nieminen

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[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And all these rich jerks saying if you stop paying for streaming services you'll be rich too

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've been seeing a lot of medical professionals (specializing on elder-care and dementia) talking about 47's mental decline and obvious signs of congestive heart failure, and giving him no more than 4-6 months of life left.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I miss the government being boring

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is the first I've heard of it 🤷

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish we had a mechanism of voting a deeply unpopular president out early. I think that's a loophole that needs to be filled if we ever get another election

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Not always, but usually. We can hope!

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

There's a great deal of real news that goes through the app. It's the majority of the content I see.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/09/27/updated_race_data/

collapsed inline mediagraph showing the huge difference in per-capita imprisonments of black Americans vs white

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

this is the data that racists (like Kirk) use to justify white supremacy. But the wrongful conviction rate is proven to be nearly the same.

https://eji.org/news/study-shows-race-is-substantial-factor-in-wrongful-convictions/

The report, Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States 2022, reviewed the cases of 3,200 innocent defendants exonerated in the U.S. since 1989 and found that Black Americans are seven times more likely than white Americans to be falsely convicted of serious crimes. This is true across all major crime categories except for white collar crime, the report said.

We didn't end slavery, just made it palatable to the masses by labeling it "punishment for a crime". They just need people to feel superior to those being exploited. Claiming it's because whites were superior stopped being effective for the majority, so they made it so it seems they do more crime instead.

Additionally, there is more crime in predominantly black areas, but it's not because "black people are more violent" or whatever the hell, it's because racism has made it crazy difficult for black individuals that aren't born rich to progress. They were only sold houses or given apartments in certain areas, forced into poverty by lack of given opportunity, and while (I hope) that's less today, there has been a lasting effect on the general population. When you have to do crime to keep you and your family safe and fed, you do crime.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone notice how long it took for that one image to paint? Thing must be like 70MB. Far beit for me to expect any amount of web optimisation from this admin

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Cute dog, but honestly you might want to have them looked at, that amount of dilation isn't normal 💞

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That's how it should be then. If it's down literally every day, maybe people would begin to realize how frequent they are.

Who am I kidding, they dgaf

 

Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. The troops ultimately selected to be behind Trump and visible to the cameras were almost exclusively male.

One unit-level message bluntly said "no fat soldiers."

"If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out," another note to troops said.

 

I've been trying to get more veggies, for a multitude of reasons, but no matter how I cook broccoli, it stinks up the whole house. Steamed, baked, pan fried. If it were just me I'd probably deal with it, but my partner has a sensitive nose. Any ideas? I don't love it raw, but it's still pretty good.

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