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Neuroscience of anticipating some fun
Rats display many signs of joy when given the chance
to drive a
rat-sized car.
Rats that have grown up with toys show mental flexibility:
when given the chance to drive rat-sized cars, the rats with
interesting environments learn faster.
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US Sec. Defense nominee
Hegseth, the middle-finger nominee for Secretary of Defense,
wants to bring back the base names that honor
traitors
who fought for the Confederacy. In addition he is accused of
various sorts of personal misconduct.
It seems he objects to allowing honesty and patriotism to infiltrate
the US military.
What Senator Ernst did shows that any time a Republican shows a sign
of concern for proper governance, we cannot expert per to stand up to
the Republican base who are fanatically loyal to the wrecker. As the
article explains at the end, in the past Republicans could do so.
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US Sec. of Treasury nominee
*Scott Bessent
Set to Serve Billionaires, Big Banks,
and Big Oil as Treasury Secretary.*
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Surveillance in a deep state, US
*[The bullshitter] Decried [sneaky FISA law surveillance on Americans]
as a Deep State Spy Weapon. His
Nominees
Sure Seem to Love It.*
For more information about this, see
It is useless to point out the inconsistencies between the
bullshitter's proclaimed "views" or "positions" and his specific
actions to put pressure on him. He doesn't really believe those
"positions". But showing these examples may help convince Americans
not to trust his "positions".
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A "free lunch" in Greenland
*People in Maga hats at meal last week [in Greenland] did not know
[the grifter's] son and
were invited off the street,
hotel boss says.*
With those bullshitters, we should never assume any appearance of
anything is not phony.
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Ceasefire negotiations
Reportedly the thought of disobeying the fascist leader made Netanyahu
realize he had to accept
Biden's
ceasefire plan.
The plan involves a temporary truce and exchanging 33 female hostages for
Palestinian prisoners.
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| 10:36a |
Age verification law
One of the Project 2025 fanatics told people that the "age verification"
requirements are a sneaky way of
moving
to ban porn.
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| 10:36a |
Australian climate inaction
Suggesting to Australians how to express their dissatisfaction with
both of the major parties' weak attitude towards the
advance of global
heating disaster.
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Science of racism
Scientific experiments show that most people in Britain underestimate
the amount of racism that is actually present in society and
underestimate how
racist
each one individually is.
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Climate ‘whiplash’
* Global heating means atmosphere can drive both extreme droughts and
floods
with
rapid switches.
…The research found that almost everywhere on the planet has experienced
between 31% and 66% more whiplash events since the mid-20th century, as
emissions from fossil fuel burning heated the atmosphere.*
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Activist time inside prison
The UK sentenced activist Stuart Bretherton to a few months in prison
for a forbidden protest that was entirely nonviolence and did no damage
to anything. It is clear that his "crime" was nothing other
than the
act of criticizing the government.
I continue to believe that it is an error to be
"pro-Israel" or
"pro-Palestine".
We should be anti-atrocity, condemning the heinous
atrocities of Israel and Palestine but not hating either people. I
agree with Bretherton's conclusions, condemning the British government
for its repressive imprisonment of nonviolent protesters.
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Urgent: protect funding for NPR and PBS
US citizens: phone your representatives and senators and call
on them to protect funding for NPR and PBS.
They are far from perfect. They feel obliged to take a "balanced" view
even in an unbalanced situation. But they will help resist fascism.
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| 10:36a |
ATM withdrawals
Older Britons are moving back to cash payment, but most young people
can't summon up the will to escape from
tracked
digital payments.
the first step is to make sure you carry a reasonable amount of cash.
You can decide to have cash on hand, then each time you leave the house
take a reasonable amount with you. After a week or two it will become
a habit.
When you don't have enough cash to make a purchase, don't make a tracked
digital payment. Instead, get cash out of an ATM and pay with that.
The surveillance system will get less data about you from the ATM!
Don't just take out the amount needed for that one purchase.
Withdraw enough money to last you for a few days.
That way, for your next few payments you will have enough cash.
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| 4:37p |
Meta fact-checking
*Meta never
cared about fact-checking. What it wants is friction-free
oligarchy.*
You can do your part to punish Facebook and its other disservices
by not letting them use you.
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| 10:36p |
Meta Trump approval
* Ex-workers say [Zuckerburg's] declaring relocation of moderation and
safety teams from California just a
play for [the bullshitter's] approval.*
Bullshitting in support of him is another expression of support.
It announces that henceforth Zuckerberg will say what pleases the
bullshitter, regardless of the facts.
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| 10:36p |
Human Rights Watch
* The past year has marked the “absolute failure” of western democracies
as champions of human rights around the world, the head of
Human Rights
Watch (HRW) has said.*
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Climate protest crackdown
* Britain’s crackdown on climate protest is setting "a dangerous
precedent" around the world and undermining democratic rights, the UK
director of
Human
Rights Watch has said.*
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| 10:36p |
Customs union
The Liberal Democrats, a UK political party, will advocate making a
new
customs union with the EU.
This is what Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party said he was
in
favor of.
The Liberal Democrats will explicitly say that
the wrecker is a
"threat to peace and prosperity" so *relations with him
must be
transactional*,
not breed mutual trust. That is simple rationality. However,
accepting a plan to have a meeting with someone (Zelenskyy or anyone
else) as substantial concession is self-delusion.
The wrecker would
be happy to have a meeting with Zelenskyy and say he will give half of
Ukraine's territory to Putin.
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| 10:36p |
Abortion pills
Religious fanatics in Texas are proposing many schemes to attack or block
those who send, prescribe or help fund
abortion
pills for pregnant Texans.
I fear that the new saboteur in chief
will encourage federal laws to
support the fanatics.
The poor and meek do not escape
If they conspire the law to break.
This must be so, but they endure,
Those who conspire to make the law.
Women might consider saying to their boyfriends, "If you want to go to
bed with me, first give me a set of abortion pills just in case." But
there is no obvious way for a man to obtain these prescription
medicines and be sure they are not fake.
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| 10:36p |
Big tech's algorithm
Someone else is now saying that we must put an end to big tech's use of
recommendation algorithms to
get
users addicted
(and, along the way, to push right-wing disinformation on them).
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