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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1h

You going to ESA in war-ravaged Portland?

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2h

Time for Hawaii to send its mobile weather modification station down to Florida just to mess with them

a floating weather modification platform

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 2h

Also the Daytona Beach airport was being used as a HAARP substation.

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 3h

Ok but even so, again it's the opposite of what you said?

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 3h

All these things you keep posting are about what SA is doing to soften its image and make it more palatable to foreign investors, which is the opposite causation from what you originally posted: that foreign investment would liberalize the country.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 3h

So you're just going to keep posting things that say the opposite of what you're claiming? They're talking about MbS is making a show of suppressing Islamists and liberalizing social laws to attract investment (crushing dissenters in the process), not the other way around.

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Marc Filippino
Now, I have to imagine that not everyone is on board with these reforms, Ahmed. What has the response been from those who believe in the conservative model?

Ahmed Al Omran
Yes, the changes and reforms, the social liberalisation, has not been universally welcome. And what we have seen is that the authorities have tried to pre-empt that potentially strong rejection or opposition to this by launching a crackdown in September 2017, when a large number of clerics and conservative figures have been detained.

And the result of that has had a chilling effect on the margin of freedom of expression in the country because even those conservatives who have not been targeted have gotten a very clear message that the country is moving in a different direction and there will not be any tolerance for defiance to that new direction.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 4h

Reminds me of not long after I moved to Ireland, and one of my labmates was talking to a cabbie in what I took to be Gaelic. Only after about 10 minutes of listening to them did I realize it was English.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 6h

That's not that far off in that specific context. The wording for the correct usage would be "this plant has the gestalt of a euphorb", so anyone would know what you meant. It means the overall form of anything, not specifically emotional experience.

gestalt - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 6h

Ok, nobody *in the US* thinks that. Why are you pulling up a Bangladeshi news site?

Also, even that article is basically saying they're using these reforms as a whitewash to improve their image, not that it's actually going to make them better places. Nothing about "giving them what they want".

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 6h

For a non-place name you've also got geoduck (equivalent of quahog for the northeast).

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 7h

How have you been using it??

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 7h

So if you think not enough people are turning out for marches on a Saturday, what's your plan to motivate literally everyone (including those who have no idea what's going on) to stop work and potentially lose their job?

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 7h

For all the replies: if your plan is "everyone needs to just..." then it's not a plan.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 8h

It’s also become difficult if you have done research outside because they screwed with the search. If you’re looking for a specific item and brand with all the terms it often won’t show up. Weirdly, sometimes it does appear if you use a *less* specific search.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 9h

The “new jobs in new areas” is a key missing part. The mechanization of agriculture happened at the same time as the Industrial Revolution and for many of the same causes. What are the new human jobs being created here?

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 9h

Literally nobody thinks that about Saudi Arabia right now.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 9h

Are they Brit-specific? I’ve never even heard of those top ones aside from SRV.

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 10h

They had a whole conspiracy about how Kirk wasn’t really shot by that guy because there wasn’t an exit hole or something, and it wasn’t being covered up by not doing an autopsy. I never saw it in the wild myself, only via a FB friend posting a debunking saying “lots of you are talking about this…”

Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 21h

Also "if you're not sick of me already, you will be soon" does not seem like the best pitch line.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 21h

The wacky morning DJ thinks democracy is a joke

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 21h

You had me excited for a moment because I thought you meant Milford Massachusetts

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who eats cottage cheese at all qualifies to reply to that thread.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

It seems to be one of those things you either love or hate. Personally I love it.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

rah knows what she's talking about

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1d

Prestige is still something that drives profit. And you’re also talking about a very short period of TV news from the mid 1950s-80s.