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From downstairs.
Combining bioprinting techniques to pursue functional blood vessels
I think the 3-D bioprinting of human organs and blood vessels will revolutionize medicine. This is more exciting to me than all the AI hype.
re: #2 silverdolphin
From downstairs.
Combining bioprinting techniques to pursue functional blood vessels
I think the 3-D bioprinting of human organs and blood vessels will revolutionize medicine. This is more exciting to me than all the AI hype.
I consider 3D printing to be about as close to the replicators from Star Trek as we can get given current technology. It’s still going to take refinement and new techniques, but I expect to see printers that can produce everything from fully-functioning machines to brand new organs within what remains of my lifetime.
Maybe we can have little injectable stent submarines.
re: #264 piratedan
Secret Service and Federal Marshals will be there, but the Miami PD will most likely be the ones dealing with any shooters/rioters. I think the Biden administration will keep their distance.
and I will be honest, after the behavior of law enforcement in J6 (both in response and actual participating) and in support of other RW causes, I still have fears, especially so in the failure of the FBI to treat RW extremism as a legitimate threat.
Fingers crossed….
re: #5 piratedan
I think the difference here is the planning time is so much shorter, and unlike Jan. 6 which was a targeted disruption of process until alternate (fake) electors could be inserted, they don’t have a defined end-game that would put Trump back in power by interfering with a court in Miami.
re: #4 jaunte
Maybe we can have little injectable stent submarines.
First, we’ll need a shrink ray that can reduce the sub and humans to size that will pass through the hole in a syringe, say, two-thousandth of an inch and yet leave all the equipment and electronics functional and the humans, alive.
re: #7 sizzzzlerz
I almost forgot Raquel Welch did that.
re: #7 sizzzzlerz
First, we’ll need a shrink ray that can reduce the sub and humans to size that will pass through the hole in a syringe, say, two-thousandth of an inch and yet leave all the equipment and electronics functional and the humans, alive.
And a shrink ray that stays potent until the ship and humans leave the host.
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re: #6 jaunte
completely agree, rationally speaking there is not a lot of reason for people to show up and do…. whatever. There’s not a lot of timeline to make anything happen (after all, look at the shitshow J6 was, but in theory, they came pretty damn close to bringing it off if they had found the legislators) but I will freely admit that long range thinking and rationality isn’t in the wheelhouse for the MAGA crowd.
re: #11 piratedan
There are plenty of wackos in South Florida to create a disturbance, but I don’t know if even they want to go disrupt a potentially friendly judge’s courtroom.
re: #10 sizzzzlerz
She’s about all I remember.
That, and what looked like giant rocks suspended in the patient’s lungs (specks of dust and nodules from smoking).
Oh, and the technological plot holes big enough to pilot a (full-size) submarine through….
re: #6 jaunte
The end game is chaos for the sake of chaos.
Violent right-wing ideology has been a thing since forever in this country.
Only now they have Twitter to amplify their hatred.
re: #11 piratedan
We know there will be at least four busloads of Trump flag wavers from other cities in Florida attending, and probably a bunch of locals to stand and shout. But most will be old, and it looks like rain: Precipitation: 50% Humidity: 75%
Joyce Vance:
“…If Cannon doesn’t recuse voluntarily, prosecutors will likely have to file a motion requesting the recusal to take the issue forward. This is always a difficult move for prosecutors, one to be avoided unless the circumstances are extreme, like they are here. Under the rules, if a judge denies a request by one of the parties that they recuse, “the Judge shall issue a ruling on the record, stating the grounds for denying the request.” Provoking that statement alone would be worthwhile.
