As the father of a trans person, this horrifies me in a way that's impossible to describe.
The Alex Jones one actually gave me a good "That's pretty Onion-y" hit.
Yes, but if you report them, I find them faster.
Reminder: In addition to not being The Onion, this isn't a politics community
Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.
But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.
That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.
A spoiled and unintelligent child.
Honestly, if I were him, I'd be looking for a different school in a different country now.
‘TheTrillionDollarDinner.Gov’ Registered Around Time of Trump’s Pay-to-Play Memecoin Dinner Announcement
And people will fall for it. Again.
Jesus fucking Christ I hate this timeline.
We really need to stop calling that "deporting." It's kidnapping and human trafficking. You can't "deport" someone to a country they're not a citizen of.
Counter-offer, Vlad: Fuck aaaall the way off back to Russia, then "fall" out a window so someone else can get started on blaming you for everything going wrong and reverse all your horrific garbage.
Sound good?
I don't think it's really sunk in yet with non-billionaire Americans how bad this is.
We're talking about the likely crash of not just the stock market, but the value of the dollar. We're talking about other countries decreasing their reserves of USD in favor of other reserve currencies and ceasing doing business with dollars. We're talking about global consumer-driven boycotts of American exports.
This isn't just going to be a recession. This isn't just going to be a bear stock market. This is a sea change. This is the end of the United States as a reliable and stable economic force.
If this isn't stopped somehow, it's going to make the Great Depression look like a fucking walk in the park.
We're well and truly fucked.
I've come to the conclusion that it has to get very, very bad in the states before we'll actually do something about it, and by then it's likely to be too late. We're taking the plunge into fascism, and it won't end well.
I really hope I'm wrong. The 50501 protests have been somewhat heartening. But it's hard to see them having a real impact on an actual fascist traitor president who no longer has to care about his own popularity.
So it's hard to imagine this ending in anything but violence.
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Nah. It's not almost like that. Nope. It's exactly that.
This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.
I expect it to accelerate.
Well. I stand at least somewhat corrected. The SWIFT usage seems experimental right now, but Kinexys is clearly in use in production.
OK, I'll bite... Do you have any links to specific banks detailing their use of blockchain to make transfers to other banks?
You may work with banks that are experimenting with it, but it's not going to replace things like SWIFT any time soon.
Except no it's absolutely not. They use systems such as ACH and the Federal Reserve Wire Network. For international transfers, they use systems like the SWIFT network.
Why add a crypto middleman to transactions like those?
Tennessee Republican proposes amendment to allow Trump to serve third term
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”
For the record, Trump is 78 years old. Assuming he survives and manages to stay in office, he would be 86 when we're finally rid of him.
Request to unban jeena@piefed.jeena.net from !nottheonion
I can't find any content from this user from which to access the famous three-dots menu to unban them, and the post that resulted in their ban is already long gone, so I can't do it from there.
Could an administrator please unban the user?
David Henry Miller, better known as “Frog,” has been a Eugene fixture around the University of Oregon campus, Saturday Market, the Oregon Country Fair and other local festivals.
The end of an era in Eugene. :'(
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.
The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team were initially filed under seal to help U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decide what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme Court opinion in July that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office.
That's gonna be some serious reading over the weekend.
Hey, Eugene! Ballots go out TODAY!
Hey everyone, just a quick PSA: Oregon ballots are in the mail as of today. (Oct. 16th, 2024).
Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/MyVote to find out when yours will be in the mail!
Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/Counties if you have any issues or concerns to bring up with your county elections office!
VOTE!
Former President Donald Trump says Ukraine should have made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin instead of going to war with its invading neighbor.
Find the best places to retire in the United States. The top 25 retirement spots for leisure activities: golf, hiking, boating, theater, music and restaurants.
Just spotted that we made this list on Forbes last week. We're famous!
Ugh, the smoke
I hate the fact that it's almost fall now, and we're seeing temperatures around 100 degrees fahrenheit and smoke from first fires. In September.
Biden administration to accuse Russia of sustained effort to influence 2024 election
The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US elections by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
It’s expected the US will make a series of moves on Wednesday aimed at addressing the Kremlin’s efforts including the White House publicly condemning the actions and the Justice Department announcing law enforcement action targeting the covert Russian campaign, the sources said.
There's thunder!
Just a heads up, there's a severe thunderstorm alert right now:
Fresh from peddling conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris using artificial intelligence to create fake photos of large crowds at her rallies, former President Donald Trump has now come up with a new gambit: suing the United States Department of Justice.Fox News reports that Trump is...
Harris selects Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be VP running mate, sources say
Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly-announced running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are holding their first joint rally in Philadelphia before going on a tour of battleground states this week. Follow here for the latest live updates on the 2024 presidential race.
Oregon Country Fair starts tomorrow!
If you're attending, you can read the Peach Pit online here. I'm not going to be able to make it this year, but hope Eugeneans who can have a great time.
And stay hydrated! It's still going to be beastly hot out!
New law calls for creation of ‘first-ever’ national plan, council to conquer Parkinson’s disease
I'm linking this here because people who are spamming articles about "OMG Biden has Parkinson's disease!!!1!11" need to see this.
The New York Times did not do their homework. At all. Biden probably met with a Parkinson's doctor because he was working on a bipartisan Parkinson's research and treatment bill which he just signed into law.
It's not a flashy, attention-grabbing bill. He's been working on it quietly. But still... The rampant speculation, when he's absolutely not showing the slightest signs of beginning Parkinson's - let alone the advanced stages that would start to affect his mind - is disgusting.
Parkinson's causes extremely well-known symptoms, tremors most notably. Parkinson's dementia sometimes arises in advanced stages, long after tremors would have been constantly visible.
The chances he has Parkinson's are incredibly slim.
Hunter Biden has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
Help!
Hi everyone,
News is weird. When it's weird enough, it reads like articles from The Onion, and that's what we're all about. But as the community grows, there's more and more content being posted here that just isn't very Onion-y.
Jimmy Carter Becomes Second President Convicted Of Felony For Sticking Up Waffle House
Take a look at that headline from The Onion today. Or this one:
World Series Of Poker Entrants Play One Hand Face-Up So Everyone Can Learn Rules
Or this one:
New Hormone-Free IUD Wards Off Sperm With Steady Emission Of Police-Grade Pepper Spray
That's the flavor we're going for. We want real, credible news articles with headlines that read like they're from The Onion.
This is not the community for:
- Non-Onion-y political news (it's gotta be absurd enough to look Onion-y)
- Non-Onion-y regular news (it's gotta be absurd enough to look Onion-y)
- Satire (it's gotta be actual news)
- Fake news from fly-by-night "news" sites (again, it's gotta be ac
The Kansas Supreme Court's majority has held that there is no state constitutional right to vote in the state.
