I'm coping so hard by hoping that we swing very hard to the left, if only just so that these cynical, fossilized assholes live to see their bullshit rulings used against them.
AFAICT, the law is not very well settled at all about whether you have a right to defend yourself when the cops are acting like a bunch of bozos. There's case law that supports people defending themselves from middle of the night no-knocks raids, and also case law that basically says "it's your fault for not just magically knowing it was the police". There's case law that says that you are within your rights to not obey lawful orders when the police fail to properly identify themselves, but it's also an absolute mess of state level laws and rulings, with some states basically being like "you are legally required to just know who the cops are" and others requiring that the police very clearly identify themselves with some type of proof of who they are.
Still waiting on news from .zip. I applied weeks ago, never got an email. Ah, well, I'm trying out piefed while I wait.
Please bear in mind that I'm trying to be helpful. If you were interested in doing more, maybe you can start a stream on Twitch, then? It would certainly get a lot more reach than Lemmy. I think Lemmy has a great role as a way for leftists to network, but its reach is really limited.
I want them throwing the goddamn spaghetti plate. I want to see them acting with the same urgent desire to prosecute and harass Trump as the Republicans have to prosecute anyone who isn't a rich, white, straight man. Don't go into the darkness with dignity; get unhinged, motherfuckers! The republic is already dead, we are marching into dictatorship, the time for high roading is over.
Hey, have you considered running? I'm not trying to be snarky, some of these mfs basically go wholly unopposed, and you can't possibly do worse than not running at all.
Israel was always going to do just want they wanted to unless someone stood up to them. That was never going to be Trump, nor was it going to be Harris, let's be real here for a second. That sweet, sweet AIPAC cash is just too hard to say no to, and, frankly, Israel is a really charged topic that candidates would prefer to avoid. I find your distinction meaningless, it's like handing an alcoholic booze while saying "nooo, please don't drink it, it's bad for you" only to turn around say that you didn't help them destroy their life because you oh so gently reminded them that booze is bad for their health as you handed it to them. This is a cigarette company defense.
They're doing it to Trump, just on Iran, because they know Trump isn't going to meaningfully stand up to them, while still not wanting to get the US into full blown war. They'd be doing it to Harris too, because the DNC didn't even trust her enough to let her run her own campaign, they sure as fuck weren't going to let her run her own presidency. We'd probably have some DNC turbodonor or AIPAC mf as SecDef.
I've been very loosely watching this race from here in Central Cali. Great job, guys! Here's hoping Cuomo fucks off and goes and finds himself a job being a scarecrow.
This is the kind of shit why I say that white supremacists and Nazis love the state of Israel. Both they and Israel insist that this is what Jews are really about, at the expense of actual Jewish people just trying to live their lives.
It's tacos and energy drinks.
- Central California
/ the new Meyers-Briggs Personality Test. It's literally an ego toy, something you use to enhance the narrative that you tell yourself about yourself.
Remember when Israel kept yanking the football away from the Biden administration every time that Biden announced new Gaza ceasefire talks? At this point, you'd have to be a fucking fool to believe a word that slithers out of Nettanyahu's head. Israel is working damn hard on burning as much political capital as it possibly can as fast as it can. Of course, they're not doing it to do something cool like fighting climate change or build a moon base, it's simply to murder as many people as they can as fast as they can.
"They’ve been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
I honestly to goodness can't think of the last time I heard Trump drop an F bomb. I think he's actually rather cross with them
The part I find surprising is that dealing with an ectopic pregnancy is very time sensitive and very unforgiving. If you wait too long, it ruptures and your patient crashes and dies, and that's that. It's a bit like "well, we haven't stopped you from intervening with an aortic aneurysm, you just need two supporting opinions first lmao".
Is this boomer shit really making the rounds again? This is so 2003.
