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The thing about Trump's East Wing Dance Hall is not that he's ignoring norms and traditions, avoiding review committees, and not seeking congressional approval, necessary regardless of who is paying to build an American asset on federally-owned real estate in DC.
The startling thing is this is how Trump built all his properties: without much planning, let alone complete drawings and approvals. He told his buyers their condos were built to spec before he broke ground.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70886267/white-house-ballroom-trump-disaster/
The startling thing is this is how Trump built all his properties: without much planning, let alone complete drawings and approvals. He told his buyers their condos were built to spec before he broke ground.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70886267/white-house-ballroom-trump-disaster/
Lord Loxley and Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOpzB3QYLg
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"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!"
"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!"
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Yup, very much the consensus in my timeline
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One reason for the quality of universities in the UK is their openness to foreign students. It may have originated as an artifact of empire. It continued because it worked: it attracted top foreign talent, from the wealth elite and the hopes of small towns across the globe.
Since Thatcher, foreign students have paid significantly more than domestic students, income that universities have come to rely on as a substitute for support Parliament has withdrawn.
One reason for the quality of universities in the UK is their openness to foreign students. It may have originated as an artifact of empire. It continued because it worked: it attracted top foreign talent, from the wealth elite and the hopes of small towns across the globe.
Since Thatcher, foreign students have paid significantly more than domestic students, income that universities have come to rely on as a substitute for support Parliament has withdrawn.
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While the Labour Party may see reducing the number of study visas (as well as making them less easy for families of students) as being a great way of appealing to ReformUK Ltd's voters, the costs are ...
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If Keir Starmer stopped chasing potential Reform voters, he might keep many of his own. He's a fool. And he's making Labor's staunchest supporters pay the price for his foolishness.
If Keir Starmer stopped chasing potential Reform voters, he might keep many of his own. He's a fool. And he's making Labor's staunchest supporters pay the price for his foolishness.
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There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash.
ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to.
The Pen...
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La Guardia Airport in Queens, NY, is the third busiest airport in Metro NY and the 19th busiest airport nationwide. The airspace is tightly controlled. One ATC for the whole airport seems to define negligent staffing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_the_United_States
La Guardia Airport in Queens, NY, is the third busiest airport in Metro NY and the 19th busiest airport nationwide. The airspace is tightly controlled. One ATC for the whole airport seems to define negligent staffing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_the_United_States
The airline went from being the *least* enshittified airline in America to the *most*. Southwest is now worse than Spirit airlines - no, really. Southwest doesn't just merely charge for seat selection...
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My favorite anecdote about comeuppance for airline execs is that on New Year's Eve 1999, at the witching hour for the Y2K scare, the Chinese govt made the top execs of its state airlines be on one of their aircraft and in the air from 11.00 pm to 1.00 am. It was an incentive to make sure they had sorted out any Y2K bugs.
If only something similar could be sorted out for scores of top American airline execs. Their policies might not be so rapacious.
My favorite anecdote about comeuppance for airline execs is that on New Year's Eve 1999, at the witching hour for the Y2K scare, the Chinese govt made the top execs of its state airlines be on one of their aircraft and in the air from 11.00 pm to 1.00 am. It was an incentive to make sure they had sorted out any Y2K bugs.
If only something similar could be sorted out for scores of top American airline execs. Their policies might not be so rapacious.
"Casey Means, President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general, has achieved an unlikely feat: uniting vaccine skeptics and mainstream medical advocates against her nomination.
Activists in both c...
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Casey Means may have a medical degree, but she's not a practicing physician and is board certified in nothing but selling Wellness gimmicks. She should not be anywhere near Americans' public health.
Casey Means may have a medical degree, but she's not a practicing physician and is board certified in nothing but selling Wellness gimmicks. She should not be anywhere near Americans' public health.
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Our captains of industry have never forgiven society for taking away their preferred slave labor options.
Sinister bastards, aren't they?
"Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked t...
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Prison labor is an explicit exception to the constitutional prohibition on slavery. Presumably, southern state senators had a hand in crafting that exception.
Their peers crafted state criminal justice systems around finding their Black citizens guilty of a slew of special purpose crimes, to populate state prisons and their prison labor systems, which were quite lucrative. And still are.
Prison labor is an explicit exception to the constitutional prohibition on slavery. Presumably, southern state senators had a hand in crafting that exception.
Their peers crafted state criminal justice systems around finding their Black citizens guilty of a slew of special purpose crimes, to populate state prisons and their prison labor systems, which were quite lucrative. And still are.
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Mojtaba Khamenei has become leader of Iran (son of the killed Supreme Leader). The Tangerine Tyrant had already said Mojtaba was unacceptable, but there may also be an issue of the emergence of dynast...
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Trump's brain trust has not demonstrated that they've given any thought to how his war in the Middle East ends.
Trump's brain trust has not demonstrated that they've given any thought to how his war in the Middle East ends.
So the US knew the location of the Iranian ship off Sri Lanka bc both the US and Iran were part of a military exercise hosted by India which the US pulled out of at the last minute, presumably so as t...
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Now we learn that the Iranian ship torpedoed by an American submarine was defenseless. A requirement for participating in regional exercises. The US was scheduled to participate in them, too, but withdrew at the last minute.
The American navy needlessly sank a vessel that was no threat -- and apparently refused to render aid to survivors.
That submarine commander and his chain of command are in serious legal jeopardy. It happens to everyone who works for Donald J. Trump.
Now we learn that the Iranian ship torpedoed by an American submarine was defenseless. A requirement for participating in regional exercises. The US was scheduled to participate in them, too, but withdrew at the last minute.
The American navy needlessly sank a vessel that was no threat -- and apparently refused to render aid to survivors.
That submarine commander and his chain of command are in serious legal jeopardy. It happens to everyone who works for Donald J. Trump.
"This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/
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Trusting your own judgment regarding the use of AI may be risky. It's a lot less risky than trusting the judgment of the billionaires who've bet hundreds of billions of dollars to sell it.
Trusting your own judgment regarding the use of AI may be risky. It's a lot less risky than trusting the judgment of the billionaires who've bet hundreds of billions of dollars to sell it.