It's really cheesy that Trump launched a meme coin. It shows you where his head is at and it is entirely consistent with my long-standing impression of him as a grifter. Only question is will he do a rug pull and will that lead to indictments leading to impeachment.
More than half a century later, September 5th, 1972 should still be a day that lives in infamy -- in which the world watched as a group of Palestinian terrorists held innocent Israeli athletes hostages in an ordeal that left eleven Israelis dead.
The film September 5 tells the story from a new perspective. Ultimately, the unenviable duty of covering the story fell upon a team of sportscasters who were in Germany to cover the Olympics.
Given the timing of this film's release, the connections to recent events shouldn't be lost on anyone. Perhaps some of the "from the river to the sea people" who thought that Israel is in the Caribbean should take a couple of hours to watch this film to gain some historical perspective.
That said, although the film is about the act of terrorism that plagued the Munich Olympics, it's about much more than that. This was the first terror attack that featured live, on location, minute to minute coverage. The film deals with a lot of questions of journalistic ethics with no clean answers. Surely enough, the characters needed to make huge decisions on the fly. Difficult questions that seemed callous to even ask like, "Can we show someone getting shot on live television?" had to be asked.
This is the only film that I've seen from director Tim Fehlbaum so far. His work was damn solid. The world building was effective and efficient. The broadcast technology at the time was often a character in and of itself. At a time when movies seem to be suffering from bloated runtimes, this film comes in at a brisk 94 minutes. You know who everybody is, and why they're there, and why they're reacting the way that they are.
Although Peter Sarsgaard got top billing, the film really belongs to John Magaro (who I didn't recognize from Past Lives) as Geoffrey Mason, an inexperienced head of the control room who was thrust into the situation. The gravity of the situation is never lost on him. The pressure to get things first is always in balance with the duty to get things right.
This is a good film that's more than worth your time.
I know it's many different cultures, but of the half dozen Latin American countries I've been to, there's a common thread, much like all the English speaking countries in the New World.
I love their attitude towards rules. Not too controlling. Not too lax. Juuuust right for me.
I love how they make so many things colorful. I love Spanish tile roofs covered with bougainvilleas.
I love how extroverted it is. People just seem so open and up to chat. If you ever struggle to make friends, consider moving to a Latin American country
I love how happy people seem. Latin American countries tend to score higher on happiness metrics than most models would predict, given their wealth and peacefulness. And you can feel it.
We're exploring more of Latin America this winter and I can't wait to see more of it.
People on both sides have trouble understanding that it's often not the people who you intended to pay a tax who end up paying the tax.
On the Left, it looks like corporate taxes. Corporations don't pay taxes. Only people pay taxes. The people paying the corporate taxes aren't the rich people at the top.
This has been my biggest concern regarding Trump. The Republican party was the tariff party in the 1920s. Harding and Coolidge weren't that big on toeing the party line on that issue -- Hoover was. You say that you're forcing foreign companies to pay a tax for doing business. They're not paying the tariff -- we are. We pay the tariff via higher prices on imported goods.
I can’t take seriously the lefty squawking about the “cost” of military flights exporting illegals.
The idiot Biden administration spent $22 trillion dollars including $700 billion for illegals who were not supposed to be here.
Each and every Democrat owes the non-Democrats reparations of $60,000 for the money wasted breaking US laws. I don’t think people who use US government money to break the law should assume they can get away with it. If they have to pay for what they steal, maybe less will be stolen in the future.
Here is Trump's executive order on TikTok. He's ordering a 75 day delay in the ban. Doesn't exactly sound like good news for TikTok as he's still talking about national security concerns posed by TikTok. So sounds like he's going to try to force a divestiture just like the law.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, et al are still complying with the ban, so they don't seem to persuaded by this executive order.
We have these signs for eggs and milk in Safeways.
I wonder what would happen if they allowed for prices to increase, thereby making it more profitable for more farmers to start scaling up their business which means more available eggs and milk, which means prices aren't COSTLY
Purchase limits, price controls, If you don't learn economics, things will become so bad, you will learn with your stomach
Despite promoting the death penalty for nonviolent drug offenders Trump actually followed through on pardoning Ross Ulbricht. Thrilled for Ross and his family. There's no chance this indicates anything policy wise but it's one good thing to come out of the past day. Along with the commutation for Leonard Peltier, this is wholly unexpected good news
Apparently this sign on some commercial aircraft is causing confusion.
I'm not sure why this has to be explained, but obviously the sign means that if you suspect your view of smoke is blocked by your view of fire, do not take a mobile phone photo.
It was really pretty rough. He said “you can’t cut off my nose because first you have to cut off half my nose”.
That was the first duel.
