Funny events in anti-woke world

[tstorm823]

Google recently changed their policy for holidays listed on Google Calendar. They had been adding in a ton of events, and have now reached the conclusion that there are too many days. According to daysoftheyear.com, there are 15 observances associated with just February 15th, and 25 observances that last the whole week, and 73 different things that February is the month for. Rather than try to navigate being the official arbiters of what observances are worthy, they decided to go back to only having official government holidays as the defaults. This lead to some headlines suggesting Google is erasing Black History Month, or some such nonsense, but it's really a very practical decision they made.

At the same time, Google maps has had to change from listing the Gulf of Mexico to listing the Gulf of America.

Within the context of both of those things being headline news, a Republican Congresswoman submits a bill that would make Trump's birthday a federal holiday, which if passed would then have Trump's birthday added to the default events in Google calendar.

You're falling for a troll.

 

[Cicada 5]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...on-with-elon-musk-five-months-ago/ar-AA1z7soK

A right-wing influencer claims she is the mother of billionaire Elon Musk’s 13th child, according to a post she made on X.

Ashley St. Clair, a 26-year-old MAGA writer, wrote in a post on X on Friday night that she and Musk share a five-month-old child.

“Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the father,” she wrote. “I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause."

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Western Texas is seeing a measles outbreak that could have already spread to upwards of 300 people and shows no sign of slowing.

In rural West Texas, a measles outbreak grows with no end in sight

At least 58 cases have been confirmed. Health officials — who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreak — suspect 200 to 300 people may be infected.

www.nbcnews.com

Apparently there's a large Mennonite community there whose aversion to any sort of regulation is helping to fuel this. But of course, there's also the regular "gub'mint can't tell me what to do" crowd, and now that we have a rabidly anti-vaccination health secretary in Washington, we'll just see more children die of an easily-preventable disease. Honestly, if it wasn't spreading to others who can't vaccinate for whatever reason, I'd just call it "Darwinism in action" and walk away.

 

[Cicada 5]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...on-with-elon-musk-five-months-ago/ar-AA1z7soK



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[Seanchaidh]

these antisemitic incidents are getting out of control

 

[Agema]

At the same time, Google maps has had to change from listing the Gulf of Mexico to listing the Gulf of America.

Does it have to, though?

The USA doesn't own that sea to unilaterally change the name, and it doesn't own people's rights to privately call something what they want through free speech. Thus the name change can apply to all official US government documents, but is not binding on anyone else.

There is a city in the UK called "Hull", and it says so on Google Maps. Except officially it's not called Hull, it's "Kingston Upon Hull"; Hull is the abbreviation most of everyone actually uses. So Google Maps does not appear to be under any clear directive to use official names. It chooses to.

It's particularly not binding on an international audience. For some reason, Google Maps has decided to put "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" in my Google Maps, but this is just bizarre and inconsistent. It doesn't say "The English Channel (La Manche)". It doesn't say "South China Sea (East Sea; West Philippine Sea)". Thus it seems to me Google is favouring Trump far more than it needs to.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Thus it seems to me Google is favouring Trump far more than it needs to.

Google knows two things: It is exceedingly vulnerable to Trump's whims, and Trump is a vengeful manchild who will lash out at anything that doesn't bend to his whims.

 

[Trunkage]

Google knows two things: It is exceedingly vulnerable to Trump's whims, and Trump is a vengeful manchild who will lash out at anything that doesn't bend to his whims.

Ah, here's a more reasonable situation. Google is and always has been centre-right political machine and will cater to any right-wing nonsense if they can earn a few bucks

 

[Thaluikhain]

Ah, here's a more reasonable situation. Google is and always has been centre-right political machine and will cater to any right-wing nonsense if they can earn a few bucks

The two aren't mutually exclusively.

 

[Agema]

Google knows two things: It is exceedingly vulnerable to Trump's whims, and Trump is a vengeful manchild who will lash out at anything that doesn't bend to his whims.

Yes, funny thing.

Corporations have spent decades persuading governments to not enforce laws and regulations, allowing them to rampantly breach those laws and regulations. It makes for one hell of a whopping vulnerability when their success rests heavily on those infrigements and a government finally arrives that says "Mm, that's a nice monopolistic web search engine you've got there. Be a real shame if someone were to accidentally inevstigate whether it gave you an unfair competitive advantage."

 

[thebobmaster]

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/border-patrol-agents-body-cameras/

Border Patrol agents no longer are required to wear body cameras after a Redditor claimed to post a method that was able to track ICE agents through a Bluetooth app.

