FirstCircle @ FirstCircle @lemmy.ml

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Though, of course, don't use them until you're already halfway through the turn or lane change. It's not like the signal is to show your intention, it's to assert that You Had The Right Goddamn It to have just made that abrupt and dangerous maneuver that you just made. You signaled, so all's OK, you're in the right, no matter what happens.

Me, no. Corpo Amerika absolutely if it's profitable and low-risk. So which Lemmy "community" is the one where these corps are being ID'd (with all crowdsourced supporting evidence) and named and shamed?

senior vice president of environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, blasted the Trump administration

"Blasted". Not criticized. Not denounced. Big 'splosions boom boom fire click here.

Here in Spokane we're showing off our second-ratedness again. Can't even have a proper mass shooting: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jul/04/false-report-of-shooting-scatters-crowd-of-thousan/ .

Flocks of panicked people fled Riverfront Park late Friday after false reports of an active shooter quickly spread through the crowd.

The fear in the crowd apparently was sparked by a misunderstanding of an “altercation” near the Clocktower, Spokane police said in a news release. Officers initially were told a gun may have been seen but no shots were fired. When they contacted a male believed to be involved, he was unarmed and “no victim came forward.” No arrests were made. And police found no evidence a shot was fired.

By the time fireworks restarted before 10:30 p.m., there was only a scattering of people left. Even many of those still in the park who knew the report was false were no longer in the mood for patriotic revelry and continued to leave.

Spokanistanians are clearly dying for a world-class patriotic mass shooting with all the panic and fallout, but no deal, just disappointment. Idaho is currently stealing all the attention with the recent ambush and murders of wildlands firefighters.

Thank you. Fixed.

This is good Christian Texas, they all believe in arks so I'm sure that each, individually, with personal funds, and by the sweat of their own brows, have built themselves private arks. They'll be fine.

Transistors are out. It's back to ENIAC tube tech. While I detest carrying around a phone-computer today, it's going to be hella worse when I need to carry it in a series of commercial trucks or railcars and plug it into the grid when I get to my destination.

I have a M$FT "natural" keyboard (PS/2 and not running thru a USB converter either) and a M$FT USB mouse. Both around 30 years old. They're indestructible it seems, and both have worked great with every Linux distro I've ever used.

200F in the municipal waste landfill, caused by the usual breakdown of materials there. But it doesn't sound like the radwaste, even at the one landfill mentioned, is mixed in with the muni-waste, so why would anyone think it's at the same temps (or more) than the latter landfills, or that the temps would matter at all? Radwaste is going to decay and give off heat through that process, not by chemical decomposition (AFAIK). I get the feeling the author put in that radwaste sentence just to generate alarm.

Too bad. I'd welcome our planet being blown out of orbit due to too much radwaste being concentrated in one place and going critical. I'd also welcome this happening in Louisiana, or Texas, or Alabama, or OK, or Idaho, or ...

No. Furthermore nobody in the US under 60 years of age knows what "renaissance" means. It's one of those hard words from the high school books they didn't read. Kind of like "literally".

I refuse to click through from any headline, anywhere, that references this guy using his idiotic nickname. That results in me not knowing anything about him, and deprives "news" platforms of a billionth of a cent of ad revenue, both of which I think are for the best.

fear that the hot temperatures would spark a nuclear disaster

Like ... the buried radwaste would for some reason start to fission or undergo fusion, all because of higher-than-normal surface temperatures? Or do they think the waste would for some reason start to leak out (more)?

There may be waste storage problems but it sounds like they've been watching too much "Space 1999".

Oh no, they're very sane. They just love weapons, violence, and cruelty more than most people do.

Rural hospitals? Well, are they Christian? And are you a Christian? If so, you're all set. If not, what's wrong with you, Jeebus will provide after all!

