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Or… Maybe failure was the goal. If you would claim to preemptively attack a country to prevent future attacks, which then leads to future attacks, why wouldn’t you also preemptively use threats of terrorism to go ahead and crack down on civil liberty?
Sorry, just saw your edit. Their entire system was down.
Normally you come in and scan your ID at a desk before registration, but they couldn’t even do that. They weren’t paper charting, they were just taking a list of names like on several blank pieces of computer paper to keep track bc even the kiosks where you just put in that you’ve arrived were down too. It was wild.
Idk if it’s just every piece of medical equipment relies on striker or what, but they were dead in the water and had apparently been that way since like 6 am.
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black Why you never see bright colors on my back And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town I wear it for the prisoner who is long paid for his crime
But is there because he’s a victim of the times I wear the black for those who’ve never read Or listened to the words that Jesus said About the road to happiness through love and charity
Why, you’d think He’s talking straight to you and me Well, we’re doin’ mighty fine, I do suppose In our streak of lightnin’ cars and fancy clothes But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back Up front there ought to be a man in black
Trump: He’s a terrorist. Lock him up and throw away the key.
Good to know it’s not the whole country. That’s what the staff was saying, but it seems like nobody knows wtf is actually going on here.
I do know the hospital is part of one giant monopoly, so I would guess it’s was at least down for the majority of Hospitals in Louisiana that aren’t Oschner. It came back up around 9.
I finally got “checked in” from registration and got to “check in” again in the waiting room and wait some more.
Shit is so cattywhompus they are seriously having the nurses validate parking!
Apparently all of EPIC was down for the whole country.
I have a procedure scheduled for today and had to be here at 8am. The entire hospital was already having to check in by writing their name on a piece of paper, and the registration area looks like a fucking airport full of people who had their flights delayed or cancelled.
Once again, for what feels like the millionth fucking time since Jan 20, 2025, Trump has somehow managed to simultaneously fuck over the entire country in the most bizarrely personal yet impersonal way. This is literally just waiting to get checked in to go to the floor where you’re scheduled to be.
Because American healthcare really just didn’t feel dystopian enough.
This guy is the fucking worst. And that’s just based on everything else I know about him before reading this headline and learning he’s also a rapist.
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I feel like that’s a reverse backhanded compliment. So I guess just compliment.
But what’s different this time is that Israel is also blocking roads — not only disconnecting Palestinians from Area C, but also blocking roads between Palestinian villages.”
Serious question, why would they need to block villages from each other? I know safety/security is the bullshit excuse, but what is the actual reason?
Seems impossible not to notice some similarities:
Raymond’s team continued to document from above, watching as the RSF built a fifty-seven-kilometre-long wall around El Fasher in the fall of 2025, essentially sealing the city. Raymond kept trying to raise the alarm, no longer hampered by needing government sign-off to go public.
A resistance committee of El Fasher residents and activists issued a statement begging for help. “We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void,” the statement said, according to a BBC report. “There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege.”
On October 26, 2025, the RSF finally overtook El Fasher in a killing spree. Its forces were now in control of all of Darfur. The total death toll is still unknown, but more than 150,000 El Fasher residents are unaccounted for. One week later, the UN Human Rights Council’s independent fact-finding mission shifted its focus to El Fasher, where survivor testimony led investigators to describe the city as a “crime scene.” On February 19, they declared that the massacre bears “the hallmarks of genocide.”
“It’s very simple,” Raymond says. “In this case, a decision was made—and I was present for some of it—by the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, that the diplomatic, economic, and security relationship with the United Arab Emirates matters more than the lives of these people in Darfur.”
Don’t mean to sound too “alarmist,” but it seems pretty obvious to me that the U.S. getting involved in Iran (in addition to serving as a distraction from about a million other things), also gives Trump cover for escalating violent crackdowns on American civil liberties in the name of safety.
I would expect a similar escalation by Netenyahu, and in terms of government sanctioned violence against civilians, he’s already several miles ahead of Trump. Not that it’s a contest, but thinking realistically, where does Netenyahu go from here?
The whole world witnessed starving people being mowed down with gunfire while trying to reach the U.S.-Israeli approved food banks that Trump helped set up. You cannot deny the reality witnessed by the entire world, just because it conflicts with your own desire to believe it couldn’t be true.
When the world took notice of that video, things appeared to de-escalate slightly. However, now the world is distracted again.
But he did it anyway?
Netenyahu, Trump, and MsB chose to do this, knowing they would fail. For some reason, each of these authoritarian dictators saw benefit to themselves, at the expense of their country.
Why wouldn’t Netenyahu just plan to pick up where he left off, after being interrupted by the world refusing to look away?
Not over the top! Wtf?! Fuck that dude (not literally though bc he doesn’t deserve it).
Always wear a condom if you don’t know somebody’s STD status. If you’re hooking up with somebody for the first time, you have no clue what they could be exposing you to. People lie about that shit all the time.
If they’re expecting you to have casual sex without a condom why tf would it be wise to assume they don’t do that shit all the time?
Trump: Places loyalist (John Ratcliffe) in charge of the CIA.
That loyalist reports directly to the another loyalist who is the Director of National Intelligence (DNI, Tulsi Gabbard). The DNI serves as the director over all U.S. intelligence.
Trump: Works with CIA to invade a country, kidnap leader, over throw a regime, and bring that leader back to the U.S. to face trial
Also Trump: I was skeptical of the CIA. You know, because of the deep state…
Yeah, no shit. Their own intelligence told them this wasn’t going to work.
Prewar US intel assessment found intervention in Iran wasn’t likely to change leadership
The National Intelligence Council’s assessment in February concluded that neither limited airstrikes nor a larger, prolonged military campaign would be likely to result in a new government taking over in Iran, even if the current leadership was killed, according to the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the classified report.
