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  • He was President when I was born, and it will be sad to see such a genuinely decent person depart this Earth. He did so much for so many.

  • Humans cook their food

  • The idea of getting something before I know its usefulness confuses me. Do you mean finding that something is more useful than you expected?

    If that's the case, I once had an alarm clock which curiously had a thermometer in it to measure the temperature in the room. I was able to use it - for years - to hold my landlord to account for being shitty on the heat during the winter.

  • Just feel like stretching that one spot out, oooo… there it is…

  • for full clarification:

    The United Nations on Monday clarified that the overall number of fatalities in Gaza tallied by the Ministry of Health in Gaza remains unchanged, at more than 35,000, since the war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7.

    The clarification comes after the UN humanitarian agency OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) published a report on May 8 with revised data regarding the number of Palestinian casualties in the war. The UN agency in its report reduced the number of women and children believed to have been killed in the war by nearly half.

    The number was reduced because the UN says it is now relying on the number of deceased women and children whose names and other identifying details have been fully documented, rather than the total number of women and children killed. The ministry says bodies that arrive at hospitals get counted in the overall death count.

    UN says total number of deaths in Gaza remains unchanged after controversy over revised data

  • awww!

    yeah, it really fucked me up. my poor little brother saw Poltergeist around the same age, and it fucked him up for years...

  • you know what i won't miss? these people.

  • His junk bubble yearns to burst free. Don’t hate on his gift.

    Embrace it.

  • (Taylorpede’s Version)

  • Welcome to Wooster!

  • And the Velveteen Wick

  • On our side of the rip, it’s still Berenstain!

  • He’s really gone of the deep end. I mean, he’s always been a bit all over the place, esp wrt to Trump, but wow…

  • Right, but the problem is that if Cohen is such a shitty scumbag, some jurors might doubt his testimony, even if he just so happens to be telling the truth, just this once.

    And he’s a really shitty scumbag.

  • He’s also a bit of a problem for the prosecution, because he’s very much painting himself as a filthy liar with a vendetta against Trump, and this makes him anything but a credible witness.

    He’s already fudged a couple of please, which means he either puttered himself during testimony or is lying during a conditional release hearing. A judge has already denied relief on these grounds, and it will make the prosecution’s job in the NY case difficult because, well, he’s a scumbag— which is why Trump hired him. But it also makes him a very troublesome witness to call.

  • Seinfeld has publicly supported Israel following the 7 October Hamas attack, and traveled to a kibbutz in December to meet with hostages’ families. He has been “uncharacteristically vocal” about his support during press calls for his new film, Unfrosted, *The New York Times *reported.

    The comedian, who was receiving an honorary degree from Duke, largely stayed away from the issue at the centre of the protests during his speech. At one point, he mentioned his Jewish heritage which was met with applause from the crowd.

    “I grew up a Jewish boy from New York,” he said. “That is a privilege if you want to be a comedian.”

    Outside Duke’s stadium on the Durham campus, Gaza-supporting students chanted: “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.”

    A bit more context

  • At best: careful and proper contextualization. At worst: a tasteful and respectful distance between “the transgression” and display for the sake of historical and educational review with possibly decades and dozens of people fighting acrimonious legal fights over absurd minutia to arrive at such decisions— or to never arrive at any at all.

    The proper curation of anything can be very difficult. When it comes to controversial works, it can be almost impossible to get right sometimes, but it makes it so much worse when there are those determined to get it wrong.