aramis87

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 5 minutes ago

I'm saying this without any actual proof, but I strongly suspect the Mennonite outbreak is among a group of Old Colony Mennonites. Due to pressure from various governments, Old Colony Mennonites migrated from Ukraine to the Russian Empire, then to Canada (where some stayed), and then to Mexico; this left them with a cultural distrust of governments and government agencies (such as public health agencies). They settled in rural Mexico and avoided the government and public contact as much as possible, meaning that (among other things), they managed to avoid the great vaccine push of the 1950s and 1960s, whereas more mainstream communities were educated on the benefits of vaccines and got to see those benefits in their everyday lives. When Mexico's economy deteriorated in the 1980s and 1990s, some of those Old Colony Mennonites moved to Texas and others back to Canada, where they remain in under-vaccinated pockets.

I haven't heard anything about which specific branch of Mennonites are involved in the outbreak but, as I said, I suspect they're mostly Old Colony Mennonites.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Expanding the systems to more airports is something Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy would like to do if Congress signs off on his multi-billion-dollar plan to overhaul the nation’s aging air traffic control system.

Oh, the one that Biden tried to pass in 2019 but the Republicans voted down?

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 15 points 3 days ago

Tfg is just aching for people to start murdering people who stand up to him.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 14 points 3 days ago

BBC says they had engine failure.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also a real human with a throwaway registration address!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The court barred the removal of the men, who the Trump administration alleges are members of Tren de Aragua, pending a new decision from a lower court.

The justices did not rule on whether the Alien Enemies Act, which the Trump administration invoked in mid-April to deport the detainees, had been applied correctly.

So they kicked it back to a lower court, and left everything else alone. Fucking cowards.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bernie and AOC. It'll never happen, but I want it to!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You underestimate the racism and sexism of the American voter.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The last time I bought a phone, I used versus.com's filters to suggest different models that fit the criteria I needed, including a small form factor. I've been pretty happy with the resulting phone!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 93 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If no one wants them, they're not worth anything.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Too many "quotes" in that tweet.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 51 points 1 week ago

“It went from judges getting pizzas, to then judges’ children getting pizzas, to then judges getting pizzas or their children getting pizzas that they didn’t order in my murdered son’s name,” Salas said. [...] “We know the first is, ‘I know where you live.’ Second is, ‘We know where your children live.’ And the third now is, ‘Do you want to end up like Judge Salas? Do you want to end up like Daniel?’”

 

Sorry if I'm in the wrong place. Is there a setting where I can turn off people's ability to PM me? The spamgirl is annoying me, and I'm sure more will follow in her wake.

On other sites with spam issues, I'd turn off the ability for people to PM me and, if they asked on a thread I was on, I'd either re-enable PMs or add them to an approved users list. I thought I'd seen that ability here (I'm on the plain web version of fedia.io), but may well have been confusing it with some other site.

Thank you!

 

Archive link: https://archive.is/aQYaj

 

Unsilent Night is happening 6pm Sunday; meet at the Guardhouse at Rittenhouse Square. The music you hear changes on how many people are playing which tracks, where you are in the crowd, and how the environment you're moving through reflects or deadens the sound. It's pretty cool - join us for a (cold) stroll on Sunday evening!

 
 

There are five games to play, including a strike-themed take on Wordle.

 

A Pennsylvania woman whose absentee ballot was returned to her instead of being counted said she flew from Berlin back to her home state to vote in person.

 

A Pennsylvania woman whose absentee ballot was returned to her instead of being counted said she flew from Berlin back to her home state to vote in person.

 

Colin Gray, whose son is charged with the slayings of 4 people at Apalachee High School, asked a judge to be separated from other inmates behind bars.

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