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Bicycle riders are a nuisance everywhere. It's one thing to get in my way when I'm driving my car. It's even worse when they do it with that smug, self-righteous attitude. They think they're saving the planet by riding a bicycle and since they're so important, you better let them have the road. Well, I don't want them under my tires so I usually let them have it. Sometimes I honk though.
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I try not to flip the bird at people on the road because you never know when one of them might have a gun and be inclined to use it.
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#8
There is an event called Bike Across Kansas. Starts west, goes east. During harvest. On two lane shoulderless roads. And the worst, the official line is "Hey you dirt rubes, watch out for us!" Or on a mountain road and some Sven wannabe wants to prove he is more than his Subaru. Or when some city welp comes to town to cosplay small town life and blows through the stop signs which are there because hauling hay bales route whose vehicles don't stop on a dime, they stop on $3.48 cents worth of pennies and some of the change is foreign coins you have to sort out.
I'm not saying don't go biking and get exercise, I'm saying it can be done without being a soy-puft marshmallow them.
And if still haughty because unsure where a bicycle rates on the Physics Wins! chart, the first winner of the Tour de France was XIX Panzer Corp.
#9
Well, in Tel Aviv they took a part of a sidewalks for bicycle paths. You can't f*cking cross from sidewalk to a bus stop without some moron trying to run you over.
#10
Where I am it's been it's law you have to give cyclists 3 feet clearance. Try that when they're riding side by side past the signs the read "Share the road!".
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The side-by-side bullshit is what pisses me off. We don't share car lanes with other cars until 1AM
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[Rutherford Institute] "What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."—Hannah Arendt
In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need "total control" in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us harm.
Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated, free speech online.
A bipartisan chorus that includes both presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has long clamored to weaken or do away with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which essentially acts as a bulwark against online censorship.
It’s a complicated legal issue that involves debates over immunity, liability, net neutrality and whether or not internet sites are publishers with editorial responsibility for the content posted to their sites, but really, it comes down to the tug-of-war over where censorship (corporate and government) begins and free speech ends.
As Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes for Reason, "What both the right and left attacks on the provision share is a willingness to use whatever excuses resonate—saving children, stopping bias, preventing terrorism, misogyny, and religious intolerance—to ensure more centralized control of online speech. They may couch these in partisan terms that play well with their respective bases, but their aim is essentially the same."
In other words, the government will use any excuse to suppress dissent and control the narrative.
The internet may well be the final frontier where free speech still flourishes, especially for politically incorrect speech and disinformation, which test the limits of our so-called egalitarian commitment to the First Amendment’s broad-minded principles.
On the internet, falsehoods and lies abound, misdirection and misinformation dominate, and conspiracy theories go viral.
This is to be expected, and the response should be more speech, not less.
As Justice Brandeis wrote nearly a century ago: "If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
Yet to the government, these forms of "disinformation" rank right up there with terrorism, drugs, violence, and disease: societal evils so threatening that "we the people" should be willing to relinquish a little of our freedoms for the sake of national security.
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The CIA/Hillary/State Dept - the Blob are trying to censor Americans in America by going to all the other 5 eyes countries and Europe and pressuring all of us to insert "misinformation" censorship laws on social media firms
That back-engineers censorship in the US bypassing the 1st amendment because the internet publishes everywhere and it's easier for corporations just to have one simple policy globally
They will use AI to censor in real time
They're coming for RUmble, Substack, Insta, Telegram - everything
And once they do that, it also back-engineers your mainstream CNN Fox MSNBC etc - you know why? Journos rely on clicks on their stories that's the metric of success for them to keep their jobs
No clicks from no shares because socials censor = career death
The Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi story is an example of failed recruitment and near miss that received damaging media attention. The Tawhedi clean-up and movement to the memory hole should be instructive.
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A very thoughtful posting on CTH this morning that intuitively forecasts the coming weeks news content and its impact. I never imagined that this level of prudence would be apt in my country, but it is now!
"(@wendyp4545): “I’m going to give you some very sound advice and I understand how angry you are and I anticipate how much angrier that you’re going to be, you just don’t know it yet. Hear my words because you will be no good to anyone if you get arrested.. Always remember that. Under NO circumstances should you plan, threaten or organize any retaliation on any social media platform or in any email to anyone. I’m going to ask you to keep tucked into the back of your mind how the FBI undercover set up the men in the Whitmar kidnapping hoax. They are all innocent men who were caught up in a trap set by our own government and they are online with us right now. They’ll post or reply with words that will try to goad you into your reply that would suggest any type of organization against our government. Don’t fall for it. EVEN when it gets really bad we anticipate that it will. They’re online to set us up. Know that in advance and avoid their traps.” | nitter.poast.org
[Jpost] A few days back, French President Emmanuel Macron called for an arms embargo on Israel in a bid to push the Israeli government to find a political solution to the ongoing war. France is not a major arms supplier for Israel. In 2023, France exported military equipment merely worth 30 million euros (US$33 million) to Israel. According to the SIPRI report, 99% of Israeli arms imports are from the USA and Germany. The French fatwa may be morally upsetting but is not likely to have any consequence on Israel’s war-fighting ability.
The situation, however, does evoke a sense of déjà vu.
Back in 1967, just three days before the Six-Day War, French President Charles De Gaulle had announced an arms embargo on Israel. Prepaid orders of Mirage fighter jets were canceled. De Gaulle wanted to realign with the Arab world, which had started to boycott France for its support of the Jewish state since the 1950s. The real damage happened two years later. On 3 January 1969, a second arms embargo was imposed by France after the Israeli attack on Beirut airport. Without the French connection, Israel felt cornered and helpless.
