After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.
Alex Jones is truly one of the most evil people alive. He's lucky he lives in an era where the punishment for behavior like his is losing your website and not thumbscrews.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
LOS ANGELES ANGELS, 2011 Clevinger’s girlfriend from his early days as an Angels prospect told Finestead he “chucked my keys at my head,” and that though he missed, the pitcher “threw them hard enough they bent my keys.” The woman confirmed her correspondence with eyeblack and said that in 2023, she told a league investigator about her allegedly abusive relationship with Clevinger.
MLB and Clevinger's attorneys defended the league's investigation. But MLB won't disclose its process, citing privacy concerns.
So [eyeblack] obtained:
-police reports from two different women
-court docs
-social media posts
-photos
-and video
to better understand what MLB knew. One example:
Olivia Finestead said she recorded this call a month after MLB completed its investigation. The voice she insists is Clevinger's tells her she's a "fucking prostitute" and says he's "coming for" her child.
She told a judge she had this footage. Also the cops.
And in 2023, she said she told MLB.
The steroid era in baseball was a rug pull; the league intentionally and deliberately got as many guys as they could on gear so they could juice attendance and TV ratings to an acceptable level after the '94 strike, at which point the roid guys--having served their purpose--were thrown to the wolves
The only conspiracy theory I believe is organizations in power make up bonkers conspiracies to hide the truth of what they are really doing, so they can stay in power. Then, when you point out bad stuff they are doing, they can mock people as needing tinfoil hats, etc, and discredit them.
👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏
Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.
Why would anyone expect a public service to make money?
If we're going to use this as a standard, how much money did the RCMP and the Canadian Armed Forces "lose" in the past eight years?
I think this is my favourite of all of them
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
In other news, Andrew Tate now has a Substack.
But it's all ok because it's just "free speech" isn't it? Definitely definitely not rampant unprincipled greed.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
the Phillies cannot be remotely normal and bless them for it
I know Indigenous people in Canada who are scared to go to hospitals because anti-Indigenous racism is all too common in healthcare.
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
This is kind of huge actually.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
now imagine what would happen if we could similarly capture the attention of the press/public with any of the other undemocratic, corrupt excesses doug ford is foisting upon us at the same time
Is he seriously still on that bs????
If this actually fixes Lukes, I'm thrilled. But also why the hell did it take them until this weekend to treat him?
Apparently actually treating vertigo makes it easier for people to play baseball. Who knew?
It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
For a guy who is really only in the rotation due to a bunch of injuries, and even then has been pretty bad....
Well, like David Price said: "If you don't like it, Pitch Better"
All the complaining to the media in spring and now this is a real bad look for him tbh
We live in a post-market size world. The most famous sports team in the world is located in Manchester, England (population 580,000), a city roughly the size of Albuquerque, NM or Surrey, BC. Build it and they will come.
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
women who hate men generally just hate what men have done to them whereas men who hate women mostly just hate what women won’t do for them
the difference is crucial
Funny, this was my first thought.