In Colombia I get a shocking number of voice messages via WhatsApp. I got a 4-minute message from my landlord last week that had 20 seconds of actual information.

The transcribe option in the app is reasonably good, but it’s not 100% accurate.

It was a bad three-day weekend.

Any time I see or hear someone using “communist” as an insult, I immediately assume they’re a right-winger using the word to mean “something I’m afraid of.”

My fundie-Christian family members use it as a synonym for “atheist” because that’s what they’re afraid of.

Um … Loki was a trans horse at the time.

Goddamned woke Norse mythology. (/s)

The DA is supposed to seek criminal charges in criminal cases with enough evidence to prosecute. If the victim of any crime in the US wants financial restitution (for hospital bills, lost wages, etc.), they need an attorney to pursue a civil suit.

The current Democratic party is basically the Reagan Republicans with more emphasis on civil rights.

US politics have skewed further and further rightward for the last 50 years. On a global scale, Democrats are firmly center-right.

Bernie Sanders and AOC are barely left of center for the rest of the world, but in US politics they’re “off the deep end.”

I feel like The Satanic Temple would be willing to do this.

They did something similar with abortion rights, but I don’t think they have gained any legal traction with that argument. (That could also be because they’re waiting for a member who has standing to bring a case.)

404 Media doesn’t require payment for a subscription. Their content is behind a subscriber wall to keep AI bots from accessing their work.

I expect we’ll see more of this sort of thing as AI continues gobbling up everything on the internet so that it can write laughably bad term papers for high schoolers.

What’s your source for this? I find nothing that says therapists don’t have to report cases of child abuse.

I just responded to someone else with a long list of sources that indicate that therapists across the US are required to report child abuse.

I find zero sources that agree with your claim.

I find several sources that indicate that therapists in all US states are required to break confidentiality when child abuse has occurred.

https://psychcentral.com/health/what-do-therapists-have-to-report

https://www.remnantcounselorcollective.com/resources/86536/the-ultimate-guide-to-mandated-reporting-laws-in-all-50-us-states-child-adult-abuse-neglect

https://www.stopitnow.org/ohc-content/when-must-a-therapist-file-a-report

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-therapists-report-confidentiality_l_5d2cf063e4b0bca603641a62

https://www.mentalyc.com/blog/exceptions-to-confidentiality-in-counseling

So either you’re talking about another country’s laws (in which case I’d like to know which country), or you’re just incorrect.

I’m in Colombia, where psychologists are required to report “human rights violations, mistreatment or cruel, inhuman or degrading conditions of confinement of which any person is a victim and of which they become aware in the exercise of their profession.”

This sounds insane because it is insane.

It is also true. They don’t even try to hide it. Do they still have a weekly show about it on TBN?

Only accidentally Zionist. They don’t actually believe that Jewish people have a right to Israel so much as they believe that Jewish people need to inhabit Israel to fulfill Christian prophecy.

US evangelicals are treating an entire ethno-religious group as means to their desired end. It’s disgusting.

And the USSC has definitely ruled that money is equivalent to speech. So boycott activity is logically covered under this Amendment.

If this law passes, a lot of people are going to have a rough year or two until they can get a case all the way to the Supreme Court.

A cursory search for “liquid trees micro algae” led me here: https://liquidtrees.org/urban-solutions

Even with ideal light conditions, there’s still more to consider.

I lived in Louisville for many years. It’s fairly green as cities go. In older parts of the city, trees had been planted between the streets and sidewalks … definitely a long time ago, maybe 30 to 50 years? Maybe longer?

Every spring, we lost a number of those trees to thunderstorms. Enough rain, followed by strong winds, would topple multiple trees. Every single one that I saw had a root ball that was exactly the size of the opening where it had been planted, so maybe two square meters and maybe a meter or two deep. (For those keeping score at home, that’s not enough root volume to support a full-sized tree.)

So we’d lose those lovely trees and on a good day, we’d lose the use of the street for a while. On a bad day, someone would lose a car or a chunk of their house.

“Just plant more trees in the middle of the city” is not the brilliant fix that many people seem to think it is.

Russia doesn’t have nearly as much influence over global markets as the US.

Edit: But Putin has had a much longer political career and has probably set things into motion that we won’t ever be able to confirm his involvement in. So you might be right.

With Republicans in general, I think. It seems to be their best attempt at misdirection, and I think it works to keep their target audience from paying attention to their least savory activities.

They spent decades training the leopard, so they thought they had tamed it.

I recall that he was also in favor of charter schools, which made him non-viable for me years ago.

I hoped that maybe he had a real change of heart last month, but I guess that was just a publicity stunt.

And, later, just one enormous Spirit Halloween.