Lots of other cities to terrorize. They will have an excuse - say the crime is down, or something - "mission accomplished" and move on to the next. I wonder if the ICE employees have realized all of that facial recognition technology and license databases that they are using will be directed on them in the future?

MIttens Gloves on sale at Costco: https://www.costco.com/p/-/karbon-3d-knit-heated-gloves/4000300478?langId=-1

So the walking bus starts today. The organizers have issued a couple of pages of guidelines about what to do, including if the goons show up. There's a map of the route they should take; it basically avoids sidewalks and has them taking a route through a field to get to the school. There are confirmed reports from MN that plain-clothed agents are posing as helpers. This is so infuriating.

Gillibrand is hardly my favorite Dem Senator, but I'm pleased to read this. Gillibrand Calls on GOP to Help Pass Five Remaining Bills Separately Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) put out a statement on Monday showing her support for passing the five appropriations bills in the minibus separate from the DHS bills. She asked Republicans to join Democrats in this endeavor. “A government shutdown is completely avoidable,” Gillibrand said. “Republicans must join Democrats in advancing the other five funding bills separately and then work in a bipartisan fashion to secure reasonable reforms to restore public safety and trust for any DHS funding bill to move forward.” Emine Yücel

@Bernard said in Republican Chris Madel bows out of MN governor's race: The president should pause these operations, de-escalate the situation, and reset the federal government’s focus on truly criminal illegal immigrants. In the absence of presidential action, Congress and the courts must step up to restore constitutionality.” Yes!! Keep saying it!!! I also think we need to support them for making these statements, because they're going to get bashed, so something needs to counter that.

@CHAS said in Fun with ChatGPT.: AI recently told me that C up to G was a third. I then asked whether it was a fourth and it said it was a fourth. It then stated that it was a fifth when I asked whether it was a fifth. Yep, that sounds about right.

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FoxNews op-ed on the aforementioned university scientific research output ranking: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/harvard-gets-schooled-china-americas-universities-choose-activism-over-excellence It seems to boil down to "Harvard bad, DEI bad." It acknowledges China's state funding for scientific research, but silent on the Trump administration's cutting of scientific research funding.

Matt Dillon clip from The Outsiders (1983). Link to video I haven't thought about Matt Dillon in a long time. I want to watch this movie again. https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000369/ "Brat Pack Movies Beyond 'The Breakfast Club' Films starring the young actors collectively known as the "Brat Pack," including Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Matt Dillon, Nicolas Cage, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Timothy Hutton, and Molly Ringwald." These are actors who were popular when people my age (Gen. X) were in high school. I still say Rose McGowan was the best actor of my generation. By far. It's a shame she was blacklisted by Hollywood, and thereby her film career was basically ended, at which point she was essentially only able to work in television, starting in Charmed in which she left her peers in the dust. She once said she happened to be great at acting and could have been the greatest meaning among the greatest. It's true. What a loss for everyone all because of a crime committed against her and a corrupt Hollywood system.

@Bernard said in What happens after Minneapolis?: I appreciate that she is speaking out, but she defends an assault on the Capital, and has spent years being a disrespectful, hard line, nasty so and so. It's not like she's had a major epiphany, it seems to me. I don't trust her. Still, the more people like her who turn on the orange bastard and his fascist administration, the better. This is basically my take. It seems to me that we don’t get out of this mess without current Trump supporters figuring out that they need to stand up to him and stand against him. So yeah, MTG is a gross human being, but I hope she keeps speaking out against what’s going on in this moment.

@realplayer I agree. One of the first things on my to do list is to visit The Dalí Museum in Saint Petersburg again. I haven't been there in a long time. I want to find a nature preserve. Rural Florida is unique and beautiful. I want to create an exercise program for myself. I want to buy a desk, an office chair, a bookshelf, a desktop computer, and a printer. It's been a long time since I could sit down and write letters, etc., use software instead of a phone, and print anything. I want to buy a Pixel 10 XL and experiment with the camera. I might want to buy a digital camera at some point. I want to find an online college level course to learn Latin.

Beautiful place, understatement, great architecture, haven't been there, but understand the climate is cold and harsh as fuck.

Well, I didn't know that about Vietnam.

Nice! It reminds me of Motorola flip phones.

I don't give a flying fuck what Ted Cruz thinks, or what he says behind closed doors when he thinks MAGA can't hear him. He can't be gone fast enough from the political scene ...

Thank you so much, Andy.

Minneapolis is a Second Amendment wake-up call https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/minneapolis-is-a-second-amendment-wake-up-call/ar-AA1UUnS9

One thing remarkable from the video is how high he can lift one leg, put his foot on something, and then effortlessly use it to lift his body. He lifts one leg up to waist height and lifts his body like we might do on a single stair.