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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • From what little I have seen, right wing outlets were interpreting the video as proof the officer was hit by the car because of the way the phone gets jostled at the end. You also can’t see in this video exactly when he draws his gun, or how the shooter is positioned. It’s damning when combined with the other videos, but on its own it’s a lot less clear.

    And they also see it as proof that these were “agitators” obstructing “law enforcement” based on the confrontational tone with the woman outside the vehicle. They want to frame the issue as law enforcement vs criminals, rioters and radical domestic terrorists. They want to blame the victim and undercut the narrative that this was an innocent bystander.

    Obviously a sane person would recognize that it doesn’t matter if the victim was politically active or even obstructing police, it’s still murder. But these aren’t moral, rational people and they aren’t trying to persuade an audience with legal arguments, just feeding the US vs them mentality.


  • Trump isn’t personally running the entire federal government and showing up to court to file his own motions and answer questions from judges. Trump and his inner circle may act like they’re above the law, but the people who have to carry out their instructions aren’t immune to consequences.

    This is especially true in court. Lawyers aren’t eager to throw their careers away by lying to judges, filing false statements, or openly defying court orders. That’s why the administration has lost so many lawyers and says things in court that are wildly different than what they say everywhere else.

    Suing this administration has been a much more effective strategy than most people seem to realize. It’s often a long, drawn out process that wastes time and money, and they drag things out as much as possible. And yes the Supreme Court has been blatantly corrupt in the ways they’ve bailed out the Trump administration. But still, they only take on a small fraction of the total number of cases (and even then, they mostly help them stall cases with temporary orders rather than deciding actual cases).

    When the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene, the Trump administration loses or backs down the vast majority of the time.


  • The 25th amendment is invoked by the cabinet and the vice president. Those are the people supporting this shit, they aren’t going to get rid of him. He’s doing what they want and giving them cover.

    I would say that the only thing that could convince them to remove him is if he became such a liability that they felt the need to get rid of him out of self-preservation. But honestly, I don’t think they have the necessary level of awareness. If anything, I suspect most of them would be more likely to double down on being cartoonishly evil and try to do whatever it takes to cling to power.






  • These are the same shit stains that refer to legal immigrants and refugees as criminal illegals. The ones that condemn the idea of politicized prosecutions and claim no one is above the law while pursuing politicized prosecutions of people for daring to hold Trump accountable and not treating him as entirely above the law. These are the ones touting transparency while cracking down on whistle-blowers.

    I could go on all day with this. Everything they say is in bad faith. They don’t care about being right, they just want to throw out soundbites to be repeated by propaganda outlets. Illegal orders are lawful. Following the constitution is seditious. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. There are five lights. The Star Wars sequels are just as good.

    And the fact that they know they must lie is all the more damning.





  • I’ve seen people object to a 13 month calendar based solely on the idea that you can’t divide the year into quarters. But it’s actually really easy to remember. A quarter is 13 weeks, or 3 months and 1 week. So Q1 ends a week after month three, Q2 ends 2 weeks after month six, Q3 ends 3 weeks after month nine, and q4 ends after month 13 aka the end of the year. And since the calendar doesn’t change, you don’t even need to remember it, just mark the quarter ends once and you’re done forever.

    Just compare that to the unnecessary complexity of the Gregorian calendar and the effort it takes to remember basically anything that changes from year to year, or what day of the week any given date or holiday falls on, or even just which months have 30 days and which have 31.





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    Book 2 in the Children of Time series has a civilization of genetically modified octopuses. They have a sort of dual intelligence, with their more conscious mind handling big ideas and emotions while their arms host a distributed intelligence that handles stuff like math and problem solving, and the two function independently and are only somewhat aware of each other.

    They are incredibly alien and yet so very relatable. It was weird listening to the description of how their minds work on two different levels at once and realizing that this was coming from an audiobook that I was using to keep one half of my brain occupied while the other half gets work done.