E: downvote all you want; eat my ass, CIA
We're based in lemm.ee, which is going down at the end of the month. I'll continue to moderate and contribute to this community at !ems@piefed.social
Please let me know if you have any questions
Japanese scientists have developed a new type of artificial blood that can be used in patients of any blood type.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31169225
> The artificial blood is created by extracting hemoglobin — a protein containing iron that facilitates the transportation of oxygen in red blood cells — from expired donor blood. It is then encased in a protective shell to create stable, virus-free artificial red blood cells. As these artificial cells have no blood type, there is no need for compatibility testing. The synthetic blood can reportedly be stored for up to two years at room temperature and five years under refrigeration.
My intent here is to introduce new people to Fate with something kind of familiar. I think T2 works because it has a tight, well-characterized, and competent cast. So, I've set up a campaign that starts at the psych ward, with the scene of rescuing Sarah from the T-1000.
I've got Sarah set up with:
High concept
Freedom fighter for the future
Trouble
Haunted by knowledge of future past
Aspects
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Trusting Technology is a dangerous mistake
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John is the future
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You can't save everyone. I know.
John Connor:
High Concept
Destined to be the leader of the resistance
Trouble
Everyone's got it out for me
Aspects
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The Terminator is more than just a machine to me
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No Fate but what we make (Sarah's relationship aspect)
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I know I can save everyone
The Terminator:
High Concept
Killing machine sent back in time to protect
Trouble
Human calculations are not part of my programming
Aspects
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I must protect and obey John, always.
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Sarah is more dangerous than she thinks
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I know what Skynet knows
I still need to build out stunts and stay blocks and stuff, but I've got some other scenes and aspects for those scenes set up. I'd really appreciate any feedback anyone could offer me at this stage.
My city has a budget shortfall of $400,000 and they're looking at cutting firefighter positions, arts funding, and parks funding to make up the shortfall. They also, incidentally, spent over $400,000 on just Microsoft office licenses last year, which doubled in cost from the previous year. My goal is to fix the budget shortfall, or at least take a big bite out of it, by switching all users who can't specify what advanced (see: VBA) features they use from MS Office onto LibreOffice, since it provides all the same basic functionality and interoperable file formats. As a stretch goal, I'd love to persuade them to get on Linux, but that might be a bridge too far for most folks at the city.
Does anyone have any advice to help me persuade the city to cut bullshit MS office licenses instead of firefighters? The city does have an IT dept that I've considered reaching out to, but I'm worried that they may fight that proposal because:
A. I hear that MS lobbies city IT relentlessly
B. They may not have the capacity to do the switch.
As for Linux, I'd love to get the machines that are W10 dependent switched to Linux, but that feels like a big reach. People tend to have a "NERD!" reaction to Linux, like mentioning tabletop gaming.
Trump hosted South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House amid tensions between the two nations over the U.S. resettlement of white South Africans.
> President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa engaged in a tense back-and-forth at the White House on Wednesday over Trump's false claims of "genocide" against white South African farmers.
> "I don't know, all of these are articles over the last few days, death of people, death, death, death, horrible death," Trump said.
> Trump claimed White South Africans were "fleeing because of the violence and the racist laws."
> "This is sort of the opposite of apartheid. What's happening now is never reported. Nobody knows about it," he added.
> "I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my minister of agriculture," Ramaphosa said. "He would not be with me. So, it'll take him, President Trump, listening to their stories, to their perspective."
> At times, Ramaphosa sought to steer the conversation back to trade and economic investment, which he said was the "real reason for being here." But Trump continually talked about the treatment of White South Africans.
> But when pressed on what he wants Ramaphosa and his government to do, Trump conceded, "I don't know."
> Elon Musk, a South African native and a top adviser to the president during his second term who has also amplified false claims of "white genocide," was present for Ramaphosa's visit to the White House.
> Musk was seen standing behind a couch and did not speak during the exchange between Ramaphosa and Trump.
> "Elon is from South Africa. I don't want to get him involved," Trump said. "That's all I have to do. Get him into another thing. But Elon happens to be from South Africa."
> "This is what Elon wanted," Trump said, chuckling.
Well, I guess now we know why he fucked with Grok.
