I mean, we stupid Americans can, like, pretend.
Yeah people do talk about what clueless freaking idiots they are. It sure is working! It’s jenius! Wait til Madison Avenue figures it out!
Climate activists have chained themselves to trees, to construction equipment, to the property of the companies they protest. THAT is serious action.
Throwing soup in a museum is completely tone deaf, utterly counterproductive and pathetic.
Well I just started peeing on people while yelling “Stop Big Oil!” and although I’m embarrassed to admit it, that does make me exactly like Dr. King. Oh, sure it may get me some jail time but that’s what fighting for freedom takes. Er, fighting big oil. Freedom from big oil.
And hey if my POV videos get me a few million clicks on the site in the meantime, I can’t blame the people. They’re hungry for justice!
Jesus he’s getting so sloppy with his greasepaint. What a freakin’ grotesque clown.
Microsoft: I’m gonna run full speed and bang my head into that brick wall!
Everyone: Please don’t
Microsoft: Everyone wants it! Here I go!
Menstrual Surveillance Programs.
Menstrual Surveillance Programs!
Menstrual Surveillance Programs!!!
And you will STAY at the office until morale improves!
Well, that, and hindering the climate change movement by making everyone look like complete moronic twits.
Money well spent, obvs.
I have a gun. It is specifically, and strictly, for any HP printers that end up in my house.
You best keep on' drivin'.
HAHAhahahahahahaha
Oh Zazlav. You hapless fuck.
Just like the Civil Rights Protestors!!
/s
We've considered they're astroturfing for big oil, yes.
To be fair, he's ignorant AF.
But yeah of course he knew.
There we go.
What gave it away?
Well I don’t. Which is why this was surprising.
Maybe it’s just a one-off.
Exactly. And now (checks watch) at ten minutes before armageddon they’re starting to say that in a news article. Not an opinion piece.
It’s . . . kinda weird? Good. But weird.
Oil is yucky?
>Former President Donald J. Trump began his news conference on Thursday in the lobby of Trump Tower, standing in front of seven American flags. He laid a bound folder down on a lectern and declared that he was going to focus on the southern border, where his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is headed on Friday. > >That lasted about 10 minutes. > >Mr. Trump quickly appeared to grow bored with the remarks he read from, and drifted repeatedly toward other topics. > >. . . At the beginning of the news conference, Mr. Trump struggled at times to articulate his thoughts or make a point clearly. He stumbled over some words as he read from remarks he had plainly not written. He bootstrapped one thought onto another based on whether the words associated with something else, as opposed to having a clear through line. > >After he accused Ms. Harris of ruining San Francisco while she was the district attorney, a recent favorite line of attack, Mr. Trump followed it up with tangents that related loosely to the city of San Francisco as opposed to the reason he was at the lectern. > >. . . Then he dodged several questions about whether Ukraine should cede its land to Russia in order to end the bloody incursion that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia first began in 2022. Ms. Harris earlier in the day made a jab at Mr. Trump, arguing that people who would propose Ukraine cede some of its territory to Russia were asking the country to surrender. > >“It would have been a lot easier to work out prior to the start,” said Mr. Trump, who has praised Mr. Putin over the years and described the invasion as “smart” when it first occurred. > >He answered a question about whether he would rescind his endorsement of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, who’s running for governor and who has been linked in a CNN report to making homophobic, racist and antisemitic statements on a pornographic website before he was a candidate. Mr. Trump responded, “I don’t know the situation.” > >As he left the lobby, he stopped when someone asked if Ukraine should give up territory. > >“We’ll see what happens,” Mr. Trump said.
The Western actor's gravel-and-honey voice reminds voters what's at stake on the range and elsewhere.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23278707
> Sam Elliott's Cussing In Folksy Ad May Make You Giddyup To Vote For Harris > > “Are we really going back down that same fucking broken road?” -Sam Elliott 2024
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20513234
Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/29215
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19883294
>Late in the summer of 2003, a team of television producers stepped off the elevator on the 26th floor of Trump Tower eager to survey the set of their next reality show. After years filming “Survivor” in jungles around the world, training cameras on exotic spiders and deadly snakes to evoke danger, they came looking for a different set of sensory clues, the tiny details that would convey wealth and power. > >Right away, they knew they had a problem. > >The first thing they noticed was the stench, a musty carpet odor that followed them like an invisible cloud. Then they spotted scores of chips in the finish of the wooden desks and credenzas. The décor felt long out of date, making the space seem like a time capsule from when Donald J. Trump opened the building early in his first rise to fame. > >The place did not exactly buzz with energy either. Fewer than 50 people worked at Trump Organization headquarters in midtown Manhattan. At the office’s spiritual center, Mr. Trump’s own desk bore no evidence of work, no computer screens or piles of contracts and blueprints, just a blanket of news articles focused on one subject: himself. > >“When you go into the office and you’re hearing ‘billionaire,’ even ‘recovering billionaire,’ you don’t expect to see chipped furniture, you don’t expect to smell carpet that needs to be refreshed in the worst, worst way,” recalled Bill Pruitt, one of the producers of the new NBC show. > >That program, “The Apprentice,” would at its essence be a game show, with a job in this office as the ultimate prize. But that prize, in a literal sense, stank. Making viewers believe the central conceit — that Ivy League grads would eagerly connive and humiliate themselves for a chance to learn at the side of this icon of success — would test the bounds of reality television magic. > >“The whole thing was absurd to all of us,” remembered another producer, Alan Blum.
