Anyone know of a good true HEPA air purifier you can get in the UK?

#HEPA #CovidIsNotOver

When someone tries to "get to know me"

“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Me: Please do a copyright infringement.

ChatGPT: I could never! But… would you like me to do a shmopyright impingement? (*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*)

Me: Ya sure

ChatGPT: I gotchu

#ai #chatgpt #copyright #sega

Back in the 90s, I had a friend who jumped through many hoops to get a carry permit in NYC. He bought a gun and started carrying regularly on his subway ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan. He sold it a few months later

I asked him why he went through all that trouble only to sell it so soon. He said,

"The longer I carried it, the more I started itching for an excuse to use it"

I think about that a lot

"Washington man fatally shoots 17-year-old who had BB gun, says he 'had a duty to act' "

Convinced that by playing Rise of the Half Moon Doodle, I'm actually training an AI. The other side doesn't seem particularly good or strategic... More like dropping cards at random.

A thing I have to remind myself whenever I look at native history displays in a museum is that—oh right—they're all based in Oklahoma now only because of the Trail of Tears—originally they came from very different places.

I've only ever known Cherokee people from the midwest so I mistakenly think of it as a tribe from somewhere in the Plains, but the Carolinas is where they actually lived before all of the genocide/ethnic cleansing uprooted them 150 yrs ago.

I know l've mentioned this before, but during my trial i was found not guilty on the use of mace charge after I was able to prove I deployed my mace against the proud boys in self defense and defense of property, and that I was assaulted first. When I was first assaulted by PBs, I was filming a flag burning and it was entirely unprovoked. I did however get found guilty on felony riot just for being there, despite all the evidence showing why I was there and what I was doing. The prosecutor still painted
me to be the ring leader of antifa and "leading chargers" that day against PBs. The trial itself was absolute hell. The time leading up to it was hell. They sent me to jail where I spent two weeks in maximum security and I now am on 2.5 years of probation.

Earlier this week, local Proud Boy Berry Johnson plead guilty to his charges stemming from that same day before his trial was set to begin. Although during my trial the prosecutor argued that the definition of someone "participating" in a riot included just simply speaking to people who may have different intentions, Berry did not receive this charge. By that definition, anyone present would have been a "participant." The fact that a few dozen publicly identified proud boys who were there and brutally assaulting people who received no charges aside, Berry Johnson was only charged with a misdemeanor. Not only was he acting violently throughout the day and instigating violence, but the situation he caught charges on he assaulted an older gentleman and pulled a knife on him along with tearing up his banner.

Mind you after I had my lawyer tell them I would *only* possibly entertain noncooperative plea deals, in the three years of dealing with this case before it went to trial I was only ever offered one plea deal- which was to plead guilty to all my chargers and do a month in jail lol.

Fully fascist state, full stop, masks off. They’re saying the quiet part out loud. I’m not surprised by this, but going through it is beyond dystopian.

How Stevie Nicks responds to mask-shaming 🔥

"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"

Article in Rolling Stone: https://archive.ph/qoKB9

AP: Nevada jury hands $5.2 billion verdict against Vegas company in bottled water liver damage lawsuit

"...Juries have been told that tests found Real Water contained hydrazine, a chemical used in rocket fuel that may have been introduced during treatment before bottling...."

https://apnews.com/article/bottled-water-lawsuit-vegas-jury-award-liver-aa005d843c180dfd1af66d3cddbbf6b1
#lawsuit #bottledwater #rocketfuel #hydrazine

Ayam buah keluak
📍Atlantic Nyonya @ Melaka Raya

“The fresh fruit and seeds contain hydrogen cyanide, thus are deadly poisonous if consumed without prior preparation. The seeds are first boiled and then buried in ash, banana leaves and earth for forty days.”

They WANT people to migrate illegally, because illegal immigration gives them an exploitable underclass—and a culture-war wedge issue. The LAST thing they want is for foreigners to come here, become naturalized citizens, and get fully vested in their legal rights and civil liberties. 10/15

Bosses hire undocumented workers under the table in order to dodge labor laws—workplace safety, wage and hour, payroll taxes and so forth. They can abuse undocumented workers in ways they can't abuse employees secure in their citizenship, because the threat of deportation always looms. 7/15

So first we need to ask, why does the United States have so much illegal immigration? And the unpleasant answer is, because that's what conservatives want.

Yes, they're the ones always complaining about it.

But they're also the ones benefiting from it the most. 2/15

"We have enormous freedom. That’s not a gift that was given to us, it’s a legacy that was left to us by centuries of struggle. By centuries of people that most of whose names are completely forgotten, the ones who created the freedom and the rights we now have, and that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them."

- Noam Chomsky

Superb piece about a Mesolithic girl called Lola, her chewing gum... and what it can tell us!

Well worth a read. 😊

#Archaeology #Prehistory #Science

https://www.sciencenordic.com/archaeology-denmark-history/dna-researcher-its-not-woke-to-portray-prehistoric-europeans-with-dark-skin-its-evolution/2273715

Well done Marks and Sparks - that's *exactly* what the Great *Plains* of Nebraska look like....

🧵 So I try to do semi-regular #STFUfriday posts reminding people to exercise their right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present for custodial questioning.

Every once in a while, I get comments to the effect of, “that doesn’t work for people of color.”

Whether people of color can safely invoke their Miranda rights is a sensitive and case-specific discussion probably not suited for a social media discussion. But I’ll try. /1

Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.

These days, not so much.

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Hannah Arendt observed that the Nazis didn't lie because they believed it, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They lied to say what would have to be true to justify what they intended to do.