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mentallyalex

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I was told once that Mastodon is a friendly void that yells back. I really like that.

The world is a big place filled with terrible and wonderful things. I sometimes comment on them at length.

Made 3 people laugh at my HashTagGame entry - Aug 24, 2023.

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TonyStark, to random
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Senator Vance stated that Ukraine should end the war and give land to Putin.

You can spot all the Putin-owned assets in our government quite easily.

If Russia wins, it will control 27 percent of world grain exports, approaching twice the size of the EU, which in second place collectively exports 16 percent of the world’s grain market. Not a good plan.

JD Vance says Ukraine should cede land and cut a deal with Putin to end the war-
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jd-vance-says-ukraine-cede-land-cut-deal-putin-end-war-rcna129195

mentallyalex,
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@TonyStark When these people speak out, they should be met with police and either be escorted out of the country, go let Putin care for his pets - or imprisoned.

BigAngBlack, to random
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Is anyone making and selling mascot plushies?

mentallyalex,
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@wendinoakland
Simply put? I don't have the square footage to accommodate a whole furson.

Most plushies are way smaller than any furry I've ever been introduced to.

@BigAngBlack

mentallyalex, to random
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Good afternoon everyone! I know it's only 8mst/9cst and probably 3pm overseas but...I've been awake for a bit already.

I hope you are having a wonderfully fantabulous day and you spend your time gathering good energy for the rest of the week!

You are amazing and I'm so glad to see you doing well today.

GottaLaff, to random
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Judge Kelly is talking now, in the case, prior to his sentencing.

Thing is, he always starts out with such condemnation, then disappoints us with the number of years in the sentence.

Sigh.

mentallyalex,
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@GottaLaff I would have preferred the 33 - but as I said before, 20+ sounds right.

I hope he realizes that his life is effectively over and spends his remaining years repentant.

mentallyalex,
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@barney
If elected Tarrio will likely be heralded as a General in some twisted Brown Shirts group in Trumps personal army.

But that is not something we can really do much about yet. For this monster, it has been vanquished publicly. 'We the people' have stood up and said that the and their kind are not welcome in our country.

In the face of chaos, we need to be the calmer heads or we will be swept up into their storm. This is part of that, and I hope discourages them going forward.

@GottaLaff

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To the spider that decided I can't go outside.
You are mean and I am going to call someone to deal with you.

mentallyalex, to random
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It would appear that Ron has opted to completely drill his states educational system into the bedrock.

DeSantis' Florida approves classroom videos that compare climate activists to Nazis
https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-florida-2662923106/

From the article:
> These videos use a teenage character Ania, who is concerned about climate change, and has her fears allayed by narrators who tell her that the climate has always cooled and warmed "long before carbon emissions were a factor" — which is true but irrelevant to the current crisis, which is directly caused by emissions of carbon into the atmosphere.

>Other videos attack wind and solar energy as harmful to the environment and unreliable. The material even compares climate activists to Nazis, having a survivor of Hitler's regime compare his own struggle to Ania being criticized by her teacher and classmates after she repeats PragerU's talking points.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The unspoken context behind the "Battle of Montgomery" video:

  • When media mentions "blue collar" jobs, they usually picture rural white folk. But... most employed Black and Latinx people work blue collar jobs, and most people live in cities. In the US, blue collar employees are Black and brown.🤷🏿‍♂️

  • Blue collar employees are often asked to enforce rules, (like mask mandates).

  • When racist white people get drunk, they often use slurs against, spit at, or physically strike these Black workers.

mentallyalex,
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@mekkaokereke If for no other reason to force police and other "authority" figures to act nice - body cameras and filmed engagements should be the norm.

The level of disproportionate response is ridiculous. As you say, they'll be commended for restraint and professionalism where it's more "awareness of the real situation that is unfolding".

I'm glad UK did the right thing here.

mentallyalex,
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@waitworry I don't have a problem with that, doesn't seem to be a real issue.

If I rent a parking space and "fail to remember to bring my receipt" there is a minimum fine of "THE DAY" or something similar. It's usually close to, if not the, maximum fee for the service.

That seems to be an excellent deterrent for self-regulation.

If they have a body cam that "fails to work" I am certain someone else in the area has secondary footage we could use. If "all" of their cameras failed...apply the same logic.

Once we round up the lower tiers the non-lower tiers will quit "forgetting" to turn their cameras on.

To be clear, I'm implying that if they turn their cameras off - they plead guilty to the assault.

@mekkaokereke

mentallyalex,
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@Spicewalla Of course, but that is a nuance to the solution.

There are a hundred hurdles to the 'cop cam' problem, but every one of them is solvable.

We obviously aren't going to dig out of hundreds of years of racism and ableism and abuse from authority. But we can't just stand by and defeat ourselves. Let them defeat us.

We need body cameras, we need accountability with the police. We need an advocacy pipeline for vulnerable communities and the COPS need help handling the sheer volume of overwork shoved at them.

Because unions, because corruption, etc. are all valid and real barriers of entry but they need to be taken as goals to solve - not project killers.

@mekkaokereke

mentallyalex,
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@QuinceDaPence
It's from Kappa from Twitch based on one of the employees.

Kappa made the face, kappa came from "no kappa" which denoted being serious and was shortened to "no cap"

@errer @unwillingsomnambulist

mentallyalex,
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@QuinceDaPence
I don't know. Perhaps familiarity? Or the subject matter?

I just happened to see the comment and wanted to contribute. From a Mastodon perspective, you guys have 'default' avatars and sometimes the conversation seem to fly by. Might be a reason others don't engage. On reddit type places having a default was "norm" but at least on Mastodon I think it's considered "norm" to have an avi.

Different interface so the engagement is different, maybe?

@errer @unwillingsomnambulist

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