Let's suppose we have a wish granting genie that gives us a working Alcubierre drive. The drive is turned on and the bubble is staying stationary to our frame of reference (so, it's turned on on our imaginary helipad and it's just sitting there). What could an outside observer expect to see when they look at the bubble? I.e. would light get redshifted or distorted, since it has to pass through space that's expanding faster than the surrounding space? If I shine a laser pointer directly at the bubble, does it lens around the bubble and stroke the far wall, or will it pass through and strike what's inside? Further, could one expect any ill effects from approaching or passing through the bubble, or would that even be possible? Would an Alcubierre drive in motion create a gravitational wave or something very much like it, since it works by distorting space?
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62373168
> > FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges in a message Patel posted on X and later deleted. > In the post, which Reuters saw before it was deleted, Patel said there was evidence of the judge "obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week." > > > A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at a courthouse this morning.
> FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said federal agents arrested a Wisconsin judge on obstruction charges in a message Patel posted on X and later deleted. In the post, which Reuters saw before it was deleted, Patel said there was evidence of the judge "obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week."
> A spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service said Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, was arrested at a courthouse this morning.
This is a thread to provide easy access to UAP disclosure information, including congressional hearings. The resources will be indexed first by date, from least to most recent. For material that may be missing a date, I will add a secondary index when the need arises. For the purposes of the thread, I'm only going to list content that is accessible at no cost.
April 27 2020 Navy 'Go Fast' video: https://youtu.be/YPcgSliHp5Y
April 27 2020 Navy 'Gimbal' video: https://youtu.be/QKHg-vnTFsM
July 26 2023 hearing in Congress: https://www.youtube.com/live/Glw76YKuWCY
Nov 13 2024 congressional house oversight hearing: https://youtu.be/Z5tzv0Mk7as
Please comment with any additional disclosure resources you'd like to see listed.
Didn't see this UFO, but I'm kind of sort of not godawful at landscape, and figured I'd try actually making the icon for the lemmy UAP community I made instead of relying on slop. Came out alright, I guess, at least as good as slop imo.
Happy Wednesday, everyone! This is your weekly invitation to share what's weird in your life. I'm kicking it off this week with the epic of HumperMonkey, one of my all-time favorite spooky tales from the internet.
Wow, you managed to see a UAP! What now?
Well, this guide is here to help. With any luck, you will have read it before, remembered its advice, and jotted down some notes to make sure you didn't lose any details. The best way to contribute to UAP investigation is to do your best to record objective facts alongside your subjective observations, and to record them as early as possible.
Start with:
- Date and Time (or best approximation)
- Location (or best approximation)
- What you observed with each of your five senses. Visual tends to be very important, and will usually offer the best details for distinguishing from aircraft or drones.
- If other people were with you, get them to write down what they observed with their five senses as well.
More advanced:
- Have a camera with you? Great! Make a note of the settings you used when you took the picture, as well as the device itself and any lenses or filters you may have been using. I've seen really interesting analysis done that was able to use the shutter speed of a camera to estimate UAP speed. Many smartphones also offer optical zoom these days.
- Have binoculars with you? Amazing! Try bracing against something to stabilize your view. Low-power, wide-aperture binoculars like 7x50s will be your best bet for getting a better look without being too unwieldy.
- You can estimate the alt-az (altazimuth) coordinates of where you observed the object, its track along the sky, and where you stopped observing the object. This, along with time and date and location, could prove highly valuable in helping to distinguish the observation from drones or other aircraft. !
To estimate azimuth (the compass direction you're facing), I would recommend starting with an app called Stellarium (it's free and actually super cool) to help you find Polaris, the north star, if you're in the northern hemisphere. From Polaris, you can use the above chart to roughly estimate your azimuth positions. Simply rotate your hand ninety degrees and then estimate the degrees from the horizon to estimate altitude. The combined coordinates will give you altazimuth, which, together with date and time and location, can help investigators compare against public flight records and astronomical phenomenon.
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Additionally, make a note of the weather. If it was dark outside, note how clearly you could see the stars (i.e. were the stars twinkling strongly or not at all; how many stars in Ursa Minor could you see? If you can only see polaris, or not even polaris, that suggests poor sky transparency or high light pollution.
