LillyPip

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

And who is likely to nominate an antivax, anti-science lunatic with brain worms to head the dept of Health and Human Services?

And who is planning to eliminate the department of education and NOAA?

Previous administrations have done damage through incompetence and/or malice, but the plan this time is on another level. They’re going in with the goal of breaking everything.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was hoping the Knowledge Fight guys would get it, but this is pretty great, too.

I hope Alex’s cat shits in his shoes.

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

No, what we sat through was the pre-show with puppets and clowns. Next up is the twisted, gore-filled main event. They’ve been beating the elephants and starving the lions. There will be carnage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

His biggest qualification is he has potential criminal cases he needs gone, just like trump does. Their interests are perfectly aligned. Gaetz will erase all traces of trump’s crimes and evidence without needing to be asked, right after he does the same for himself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He’s clearly an accelerationist. Rebuilding the temple on the Mount is a requirement for Jesus to come back and kick off biblical Armageddon.

Trump has surrounded himself with insane people who are hell-bent on destroying the world so they can be raptured. Choosing people for these roles who openly say shit like this further proves that is their actual plan.

They want to destroy the world and jumpstart their revelations prophecy. They don’t give a shit what happens to the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I’m on Voyager and can see it. They pushed a new update the day before yesterday, and a few things broke for me till I updated (inline images).

Updating your app might fix it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Isn’t this how it always is, though?

Of course those affected turned out. We always do. We’re often getting tear-gassed when 98% of people aren’t even aware a demonstration is happening.

The whole problem is a great many people can’t believe there’s an issue until it affects them, personally.

That’s the heart of it all. If this author had ideas on how to fix that, we’re all ears. Not sarcasm – we’ve been working on that for a very long time.

e: shameful English

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Porque no los dos?

Oligarchs should know by now not to stand near upper floor windows.

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

Kamala Harris recently painted Donald Trump as a fascist. Not to be outdone, the demagogue and convicted felon called Harris a fascist, a communist and stupid.

Well, one of them is stupid.

Someone who was already president once should know enough about politics to know you can’t be a fascist and a communist – they’re diametrically opposed: communism is far left and fascism is far right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

It’s the victim-blaming mentality of an abusive relationship.

‘If the left hadn’t burnt the dinner, the right wouldn’t have hit them.’ We brought this on by not being perfect.

Fuck that. Fascism does not ask permission. It actively foments and exploits any weakness, like a predator, then gaslights you into thinking it’s your fault.

Could the left do better? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean we deserve the fascism that’s been testing the fences like velociraptors for decades, eroding education and the media, sowing misinformation, conspiracy, and discord, and cultivating mistrust and apathy on a scale never before seen.

They need us to blame ourselves, to stay divided, and to point our fingers everywhere but at them. We need to stop making excuses for them.

Blame the fascists for fascism.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

I have no choice at this point. I’m fully disabled, and most of my friends and family died within the last few years, so I have no support network.

I’m already struggling to survive, having to choose between food and medicine, and am overdrawn every month. All my savings are gone. I have literally no money to my name, and have been barely staving off homelessness for months. I rely completely on social services now, which trump has vowed to cut.

I will not survive this administration. My fellow Americans have voted for me to die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That Flynn wasn’t recalled to service to be court-martialed is a travesty.

 

Shortly after this picture was taken, we were on a float with my mother for the bicentennial parade. She made both our outfits of a (very itchy) polyester gabardine, and she wore a dress to match.

The apples my sister is holding meant something, but I don’t remember what and now I can’t ask her. I’d be very interested if anyone knows the significance of the apples during the US bicentennial.

I was 5 and my sister was 3.

 

I’m no astrobiologist. Could be defensive or a mating display. Open to ideas.

 
 
 

In a study published in June in Environmental Science & Technology, Hussain and his colleagues reported that, when microwaved, these containers released millions of bits of plastic, called microplastics, and even tinier nanoplastics.

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Once they’ve snuck past the body’s defense systems, “the chemicals used in plastics hack hormones,” says Leonardo Trasand, a professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the director of the Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards. Hormones are signaling molecules underlying basically everything the body does, so these chemicals, called endocrine disruptors, have the potential to mess with everything from metabolismto sexual development and fertility.

[…]

Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator and the president of Beyond Plastics, a policy and advocacy group against plastic pollution, stopped microwaving plastic 30 years ago. She thinks that you should, too: “My goodness, especially if you have kids or if you’re pregnant, do not put plastic in the microwave.”

“It’s a pain in the neck,” she acknowledges, but “even this one study should be a wake-up call—not just to new parents but to the FDA. They need to be far more proactive.” Transand agrees: “The FDA is glacially behind.”

[…]

“I don’t believe that there are microwave-safe plastics.” Trasand and Enck agree that while independent studies should continue testing how much plastic is being released from food packaging, there is already enough evidence to show that “microwave-safe plastic” isn’t really safe. “I think the FDA needs to tell companies that they can no longer say any plastic is microwavable,” says Enck.

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