What’s that really though - golf trip security and accommodation costs alone for Trump in just his second term thus far have already cost around that. For which he insists the secret service and other support staff use his own golf courses and hotels so that he literally gets paid handsomly to golf & stay at his own resorts (breaking the emoluments clause of the Constitution in the process).

At least none of that $46mil went to Trump & co and the whole affair embarrassed him by the poor turnout and mediocre parade. Money well spent it was not, but at least he hated it.

Yeah, keep making jokes. Your country is circling the fascist toilet while you make checks notes an average of 17.5 Lemmy shitpost comments a day.

slow clap

I’m not sure and would like to know too. But I do believe it’s much less common for the uterus to be moved outside the body during Caesarian (exteriorization), the standard is intra-abdominal repair - ie repaired in place by surgery. Exteriorization is an older practice done due to surgical simplicity, and it’s fallen out of favour due to various risk factors it adds. Latest metal analysis I found on it with that recommendation from a 2021: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34811700/

Dude I hope it’s popular. Imagine the selling point other networks could have:

New feature: Fash Block.

We guarantee our mobile network cannot send or recieve calls to any users on Trump Mobile.

Yeah i dont get it either. In a normal country the guy who shot the other person dead would be under arrest for manslaughter, or grievous bodily harm (or equivalent) at best. It’d be the job of the DA to decide if a charge would proceed, or a jury to decide if the charge is valid.

They killed a guy by firing unsafely into a crowded area, and they are from what I can read - a volunteer in a green vest, whom was asked by event organizers not to carry a gun. Not law enforcement, not hired security, no guarantee they have any weapons training - yet they’re apparently fine to shoot people they deem a threat and walk off home-free, even if they accidentally shot someone else dead. “Oh, that was your dad? My bad - I missed”.

Fair point to make, and look when I see most people on Lemmy talk about war they generally have the maturity to say they are against the leaders or government rather than every inhabitant of the country themselves. There are of course outliers on any large community, but generally I see people say “Putin is bad” and share desire for him and his government to answer to their crimes, rather than dismiss all Russians as evil/bad/etc.

I dont believe in determinism. This guy was dealt a bad hand his whole life, no doubt - that can provide context for his choices but it doesn’t excuse them. He was in a squad with three other Russians that were all ex-inmates also, they were surprised when he executed this Ukrainian that surrendered. There are hundreds of thousands of ex-inmates fighting for Russia, not all of them are committing warcrimes.

I’m glad the journalist included his backstory. But there are absolutely people who lack empathy and could care less who they kill, regardless of background and upbringing.

This guy will face life in prison in Ukraine if found guilty, and will very likely be traded to Russia in a POW swap in future. His victim and their family gets no chance at a happy ending.

You’re wrong. Targeted assassination of political enemies is the use of violence against non-combatants for political/ideological aims. It’s textbook terrorism.

They’re careful not to label it as terrorism because once you get on the back foot and admit that one white MAGA guy attempting (and succeeding) in killing a Democrat is terrorism then you have to admit that the tens of thousands of others who are threatening it should also be monitored and treated as serious threats - and they absolutely do not want to do that as they know that white conservatives are the majority of domestic terror threats in the US.

Man, I hope that guy has a tasty hat.

Caesarian is absolutely not ‘much more dangerous’ for mother and child, cite some evidence. 32% of all births in the US are caesarian, about the same in the UK, and over 50% of those are emergency c-sections after natural childbirth has proven impossible and the doctors have had to step in to save the mother and baby from death or lifelong injury or disability.

“Delivering a baby via cesarean section is generally considered safe, and in some instances is medically necessary and safer than a vaginal birth”

https://www.healthline.com/health/pregnancy/how-many-c-sections-can-you-have

“The data shocked the study’s head author, Darine El-Chaâr, a perinatal researcher at the Ottawa hospital. In the planned vaginal birth group, there was a higher percentage of negative outcomes compared with the MRC [maternal-request, non-emergency c-section] group, driven by serious vaginal tears and babies admitted to intensive care. “I myself am challenged by the data,” she says, underlining that she believes vaginal birth is natural. “I wanted it to be the other way around.””

