Kim

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Living on unceded Gumbaynggirr land. Writing, thinking, learning, swimming, napping. Drinking coffee ☕️.

Since the 1949 proclamation of the People's Republic of China, elections have been highly constrained by the CCP's monopoly on power, limitations on free speech, and party control over nominations.[4][5][6] Elections are not pluralistic as no opposition is allowed.[7][8] Limited direct elections, except in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau, have occurred only at the local level people's congresses and village committees, with all candidate nominations preapproved by the CCP
Woman wearing pink jacket being interviewed on MSNow
Lavin writes like her hands are on fire, forcing us to take a hard look at our ugliest truths." - Pamela Collof, The New York Times Magazine & Pro Publica
We need 15,000 signatures to send a clear message to the government that the climate and environmental impacts of Woodside’s Browse Gas Project are unacceptable and should be rejected. Can you help us get to our goal by sharing this action on social media?
Europeans are running studies on where they would store their data or process their payments should friction with the U.S. escalate, and how well their American-made weaponry would operate without Washington’s authorization. Nations whose empires once spanned the globe are now stuck trying to extricate themselves from their humbling dependency on American technology and military power, without provoking the U.S.
The 18 major construction projects Mr. Trump has undertaken during his second term come with a potential cost of more than $1 billion.
A living room with sun coming in the window.
The wall of my bedroom with light coming in the window showing the shape of trees and clouds.
During the speech, Mrs Rinehart also spoke about how she believed Townsville could become a base for Israeli companies developing military weapons systems.
Fallopio (he of Fallopian tube fame) claimed of the clitoris in 1561 that “it is so hidden that I was the first to discover it” (in Stringer & Becker, 2010, p. 132). Skipping forward in time, 16th and 17th century anatomists Caspar Bartholin of Denmark (the Bartholin’s gland was named after him), Jean Riolan the Younger from France (who seems to have been denied eponymous fame), and Regnier de Graaf from Holland (after whom the Graafian follicle on the ovary was named) all took a turn at saying “I found it!”.
Tellingly, there is not an entire movement that suggests the Pantheon was built by aliens. Apparently, only the monuments of indigenous peoples require an alternative explanation
A visual representation of my blusky posts, golden threaded shape on black background.
Toxic mold exposure from water-damaged buildings may be an overlooked trigger for ME/CFS, MCAS, and Long COVID. Mycotoxins can disrupt cellular energy, trigger mast cell degranulation, and cause severe neuroinflammation. Healing requires strict environmental remediation, targeted antioxidant support, and careful use of binders. Work with an environmentally literate healthcare provider to safely navigate testing and personalized detoxification.
Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot.
Trump's comments in that press conference have invited commentary suggesting he is turning the White House into a fortress. Describing the ballroom. he said: "Between the drone-proofing, the missile-proofing, we have ah, and the drone capacity upstairs we can have all sorts of militarv-I hate tc use the word snipers-but we have great sniper capacity. It's built for our snipers, not enemy's snipers our snipers. And because of the height we get a very clear view of everthing all over Washington.
Trump's comments in that press conference have invited commentary suggesting he is turning the White House into a fortress. Describing the ballroom. he said: "Between the drone-proofing, the missile-proofing, we have ah, and the drone capacity upstairs we can have all sorts of militarv-I hate tc use the word snipers-but we have great sniper capacity. It's built for our snipers, not enemy's snipers our snipers. And because of the height we get a very clear view of everthing all over Washington."
Describing the ballroom, he said: “Between the drone-proofing, the missile-proofing, we have ah, and the drone capacity upstairs, we can have all sorts of military—I hate to use the word snipers—but we have great sniper capacity. It’s built for our snipers, not enemy’s snipers, our snipers. And because of the height we get a very clear view of everything all over Washington.”
But what I’ve discovered in my career is that my dream of doing any form of reporting is usually hindered by the rich amoral puffer vest-wearing idiots who keep buying up or taking over media companies
Book cover: Tasmanian Aborigines - a history since 1803, by Lyndall Ryan
Trump standing in front of market umbrellas
Looking up at the tree canopy
Wisteria growing on lovely old building in Montsalvat
They just have to let the right boat go to the wrong coordinates at the right time, and the internet in Dubai goes dark for 5 months while Alcatel Submarine Networks politely declines to send a repair ship into an active war zone. Their flagship cable vessel, the Ile De Batz, is already stranded off Dammam with half a cable on the seabed and no way to finish the job. The repair industry has force majeure’d the entire region.
They’re not turning us into unparalleled geniuses; they’re threatening to collectively dumb us down. Once they’ve done so, they’ll try to sell smarts back to us in the form of chatbots that are anything but intelligent.
The movement was a violent defense of guild privilege, male supremacy, and craft hierarchy against the leveling forces of industrial modernity. They could have fought for equality and justice; they chose instead to fight to remain the petty bosses of their own towns
We are not being lied to in the blunt, brazen way of a Howard or a Trump; we are being massaged. The government tells us soothing, technically defensible things that are systematically designed to obscure the harder truths underneath. This gap between what is said and what is done is not accidental; it is the point. It is the method.
