No, the exact opposite.

He’s going after all the blue states for multiple reasons, mainly that his enemies are concentrated in them. Leaving the red states alone because they voted for him. His fondest wish is to use the military against anyone who opposes him.

For now, the goals are: Retribution, Bring chaos and terror to his enemies, Provoke and escalate violence, all leading to justification for the most important objective: invoking the Insurrection Act which allows deploying military forces against the People. Implementing Martial Law to justify canceling the midterm elections, which would go against his minions if allowed to happen.

Anyone who thinks we’re going to have any kind of normal free and fair elections this November is in denial.

Agree, and I made that point already. The only thing worse than a Daily Mail story is an AI interpretive dance of a Daily Mail story.

The ones this article links to appear to be non-AI, though that doesn’t mean Daily Mail is a good place to get news. I read similar info on some major media news site in the US, again them not being AI is not necessarily a guarantee of unbiased info. Let me look in my history for a link. - (edit: I’m not finding anything in my history from a major US media source, so I guess what I read was probably also the Daily Mall.)

This sounds exactly an AI generated slopicle, with all the typical phrasing and re-wording you expect. It basically takes lines straight from the refenced articles and slightly rewords and/or adds little interpretative phrases to them.

Folks, we need to start learning to recognize this kind of crap and not be fooled by it. For example:

Hindustan Times simple statement: “A neighbor further told the Daily Mail that she spotted Jonathan Ross’s wife Patrixia pacing around the driveway on Wednesday afternoon.”

This: “She was spotted looking frantic as she walked back and forth in the driveway, according to the Hindustan Times, suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that her husband had been involved in a lethal force incident during his shift.” <-- (oh please! no reporter writes shit like that, “… suggesting a woman suddenly grappling with the reality that…”)

Daily Mall simple statement: > “She also shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook.”

This: > She appears to enjoy cooking, having previously shared photos of baking recipes from a Spanish-language cookbook on social media.

And what is this?: “Shortly after the shooting, Patrixia and the children were never seen at home again.” That doesn’t even make sense! No human would say that.

I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.

They would just blame this one on the protestors and leave it that. Never thinking a moment beyond that, that there was no reason whatsoever for ICE to deliberately throw a flash bang or tear gas under a random car. “If those protesters hadn’t been disrupting traffic, the car wouldn’t have had to stop. End of story.” It’s called a thought-terminating cliché.

They’ve already come out and said the Real ID isn’t proof of citizenship, just your identity.

The problem is, it’s only possible to know you were lying to yourself about something once the lie has been exposed and realized. The revelation most likely comes from an external source since the human mind is so good and not seeing things that don’t fit into your beliefs.

… they can track every phone at a protest and see where it goes home

That’s why you only ever have the burner phone turned on with the SIM in it while you are at an event and always turn it off/remove the SIM before you leave. Wrap it in foil also makes sure a signal can’t be sent or received.

Another option is just a stand-alone video camera (I have one that’s about half the size of a phone), or using a phone with no SIM and wifi off.

I don’t know what the arguments against this idea would be, but seems to me like the first thing Denmark needs to do, probably with the help of some allies, is expel the US from Greenland, take over the US military base there and strongly fortify it. Then the US can’t use it for the invasion. I’m sure their plans heavily depend on having and using that base. Don’t say anything beforehand, just show up with enough force that the existing US contingent there can’t win if they fight back, present the eviction notice, and get them moving out before US can send reinforcements.

True, ha! I’ll fix it up a bit.

No. The continued atrocities and cementing themselves in power are the primary goals: rounding up and disappearing people they don’t like, Venezuela, then Greenland and Canada. Distracting from the Epstein files happens as a natural side effect without much extra effort. Their lackey supporters (entire repub party, corporate & social media, etc) are busy doing that work for them.

– edited to try and make proper sentences instead of stream of consciousness rambling

FediFollows has a list of hand-curated accounts you can search or browse by category: https://fedi.directory/

Browsing your instance’s local timeline or the global timeline will give you plenty of posts to read.

Remember that you can also follow hashtags for things you’re interested in, so you’ll get posts that contain those hashtags in your Home timeline. That’s a good way to find people with similar interests. (when you click on a hashtag to browse, you’ll see a “Follow this hashtag” button)

There’s also FediGroups.social, a server where there are accounts for interest groups that you follow just like you would any other account. When you post on the topic of interest, you mention the group account and it will automatically boost the post so that it appears in the timeline of everyone else who follows that group account–and vice versa, you’ll see the posts from others who mention the group.

I’d start with just following some hashtags and accounts you find on FediFollows, then once you start seeing their posts and the replies, you’ll find more people.

edit: I had forgotten one other place you can browse through categories to find accounts: https://communitywiki.org/trunk

I remember we were taught a segment on how to use an abacus and how they worked, because it demonstrated certain mathematical principles. Of course I don’t remember now how to use one, but I’m sure that visual demonstration of the mathematical concepts helped us as we were learning math. In the same way, learning about analog clocks at a young age would probably help with learning about geometry/trigonometry, angles and degrees, arcs, etc.

As atropa says, make sure it specifies that it’s a noiseless clock. Many of them don’t say if they are on the package, so better to order one online that specifies it’s “noiseless” in the description.

Good warning. Analog clocks that make noise drive me nuts. Search for “noiseless analog clock” and be sure it says that in the description before buying.

I never heard that one, but in my family if we weren’t wearing a wristwatch and someone asked the time, we’d look at our wrist and say, “It’s two hairs past the freckle.” :) Those were the days.

It would just depend on how often you actually use them, it’s just familiarity. If you had one in your house/classroom/office that you looked at whenever you wanted to know the time (as it used to be before digital), it would take only a quick glance. Your brain recognizes the shapes, just like it recognizes words in your native language immediately without figuring out the individual letters.

The second factor is that you don’t get to be a billionaire if you’re not a sociopath.

I think it’s your second factor that’s most relevant.