Shawn Laasch

@laasch.bsky.social

He/Him All opinions my own, semi-researched, loudly expressed, and loosely held.

Data centers should be built adjacent to airports and landfills. Any land with heavy metals or PFAS? Data center. Reactivating a nuclear plan to power a data center? Put the data center right there. Treat data centers as toxic "but necessary" (they are not) and move from there.

My cat thinks anything in a resealable pouch is a treat for her. Oh, no, mon petite chat. These are papa's edibles for anxiety. You have beclowned yourself. You are a fool. I am not trying to be cruel to her. I am reciting my script after mistaking standard human interaction with flirting.

Reconstruction Party Partial Platform (a thread): Candidates: * not allowed to have been on reality shows * full disclosure of taxes and financials by every candidate * federal-level disclosures of finances by immediate family members * election requires blind trust, sole employment, and no crypto

Why is Vietnam forcing those poor villagers to disinter the graves of their ancestors so Trump can build a golf course there when Trump is perfectly fine with graves on his golf courses?

I was a military brat, but I also agree with Smedley Butler. This, however, is fucking disgraceful. There is no reason we should be doing this - and if there was an actual mutiny in the modern navy, it would destroy our military.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo ago

New photos from the USS Abraham Lincoln show service members receiving minimal food portions as reports grow that some troops have lost significant weight and aren’t receiving care packages—while the Pentagon denies any shortages. (Newsweek)

Why have secure borders? Serial killers, mass shooters, most rapists and child molesters, embezzlers, tax cheats, and drunk drivers in America are born and raised here. If the problem is crime, it is the native people who have suffered under an ethnically European crime wave for generations.

I can prove anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism by showing pro-Zionism isn't pro-Semitism. www.bbc.com/news/world-m... tl;dr: "The unprovoked beating up by policemen of Demas Fekadeh, an Ethiopian Israeli soldier in uniform" shows the current Israeli government wants a specific demographic.

The plight of Ethiopian Jews in Israel

Protests over the beating of an Ethiopian Israeli soldier have thrown the spotlight on the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel, writes Prof Yossi Mekelberg.

bbc.com