Schrodinger's economy.
It is both thriving and failing whenever convenient.
As a bonus: Check out the /r/Portland thread about this situation to see some truly impressive mental gymnastics.
Anyone pointing out the hypocrisy gets attacked because she's "grooming children" with her agenda.
The sheer irony of it all is amazing.
The issue only got more complicated from there. Around 2016, Richard Friedman, who ran the student mental-health program at Cornell for 22 years, started seeing the number of people seeking help each year increase by 10 or 15 percent. “Not just that,” he told me, “but the way young people were talking about upsetting events changed.” He described “this sense of being harmed by things that were unfamiliar and uncomfortable. The language that was being used seemed inflated relative to the actual harm that could be done. I mean, I was surprised—people were very upset about things that we would never have thought would be dangerous.” Some students, for instance, complained about lecturers who’d made comments they disliked, or teachers whose beliefs contradicted their personal values.
Wait, is this author seriously going to say trigger warnings are causing this?
Is that how they are going to ignore the real problem, scapegoat trigger warnings and pronouns? The two things that nobody likes?
Boy, how convenient!
The man carried around small bags of sand in a larger bag.
He was probably JACKED. All fitness experts use small bags of sand and a duffel bag right?
When I was in my early 20s, I owned a duffel bag full of sand. Correction: I owned a duffel bag full of sandwich bags full of sand, each duct-taped closed so that I could easily add them to or remove them from the larger bag when I was taking it outside to do squats and hill sprints. In my mind, this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do, a view I questioned only when one of my friends, helping me to move house, said: “Ooh, this is heavy, what’s in this one?” Reader, they were furious.
I mention this not to show off, but to establish my credentials before the next bit.
Can we all appreciate how nice it will be when AI finally takes over these jobs? Because I have never seen a worse introduction in my entire life, this is just narcissistic ramblings. He thinks this is his Xanga.
Wonder how many of her students she managed to 'influence'.
Charles Barron, D, NY.
One of the most disgusting things I've seen recently. This happened back in 2019, four years ago.
Sophie Holland originally wanted to be an actor, but says it didn’t work out for many reasons. “Not least of all, I was probably terrible,” she says with a laugh. “But I love the industry so much and somebody said to me, ‘If you want money, you should be an agent. And if you want power, you should be a casting director.’”
Imagine the total lack of self control and intelligence to say this during a fucking interview.
It is the timing. Posting it at the time she did with the information contained before the jury concluded shows the charges were approved much earlier or even in advance.
I'm guessing they immediately approved all of them and they realized they had to pretend it took much longer so they just sat on it...but chubby here didn't get the memo.
Looks like there is a community note added suggesting that payment was in 2022 for 'renting out' the email list of the Daily Wire.
Amazon has been essentially stealing material from authors for a while now.
Amazon recently received backlash from prominent author Jane Friedman after it was discovered that the platform had allowed books written using AI to be published under her name, without her permission.
Amazon initially said Friedman did not have the copyright to her name, but the platform ultimately took down the books.
“They’ve never taken on any care or responsibility for these things. It’s pretty much anything goes until there’s a total sh*tstorm surrounding it, publicity wise,” she said. “Authors are just banging their heads against the wall trying to get a human being with critical thinking skills at Amazon to recognize there is a problem here.”
DO NOT GIVE GOOGLE OR AMAZON ANY OF YOUR CREATIVE WORK. THEY WILL STEAL IT.
While all right-thinking people were horrified by the footage, one senior West Yorkshire Police officer, Kate Madden, who is also co-chair of West Yorkshire Police’s ‘LGBTQ’ group, has since tried to defend the officers involved. In fact, in her view, the real victim here was not the disabled girl who was arrested for an offhand comment, but the officer she momentarily offended.
Guarantee she's a groomer.
The funniest thing about this whole comment is that she considers 3-4 hours of light social media work each day to be 'unacceptable.'
Bitch if you can't do a couple of fucking tik tok videos and social media posts in an entire workday you should not be working. Marry someone and start a family because complaining publicly about so little work is pathetic to everyone who actually has to put in a real day's work.
This would be a much stronger message if the Shazam sequel wasn't awful. He even tried to defend it, but it was garbage.
He's got the right concept but wrong targets.
There actually has been an uptick in fatal traffic accidents that some people believe are associated with the mRNA shots.
