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What, you mean that massive pandemic of Avian flu that’s killing animals across the world and has jumped to humans quite a few times now?

That flu virus? Why would that be important?

"The photos of Jennifer are real photos of her," he added. "The foreground is exactly her. The background has been anonymized to protect the source."

Grimaldi's comments are extremely vague on a core point: exactly what "photo editing software" did the team use to "anonymize" the images, and did they involve AI? When he says the foreground is "exactly her," does that include her mangled fingers and teeth?

This absolutely tracks with what people I know said about people at Netflix when they interacted with them - they are unaware of their surroundings and full of shit / entitled / incompetent to an almost unbelievable degree. It explains a lot of events (The Witcher, Stranger Things). This guy who seems to sincerely believe that he can Jedi mind trick his way out of this question like a 4-year-old who says the cat ate the cookies is just a concrete example.

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Hm... you could be right which would be sad. I thought it was different but I'm by no means sure and I can't really make head or tail of anything I could find on congress's web site.

Because beetles OP

• Hard shell
• Compact shape for pushing through stuff
• Can fly
• Eats anything vegetable

Specific niche gang get lost

I think it's 4 bills:

• One for Israel + various humanitarian aid worldwide
• One for Ukraine
• One for "Indo-Pacific" (Taiwan + misc), also including banning TikTok? I couldn't completely make sense of how things were split up
• One for sanctions on Iran and Russia, and confiscating sanctioned Russian assets to give to Ukraine

I think the expectation is to vote on all tomorrow, but they separated Ukraine and Israel to avoid holding up one thing because of arguing about a different thing. I think

As I understand it, the bills are separated from each other, meaning the senate or Biden could in theory reject Israel aid and approve Ukraine aid.

Congress has a page set up to contact your senators -- obviously, they don't read them individually or anything, but their staff as I understand it totals up what's coming in and presents them with a summary of how people feel about things.

I sent both of my senators a note asking them not to provide aid to Israel and concisely explaining why. I don't expect it to make a difference, but it seemed better to do it than not.

Congress has a page set up to contact your senators -- obviously, they don't read them individually or anything, but their staff as I understand it totals up what's coming in and presents them with a summary of how people feel about things.

I sent, without a lot of expectation that it'll make a difference, a note to both of my senators asking them not to provide aid to Israel and concisely explaining why (since the Israel bill and Ukraine bill are separate from each other.)

Might be?

I don't think there's some majority of leftist voters in any single county that could make a difference in a federal election.

The federal election in 2000 was decided by 537 Florida voters. That, to me, is within the realm of theoretically being possible for one single person (one volunteer doing consistent aggressive get-out-the-vote drives for example) to achieve.

Most of the time, it doesn't happen that way (and there was a ton of standard-American-system corruption that put it in the realm of being that close when Gore was by any honest standard the clear winner). But in the aggregate, those single actions can make a difference, and at least in that one example yes it was very literally that up-for-grabs. And I think in hindsight, the 2000 election was a major decision point in what the future of America was going to be in terms of response to climate change, the growth of the fascist state apparatus, economic justice for the working class, killing brown people in the middle east, things like that. I think a large amount of the suffering we're going through now -- taking all the energy away from any positive progress and forcing us to focus on just stopping the bleeding and getting back to where we were -- is continued follow-on impacts from getting Bush instead of Gore.

And, I think the 2024 election will have a much bigger impact than 2000, regardless of how hard the OP article tries to sarcastically poo poo that idea.

Yeah. All this generation of elderly statesmen thinks we're still in the days of AIPAC and questioning Israel being political suicide. Now I think (at least for Democrats) it's starting to become the opposite.

(Not that that excuses supporting Israel in the meantime. Biden had every opportunity to have this "come to Jesus" conversation with Netanyahu and back it up by withholding aid when Netanyahu inevitably laughed in his face, 6 months ago. Even that would have been well, well short of what in a moral world he should be doing, but it would have been a hell of a lot better than what happened.)

In a few different places including the part of that sentence you chose not to quote, I gave some concrete reasons for my statement. You can, of course, loftily refuse to acknowledge them, if that's your preference.