Most will get back in line in the end, meantime it gives some permission from their own egos to get out.

Have to assume that part of his inability to put this back in the box is because Musk is pouring money into keeping it in front of MAGA’s eyes.

A removal of Trump in favour of some other hyper-authoritarian hazard is not good, but one hopes the replacement fails to capture the ardour of enough of Trump’s base.

Just came across her case now, when trying to find the article by the guy I mentioned (unable to, and had major difficulty a while ago, so suspect it has been scrubbed).

They like to suppress the existence of these laws too, and to shift them around - easing, tightening, easing, tightening, and changing, so neither activists nor whistleblowers nor journalists nor randomers who stumble across horrors can know how to keep themselves safe, or to have any ability to weigh up the level of risk they are taking on with any action, and so it is considerably harder to challenge the law let alone any conviction.

That journalist wasn’t an activist at all at the time or connected to activist circles. He’d been investigating reports about a worsening legislative climate, and had taken care to keep well within the confines of the (publicly known) law.

Remember that journalist who ended up in FlorenceADX in the 2000s without having had access to a lawyer, simply for reporting on the AgGag legislation and being found on a public road taking photographs of an empty feedlot?

He managed to get released, but he was straight up blackholed for a while, potentially indefinitely.

What are the squirrel & beavers in this context?

Just today a number of my searches had me wondering whether AI slop generators were generating articles and suitably titled websites in response to the searches I was making on my search engine.

I don’t know how they’d do that without being able to snatch search terms I make to my search engine (DDG, with its AI features disabled), just don’t find it plausible that anyone is bothering to generate hundreds of sites on extremely narrow aspects of obscure topics, even if semi-automated.

And they often have the same question worded slightly differently three or four times in the first paragraph.

Increasingly find that search engines ignore instructions to filter by date or site, which coupled with ignoring all operands will kill off their utility entirely.

Yay, boobies & locks!!

Do you think the HRT could be making the feelings you describe in your first comment more intense? Female puberty is often a tumultuous time emotionally until the brain acclimatises, even as it brings great relief and many satisfying changes, and fluctuating levels at any time can have a similar effect.

Be gentle to yourself, and try to do things you find comforting.

To add to replies confirming he actually sounds this way, his sister seems to have a similar issue, albeit less marked.

Not wild at all - who better to help with intelligence than defectors?

Founder of the school I went to maybe somewhat similar to your idol, having had to flee himself once he spoke out against the regime he’d previously advised on education, then persuaded parents to send their teenagers to him after. It is said the war memorial is one of the few which has British and German in equal measure, so he wasn’t successful beyond keeping his own pupils safe whilst they were still his pupils.

Wake every day overwhelmed with dread, and the clinging stench of death and misery coating my everything.

Yup, there’s plenty of scope for closer ties between Mexico (along with other Central America countries) & the EU.

Just as Nazi Germany caused millions to flee Europe for the US, Fascist US is causing the first of millions to flee to Europe.

Here’s hoping all who make it will be safe for at least several generations.

Concentration camps conveniently situated near farms & factories & burgeoning with detained “undesirables”.

Doesn’t even need to be perpetrated directly by the Trump regime when he has pardoned Jan 6th extremists who have a great many non-MAGA journalists on their list of targets for summary execution, along with details about their lives.

Years ago, my parents set out on a long journey from their home city to a rural location in another country.

Approximately five minutes after setting out, a car went flying past them. It was a bright red sports model that was very eyecatching.

Not long after, they arrived at a toll bridge, right behind the same red car. They noted the number plate.

Past the toll, the red car sped off again, quickly accelerating well past the speed limit.

Over the next few hours, this repeated at a major junction. When they eventually arrived at the ferry again just behind the red car, my father flashed his headlights.

Disembarking, they got another flash from my father, and sped off.

Several hundreds of miles later my parents arrived at their destination, parked up, and got out to stretch, when pulling in beside them was a curiously familiar red car.

Not wishing to make assumptions, my mother casually checked the plates, then saluted the driver and inquired about their journey to the event they had all arrived for.

Nope, they’d made no detours or stops, they’d taken the same route.

My mother has a way in these situations of wording things just so, that totally makes the person she’s talking to feel like an absolute worm without ever getting the escape of thinking my mother was being anything other than lovely and charming to them.

Red car was spotted driving most sedately in the local town the following afternoon.

Because they mostly have no clue that measles is a potentially fatal illness, with potential severe lifelong complications including some which require 24/7/365 full nursing care.

They think of it as a mild rash with mild flu-y symptoms for a week or two.

They also have no idea it is so very contagious.

So though the measles vaccine has an amazing safety & efficacy record, whether singly or as part of the combined MMR, with endless research turfing up no link to autism whatsoever, and carrying only a negligible risk of vaccine injury (none as severe as the complications of measles), those who reject it do so not only out of totally false beliefs about the vaccine, but also out of fully wild misconceptions about the risk of measles.

Though now the anti-vaxx movement has become such a big thing for a while, they’re all egging each other on with the help of ideological pundits. This combines to create a group highly distrustful of public health organisations and all medical advice on the matter, who are much more resistant to accepting correct information than their vaccine-shy counterparts ever were in the past. It also seems to be true that scary conspiracy theories are comforting to them in a world where serious infections can just catch a person, where autism isn’t something one can simply opt out of - they want simple answers, and everything which debunks that simple wilful ignorance is a threat to their sense of security.

Forgot to mention the ice rink of a floor in most of the rooms.

Lethal if a drop of water gets on that.

It has a bulging hand-painted portal, a boat cabin in the loft, a treehouse and a brick oven in the garden.

Fugly but am all in on this.

Whole place is like a car showroom, but brighter.

Do people who have their homes like this have cataracts or something? I dunno how else one could hack spending more than 30 uncomfortable minutes in this kind of glare.

Ceiling spots are the devil’s work, no matter the brightness. So ugly, so impractical, so expensive, intense hassle to get rid of. Urgh.

“Neither” implies they have an opinion on the relative prioritisation of the US and Ukraine by the UK, and believe that both should be prioritised to a similar degree:

“Don’t know” implies they do not feel they know enough about the relationships the UK has with either country to form an opinion.

But yes, there is some fuzziness, as anyone who does not care is more likely to choose “neither” as there is no “either” option, yet many of this type of respondent will have picked “don’t know”.