Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
https://trumpinsight.com/trump-term-end-countdown
Donald Trump Term End Countdown 2029
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https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=florida
Nobody seems to have created a dedicated Florida Man community as of this writing, but there is !florida@lemmy.world.
EDIT: Oh, wait, yes there is. Just no banner. !floridaman@lemmy.world:
Florida Man Arrested For Having Three Wives In Different Counties After Dating App Scam Uncovered
Man in Florida 'shoots two Israelis he thought were Palestinian
Florida attorney allegedly strikes slimmer man with a dinner plate at the meat station after his daughter cuts in front of him in the buffet line
Florida Man eating 6-9 pounds of butter and cheese a day develops ‘cholesterol hands’ while on carnivore diet
Florida Clown School Student Who Tried to Smuggle Gold-Plated Pistol into Australia Claims Google Said It Was 'OK'
Sarasota man drove stolen car to Mar-a-Lago to talk to Trump in Palm Beach, police say
“If I could vote, I would have voted for Trump,” he says. “He’s the strongest president when it comes to Cuba.”
To be fair, that's probably accurate; my guess is that Trump probably takes a harder line on Cuba than Harris would. If someone has strongly anti-Cuban-government positions, then, yeah, I can see why that'd be an concern for them.
kagis
This is from prior to the general election, comparing Cuba positions:
For decades, the United States has enforced a trade embargo against the island that complicates Cuba’s global financial transactions. Trump’s designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism and reinstatement of other restrictions during his 2017-2021 presidency snuffed out an historic rapprochement under former President Barack Obama, under whom President Joe Biden served as vice president.
Both candidates said in brief statements they would continue to draw a hard line on Cuba.
“Cuba is not prepared, nor will it be prepared to resist any more pressure (from the United States),” said Carlos Alzugaray, a former Cuban diplomat who is now an independent political analyst.
Alzugaray said a second Trump presidency “does not bode well.” He had more hope for a Harris presidency, which he said could ease sanctions to avoid another potential international conflict so close to US shores.
But he said there were no guarantees.
Yeah.
The point the article makes, that Trump is taking an unfriendly position towards political refugees from Cuba, is also valid, though. If you're someone who is opposed to the Cuban government and wants pressure on it...but also someone who fled to the US, you're going to have to be balancing those positions.
Two different things there.
There are news servers, like news.eternal-september.org.
There are newsgroups, like sci.physics.
Any news server may provide access to any newsgroups that they carry via NNTP. To do that, you'll need an account on the news server.
Once you have an account on that news server, you can subscribe to newsgroups there.
These days, most Usenet servers are, I think, commercial access, though news.eternal-september.org apparently provides free accounts with registration there:
https://news.eternal-september.org/
news.eternal-september.org provides free read and write access to all text newsgroups. It requires a registration that can be done online.
For newsreader software (which I assume Thunderbird can do; I know it as an email client) there'll be a way to plug in your NNTP server, account name, and password in your settings. Once that's working, you should be able to obtain and view a list of newsgroups that the news server provides.
There is no real concept of "subscription" to a newsgroup at an NNTP level in the sense that you subscribe to a community here on the Threadiverse. Some newsreader software packages will let you specify a list of newsgroups for which you download the entire contents of a newsgroup from a news server to your local computer so that you can read them when you're not connected to the Internet. These are typically called "offline" newsreaders. They might choose to call that a "subscription". Not all newsreader software packages support this mode of operation.
A newsreader software package may also have a list of "favorite" newsgroups for quick access, and might call that a "subscription".
But normally (outside some unusual Usenet server software packages like LeafNode, if that's still around, that have a caching, fetch-on-demand mode of operation), a Usenet server has a fixed set of newsgroups (which may not be a full list of all of the newsgroups out there; it looks like news.eternal-september.org doesn't carry alt.binaries newsgroups, which are very bandwidth-heavy) and receives all of the posts to those newsgroups. End users don't ask the news server to start receiving posts to a newsgroup via subscription, don't affect what the news server receives the way they do instances here on the Threadiverse. You can browse any newsgroup that you have access to on the news server without a subscription.
I don't think that that's very uncommon. When one "goes to the bathroom", it's understood that this is a euphemism for urinating or defecating, not just hanging out there.
Well, it's happened before.
kagis
https://www.thoughtco.com/losing-presidential-candidates-nominated-again-3368135
Here's a list. For nine candidates before (this article predates Trump's third primary victory, so only lists eight) a Presidential candidate has lost in the general election and made it to a second general election. Five of those times, the candidate managed to win in the general election.
Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016, lost to Biden in 2020, and defeated Harris in 2024.
Nixon lost to Kennedy in 1960, but defeated Humphrey in 1968.
Stevenson lost to Eisenhower in 1952 and lost to Eisenhower again in 1956.
Dewey lost to FDR in 1944 and lost to Truman in 1948.
Bryan lost to McKinley in 1896, to McKinley again in 1900, and to Taft in 1908.
Clay lost to John Quincy Adams in 1824, to Jackson in 1832, and to Polk in 1832.
Harrison lost to Van Buren in 1836, but defeated him in 1840.
Jackson lost to John Quincy Adams in 1824, and then defeated him in 1828 and defeated Clay in 1832.
Jefferson lost to Adams in 1796, but defeated him in 1800.
Goes to whatever the top result is without an extra click.
I would be very surprised if he paid anything from his own pocket for it.
The article says that he's trying to get donations for a larger one, so he definitely isn't getting government funds for that.
I mean, it's a desk paperweight. He's wealthy. This is not a ton of money.
I'm guessing that he had it done himself and that he owns it and isn't gonna leave it behind.
Once again, Donny-Dumbfuck doesn’t understand how the business world works.
He knows how this works.
