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What’s the mask for? Is Covid in the fire?
— AwakeNotWoke (@AddisonJK) January 8, 2025
As you may be aware there is a fire raging in the rich side of town here in Los Angeles.
The first tweet of this chain is this, an aerial view of the fire:
Aerial view of Los Angeles. Photos that unfortunately go hard. pic.twitter.com/ch1FFtrqJH
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) January 8, 2025
Bonus video of the fire from An airplane, pretty crazy:
— 𝕊𝕋𝔸ℝ𝕋ℂℍ𝔸ℕ𝔾𝔼ℝ𝕀 #🟦✨ (@startchangeri) January 8, 2025
But back to the thread at hand. This guy shares a crazy video of two r-slurs that decided to ignore the evacuation order:
Horrific decision. pic.twitter.com/ibGg258fpa
— Burning Bunny (@Fedsurrection20) January 8, 2025
Which leads us to the hero of this journey questioning the science:
What’s the mask for? Is Covid in the fire?
— AwakeNotWoke (@AddisonJK) January 8, 2025
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Yea, like, I am not a fighter, but I’m also not stupid. “What if Donald Trump and the Republican Party decides they are kings” has one answer, and it is an obvious one
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I resigned from xAI tonight.
— Benjamin De Kraker (@BenjaminDEKR) February 12, 2025
It makes me very sad, but was the right thing to do -- and here's why.
xAI told me I either had to delete the post quoted below, or face being fired.
After reviewing everything and thinking a lot, I've decided that I'm not going to delete the post… https://t.co/8egdL0c8gc
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I was driving past the local college the other day and got a flat tire
(During the process of changing my tire 8 other ppl pulled into the same gas station, also with flat tires - I suspect some local student planted a spike strip)
I'm procrastinating on getting a new tire
I attempted to access my backup car but the battery is dead
I jumped it with my primary car but it keeps dying so I have to jump it every time I go somewhere
I have a battery jumper in the trunk of my backup car which would make the process much easier but I can't get into the trunk because my key doesn't work on it anymore (the key filed itself down over time with use I think)
I also have a backup battery jumper but it is also broken ()
How fix
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- Homoshrexual : #itsherturn
- Geralt_of_Uganda : /h/pol
- QueenOfSchqiperia : h/pol , h/politic , h/kamala
- forgor : Not actually hungarian
- Freak-Off : NOT her turn. Book it
- FearOfBees : YOU'RE BANNED FROM THE SUBREDDIT, YOU'RE BANNED FROM THE GROOMERCORD, YOU'RE BANNED
- kaamrev : Death to Ziggers
- Sneedman : It's Kamala or fascism
- Aevann : all members of the highly-coveted !africans interest group endorse Kamala
- CEO_of_misogyny : #IstandwithPizzashill no vote for a foid
THIS BUT UNIRONICALLY
Vote for her if you didn't do it yet. She is rdrama's officially endorsed candidate.
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!crossword I also have a question for you. I think there might be a couple of more mega crosswords left, but is there something else you would like to do after we run out? Or just keep to the Sat & Sun Crosswords?
Current Crossword:
LA Times, Sun, Jan 19, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849602-jund
SOLVED
NY Times, Sun, Jan 19, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849664-jisk
SOLVED
LA Times, Sat, Jan 18, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849722-noct
SOLVED
NY Times, Sat, Jan 18, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849742-jank
SOLVED
SUPER MEGA, NY Times, Sun, Dec 13, 2020
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6849420-treb
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: I should be in the jail list with my butt pirate buddies
- DestoryerCarbine : We did this
- Kuruminha-Wolverine-Kang : we didnt do it in good faith or something
- mithrandir : this is misinformation
- Domnhall : horse exploit
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Aevann has requested that I throw this helpful reference material together in light of recent events. So today we'll be discussing what to do if you discover an exploit in the site.
