dhork

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago

Which one? They both suck.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

That seems excessive, they could have just fired him....

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (10 children)

This may be a bit heavy-handed, but it is done for a reason. Trump wants to use "lawlessness" as an excuse to send troops in.

By implementing this curfew and making these arrests, the LAPD can demonstrate that it has the situation under control, and there is no need for the Feds to get involved. If California's lawsuit against the Feds ends up working, and the court finds the troop deployment unlawful, this curfew enforcement might very well be the reason.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

He even declared it an invasion of "military-aged men" at the time. He did that right around the time that the Supreme Court held that Trump couldn't be held off the ballot for formenting insurrection.

I am confident that if that ruling went the other way, Abbot would have declared an invasion was in progress, that Democrats were aiding it, and thrown Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and every single Democrat off the ballot in Texas.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

TACO trucks, even

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Since when does Trump listen to scholars?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

Trump won't need to send them, Abbott would gladly send the Texas National Guard there himself

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My biggest issue is with how AI is being marketed, particularly by Apple. Every single Apple Intelligence commercial is about a mediocre person who is not up to the task in front of them, but asks their iPhone for help and ends up skating by. Their families are happy, their co-workers are impressed, and they learn nothing about how to handle the task on their own the next time except that their phone bailed their lame ass out.

It seems to be a reflection of our current political climate, though, where expertise is ignored, competence is scorned, and everyone is out for themselves.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Most trades now are done by bots looking at ticker symbols, they don't need human intervention. The human race can vanish from the Earth and the bots will keep trading as long as the datacenters have power.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

NYT has some video of some troops guarding the "Metropolitan Detention Center", so we have proof of at least the seven troops pictured.

 

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender person elected to Congress, as “mister.”

Self, who chairs the subcommittee on Europe, introduced McBride as “the congressman from Delaware” during a hearing on arms control and U.S. assistance to Europe. McBride responded by calling Self “Madam Chair.”

 

That one person who didn't vote for Ichiro better fess up....

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My Bills are on Sunday. That Steelers/Ravens game on Saturday will be a good one.

 

That's a lot of money

 

On Monday, the mayor marched down Fifth Avenue during the annual Columbus Day Parade wearing a baseball cap supporting BOTH the Yankees and Mets! The hat featured a Mets logo on one side, an "X" in between and a Yankees logo on the other side. ... "No wonder Eric Adams got indicted, that hat is a crime against humanity," one user wrote in a post on X, formally Twitter.

 

LFGM

 

The announcers were very excited about it while it happened

 

Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.

 

The phrase “TRUMP TOO SMALL” stems from a memorable moment in the 2016 Republican presidential debates, during which Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made a crude joke about the size of Trump’s hands.

“And you know what they say about guys with small hands,” Rubio quipped.

 

Biden’s campaign proposed that the first debate between the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees be held in late June and the second in September before early voting begins. Trump responded to the letter in an interview with Fox News digital, calling the proposed dates “fully acceptable to me” and joked about providing his own transportation.

 

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) scolded Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during a closed-door GOP conference meeting Thursday, telling the Florida Republican to sit down when he tried to interrupt McCarthy’s remarks.

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