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HeBoughtALot t1_jdx75wp wrote

I have been telling Twitter, for years, that i don’t want to see content related to politics. I have “I’m not interested…” trending topics and suggested Tweets to no end. It used to work. Ever since Space Karen took over Twitter i get served so much bottom of the barrel political garbage, its clear to see that user pruning has been disabled.

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drkgodess OP t1_jdx6y25 wrote

More details on the incident that led to the takeover:

> Seabrooks, 31, was a crisis intervention worker and mentor with the nonprofit Paterson Healing Collective and died soon after police shot him when he emerged with a knife from the apartment bathroom where he was holed up, according to the attorney general’s office.

> Long accustomed to helping others in the mid-sized city 20 miles (32 kilometers) northwest of New York, Seabrooks’ co-workers have been shattered by his death and say authorities prevented them from using their mental-health expertise to deescalate the situation.

He was in crisis and needed help, not an execution. Let's see if the state of NJ will implement the necessary reforms to prevent a repeat of this tragedy.

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Girth_rulez t1_jdx67k5 wrote

>Why didn't they just fly it there?

They did. In 1903 they achieved the first controlled powered flight in Kill Devil Hills. If If my memory serves correct, it was late in the season, and having achieved their objective after three long years of camping in that miserable location they packed up their plane and went home. It was the last time they worked at that location.

For the next several years, until their contract with the US army they flew at Huffman Prarie in Dayton Ohio. There were lots of witnesses but strangely the world wouldn't really know of their success until 1908.

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drkgodess OP t1_jdx5dxc wrote

This case reads like something out of a soap opera:

> After Hadley’s two-year relationship with Diaz ended in August 2015, they became locked in a dispute over their condominium in Anaheim, according to federal prosecutors.

> Diaz married a different woman in February 2016.

> In May of that year, he and his new wife, Angela Diaz, created multiple online accounts using Hadley’s name. They then used the accounts to entice men found through Craisglist to come to their home to engage in a “rape fantasy” with Angela, according to the indictment.

> The plot worked: Diaz and his wife staged “one or more hoax sexual assaults,” and then contacted police to report that Hadley was responsible for hiring the men, prosecutors say.

> By the time the case unraveled in early 2017, she had lost her job, her reputation, and her faith in law enforcement.

It's sick that Ms. Hadley's ex tried to use his clout to destroy her life.

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Girth_rulez t1_jdx55fv wrote

> a native Ohioan I am obliged to view Ohio as the one who deserves it because 99% of the work was done in Ohio.

That's just flat out wrong. The Wright Brothers travelled to (and lived in) Kill Devil Hills for 3 years. The first controlled three axis flights, both powered and unpowered happened at that place. Without the strong, steady winds on that beach the invention of flight would have looked very different indeed.

I will not downplay the role of the work they did in Ohio but trying to claim that it deserves the "first in flight" badge is a very tough argument to make.

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