Most likely though, prosecutors will wait for Cannon to make an objectionable ruling that can be appealed pre-trial, and use that opportunity to request that the 11th Circuit order the Chief Justice in the Southern District of Florida to reassign the case on remand. Of course, this means delay, and delay here works in Trump’s favor. None of this is ideal, by any means. But this is the type of situation where the 11th Circuit protects its integrity and reputation by ordering recalcitrant judges to recuse. Prosecutors are likely to get their opportunity because Cannon, whose appointment of the special master and rulings in the earlier matter already demonstrated some inexperience and discomfort handling highly sensitive classified matters, will be called upon to make decisions and set appropriate procedures under a complicated statute, CIPA, the Classified Information Procedures Act, that governs the handling of classified material in a trial setting. Because those decisions can be appealed immediately, it seem likely that the government will need to take an appeal at some point and that will give it the opportunity to request recusal.
re: #16 jaunte
Joyce Vance:
Too many folks seem to be of the impression that Loose Cannon can rock up into the courtroom on Tuesday morning, wreck the fuck out of the Fed case, and there’s nothing they can do about it. And just…well…no, she really can’t. There are rulings she can make that can’t be appealed to a higher court, but the majority of the tools in her arsenal are procedural in nature and weighted more towards dragging things out unnecessarily than in just slamming her gavel down and declaring Trump a free man. Things like scheduling, discovery, admissibility of evidence, and others are all still subject to appeal and any of those could get her ass launched off the bench by the 11th Cir just to maintain the impartiality of the court.
tl;dr: Let’s stop running around in circles with our hair alight, extinguish those fires, and actually wait to see what she does before we start planning for seppuku.
Cuteness alert:
The fastest 14 month old in the country (or at least at this particular track at this particular time) w/ @byjoelanderson pic.twitter.com/8OQe6nm6hS
— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) June 12, 2023
The thing to remember - there is no evidence that Clinton’s server was ever hacked. While the State Dept.’s servers were. So, if Clinton had kept that material on the government servers, our enemies would have ahd it. Her server was apparently more secure than the government’s.
She’s so drunk in the first video that she cannot comprehend what the cop is saying to her.
https://t.co/jJv5x9bCFn pic.twitter.com/aLx8u7GLWJ
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) June 12, 2023
re: #3 Targetpractice
I consider 3D printing to be about as close to the replicators from Star Trek as we can get given current technology. It’s still going to take refinement and new techniques, but I expect to see printers that can produce everything from fully-functioning machines to brand new organs within what remains of my lifetime.
A new medical technology for super-rich fuquewads to stay alive longer.
This ain’t going to be for us little people. It will be far too expensive.
Here’s a list of all the drag queens who have terrorized our children this week. pic.twitter.com/o0SVX8Q4Uz
— dara faye (@darafaye) June 11, 2023
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A new medical technology for super-rich fuquewads to stay alive longer.
This ain’t going to be for us little people. It will be far too expensive.
Could be. But I also think that human healthcare is in the process of a revolution that may well break the stranglehold of Big Pharma and the old ways. I think it is likely that we will see universal healthcare working well within 20 years. (But I also think we will see a universal basic income in that time period also ;-) I’m sure though that I will not live long enough to see if I am correct.
This is a spectacularly misleading portrayal of what Republicans’ identity has really been. That half a century contains the aftermath of Watergate, Iran Contra, GHWB’s pardons, the reintroduction of torture by executive memo, Hastert, family separation, January 6th… https://t.co/leC455S6RQ pic.twitter.com/ZsVJIca6BF
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 11, 2023
re: #17 Targetpractice
Too many folks seem to be of the impression that Loose Cannon can rock up into the courtroom on Tuesday morning, wreck the fuck out of the Fed case, and there’s nothing they can do about it. And just…well…no, she really can’t. There are rulings she can make that can’t be appealed to a higher court, but the majority of the tools in her arsenal are procedural in nature and weighted more towards dragging things out unnecessarily than in just slamming her gavel down and declaring Trump a free man. Things like scheduling, discovery, admissibility of evidence, and others are all still subject to appeal and any of those could get her ass launched off the bench by the 11th Cir just to maintain the impartiality of the court.
tl;dr: Let’s stop running around in circles with our hair alight, extinguish those fires, and actually wait to see what she does before we start planning for seppuku.
