Notices by Chris ABRAHAM (chris@abraham.su)

Pakistan figured out how to build a nuke in the '90s with floppy disks and a fax machine. You really think Iran—urban, educated, BRICS-aligned Iran—hasn’t figured it out by now? Come on. This isn’t science fiction. It’s just selective blindness.

Until You Care More About Pollution Than Climate Change, I Don’t Believe You https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/until-you-care-more-about-pollution?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1&triedRedirect=true

The Left and Right finally agree!

I have aphantasia (no mind’s eye) and SDAM (no vivid episodic memory). It's not memory loss—it's memory minimalism. I remember facts, not moments. I know I loved you. I just don’t replay the movie. There is no movie. Just subtitles and timestamps.

@neanderthalsnavel
In terms of retaining info I mean I categorize it like very much if you think about a relational database versus an object oriented database right like I I remember it in terms of who what when where why how I don't remember it in terms of music or in terms of theme or in terms of memories of scenes or faces or entire episodes or scenes of things I don't remember it that way for example

@neanderthalsnavel
Do you mean I could have been taught to develop it? That would be sad if it were true. If it is true. Thanks for sharing that.

"Target is stuck between what it once was and what it’s trying to be now,  and neither side is buying it." https://www.samsung-news.com/articles/PGKAhsHwnn2ANL6xp5Ucfg-en-US?section=category_news_money_business&action=news&tab=foryou&landing=news_detail&url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.samsung-news.com%252Farticles%252FPGKAhsHwnn2ANL6xp5Ucfg-en-US%253Fsection%253Dcategory_news_money_business&id=PGKAhsHwnn2ANL6xp5Ucfg-en-US&pub_id=thestreet.com&pub=The%20Street&pub_logo=https%253A%252F%252Fnews-image.samsung-news.com%252Flogo%252Fcustom%252FArena%2525202%252FTheStreet%252F_Full.svg&theme_color=%23514a8c&referrer=share-news&title=Target%20struggles%20to%20stop%20spiral%20amid%20customer%20backlash&rss_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestreet.com%2Fretail%2Ftarget-struggles-to-stop-spiral-amid-customer-backlash%3Futm_source%3Dsnews%26utm_medium%3Dreferral&img=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.samsung-news.com%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fimage%2Fstatic%2Fw%3D1600%2Ch%3D1600%2Cface%3Dtrue%2Cstyle%3DSQUARE%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestreet.com%2F.image%2Fc_fit%2Ch_800%2Cw_1200%2FMTkzNjUyNzk4MzU5OTM4NTQ0%2Fthe-entrance-to-a-target-store-lead-js.jpg&pub_time=2025-06-03T15%3A33%3A00Z&ed=en_US&section_type=for_you&category_id=money_business

The sky’s not falling — your nervous system is. You’ve mistaken perpetual unease for prophetic vision. It's not that you're right. You're just always in a state of collapse.

Should race be the focal point of the world of the building of an NPC American military GI? Isn't the military is way more Borg than Snowflake.

> Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/03/17/pentagon-dei-native-american-iwo-jima/

Show me a terrorist stopped by REAL ID.
I’ll wait.
Meanwhile, Grandma can’t fly to her sister’s funeral because her birth certificate is in cursive and has the wrong county.
This isn’t about safety. It’s about obedience.

@Autumn
Let’s not forget: this isn’t new.

REAL ID was passed 20 years ago—born in the shadow of 9/11, alongside the Patriot Act and the dawn of TSA security theater. It’s a two-decade-old law that’s only now getting its teeth.

It didn’t come from MAGA fever dreams. It predates the Tea Party. It traces back to the Bush administration—2005. Back then, we weren’t talking about migrant caravans or voter fraud. The national anxiety was different.

The fear then wasn’t

@lain
Yeah. I need a motorcycle.

@GreenSkyOverMe
I'm sure that you'll need real id to vote some time soon.

EU countries decry Hungary's Pride ban as Brussels considers legal action
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/17/eu-countries-decry-hungarys-pride-ban-as-brussels-considers-legal-action

UPS cutting 20,000 jobs amid reduction in Amazon shipments
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/ups-says-cutting-20-000-130128364.html

@freemo The irony is that the "by whatever means necessary" and "never again" energy will be directly responded to by "by any means necessary" from MAGA and "never again" for Trump isn't the Holocaust but it's "2016-2020" all the "administrative deep state" obstructionism is nope "never again" for Trump. In the same way that RUSSIA was PROVOKED into Russo-Ukraine war, JAPAN was provoked into 12/7/1941 through sanctions and blockades, and Versaille cornered Germany... 2 to tango! #unpopular

@freemo Well, Trump feels so much pressure from his Never Trumpers from the Left and the Right that he needs to get 30 million illegals out of the country before midterms... do, he'll surely do it "by any means necessary" and the more obstructions happen the more brutal he'll become. In that toxic way of "I don't want to spank you, it'll hurt me more than it will you, you're responsible for your whipping, your escalation is only hurting you more, stop resisting, stop struggling," like he does.

@freemo That may hold in principle, but in practice—especially in a post-9/11, populist-nationalist America—those legal distinctions don’t always matter. Obama, Clinton, and even Bush had hardline deportation policies. “Kids in cages” didn’t start with Trump. The machinery has been bipartisan and ongoing. The question is less about what’s technically legal than how the state chooses to wield power.

@freemo
I get that. But is it a “lie” to use the term “illegal alien” if someone is undocumented or overstaying a visa? Or is the issue that DHS applies the label without due process, or that the term itself is inhumane? Are we talking about legal truth—or moral framing?

@freemo
If someone is in a country without a valid visa or passport, that’s illegal—everywhere, not just the U.S. If your counter is “people aren’t illegal,” that’s a moral framing, not a legal one. I respect the sentiment, but we can’t pretend immigration law doesn’t exist. Overstay a German visa? You get deported. This isn’t unique to Trump or America—it’s how borders work globally. So which argument are we having: legal, moral, or utopian?