Then he said “you can’t cut off all my nose because first you have to cut half the remaining nose, and then you have to cut half of that remaining nose, and there’s an infinite sequence of things you need to do and a finite amount of time.”
It’s known, famously with a Danish accent, as “Ze Nose Paradox”.
Of course I'm happy Ross is free, and it's worth celebrating the pardon. Trump deserves credit for keeping this promise, and it's not nothing. To him and his family, it's everything.
No, it's not a vindication and it doesn't make me regret not voting for Trump. Ross is one man who deserved freedom and was imprisoned unjustly, but that's gotta be weighed against the effects of Trump's Presidency on 350 million or so other Americans. And my movement more than most should understand concentrated benefits versus dispersed costs.
The "I told you sos" from libertarians who supported him don't have enough to hang that hat on with one presidential pardon alone.
I'm not one of those paranoid TDS people who think Trump's the next Hitler and will end our Republic and install a racist dictatorship or something. I'm opposed to Trump because he's untrustworthy, authoritarian, fiscally populist, and because I'm opposed to his trade and immigration policies. Of all the things he promised, being more restrictionist on trade and immigration are the things I think he's most motivated by and most likely to do. Both are inherently inflationary at a time when the battle against inflation is important and isn't even close to over. Being opposed to entitlement reform alone is enough to be a deal breaker for me when major programs are less than a decade out from bankruptcy and time is running out.
I understand why people who think like me voted for him. Compared to Kamala, he was far less likely to get us into a new war. Less people are likely to be killed and more people are likely to live under relative peace. If I lived in a swing state, that might have been enough to not go third party, because it was such a stark difference between him and her and affected millions and millions of people. Compared to the amount of lives likely saved on the war and peace front, Ross just seems like a drop in the bucket. But I don't live in a swing state, and I still worry about how he'll go about any tariff and deportation plans, even if he's a mixed bag.
I'm glad Ross is free, and I hope Trump does other stuff that's good as well. Maybe he won't be as bad as I think this time around. If it turns out my pessimism is misplaced on him overall, I welcome that. If the tariffs are just a negotiating tactic and immigration restrictions no worse than his first term, awesome. If DOGE convinces him that entitlements deserve to be saved from their unsustainable structure, I'd be ecstatic. I'd rather be wrong than be able to say I told you so.
Everyone is panicking over Tik Tok syphoning private data from your phones when I think the subtle reprogramming that algorithm recommendations push on youth and the impressionable, is way worse. Way more malicious
I do not think that pardons for J6ers are bad if it was done right. In fact, if it was done right it would have been a winner. There was hysterics on the J6ers that led to overcharging. I just read about a man who went into the capital and took pictures. Did nothing violent. At his trial the judge let the prosecutor run a six-minute film of capital violence that had only a few seconds of him filming in it. Clearly meant to emotionally influence the jury which it did. He got 2 years for basically trespassing. Assuming what I read is correct there is no justification for a sentence like that. Had Trump pardoned all non-violent J6ers then I would ignore his detractors and Trump can pull up cases like that one to embarrass Democrats.
Furthermore, he could have even made a case to lessen the sentence of some of the violent J6ers. I can fully believe that some of them were oversentence. I would want to see their sentences compared to those convicted of comparative crimes as I suspected they were oversentenced. Had Trump reduced their sentences to be comparable then he would have gotten flak but it would have been defensible. People may not have liked it but he would have had a fair double standard argument.
Yes, it would have taken some effort to go through each case and made determinations. But probably not that much time. Nonviolent offenders are automatic pardons. Violent crimes you seek out comparables and soon you would have a decent scale. He could have done this and kept his promise to pardon. And he would have put more egg on the face of Biden and his terrible pardons. Everyone now forgets that Biden gave pre-emptive pardons to his family and his political allies. In many ways, that sets a worse precedent than what Trump has done.
But instead, Trump acts without nuance and just pardons everyone. Part of what concerns me about Trump is that he reacts often without thinking through the ramifications of what he is doing. That may get us into big trouble with foreign policies are attempts to conduct domestic affairs. I hope Trump has a successful presidency as we do not need a failed presidency. But actions like the way he pardoned the J6ers make me fearful that this seems unlikely to be the case.
It's really cheesy that Trump launched a meme coin. It shows you where his head is at and it is entirely consistent with my long-standing impression of him as a grifter. Only question is will he do a rug pull and will that lead to indictments leading to impeachment.
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More than half a century later, September 5th, 1972 should still be a day that lives in infamy -- in which the world watched as a group of Palestinian terrorists held innocent Israeli athletes hostages in an ordeal that left eleven Israelis dead.
