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Before becoming president, Trump sued CBS over 60 Minutes' interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris shortly before the election. Now, Trump's newly elevated Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, is using the levers of government to put pressure on the network.

"Now, more than ever, only a fearless press stands between an aggressive [White House] and the public," former CBS News correspondent Marvin Kalb posted on a Facebook page for CBS alumni. "If news organizations such as CBS bend a knee before a president, then we have all taken a big step towards autocracy."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Great. And I am telling you that my experience is otherwise. Also, I've never heard USians, that's a first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

That last bit is definitely not unique to the US. I've heard people from all parts of Europe, even when in the US, say they're from Gloucester, or Antwerp, or Perth, or where have you. It's not like they immediately say England, Belgium, or Australia every time. You're definitely nitpicking this point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How, at this point, could anyone assume that in 4 years Trump will just "leave the office"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I do believe sensory overload is the goal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I do agree the democratic party caused their own doom. I would like to point out however, the logic of "The United States of America is more important then the Democratic Party" could be applied in the same way to "The United States of America is more important than risking Trump to be in office to dismantle it", no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly. His character has been on full display since Queens, NY.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who said it was a science teacher?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Sometimes I need to wipe my face after a meal and have no napkins so I use money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Nice work! Remember, if you feel like you're running out of steam while doing the hard work of moving, it's okay to pause and take rest! Moments of rest are productive, contrary to much popular belief.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I feel he saw how big it was on a typical map and thought "I can double the size of America. All we have to do is kick out these no-name unimportant suckers who happen to be there"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I guess people forget that it needs a "helping verb". Just having "have seen" in that sentence would fix it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

“It’s too kind to say it’s racism or discrimination. It’s disrespect for humanity.”

 

Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.

Example:

In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".

 

Trope: Police have to keep bad guy talking on the phone long enough to trace them and find their location. Professional bad guys hang up right before it triangulates their coordinates.

Apparently, Hollywood's been getting this inspiration from a pre-digital age when they use this trope in movies. See link for more info. It's just funny that most of the "tracing the call" scenes I've seen are definitely after the 2000's.

Another link: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/10/how-hard-would-it-be-to-trace-the-sniper-s-phone-calls.html

A fun gif: https://i.gifer.com/9QtC.mp4

 

At this point, is this news ? Though it highlights Trump's politics.

 

Hey Lemmy!

What's that one song comes on the radio or party and you're filled with joy? Or perhaps it's a carol and it makes you feel alright. What is it?

Then there's the song that makes you flinch and cringe, and you've gotta shut that song down. What is it?

Your favorite and your despised!

 

In recent days, the sightings have led to the temporary closures of a Stewart International Airport in New York and of Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Government agencies previously said they had "not identified anything anomalous". They agreed with Biden that many drones that had been sighted were lawfully flown by hobbyists and law enforcement - adding that people were also spotting "manned fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and stars mistakenly reported as drones".

But questions from the public remain. Earlier in the week, New Jersey man Noel Thomas described to the BBC his experience of spotting a mystery object in the sky. He said it was the size of a school bus, rectangular with blinking lights, and "definitely something I've never seen".

Also, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (Republican - NJ) is the "New Jersey lawmaker that the possible drones came specifically from an Iranian 'mothership'"

 

Why not just have an easy button that you can click saying Do Not Allow Reply All?

I know that there are some ways you can limit reply-all availability, like in the URL linked here. But there's a note: If recipients open this email in other mail applications except Microsoft Outlook, such as opening on web page via web mailbox, they can reply all this email.

I'm semi-tech savvy but I'm no programmer. It feels like it should be easy to do, so either I'm totally wrong or email services are really missing out on a great thing they could do.

 

This ability of the sorcerer will wipe any one song of your choosing from the pages of history, as if it never existed! Gone from our reality. They were going to do it anyway, but they're making you choose.

Which song would you pick?

(If you really can't narrow it down to one, then try narrowing to three)

~picture credit goes to zenart07 , DeviantArt~

 

Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!

For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon

 

The law doesn't strictly prohibit employers from calling or messaging their workers after hours. But it does protect employees who "refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact or attempted contact outside their working hours, unless their refusal is unreasonable," according to the Fair Work Commission, Australia's workplace relations tribunal.

That includes outreach from their employer, as well as other people "if the contact or attempted contact is work-related."

"If it was an emergency situation, of course people would expect an employee to respond to something like that," Watt said. "But if it's a run-of-the-mill thing … then they should wait till the next work day, so that people can actually enjoy their private lives, enjoy time with their family and their friends, play sport or whatever they want to do after hours, without feeling like they're chained to the desk at a time when they're not actually being paid, because that's just not fair."

The Australian Council of Trade Unions hailed the new law as a "cost-of-living win for working people," especially those in industries like teaching, community services and administrative work.

The right to disconnect, it said, will not only cut down on Australians' unpaid work hours but also address the "growing crisis of increasing mental health illness and injuries in modern workplaces."

 

The Chinese studio granted early access on the condition that topics like “feminist propaganda” and “Covid-19” go unmentioned. What followed is the Streisand effect in full force.

“I feel that it only served to bring more attention on Game Science’s culture of sexism,” linktothepabst says. “All they had to do was let the game speak for itself, but it came off, to me, like an own goal, effectively stoking the flames between the people who were using this game as weapon against ‘wokeness in games’ and those who can level-headedly either enjoy the game and criticize GS or just ignore the game altogether.”

It’s the Streisand effect in full force: Try to hide something, and it becomes all the more visible. “Nobody was going to bring up Chinese politics unprompted,” Zhong says, “but the topic was there as soon as they released those guidelines.”

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One that comes to mind for me: "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is not always true. Maybe even only half the time! Are there any phrases you tend to hear and shake your head at?

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