February 17, 2022

So @NYPD deleted this before I could ask if they arrested the babies as accessories after the fact

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1494123792435531778



https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1494124556616810496

February 17, 2022

Joachim Deutschland - Marie (White Label Tom Novy Tribal Mix)

Label:
Not On Label ?– ÄTSCH 06
Series:
ÄTSCH – 6
Format:
Vinyl, 12", Unofficial Release, White Label
Country:
Germany
Released:
2004
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
House, Tribal House, Tech House



Ich gab dir meine Liebe,
Ich gab dir mein Geld. Und wo bist du jetzt Marie?
Ich gab dir die Schlüssel zu meiner
Riesen Welt, und wo bist du jetzt Marie?
Doch ganz egal wo du dich rumtreibst, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Du Schlampe, du Dreckssau, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Ich gab dir meine Liebe,
Ich gab dir mein Geld. Und wo bist du jetzt Marie?
Ich gab dir die Schlüssel zu meiner
Riesen Welt, und wo bist du jetzt Marie?
Doch ganz egal wo du dich rumtreibst, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Du Schlampe, du Dreckssau, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Du Schlampe, du Dreckssau, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Du Schlampe, du Dreckssau, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Du Schlampe, du Dreckssau, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Du Schlampe, du Dreckssau, ich hoff es geht dir schlecht!
Marie
Ich hoff es geht dir schlecht

February 17, 2022

The Deer Tracks - Yes This Is My Broken Shield (great noughties Swedish band from here in Stockholm)

Label:
Despotz Records ?– DZLP1
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country:
Sweden
Released:
2008
Genre:
Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style:
Experimental

February 16, 2022

Monkey Safari - Hi Life (Ole Biege Remix)

Label:
Monaberry ?– mona 014-6, Monaberry ?– Monaberry 014-6
Format:
Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:
Germany
Released:
12 Sep 2012
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
House, Tech House

February 16, 2022

Bad Manners - Inner London Violence

Label:
Magnet ?– MAGL 5033
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
1980
Genre:
Reggae
Style:
Ska

February 15, 2022

Kathleen Rice becomes 30th House Democrat to not seek reelection in 2022

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/15/politics/kathleen-rice-not-running-congress/index.html

(CNN) New York Rep. Kathleen Rice announced on Tuesday she will not seek reelection this fall, the latest in a string of Democratic members of Congress who have decided to retire or seek another office in a challenging political environment.

Rice noted her background as a Nassau County prosecutor and district attorney in a statement. "I entered public service 30 years ago and never left," said Rice. "I have always believed that holding political office is neither a destiny nor a right. As elected officials, we must give all we have and then know when it is time to allow others to serve."

Rice is the 30th House Democrat headed for the exit in 2022. While not all of those members serve competitive districts, leaving office is a sign that Democrats are not confident of holding the House majority after November's midterm elections.

After Rice's decision to not seek reelection, the National Republican Congressional Committee tweeted that vulnerable House Democrats "should do the same before they lose in November."

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February 14, 2022

💋👛💎2000s mcBling style explained 👡🛍 💵

‘loves it’ - Paris Hilton

☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ Timestamps ｡ﾟ.*･☆ﾟ
00:00 Intro
00:40 Background
03:21 Clothes
15:01 Accessories
24:21 Hair and Beauty
26:42 Other Visual Cues
29:33 The Decline

#mcbling #aesthetics #2000s

this video deep dives into the sparkling aesthetic world of the early to late 2000s aesthetics, referred to as McBling. it looks at what led to these trends, it's main influences, the main fashion items and accessories as well as other visual cues and it's inevitable decline. consider it a guide to any 2000s baddies or those who are looking for their aesthetic and are drawn to a glamorous, plush, girly, rhinestone adorned world.
tHanKz 4 wAtCHiNg u hoTtiEs mwAh xxx

Music by Beats by Egomi - Purple Skies - https://thmatc.co/?l=0F0393BC

February 14, 2022

Why False Information Stays Stuck in Our Brains

And why we need to focus on how people think.

