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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 3h

Correlation is not causation but at a minimum it questions the efficacy of wide spread masking and not much has been done to study potential harms that might result from it.

If masking were so effective, that plot wouldn't exist.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 3h

More mask usage is not necessarily better, life is complicated. A retrospective study shows high usage countries in Europe had higher excess mortality, as opposed to lower.

bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

High mask usage was correlated with higher excess deaths

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 6h

😆 It honestly looks exactly the same as the paintings so maybe there's an undead Monet poking around keeping things in order

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 7h

No idea on your schedule, but if you have time to go to Mont St. Michel, totally worth it. It's a 4 hr drive from Paris, we stopped at Monet's house on the way. Spent the night, walked on the streets at night and saw the abbey in the morning, then back to Paris

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Sa...

Mont-Saint-Michel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 7h

I believe any prevalance of pickpockets in Paris is because they seemed to revel in minimizing the number of subway cars used in the Paris metro (in 2019 anyway) so that you're riding shoulder to shoulder no matter what time of day it is.

"Is it off-hour? We're going to run with 3 cars, enjoy"

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 11h

Uhh, so it's like a flounder with two eyes on one side of its head?

A flounder, probably not filled with PB&J

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Dude you're a pedantic moron, so try parsing what "effectively killed" means.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

That's the dumbest take on what the phrase "led to violence" means I've ever seen.

Under that definition, nothing ever leads to violence because people always have the option to not be violent.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars knowledgeable of the situation thought it would lead to violence.

It then lead to violence.

But you think it's not a big deal. Makes sense.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Over 130 US Jewish studies scholars criticize Trump’s Jerusalem decision

"We hope one day to see a world in which all inhabitants of the land enjoy equal access to the city’s cultural and material resources," the scholars say.

www.jta.org/2017/12/10/u...

The statement cites information from the left-wing Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, which documents that “Palestinian residents of Jerusalem endure systematic inequalities, including an inequitable distribution of the city’s budget and municipal services, routine denial of building permits that are granted to Jewish residents, home demolitions, and legal confiscation of property for Jewish settlement. In addition, Palestinians in the West Bank, unlike Jewish Israelis resident in that territory, require a special permit to visit Jerusalem’s holy sites.”

The statement continues: “In this context, a declaration from the United States government that appears to endorse sole Jewish proprietorship over Jerusalem adds insult to ongoing injury and is practically guaranteed to fan the flames of violence. We therefore call on the U.S. government to take immediate steps to deescalate the tensions resulting from the President’s declaration and to clarify Palestinians’ legitimate stake in the future of Jerusalem.”

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

They want two thing:s
1) their own state
2) part of Jerusalem as the capital

What is it about this that you don't understand?

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

If fire fighters showed up to a burning building that was half destroyed and then sat around watching it burn down to 90% destroyed before turning on a garden hose, would we say "Wow, they heroically put out that fire. Nobody else could have done what they did"?

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Assuming you're actually ignorant of the situation and not just asking in bad faith:

Jerusalem is of importance to both the Israelis and the Palestinians. A two state solution would always have involved figuring out how to share the space.

www.britannica.com/place/Jerusa...

Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Explainer, Tensions, & Capital Claimants | Britannica

For decades Jerusalem’s status has been among the most contentious issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The city is home to hundreds of thousands of people who belong to either nationality, Isr...

www.britannica.com

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

His first admin was responsible for throwing gas on the situation in the first place by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, effectively killing prospects of the 2-state solution.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

His administration has definitely starved people to death with the destruction of USAID as well as outright dropped bombs on unidentified boats in the Caribbean at his direction, so yeah, really working towards world peace overall.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 5d

Basically the government has an accusation and the grand jury decides if the charges are warranted and if the person can be indicted and moved to the trial phase.

At the federal level it's 23 people and 12 have to agree to move ahead. Minimum quorum is 16 but still 12 have to agree.

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 5d

One additional note that I didn't see anyone else mention: grand juries are part of the fifth amendment and are a requirement for any charges that carry a punishment of at least a year of prison.

They are meant to prevent sham trials brought by the gov

constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

constitution.congress.gov

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 6d

I can only imagine what the current total in number of exceptions is.

"In total, 161 exceptions to the filibuster’s supermajority requirement have been created between 1969 and 2014"

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

The Filibuster Explained

The procedure, whose use has increased dramatically in recent decades, has troubling implications for democracy.

www.brennancenter.org

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 7d

All the best platforms are going to be pricy, so will co-sign the idea of using tally.so

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 9d

I tried to find what the minimum height of the wire is and apparently the camera can theoretically go as low as the ground, but NFL keeps the minimum height to 12 ft.

FG posts are 10 ft high so definitely possible for a kick to hit the wire if they've got the camera lower.

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 9d

Sometimes they give it to you that way for free

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 9d

I always fall back to, on my death bed, am I going to say "I wish I had spent more time at work".

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Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 11d

If he emerges and sees his shadow, we get 2 more months of the destruction of America.