DO
- Privately modmail the jannies what you've found, what it does, and how it's done. You will be handsomely rewarded, proportionate to the severity of the issue found. At a minimum you'll be given this super cool rare badge and some shekels:
DON'T
Tell anyone else
Use the exploit beyond the bare minimum needed to confirm its existence
Use the exploit beyond the bare minimum needed to confirm its existence
USE THE EXPLOIT BEYOND THE BARE MINIMUM NEEDED TO CONFIRM ITS EXISTENCE
It's impossible to report a bug if you can't tell anyone
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/sam-kerr-trial-london-metropolitan-police-london/104884292
She said she was uncomfortable in the taxi because some taxi driver in Sydney murdered some people and got upset at the popo for taking the taxi driver's side or something. Idk heard it yesterday on the radio.
Basically, Sydney is a dangerous place that you should never go to.
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https://rdrama.net/post/343469/rslurs-blame-the-plane-crash-in/7811985#context
Why this grabbin a full handful on the way out
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CW: OP repeatedly misgenders her step son
SageSunrise: I am a step-mom to two wonderful girls age 12 and 13. Recently, the 12yo confessed to me that she "wants to be a boy." I asked her why she feels that way, and she wasn't able to explain, just "I don't know, I just do."
Now, she's always been kind of a tomboy. Over the summer she got a pixie cut haircut (with pink highlights), and she sometimes wears "boyish" clothes. But at the same time, she enjoys stereotypically feminine activities like baking cupcakes and playing with makeup. She loves all the current pop music girlies and knows every trivia fact about Sabrina Carpenter. As a younger kid she liked stereotypical "boy" toys like Nerf guns and dinosaurs (who didn't??) but also had a babydoll she treated as her actual child for YEARS.
So what I'm saying is - she's not a boy. She might be a lesbian (she hasnt confirmed it, but she is REALLY into Sabrina Carpenter...), but definitely not a boy.
How do I talk to her about this? I'm sure these feelings are coming from a confused discomfort with puberty hormones and body changes that she's misinterpreting as some kind of "gender dysphoria." The kids go to a very liberal private school and I know they're getting all the TRA messaging there (this is their last year there).
Does anyone have any experience with this? Any advice? I'm afraid if I just shut it down full stop she'll dig her heels in, but I'm definitely not going along with it. Their father (my husband) feels the same as me, and while their mom isn't as peaked, she has assured my husband she would never consider any medical intervention. Plus, we live in a super red state where "gender affirming care" is extremely hard to come by and might soon be illegal for minors.
Any advice?
Comments:
radicalacceptance: Sounds like you should let her parents handle it.
iconic: Did you read the post?
I am a step-mom to two wonderful girls
Step-parents are parents in every sense of the word. They take on the responsibility of caring for, nurturing, and guiding a child
She is trying to handle it, are you treating her as less of a parent?
radicalacceptance:It might hurt some people's feelings to accept reality but stepparents do not have the same rights or responsibilities as legal parents.
PiquedInterest: She's not one of the girls' biological parents, but she's still an adult closely involved in their life, not a random stranger who can just punt them off to their parents.
radicalacceptance: Oh? Why can't she punt this one?
Every divorced dad in the world wants to dump his parenting responsibilities on his new wife. OP doesn't need to play along. She doesn't have any legal authority over these kids' medical decisions anyway. She can and should let the parents handle it.
iconic: Step-parents contribute to the emotional, financial, and practical well-being of the family unit. It's not uncommon or wrong for them to become fully integrated into the fabric of a child's life and assume the responsibilities traditionally associated with "legal" parenthood
The law doesn't guarantee better decision-making capabilities. "Biological" or adoptive parents might not possess the knowledge or understanding to make the most informed decisions for a child's well-being. OP possesses the knowledge or understanding that "transgenderism" ruins bodies and lives. With this knowledge comes a moral obligation/responsibility to ensure that medical decisions are made in the child's best interest
The moral obligation/responsibility of a well-informed and loving step-parent supersedes the limitations of the law. Let OP handle it. Without information on the availability or involvement of the other "biological" parent, it's unwarranted to use the law to dismiss OP's concerns
radicalacceptance: Ok, but that's not actually how any of this works. The kids' parents make the kids' medical decisions and if OP disagrees it doesn't matter if she's objectively right or a better parent.
I'm sure dad loves checking out and letting OP handle this "because you're just so much better at this than I am" though. Divorced dad 101. Let's all be smarter than this?
