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casefields··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
As if that wasn't bad enough, Trump revoked the Obama/Biden which didn't allow schools punish black students unless they punished an equal amount of whites:

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/education-department-...

casefields··on Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
These systems are called less than lethal.
casefields··on Why must a socialist also be woke?
He saw identity politics/woke coming for decades.

In his 2001 book, “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Christopher Hitchens wrote the following as a warning:

PS: Since this often seems to come up in discussions of the radical style, I’ll mention one other gleaning from my voyages. Beware of identity politics. I’ll rephrease that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying “The Personal is Political.” It began as a sort of reaction to the defeats and downturns that followed 1968: a consolation prize, as you might say, for people who had missed that year. I knew in my bones a truly Bad Idea had entered the discourse. Nor was I wrong. People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they felt, not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for. It became the replication in even less interesting form of the narcissism of small difference, because each identity group begat its subgroups and “specificities.” This tendency has often been satirised – the overweight caucuse of the Cherokee transgender disabled lesbian faction demands a hearing on its needs – but never satirised enough. You have to have seen it really happen. From a way of being radical it very swiftly became a way of being radical it very swiftly became a way of being reactionary; the Clarence Thomas hearings demonstrated this to all but the most dense and boring and selfish, but then, it was the dense and boring and selfish who had always seen identity politics as their big chance.

Anyway what you swiftly realize if you peek over the wall of your own immediate neighborhood or environment, and travel beyond it, is, first, that we have a huge surplus of people who wouldn’t change anything about the way they were born, or the group they were born into, but second that “humanity” (and the idea of change) is best represented by those who have the wit not to think, or should I say feel, this way.”

casefields··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
But just like crime you can break those down by race and find huge correlations but it makes the people very uncomfortable.
casefields··on Rent collections are down in New York
Nonsense. We came up with a name for those terrible landlords they are called slumlords. NYC even has a whole website dedicated to them: https://www.landlordwatchlist.com/
casefields··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
You mean the organization that advocated for deplatforming and more: https://blog.mozilla.org/blogarchive/blog/2021/01/08/we-need...
casefields··on NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/d02d91...
casefields··on Halt and Catch Fire
>The cryptographic module shall contain tamper response and zeroization circuitry that shall continuously monitor the tamper detection envelope and, upon the detection of tampering, shall immediately zeroize all plaintext secret and private cryptographic keys and CSPs.

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/fips/nist.fips.140-2.pdf

Some more discussion here: https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/decla...

casefields··on ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
At first glance that’s absurd, but if AI really does kills social media with dead internet theory then they will have been right!
casefields··on US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support
California revoked license to those who dont pay child support. Many other states do it too.
casefields··on Grok 4.3
There’s tons you just need to spend a few minutes and look. Here’s one for you—black Nazis and Asian Vikings, oh my:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/google-gemini-...

casefields··on AI uses less water than the public thinks
Not only that they are trying the same playbook as what was done to nuclear. A new technology comes and activists try to instill fear so as to murder the tech in its baby crib.
casefields··on Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
You’re experiencing that because fatherhood is raising your estradiol aka estrogen.

I’m on testosterone and one of the side effects is your estrogen raises too, and boy I had no idea how much that hormone affects us. It gave me a new appreciation of what women sometimes feel when I think they’re overreacting.

casefields··on Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects
This is called paltering, which is lying telling by telling the truth.

The delivery systems are included when coming up with that number. So all those submarines, bombers, and ICBMs are also counted. All 3 systems of course are still valuable and useful without nuclear weapons.

casefields··on Gen Z is 10 times more accepting of violence against speakers than Boomers
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

>[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”

casefields··on NASA Force
Congress passes the budget since they have the power of the purse. Presidents have requested all sorts of nonsense to appease the base.
casefields··on Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?
Losing 1.1% is a lot in your mind? Really?

https://aas.org/posts/news/2026/01/congress-passes-fiscal-ye...

casefields··on Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates
A Dodge Challenger SRT Demon can also reach 10,000mph in 4 minutes if it held its 0-60 acceleration over the whole span.

So yes, you can buy a car today that'll let you feel the G's like you're a space pilot.

casefields··on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
What’s wrong with your shift key?
casefields··on Elite Overproduction
The first 5 are all considered elite. He says the elite are about 2% so that's about 7 million people on the US.

But you're also missing his Elite Aspirants category which are people who have acquired credentials and social capital necessary for elite status (like a law degree from a top-tier university or an MBA).

casefields··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
Maybe you should contact Iranian state tv because their promoting what you claim is an incorrect story: https://x.com/marionawfal/status/2027940530982625471?s=46
casefields··on Nihilistic Violent Extremism
An old African proverb: The Child Who is Not Embraced by the Village Will Burn it Down to Feel its Warmth.
casefields··on Administration working to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
If you committed fraud during your immigration paperwork, such as lie about being a convicted rapist or murderer, you should lose your citizenship.
casefields··on GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
The account isn’t a normal user. They literally only post stuff like this. Their comments are just official links back to said announcements.
casefields··on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today
Louisiana has a bunch of French law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana
casefields··on Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries
Or read Warren Buffet: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/growing.pdf
casefields··on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
Maddow and MSNBC made the same argument in court. It’s a very useful defense for these entertainment news programs.
casefields··on Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
That's because no one can make that conclusion definitively yet. They want your brain to assume that connection. Conspiracy theorists are the kings at this psychological trick.
casefields··on CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins
DOE has its own massive farm of experts: https://www.energy.gov/intelligence/office-intelligence-and-...

There’s 17 intelligence agencies that all staff knowledgeable experts on all sorts of topics. Our government is Leviathan.

casefields··on OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
I feel the same way but I’m not sure if I should.

The internet wildly speculating would probably get back to my mom and sister which would really upset them. Once I’m gone my beliefs/causes wouldn’t be more important than my family’s happiness.

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