Mamdani’s Support for Palestinian Rights Was Instrumental to His Win, Poll Finds
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Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber.
Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. - sh.itjust.works
Banks will often have dye packs that can be mixed in with bills that are given to bank robbers. They’re explosively rigged, so that when triggered, they will contaminate an entire large container full of bills. So the robber is just left with a bunch of weirdly dyed bills that scream “robbery money.” So, just for entertainment purposes, would it be possible to purchase just the dye used in those cartridges, or a similar dye? And then imagine you took your own completely legal and taxed currency. You withdraw money right from your account at the ATM. So no actual theft is involved. You withdraw however much you want to dye, dye it, and now you have a large collection of purple money that screams “robbery money!” And then you just spend it as normal, casually handing what appears to be criminal evidence to random services, restaurants, and stores. Would this be legal? Is there anything preventing you from dying currency, if there is no intention or act of counterfeiting? Can I just dye legal cash purple if I want? If one actually did this, the obvious risk would be having the cops raid your house thinking you’re a bank robber. But if you were willing to take that risk, maybe didn’t have any weapons or anything illegal in your home? Maybe not so great a concern for some. But in terms of actual criminal liability, would this be legal? Is there anything legally stopping you from making your town think you’re a gangster who robbed a bank and somehow got away with it?
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Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts
Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts - sh.itjust.works
>There were many disheartening moments during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign for progressives who support Palestinian rights. Yet few were quite as deflating as that moment when the ostensibly progressive, leading member of The Squad, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood at the podium at the Democratic National Convention and told the audience that then-Vice President Kamala Harris was “working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and bring the hostages home.” >We knew she was lying. AOC herself knew she was lying. But it was just the message that the crowd—who were more than eager to show their support for the Democrats despite the party’s utter refusal to allow even the most conciliatory and moderate Palestinian voice to be heard—wanted to hear, and they ate it up.
California should secede from the union and become its own independent country. Then it should launch its own pointless revanchist war to conquer Baja California.
Is the Trump administration quietly preparing for catastrophic climate change?
Is the Trump administration quietly preparing for catastrophic climate change? - sh.itjust.works
Three of Trump’s core policies are the genesis for this question. The desire to annex Canada, the desire to annex Greenland, and the push for autarky. Now, I realize this isn’t an explicit policy, and it couldn’t be considering how they message politically on climate change. And even if Trump isn’t thinking that far ahead, I wouldn’t be so sure about the Silicon Valley billionaires like Musk that are running most of his cabinet and feeding him ideas. Sure, Trump doesn’t have long to live based on his age. But someone like Zuckerberg? Catastrophic climate collapse is a scenario that you may face in your lifetime. In a catastrophic climate change scenario, the appeal of having more northern territory is obvious. In some of the more severe scenarios, this century the US is looking at the collapse of its agricultural heartland as corn, soy, and wheat belts march north. And of course there are newly opening Northernly trade routes as the polar ice thaws. Trump has long had a belief that the US should be more self-sufficient. He seems to genuinely believe in the concept of autarky. And if some of the worse projections of climate change come to pass, we are looking at what may be known to history as the Great Famine. We’re facing potential vast decreases in agricultural productivity and multiple simultaneous breadbasket failures. And whenever a country experiences a food shortage, the very first thing its government does is to prohibit the export of food staples. I again don’t think Trump himself is playing this level of chess, strategizing for decades in the future. But some of the tech billionaires, the ones that follow Yarvin and dream of reorganizing society from top to bottom? There’s zero chance those guys aren’t also factoring in climate change into their machinations. There’s a reason so many of them are building bunkers in New Zealand and other remote locations likely to fair relatively well in the event of catastrophic climate change. I would never expect them to admit this is their strategy. The fossil fuel wing of the Republican Party has been pushing the “climate change is a hoax” line for so long that the party can’t just abandon that messaging without being eaten alive by their base. But looking at their actions, it sure looks like the actions of an amoral sociopath that was concerned about catastrophic climate change. I ask myself, “if I had no conscience, didn’t care about hurting innocent people, and was running the US, what would I do to best position the US for catastrophic climate change?” And it looks an awful lot like what the Trump administration is doing right now.