[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 8 points 21 hours ago

Stephen A. Smith / LeBron James unity ticket, putting aside their differences for the good of the nation.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

I saw a sign at one of my bus stops announcing a service that was basically "Uh, if the bus doesn't come, we'll reimburse you for your Uber," so that's probably the next step before they just give up and make Uber "public transit."

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

In Florida there used to be Sarasota County Area Transit. They changed their name, for some reason.

Then there's Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority, or SEPTA.

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Bay Area commuters may see devastating cuts to transit service because Gov. Gavin Newsom is backtracking on a promise to provide a critical $750 million loan to BART, Muni and other regional transit agencies, local lawmakers say.

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Without that funding, the senators say, BART will have to close stations and limit train service on many routes to once an hour. Muni could face a 50% reduction in frequency on many lines. As a result, freeway traffic would balloon, leading to traffic jams and longer car commutes, they say.

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I thought I saw some beanis graffiti the other day, but it turned out it said "beaver."

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Our findings showed a significant causal association between sanctions and increased mortality. We found the strongest effects for unilateral, economic, and US sanctions, whereas we found no statistical evidence of an effect for UN sanctions. Mortality effects ranged from 8·4 log points (95% CI 3·9–13·0) for children younger than 5 years to 2·4 log points (0·9–4·0) for individuals aged 60–80 years. We estimated that unilateral sanctions were associated with an annual toll of 564 258 deaths (95% CI 367 838–760 677), similar to the global mortality burden associated with armed conflict.

"We think the price is worth it." - Madeleine Albright

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

He was an aphorism writer, there are countless aphorisms of his, I thought, one can assume he destroyed them, I write aphorisms, he said over and over, I thought, that is a minor art of the intellectual asthma from which certain people, about all in France, have lived and still live, so-called half philosophers for nurses’ night tables, I could also say calendar philosophers for everybody and anybody, whose sayings eventually find their way onto the walls of every dentist’s waiting room; the so-called depressing ones are, like the so-called cheerful ones, equally disgusting.

  • Thomas Bernhard, The Loser (translated by Jack Dawkins)
[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Buying airtime, I assume?

pure marketing bullshit doublespeak

Now, now, the Wall Street Journal themselves referred to it as a "Hip Campaign That Got Kids To Be Active". fellow-kids

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

The CDC used to run an ad campaign that just said

VERB

It's what you do.

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Yigal Bronner and David Shulman are Sanskrit scholars at the University of Jerusalem; they've been anti-settler and have spoken out against ethnic cleansing in the West Bank for years. I just googled them and although I can't find very much from recent years, there is a protest from this year where the chants included "Don't say we didn't know; genocide is in our name" (Instagram, but it let me see it without logging in). Maybe if we search in Hebrew we can find more from that group.

More from Shulman, "a longtime activist with Ta’ayush, the Arab-Jewish Partnership, in the occupied Palestinian Territories."

Seems to be non-violence; I've yet to read about Israelis actually taking up arms against the genocide.

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https://archive.is/iILQi

Crested auklets are native to the Alaskan Islands and eastern Siberia. Both male and females have bright bills, which are fluorescent, and during breeding season, the same curly head plumage. In courtship, females bury their heads in the males’ tangerine-scented necks, known as “ruff-sniffing,” as the males puff out their chests and honk with gusto. The birds are even known for what the Audubon Society calls “rambunctious sex parties,” in which groups of up to 20 crowd in to watch a pair mate.

The crested auklet at the Farallons would have no such luck. He was the only one seen for miles around, known as a vagrant or a bird that somehow drifts away from normal migration routes. Crested auklets rarely stray from the northern Pacific Ocean, and one has not been spotted in California since 1995, off Bodega Head in the Sonoma Coast. Before that one was seen in Marin County in 1979, according to Rare Birds of California, which confirms sightings.

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While archive.is is loading, here's the original: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/controversial-california-police-hiring/

An article that pretends to be on the correct side of things but neglects the fact that STAFFING SHORTAGES AREN'T REAL

Some officers, however, were fired over serious allegations, including failing to take a sex assault report and driving drunk in a city-owned vehicle, records indicate.

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Departments with the highest shares of these officers tend to skew smaller, trending toward rural communities and nontraditional forces like hospital or school campus police.

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I'm starting to think it'd be easier than getting them to read theory.

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Just blatantly stealing a Flann O'Brien pun because the rest of the story involved Keats and Chapman studying eugenics

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