The Heritage Foundation Christofascist types want to see all "public" services transitioned to non-governmental (in claim, if not in fact) Christian "charity" orgs. Preferably white-controlled, evangelical ones of course. If you're a person with medical needs, really bad ones, and can't get medical help, then why haven't you signed on the line and pledged your vote, tithes, and soul to Jeebus? That's the MAGA Jeebus mind you, not that old-fashioned Socialist one. MAGA wants these rural hospitals to go out of business. That will provide them with millions of new, suffering, desperate people and a situation where MAGA can blame their suffering on the "mismanagement" and "inefficiency" of the government-supported hospitals, now defunct, and will provide their Christofascist friends with a fire-sale on facilities and medical specialists with which to start their Xian "charity" services.

You the individual will either do as you're told by MAGA in government (because they're terrorist thugs) or by MAGA in "churches" (because they'll (maybe) provide some kind of "charity" aid that's no longer available elsewhere), or you'll die. Either way, MAGA wins.

The "Heritage" Foundation and all the tax-favored entities like it (incl. "religious" ones) will need to be dealt with.

This may be helpful: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/#recommended-providers

It's good to see that M$FT is tackling the important problems:

The sight of a Blue Screen of Death will also be a thing of the past, too. Microsoft is now officially redesigning its BSOD so that it’s black and not blue.

"The other side" is catching on, realizing the utility of "emergencies" as an excuse for exercising authoritarian power. https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-washington-mayor-declares-state-1203356

This mayor is thought of as "left-leaning", which, in Spokane, describes anyone who isn't a Christian Fascist, or not yet anyway. In the event described at that link, she declared this "emergency" as justification to allow city cops to violently attack and arrest peaceful protesters, and to clear the area around the ICE building with a declaration of a curfew so that the latest pair of kidnapped dark-skinned people could be transported out to a temporary prison ("processing" center) on the other side of the state.

Watch what "emergencies" the Iran War brings about. "Only one of the 'Enemy Within' would complain about inflation, unemployment, high gas prices, cuts to domestic spending, and curtailment of Constitutional rights, when our soldiers on the Iran Front are suffering so much in this Emergency. Such talk against the government is deemed traitorous and shall be punished severely by the Emergency Tribunal."

Donald Trump has recommended eliminating this and some other programs that fall under the Older Americans Act, a landmark 1965 law that provides social and meal services for older people. The U.S. House also proposed eliminating the employment program’s funding

Why? What ever could be their motivation for doing so?

In 2019, about two-thirds of participants were women, and about 44% were Black

Oh, well, there's the problem.

Check out the two bored-as-shit guys in the pic. Top center with the dyed hair and LSD tie, bottom left looking for all the world like a former BigOil exec. I think they're texting each other while searching that old Sears catalog online to see where Julie got the high fashion 1975 threads.

Tie dye: Hey, check it out there it is, page 287. Looks like it came in Avacado green too. That would have matched the furniture around here better.

Oil: Yeah, you're right, good catch. Whoa, turn the page. Look at that. Wanna order her a tube top? Rayon. Pink!

Tie dye: And some Frye boots! And black lace panties. We'll ship it all to her office. Heh heh heh. Hey cool, there's a COD option on the order page, let's get that too.

Oil: COD, what the fuck is that?

Tye die: It's some kind of fish. What are you, a moron? Old time people used get their oil from them.

Oil: No shit? My oil sponsors aren't going to like that.

Tye die: Never mind. Get some stamps and an envelope, we gotta get this order in the mail. Check out J, she's been standing there forever with her butt all pinched, she's gonna have to hit the john soon or take a fucking dump right here on-camera. If she makes a break for the restroom you chase her and check her parts.

Oil: Fuck no! It's your turn, I checked her yesterday! She's probably still OK but you and I have a deal!

Tye die: Christ, I remember. Couldn't get the smell off me afterwards last time, it was awful. I had to take an extra hit of acid, maybe it was two, after I got home.

Oil: I get it, that's why you've got the fucked-up tie. Hey don't we have interns here, ones from the Panhandle? We'll get them to do crapper security, protect the children and all that shit. They live for that kind of thing.