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This is a silly post lol I love living in Japan, but it was not easy to get here. You cannot just move to Japan because you want too. You also underestimate how soul crushing those teaching jobs actually are. People on those salaries are just barely getting by. Gay marriage is not even legal here and Japan is a much more conservative country than most people think
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May 22nd, 1960. At 15:11, near the town of Traiguén, located at what nowadays is the Region of Araucanía, tectonic rupture occurred. The result was a powerful earthquake, it scored a magnitude of 9.5 Mw, the highest ever recorded in human history. The earthquake triggered a tsunami wave, around 30 ft tall traveling at a speed of around 95 miles per hour. The earthquake also moved the Earth's axis by 3cm.
The Valdivia Earthquake (names after the town of Valdivia) ended up destroying most of the towns in Southern Chile. On May 28th the local newspaper "La Cruz del Sur" published a preliminary report on the victims. 962 killed, 1410 missing, 140 injured, this as far as the authorities were aware up to the date.
Welcome to the Republic of Chile
Greetings dramatards, as promised here starts or journey into what would become one of the most famous dictatorships of the Americas, the Chilean Military Junta. But before getting into the story of our infamous General and his Junta de Gobierno, first it's time to cover the basics of how Chile came to the point of democratic rupture. So let's start giving some context.
By the early 1960s Chile was a poor country. It wasn't the poorest in Latin America and while it fared better than most of the South American continent, the fact remained that it lagged far behind Argentina and Uruguay, the only countries which by that time counted with a large middle class. Chile was highly unequal and a significant portion of its population was still rural with peasants moving to the outskirts of Santiago forming what was known as "campamentos", basically shanty towns, favelas.
Chile's upper class what still composed by a few selective families from the colonial period (mostly of Basque origin) and rather new families of 19th century immigrant background (mostly from Britain, Germany, Croatia, etc) which also made up a big part of its small middle-class.
Despite all this, Chile was still a robust democracy. The constitution in effect at the time was the 1925 constitution which leads us to the Chilean government of the early 1960s.
The then President of Chile was Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez.
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1896, he was the son of the late politician Arturo Alessandri Palma (1868-1950), who also served as President of the Republic between 1920 to 1925, and then again from 1932 to 1938.
Jorge Alessandri was elected President in the 1958 election. Under the 1925 Constitution the President of Chile was elected by a majority of 50%+ of the popular vote, if all candidates failed to achieve the 50% threshold, then Congress would elect the President, which is exactly what happened in 1958.
Alessandri was an independent, but he was supported by a coalition of right-wing parties
The results of the popular vote of the 1958 were:
Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez - 31.56%
Salvador Allende Gossens - 29.85%
Eduardo Frei Montalva - 20.70%
The resulting vote in Congress was Alessandri getting 147 votes and Allende getting 26. Salvador Allende was the candidate for the Socialist Party of Chile and a coalition of left-wing parties, while Eduardo Frei Montalva was a candidate for the PDC, (Partido Democráta Cristiano) or Christian Democratic Party which was a socially conservative but economically centrist political party.
Alessandri's style was what he nicknamed "gerencia" or "management", the point of which was to manage Chile as if it were a private company. By the early 1960s Chile was in dire need of reform, and the Valdivia Earthquake wasn't of help. After the earthquake Alessandri went to the US and got aid thanks to President John F. Kennedy and his "Alliance for Progress" program, which included 422 million dollars to help the damaged of Chile. The Chekhov earthquake also triggered the arrival of another important actor of this story later on…
The Alliance for Progress programs also promoted certain policies, among the most important of them, land reform. In 1962 which was also the year where Chile was host of the World Cup, Alessandri signed the first land reform bill which was rather modest on its reach. By the end of his term he felt like Chile needed deeper structural reforms if they were to develop as their agriculture was lagging behind, he also oversaw projects of public housing in urban areas. However Alessandri's disapproval increased while left-wing parties grew stronger.
The 1964 Presidential Election
By 1964 there was a growing fear of Allende being elected. The Conservative Coalition was unpopular and of the top of the recent Cuban Revolution, left-wing guerrilas began to sprang up in Chile, like the MIR (Movimiento Revolucionario de Izquierda). Due to this, the rightoid candidate of that year, Julio Durán, decided to withdraw from the race and support the based centrist Eduardo Frei Montalva.
Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was born in Santiago in 1911. He was the son of a swiss immigrant, Eduardo Frei Schlinz, and a Chilean woman, Victoria Montalva Martínez. After getting support from Durán he unknowingly got another ally, the United States of America and the CIA
In order to help Frei Montalva's campaign, the CIA secretly funneled 2.6 million dollars to his campaign, along another 3 million dollars on anti-Allende political propaganda. This was done according without his knowledge lmao.
The final results of the 1964 election were:
Eduardo Frei Montalva - 56.09%
Salvador Allende Gossens - 38.93%
Julio Durán Neumann - 4.98%
Frei Motalva was sworn in as President of the Republic on November 3rd of that same year.
Back then the President of Chile lasted 6 years in office and couldn't be consecutively re-elected. This becomes important later on
Frei Montalva begin what he called "Revolution in Liberty", placing an emphasis in improving education (over 3,000 schools were built during his presidency), social housing (over 130k units) and unionization. Union membership in Chile rose from 270,000 in 1964 to 550,000 in 1970 (by the latter date Chile had a population of around 9.8 million inhabitants). Another achievement was the reduction of child mortality from 103 per 100k to 79 per 100k.
He nationalized electrical companies and electrical input in Chile increased 50% during his presidency. There was also a huge investment to develop the steel industry (steel production increased from 620,000 metric tons to over a million).
Finally we arrive at other strong points of his administration, land reform and the nationalization of copper. Frei Montalva signed his first land reform bill in 1966 (expropriating and distributing 3.5 million hectares) and proceeded with a process called "chilenización" or chilenization of copper.
Copper to this day Chile's most important and valuable export , back in the days the mines belonged to American multinationals. Frei Montalva created the "Corporación Nacional del Cobre" (CODELCO) and implemented a partial nationalization. The idea was to buy Chilean mines or to expropriate and indemnify multinationals to a point where the Chilean state would own 51% of the copper. Chilenization began in 1965 and the partial nationalization in 1969.
The year 1969 was the stage of a minor insurrection by the army against the government, due to poor equipment and salaries, showing some clashes the armed forced already had with the government along their dissatisfaction.
The 1970 Presidential Election
In the year 1965 the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) was founded, with the goal of overthrowing the government by means of armed struggle in order to install a communist regime. Salvador Allende however kept insisting on getting power through legitimate means. In 1970 his coalition was the Unidad Popular (Popular Union) or UP. It was composed by the Socialist Party, the Communist party and other minor leftoid parties of Chile
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was born in Santiago in 1908, like most of the Chilean politicians, he belonged to an old money family with roots going back to the colonial era, the Allendes. He studied medicine at the University of Chile and was part of the founding of the Socialist Party of Chile in 1933
The rightoid candidate that year was good old Jorge Alessandri who by then was 74 years old and was suffering from some health issues. People mocked his ability to govern while Allende and co criticized Frei Montalva for not going far enough with his reforms (a.k.a. going full commie).
Alessandri was accused by leftoids of being senile and having early onset parkinson, meanwhile the PDC candidate was Radimiro Tomic , a centre-leftist who had an informal pact with Allende.
The campaign was a bitter one and the everyone was concerned about what would be the military's position if Allende was elected. On an interview with the rightoid newspaper "El Mercurio", the then commander of the Chilean Army, General René Schneider pointed out that that the army would stand and abide by the Constitution regardless of who the winner was.
The CIA didn't support any particular candidate against Allende that year, except for funneling 350,000 dollars to Alessandri's campaign. A CIA report informed that Cuba spent 350,000 dollars on Allende and after the end of the Cold War declassified documents from the KGB showed that the Soviet Union sent 400,000 dollars to Allende's campaign through the Cubans.
Finally, election day came on September 4th, 1970, and the results were:
Salvador Allende Gossens - 36.63%
Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez - 35.29%
Radomiro Tomic Romero - 28.08%
Chilean chuds got into panic mode . Technically Congress could elect anyone as President if they failed to break the 50% threshold, but in practice they would elect the candidate who got a plurality of votes.
