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De Niro, who has been a frequent critic of Trump through the years, had been scheduled to receive the NAB award, its highest individual honor, “in recognition of charitable work and public service.”

“I don’t mean to scare you. No no, wait, maybe I do mean to scare you. If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss away these freedoms that we take for granted, and elections, forget about it … He will never leave,” De Niro said.

'Seems like De Niro is still doing public service with these comments though.

Right, can we next abide by the rulings of the ICC?

Some other Lemmy commenter suggested community service instead of jail time.
There's something very appealing about the prospect of Trump, in a high-vis vest, picking up trash along the side of the freeway.

Workers assembling computer-driven robots and flow-forming machines at a new General Dynamics artillery ammunition factory in Mesquite...

...and...

Here, in the Pentagon’s first new major arms plant built since Russia invaded Ukraine...

So the NYT doesn't even try to pretend that General Dynamics and the Pentagon are not the same entity.

TIL: cigarettes in Australia are expensive

This sounds significant. Is it significant?

And we're learning how to frugal better, therefore buying less in the future too. I do not feel sorry for the shareholders.

In the US the only source of leaded gasoline that I'm aware of is aviation gas. Lots of (all?) older piston-driven airplanes use it.

Here's another...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-hamas-gaza-may/?id=110380947

Wow, that seems like a very useful approach. Yeah it's a bit manipulative, but in a kind way. Thanks for sharing this, and the back story!

He succeeded for the rich and failed for the rest of us - and future generations (increased debt, doubting climate change, etc).

...because the threat of a death penalty worked so well to eliminate the occurrence of other crimes.

My spirit animals.

This post made my ears itch. Luckily I do have Q-tips handy.

Same here come to think about it. That's weird too.

Yeah, and even that's stretching the term "conscious".

Since most of the hydrogen currently available commercially is from oil production, maybe "eco-greenwashing" would be more accurate.

I've only been to one that was big. It seemed like most people were still in the venue at the end, and it was slow going on way getting out.

Well apparently a lot of people didn't come to hear what he said, they left during the speech...

https://twitter.com/aliyareports/status/1789435508822561181

Catfish!

I am once again wishing Bernie was President.