanlund ,
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My wife would LOVE It, unfortunately since we got it set up, she's been fighting a wounded foot and can't get it wet. :(

Maybe 4 more weeks?

jordanlund ,
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LOL - "Power Mod". Do 2 big groups and some tiny ones that are barely surviving count?

jordanlund ,
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Yeah, we both have physical stuff going on, hence the hot tub. :)

jordanlund ,
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That would be super hard. The lounger seat might work, but the other seats are too deep to allow for that.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Can't say I recognize him, I think I've seen 3 of the things he's been in?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rapaport

jordanlund ,
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Little Kitty, Big City just dropped today.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Isn't that what they accuse Hunter Biden of doing?

jordanlund ,
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What a dumbass... and as bad as this is... it gets WORSE:

https://www.wesh.com/article/milton-florida-dad-gun-uber/60744321

“That vehicle was completely unmarked. In my mind, this was not good, right?" Dr. Sean Hollonbeck told WEAR News.

I can't say I've seen an unmarked Uber or Lyft car, generally they're very good about displaying one or both signs, so doubting this statement from the jump.

“I served 31 years, I was an Army doctor, I trained as a Navy flight surgeon, I served with the 7th Special Forces Group, I served with the 160th," Hollonbeck said. "I served six tours.”

Then you should know better.

https://weartv.com/news/local/milton-dad-accomplished-veteran-tells-his-side-in-uber-driver-gun-case-involving-daughter

"And everybody knows what’s going on in this country with fentanyl and child trafficking and rape. Terrible stuff.”

If they were engaging in child trafficking, why would they be bringing her BACK to your house? 🤔

“In this country you’re innocent until proven guilty,"

You mean, like the Uber driver?

jordanlund ,
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For the sticker thing, we had this solution waaaaaaay back in the day when I was in college...

Parking sticker had to be displayed, but if you didn't want to permanently mount it to one car, you did this:

Take the lid off a casette tape case, put the sticker on that, put the lid on the dashboard. Take it with you when you don't need it.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/84ee3f01-4a2c-4756-a612-509e6cee9c47.jpeg

I guess nowadays you'd use the lid off a CD case. :)

jordanlund ,
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Replaced casette tapes. :)

Conservative Plan Calls for Dozens of Executions if Trump Wins ( www.thedailybeast.com )

A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40...

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Even if Trump gets prosecuted for 1/6 before the election, there is ZERO chance it's completed before the election. There will be appeals carrying it on for YEARS.

That being said too, there's nothing in the charges that would disqualify him on conviction. There SHOULD BE, but there isn't.

Ideally I'd like to see Congress get their shit together and get a Constitutional amendment that says "Convicted felons are inelligible".

That would solve the problem right there. Convict him in the Stormy Daniels case, problem solved.

‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms ( www.theguardian.com )

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

jordanlund Mod ,
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Removed, civility.

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It wouldn't end the war, Israel will keep re-categorizing Palestinians as "the enemy" to justify their extermination campaign.

You have to keep in mind that the reason the Palestinians voted Hamas into power was a direct reaction to Israeli hostility.

It existed before Hamas, and will continue after Hamas.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Exclusively working from home since 2018 so I cut out 10 un-necessary driving trips a week. x2 since my wife is WFH now too.

Installed solar panels to run the house during the day, so our working hours are fully solar powered.

I guess that's all we can do for now.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Not a good option for hauling groceries in the rain. But I get where you're coming from.

jordanlund ,
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"You know, sometimes it feels good to be part of something bigger than just yourself..."

jordanlund ,
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Limit implies they will still have some allowable amount which is insane!

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Is it a prequel though? Based on the title, it sounds more like what happened between the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

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This "amazing original sci-fi film"?

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_creator_2023

"There is the slightly conspiratorial sense that the team behind this trip down movie-memory lane simply fed the scripts of various canonized sci-fi epics into an AI program and waited to see what sort of composite it spit out."