Alarm bells also ringed at Washington DC, where President Richard Nixon ordered to stop it from happening. The CIA then devised two plans known as "track 1" and "track 2".
Track 1 consisted in making Congress elect Alessandri, who would then proceed to immediately resign. This would trigger a snap election where the current and rather popular president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, could run again and win. This plan however failed as the PDC supported Allende on the October 24th Congress voting. This was due to an informal gentleman's agreement between Allende and Tomic, whereby one would acknowledge the other's victory if the difference was above 5,000 votes, and would only acknowledge a potential Alessandri victory if the latter won by a difference of 100,000 votes.
After this failed, track two came into scene. Meanwhile the KGB had instructions to help Allende be sworn in. Track Two consisted of creating a climate of political instability as to allow the armed forced to intervene and stop Allende from becoming president. Henry Kissinger was personally involved in the main operation which consisted of kidnapping General Schneider, the commander of the Chilean army, as a trigger for intervention (a leftoid guerrila would be blamed). General Roberto Viaux was in charge of the operation, however it failed as Scheinder resisted and he was killed. His assassination however paved the way for a different leadership in the army.
Salvador Allende was sworn in as President of the Republic on November 3rd, 1970. His government plan was one of complete nationalization of copper, but without compensation, raising wages, freezing prices, and continue mass expropriation of land but with a more aggressive approach.
In order to pass his nationalizations, he based his decrees as being authorized by the short lives 1932 "Socialist Republic" (a bogus commie government which lasted for a few months). Nationalization of copper however was passed by congress with unanimity as it was a process which was bound to happen.
The US responded with a boicot and denial of credits for Chile, however Allende managed to get gibs from the Soviet Union.
According to former KGB General Nikolai Leonov, the USSR provided financial aid in the form of 100 million dollars of credit, 3 fishing boats, new factories, 3,100 tractors and 74,000 tons of wheat.
By 1971 deficit skyrocketed from 3.5% to 9.8% and by 1972 inflation kicked in as the government began activated the money printing machine a year earlier. Then came scarcity of goods and the rise of the black market along rationing.
The increase of money circulation was of 173% in 1972 and 413% by 1973, and with it also an economic recession. Allende blamed it on hoarders. Meanwhile guerrilla groups like MIR which by then felt empowered by government and had amassed almost 100k members were pushing land reform by themselves, with the government doing little to nothing to stop them. MIR took over factories and land properties while the government refused to send the carabineros (police force). Polarization and political violence characterized his 3 years as President. Allende tried to get the USSR to invest 400 million dollars on Chile through factories and infrastructure. However by late 1972 the Soviets denied Chile any further aid requests
In the mist of chaos, by the year 1973 a plot was being developed within the high command of the Chilean Navy, along other conspirators of the armed forces and some help of Burger glowies
!historychads !anticommunists !neolibs !latinx
Who would you have voted for in the following elections
1958 Election
1964 Election
1970 election
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Elon musk's tweets are so hot, the UK intelligence services are diverting taxpayer resources to reading them
Meanwhile:
I genuinely feared for Jess Phillips' life after his post about her
I feel the same. I truly hope she can stay safe in these times.
wow he must've said something truly heinous
I hope she can stay safe
not white schoolgirls though they can get fricked
I am the compassionate one
she looks like one of the background ogres in shrek 4 btw
meanwhile Nige after getting his 34th death threat of the day
That Manchester bomb plot can wait, Elon Musk's just been rude to Keir on twitter
OH THEY CAN???

I must've fricking imagined all of this!
Some twit posts on Facebook: 'jail! And death is what you truly deserve!'
Musk tries to destroy democracy: 'well, it's a complex area and we want to prioritise free speech'
Hans Herman Hoppe bros... was it this easy?
Is what he posted actually illegal? Or just terrifying and unacceptable
Watch as a bong realises he cannot enforce his Naughty Words Laws across national borders
There are things which the UK government can do on a global scale, that Musk cannot
What, like get scammed out of hundreds of millions by Paul 'No Refunds' Kagame?
I suppose it is technically true that Musk cannot repeatedly embarrass and subvert himself by selling or scrapping all of his overseas land, bases and materiel
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
THIS IS JUST LIKE SOY WARS 
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