Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Once the normal transition of power is not followed its game over for our democracy.
Once people who’ve sworn to end democracy are given the power to end democracy, then it’s game over for democracy.
Preventing a corrupt criminal who’s a known agent of a hostile foreign powers from becoming president is a healthy thing to do.
I don’t see how tankies are to blame for the overwhelming majority of our country’s most powerful people deciding that they support a fascist coup.
Even if we pretend that 2024 was a free and fair election, the electorates that could’ve swung it weren’t bastions of non-voting authoritarian socialists.
With no ransom demand it’s gotta be a state actor probing defenses and testing responses, right? I think first guesses would be Russia, China, Iran or maybe North Korea.
I believe some uralic languages do it too. I’ve heard some attempts to link it to a circumpolar bear cult that there’s still scattered evidence for from groups as far away as the ainu, but I don’t know how solid that is.
It’s extra funny that “bear bear bear” would be considered the beariest bear, because “bear” doesn’t even mean bear.
Many languages had a taboo against saying the word bear - “bear” comes from the word for “brown”, because people used to say “the brown one” instead. Some languages seem to have used “sweetpaw” or something similar.
This is akin to the modern toilet-taboo, where except for terms like “shitter/pisser” all the words are euphemisms. Even “toilet” comes from towel.
This behavior seems like a symptom, rather than something that would cause problems that wouldn’t otherwise exist.
I sucked my fingers when tired until I was 12, only stopping because I realized that’s a weird thing to be still doing when you’re starting highschool.
I turned out to be a weirdo, but if my parents pressured me to stop before I was ready I still would’ve been a weirdo, just a slightly more anxious weirdo.
Trump is a child rapist who helped run a sex trafficking ring.
three deputies were killed in the blast, which took place when a bomb squad moved some explosives.
Wait if a bomb squad was moving explosives how were three deputies killed? Was it a sheriff’s dept bomb squad? The article never says that the deceased were the bomb squad.
I can’t help but wonder if there was no moving, just three goobers at a training facility who were allowed to play with explosives.
This is 100% CBS just cowardly caving in to fascism.
That said, the late night talk show format is baffling to me. I’ve had coworkers who seemed to earnestly enjoy them, but I thought the whole joke of letterman, leno, kimmel etc was to be intentionally unfunny, right? I just do not get it.
let this be the beginning of the end
Fascism doesn’t voluntarily give up power. There’s no way that scandal brings down the regime. They didn’t install tech bros as officers in the military because they intend to respect the will of the electorate.
LLMs have far more going on than lemmy will admit, and we have far less going on than we think.
Yes and yes and especially yes on the last bit.
People just massively overestimate what goes on in a brain, I think. It’s not magic. Consciousness, experience and understanding feel ineffable but they’re just chemicals and electricity.
There’s no divine and irreproducible spark, no reason that silicon and metal couldn’t produce a system that does everything a brain does.
Here’s the article without the link to reddit: https://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/armenia-and-azerbaijan-move-closer-to-peace-pushing-russia-out-from-the-south-caucasus
It feels a little overblown to me. My understanding is that Russia spurned Armenia and gave their blessing to Azerbaijan’s defeat of Armenia. So it’s not too surprising that Armenia didn’t want Russia to broker the peace, and Azerbaijan didn’t need them - they won.
There are troubles in Russo-Armenian relations, but there’s no details of Azerbaijan distancing themselves from Russia. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
It’s not leaked, it’s intentionally published on an official substack.
The memo itself is just more lies from christian nationalists. This one is from a catholic who has previously called for ending democracy and having the church take over the state, pretending that he loves the democratic freedoms of places like Hungary and wants to protect them from the evil fascism of anyone left of Hitler.
opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility … motive is currently unknown.
Man shoots nazis, motive unknown 🤔
This regime is nothing but human trafficking tsars.
This times a million. Nazis say some bullshit while trying to kill your grandma.
They’re part of a cell style right wing
terrorist organization.trump regime.
she was taken to the border at San Ysidro, where she was presented with self-deportation paperwork.
“But when Juli refused to sign the paperwork, when Juli demanded to see a judge, when Juli demanded to speak to an attorney, she was punished,” the attorney said. “She was taken back to an unmarked van along with other travelers who were also insisting on their rights, and taken to a warehouse where she was only given water. A warehouse where she was not given food. A warehouse, where men and women were held together. A warehouse without any law enforcement employee, without any official there present,” he added.
We’re paying for this ethnic cleansing campaign. Tax dollars are going to abducting brown folks at gunpoint.
I don’t think that’s true, his real estate operations was just kept solvent by laundering russian mob money.