Get Out The Vote ALL 50 States
Use these links to find your state Election Board.
PLEASE Reblog & share to other sites
Alabama https://myinfo.alabamavotes.gov/
Alaska <https://voterregistration.alaska.gov/>
Arizona <https://voter.azsos.gov/VoterView/Home.do>
**Arkansas **No State registration page. Commissioners by County. <http://www.arkansas.gov/sbec/election-commissioner>
California https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/
Colorado <https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/elections/main.html?menuheaders=5>
Connecticut <https://voterregistration.ct.gov/OLVR/welcome.do>
D.C. <https://www.dcboe.org/Voters/Register-To-Vote/Register-to-Vote/>
Delaware https://ivote.de.gov/voterlogin.aspx
Florida <https://registration.elections.myflorida.com/CheckVoterStatus>
Georgia <https://registertovote.sos.ga.gov/GAOLVR/welcome.do#no-back-button>
Hawaii <https://olvr.hawaii.gov/>
Idaho <https://idahovotes.gov/>
Illinois <https://ova.elections.il.gov/RegistrationLookup.aspx>
Indiana <https://www.rockthevote.org/voting-information/indiana/>
Iowa <https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterreg/regtovote/search.aspx>
Kansas <https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView>
Kentucky <https://vrsws.sos.ky.gov/VIC/>
Louisiana <https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/VoterRegistration>
Maine <https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/voter-info/index.html>
Maryland <https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch>
Massachusetts <https://www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistrationSearch/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx>
Michigan <https://www.michigan.gov/sos/elections>
Minnesota <https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/VoterStatus.aspx>
Mississippi <https://www.msegov.com/sos/voter_registration/amiregistered/Search>
Missouri <https://s1.sos.mo.gov/elections/VoterLookup/>
Montana <https://app.mt.gov/voterinfo/>
Nebraska <https://www.votercheck.necvr.ne.gov/VoterView/>
Nevada <https://www.nvsos.gov/votersearch/>
New Hampshire <https://sos.nh.gov/elections/information/notices/voter-registration-motor-vehicle-law-jointly-issued-faqs/>
New Jersey <http://www.njelections.org/>
New Mexico <https://voterportal.servis.sos.state.nm.us/wheretovote.aspx?&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1>
New York <https://voterlookup.elections.ny.gov/>
North Carolina <https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/>
North Dakota <https://vip.sos.nd.gov/PortalListDetails.aspx?ptlhPKID=51&ptlPKID=7>
Ohio <https://voterlookup.ohiosos.gov/voterlookup.aspx>
Oklahoma <https://oklahoma.gov/elections/ovp.html>
Oregon <https://sos.oregon.gov/voting-elections/Pages/default.aspx>
Pennsylvania <https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx>
Rhode Island <https://vote.sos.ri.gov/>
South Carolina <https://info.scvotes.sc.gov/eng/voterinquiry/VoterInformationRequest.aspx?PageMode=VoterInfo>
South Dakota <https://vip.sdsos.gov/vipLogin.aspx>
Tennessee <https://tnmap.tn.gov/voterlookup/>
Texas <https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do>
Vermont <https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/registration/>
Virginia <https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation>
Washington <https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVote/#/login>
West Virginia <https://services.sos.wv.gov/Elections/Voter/AmIRegisteredToVote>
Wisconsin <https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/FindMyPollingPlace>
Wyoming <http://soswy.state.wy.us/Elections/RegisteringToVote.aspx>
Why Georgia poll workers can’t sleep
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13360785
The third and final presidential debate is over. Who came out on top in Las Vegas?
> This may have been the debate Donald Trump wanted, but it wasn't the one he needed. > > With one last chance to make a pitch to the American public that he should be trusted with the presidency, the Republican nominee had to make efforts to expand his base of support. > > He had to find a way to distance himself from the allegation that he has a history of sexual harassment. > > He had to position himself as the change candidate - just days after a Fox poll showed that Hillary Clinton, whose party has held the presidency for eight years, was beating him on the question of who would "change the country for the better". > > Instead, after roughly half an hour of something resembling an actual policy debate about the Supreme Court, gun rights, abortion and even immigration, the old Donald Trump - the one who constantly interrupted his opponent, sparred with the moderator and lashed out at enemies real and perceived - emerged. > > He called Mrs Clinton a liar and a "nasty woman". > > He said the women accusing him of sexual harassment bordering on assault were either attention-seekers or Clinton campaign stooges. > > He said the media were "poisoning the minds" of the public. And, most notably, he refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election if he loses. > > Mrs Clinton had her own moments where she was put on the defensive - on her emails, on the Clinton Foundation and on embarrassing details revealed in the Wikileaks hack. > > The difference, however, is that Mrs Clinton largely kept her poise and successfully changed the topic back to subjects where she was more comfortable. It was, in fact, a master class in parry-and-strike debate strategy. > > The key takeaway from this debate, however - the headline that Americans will wake up to read in the morning - will certainly be Mr Trump's refusal to back way from his "rigged" election claims. > > That was what Mr Trump wanted to say, but it isn't something the American people - or American democracy - needed to hear.
Just thought everyone should get a whiff of the post-debate 2016 flava to temper the feeling that anything at all is "in the bag". Also - it's amazing, isn't it.
>Sandy Springs-based UPS is laying off more of its employees, after earlier this year announcing it was cutting 12,000 jobs in its management ranks.
UPS made $7 Billion dollars net profit last year. It was a decline from the 11.5 Billion net profit they made in 2022.