no worries OL we all get that way sometimes, it wasn't about you personally
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 May 2024 18:58 (one month ago) link
Billionaire CEOs didn't just reach Mayor Adams in a private chat urging him to arrest pro-Palestine Columbia students, they also offered PRIVATE staff to help NYPD. The Mayor accepted.Members of the group also coordinated with Israel's war cabinet, UN ambassador and former PM. pic.twitter.com/r54yv87eqy— Rafael Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) May 17, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 May 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
Go Bernie... I've felt this way for years
A bill introduced by the US senator Bernie Sanders would dramatically expand access to oral healthcare by adding dental benefits to Medicare and enhance them in Medicaid, public health insurance programs that together cover 115 million older and lower-income Americans.
Despite Americans’ reputation for the flashy “Hollywood smile”, millions struggle to access basic dental care. One in five US seniors have lost all their natural teeth, almost half of adults have some kind of gum disease and painful cavities are one of the most common reasons children miss school.
“Any objective look at the reality facing the American people recognizes there is a crisis in dental care in America,” Sanders told the Guardian in an exclusive interview. “Imagine that in the richest country in the world.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:43 (three weeks ago) link
An extraordinary case of police "psychological torture" in Fontana, CA: When Thomas Perez reported his elderly father missing, cops brought him in for a 17-hour interrogation + coerced him to falsely confess killing his dad. His dad was alive. 🧵https://t.co/3WLOUQ3lnB— Sam Levin (@SamTLevin) May 24, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 May 2024 09:55 (three weeks ago) link
absolutely horrifying. one especially dystopian part: they settled out of court because the victim feared the case would not ultimately succeed due to the qualified immunity doctrine.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 May 2024 10:21 (three weeks ago) link
From another article.
Perez agreed to the settlement rather than take the case to trial out of concern that a jury award could be overturned on appeal on grounds of qualified immunity for police. Generally, qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers unless they violate clearly established law arising from a case with nearly identical facts, according to the Legal Defense Fund.
So essentially they can get away with anything as long as it's bizarre enough?
― jmm, Saturday, 25 May 2024 10:54 (three weeks ago) link
yes - the "clearly established" thing comes early in a string of bad Supreme Court decisions on this. ime the episode of the 5:4 podcast on Qualified Immunity was an informative and sobering listen.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 May 2024 11:14 (three weeks ago) link
The scale of the US military-industrial complex's grip on higher education is just staggering—if you want to understand why schools went so ballistic over calls to divest from war, start here https://t.co/PDb64wGUPP pic.twitter.com/BwLP7zPV2y— Jack Mirkinson (@jackmirkinson) May 29, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:15 (two weeks ago) link
The M-I complex has had a death grip on US universities and colleges for most of the past 70 years. It started seriously gearing up in the 1950s and was unshakably entrenched by 1970.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:20 (two weeks ago) link
reminds me of the Cyber Patriot program in grade schools, which is available thru LAUSD for example, and while it's not explicitly military-industrial complex it's sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, Air Force Reserve, American Military University, and founded in part by CIAS (not to be confused with the CIA but still....)
7th graders should just be in chess clubs.
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:29 (two weeks ago) link
it's not a *direct* pipeline to the MIC, and school districts don't invest in it afaict, but it's amazing how that stuff just trickles all the way down in education.
― omar little, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 23:30 (two weeks ago) link
The Cyberpatriot (mobile) site is even datedly creepy like something produced for a Starship Troopers deleted scene.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 30 May 2024 00:05 (two weeks ago) link
I think I ranted about this on the Oppenheimer movie thread, but American academia wasn't exactly pushed into this - it should be M-I-A, the invisible partner. By the beginning of '43, every physicist in America knew that the Manhattan Project was a science Skull & Bones - whoever got the tap on the shoulder was going to be part of setting the direction of american physics - which leads to the UC running Los Alamos and Livermore, electrical engineering school partnerships with corporate towns like IBM in Kingston, and the o.g. Silicon Valley. All the M & I hired from the A like they were pro football teams. When I entered UC Irvine in 1983, the number of corporate partnerships the university had was front and center as advertising.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 May 2024 02:13 (two weeks ago) link
FWIW, in 1981 General Dynamics took my entire high school to Disneyland for free. All of the rides were free. Way more effective propaganda than Cyber Patriot
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 30 May 2024 02:16 (two weeks ago) link
i recently went to a book fair where the author of this book happened to be and i meant to check it out -- has anyone read it? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61108472-palo-alto
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:52 (two weeks ago) link
I read his first book, but the length of Palo Alto put me off.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:55 (two weeks ago) link
yes it is HUGE! i would only read as ebook
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2024 16:41 (two weeks ago) link
I kinda lost a bit of interest in that book after reading this review: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/grieving-redness-in-the-west-reading-malcolm-harris-after-mike-davis/
― fpsa, Thursday, 30 May 2024 19:04 (two weeks ago) link
I guess this could go into one of the general COVID threads but running an anti-vax psyop in the middle of a global pandemic as part of Cold War II: The Coldening seems pretty dystopian.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 15 June 2024 05:32 (three days ago) link
fuuuuuck.
― Nhex, Monday, 17 June 2024 00:32 (yesterday) link
Americans when they need to grocery shopping in the suburbs pic.twitter.com/XlCvI3eIB8— sean (@_sn_n) June 15, 2024
Can't believe this isn't an SNL skit.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:01 (yesterday) link
This seems like the inevitable accoutrement for those at the top of the disaster capitalism pyramid (not even joking)
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:15 (yesterday) link
Better looking than the Cybertruck
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:17 (yesterday) link
have we considered not having an Orange County?
― rob, Monday, 17 June 2024 20:19 (yesterday) link
not a high bar, but milo otm
on the other hand, what could possibly go wrong with a lot of terrified people driving around in vehicles that can blind any vehicles behind or in front of them?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:20 (yesterday) link
Looks to me like some small time chop shop is modifying Cadillac Escalades to cater to some role-playing lunatics (or drug lords) with money to burn, hoping to make a few bucks from an ultra-niche market. They'd probably quote you a price in crypto if you ask them to. Not exactly representative of anything more dystopian than capitalism in general.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:21 (yesterday) link
There was a time when profound face-melting psychosis might have been a barrier to owning a tricked-out Psychomobile but luckily for unhinged maniacs capitalism keeps hurtling towards it's inevitable conclusion
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:24 (yesterday) link
https://www.rezvanimotors.com/rezvani-vengeance#vengeance-home-page
based in Montana
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:26 (yesterday) link
Ha, of course.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 17 June 2024 20:47 (yesterday) link
"Vengeance is Mine, sayeth the LORD? SORRY GOD! Vengeance is yours for $1499 a month for a 48 month lease!"
― Gigi Allen (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 17 June 2024 22:54 (yesterday) link
Hopefully that thing is incredibly top heavy and hard to drive resulting in a rash of single vehicle fatalities (sorry mamas).
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 18 June 2024 01:37 (two hours ago) link
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
― BrianB, Tuesday, 18 June 2024 03:29 (twenty minutes ago) link