I look forward to there being a California edition - I am sure it will be all the same but just with the local stories available, which are also interesting.

NY Post tends to cover local NY crime stories in depth that are important to me - would love to see that for the whole state of California.

“It started out smelling really like apple cider vinegar-smelly. Then it started to smell like ammonia, like a strong, pure ammonia smell, I was wondering why the smell wasn’t going away.”

“I got sick to my stomach,” she continued. “I went outside and threw up because, like, the smell was so strong.”

Omar was in the middle of slamming Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and calling for ICE to be abolished when Kazmierczak allegedly accosted the lawmaker in front of a packed audience.

lol, wild. Just stink stuff apparently.

And becuse you are a DEI fan, you agree with the policy?

There have been cases of people dying doing this, but it is pretty well establsihed that people can do this… And so the most famous free solo climber in the world doing it did not strike me as a particularly high risk activity, right.

There’s no way that Honnold would do this if he wasn’t sure.

By the way - there is a controversy surrounding Honnold and his team…

When he goes to certain places to do free solo climbs, he has to send a guy ahead of him the day before or morning before to clear out any potential hazards, which actually means that they basically rip out a significant amount of POTENTIAL holds on the cliff faces. Obviously, those are completely unsafe for Honnold if they do not fully support his weight, and so they must be removed so he cn climb up without confusion…

But the problem is that other climbers who take normal safety precautions and use ropes actually routinely use these holds, and they find them quite convenient.

It ends up altering the cliff faces for people who go after him permanently.

Right. However, they do not post explicitly untrue things.

They are biased, but they try to report the basic facts of any case just like any other news site.

Guy, I have not said a single word about those who are naturalized Americans who are originally Chinese, nor did I say anything about the fully ethnic Chinese people who were born Americans and grew up in the states.

I am speaking specifically about birth tourists and their kids who are Americans on paper and nothing else, who have no real education or social formation that makes them culturally or socially Americans, let alone in some civic sense.

Call me bigoted all you want, but you forget… I have to believe you are a good faith debater making a point before such a word would ever strike a chord.

That makes more sense and would be legal.

Nonetheless… If someone is caught on crime doing something, it’s really hard to just avoid going to jail, right. Might still be a waste.

At least, it would be better spent strategically on cases that could be won, IMO.

I think it would be the case that a ny such fundraisers would get shutdown as they would be literally raising money to aid and abet a criminal.

And even if these were to occur regularly… It’s certainly a controversial use of money, lol.

I’d simply emphasize that these guys will never vote with America’s best interests at heart. It is hard to even say that they are “dual loyalty” like we sometimes imply about the dual citizens of Israel and the US.

A disproportinate amount of these will be people in the Chinese middle and upper classes, and they do not really even need US citizenship for their long-term interests other than potentially for university or career hopping from place to place. Their chief interests in voting will actually be reflective of Chinese interests.

More importantly, they have no real right to vote in our elections as they are not authentic citizens.

American communists and far leftists who vote for dumb policies are at least doing so as an exercise of their rights, while I feel that their votes will be transparently for their own benefit (lax immigration law, philosinic foreign policy, etc.).

California generates lots of money for two reasons - their domestic economy is substantail with Silicon Valley, obviously, and Hollywood… They even do a substantial amount of agriculture.

But the very big reason is the same reason why New York City is super wealthy:

They possess a vital port.

The largest port on the pacific is the Port of Los Angeles, and this basically means that tremendous amounts of financial power and complex logistical systems all view Los Angeles as their point of transfer.

Wealth and resources are extracted from “flyover country” and brought to manufacturing centers (often in the Midwest) or even transported to foreign manufacturing centers, and loads of agircultural products that make the US a powerhouse are shipped out through NYC and LA. The traders who deal in these things are colocated with where the magic happens - LA, NYC.

“Red state moochers” are actually just like places like Mexico or Nigeria…

That is to say, they have tremendous wealth and resources, but the entire economy and supply chain is designed to extract value from them & distribute the profits into the hands of the elites that live far away from them.