The indictment brought joy to many of us; but the assignment to Cannon cast a black shadow over the process. We have only to see how almost every Republican who currently holds office has responded — by lying and minimizing the charges and taking to the airwaves and social media to claim that there was there is no difference between Biden and Trump in the possession of classified documents or that Hillary was just as culpable as Trump. And of course, the efforts by the GOP to promote the story that Biden took a $5 million bribe to distract from Trump’s crimes.
You are right that we shouldn’t panic, at least not until we see what she does, but based on Cannon’s prior behavior, it is reasonable to be pessimistic. She is no different from the rest of the GOP officeholders, except she has a lifetime position. The judiciary has been seriously polluted by Trump appointments; although the worst on SCOTUS were those selected by the Bushes: Thomas and Alito.
And on a trivial note — double par for Monday
And in other countries dealing with really touchy court cases:
The Nara District Court was evacuated when a suspicious object was found Monday ahead of a hearing for the man accused of killing former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. https://t.co/59sOI90PGT
— The Japan Times (@japantimes) June 12, 2023
The hearing was canceled for the day.
re: #23 silverdolphin
Could be. But I also think that human healthcare is in the process of a revolution that may well break the stranglehold of Big Pharma and the old ways. I think it is likely that we will see universal healthcare working well within 20 years. (But I also think we will see a universal basic income in that time period also ;-) I’m sure though that I will not live long enough to see if I am correct.
With the history of capital in our country and its ability to capture any new advance for its own benefit, I feel confident in my assessment that the rich will capture this as well.
They already have a massive head start. Why wouldn’t they expend capital to maintain it?
While it seems like there are a lot of billionaires and millionaires in the country, that’s only due to the large number of people in the country. The 1% controls virtually all the wealth.
The only realistic way to become a multi-tens millionaire in this nation is win the lotto.
What was it Mitt Romney said about paying for college? Oh yeah, in response to a person under $20,000 of college debt he told that person he should just borrow the money from their parents to pay off the debt.
The super-rich neither know nor care about the plebs below them. Plebs are just a resource to be extracted.
If someone hoards too many newspapers or cats, we consider them mentally ill and maybe impose a conservatorship. If they hoard too much money, they are praised as captains of industry.
It’s just infuriating having watched the media play along with their transparent lies all these decades.
— Woke = moral (@AAnswer8) June 11, 2023
The Bulwark, May 9, 2023
The Corruption of Lindsey Graham (Will Saletan)
“A case study in the rise of authoritarianism.”
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS IN BIG TROUBLE, and Lindsey Graham knew it. It was January 21, 2016, and the senator was taking questions at a press conference. A month earlier, he had abandoned his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Now two men he despised, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, were leading the race.
Graham thought either of them, if nominated, would lose the general election. Choosing between them, he told reporters, was “like being shot or poisoned. What does it really matter?”
Two months later, in March, Graham changed his mind. He endorsed Cruz and joked that it was better to be poisoned than shot. “Donald is like being shot in the head,” Graham told talk-show host Trevor Noah. “You might find an antidote to poisoning, I don’t know. But maybe there’s time.”
Graham was wrong. Trump wasn’t a shot to the head. He didn’t kill the GOP. In fact, he won the election.
(more)
re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
With the history of capital in our country and its ability to capture any new advance for its own benefit, I feel confident in my assessment that the rich will capture this as well.
They already have a massive head start. Why wouldn’t they expend capital to maintain it?
While it seems like there are a lot of billionaires and millionaires in the country, that’s only due to the large number of people in the country. The 1% controls virtually all the wealth.
The only realistic way to become a multi-tens millionaire in this nation is win the lotto.
What was it Mitt Romney said about paying for college? Oh yeah, in response to a person under $20,000 of college debt he told that person he should just borrow the money from their parents to pay off the debt.