Which would be on brand for Gareth Edwards:

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/rogue-ones-editors-reveal-scenes-added-in-the-star-wars-standalone-reshoots-exclusive-110124381.html

"Colin Goudie: I’d worked with Gareth [Edwards] previously. I cut his movie ‘Monsters’ so we’d already got a relationship and I’d actually done a couple of projects with him before that as well. So he got me on board in September of 2014 and asked me to do a story reel for ‘Rogue One’.

There was no screenplay, there was just a story breakdown at that point, scene by scene. He got me to rip hundreds of movies and basically make ‘Rogue One’ using other films so that they could work out how much dialogue they actually needed in the film.

It’s very simple to have a line [in the script] that reads “Krennic’s shuttle descends to the planet”, now that takes maybe 2-3 seconds in other films, but if you look at any other ‘Star Wars’ film you realise that takes 45 seconds or a minute of screen time. So by making the whole film that way – I used a lot of the ‘Star Wars’ films – but also hundreds of other films too, it gave us a good idea of the timing.

For example the sequence of them breaking into the vault I was ripping the big door closing in ‘Wargames’ to work out how long does a vault door take to close.

So that’s what I did and that was three months work to do that and that had captions at the bottom which explained the action that was going to be taking place, and two thirds of the screen was filled with the concept art that had already been done and one quarter, the bottom corner, was the little movie clip to give you how long that scene would actually take.

Then I used dialogue from other movies to give you a sense of how long it would take in other films for someone to be interrogated. So for instance, when Jyn gets interrogated at the beginning of the film by the Rebel council, I used the scene where Ripley gets interrogated in ‘Aliens’.

So you get an idea of what movies usually do."

Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...

jordanlund ,
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I'd be more concerned about a neighbor wearing a MAGA hat and flying a Trump 2024 flag than someone quietly owning an AR-15.

But that's because I'm aware of the statistics.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/476409/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-weapon-types-used/

"Handguns are the most common weapon type used in mass shootings in the United States, with a total of 166 different handguns being used in 116 incidents between 1982 and December 2023. These figures are calculated from a total of 149 reported cases over this period, meaning handguns are involved in about 78 percent of mass shootings."

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They actually do mention it when used, but like I say, the use is minimal compared to handguns.

AR-15 shootings get more ATTENTION when they happen which gives the impression they are more prevelant than they are.

I think this year there have been two? The woman at Joel Osteen's church back in February who shot two people before being killed herself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakewood_Church_shooting

And this idiot who shot up a fleeing car back in April, injuring nobody. Police couldn't even find property damage.

https://wjla.com/news/local/washington-dc-crime-man-released-from-jail-pending-trial-independence-avenue-southeast-dc-gunshots-shooting-ar-15-firearm-weapon-surveillance-video-juvenile-crime-justice-system

Had to google for that one. Nobody got hurt so lower press coverage.

jordanlund ,
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Deadliest again is not "most prevalent". Yes, that is what gets the attention and makes everyone scared, but they are not as common as the media wants everyone to believe.

jordanlund ,
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I see Bond Arms is working around that by releasing a lever action AR-15. Will be interesting to see where that goes.

https://www.bondarms.com/LVRB-Coming-2nd-Quarter-of-2024-P8583.aspx

It would still run afoul of the magazine size ban, but I expect that to get struck down by the Supreme Court.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Removed as it's a question, not an article, but the reason is pollsters are treating him as a legitimate candidate, even when polling states where he has not yet gained ballot access and may not ever gain access.

He's currently on the ballot in California, Delaware, Hawaii, Michigan, and Utah. That's it.

He CLAIMS he's got enough signatures for Idaho, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio. Remains to be seen.

