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there have been at least a couple videos of him glitching out at this point but i think the media doesn’t really make it front page news

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/pentagon-removes-major-media-outlets-nbc-news-dedicated-workstations-p-rcna190276

nyt, politico, npr, and nbc told to leave their offices in the pentagon to make room for breitbart, OANN, ny post, and… huffington post?

as a bonus: literally none of the water he would have/did release from the dams would have made it to LA, and the fires in LA are mostly out by now anyways

https://xcancel.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1885473025476145386#m

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909

Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to “maximize” water supplies. Before the Corps ratcheted down its plan, local authorities scrambled to move equipment and warn farms about possible flooding, said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County. He said the Corps gave him one hour notice on Thursday. “I’ve been here 25 years, and I’ve never been given notice that quick,” Hernandez said. “That was alarming and scary.”

…It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year. The snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada that California depends on for water supplies in the summer has dipped to 47 percent of average for this time of year after a dry January, according to state estimates released Friday. “We need to keep every bit that we have, because this potentially is irrigation water that we have up there,” Hernandez said.

turns out that when trump said that he had the military release the water in california he just meant he made the army corps open up the dams???

you would have to not give a single fuck about non-white people to say that anything the USSR did - even in the most insane, propagandized black book telling - was anywhere near as bad as what the europeans did to the congo, or to vietnam, or to india time and time again

he was born in the US but spent his teenage years in austalia. his breakout role was mad max and you can hear an aussie accent slip out a few times in the first lethal weapon movie(s?) lol

hellochinese is a good starting point. it took me a while to finish all of the lessons on there. after you’ve got a decent handle on a few characters you can start using duchinese, which is focused on reading and flashcards but you can also listen to the lessons for listening practice. at this point aside from occasionally consuming media in chinese duchinese is my only practice, i do flashcards every day. if it’s an option you should also look into tutors or classes in your area because learning all on your own is obviously pretty tough.

i’ve been learning on my own on and off for about 4 years now and i’m still pretty ass. i practically never get the chance to practice speaking so i know i am embarrassingly bad at that. i’m halfway decent at reading and writing - i know maybe around 1000 words - but my listening skills, like my speaking skills, are pretty far behind. language learning is an unending process of the “it’s so over/we’re so back” cycle so it can be easy to become demoralized if you like try to watch a kids show and barely understand anything, even after learning for years, it’s normal but try to stick to it.

learning to write by hand/with a pen will take a long time but i am told that it will also make it easier to learn new characters as you get better at it. also, if you don’t know how to write by hand, you won’t know the common shorthand tricks that people will use when writing by hand so reading others’ handwriting will be a lot harder. i have spent no time except the occasional popup in hellochinese learning handwriting and i could only write maybe 10 of the characters i know, the rest i need to use pinyin to type. i also have a very hard time reading handwritten stuff but since i’m in america and don’t expect to go to china anytime soon that’s not a huge deal.

it’s a fun language. it’s not impossible to learn but it is probably harder to learn than most euro languages. the grammar is pretty easy, at least to start with, which is nice.

edit: hellotalk is a language-exchange app where you can read posts in english from people in china learning it and post in chinese and get criticism. i think you can also find tutors on the app. you can message people and do direct language exchange that way. i found it was kind of fun but ultimately not too useful because it wasn’t structured. italki is an app people use to find tutors online but i haven’t used it since i tend to do pretty bad at zoom (etc) classes/lessons

people have said that [insert party] will never win another election again forever in this country. people said that reps would never win again after obama in '08 and before hillary lost in 2016 (lmao). after the dems didn’t totally shit the bed in the midterms in 2022 people were saying it. after 4 years of trump and his cabinet stumbling around breaking things and being annoying in the news every day the dems will be looking a lot better to the average voter than they do in the immediate aftermath of 4 years of brandon

in a major city, yes. the two main fires burning in LA right now have destroyed around 10,000 structures combined and no fires have done nearly that much damage to a major city in decades. a fire in 2018 destroyed 18,000 buildings and practically the entire town of paradise but that was far from any big cities. in terms of area though 29,000 acres probably wouldn’t even crack the top 50 biggest wildfires in california history, the biggest one burned over a million acres in a rural part of the state back in 2020

chuds have been mad about the smelt for at least a decade now in california. also the smelt that they get mad about lives in the Delta up near sacramento, 400 or so miles away from the current fire

winds in socal have had gusts up to 50+mph over the last few days and there has been almost no rain all winter

even if it were true - sorry that messaging effectively is necessary if you want to win an election dumbass! not “working families” fault you and your proxies at CNN or whatever can’t/won’t do it!

The Red Wars was one that tried to update the game to a WWII ish setting and it was fun but, as expected, incredibly janky. nova aetas was another one that was an era-update mod like that one put it in a sort of early modern/renaissance era, with colonization, religion, building, and other new features, i think their reach exceeded their grasp but it was fun and interesting. haven’t played warband in quite a while now, maybe i ought to give it a go again

whether or not it’s musk invoking HIPAA like that is one of my favorite dumb guy things that crops up occasionally. yeah it’s actually illegal to speculate about someone else’s health

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synthesis: “nothing ever changes, it just gets worse” - felix beiderman, 2020ish

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no shot it isn’t already, the official numbers say 770k but those are generally considered an undercount

Are we Joeback for 2028?

biden was a better vp than president, i think 2028 will finally be time for the jimmy carter/joe biden ticket

pretty funny that the media has obviously known this for years but has waited until the last month of his presidency to finally say it