The super-rich neither know nor care about the plebs below them. Plebs are just a resource to be extracted.
If someone hoards too many newspapers or cats, we consider them mentally ill and maybe impose a conservatorship. If they hoard too much money, they are praised as captains of industry.
You are likely correct. But I do think there is another path forward. I look to history because much of today’s problems have also happened in some ways in the past. As far as I can tell, every other time we have gone through one of these techno-economic transitions, we see a massive drop in income inequality. Mainly because we have reorganized society to deal with a new economic paradigm, better distributing the wealth throughout society and using government regulation to prevent easy wealth accumulation. This works until the wealthy learn new ways to game the system and acquire it all for themselves. Again.
Each time we have done this, we have created government regulations to prevent wealth from being easily accumulated. We had the income tax after the Civil War, the real income tax after the Gilded Age and truly progressive income tax after WW2. All served to reduce income inequality for a period, allowing a storng middle class to erupt.
We also had new econimic systems after each - capitalism, free workers, gold standard, Keynesian economic. I expect we will have a new economic system here, perhaps MMT. I expect a wealth tax to be initiated within a decade, for example.
Human healthcare is no longer organized in a fashion to be sustainable. 50 years ago we could create over 50 new drugs for a $1 billion. Now it is less than half a drug. In 10 years it will be $4 billion to create a new drug. There simply are not enough wealthy to sustain that.
We will have to reorganize healthcare just as we do wealth. My guess - now Big Pharma essentially gets government research for very little, then develop and market the drugs and reap the benefits. I think that instead, perhaps the government research is first auctioned off and the Pharma get to add a small profit to their development and production costs, more like a utility than a free market.
Maybe not, but healthcare is simply unsustainable.Like climate change It is not getting better. And will require a new society to truly make it work.
re: #30 silverdolphin
I guess we’ll have to see. I am unlikely to live long enough to see any sort of new economic system or healthcare system.
I do know the owners of the Republican Party nearly burned down the entire world economy because they would rather do that than cede a single iota of power.
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I guess we’ll have to see. I am unlikely to live long enough to see any sort of new economic system or healthcare system.
I do know the owners of the Republican Party nearly burned down the entire world economy because they would rather do that than cede a single iota of power.
I don;t expect to see it either. But healthcare should not be a profit-driven industry. INsurance should not be for-profit and pharma should not be fully for-profit. I think pharma and insurance should ne more like utilities. But not sure just how we get there.
But once we start using tax policy to deal with income inequaility, we will be quite wealthy so MFA may well come into fruition.
Moore’s law is having huge iimpacts on the idea of personal medicine. I think the change will not come from better drugs to fix things after you are sick. But to have better suystemic approaches to recognize problems before they get that bad. You will know your DNA sequence from birth (it costs less than $10,000 to not only sequence an infant’s DNA but also to do some real analysis on it looking for genetic disease.) We can determine which bacteria and what antibiotics they respond to within hours now, rather than days. Wearbale patches will measure your metabolism hourly, telling us when you start showing a disease long before we do now. We will know months if not years before a cancer develops, meaning we have a better chance of curing it.
I think this is the fundamental change that routes around current problems. Instead of medicine being based on population statistics and you hope you are in the group that responds, we will have medicine based on personal statristics, knowing what is status quo for you and how to get things back to status quo when illness perturbs them.
It is possible to tell someone has the flu 3-4 days before symptoms now. We can sequence the toilet water of people and tell when and where a whole range of infectious disease starts (yes, we will need new security for all this but I do not see unsolvable problems)
I expect this will present new problems but I think it will route around the current system that benefits the rich.
re: #30 silverdolphin
You are likely correct. But I do think there is another path forward. I look to history because much of today’s problems have also happened in some ways in the past. As far as I can tell, every other time we have gone through one of these techno-economic transitions, we see a massive drop in income inequality. Mainly because we have reorganized society to deal with a new economic paradigm, better distributing the wealth throughout society and using government regulation to prevent easy wealth accumulation. This works until the wealthy learn new ways to game the system and acquire it all for themselves. Again.