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Removed, content is all in a video link, not an article.

jordanlund ,
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The interview with Ari Melber tonight was a friggin train wreck, and was recorded before we knew about the brain worm:

https://youtu.be/_hisLKIGX6w

jordanlund ,
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"the last affordable sedan in its U.S. model lineup"

AFFORDABLE sedan. So potential Malibu owners will likely move to one of the Crossover SUVs. Camaro base price is $32,495. The Equinox is only about $1,500 more than a Malibu. Trailblazer is actually $2,000 LESS. Trax is $5K less.

The Crossover SUV has been replacing sedans as the vehicle of choice for years now.

Looking at the 2024 Chevrolet lineup:

https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/archive/2024.html

Camaro - "Pony Car", "Sports Car"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_car

Corvette - Sports Car

Malibu - Sedan - Base price $25,100

Colorado - Truck

Silverado - Truck
(Also EV version)

Blazer - SUV/Crossover - $35,400
(Also EV version)

Equinox - SUV/Crossover - $26,600
(Also EV version)

Trailblazer - SUV/Crossover - $23,100

Traverse - SUV/Crossover - $37,600

Trax - SUV/Crossover - $20,400

jordanlund Mod ,
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Biden's actions are pretty clearly NOT a reaction to the protests.

We know this because the protests have been going on for a while now and Biden took no action whatsoever.

It DOES immediately follow THIS news, and my suspicion is this is what caused the change in policy.

March 27th - Israel uses US supplied bombs to illegally attack Southern Lebanon, killing seven aid workers:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/07/israel-us-arms-used-strike-killed-lebanon-aid-workers

April 2nd, Biden reportedly "outraged" over the attack that killed seven members of World Central Kitchen.

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-outraged-by-israeli-airstrike-that-killed-aid-workers-gaza-2024-04-02/

Now he's saying no, we aren't giving you weapons for Rafa. The last thing he wants is more dead civilians with US supplied bombs.

'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch ( animehunch.com )

The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....

jordanlund ,
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Current conversion puts it at $192. But yeesh...

Here's the kicker though... Japan JUST raised the age of consent from 13 to 16 LAST YEAR(!)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/japan-raises-the-age-of-sexual-consent-to-16-from-13-which-was-among-the-worlds-lowest

jordanlund ,
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Or, you know, just connect the Steam Deck to the television...

jordanlund ,
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The inverse is also true though, someone else is watching, I dunno, "The Crown", pick up the Steam Deck and walk away. ;)

jordanlund Mod ,
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There were several nice referrnces to it in the MCU for fans...

Lou Ferigno showed up as a security guard.

In the Ed Norton movie, he's learning bad Portuguese and spits out "Don't make me hungry, you wouldn't like me when I'm hungry." In the TV show the iconic line was "angry".

At the end of the Ed Norton movie, he's hiding out in Alaska under the name "David Banner" complete with sad piano music.

https://youtu.be/33izVlIOgnQ

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This comes up in Portland periodically as we are one of the few places that DOESN'T fluoridate water.

When you do the research on it, you find some fascinating things:

Applying fluoride topically through toothpaste or mouthwash unequivocably works wonders for tooth decay.

There is no evidence drinking it as part of the water supply does ANYTHING. Positive or negative.

You have to understand one big thing... The first municipality to add fluoride to water did so in 1945.

The first fluoridated toothpaste wouldn't hit the market until 1955, 10 years later (thanks Crest!)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/second-thoughts-on-fluoride/

So when you look at studies trying to determine if drinking water as a source is effective, you need to immediately ignore any study done before the introduction of fluoridated toothpaste and mouthwash.

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Article is being reported for bias, and yeah, thecradle.co is rated as being left of center.

I'm leaving this up because Israel has been caught using white phosphorus before.

Years ago in Lebanon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/12/11/israel-us-white-phosphorus-lebanon/

And just recently, elsewhere in Gaza:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231013-amnesty-israel-military-units-striking-gaza-with-white-phosphorus-artillery-rounds/

Edit Source is depricated by Wikipedia which is good enough for me to remove it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

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Yeah, me either, it was close enough to not merit removing it, but far enough to need fixing. :)

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