Later, when I ask Claude to draft a version of this story, it fabricates roughly half the quotes, exactly the kind of hallucination Askell’s work is supposed to prevent. “You’re absolutely right,” chirps Claude when I point this out. “I apologize!” I pray it’s doing better in examining MRIs for cancer patients. But Askell is bullish, insisting AI will become “better than most of us at most things, at least in terms of intellectual tasks.”
His wife, Ivana, is an ex-Olympic skier, ex-model, something of a Trump tower herself, famed for her astounding couture wardrobe. She runs some of his hotels and casinos with a rod of iron that is lovingly admired in the book. It is said that for tax purposes he gives her only a dollar a year, and all the dresses she can buy.
Andrew Egger of The Bulwark explains that the Trump administration didn’t bother to have a theory for why the U.S. was going to war with Iran, or to explain to the American people why such a war would be a good thing, because they didn’t think there was going to be a war, just a fast, hard strike that would enable the U.S. to put a new Iranian leader in place.
Graded exercise therapy misconstrues ME/ CFS as deconditioning combined with a psychological fear of exercise.18 Therefore, therapists actively suppress reports of harm, and worsening symptoms are not recorded
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He said Advance would be launching Project Eureka, which he described as a continuous campaigning entity to target young people and to shape the political narrative outside of election cycles.
Letterboxd review of movie Melania: if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out.
The myth that a finger can be bitten off as easily as a carrot is false. While the average human bite force is around 160 lbs, it takes approximately 335 lbs of force just to fracture a finger bone (phalange), and even more to completely sever it.
It just feels like nobody's learning. Some patients with ME are still being offered therapy and graded exercise.
Map showing Australian proximity to Antarctica.
Reuters news headlines Trump administration has not consulted US oil majors about Venezuela, oil execs say. Image of White House in background of news banner.
This photograph was obtained by The Sun in November 2021 as Maxwell stood trial on various charges related to the trafficking of minors in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. The Sun did not elaborate on how they obtained the photo, but noted that it was likely taken in May 2003. This claim is supported by Epstein's flight records which show that the so-called "Lolita Express" (a popular nickname for Epstein's private jet) traveled from Rome to New York on May 20 of that year.
This photograph was obtained by The Sun in November 2021 as Maxwell stood trial on various charges related to the trafficking of minors in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. The Sun did not elaborate on how they obtained the photo, but noted that it was likely taken in May 2003. This claim is supported by Epstein's flight records which show that the so-called "Lolita Express" (a popular nickname for Epstein's private jet) traveled from Rome to New York on May 20 of that year.
A photo of a tropical beach in New Caledonia.
God talking to a psychiatrist: I once made a whole planet and populated it with little versions of me, but they were naughty so I drowned most of them. Later, I knocked up one of them and had a son, but I killed him so the others would love me.
Reuters headline: Trump does not want to execute members of congress, White House says.
A strength of our study is its longitudinal sampling protocol involving two acute exercise sessions separated by a 24-hour recovery period (Figure 1A), deliberately designed to elicit PEM in ME/CFS participants
Me and my first 2 Manchester Terrier babies.
Outside of electoral politics, Buskirk’s projects aim to push unrestrained capitalism into American life. 1789 Capital, he says, serves as a testing ground for the idea that homegrown innovation can revive America’s industrial base, what the firm’s partners pitch on their website as “the next chapter of American exceptionalism.” The firm, which has invested in roughly 30 companies, has funded start-ups tied to “anti-woke” politics and to the Trump administration’s economic agenda, including companies that mine rare earth minerals, build AI factories for war or 3D-print rocket fuel.
Don’t agree? In 44.4 per cent of cases of murdered women, the victim had been identified by police as a respondent (perpetrator). For Aboriginal women murdered by a former or current partner, research found nearly all had been labelled a perpetrator by police. From there, it’s not so difficult to imagine protesters becoming the target, especially those who protest at “defence” or “national security” sites. And from there?
On Monday, the future glitched. Eight Sleep’s features run on the AWS Cloud, so when one of Amazon Web Services’ data centers went offline at about 3 a.m. ET, the sleep system went haywire. Eight Sleep generally warms when the user is drifting off, then gets cooler as they enter deeper sleep. Santiago Lisa, a software engineer in Pittsburgh, told me he woke up because his bed was stuck in deep-sleep frigidity. He tried to warm it up using the Eight Sleep app, but no dice—the app was down. Then he tried the system’s manual buttons. No dice there, either—they also require the Cloud to function.
I, a French jewellery thief, refuse to rob the Louvre before mid-morning.
— Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military anniversary celebration off Camp Pendleton’s coast in San Diego County — where Navy ships are expected to fire over the freeway onto the base.