Each time we have done this, we have created government regulations to prevent wealth from being easily accumulated. We had the income tax after the Civil War, the real income tax after the Gilded Age and truly progressive income tax after WW2. All served to reduce income inequality for a period, allowing a storng middle class to erupt.
We also had new econimic systems after each - capitalism, free workers, gold standard, Keynesian economic. I expect we will have a new economic system here, perhaps MMT. I expect a wealth tax to be initiated within a decade, for example.
Human healthcare is no longer organized in a fashion to be sustainable. 50 years ago we could create over 50 new drugs for a $1 billion. Now it is less than half a drug. In 10 years it will be $4 billion to create a new drug. There simply are not enough wealthy to sustain that.
We will have to reorganize healthcare just as we do wealth. My guess - now Big Pharma essentially gets government research for very little, then develop and market the drugs and reap the benefits. I think that instead, perhaps the government research is first auctioned off and the Pharma get to add a small profit to their development and production costs, more like a utility than a free market.
Maybe not, but healthcare is simply unsustainable.Like climate change It is not getting better. And will require a new society to truly make it work.
would agree, people will need to see that when it comes to one’s health, adding profit margins into any equation skews the results… such as who gets the wealth, the doctor, the hospital, the pharmacy, the nurses, the lab, the insurance companies that do everything that they can to ensure that their shareholders maintain a profit …etc etc etc.
When that frank conversation is had, it will force us to understand if our health is on the line, why the fuck should anyone be making bank on it? It will force people to look at how we educate and train physicians, what are the key elements to health care itself… obtaining a diagnosis, establishing treatment, care of people in hospitals when their health goes sideways? preventive healthcare? All of this is especially charged considering the reactions of people during and post pandemic. Don’t look now, but all hospitals (for profit and non) are struggling post covid. Elective surgeries are down, insurance regs are getting tighter for justification of any procedure…
the counter arguments are that I didn’t take out a shitpot full of loans to not make bank and struggle thru sacrificing my youth just to watch you pull up the financial ladder now and you’ll have the rich who are invested in these insurance companies to ensure a nice profit not want to see all that shit get nationalized and have to find somewhere else to park that money. Plus, all of those people who work in those industries, pushing paper, authorizing and denying claims who live in the fine print crevasses that allow them to stay profitable, would have to find employment elsewhere or with whatever government entity that evolves into some sort of national insurance agency….. that’s a LOT to undo
re: #19 silverdolphin
The thing to remember - there is no evidence that Clinton’s server was ever hacked. While the State Dept.’s servers were. So, if Clinton had kept that material on the government servers, our enemies would have ahd it. Her server was apparently more secure than the government’s.
The Clinton Rule that has been in place since the very beginning and has sustained virtually ever “investigation” against the couple always comes back to the same three words: “It Looks Bad.” It’s a stupidly easy standard to meet because you never have to actually produce evidence of criminal activity, never have to find witnesses who could pass a polygraph without the machine exploding, and never have to actually have enough to sustain a DOJ investigation. All you have to do is wave around whatever bits and pieces you find lying in the gutter next to your “witnesses” and the media will do the rest of the heavy lifting by trying the couple in the Court of Public Opinion where they are presumed guilty until proven innocent and any effort to point out that their accusers can’t prove a damned thing is only further evidence against them.
re: #16 jaunte
Joyce Vance:
Which is why, if Team Trump is smart, they won’t ask Judge Cannon to do anything unusual pre-trial, and will wait to deploy her by either requesting a directed verdict of not guilty if the jury convicts him, or ask for a bench trial and ask her to enter a verdict of not guilty.
re: #33 piratedan
would agree, people will need to see that when it comes to one’s health, adding profit margins into any equation skews the results… such as who gets the wealth, the doctor, the hospital, the pharmacy, the nurses, the lab, the insurance companies that do everything that they can to ensure that their shareholders maintain a profit …etc etc etc.
