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Thursday, August 21st, 2025

    Time Event
    2:40a
    (satire) Best city to start family with Boss

    (satire) *Starbase Named Best City to Start Family with Boss*

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    2:40a
    (satire) Stipend for migrants to self-destruct

    (satire) *DHS Offers $1,000 Stipend To Migrants Who Voluntarily Self-Destruct.*

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    2:40a
    Corrupter's list of "loyal" companies

    The corrupter has established a list of "loyal" companies to make the selling of influence more systematic.

    I hope they publish the list, so that we can use it to find the full list of toadies.

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    2:40a
    Doubling cops not effective way to reduce crime

    Having cops respond to crimes is necessary, but doubling the cops is not the effective way to reduce crime.

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    2:40a
    Bully dissuading or preventing foreign students

    The bully is doing several things that can dissuade or prevent foreign students from attending US universities.

    This is not just a way of hurting foreigners and reducing their numbers. It is also a way of damaging universities — by reducing their income.

    This illustrates how the persecutor has this time lined up clever and unscrupulous advisers who don't feel limited by any kind of justice to people.

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    2:40a
    AMLO lifted 10% of population out of poverty

    AMLO, while president of Mexico, lifted 10% of the population out of poverty with a big raise in the minimum wage.

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    2:40a
    Line 3 pipeline protester conviction overturned

    Protester Mylene Vialard was convicted of resisting the Line 3 pipeline. The Minnesota appeals court has now overturned that verdict based on pervasive prosecutorial misconduct.

    This means Vialard might get a new trial. Or the state can drop the charges.

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    2:40a
    Testimony by retired Lt. Colonel of inhumanity of system in Gaza

    Tony Aguilar, Lt. Colonel (ret), signed up to work for the Israeli "humanitarian" food distribution in Gaza. He testifies to the inhumanity of the system, and the killings of individual Palestinians, both of which he witnessed personally.

    During the weeks he worked there, on all the many occasions the ex-soldiers fired shots, he never once observed Palestinians seeking food to be armed or to pose a threat. There was never any justification for firing at or near Palestinians, but that happened regularly,

    Surgeons in Gaza keep removing from wounded patients the bullets fired by Israeli soldiers, which matches their testimony.

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    2:40a
    What prohibition of abortion facilitates

    Prohibition of abortion facilitates and protects rape, coercive sexual relationships, and abusive relationships. And this may be exactly what fanatical Christians want.

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    2:40a
    Conversing with a chatbot

    A human writes about how conversing with a chatbot was useful therapy for him, partly because he knew it did not have emotions. Remembering that was helped by the fact that it never made statements which seemed to claim it had real emotions.

    It is not clear that he recognized that the chatbot didn't have real understanding either.

    We have known since the Eliza program that even a very skimpy imitation of a human psychotherapist can elicit the reactions people are accustomed to giving to a human therapist.

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    2:40a
    Urgent: Get dark money out of Democratic primaries

    US citizens: call on the DNC to get dark money out of Democratic primaries.

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    2:39p
    New pun

    What's the nastiest thing in the church?

    2:39p
    New pun: Cameos

    Q: What do you call a famous person's brief appearance which is so quick and disguised that nobody notices it?

    Q: What do you call deleting a star's appearances from a recording?

    See cameos in puns.

    2:39p
    Newspaper retaliation by US attorney, NY

    The acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York listed an apparently false residence address so as to appear eligible for the position. A newspaper reported on this, and he retaliated against that newspaper.

    This is not just a one-off. Such bullying is the watchword of the US government when and where it is deformed by the saboteur in chief. This is one of the basic reasons he is unfit for any public office.

    2:39p
    More retribution, purging of officials

    Gabbard has purged the US intelligence officials who investigated Russian interference with the 2016 election. They are being punished for the offense of being loyal to their country rather to the bullshitter.

    This wrong serves two practical purpose. First, one way to keep the magats believing the bullshit is by consistently behaving as if it were true. Second, punishing officials for loyalty to their country pressures and trains those who remain to discard any shred of that patriotic loyalty.

    2:39p
    US generals V. US population, via pawns

    The wrecker's assault on democracy is moving, step by step, to establish the US army as a system for brutal political repression of the whole population. He has already prepared the highest ranks for this.

    I think it follows that Americans should refuse to join the armed forces.

    The other possible strategy would be to join and hope to "change the system from within". I expect that many young Americans will feel attracted to that. But it has little chance of success, because only a tiny fraction of soldiers will ever become generals, and only the highest of generals influence decisions like these. As long as an authoritarian regime carefully makes sure all of them are loyal and obedient to the emperor, no one rising through the ranks of generals will be invited to join them.

    However, because some young Americans will join the military, it is important to develop study methods for them to build the strength to reject illegal orders, and to recognize their highest commanders as their country's worst enemies.

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