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Consider making a report to NUFORC: https://nuforc.org/
Some quick rule-outs to consider: NUFORC has a really useful guideline here:
https://nuforc.org/report-a-ufo/
But at a glance, consider:
- Venus: Venus is responsible for something like 33% of all UAP reports, because it's very bright and attention-getting. Check Stellarium. If the bright light was in the West for up to an hour or two before or after sunset, or in the east up to an hour or two before or after sunrise, that could very well have just been Venus punking you.
- Planes and drones: FAA requires that all operating aircraft use navigation lights, which are red on the left side of the aircraft, green on the right, and white on the tail. Aircraft will also use a strobe when taking off and landing, and may do so under 10,000 ft. Drones use similar nav lights, but are required to use bright red or white strobes at night as anti-collision lights.
- Starlink Constellation / LEO satellites: Increasingly, LEO satellites are polluting the sky with bright reflections. They're much more prominent at night, but have been seen during the day. Starlink in particular has been responsible for many reports due to its visually striking appearance; Starlink constellations appear as a series of lights moving in a single-file straight line across the sky. While Stellarium is another useful tool to double check, generally speaking, if it moved across the sky in a constant direction and constant speed, that's a pretty good candidate for a satellite.
Happy hunting!
I mean, it's a dude looking at pixels on google earth. It's hard to be sure, and there's nothing else really but conjecture to support the claim. Thoughts? Ideas on how to confirm or refute this?
US Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters in El Salvador Wednesday that he was unable to visit Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in the maximum-security mega-prison where he is being held.
> US Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters in El Salvador Wednesday that he was unable to visit Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in the maximum-security mega-prison where he is being held.
> Van Hollen said he specifically asked Salvadoran Vice President Felix Ulloa if he could meet with Abrego Garcia or at least speak with him over the phone or via video conferencing. Again, Van Hollen said the request was denied.
> Pressed on whether he had concerns about the man’s health, Van Hollen said: “I don’t know about his health status which is why I wanted to meet with him directly.”
> The senator’s trip swiftly drew the ire of the White House.
> Communications director Steven Cheung called Van Hollen “a complete disgrace” and the Office of Communications accused the senator in a statement of a lack of concern regarding crimes they say were committed by undocumented immigrants against his constituents. Abrego Garcia has not been charged with any crimes in the United States, according to his lawyers.
OP editorializing here: Homie is definitely dead.
Hey everybody, I know it's a little late, but I wasn't really sure how the weather was going to be until a little while ago. I'd like to invite you all to join me in looking at the sky tonight. What's on the menu:
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The full moon is going to steal the show tonight, of course. I may spend some time gawking at it.
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globular clusters: I've been having a hell of a time catching M3, but I'm going to try again tonight. I'm also going to attempt M53. I'm kind of hoping that coma berineces will be able to point me to my targets. I may also attempt M67 in Cancer.
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galaxies: probably not tonight with the full moon. I know it's doable, but I have a hard enough time with them as it is.
I'll share my findings later!
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60439802
> > A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.
Welcome to weird Wednesdays- UFO edition! Today, I'm sharing a three hour interview with one of the UAP disclosure folks. He's leading project skywatcher, which is an effort try and capture more definitive evidence surrounding UAP, and claims to have worked with people involved in the legacy crash recovery program. The interview has the level, calm pace of an intelligent discussion, and makes for good background listening, I think.
I personally don't have anything too exciting to report on the UFO/UAP front, though I had I guess what you'd call a near miss once. The story goes that I was out in my back yard, using my telescope to oggle the moon when I saw a flat disc zoom from left to right across my field of view in a fraction of a second. I've always been a UFO lore enjoyer, so I was JAZZED that I saw a literal flying saucer until I looked up from the scope to try and see it with my naked eye and saw it was a passenger jet. I was just zoomed in enough that the apparent motion of the jet was massively increased and the image appeared stretched and smoothed to my eye.