When that frank conversation is had, it will force us to understand if our health is on the line, why the fuck should anyone be making bank on it? It will force people to look at how we educate and train physicians, what are the key elements to health care itself… obtaining a diagnosis, establishing treatment, care of people in hospitals when their health goes sideways? preventive healthcare? All of this is especially charged considering the reactions of people during and post pandemic. Don’t look now, but all hospitals (for profit and non) are struggling post covid. Elective surgeries are down, insurance regs are getting tighter for justification of any procedure…
the counter arguments are that I didn’t take out a shitpot full of loans to not make bank and struggle thru sacrificing my youth just to watch you pull up the financial ladder now and you’ll have the rich who are invested in these insurance companies to ensure a nice profit not want to see all that shit get nationalized and have to find somewhere else to park that money. Plus, all of those people who work in those industries, pushing paper, authorizing and denying claims who live in the fine print crevasses that allow them to stay profitable, would have to find employment elsewhere or with whatever government entity that evolves into some sort of national insurance agency….. that’s a LOT to undo
We are moving from healthcare based on population statistics (“80% of the people show a 70% response”) to one based on personal statistics. We will have a huge amount of personal data on ourselves from birth (it costs less than $100 to sequence a genome and less than $10,000 to assemble and analyze). We will have toilets that can analysis our excrement and identify disease outbreaks, getting them under control rapidly. We will wear patches that examine blood metabolics in real time, knowing what is status quo for each of us and when it moves out of balance. We will know exactly how a drug works for us personally by its ability to move us back to homeostasis.
Now, we give someone a drug, hoping they are part of the population that it works on. If it does not work, we try another. Then another. And if side effects cause problems, we try another.
With personalized medicine, we will use the huge amount of data we have, and likely a really useful medical AI (not like the ones we have today), to determine just what the problem is and which drugs are likely to work, We will also, because of the patches, know that the actual pharmacokinetics are for any drug in an individual. Meaning we can more precisely tailor a prescription for them.
This huge amount of data will be used to democratize healthcare, personalize it and make it much cheaper. If we see problems arising years before we do now.
re: #32 silverdolphin
Moore’s law is having huge iimpacts on the idea of personal medicine. I think the change will not come from better drugs to fix things after you are sick. But to have better suystemic approaches to recognize problems before they get that bad. You will know your DNA sequence from birth (it costs less than $10,000 to not only sequence an infant’s DNA but also to do some real analysis on it looking for genetic disease.) We can determine which bacteria and what antibiotics they respond to within hours now, rather than days. Wearbale patches will measure your metabolism hourly, telling us when you start showing a disease long before we do now. We will know months if not years before a cancer develops, meaning we have a better chance of curing it.
How many people even have $10,000 and aren’t simply working cheque-to-cheque?
I expect this will present new problems but I think it will route around the current system that benefits the rich.
And who are those who would control “routing around the current system that benefits the rich?” Not the poor, that’s for sure. It will be the rich who build that new system. Like every capitalist system before, it will benefit them.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How many people even have $10,000 and aren’t simply working cheque-to-cheque?
And who are those who would control “routing around the current system that benefits the rich?” Not the poor, that’s for sure. It will be the rich who build that new system. Like every capitalist system before, it will benefit them.
I am more sanguine than you and am likely wrong but… A decade ago, it cost $100,000 to get just the sequence, which is on the way to be under $10. Like with so many IT issues, the costs are dropping a lot. I expect that in 10 years or so, the government will pay for the sequence for those who cannot. I expect MFA to include this at birth. The costs are too low and the benefits too high.
The rich will eventually lose or more likely take a strategic retreat. For a while. VC investment looking for exponential increases will be replaced by debt and production. Until another disruptive technology creates a new economy, supercharges the rich few who get in early and we start this again.
