darmabum

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[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

AI: “Um, …these aren’t the droids you want. Squirrel!”

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Plus, “misnomer” must mean something like a smart person's word for “mistake” to the average* person.

*cf: Carlin, G.

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Now I got that ZZ Top intro ear-worm…

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Well, that’s overdue, but to be honest a lot of dry cleaning solvents are either toxic (Chloroform, Triclor) or greenhouse gasses (1,1,1 Tricloroethane, Freons), and most if not all come from petroleum sources. Unfortunately, we need them, or replacements anyway, for things as varied as whiteout correction fluid, industrial degreasers, and household cleaners. Finding cheap ways to make substitutes (like limonene, lactates, acetals) from natural sustainable sources is a huge challenge.

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just FYI: Media Bias Fact/Check reports Reclaim The Net as having a right-wing bias and mixed factual credibility.

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Who plays Wash, …and Jayne?

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

But, I have to wash my mouth out with soap if I even think of that festering pustule. Won't he just ooze back into the mud on his own?

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

“business’”

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The headline would be unsurprising even if it ended at the word China.

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Article doesn’t mince words. Some choice quotes. One person gave investigators:

…details regarding Powell’s private behavior as she aided Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election outcome. According to Parlatore, the ex-commissioner did not mince words: “During Bernie Kerik’s interview with the special counsel’s office, the issue of a possible mental health break and change in her demeanor and personality was discussed,” the attorney says.

In documents obtained during Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News, attorneys for the company discovered that Powell had relayed “far-fetched” claims about the 2020 election to Fox host Maria Bartiromo based on an eccentric “source” who claiming that “The Wind tells me I’m a ghost” and that “I was internally decapitated, and yet, I live.”

Parlatore adds that during the investigators’ multi-hour interview with his client, the word “lunatic” was indeed used to describe Powell.

And, finally,

Or, as one source who’s been in the room recently with federal investigators succinctly puts it: “Sidney’s fucked.”

[–] darmabum@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They are trying to save money by adding a solvent mixture refined from recycled plastic. But since the feedstock contains a wide variety of junk (called “UVCB substances" or “Substances of Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or Biological materials”) the resulting additive is a very complex mixture, including many untested and/or potentially toxic chemicals.

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