The film September 5 tells the story from a new perspective. Ultimately, the unenviable duty of covering the story fell upon a team of sportscasters who were in Germany to cover the Olympics.
Given the timing of this film's release, the connections to recent events shouldn't be lost on anyone. Perhaps some of the "from the river to the sea people" who thought that Israel is in the Caribbean should take a couple of hours to watch this film to gain some historical perspective.
That said, although the film is about the act of terrorism that plagued the Munich Olympics, it's about much more than that. This was the first terror attack that featured live, on location, minute to minute coverage. The film deals with a lot of questions of journalistic ethics with no clean answers. Surely enough, the characters needed to make huge decisions on the fly. Difficult questions that seemed callous to even ask like, "Can we show someone getting shot on live television?" had to be asked.
This is the only film that I've seen from director Tim Fehlbaum so far. His work was damn solid. The world building was effective and efficient. The broadcast technology at the time was often a character in and of itself. At a time when movies seem to be suffering from bloated runtimes, this film comes in at a brisk 94 minutes. You know who everybody is, and why they're there, and why they're reacting the way that they are.
Although Peter Sarsgaard got top billing, the film really belongs to John Magaro (who I didn't recognize from Past Lives) as Geoffrey Mason, an inexperienced head of the control room who was thrust into the situation. The gravity of the situation is never lost on him. The pressure to get things first is always in balance with the duty to get things right.
This is a good film that's more than worth your time.
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Presidential pardons of the unconvicted is an admission that the recipient is probably guilty.
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Latin America is my favorite culture
I know it's many different cultures, but of the half dozen Latin American countries I've been to, there's a common thread, much like all the English speaking countries in the New World.
I love their attitude towards rules. Not too controlling. Not too lax. Juuuust right for me.
I love how they make so many things colorful. I love Spanish tile roofs covered with bougainvilleas.
I love how extroverted it is. People just seem so open and up to chat. If you ever struggle to make friends, consider moving to a Latin American country
I love how happy people seem. Latin American countries tend to score higher on happiness metrics than most models would predict, given their wealth and peacefulness. And you can feel it.
We're exploring more of Latin America this winter and I can't wait to see more of it.
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This is aggressively stupid.
People on both sides have trouble understanding that it's often not the people who you intended to pay a tax who end up paying the tax.
On the Left, it looks like corporate taxes. Corporations don't pay taxes. Only people pay taxes. The people paying the corporate taxes aren't the rich people at the top.
This has been my biggest concern regarding Trump. The Republican party was the tariff party in the 1920s. Harding and Coolidge weren't that big on toeing the party line on that issue -- Hoover was. You say that you're forcing foreign companies to pay a tax for doing business. They're not paying the tariff -- we are. We pay the tariff via higher prices on imported goods.
No, this isn't a good idea.
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We are the weakest linkWe are the weakest link 😢
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I can’t take seriously the lefty squawking about the “cost” of military flights exporting illegals.
The idiot Biden administration spent $22 trillion dollars including $700 billion for illegals who were not supposed to be here.
Each and every Democrat owes the non-Democrats reparations of $60,000 for the money wasted breaking US laws. I don’t think people who use US government money to break the law should assume they can get away with it. If they have to pay for what they steal, maybe less will be stolen in the future.
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Here is Trump's executive order on TikTok. He's ordering a 75 day delay in the ban. Doesn't exactly sound like good news for TikTok as he's still talking about national security concerns posed by TikTok. So sounds like he's going to try to force a divestiture just like the law.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, et al are still complying with the ban, so they don't seem to persuaded by this executive order.
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A Republican is proposing extending term limits?!
Please tell me I'm misunderstanding something?
If this is true, this is actually the most worrying sign I have ever seen about Trump.
This isn't calling anybody you disagree with a Nazi. This is actually what you see before things go terribly, terribly wrong.
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We have these signs for eggs and milk in Safeways.
I wonder what would happen if they allowed for prices to increase, thereby making it more profitable for more farmers to start scaling up their business which means more available eggs and milk, which means prices aren't COSTLY
Purchase limits, price controls, If you don't learn economics, things will become so bad, you will learn with your stomach
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Despite promoting the death penalty for nonviolent drug offenders Trump actually followed through on pardoning Ross Ulbricht. Thrilled for Ross and his family. There's no chance this indicates anything policy wise but it's one good thing to come out of the past day. Along with the commutation for Leonard Peltier, this is wholly unexpected good news
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Google sat on advanced LLMs because pussies
Bunch of companies ate their lunch
OpenAI sat on AI video gen
Bunch of other companies ate their lunch
But now we've all learned a lesson and will be doing the exact same thing over and over until China forces our hand.
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So, no, you don't have freedom of speech in Europe -- especially not in Germany.