Campaign for Accountability, June 5, 2023
Watchdog Requests IRS Investigate True the Vote for Enriching Key Employees and Directors
(more at the link)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Campaign for Accountability (CfA) requested the IRS and the Texas Attorney General’s office investigate whether key employees and directors of Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote, Inc. (TTV) improperly diverted funds from the conspiratorial vote-monitoring group. Catherine Engelbrecht, TTV’s President and Executive Director, appears to have violated federal and state law by taking loans from the organization and making excessive payments to former director Gregg Phillips’ business and General Counsel Jim Bopp’s Law Firm. TTV also failed to adequately disclose these and various other payments on its Form 990 tax returns—raising suspicions as to whether TTV intended to conceal the payments from the IRS and the public.
a useful piece of evidence for my thesis that the *increase* in incompetence in Chinese diplomacy and propaganda over the last few years is partially feedback from tankies pic.twitter.com/V186fDTwIM
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) June 12, 2023
This is an interesting insight, which I think applies to shitbags like the NRA, GOP media, evangelical churches, and the GOP in general. You’ve got a social media system where most people don’t pay much attention to what these organizations are spouting, but do have a core audience that consumes a huge amount of it. So the organizations cater to their main customers, who are completely nuts, and self radicalize themselves into orbit.
Perhaps some of us can stop hyperventilating a bit:
CANNON IS OUT
The judge who will oversee Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday will be Magistrate Judge John Goodman, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told NBC News. A magistrate judge holds preliminary hearings. https://t.co/VcRDW2SCYS— brownelllandrum (@BrownellLandrum) June 11, 2023
As of now, Cannon is still assigned to the trial itself. But no, we’re not going to tune in on Tuesday and hear that she’s granted every one of Trump’s motions and personally gave him a piggy-back ride out of the courthouse.
re: #42 Targetpractice
Perhaps some of us can stop hyperventilating a bit:
As of now, Cannon is still assigned to the trial itself. But no, we’re not going to tune in on Tuesday and hear that she’s granted every one of Trump’s motions and personally gave him a piggy-back ride out of the courthouse.
Overplaying their hand is exactly what I would want Team Trump to do. Keeping Cannon as their ace in the hole is what I’m worried about.
re: #43 No Malarkey!
Overplaying their hand is exactly what I would want Team Trump to do. Keeping Cannon as their ace in the hole is what I’m worried about.
Fair point, but the way some folks have been talking the past couple days, one would swear that Cannon was just going to just jump up as soon as the arraignment was gaveled in she’d announce that the entire case was being dismissed because Trump is such a good boy before demanding Smith personally issue an apology for wasting her time.
re: #44 Targetpractice
Fair point, but the way some folks have been talking the past couple days, one would swear that Cannon was just going to just jump up as soon as the arraignment was gaveled in she’d announce that the entire case was being dismissed because Trump is such a good boy before demanding Smith personally issue an apology for wasting her time.
We can only hope that Trump demands that his lawyers file a motion to dismiss on outlandish grounds and Cannon grants it to give Jack Smith reason to ask that the case be reassigned.
Edit: A smart Trump tactic would be for Cannon to deny a ridiculous motion to dismiss in order to “prove” she isn’t biased.
re: #42 Targetpractice
Perhaps some of us can stop hyperventilating a bit:
As of now, Cannon is still assigned to the trial itself. But no, we’re not going to tune in on Tuesday and hear that she’s granted every one of Trump’s motions and personally gave him a piggy-back ride out of the courthouse.
Cannon will still oversee the trial. The magistrate judge here just does the arraignment.
re: #46 silverdolphin
Cannon will still oversee the trial. The magistrate judge here just does the arraignment.
Yes, but we’re still months away from the trial, with plenty of time between now and then for the DOJ to take Cannon’s measure and move to either change venues or for her to recuse herself.
