Adding to this (and also, thank you for spelling out what I only hinted at): That last queen wrote a book to tell the story of what happened.

Her brother, who was the last king of Hawaii, wrote a book of Hawaiian mythology, too, that is worth checking out if that’s your bag.

All of your visit are belong to me

Well, we sort of toppled an empire when we stole Hawaii, it literally was independent

Ah yes, the famous definition of a stable genius, if I’m not mistaken!

https://12ft.io/https://www.wired.com/story/mississippi-bans-lab-grown-meat/

Je suis American and only just learning some French, I’m glad you came along with better notes. Gramercy, in fact!

Gramercy, in lieu of “thank you very much.” I don’t know why, but it’s something from Mallory’s King Arthur stories that always stuck with me and I think it deserves a revival.

ETA: for those unaware, it’s a conjunction of the French gran merci, which translates the same way you probably suspect: big thanks, or grand thanks, or in other words, thank you very much

I would so love for every single TSA worker to walk out in protest of this fuckery

Let’s hope so and be vocal about our support for the union that this administration is trying to crush before our eyes.

I mean, it’s not like that at all, but it’s ok to not care for it still. Lemmy is a federated platform, just like Pixelfed is, and Mastodon, etc. Those would be the providers in the example from before.

Edit to add: Literally every time the word “instance” comes up in the manner noted above, it’s woth regard to a Lemmy instance, or a Mastodon instance, and rarely if ever have I noticed a reference to a “fediverse instance”. I have no clue where your comparison comes from.

I would think the jargon would be “I chose fedia.io as my Lemmy provider,” or similar for other federated platforms.

Seems like resources should be spent on finding out who called in a fake bomb threat, since that’s an actual act of terrorism. But that, of course, is not the message the article is selling.

OK, I meant there are a few progressive voices screaming into the void, of course, but it’s what we have at the moment and I’m trying my best to stay optimistic

Yup. This is the current line in the sand. We’ve crossed several already, to be clear, but the important one right now is this particular showdown between the Executive and Judicial branches of government. Congress is working on getting their shit together, but overall the Legislative branch has not been effective lately at holding up its responsibility as a check on Executive or Judicial powers. The Judicial side has been checkered, at best. And the Executive side is led by a reflexive fascist.

We really need the whole “checks & balances” thing to work if we are going to try and convince the rest of the world we are still a functioning democracy. I’m losing confidence that the problems of our nation will be resolved diplomatically, and I’m equally worried that we’re not ready to meet this moment in time to avert some very troubling times in the U.S. of A.

Let’s not get crazy here, how’s the VIX doing?

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Damn. Never mind. Looks like volatility’s way up! All this winning is just exhausting, I’m tired boss

While some see this as an academic lifeline, others view it as France capitalizing on a U.S. brain drain under anti-science policies.

Drain our brains. Europe, Canada, Mexico, Oceania: have at it, make this world safer for us all. I bet Cuba could get some of our medical researchers, too. Cripple the Trump regime.

And then, in true American fashion, we can call the member countries in the newly established Four Eyes “nerds, lol” as we continue circling the drain!

Edit: sorry, I might be a bit grumpy this morning, he did a lot of shit over the last few weeks and it’s exhausting

I think I get what you are saying, but also, I’m not sure my point got across entirely. The article and headline use this “from 0 to 100” verbiage to imply a rapid acceleration from being at rest (as in, 0mph) to suddenly moving at a very high velocity (100mph). And that is relating people who watch snuff films to the at-rest part of the analogy, no effort spent, just coasting along… a default state, if you will. And, of course, the real wacko ones that end up just happening to take it a bit too far are the ones that just suddenly find themselves going 100mph, having obviously had to expend a great deal of energy in pursuit of that sudden delta-v.

I’m saying, on that kind of a scale, the people that would never even consider the existence of smut and, upon hearing about it, would be far too revolted to want to have to see it, has a velocity so far in the negative that it’s probably worth considering setting the 0 in the scale to the people who are all the way on the smut-is-gross-and-also-a-red-flag end of the dichotomy on this issue? That’s got to make more sense than setting 0 at “they watch that nasty shit but don’t, like, act on it” as the 0-point, doesn’t it?

“People watching torture, mutilation, and beheading videos for entertainment” is probably not the place to be taring the scale. That’s already pretty fucked up, in my book. Like, easily already at 50 and cruising higher at a rapid rate.

We need to grow our ranks right now, new allies should be welcomed and embraced. Escaping a cult isn’t easy

(Also, this example might not be the best, isn’t the account a satirical one?)