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jpreston2005

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  • Great list of websites to never visit 👍

    I get enough hate-speech during on-line video games. By not using any of those apps, I successfully save myself from multitudes more, while also foregoing any potentially addictive status-seeking site-based-compulsions. I used to play Clash of Clans on my phone because it was a good way to waste a couple minutes while taking a shit. I quit when I began to play too much. I feel like Facebook, twitter, instagram, they're all just sites to waste time on. Which begs the question, why waste time on them at all? Why waste time?

    I know not every moment can be spent fruitfully, but when something you do to waste a bit of time in between/during mundane tasks becomes something that now demands attention outside of that, then it's time to stop wasting time on it.

  • Trump assassination attempt suspect demands Judge Cannon’s recusal, claims ‘prospect’ of Supreme Court ‘promotion’ could impact her

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  • The 58-year-old convicted felon accused of attempting to assassinate the 78-year-old convicted felon donald drumpf as he golfed in Florida in mid-September...

    FTFY

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  • So, the company that congress is heavily invested in. The company that isreal and Ukraine buys massive amounts of weapons from. The company that benefits from congress funneling massive amounts of money to isreal. Was just caught bribing foreign officials and;

    Raytheon admitted to engaging in two separate schemes to defraud the Department of Defense (DOD) in connection with the provision of defense articles and services, including PATRIOT missile systems and a radar system.

    ...bro, what.

    So this is one of those enormously important stories that nobodies going to talk about, huh?

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  • Oh OK, so justice for Jamal Khashoggi when?

    His assassination at the hands of the saudi dictator mbs is so clear it has it's own wikipedia page

  • Biden envoy told aid groups Israel too close an ally for US to suspend arms

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  • Man, there's gotta be something more to this.

    Remember all that fuss about how a retired general said that the U.S. and other governments have crashed alien ships they've been studying? Does isreal have, like, the least damaged ships or something? Like, wtf does isreal possibly have that the U.S. is so beholden to it? It just can't be that isreal "is a historically important religious site," because that's just stupid. We don't spend Billions of dollars a year to maintain the fucking Vatican, and we certainly wouldn't while it's actively engaging in genocide and aparthied. So why are we doing it for isreal?

    Gotta be aliens.

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  • Oh god, what's in the steaming tray in the last panel?? It's a microwave meal, right?

    ...RIGHT?

  • No thanks, I'll continue my policy of termination on sight.

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  • Had a spider in my bathroom that I befriended. Named Steve. He was a tiny little thing that stayed on the crown molding, and had the foresight not to invade the inner sanctum of the shower space. I noticed Steve wasn't catching many bugs, so I killed a fly, and while it was still twitching, I held it up for Steve to look at, then dropped said fly into his web. Steve must've been put off by the fact that the fly quickly died, and he didn't bother eating it. Steve has now passed, starved up there in his web, without ever even touching that big ass fly I caught him.

    Spiders are stupid. You're a more efficient bug-killer by far, I'd wager.

  • Kamala Harris vs. Fox News: ‘She totally schooled Bret Baier’ | Reaction

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  • Great clip, agreed. During Kamalas response, it shows bret twice, first he has a smug smile because he thinks he's tripped her up. The second time it cuts to him that smile is gone, because he knows she's killing it.

  • Armed Militia "hunting FEMA" causes hurricane responders to evacuate—report

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  • If that president was Bernie Big Balls Sanders, then Yes.

    But 8 years of Kamala with a supermajority in the house and senate would be a great start

  • Armed Militia "hunting FEMA" causes hurricane responders to evacuate—report

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  • I think now that we've successfully prosecuted the Jan. 6th domestic terrorists, we can put this notion to rest. We absolutely can and should go after these nutjobs threatening federal workers.

  • UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base

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  • The UN Peace Keeping Force is there for a number of things, but mainly to Keep the Peace.

    They help citizens in a crisis, they monitor for illegal activity (including war crimes), and help with aid distribution. Their efforts are being hindered by the idf:

    UNIFIL has said previous Israeli attacks on a watchtower, cameras, communications equipment and lighting had limited its monitoring abilities. U.N. sources say they fear any violations of international law in the conflict will be impossible to monitor.

  • The Test

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  • I unironically got into that song for a minute, and I'm just a little on the 'tism scale so I tend to listen to the same shit over and over. My SO was super weirded out by that song, because she couldn't dissociate it from that scene in Silence of the Lambs. At that point I started putting it on just to mess with her, because she would always make a quip or give me a weird look, to which I'd immediately jump up and do the buffalo Bill pose-dance. T'was fun.

    Man, I just think it's a banger

  • TIL about Ivan VI of Russia, named emperor in 1740 when he was two months old, deposed in a coup thirteen months later, then kept a prisoner in solitary confinement for 20 years until his murder.

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  • I mean, little dude peaked at two months old as emperor of Russia, then was Man-in-the-Iron-Masked until his death, right at the moment of his release.