The farmers in Iowa and Mexico have minimal profit margins, while big agra execs and food distributors live in splendor. The West Africans who GROW THE CHOCOLATE may have malnourished children, but European candy company execs swim in their profits.

The people who live on top of oil wells in Nigeria see virtually nothing, and the workers get paid very little…

But BP, Exxon, etc., all make money hand over fist.

So, I think…

This narrative where you make fun of ‘red states’ is regressive and Capitalistic.

You cannot send illegal substances through the mail, though.

I agree entirely with the Oliver Wendell Holmes assessment of the limitations of free speech, and I think we have to thank SCOTUS and the Founding Fathers for coming up with a relatively clearcut definition of what constitutes free speech.

Many other nations claim to have free speech but they have nothing that can even begin to approach what the US has.

More on this topic:

The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland have travelled to Washington, DC, to meet with members of President Donald Trump’s administration in the United States.

But on Wednesday, officials emerged having made little progress in dissuading Trump from seeking to take over Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory.

“We didn’t manage to change the American position,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting. “It’s clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland.”

Rasmussen and his Greenlandic counterpart Vivian Motzfeldt had hoped that their sit-down with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance would alleviate mounting tensions over the fate of Greenland.

But the meeting failed to address key disagreements. Instead, the officials declared their intent to establish a working group to continue to address concerns about control over Greenland and security in the Arctic region.

“The group, in our view, should focus on how to address the American security concerns, while at the same time respecting the red lines of the Kingdom of Denmark,” Rasmussen said.

Al Jazeera

There’s an ‘if.’

So I do not know. But now I know that you likely are not.

If you are a big Slava Ukraina guy, I would suggest it’s your turn to back the uprising and swallow whole what the media is writing…

Just reverse the panels on the left, right, lol

See, it’s a good meme because it makes everyone seem a little bit hypocritical.

If the timelines were reversed, it could be utilized by MAGA.

This is really wild… And it is logical if we are talking about 366 corpses in a single morgue that have been documented in a video as it is normal for the bodies to be brought to different locations, specifically when there are issues with overcrowding, which would seem to be the case… That the Tehran morgues themselves are being overcrowded with the dead.

Truly remarkable numbers.

It makes you think for a second that this could just be propaganda designed to get people to go to war, but it’s not too hard to verify that this is a legit video, and the Iranian government would be more incentivized than anybody to see that the corpses were spread throughout the available morgues to make it seem less if it was a small number, and to not have them all at one to create this exact sort of scenario that would fuel speculation of massacres…

The conclusion here seems logical - that there are many mass casualty events happening all over the Tehran area.

It would not be unreasonable to suggest the same is happening in other areas as well.

I appreciate this. But… My confession here…

I go to these webpages for news and discussion, haha.

Yes, of course, I appreciate people’s projects and I understand some people are here to organize groups, and that is wonderful, but I feel that for some people this is just for news, comedy, memes.

And that’s fine…!

But one thing I really agree with is… “Talking about ideas” is rated above either.

For me, I see the news actually as a means of getting to talk about ideas much of the time.

Anyhow, good post, and I definitely hope that you are experiencing success on your Lemmy instance.

What is interesting to consider, though, is that the correlation might be an unpleasant one we normally do not want to address.

This is happening in Japan where there is a National Health Insurance program in place. Obviously, there are people in the top percentages that are going to have even superior private insurance, but I imagine this is not so prominent if the system is similar to my own country where we even have wealthy politicians somewhat regularly get made fun of for using our NHI for their procedures.

Japan is also a famously functional society…

So you could conclude that everyone in this study has access to basically what amounts to equal healthcare, with the exceptions only being some elites you could count on one hand that might have vanity procedures available to them.

This becomes a measure of stuff like flossing, daily brushing, whehter one, two, or three times brushing a day, etc.

The correlation that might exist is that poorer people take worse care of their teeth, and as they are poorer, they also have worse diets, worse fitness, and a general ignorance of best practices, so they die earlier. Their poverty correlates with low intelligence, and low intelligence correlates with early death through a variety of choices they make.