> Whether readers find these protagonists sympathetic or self-sabotaging, “Trump Country” writing leaves its audience to assume that Appalachians have not earned the right to belong in the narrative of American progress and are content to doom others to the same exclusion.
Hey Google, remind me to like, start reading group reading basically as it's announced not 2 days before
Hard to say! Presumably it wouldn't have been worth mentioning if it was like...an honest question? But it's also a single account so it's unverified. The prospect though is pretty grim
Double yikes. #doubleyikes
"Lightning lights up the ash cloud above Shinmoedake peak as the volcano erupts" http://abcnews.go.com/International/lightning-japans-called-james-bond-volcano/story?id=54261603
@GodEmperorDune i think real ones. i seem to recall him saying he wanted to fund research in cloning them because i remember hearing that and thinking "yeh, because that's worked so well in the movies"
> The Army recently rewrote its primary warfighting doctrine to account for the long stretch of fighting without victory since 9/11. “The win was too absolute,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Lundy of the old document. “We concluded winning is more of a continuum.”
a great way to not lose is to change the definitions of winning and losing
either: - Trump is an idiot and his lies are going to be taken as truth and screw up his former laywer's case - he's telling the truth and the NDA is voided thus the case would be closed for Daniels - we're in Bizarro World
> BP, which has since withdrawn the drilling plan, also told a federal government agency that a diesel spill would be considered “socially acceptable”.
Conor McGregor was charged with 3 counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief in New York City after he injured someone by throwing a hand truck at a bus, the police said https://nyti.ms/2Hekctj
Do you believe that the Fake News Media is pushing hard on a story that I am going to replace A.G. Jeff Sessions with EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, who is doing a great job but is TOTALLY under siege? Do people really believe this stuff? So much of the media is dishonest and corrupt!
Major white supremacist site Stormfront is apparently on the brink of collapse because the founder's wife is sick of footing the bill. http://bit.ly/2q8izGl
@Unionhawk we need a verb like corncobbing but that has to do with aimless wandering around a fast food parking lot for hours bemoaning a website suspension
I think Owen Benjamin's "Come at me bro! (pubes)" "Oh no you came at me how could you?? (pubes)" is only barely eclipsed by Eichenwald's "Oh I actually don't work at X, Y, or Z anymore?"
The Department of Homeland Security wants to compile a database of journalists, including information about their previous coverage and the "sentiment" of the companies they work for. https://biglawbusiness.com/homeland-security-to-compile-database-of-journalists-bloggers/
> The recent purge of his national security team raises new questions about the quality of advice he will receive. John Bolton starts work in the White House on Monday.
From the opinion piece I linked above. That second sentence is a surprisingly scary one
at least we're not the brazilian president ignoring court orders
Memphis journalist arrested by ICE agents after criminal charges against him for covering a protest against ICE's policies and other issues were dropped http://www.newsweek.com/ice-arrests-manuel-duran-journalist-covered-protest-immigration-agencys-875279
Larry Kudlow, the White House's new economic adviser, talked to reporters today. He said that we're not in a trade war. “China is the problem. Blame China, not Trump.”
@GodEmperorDune they're certainly protecting their market, but you really don't want to offend all your potential allies in this fight if you want to challenge China on this. A combined effort with US, EU and other countries that have similar issues with China would be much more effective
Florida woman blames cocaine in her purse on the wind because Florida: "I don't know anything about any cocaine. It's a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse." https://www.local10.com/news/weird-news/florida-woman-blames-cocaine-in-purse-on-windy-day
> "I'm not going to be a Gabby Giffords," the lawmaker said after, according to the paper. "I don't mind dying, but whoever shoots me better shoot well or I'm shooting back."
i have heard that getting shot is extremely painful and disorienting and shooting back is not really a thing that happens outside of movies
Bylaws for condo Pruitt rented a room in prohibit single room rentals and "transient tenants" https://newrepublic.com/minutes/147834/lobbyist-rented-room-scott-pruitt-may-broken-condo-bylawsand-dc-law
Going back to the trade war with China, it's interesting to note the differences in intellectual property. While China is definitely subverting IP law, the obverse is that the US is perhaps too stringent with IP law.
There are certain microindustries in Shenzhen that don't exist anywhere else. Or at least don't exist outside of China because of the general disregard for IP law.
Which isn't necessarily a good thing because China does some pretty screwed-up things regarding stealing patents and such.
But it's interesting to see what a middle ground between the US and China in terms of IP would look like and what it would result in.
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Yeah, there's definitely some room for the US to loosen up there
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