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/13/caesareans-or-vaginal-births-should-mothers-or-medics-have-the-final-say

Yes, sadly we have social media access in Australia too, and the same loony shit that glues eyeballs to screens in the US and makes people choose poorly has the same affect here.

50% seems like an overstatement, but who cares if the hospital uses c-sections regularly? Much like people’s lower jaws are evolving to be smaller over time and we’re experiencing many health issues related to teeth overcrowding (due to people having processed food and needing to chew hard foods less often) - we’re experiencing changes in childbirth too. Women are having children much later in life in western nations, which causes narrower pelvises, and they’re having heavier babies… Both of which lead to much higher likelihood of natural birth complications, especially when you factor in the obesity epidemic. So yes, c-sections are becoming more common - to ensure the child and mother are safe through the birth.

So wild to me that I interpreted it as an allyship at first. “Oh that’s nice i guess, he’s wearing black because so many black people are shot by the police or something…”. And then I read further and realised how wrong I was.

Vice signalling - all the rage under president Felon.

Its just as risky for a non-American buying from a US company. And despite what others have said, customs can be a point of interception. But it’s not customs you need to worry about, they hand-off to the spy agencies to do their thing when they get a valid order to do so. Example program:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa-upgrade-factory-show-cisco-router-getting-implant/

Like others have said though, your threat model is what’s important. And if you are a person of interest to security agencies eg a whistleblower or journalist then you’d be wise to have someone you know make the purchase instead of you.

I’d be more concerned about Chinese products in general, as they have been caught again and again with pre-embedded untargeted malware. Meaning, everyone who ordered that model got a helping of malware, not just those under active surveillance by three letter agencies.

A few examples in this blog entry: https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2018/05/23/flawed-by-design-electronics-with-pre-installed-malware/

If you’re not a person of interest though then you are 99.99% safe. You could always reinstall the OS when you get it and ensure the bootloader is locked. Again that would keep everyone except state security agencies out.

Ah, all good. I didn’t downvote either way, just commented to try to make sense of the discussion. Sarcasm or facetious language is easily lost over text - thanks for clarifying

Saying “I can’t live without Harry Potter”, that’s hyperbole. Or if you’re serious, it’s just funny.

The argument is that funding Harry Potter directly funds JJ Rowling - whom then proudly and openly uses her wealth to pay for campaigns to enact anti-trans legislation and pays suppot to regressive anti-LGBTQ groups. Its a boycott.

People are justified in judging those who know this yet continue to support Rowling’s products monetarily or act in them as LGBT hostile.

From all the online back and forth I’ve seen though, few care if you pirate them therefore denying monetary support <- that’s nuance.

MAGA are patient, playing the long game, they’ll wait? These are the guys that wear diapers to virtue signal they’re Trumpers, and charge into the Capitol building when they lose an election.

They’re neither intelligent nor patient - they just have NEAR ZERO pushback from all the people in institutions around them, everyone turning to the person next to them going, “gosh that’s … can you believe they’re doing that - that’s unconstitutional and definitely illegal”.

I read the article, and even the outgoing Fulbright board just handball the problem to the next people.

[With] the board calling on Congress, the courts and future Fulbright Boards to “prevent the administration’s efforts to degrade, dismantle, or even eliminate one of our nation’s most respected and valuable programs.”

Why the hell are they not doing that? It’s cowardly and its essentially a strongly worded letter.

Sends a message for one news article, an action like this does. Then they all get replaced by lackeys and the new Fulbright Scholarship board does whatever Trump wants.

I’d think it’s better to advocate change from within and use your power to shed light on the bullshit through years of leaks to media, while doing your best to shield the organisation from the worst decisions, than to just quit in a huff of solidarity.

TL;DR: what you’d expect. Boring gangster disputes. A gangster laid the blame on him partially for killing an associate of the gangster, with little to no evidence. So they killed him publically to maintain street cred.

Heh. No a younger guy with the same name, totally unrelated who coined it in 2018 on a political science blog. I knew my wording was clumsy but was too tired to think of something better.

Here’s an interview with him by Slate if anyone’s curious.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html