‘Just wanted to apologize’: Americans pick up the tab for everyone at Canadian restaurant
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Windsorite Susan Taylor was at Toast, ready to pay for her breakfast when she was told the bill had been covered.
“The waitress made an announcement in the restaurant that this lovely couple in the corner is paying for everyone who is in the restaurant at the time for breakfast,” Taylor told AM800’s Mornings with Mike and Meg.
“She (the donor) said that she was American, and she just wanted to apologize,” said Taylor.
“She said she knows that their president has caused a rift in what was happening between our countries, and she wanted us to know that not all Americans are bad people.”
2 little wooden pipes: a hobbit pipe and a vaporizer-soapstone-pipe
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The hobbit pipe has a builtin cigarette filter holder and a fitted soapstone stand (I dont even smoke but found it cool haha)
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The vaporizer pipe has these big slits at the bottom and holes above, meant to reduce heat. It can be heated with a flame and steams the herbs inside, no burning, ever!
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But you need propane or some other clean gas, candles and butane have nasty particulates and tar inside (the bottom literally gets black) that you dont want to inhale ;)
Two people in US hospitalized with bird flu, CDC reports
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Summary
Two people in Wyoming and Ohio were hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, with one still in care. Both had contact with infected poultry.
The cases heighten concerns about reassortment with seasonal flu, potentially creating a more dangerous strain. No human-to-human transmission has been detected.
The CDC is monitoring outbreaks as the Trump administration considers shifting containment strategies. Studies suggest prior H1N1 exposure may offer some immunity, but experts warn protection is uncertain.
The U.S. has reported 70 human H5N1 cases since detection in cows last year.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/bird-flu-hospitalizations-wyoming-ohio
[Progressive Rock] Rush - Fly by Night (1975)
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Animal rule
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Image Transcription:
Flo from Animal Crossing says to the player:
Nice! I didn’t think anyone here was good at being gay and cute!
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John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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John Oliver cited a 5000% rise in search queries related to leaving Meta and deleting accounts. Among the topics mentioned in the analysis, attention was drawn to early Facebook’s naivete with regard to moderation requirements, the constitutional framework, and a history of governmental interference.
Oliver debunks common right-wing “cry censorship” talking points, as well as the objective difficulty of moderation endeavors, and how direct threats by Trump may have influenced Zuckerberg’s turnaround.
Oliver went on to suggest Signal, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Pixelfed as alternatives that “do not seem as desperate to fall in line with Trump”. For those reluctant to completely ditch Meta, Oliver revealed a https://johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com/
with step-by-step instructions to “make yourself less valuable to them”.
The guide was a collaboration with the EFF, and includes settings’ tweaks for Facebook and Meta, whose 98% of revenue comes from micro-targeting ads, the host previously cited, to increase privacy, and recommends Firefox, Privacy Badger, as “other measures” to take in order “to block advertisers and other third parties from tracking you”.
The https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo
culminated in a mock advert, in which the new Meta’s approach to moderation is coined as “Fuck it”, and hints to racism, internet scams, and calls to genocide running rampant on Meta’s platforms.
The clip reminds the origins of Facebook as a site to “rank college girls by hotness”, and its implication in genocide in Myanmar, which was more thoroughly discussed in an Oliver’s https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=OjPYmEZxACM
special on Facebook in 2018.
The Leader of the Anti-Authoritarian Resistance
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/zelensky-resistance-trump-putin/681812/?
Der Frust der Wahlkreisgewinner ohne Mandat
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Der Frust beim CSU-Politiker Ullrich sitzt tief. Mit 28,4 Prozent hat er den Wahlkreis Augsburg-Stadt zwar knapp gewonnen. Wegen der neuen Wahlrechtsreform zieht er nun aber doch nicht in den Bundestag ein.
Rund 3 von 4 Wähler wollen ihn nicht, aber trotzdem scheint der Arme schwer beleidigt zu sein:
Als der CSU-Kandidat Volker Ullrich die Wahlversammlung der Stadt betritt, geht die Grünen-Politikerin Claudia Roth auf ihn zu. Doch Ullrich denkt gar nicht daran, seiner Konkurrentin die Hand zu schütteln. “Gehen Sie weg”, blafft Ullrich in Richtung Roth. “Sie sind keine Demokratin!”
Wie es demokratisch sein soll, dass jemand, der nur von einer aus vier Stimmen gewählt wurde, für alle abstimmt, sollte er mir mal erklären. Man sieht in den USA, wo dieses System schlussendlich hinführt.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/wahlkreissieger-ohne-direktmandat-102.html
Living in France since August & daughter has already switched to French
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Mastodon and Pixelfed got a short mention on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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US attorneys to drop lawsuit accusing SpaceX of immigrant discrimination
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US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants.
Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change
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The United States sent $50 million in condoms to Hamas. Diversity programs caused a plane crash. China controls the Panama Canal. Ukraine started the war with Russia.
Except, no. None of that is true. Not that it stops President Trump. In the first month since he returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions.
“One of the biggest presidential powers that Trump has deployed is the ability to shape his own narrative,” said Julian E. Zelizer, a Princeton history professor and editor of a book of essays about Mr. Trump’s first term. “We have seen repeatedly how President Trump creates his own reality to legitimate his actions and simultaneously discredit warnings about his decisions.”
Stephanie Grisham, who served as a White House press secretary in the first term, once recalled that Mr. Trump would tell aides that “as long as you keep repeating something, it doesn’t matter what you say.” And that trickled down to the staff. “Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as though it were in the air-conditioning system,” she wrote in her memoir.
Mr. Trump’s blame-the-victim revisionism over Ukraine in recent days has been among the most striking efforts to translate his alternative reality into policy. Over the course of several recent days, he said that Ukraine “started” the war with Russia in 2022 and called the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “dictator without elections,” while absolving President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, an actual dictator who had invaded his neighbor. He went even further on Friday, saying, “It’s not Russia’s fault.”
By undercutting public sympathy for Ukraine, Mr. Trump may make it easier for him to strike a peace agreement with Mr. Putin giving Russia much of what it wants even over any objections by Mr. Zelensky or European leaders. Since Mr. Zelensky is a dictator responsible for the war, this reasoning goes, he deserves less consideration.
One of Mr. Trump’s claims about Ukraine offers a case study in his mythmaking. He said that the United States has provided $350 billion in aid to Ukraine, three times as much as Europe, but that much of the money is “missing” and that Mr. Zelensky “admits that half of the money we sent him is missing.”
In fact, the United States has allocated about a third of what Mr. Trump claimed, even less than Europe, and none of it is known to be missing.
Once Mr. Trump makes an assertion, those who work for him — and want to keep working for him — are compelled to tailor their own versions of reality to match his. Even if it requires them to abandon previous understandings of the facts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/trump-alternative-reality.html
