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Good luck!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/ice-somali-migrants-minneapolis-st-paul.html

The Trump administration is launching an intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region, ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-somalia.html

[Trump] said Somalia “stinks and we don’t want them in our country.” He described Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, who came to the United States from Somalia as a refugee and became a citizen 25 years ago, as “garbage.”

“We could go one way or the other, and we’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country,” Mr. Trump said. “She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. ..."

Wonder what the sentiment on the ground is when it comes to the Somali immigrants in Minnesota.

Ask the question the other way: can you think of marriages where the couples are "happy" and yet not viewed as "good" by third parties?

The royals, the gays, the interracial, the interfaith, the old+rich marrying the young+beautiful, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/02/the-rise-of-deepfake-pornography-in-schools

Unsettling, but a completely predictable development and use of technology.

I rephrased it as "not available to cars owned by private individuals."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5k8.6mjL.ssQBb3byHC2c

And that statistic covers "100 million driverless miles in four American cities." (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Austin.) https://waymo.com/safety/impact/

Right now the technology still costs too much, like $100,000 per car, and not yet available to cars owned by private individuals. Hopefully technology like this will be available and affordable to the general public before I lose the ability to drive myself.

Notice the subtle shift from "good" to "happy."

Easier to achieve consensus for "happy" than it is for "good."

Going for a Darwin Award?

@jon-nyc said in Things I did not need to know.:

Putting that on my Christmas list.

For off label use?

@89th said in I liked this quote:

good marriage

As if there is a timeless, universal definition for what that is.

@LuFins-Dad said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

Which is better than “School Counselor”. I’d never leave my kid alone with one of those.

You should consider moving to a different school district.

And was impolite in this occasion.

“Personal satisfaction” sounds more fun than “an ordeal.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/style/cory-booker-wedding-alexis-lewis.html

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey celebrated his marriage to his partner Alexis Lewis in an intimate ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Saturday evening, ...

A very good looking couple too.

Eternal supply of good beer and great sex in the afterlife.

@jon-nyc said in Ah the beautiful words from our President:

How about 'Racial discrimination is ok, in fact it's morally required, as long as you get the valence right.'

About as offensive as the remarks quoted in the opening post.

Did you get that quote from somewhere or you just paraphrased?

Replacing the mass storage (SSD) chip in an iPhone 17 Pro:

@jon-nyc said in Ah the beautiful words from our President:

Women can parallel park.

Also less offensive than the remarks quoted in the opening post.

@LuFins-Dad said in Ah the beautiful words from our President:

Men can get pregnant.

This quote is less offensive than the remarks quoted in the opening post.

@89th said in Two National Guardsmen shot in DC altercation:

Masked men without ID grabbing folks off the street and into an unmarked car and driving off…how this doesn’t offend every conservative, I have no idea.

It’s a mystery.