Vorticity

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You know, what I said was largely right but reading a few articles about the changes makes it apparent that your interpretation is also right.

In Dec. 2025, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent nixxed some of the quarter designs that were approved by then-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during the Biden Administration for focusing “on DEI and Critical Race Theory policies.” One of the coins featured a line of people with arms linked, in between the words “We shall overcome.”

At the time, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach said the coinage design is supposed to “celebrate American history and the founding of our great nation,” but that imagery was scrapped because “the Biden Administration and Secretary Yellen remained focused on DEI and Critical Race Theory policies.”

“The Trump Administration is dedicated to fostering prosperity and patriotism. We have no doubt these new designs will be wildly popular with the American people

Source

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I've seen others suggest that this is commemorative of the revolutionary war. This year is the 250th anniversary of the United States. The lack of an olive leaf was said to signify our unwillingness to compromise with England.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Do you mean $75 billion?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now, get some electrical tape and tape up those connections nice and thick so they're safe.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It would be great if the media could quit trying to push Newsom down our throats, too. He's not the absolute worst but I don't want him as president. How about we quit calling him the "front runner" until we've seen who else might want the job?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll offer one, then. As a Coloradan, I'd vote for Joe Neguse.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I want the democrats to put forward a good slate of candidates, have them discuss issues in a reasonable and informative way, then have us vote on our favorite. There are people whose jobs are to know who would make a good candidate. Most people, myself included, don't have enough information to say who should run. I do think that most people can name a few who they don't want to run and I think Kamala and Hilary are both high on most people's lists.

Someone saying "please don't run Kamala" shouldn't mean they need to offer an alternative. That is the job of the democratic party.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Okay, seriously, can he do one thing that isn't objectively evil?

Edit: Not only was he nominated, he was confirmed in December and is CURRENTLY the US Ambassador to South Africa.

In 1987, Bozell and the NCPAC joined a coalition of groups opposed to the Reagan administration meeting with the president of the African National Congress, the leading anti-apartheid group in South Africa. Bozell wrote that he was "proud to become a member of the Coalition Against ANC Terrorism." In 2013 Bozell complained on Twitter that the mainstream media "mythologizes" the late anti-apartheid leader and first president of a post-apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela.[5]

The more I read about this guy, the worse it gets...

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

That's how I read this, too. The government isn't a monolith that just agrees with every law they have to follow. They do have to follow the law until it is challenged, though. Hopefully courts in KS knock this down.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
  1. A quick search brings up nothing with ICE and "warheads" so it doesn't appear to be "widely reported". Can you give evidence for your claims?
  2. I didn't say that the article is making unsubstantiated claims. I said that you are. The article is substantiated, it just isn't all that surprising that ICE is spending more on weaponry as they hire more agents.
  3. The story says nothing about slush funds or anything beyond ICE spending more on weaponry.
  4. You are posting in a public forum. That is explicitly asking for conversation and feedback, even if you didn't directly ask me for mine. If you don't want people to respond, don't post.
[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Raw Story already stretches the truth for clicks. You're here just making completely unsubstantiated claims. They are doing more than enough heinous shit without people mudding the waters with lies.

In response to the article itself, which references a 360% increase in weapons spending, ICE more than doubled the number of agents it employs. I wish they wouldn't, but they seem to think that all of these untrained traitors need weapons. It makes sense that they would have a massive increase in weapons purcheses to outfit the new traitors and the future traitors they're hoping to hire.

This is a non-story for the most part and you don't need to add lies to it.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Norwegians have much easier access to ski resorts than most Americans. In fact, many Americans who want to compete move to places like Colorado and California to have reasonable access. From a quick search, Oslo has similar access to ski resorts as Denver. If I had to guess, though, they're less expensive and more easily accessed by public transit.

Winter sports are also just more popular in Norway. I think this is for pretty obvious climatologial and historic reasons.

 

I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

 

 

I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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