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62071e1adc551a0020867247/trust-the-science/



There is a tweet from Mike Caulfield, a researcher at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, that I’ve been thinking about. “The biggest info lesson for me re: COVID is that first information is just *ridiculously* sticky,” he wrote. “And I say this as someone who didn't realize you can put modern alkaline batteries in the trash until three weeks ago.”
https://twitter.com/holden/status/1479588348343697408
What Caulfield is saying is that, for many, the information presented when we’re first introduced to a new subject or fact is hard to shake, even if we later find out it is wrong or in need of a revision. Anecdotally, I feel like I see this all the time in my life with regard to COVID responses and procedures. We know COVID is an airborne virus with low risk of surface or object transmission and yet stores, restaurants, and public places still engage in the hygiene theater of sanitizing tables and pens while ignoring more proven, substantial virus-mitigation efforts like, say, upgrading air-filtration systems. Two years into a pandemic, there are still a nontrivial amount of people under the mistaken impression that if they wash their hands and stand six feet apart indoors they are mostly protected from the virus. Others still doubt the efficacy of masks or—I’ve encountered this one a lot—believe that masks don’t need to cover the nose.
https://twitter.com/bwillett123/status/1479597063289540608
Granted, plenty of COVID ignorance and misinformation is ideologically motivated or borne from a genuine misunderstanding of how viruses work. But some of it might also be the result of this sticky-information problem, which is known in psychology circles as the “continued influence effect.” A recent paper in Nature described it this way:



I called up Maddy Jalbert, a postdoctoral scholar and Caulfield’s colleague at the University of Washington, to ask her about this. Jalbert studies how context and our daily experiences can shape our memory and also our decision-making abilities. “When you give humans a piece of information, we are very good at connecting it to things we already know,” she told me. “But if you retract that piece of information and people have already made these connections, you can’t go back and magically take that information out of a person’s head because then that whole understanding of the information they’ve connected it to is different. So people will then rely on their original understanding of things they’ve incorporated.”

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February 12, 2022

Chelsea- World Champions, we complete the set, every single major trophy still contested

We beat the best (by far) South American side since those superb Brasilian sides won the first 3 FWCC's.

Hats off to Palmeiras, a great team, and now the only still giant global Champions League/old European Cup or Copa Libertadores-winning team to have not won the old Intercontinental Cup or the FWCC other than (arguably) Atlético Mineiro, who have nowhere near the history compared to Palmeiras (the all time winningest Brasil national title-winning team)

Manchester City and PSG have never even won the EC/CL to qualify for the old IC or the FWCC.

February 12, 2022

Is it Fascism? Is it Socialism? Words mean things.

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/6206c37b9d9e380022bed32f/is-it-fascism-is-it-socialism/



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Now we use these terms all day long and no one knows what they mean. I was talking with my friend Preet Bharara, the proprietor of a newsletter on politics and justice, and we were frustrated (as many of us are) by how much of our public discourse is short-circuited by people who don’t understand basic terminology. I wondered if I should write something about this, and Preet suggested that I do it. He’d already challenged me to eat my fill of Indian food, and that went well, so I decided to try it. Still, it’s hard to boil these concepts down to basics.

There was a thing, years ago, called The Handbook of Political Science. It’s now out of print, but no one wants to read hundreds of pages of that. Instead, let me offer a quick and dirty version of some of these terms, with a bit of snark and apologies to Ambrose Bierce (wherever he is) for incompetently lifting a Devil’s Dictionary approach. Some of my fellow political scientists and historians will take issue with what I have here. I say to them: If you want to have long arguments about Juan Linz or Hannah Arendt, let’s do that in our patched elbows over some sherry. For now, I just want informed and engaged citizens to think twice about the kinds of words they’re slinging about a tad too loosely these days.

Let's dive in.....

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Socialism

What it is: State ownership of the means of production. One more time, for the people in the cheap seats: State ownership of the means of production. In a socialist regime, private ownership, beyond small enterprises, doesn’t really exist. Large enterprises and other assets are held by the government—in theory on behalf of, and for the good of, the public. (This is why, in the old Soviet empire, everything was “The People’s This” and “The People’s That,” as part of the idea that the “State” was holding assets in trust for “The People.”) The state nationalizes most enterprises—especially the big producers—and directs the economy as the major holder or owner in all businesses and natural resources. The government is the main employer.

What it isn’t: High taxes. A generous welfare state. Government participation in the economy. Government shareholding in business. Government control of some natural resources. Natural monopolies owned by the government (like the military). Government investment. Policies in which the government does something large for the good of society isn’t “socialism.” Regulating your workplace isn’t socialism; nationalizing your workplace, seizing it from its owners, and making you an employee of the government is socialism. In sum, socialism is not “anything you don’t happen to like.” (Perhaps you’re sensing a theme here.)

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