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Honestly, when I said it, I had a specific image in mind. It seemed just as absurd as the whole situation, and my comparison was more a reflection of that than Luthor's character.

Lex Luthor took 40 cakes

Image description: Entry for the word 'forty' from an old Superman-themed children's illustrated dictionary that uses both the word and numerals. Lex Luthor is running while wearing a hot pink and green super-villain costume of questionable taste. Behind him he pulls a rope attached to a simple yellow four-tier cart of what looks like full 12 inch pies, complete with crusts. The image has a light pink background.
Text content: Forty. When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

Marketers gotta market something, I guess.

[2 mins 15 sec] Yaccarino: "I work at X, he worked at Twitter, X is a new company."
...
[3 mins 16 sec] Yaccarino: "The team at Twitter is fantastic"

At least she lasted 1 whole minute before that embarassing contradiction. I can't do another 38 minutes of watching that mess though, too painful right from the start.

Random testing of 15% monthly? They clearly are done with juicers raging.

I like the quote "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with“. The longer I'm around, the more true it seems to be.

We don't always get to choose who those 5 people are, unfortunately. But when we can we need to choose carefully who we want to be more like and how we are influenced. Avoiding bad influences would be pretty hard while working in the justice system.

Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani definitely both chose poorly. I wonder how shitty they were as people beforehand though. Maybe they just found their soul-mates/cell-mates.

When I described him in 2016 as a "wannabe Lex Luthor comic-book villain", someone said I was exaggerating. The truth is that at the time I was somewhat exaggerating. That person made a fair assessment of what was an emotionally-charged reaction to the election results.

I dislike how accurate the description ended up being.

Like, who even says this shit for real? And who laughs at it? What even? I can't understand it at all; and it sort of scares me to know that I might one day randomly encounter someone in power who laughed when he said it.

Ableism is a huge systemic cultural issue, and like most other huge systemic cultural issues, Trump just exemplifies it. His entire 'value' lies in echoing condensed sound-bite versions of commonly-held antisocial beliefs. He's an empty vessel of a person, a human-shaped Pandora's box.

All we can really do is name those beliefs and actively work against examples of them in our own spheres of influence.

Kitten Lady has some good advice for nesting. And amazon affiliate links, but ignore those. http://www.kittenlady.org/mama

Picture 2 is basically a life goal. I have no idea how I'd get up, but I'd love to try a beanbag exponentially larger than me.

I also sort of love how lawyers keep taking these cases, like it's somehow not the legal equivalent of a fly deliberately walking into a Venus fly trap.

Nah, you got this. All the rest of those lawyers were never as smart as you! /s

Brutal. Thankyou for your time and energy and emotional labour. I hope whatever you drank to celebrate/commiserate tasted much better than my impulse-purchase premix. I understand why it was discounted now.

Honestly? Not a huge amount, but more than the previous conservative government would have.

I can see a few of the minor law wording changes being implemented. I can see some additional funding for advocacy and ndis, but not the full $36m they want for next budget. And I think the support worker registration will happen.

For me the value is more in having the thorough research, well worded arguments from commissioners with disability, and the proof that things are really wrong. And having an official inquiry that has been saying all the same things I've been arguing for years is... reassuring I haven't lost my grip on the issues.

It will help me in my personal battles, but systemic change still is too far off.

I hope that there are other people though, worldwide, who can benefit from the very solid work and recommendations though. That's where the changes start.

So that's why he disabled the feature. He has skin as thin as a soap bubble. It's always some perceived personal slight that motivates his business decisions.

It kills Musk to know his employees are openly ridiculing him. All that money, but still, nobody likes little Elon.

I impulsively bought a single bottle of a fizzy premix at the bottle shop the other day that had way more alcohol in it than I realised. I think I'll drink that tonight.

My congratulations and condolences to everyone involved in this report and the reasons behind its necessity. It is painful, grossly overdue, and simultaneously vindicating.

This is the underlying problem with how we use money as a proxy for power. As soon as someone signs something into their family's name it becomes nearly inaccessible to the justice system, because of due process and corporate personhood. Bank transfers are pretty instantaneous nowadays, the justice systems are very much not. Which leaves these families on years-long time-consuming expensive missions to force any blood from that stone.

I have a zany idea for partially remedying this. Send the person to actual prison when it becomes clear that the companies they have a financial interest in have not shown progress on divesting their assets and removing the person from the business, let's say after 1 month - just enough to appoint an independent auditor. No professional communication with the person except via their lawyers and auditor. Economic sanctions for all companies dealing with that person until all appeals are exhausted, except their lawyers. No merchandise deals, movies, supplements contracts, guest hosting on Steven Crowder's podcast, none of that.

If businesses have legal personhood, it's time to start applying personal consequences for the key decision-makers of those companies when they commit crimes or facilitate the people avoiding consequences.

I went and googled the difference for us, because I have no idea:

The term "genotoxic carcinogen" indicates a chemical capable of producing cancer by directly altering the genetic material of target cells, while "non-genotoxic carcinogen" represents a chemical capable of producing cancer by some secondary mechanism not related to direct gene damage. - Hayashi Y. (1992). Overview of genotoxic carcinogens and non-genotoxic carcinogens. Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie, 44(8), 465–471. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0940-2993(11)80159-4

I recall the internet claims that Afghanistan would be a few weeks, and also Iraq v2 - because of the US' military superiority. It doesn't really matter whose military it is in whatever coalition, or how much funding they get. It's all just long-term destruction.

This is genuinely huge and is negligent homicide at the very least. We need multinational lawsuits to deal with multinational crimes like this.

Knowingly using a material that degrades with heat and humidity and can cause cancer in the manufacture of a heating humidifying healthcare device, and then ignoring all reports for years is diabolical stuff.

I've never understood why people think wars will be short.

Number of global conflicts 'ended' since 2000 : 26.
List of those that lasted under 10 years:

• Russo-Georgian War (11 days)
• Wagner Uprising (1 day)

Number of ongoing conflicts: 59
List of those which are under 10 years old:

• Russo-Ukrainian War (9 years, 7 months and 1 week)
• Yemeni Civil War (9 years, 1 week and 4 days)

Numbers derived from this likely incorrect Wikipedia list of conflicts, but there's no way anyone truly agrees on the list details for something like this anyway. The overall point is, anyone advocating for War is advocating for a 10 years minimum commitment to destruction. And that's before considering environmental effects, long-term trauma, etc. Never trust anyone who says that any war will not last a very long time because of military prowess.

I'm pretty psyched for Blepoween and then Blepsgiving and Blepmas too.