Link round-up for 10 March 2024
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He wants to come along on your trip.
The Rapture has arrived at last!
The students learn enthusiastically from the teacher.
Something stupid this way comes.
Now this is how you decorate a car.
See magic from the other side.
Well, Jesus wanted them to feed the hungry.
You can slay the dragon, but what if you're still too dumb to steal his treasure hoard?
Honor this fish.
Read a brief tale of a modern death.
Who knew such huge animals could jump so high?
These are commuters in Wales in 1935.
Here's an unusual bridge in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This is the Panama canal. Yes, it's got a honkin' huge lake right in the middle. Must have saved a lot of digging.
This brilliant linguist treasured his special partnership to the end.
Chimpanzees have police too.
What are labouls?
The brain fog of "long covid" is probably due to leaky blood vessels in the brain.
If you have a pacemaker, you can donate it to be used in a dog after you die.
"Mozilla Monitor" says it can help keep your personal info private. I haven't tried this.
The world is too noisy.
Abusive foster care can be a nightmare for kids.
If a job application asks you for a photo, upload this.
"AI" image fakery is now being used in the presidential campaign.
The emperor is naked.
Here's an imagined alternate version of the State of the Union speech.
Keep in mind how psyops often work.
What assholes. The authorities could have tweaked the rules a bit to let the residents keep something positive they'd created, and clean things up if there were problems.
Testing of the four-day work week at full pay in several countries confirms huge benefits for workers and even for employers (from commenter NickM).
Doritos partnered with a "trans influencer" in Spain. It didn't end well.
Those were strange times, when people took the Bible seriously.
Every president faces a crisis, but.....
55% of Republicans are "adherents" or "sympathizers" of Christian nationalism. Among Americans as a whole, it's 30%. This is a lunatic ideology with totalitarian aspirations.
I would classify this as pest control.
Women of reproductive age mostly support abortion rights and see this year's election as a pivotal moment for protecting them.
This person died horribly at the age of twenty-three. It is criminal that we still allow such things to happen.
The decline of Boeing is a textbook case of what happens when the priorities of the financial parasite class displace those of engineering. If these outrages don't convert you to my "bring back the guillotine" approach to the problem of arrogant entrenched wealth, I don't know what will.
What did Reagan do?
San Francisco voters have approved measures to get tougher on crime. I can only hope the same will happen here someday.
Microsoft kowtows to gangsters.
Tax cuts for the rich don't trickle down, they just make the rich richer (found via Hackwhackers).
Here's what some Oklahoma high schools have been getting up to.
The politically-captured Supreme Court needs to be fixed.
Anti-vax conspiratards are spreading anti-science beliefs to sell rubbish "alternative" treatments, endangering lives to make money -- and such ideas are spreading among ideological nutballs in Japan and Europe.
Despite encouraging job numbers, many Americans are struggling to find work.
Sotomayor must avoid repeating Ginsburg's mistake.
".....it is clear that one of [Elon] Musk's top priorities is seeing that Joe Biden is defeated in November."
Here's one painful difference between Europe and the US.
The Islamist-inspired "uncommitted" campaign to pressure Biden into backstabbing Israel has won almost 20% of the vote in the Minnesota Democratic primary -- as in Michigan, raising the possibility that the same Israel-haters could refuse to vote for him in the general election and tip the state to Trump.
Property income has fueled the staggering explosion of the parasite class's wealth over the last few decades compared to everyone else's. Income from work can no longer compete.
Trump, of all people, has an idea for helping Ukraine that may be worth considering.
The far-right Catholic news and propaganda site Church Militant will shut down in April after being sued for defamation by a priest. Their own site does not mention any such impending shutdown (and is still soliciting donations), but is closing its store and has posted an apology to the priest.
There's solid logical grounds for believing that the new NYT/Siena poll doesn't reflect reality.
CVS and Walgreens will soon start selling abortion pills.
Action against extremism in Congress -- major conservative donors are spending big in the primaries to stop "Freedom Caucus"-style loons, while AIPAC similarly works to primary the "progressive" Israel-haters.
342 major companies dodged almost three hundred billion in taxes over a four-year period (found via Hackwhackers).
Transcript here of Biden's State of the Union speech. Here's a video plus extensive analysis. The speech seems to have debunked all the claims that Biden suffers from cognitive decline (as Trump obviously does). Blogger Annie has further observations here. Voters' views of Biden improved dramatically after the speech.
Anti-Semitism correlates with conspiratorial and hierarchical beliefs, and is growing on the political extremes and among younger people.
"White rural rage" isn't what you think.
American voters' support for Ukraine has grown substantially since November.
In the Republican primaries, Trump has been doing much worse than the polls predict (found via Hackwhackers).
A society that sends kids to work instead of school is doomed to fall behind.
The US is in no position to criticize Israel's response to October 7.
Republicans hope the IVF issue will fade from the mass public mind before the election. Don't let it. Only 8% of Americans believe IVF should be illegal.
A British literary agent says that half of all publishers in the UK won't accept books by Jewish authors.
France has entrenched the right to abortion in its constitution.
Estonia recently celebrated independence day.
Europeans understand, better then Americans do, the importance of stopping Putin in Ukraine.
As NATO grows larger and more unified, Russia's puppet alliance is breaking up.
A Palestinian reminds his people who their real enemy is.
Iranian activists hope that an Israeli attack will help the people bring down the hated theocracy.
As India's religio-nationalist government tightens its control over the media, journalists turn to YouTube as a work-around.
The Chinese navy is blatantly attacking and bullying Philippine ships.
More links at Fair and Unbalanced and WAHF.
My own posts this week: an image round-up and, well, not much else.
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Maybe he should re-name the award, since most of the winners are women.
posted by Infidel753 at 5:14 AM
5 Comments:
Thanks for the shout out to my short story infidel. Very much appreciated! Matthew.
I remember when we were supposed to have a rapture a few times a year.
My brother has long covid so I'll have to send him that info.
Ripping up a community garden is just not right.
Thank you for including a link to one of my posts. I appreciate it.
Matthew: Thank you for the story. I found it a moving invocation of the isolation that afflicts some people these days.
Mary K: Thanks for the post. It must be painful dredging up these bad times from your past.
The fundies seem to have realized all the bleating about the rapture was making them look silly, but it's passed into mass culture now.
I hope your brother recovers from long covid. I think I've heard some people do improve.
I can't imagine any justification for destroying the garden. Those people took the initiative to improve the area. It should be encouraged.
Anti-semitism has almost always been a form of conspiracy theory. It so often involves believing completely contradictory things simultaneously. "Jews are sub-human" & "Jews run the World" seems a contradiction that never goes away.
Most conspiracy theories seem to include contradictions like that. In many cases they're more badges of membership in a political or religious faction than real efforts to interpret reality. That's definitely the case with a lot of modern anti-Semitism.
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