You don't get to say that you have free speech, only to immediately follow that up with a declaration that expression of certain views is off limits.
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Apparently this sign on some commercial aircraft is causing confusion.
I'm not sure why this has to be explained, but obviously the sign means that if you suspect your view of smoke is blocked by your view of fire, do not take a mobile phone photo.
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Tycho lost his nose in TWO separate sword fights!
It was really pretty rough. He said “you can’t cut off my nose because first you have to cut off half my nose”.
That was the first duel.
Then he said “you can’t cut off all my nose because first you have to cut half the remaining nose, and then you have to cut half of that remaining nose, and there’s an infinite sequence of things you need to do and a finite amount of time.”
It’s known, famously with a Danish accent, as “Ze Nose Paradox”.
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Of course I'm happy Ross is free, and it's worth celebrating the pardon. Trump deserves credit for keeping this promise, and it's not nothing. To him and his family, it's everything.
No, it's not a vindication and it doesn't make me regret not voting for Trump. Ross is one man who deserved freedom and was imprisoned unjustly, but that's gotta be weighed against the effects of Trump's Presidency on 350 million or so other Americans. And my movement more than most should understand concentrated benefits versus dispersed costs.
The "I told you sos" from libertarians who supported him don't have enough to hang that hat on with one presidential pardon alone.
I'm not one of those paranoid TDS people who think Trump's the next Hitler and will end our Republic and install a racist dictatorship or something. I'm opposed to Trump because he's untrustworthy, authoritarian, fiscally populist, and because I'm opposed to his trade and immigration policies. Of all the things he promised, being more restrictionist on trade and immigration are the things I think he's most motivated by and most likely to do. Both are inherently inflationary at a time when the battle against inflation is important and isn't even close to over. Being opposed to entitlement reform alone is enough to be a deal breaker for me when major programs are less than a decade out from bankruptcy and time is running out.
I understand why people who think like me voted for him. Compared to Kamala, he was far less likely to get us into a new war. Less people are likely to be killed and more people are likely to live under relative peace. If I lived in a swing state, that might have been enough to not go third party, because it was such a stark difference between him and her and affected millions and millions of people. Compared to the amount of lives likely saved on the war and peace front, Ross just seems like a drop in the bucket. But I don't live in a swing state, and I still worry about how he'll go about any tariff and deportation plans, even if he's a mixed bag.
I'm glad Ross is free, and I hope Trump does other stuff that's good as well. Maybe he won't be as bad as I think this time around. If it turns out my pessimism is misplaced on him overall, I welcome that. If the tariffs are just a negotiating tactic and immigration restrictions no worse than his first term, awesome. If DOGE convinces him that entitlements deserve to be saved from their unsustainable structure, I'd be ecstatic. I'd rather be wrong than be able to say I told you so.
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Everyone is panicking over Tik Tok syphoning private data from your phones when I think the subtle reprogramming that algorithm recommendations push on youth and the impressionable, is way worse. Way more malicious
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I do not think that pardons for J6ers are bad if it was done right. In fact, if it was done right it would have been a winner. There was hysterics on the J6ers that led to overcharging. I just read about a man who went into the capital and took pictures. Did nothing violent. At his trial the judge let the prosecutor run a six-minute film of capital violence that had only a few seconds of him filming in it. Clearly meant to emotionally influence the jury which it did. He got 2 years for basically trespassing. Assuming what I read is correct there is no justification for a sentence like that. Had Trump pardoned all non-violent J6ers then I would ignore his detractors and Trump can pull up cases like that one to embarrass Democrats.
Furthermore, he could have even made a case to lessen the sentence of some of the violent J6ers. I can fully believe that some of them were oversentence. I would want to see their sentences compared to those convicted of comparative crimes as I suspected they were oversentenced. Had Trump reduced their sentences to be comparable then he would have gotten flak but it would have been defensible. People may not have liked it but he would have had a fair double standard argument.
Yes, it would have taken some effort to go through each case and made determinations. But probably not that much time. Nonviolent offenders are automatic pardons. Violent crimes you seek out comparables and soon you would have a decent scale. He could have done this and kept his promise to pardon. And he would have put more egg on the face of Biden and his terrible pardons. Everyone now forgets that Biden gave pre-emptive pardons to his family and his political allies. In many ways, that sets a worse precedent than what Trump has done.
But instead, Trump acts without nuance and just pardons everyone. Part of what concerns me about Trump is that he reacts often without thinking through the ramifications of what he is doing. That may get us into big trouble with foreign policies are attempts to conduct domestic affairs. I hope Trump has a successful presidency as we do not need a failed presidency. But actions like the way he pardoned the J6ers make me fearful that this seems unlikely to be the case.
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