The coroners are just using the accidents as an excuse not to mention they had a stroke or heart attack which caused the accident.
Hard to prove if that is the case but there has been an uptick in fatal accidents that is abnormal.
Broward County.
Is it just me or does a LOT of sketchy shit happen in Broward County? Seems like every other day they hit national news.
I watched a little of it and they got it half right. The problem was they removed all the driving...which was the entire fucking purpose of the game.
Nobody played Twisted Metal to learn about the world and drivers. Total missed opportunity.
I'm only going to pull out a few gems, but this entire thing is worth the read.
Mahriah Zimmerman says her multiracial family of three lived in terror as a white neighbor at their South Waterfront condo sprayed bleach and threw lit cigarettes at her 4-year-old son, pounded on the common walls of their condo in the middle of the night and threatened to shoot her entire family. That was all while screaming antisemitic and racist slurs directed at the three of them, including her son and his dad, who are Black.
It was her son’s introduction to racial hatred and bigotry.
“I had to explain to him what the N-word was,” Zimmerman said. “He had never heard that word before, ever.”
Zimmerman’s case illustrates a small but significant trend: Even in Portland, the most liberal bastion in a left-leaning state, hate crime cases fail in avoidable ways.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reviewed the prosecution of cases in the three counties that comprise the state’s most populous region — Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas.
While Multnomah County has had some of the most aggressive hate crime prosecutions in Oregon — convicting more defendants per capita than many other parts of the state — it also is home to some devastating defeats. Among the three metro counties, it has the highest rate of hate crime case failures over the past year.
One in three cases that police forwarded to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office in 2022 didn’t result in prosecutors filing hate crime charges, including some for legitimate reasons.
“Each individual case sounds like an isolated case,” said Hongcheng Zhao, president of the Oregon Chinese Coalition. “But you put them together and it’s a systemic problem.”
This entire article is so astonishingly ironic. It shows just how far they've been pushed left.
Oh, and the best part? Oregon Live is considered the 'Conservative' outlet.
Here's the video of the incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCMeanIl9g
Definitely edited heavily.
The death is incidental, I'm not sure why they highlighted it in the headline. Almost certainly due to the raid and pressure put on her by the police but you couldn't prove that in a courtroom.
It is the story behind it that is so interesting and bizarre, also highlights some clear abuse.
The raid followed after police were reportedly “tipped off” that the newspaper was in possession of evidence which revealed that a prominent local restaurant owner, Kari Newell, had been convicted of drunk driving but continued using her car without a license, according to Kansas Reflector.
What the fuck?
Eric Meyer, who taught journalism at the University of Illinois for 26 years, called the raid “chilling” and said it’s the first time he has heard of police raiding a newspaper's office throughout the entirety of his career. Meyer also spent 20 years at the Milwaukee Journal.
"It's going to have a chilling effect on us even tackling issues,” Eric Meyer said after the raid, adding that it will impact “people giving us information."
This whole thing is really messed up, seems like a ton of abuse by both the police and the politicians.
The judge said that the lawsuit centered on public policy questions that are for lawmakers and corporations to decide, not the courts.
"If the plaintiff doesn't want to be invested in 'woke' corporate America, perhaps it should seek other investment opportunities rather than wasting this court's time," the judge said.
Amazing. A total disregard of both the Supreme Court decision and common sense.
Even worse:
However, Judge Bastian rejected these allegations and on Aug. 11 dismissed the case with prejudice, according to a court filing (pdf), meaning that NCPPR is barred from refiling the lawsuit.
With prejudice, of course. What a cunt. Judge Bastian, I wonder who put him in place...
Right, Obama!
When the truth is worse then people can imagine there is no benefit in revealing it.
Can you believe the balls on these people to publicly declare 'no further action' against the innocent autistic girl they roughed up?
How about an apology you tea drinking cuntbags? A firing of the horrible bitch responsible for this and dismissal of every single person involved?
Nope, just a promise not to FURTHER fuck her life up. How grand.
“This was a home invasion by an organised crime gang called West Yorkshire Police,” he told GB News, adding: “This was an armed kidnapping of a 16-year-old autistic girl because she happened to say [something] the West Yorkshire Police do not like.”
Miller went on to note that the very same police force had just days prior joined an LGBT+ Pride parade in West Yorkshire, demonstrating that the force is politically biased.