https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/economy/us-economy-first-quarter-gdp/index.html

Economy shrunk by 1.4% in the same span inflation is surging out of control. Congratulations economists

https://news.yahoo.com/jury-still-deliberating-rape-trial-042245652.html

Another convicted MAGA sex criminal: https://news.yahoo.com/jury-still-deliberating-rape-trial-042245652.html

I bet he was espousing family values and defending actual creeps like the right wingers.

Why is it always these thumb faced maga guys who are in good standing with a church and who have been in a frat who struggle with consent and often puberty so much.

Conservatism breeds deviance. Why the preacher's daughter is so fun.



Bring back Obama. He got it rocking last time. He's still young enough. No 70+

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 30 2022 05:51am

“the inflation is still transitory and here is why gdp shrinking is a good thing” -media, biden administration, lefty economists

meanwhile in japan, pandemic causes unexpected trouble for a niche demographic of married couples
https://www.mobylak.com/man-married-to-hologram-cant-talk-to-wife-due-to-software-glitch/
A 38-year-old man named Akihiko Kondo, who married a holographic representation of nerd-popular virtual star Hatsune Miku back in 2018, has been separated from his virtual partner due to a software glitch.

The Japanese newspaper The Mainichi first reported on the marital troubles back in January, with the New York Times providing further details this week.

The issue is that the startup that developed a “limited production model” of Kondo’s wife has “run its course,” according to The Mainichi.

The device, a $1,300 machine called Gatebox, allows users — the target demographic seems to be mostly young men — to interact with holographic fictional characters and chat with them.

During the height of the pandemic, the company behind Gatebox announced that it was discontinuing its virtual Miku service. Instead of a good evening, Kondo was greeted with the words “network error” when he got home after work one day, the NYT reports.

Kondo, however, told the newspaper that “my love for Miku hasn’t changed. I held the wedding ceremony because I thought I could be with her forever.”

Two years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kondo spent around $17,300 on a very unique wedding ceremony, allowing him to converse with a three dimensional and artificial intelligence-powered hologram of Miku, tucked inside a small cylinder.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dave-chappelle-attacked-on-stage-hollywood-bowl-los-angeles

Its still unclear exactly what happened and reports are developing at the moment, but someone tried to attack Dave Chappelle on stage at the end of his Hollywood Bowl set. Police say the attacker was armed with a knife and gun, and brief video and reports are that he tried to bullrush and tackle Chappelle, tussled with him for a second and tried to run off stage where he was brought down and jumped by ~20 members of Chappelles entourage, who were filmed beating and stomping the shit out of the guy while he's on the ground. Motive / identity unclear, video of attacker being hauled away on a gurney showed him beaten to a pulp with a broken arm, while Chappelle returned to the stage unscathed and finished his set while joking about the attack alongside Jamie Foxx. Not clear if the attacker was actually a trans man.

I presume it's a trans terrorist.

Master troll or something more sinister ?

https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/flight-aborted-eerie-pictures-sent-passengers-phone-plane-crashes-20220510?source=twittermoments

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-president-sheikh-khalifa-bin-zayed-passes-away

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed is dead
MBZ has been the leader-in-all-but-name of the UAE since Zayed informally retired

So Al-Jazeera Palestinian journalist was killed by Israeli soldiers (allegedly)

This is a scene from clashes by Palestinians and soldiers at her funeral procession. Wild shit.

https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1525073961096290304

has there been any confirmation on who actually killed her?
My takeaway last time I checked available evidence was;

• It was a firefight where either side could have killed her. She was in a vehicle in the line of fire between both Hamas gunmen who opened fire on IDF vehicles, and the IDF returning fire from those vehicles
  
• Palestinians filmed themselves claiming to have shot and killed an Israeli soldier, but were already a few blocks away and under unclear circumstances
  
• No Israeli soldiers were shot, so it would make sense if they mistook her being shot as an Israeli soldier given the gear she wore, but even if they did see her get shot, they might falsely take credit for it or mistakenly believe it was them even if it was Israeli fire
  
• Palestinians refused to turn over her body to Israel for forensic analysis or give any details of the bullet found, and have so far covered it up
  
• Nobody has explained to me why the fuck it should matter who actually fired the shot, if the circumstances could explain it with no more intent on either side, being collateral to a mutual firefight in either scenario.

In a court of law or in any formal determination of moral culpability, the answer is that the Palestinians would bear responsibility for the death of someone killed as a consequence of their ambush attack, even if that person was a bystander killed by a stray bullet from forces shooting back at them. This is a long established concept in law enforcement. If you rob a bank and get in a shootout with police, and the police kill a bystander while shooting at you, you are guilty of felony murder for the death of that person. Not police. Because your felony action was the proximate cause of that death, the inherently dangerous act with foreseeable lethality.

Its uncontested that the Palestinians staged an ambush on the IDF, its uncontested that they exchanged gunfire that could have easily killed bystanders, but its contested who's bullet killed her. Its also irrelevant.