    Russian or Greek, it's a freaking tragedy. I hope the guard that followed orders in killing him before he could be released was subsequently wrecked. Freaking bootlickers, man. They exist in every century.

  • The unseen struggle: Job dissatisfaction and minimal effort among young professionals

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  • I hate this. When I was first hired, I really poured in a lot of effort. I took on extra projects, did extra work, trying to get ahead. But every extra project I completed would get sent to a supervisor and manager, they would absolutely wreck it asking for changes that made little to no difference, but took a lot of time to implement. And then they would just.. keep requesting additional changes. for months. back and forth and back and forth.

    I got so sick of it, I don't volunteer for fucking anything anymore. Oh, you want my input on this document you've changed as it affects how I do my job? Like I give a shit. Whatever I say will just get garbled and edited and ultimately you'll just do whatever the fuck you want anyway so.... No. I won't suggest any edits or redline your document. I don't care anymore. Just tell me what to do and I'll do it till my shift ends.

    Just a bunch of middle managers who all want to look at fancy spreadsheets so they can appear to know what's happening on the manufacturing floor instead of, ya know, actually going down to the floor. Then they all can pretend to know what's going on to their higher up, who is in turn using that to pretend to know what's going on to their higher up, each one knowing less and less, until you get to the CEO or Site head that knows absolutely fuck all about what's going on, with even less of a clue on how to influence it, all because they don't want to actually visit the floor or talk to the poors running their machines.

    I went from running my own business to this garbage, and although the steady middle class paycheck is nice, I regret it every day.

  • TIL about Ivan VI of Russia, named emperor in 1740 when he was two months old, deposed in a coup thirteen months later, then kept a prisoner in solitary confinement for 20 years until his murder.

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  • Upon the accession of Peter III in 1762, Ivan's situation seemed about to improve, for the new emperor visited him and sympathised with his plight, but Peter was deposed just a few months later. New instructions were sent to Ivan's guardian to place manacles on his charge, and even to scourge him should he become unmanageable.

    Dang. Upon the doorstep of deliverance, a new emperor visiting your cell, empathizing with your position, only to have him deposed just as ruthlessly, and your situation made all the worse. How is this a real story and not some terrible ancient Greek tragedy?

  • Trump biopic 'The Apprentice' hits theaters amid fury from his campaign

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  • I know that this movie will portray drumpf in a (rightfully) negative light, but even that isn't enough. I can barely stand this individual now, why on earth would I want to see him being portrayed by a handsome actor for an hour and a half or however long this movie is? I am sick of hearing him talk, I'm sick of people talking about him, I'm sick of hearing about him, I just want him to get locked away in a prison cell to rot away the rest of his intolerable existence.

    I would need a movie to completely abandon portraying him in any light that could be construed as sympathetic or favorable. I would love to see a movie show drumpf in the same light that Inglorious Bastards portrayed hitler. Anything short of that is just giving this pathetic racist rapist more attention than he's worth.

  • What skill do you have that comes in handy with everyday tasks?

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  • When I was a kid I did gymnastics, and skateboarded/rollerbladed. This combination of activities meant I was falling on my ass all the god damn time.

    It also means that I am so accustomed to falling, that even as I age, those instincts survive, and in turn, help me survive. When I fall, I tuck, I roll, I break my fall with any number of instinctual responses. This has lead to me surviving some scary falls I've taken whilst home alone (off a ladder, in the shower, fainting once when I got up from a long squat), and I think will help me survive more in my elder years.

  • Beleaguered Chicago police accountability chief says she’d like peace with cops, but truth is more important

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  • In August, the Fraternal Order of Police lodge that represents Chicago cops filed a lawsuit accusing Kersten and her top aides of leading dubious investigations and imposing unfairly harsh discipline on officers.

    Later that month, Kersten fired two high-ranking COPA officials: Deputy Chief Administrator Matthew Haynam, a former CPD staff attorney, and Garrett Schaaf, one of several supervising investigators at COPA, who worked for years as a deputy sheriff in Osceola County, Florida.

    Last month, Haynam filed a lawsuit claiming his firing was retaliation for raising alarms about COPA bias. A letter reportedly signed by 16 former or current COPA staffers said Kersten had “manipulated investigations to align with her own policy agenda” and retaliated against staffers who have complained about “bias and mismanagement.”

    This sounds like an Onion article. Cops complaining to their oversight committee that their investigations are biased and unfair.

    Like, Ok, Coppers 🤡

    “Transparency isn’t always comfortable,” Kersten added.

    I like this Andrea Kersten.

  • Officers seize bag with ‘Definitely not a bag full of drugs’ printed on it – and it was full of drugs, Police Bureau says

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  • They definitely thought it was hilarious to keep drugs in that bag. However;

    Officers on Tuesday night stopped a man and a woman driving a stolen car in Southeast Portland, and they found much more than a stolen car

    They broke the most important rule. When breaking the law, only break one at a time. If you're gonna carry around your fun joke drug bag, don't do it while driving a stolen car.