[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

September 2019

Mentioning states that would likely be impacted by the storm, he incorrectly included Alabama, which by then was known not to be under threat from the storm. Over the following week, the President repeatedly insisted his comment had been correct. On September 4, he showed reporters a weather map which had been altered with a black Sharpie marker to show the hurricane's track threatening Alabama. He also reportedly ordered his aides to obtain an official retraction of the weather bureau's comment that the storm was not headed for Alabama.

When asked by reporters how the Sharpie marker ended up on the printed map, Trump said: “I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.”

While I don't disagree that Biden ought to retire and spend his time doing something else, any reasonable person should realize the other guy is not a better choice.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

There's an obvious two part solution to this that will fix everything perfectly: 1. Tax cuts for large corporations s and the wealthiest Americans, and 2. Make sure trans people don't feel safe in their communities. I dont see how such a plan can fail.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

OK I see. Apparently the DEI hiring process is such that a male applicant with several degrees in administration of justice, a blackbelt in akido and holder of both rifle and pistol expert qualification badges would be passed over in favor of a female applicant whose qualifications include having "been to a laundromat a few times" and "knows all the words to Vanessa Carlton's 2002 hit single A Thousand Miles".

Well I'm not in favor of that but in the case where both male and female applicants are equally qualified, it makes more sense to hire the woman because you can pay them less.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

So this women's group wants the secret service to hire less women because... why? I'm not getting how that fixes anything.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department doesn't have a DEI hiring policy and uh...seems like that didn't somehow automatically create competence and professionalism.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

OK I want LESS.

I have been wanting less for a long time. Those things I want LESS of don't seem to be reduced by much since I became eligible to vote. Voting's not enough.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Confronted by compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry, beginning in the 1950s, used sophisticated public relations approaches to undermine and distort the emerging science.

The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public health efforts and regulatory interventions designed to reduce the harms of smoking.

A number of industries have subsequently followed this approach to disrupting normative science. Claims of scientific uncertainty and lack of proof also lead to the assertion of individual responsibility for industrially produced health risks. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490543/

These climate alarmists are simply trying to disrupt our God-given prosperity and thwart the inevitable triumph of American commerce. Experts at the ExxonMobil Climate Research Institute assure me there is no actual evidence to suggest climate change is even real.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ha! A dumb mistake, I deserved that.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I keep it on new.

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Over time, Zero Hedge expanded into non-financial political content,[b] including conspiracy theories and fringe rhetoric[3][24] advancing radical right,[15][25] alt-right,[26][27][28] and pro-Russia positions.[1][29][30][31] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge

[-] SeanBrently@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Me, I'd put them in general waste. I might wrap them or put them in a sturdy paper bag if I had any, and put that in a plastic bag to contain the evil.

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