jpreston2005 @ jpreston2005 @lemmy.world

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Because the bank was insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the FDIC "absorbed the $47.1 million loss" after "Hanes’ fraudulent actions caused HTSB to fail and the bank investors to lose $9 million.

his sentence of more than 24 years is 29 months longer than prosecutors had requested, NBC News reported.

Here, the only reason he's seeing jail time. Not because he stole, but he stole from the rich. Tanking a bank and losing poor peoples money won't get you anything. But lose rich peoples money, and you're going down. There are two justice systems in america, and you don't have access to the one that works.

“It isn’t crime because it’s the use of violence to create intimidation, to spread fear. That is terror,” he wrote, describing how the campaign had “significantly expanded” in the absence of an adequate police response and with the connivance of some national leaders. The militants had gone from using “cigarette lighters to the weapons of war”, the security chief said, adding that some of those weapons had been provided by the state.

Wow. Leader in the isreali military saying that violent terrorists are using weapons provided by isreal expressly for the purpose.

Remember kids, you only get state sponsored terrorists from terrorist states. isreal is, by its own admission, an apartheid state engaging in terrorism.

Meanwhile, the democratic nominee for president is forced to re-assert that she believes "isreal has a right to defend itself and we will continue to support them with weapons to do so," specifically because the terrorist state peddles its influence over seas via dark money super pac AIPAC. A terrorist state is legally abusing campaign finance laws in order to sway our elections and politicians. Thanks citizens united! Thanks republican supreme court! Now we're ALL sponsoring the ongoing isreal terrorism!

"so what if they poisoned, are poisoning, and will continue to poison everyone in the US and abroad. So what if they single-handedly lowered the life expectancy of the planet, whilst if not causing, exacerbating every cancer. They make good tape."

Not trying to come at you, it's just this is where we are as a society, and it makes me sad.

How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

I'll just leave this here without further comment

keep playin like it's the democrats fault. it's nice when morons self-identify

Them including that pic of Audrey Donovan is hilarious

your rhetoric only serves to further de legitimize your position. you're basically a caricature of a useless tankie.

yeah I somehow doubt that the people attending the DNC are the same people murdering innocent civilians in Palestine. There is quite a gap between "people not prioritizing pressuring the current administration as to their support of isreal" vs "people actively engaging in genocide."

Trickle down economics would only work if you gave them a tax cut, and then forced them to spend whatever money they saved. And then they'd have to ensure that the money is being spent in ways that benefit the working class, like supporting a small business or union shop. But they never take it that extra step, so it will always fail. it's only ever been a handout to the wealthy, designed to inspire loyalty and garner future favors.

I didn't see that in the linked article, but I found one easily enough if anyone wants to take a peak!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jul/26/francis-ford-coppola-video-kissing-female-extras-on-set

The Guardian had originally reported that the 85-year-old was seen as “old school” in his behaviour around women while shooting, pulling women to sit on his lap and kissing extras to get “them in the mood”.

“Because Coppola funded it there was no HR department to keep things in check,” a source told Variety. “Who were they supposed to talk to? Complain to Coppola and report Coppola to himself?”

A crew member said to the Guardian earlier this year: “It was like watching a train wreck unfold day after day, week after week, and knowing that everybody there had tried their hardest to help the train wreck be avoided.”

My ex-wife had a real discomfort in being in pictures, so I get it.

Not wanting to give out your number to a random man? yeah, don't need prior experience with anything to know how disconcerting that would be.

How you treat your patients is a personal thing. Some people take an approach that's very personable, in which they probably wouldn't see the harm in being taken out to a meal by their happy patient. Your approach is more professional, in which you're there to care for them, and leave. That's the way that helps you maintain your emotional well-being, being able to leave work at work. So in the future, I'd frame it in that way. You may acquiesce to taking a picture every so often, but when it comes to anything further, I'd tell them that you keep your professional and private life separate, and thank them for thinking of you.

At the Republican National Convention last month, Ohio Sen. JD Vance even offered a radical solution to the crisis.