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So the gist of this article seems to be: the quid pro quo was just scientists needed money (very plausible) and Epstein needed prestige…
I have to call bullshit on that second part.
There’s probably a partial truth to it, but to believe a physicist like Krauss was friends with Epstein for 15 years, yet had no idea of who he really was other than a curious mind watching science from the outside and yearning to come in, you have to ignore a lot of weird coincidences:
A. Interviews like this one that Epstein gave in 2017
Financial language is getting outdated. Epstein suggests we need updated definitions for antique business vocabulary. These words include “currency,” “money,” “wealth,” “value,” and to some extent, “cost.”
Epstein revealed no details on his own cryptocurrency holdings, but it’s clear that the space occupies more than a little of his thinking. Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies easily represent an evolutionary leap forward for how we conceptualize money. It only makes sense that a practiced billionaire would be paying attention.
Since forming an eponymous foundation in 2000, Epstein has found a role as science philanthropist, sharing his resources to beneficial, unlikely ends. His money has funded research related to quantum computing, genetics, artificial intelligence, and beyond. As a result, the 64-year-old tycoon holds court with A-list names from the academic community, like theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author Lawrence Krauss, or MIT’s quantum computing pioneer, Seth Lloyd.
B. Epstein claimed he lobbied against congressional funding for cold fusion back in 1989
On the morning of 1 October 2009, Epstein wrote to Seckel: ‘regarding cold fusion. i killed pons years ago.’ When Seckel pressed him for details — ‘How did you kill him?’ — Epstein replied with specifics, writing that ‘the origidnal senate funding came out of congress, and wayne owens senator from utah , i was there an argues against, it, had ot meet with the head of the mormon church.’
C. Trump’s current Science Advisor (Michael Kratsios), who, like Epstein, holds no science credentials, began laying the groundwork for the Trump administration’s current focus on quantum computing, AI, and fusion technology back when Peter Thiel first brought him into the White House in 2017 to “help with technology issues.”
•2017: Trump taps Thiel associate for White House technology office
Kratsios is the chief of staff at Thiel Capital LLC, according to his LinkedIn profile. Thiel has been serving as an informal adviser to President Trump on technology policy throughout the transition… He began his career at Barclays Capital, and previously worked as the chief financial officer of Clarium Capital Management, another Thiel company.
•2025: Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI
It’s always the same story whether it’s bankers, CEOs, politicians, or scientists. Nobody knew what was really going on. Nobody knew anything. He conned everyone. All of these odd connections that just happened to enable Epstein and so many other wealthy elites to skirt the law and make a lot of money doing it, are always just tragic coincidences until you start looking for paper trails and releasing witness testimony.
•2026: Barclays CEO ‘shocked’ by Epstein revelations as bank deals with Staley fallout
😱 How (/s)hocking! Guess where Kratsios got his start before he began working for Thiel.
This guy
Don’t mean to get too “political” or anything, but it does seem a bit relevant to consider this venn diagram is just a circle:
•people who would expect you to continue working from a bomb shelter when you could work from home
•people who actually started/profit from this war, and would love to normalize a world where continuing to go about business as usual during neverending warfare becomes as common as a morning commute.
So yes definitely overreacting
I never experienced Usenet, but seems like I have been hearing it mentioned more and more lately as the fediverse continues to grow. Never really thought about it being like an email chain of comments.
The early internet required so much more patience and attention just to use it for any reason, let alone as a way to communicate back and forth with other people in real(ish) time. We take it for granted.
To me the odd pace and the cinematography of Vince Gilligan shows are part of the draw.
Like a lot of his shows feel like they’re meant to convey a peek into the beauty of niche monotony. It can definitely be difficult if not impossible to keep that entertaining while stretching it out over several seasons, but…
When it’s done right, it kind of disarms you/hooks into your sense of empathy and reels you in (At least that’s what it does for me). It’s more than just a standard attempt to capture slice of life/fly on the wall where you’re watching as part of the audience. You get to momentarily slip into the perspective of a stranger by feeling what they’re feeling.
For example, the entire unsaid backstory of Kim and Saul scenes in the work parking garage: always feeling a bit out of place among your elite peers at a prestigious law firm. Convinced that no matter how hard you try, or how successful you are, somehow you know and they just know you’re not like them. In part it’s a defense mechanism, but but you’re also not totally wrong.
Finding the part of your day you look forward to the most are actually moments when you escape from the job you fought so hard to land, and slip away for a quick smoke break (in secret of course). That’s the only part of your day you can finally let your guard down and just breathe/be real with the only other person who really gets it.
Or, in Mike’s case: finding yourself looking back at the end of your career as a dirty cop with deep sorrow and regret for all the things you did while knowing it was the wrong thing to do. Yet always choosing to take the easy way for your own sake. Then trying to start over new, by picking what feels like the safest most routine job you can find as a parking attendant, essentially trying to break good.
Even the little peaks into the lives of side characters tend to give little brief glimpses that are unique enough to be interesting, but routine enough to be familiar.
There’s a throw away scene in the first episode of Pluribus before the aliens begin to take over that stuck with me. It shows a big group of industry scientists pipetting in synchronization while they toil away in a huge lab.
No dialogue, the characters are all extras, and it’s such a niche scene specific go science, but it also perfectly conveys the kind of hive mind, almost mechanical flow that tends to just take over for all humans when you’re working to achieve a common goal, and also foreshadows the entire plot of the show without a single word.
I mean everybody is entitled to their own opinions, and after so many seasons, inevitably a show will have moments that are better and worse.
However, if you just shit on Vince Gilligan shows in general, what kind of shows do you actually enjoy watching?
That seems a bit on the nose