Besides building a special relationship with France — which became the largest arms supplier to Israel, the Israeli leadership started developing the domestic military industry in its early days. However, the seriousness of the indigenous capability came about in the late 1960s with DeGaulle’s policy shift.
Similar embargoes were imposed by the US and UK in 1971 and 1973, respectively, further pushing Israel to spearhead its military modernization program. By the end of the 1970s, Israel had the capability to produce advanced military equipment ranging from tanks and jet aircraft to precision-guided smart weapons, microelectronics, and rocket-propelled engines for sea-to-sea and air-to-air missiles. The IDF had achieved a high degree of technological superiority.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MAKES ISRAEL STRONG
IN HIS 1997 ESSAY on force construction, Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Isaac Ben-Israel argued that "the more the war between us and the Arabs is conducted at a higher technological level, the better our relative situation will be." Israel’s wars with its adversaries were essentially a case of "few against many," and the leadership realized that the preferred scenario for them was a hi-tech war. Besides modernizing its military arsenal, bolstered by military aid from its biggest ally — the US, the IDF also underwent a technological facelift.
The IDF began building its cyber capabilities in the 1990s. Over the years, advanced cyber surveillance techniques and AI were employed to support and execute their ground operations. Specialized units such as MI’s Technological Unit 81 or Signals Intelligence Unit 8200 are known to have conducted some of the most sophisticated intelligence operations on foreign lands. The story does not end there. Israel created a unique knowledge-sharing model wherein the veterans of these specialized units were allowed, rather encouraged, to set up tech unicorns and cyber start-ups after leaving the IDF. By the turn of the century, Israel came to be known as the start-up nation and a technological marvel.
Now, IDF has its own new cyber defense training school — Basmach Maslul Alpha in Beersheba, under the Israel National Cyber Directorate, to mold youngsters into tech wizards. After graduation, these young techies are posted with technological units across the armed forces. Israel is harnessing the potential of its young, bright minds as well as the experience of veterans to its benefit, like no other country does. This unique civilian-military synergy changed the IDF of the pre-1990 era into the hi-tech, advanced military that the world knows today. From De Gaulle to Macron, Israel has come a long way. How long we'll all see in a few days - when MM will get that's been coming to them.
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A point few people noticed. USG* ban on bunker busters to Israel wasn't lifted. Nasrallah & co were eliminated by IMI bunker busters.
*I'm not saying "Biden-Harris" ban, cause Biden (let alone Harris) has zilch influence over Pentagon bureaucracy.
Nichole Andrews, a Washington-based oncology dietitian and author, is sharing the seven foods and drinks she warns may increase your risk of developing cancer or having it return.
In her June TikTok, which has garnered 2.9 million views, Andrews recommends avoiding alcohol, processed meats, soda, red meat, coffee drinks, white grains and plant-based milks.
She notes that red meat in moderation does not correlate to an increased risk of cancer. However, consuming more than 18 ounces of red meat per week has been associated with increased odds of colorectal cancer.
Coffee provides myriad health benefits — consuming three to four cups of joe a day has been shown to reduce the risk of liver cancer and other alcohol-related liver diseases.
A recent study also found that moderate coffee consumption can lower the risk of developing a combination of diabetes, stroke and heart disease, known as cardiometabolic multimorbidity.
However, these benefits are compromised when your cup of coffee veers into dessert territory.
“I’m a whole-grain girl through and through. Whole grains are going to help you reduce risks of colon and breast cancer, and [they’ll] give you more fiber and more nutrients as well because [they’re] less processed.”
She explains that while white grains like those found in white bread are not expressly linked to increased cancer risk, the lack of fiber makes them a poor choice overall.
Andrews said that despite the popularity of alternative milks, she always chooses nutrient-rich, full-fat dairy. “I don’t do the plant milks … because they are so low in protein.”
She also said the “amazing” calcium in cow’s milk reduces the risk of colorectal cancer.
#5
General advice is bad advice. Everybody is different; some folks can eat peanuts, some can drink alcohol without being a drunk, some can load up on carbs and still be thin…. Figure it out for yourself and be happy.
[IsraelTimes] As dissatisfaction with the government grows, a regime opponent says citizens are in the grip of uncertainty and distrust their leaders’ ability to protect them.
Ever since Iran attacked Israel with ballistic missiles on October 1, and Israel vowed to retaliate, Iranians have been waiting with bated breath. The timing and location of the Israeli strike remain unknown, adding to the anxiety across the country. The waiting has been excruciating for many.
“There are some sadistic journalists in Iran who keep sounding the alarm, claiming that an Israeli attack is imminent, maybe within hours. For the past few nights, I’ve made the terrible mistake of opening Twitter before bed, only to see posts from these ridiculous reporters claiming the attack is about to happen. After that, I can’t sleep – I just lie there, wide awake until 6 a.m., waiting for something to happen,” said Leila (not her real name).
An Iranian woman in her late 30s, Leila lives in Isfahan, a city in central Iran, approximately 320 kilometers (200 miles) south of Tehran.
Six days after the Islamic Republic’s first large-scale missile and drone assault on Israel on April 13, the IDF struck a radar for an air defense battery in Isfahan that provided cover for the nearby underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. The strike was intended to demonstrate Israel’s ability to penetrate Iran’s air defense systems.
But this time around, the Israeli response is expected to be far more devastating.
#3
Tehran will be prompted to revise its nuclear doctrine, the source told RT, without elaborating.
In that last one Skidmark should be a death notice upon themselves....
#5
Samantha Fish is wonderful, 3dc. So’s her sister, Amanda Fish, though Amanda is harder blues-rock. I saw Amanda for the first time when her band competed at the International Blues Festival in Memphis — I think in 2015.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
