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jarfil , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Alabama town that hasn’t held elections in decades sued to allow voting

Who’s a what now?

jarfil , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Alabama town that hasn’t held elections in decades sued to allow voting

Newbern is about 80% Black and 20% white

Many residents did not know they were allowed to have elections.

[checks year] …WTF?

jarfil , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

illegally used money from FTX depositors to cover his expenses, which included purchasing luxury properties in the Caribbean, bribes to Chinese officials and private planes.

Moral of the story: don’t misappropriate funds, instead sell luxury properties and private planes to those who do… or be a Chinese official. 😐

jarfil , 3 months ago to U.S. News in 'Groundbreaking' Vote To Ban Factory Farming To Be Held In US County

Unfortunately many “activist-driven” initiatives, turn out to benefit more larger corporations, rather than either smaller owners, or the activists themselves.

We’re having a similar issue in the EU, where several months of “activist-driven” initiatives and protests, have resulted in regulation modificatios mainly benefitting large corporations, while actually hurting the activists themselves. 🤷

jarfil , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to U.S. News in 'Complete collapse': Cargo ship brings down Baltimore bridge, rescuers searching for people believed to be in water

EDIT: this other video analysis shows it better, youtu.be/N39w6aQFKSQ

• T-4 min: loses power, going at 8.7 KN, starts drifting off course
• T-3 min: regains power, starts slowing down
• T-0: impacts bridge, at 1.5 KN

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The video shows the ship losing power & all it’s lights going out prior to hitting the bridge.

Not the video I’ve seen:

Before crash

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/59aa74a0-a4e8-4b77-a503-f4c7bac68235.webp

Bridge falls onto ship

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/5fabcd98-d1c4-41a6-8e85-ad634b706a8b.webp

After crash

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/ee1702bf-ab4f-456a-95c6-d3d4e1b32646.webp

All lights on the ship seem to be on, except for the ones that… well, stop being attached to the ship.

jarfil , 3 months ago to U.S. News in 'Complete collapse': Cargo ship brings down Baltimore bridge, rescuers searching for people believed to be in water

construction crew filling potholes on the bridge

“We don’t know what else to say. We take such great pride in safety, and we have cones and signs and lights and barriers and flaggers.”

Well, that… sounds more like a joke: “we had cones, but the ship still struck them” 🙄

On a more serious note, there are several questions as to how could this end up happening. Some say the ship had its steering damaged in Antwerp some years ago, some float other rumors. The lead of the transport safety commission seemed to be more on point: there is a lot to analyze, they may say more tomorrow, and all of it will take a lot of time anyway.

jarfil , 3 months ago to U.S. News in Donald Trump joins the meme-stock frenzy

Truth Social […] “Buy the truth and do not sell it” […] “Literally, as a team of investors, we have bought into truth and we are never selling”

LMAO. Best pitch ever, and the reasoning is ✨chef’s kiss✨

jarfil , 4 months ago to U.S. News in Pastor’s Sermon Implying Women in Shorts Deserve to Be Raped Prompts Response

It applies to both. The word is a neologism created specifically for an eugenic purpose, using it as an insult doesn’t change its meaning.

jarfil , 4 months ago to U.S. News in Pastor’s Sermon Implying Women in Shorts Deserve to Be Raped Prompts Response

There is a nice warning ⚠️ on that page, may want to check the Wikipedia to learn more.

jarfil , 4 months ago to U.S. News in Pastor’s Sermon Implying Women in Shorts Deserve to Be Raped Prompts Response

Let’s not use the eugenics terminology.

jarfil , 4 months ago to Do It Yourself in Finished the cat paths!

I only lived in Naples for a short time many decades ago, but there was the occasional joke of going to vomit after partying at the pubs/clubs/discos up there. It didn’t feel like they took the relationship too seriously; after all, the words are accented differently, and one is a noun while the other is a verb conjugation.

jarfil , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Do It Yourself in Finished the cat paths!

Surprisingly, somewhat related in a circuitous way…

Vomero is a neighborhood in Naples, on top of a hill and directed to upper-middle and higher class. The etymology mix is interesting: its name comes from a villa on there, which has a relation to agriculture, which uses plowshares, aka “vōmer” in Latin… which also was an informal word for penis (then again, what wasn’t in Latin)… but it stuck to the nasal bone with a shape similar to a plow.

“Vomerò” is also the first person singular of the future indicative for the Italian vomere, or “I will vomit” (…not to be confused with the Latin “vomitorium”, although that one’s etymology also comes from vomit)… and arguably, a plowshare is the part that “vomits” earth while plowing.

So you weren’t all that far away: if you vomit, chances are your vomeronasal organ, named after the bone shaped like the tool that vomits while plowing, will get a whiff of whatever goes through.

jarfil , 4 months ago to Do It Yourself in Finished the cat paths!

Just a heads up: cats get a confidence boost from how stuff smells.

Even when neutered at an early age, they have a highly sensitive nose, plus a vomeronasal organ, they keep rubbing their smell and saliva onto everything, and are highly territorial regarding anything smelling “not right”.

If you plan on having more than one cat, also plan on sticking to a strict cleaning policy to reduce odors and keep the ones left as uniform as possible, before the cats “fix” it for you.

Personally, I’d be wary of a carpeted floor, any carpet-like surfaces, or letting cats get into high places that can turn into waterfalls or allow them to piss on the ceiling… and I seriously wish that was hyperbole.

(Source: lived with dozens of cats, the remaining 5, both males and females, can still get into a pissing and puking contest when some chunk of floor, furniture, clothes, or whatever, “smells wrong”)

jarfil , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to U.S. News in Public Funding of Journalism Is the Only Way

Close, but no. From the Wikipedia article, it seems like Stirner identified correctly that all actions stem from “egoism”, as in the internal motivations of anyone to act in some way… but failed to identify that this “egoism” can include acting following some laws, morals, or even altruistic actions, that an individual can perceive as beneficial for themselves.

There is no trap here, a society built on consensus, is whatever the individuals freely identify as positive for them. The biggest issue, is how to provide people with enough information so they can decide by themselves whether (for example) paying 5% more taxes in order to build some thousand miles of railroads, is something positive for their goals, or not.

The problem right now, is most people blindly defer making those decisions to others, on pure faith into whatever some corporation, party, or leader, influenced by whomever, decides to tell them… and once deferred (casting their votes), they’re out of the decision making process for years at a time.

jarfil , 4 months ago to U.S. News in Washington Senate bill aims to prohibit use of hostile architecture preventing homeless camps

individuals experiencing homelessness

Geez, that sounds like such an interesting life experience… 😒