However, some of his audience in the US does not, and he's exploiting that ignorance.
What he's doing is just creating this fictional narrative where he's always being seen as fighting against some enemy that's keeping the US from being exactly the way his target audience wants it to be. It's not Trump's fault. He's pushing as hard as possible to make everything perfect. It's
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.A couple of years back, when Venezuela didn't pay some Portuguese company for ham, they stopped shipping ham until they got paid. Maduro went out and accused Portugal of attacking Venezuela.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/28/americas/venezuela-portugal-christmas-sabotage/index.html
President Nicolas Maduro has accused Portugal of being behind a pork shortage that left thousands of Venezuela’s poor without their traditional Christmas dinner and sparked a fresh round of angry street protests.
On Wednesday Maduro announced he had been unable to distribute thousands of pork hind legs to the poorest neighborhoods in the country – as he had promised earlier in the month. And he put the blame squarely on Portugal.
“What happened to the pork?” Maduro asked during a Wednesday televised address. “They sabotaged us. I can name a country: Portugal.”
Like many in Latin America, Venezuelans typically eat pork legs, known locally as pernil de cerdo, during the Christmas holidays. Maduro had promised to distribute the pork as part of the monthly subsidized food ration for low-income families.
“It was all set, because we had bought all the pork there was in Venezuela, we bought it all. So we had to import, and so I gave the order and I signed the payments. But they went after the bank accounts, they went after the two giant ships that were coming. They have sabotaged us,” said Maduro.
It’s not unusual for the Venezuelan government to blame other countries, including the United States, for its crippling economic woes.
Every problem is someone else's fault, not Maduro's, who is fighting his very hardest for the public. Maybe it's the CIA. Maybe it's reactionaries. But it most certainly is someone else. Every problem just requires a new story about how someone is countering the Supreme Leader's effort, else everything would be perfect.
We just aren't used to seeing this kind of stuff from a US President. Trump, however, is doing the same sort of nonsense.
Consider some of the following recent Trump stuff:
Trump is considering suspending habeas corpus. The Trump administration is intentionally exploiting confusion over the metaphorical word "invasion" and the legal term. So then he's going to probably go declare suspension of habeas corpus, which he can't do short of someone invading, and then a judge is going to shoot it down, and the Trump will go tell his base that the judges are chaining him down, even though he had every right to do this, and if it weren't for radical leftist judges, there would be no illegal immigrants.
Trump warns U.S. carmakers not to take advantage of tariffs by hiking prices on consumers. Trump knows perfectly well that companies hit by tariffs are going to pass that on into price increases for consumers. But some people in the US don't, so by publicly standing up and demanding this, he can exploit that ignorance, show himself as standing up for consumers and random companies being the bad guy.
The political strategy is to always pass the buck off to someone else, and try to get as many people as possible to burn their own credibility supporting his false claims so that he doesn't run out of credibility.
I, Donald John Trump, do solemly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God.
For a guy who spent some time soliciting million-dollar donations from industry to bling up that ceremony, the climax of it doesn't seem to have been as memorable as one might think.
(2) It shall be unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.
Not only was God pissed off with Onan, but now the State of Mississippi was weighing in.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-a-perrone-98b85529
Jacob A. Perrone - Owner at Perrone Law PLLC - LinkedIn
I have 14+ years of experience in the legal field, having previously served as the President of Perrone Law, PC and as an Associate Attorney at Ambrose Law...
I don't think that he's a new graduate.
Based on the Reddit thread I linked to, they have two (which do not host the same website).
There's also https://firebreathingdragonlawyers.com/
Both of them are only a month old.
$ whois dragonlawyerspc.com|grep "^Creation" Creation Date: 2025-03-30T17:01:47Z $ whois firebreathingdragonlawyers.com|grep "^Creation" Creation Date: 2025-03-30T08:14:12Z $EDIT: Also, if either domain had lapsed and was simply re-registered at that point, archive.org's Wayback Machine had never indexed it prior to that point.
I've got some serious doubts about the character of anyone who presents themselves as a purple dragon.
https://dragons.fandom.com/wiki/Purple_Dragon_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
The Purple Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons) is a type of dragon in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. It is an evil-aligned chromatic dragon.
A purple dragon is a talented manipulator of other creatures. It achieves control through lies, misdirection, and direct mental domination. A purple dragon might seek control for any number of reasons, including sheer delight in bandying its power about, a desire to form a bulwark of allies and thralls for security, or curiosity about newly discovered tunnels or crevices leading to unknown areas deeper below, for which recruiting bands of disposable explorers might serve its purposes.
I can understand like a little logo in the right hand corner or something.
There is also a little logo in the right-hand bottom corner.
Well, some insects are furry. I mean, bees are furry.
impertinent
I don't know if there's a specific legal meaning --- legal jargon isn't always plain English --- but it might be that the meaning there is the other English meaning of "impertinent":
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impertinent
impertinent (comparative more impertinent, superlative most impertinent)
Insolent, ill-mannered or disrespectful; Disregardful.
(archaic) Not pertaining or related to (something or someone); Irrelevant or useless.
I mean, the term right before it in the code is "immaterial", which is very close to the second common-language definition. Just because it's archaic in common-language use doesn't mean that it is in the legal world --- a lot of legal terms with jargon meanings were in common use at one point.
kagis
Yeah, sounds like it:
https://www.lsd.law/define/impertinent
Definition: Impertinent means something that is not relevant or important to the matter at hand. For example, if someone is talking about their favorite food and you start talking about your favorite color, that would be impertinent because it has nothing to do with the topic being discussed. In legal terms, impertinent evidence or allegations are ones that do not help prove or disprove the case and are not important for the court to consider.
It was then that the Dutch poldered the Netherlands out to upwind of the Belgian wind farms.