His plan, and Trump’s, was to free up housing stock by deporting 11 million people.

Yeah this isn't a plan, you don't have to frame it as a plan. It's literally "all your problems are minorities fault." It's a racist dogwhistle sounding like a bullhorn.

At this point, you should just assume some sort of medical malpractice, and likely, sexual assault. Better to face a lawsuit about mishandling of a corpse, than a lawsuit about your staff assaulting patients under their care. From a business perspective, it's a no-brainer /s

I wish there are consequences for the actions of everyone involved

what he means is he hopes for consequences for the gay men who had the audacity to kiss in public.

You're the kind of person that listens to a broken woman describe being the victim of domestic violence and ask "but what did you do to set him off?"

The only thing evident about you and your line of thinking is resentment.

Clinton suffered from a lot of bitter Sanders supporters. This time there was no big ‘other’ candidate people considered to have been were cheated out of.

FTFY

In a tragic experiment of nature, a group of drug users in California accidentally injected themselves with a bad batch of designer heroin and began suffering from symptoms closely resembling those of Parkinson’s disease. Investigators traced the batch to a back-alley chemist who had synthesized the drugs and found that he had mistakenly created a neurotoxin precursor known as MPTP as part of the concoction.

As it turned out, MPTP also resembled aspects of the chemical makeup of paraquat, a common herbicide, opening the door to the notion that perhaps chronic exposure to synthetic toxins was triggering Parkinson’s in aging patients the same way that the bad batch of heroin had in the users. Since then, advancements in molecular and genetic testing have continued to reinforce the idea.

Recent studies have linked brain disorders with chronic exposure to cyanobacterial blooms, pesticides, air pollution and numerous other toxicants. Some researchers have gone so far as to describe Parkinson’s disease in particular as “man-made.”

Well shit. Not what I was expecting to read in this article. ALS, Parkinsons, and Alzheimers are the three diseases that most terrify me. Something that hollows out who you are, leaving you semi conscious in a waking prison built of your own body. You can lose limbs and still be you. You can't lose your brain and still be you. It's a disease that destroys the ephemeral "you," leaving only a husk of your former self. To think that we could be the ones causing it, with our massive over-use of herbicides, is equally terrifying. Because just like with PFAS exacerbating all cancers, there are rich, influential firms with powerful lobbying groups actively fighting against the very regulation that could save us.

This was actively covered up through the strong-arming of the person in charge of the autopsies.

Dr. Gerard Jansen, the neuropathologist in charge of autopsies for the eight cluster patients, had published a shocking conclusion: All eight patients died not from a mysterious illness but from known diseases, including cancer, Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

In December 2022, Marrero found a toxicology lab in Quebec that was willing to test patients for four different types of pesticides, including glyphosate, a herbicide that is regularly used as part of the forestry industry in New Brunswick. He had noticed a pattern of new referrals peaking in the late summer and early fall, when pesticide use is at its highest, and wondered if there could be a connection. When the lab accepted a sample from one patient, Marrero quickly sent over a hundred more. The results were astonishing. Ninety percent of Marrero’s patients came back with elevated amounts of glyphosate in their blood, in one case as high as 15,000 times the test’s lowest detectable concentration.

Part of the reason Marrero was able to get the tests done in Quebec was that in 2021 the province officially recognized the link between glyphosate and an increased risk for Parkinson’s disease. Recent studies have shown that glyphosate crosses the blood-brain barrier and that chronic exposure can lead to neurological inflammation that can trigger Alzheimer’s disease.

What actually needs to be done is rallying support among the masses themselves for either a paralyzing general strike, or at least a show of voting force that threatens politicians with removal in the next election cycle. Neither of these goals is furthered by simple disruptive protest.

Protests rally support.

Incidents of riders clashing with security guards in China have made headlines in the past.

In January this year, a delivery rider in the eastern city of Qingdao was stabbed to death by a security guard for entering a building without authorisation.

Just another story about how even the tiniest mote of power can corrupt.