nobody's fool

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Me when an American messages me to tell me I’m just jealous of the freedom Americans have. Did you mean:

- the freedom to get medical treatment without going in debt?
- the freedom to choose what I do with my own body?
- the freedom to send my kids through 13 years of public school without fearing for their lives?
- the freedom to be educated about the world around me?

Which freedoms are you proposing I’m jealous of?

8. Since May 2021, the @[email protected] has published at least six stories warning readers of a spike in retail theft.

Other outlets published more over the same time period:

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https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media

How Walgreens manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting

For several years, Walgreens and other major retailers have been sounding the alarm about an alleged spike in shoplifting, describing it as an existential threat to their business. These dramatic claims generated a nationwide media frenzy. Now, Walgreens is quietly

Popular Information
That the NYT thinks this is the top news story of the day tells you everything about how they set their agenda according to the whims of the far right.
THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask ā€œwhat’s your secret?ā€ and uncritically publish the lame answer

True. Democrats don’t want rich people to get away with cheating on their taxes.

RT @[email protected]

🚨 BREAKING → The House just voted to repeal funding for Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents.

Every Democrat voted no. Tells you all you need to know.

šŸ¦šŸ”—: https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1612641354676375555

Steve Scalise on Twitter

ā€œšŸšØ BREAKING → The House just voted to repeal funding for Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents. Every Democrat voted no. Tells you all you need to know.ā€

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I’m a frickin genius.

Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.

This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?

My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.

But I KNOW my phone can get text from images.

Then…

Apple Shortcuts!!!

CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Trump Org CFO Weisselberg is being sentenced to 5 months jail for massive tax fraud, of which he'll serve ~100 days on Rikers.

Kalief Browder suffered in Rikers for 700 days in solitary confinement on the false accusation he stole a backpack, then died by suicide.

Two Americas. And a reminder that a system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect, and that a system will always protect those it was never meant to fail.

Icymi last night House republicans passed their very first legislation: to make it easier for big business to cheat on their taxes and steal from you. This was republicans' first priority for the country.
at this point, signing up for pretty much anything "digital" or "smart" that doesn't have to be digital or smart to perform its basic function is just asking to be surveilled by someone https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxn9vx/researchers-track-reviver-digital-license-plate-gps-location
Researchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California’s New Digital License Plates

After gaining access to a powerful administrative account, the researchers could perform all sorts of tasks inside Reviver, the sole company that sells the digital plates in California.

NEW: DNC, DSCC, DCCC announce they will set aside more than $1m in donations tied to Sam Bankman-Fried with the goal of returning money as soon as possible, pending legal proceedings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/16/democrats-will-seek-return-more-than-1-million-bankman-fried/

Democrats will seek to return more than $2 million from Bankman-Fried

The groups received about $1 million from the crypto executive, one of numerous political groups he showered with donations.

The Washington Post