 

[Hades]

I have to wonder if Vance and Musk shilling hard for the AFD won't be to its detriment. Trump(and thus Vance by association) and Elon are regarded as a bunch of freaks in Europe, and Vance openly declaring himself Europe's enemy isn't earning him much affection here. Therefore these people so strongly endorsing the AFD is more likely to repel voters then draw them in.

But okay. Maybe German voters think keeping the icky brown people at bay is more important than keeping Germany safe from its enemies. They may very well think domestic concerns are more important than the Trump administration's hostility. Even in such a case it might harm the AFD. After all the other parties have an excellent justification of not working with the AFD if they are so deeply in bed with Germany's enemies.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Vance openly declaring himself Europe's enemy

When the hell did this happen?

 

[Cicada 5]

MSN

Less than a month after receiving pardons for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, some former defendants find themselves in a familiar place: back in court, facing other criminal charges.

There is Edward Kelley, who was pardoned for assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol, but who is now fighting another case. In November, a jury convicted him of conspiring to murder the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who investigated his Jan. 6 participation, with evidence showing he had a “kill list” of targets.


Kelley now argues that conviction should be tossed out, too.

The Tennessee man believes that President Trump’s blanket pardon covering “offenses related to events that occurred at or near” the Capitol on Jan. 6 extends beyond that day.

Other defendants are similarly arguing they should be absolved of other alleged crimes, such as illegal gun possession and child pornography, discovered during Jan. 6 investigations. At least one defendant has died in a post-pardon altercation with police.

Weeks after the pardon that freed hundreds of prison inmates and ended remaining cases winding through the courts, life is far from settled for a large contingent of the defendants.

On Jan. 27, county prosecutors in Houston announced a manhunt for Andrew Taake, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant who was being sought on a 2016 charge of online solicitation of a minor. He had been serving a 74-month sentence after pleading guilty to violence at the Capitol. Prosecutors said he sprayed police officers with bear spray four separate times and struck one with a metal whip.

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office said it had asked federal prison officials to hold the 36-year-old Taake, but instead he was let out of a Colorado facility on Jan. 20 after Trump’s pardon.

“Rearresting individuals, like Taake, who were released with pending State warrants, will require significant resources,” the D.A.’s office said. Taake was finally tracked down Feb. 6 at a home after a dayslong search. His lawyer didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The fact one of these guys has a name very similar to Andrew Tate would be funny if it weren't so damn surreal.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

A different insane president

 

[Agema]

I have to wonder if Vance and Musk shilling hard for the AFD won't be to its detriment.

Quite possibly.

Take a look at the polls in Canada. About a month ago the Conservatives were far and away in the lead, but two things have happened. Firstly, Trudeau signalled he would resign, and he was very unpopular. But it's Trump that's really shifted the dial. Trump's assault on Canada has made the pipsteak Trumpesque wannabe Conservative leader Poilievre look very unattractive, and he's also completely wrecked the Conservative's election strategy.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

A different insane president

Here's a long interview between Coffeezilla and one of the creators ('Zilla takes a more passive tack in this one because this guy is incriminating himself just fine):

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[Seanchaidh]

these antisemitic incidents are getting out of control

What most people don't get about the incident in Miami where a Jewish man shot two other Israelis whom he thought were Palestinians is the (inter-Jewish) racism: The shooter is an Ashkenazi. A white European Jew. His victims are Arab Jews. To him, brown Jews look like Arabs. But that's only because they are. If there ever was a more perfect demonstration of the fake and made-up idea of a Jewish ethnicity, or nation, I never heard about it. His victims, by the way, would rather he shot them again than admit they're Arabs. Zionist brainwashing is the strongest propaganda material invented by mankind - And so Arab Jews would rather die than face their Arabness, and white Jews would rather kill Arab Jews than acknowledge the humanity of Arabs

 

[Kwak]

"project 25 is just a liberal conspiracy". Shut the fuck up you gaslighting scum.

About a Third of Project 2025 Has Already Been Implemented

https://heatmap.news/politics/project-2025-tracker

37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders

37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trump’s executive orders

A side-by-side review by POLITICO found dozens of cases where the president’s early executive actions have aligned with portions of the 922-page policy document.

www.politico.com

 

[Silvanus]

His victims, by the way, would rather he shot them again than admit they're Arabs.

Wait, uhrm, why does he say the victims were racists? Where's this from?