… the who’s what now? https://t.co/FPEpJHnJyd pic.twitter.com/KR4SeZ5uwM
— наталка 💙💛 (they/them) (@nataliya_gurba) June 12, 2023
A reminder that the current incarnation of Time magazine is a brainless sewer.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio #Berlusconi has died, BBC reported.
He was 87 years old. pic.twitter.com/lb768LfKob— KyivPost (@KyivPost) June 12, 2023
Ciao, asshole.
re: #49 ericblair
Ciao, asshole.
I’m sure the dorm with Franco, Pinochet, Reagan & Thatcher will have room for his hell cell.
re: #12 jaunte
There are plenty of wackos in South Florida to create a disturbance, but I don’t know if even they want to go disrupt a potentially friendly judge’s courtroom.
Just start circulating rumors that the judge is “woke” because she eats at Chick-Fil-A
Head just cleared up about 45 minutes ago. Need to go back to sleep but I no longer feel like a sleep deprived zombie. Just need to finish this throat lozenge and I can fall asleep with this laptop balanced on my chest.
Also, feels like this week could bring a bit more good news out of Ukraine.
re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just start circulating rumors that the judge is “woke” because she eats at Chick-Fil-A
And get reporters to ask her if she still feels like she owes Trump any favors…she may not be in his pocket, but if she feels like that’s how she’s seen by the public she could recuse herself as she’s quite young and probably aware of how social media works.
re: #11 piratedan
completely agree, rationally speaking there is not a lot of reason for people to show up and do…. whatever. There’s not a lot of timeline to make anything happen (after all, look at the shitshow J6 was, but in theory, they came pretty damn close to bringing it off if they had found the legislators) but I will freely admit that long range thinking and rationality isn’t in the wheelhouse for the MAGA crowd.
It took several months and a LOT of money to get J6 to happen. They started planning that well before the election. That wasn’t grass roots spontaneity.
re: #55 darthstar
It took several months and a LOT of money to get J6 to happen. They started planning that well before the election. That wasn’t grass roots spontaneity.
It was more the case that it failed because of the grass roots spontaneity aspects of it.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Full sequencing of a person’s DNA is now down to a few hundred dollars.
re: #15 jaunte
We know there will be at least four busloads of Trump flag wavers from other cities in Florida attending, and probably a bunch of locals to stand and shout. But most will be old, and it looks like rain: Precipitation: 50% Humidity: 75%
4 buses promoted /scheduled.
Loaded? Maybe not.
re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Full sequencing of a person’s DNA is now down to a few hundred dollars.
At the end of 2022, NIH had it at about $1,000, not counting other things required to make that analysis useful to someone. It has dropped dramatically from about $10MM. That said, it’s pretty much smoothed out (it hasn’t dropped in several years).
EXPLAINED: North Korea’s Latest Offer of ‘Full Support’ for Russia’s ‘All-Out Struggle’
Kim Jong Un has marked the National Day of Russia with yet another full-throated show of support for Moscow while condemning ‘escalating threats’ from ‘imperialists.’https://t.co/33pE8aOINe— KyivPost (@KyivPost) June 12, 2023
Will take the par. Congrats to our neighbors up north - Nick Taylor became the first Canadian in 69 years to win the PGA Tour’s Canadian Open.
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North Korea’s Latest Offer of ‘Full Support’ for Russia’s ‘All-Out Struggle’
Kim Jong Un has marked the National Day of Russia with yet another full-throated show of support for Moscow while condemning ‘escalating threats’ from ‘imperialists.’
Well, according to the Putinverstehers, tankies and so-left-they’re-rightists, Putin’s Very Special Military Operation was a pre-emptive strike against NATO Capitalist-Zionist expansion/oppression.
RE: Judge Aileen “Loose” Cannon: One thing I have seen is that the assignment isn’t necessarily final. The DOJ can ask the magistrate judge (I think) to reconsider the designation of the case, which would throw it over to SDFL’s roulette wheel. The key point to keep in mind is: It’s never over until it’s over. EVEN IF Loose Cannon is put in charge of the case, it still requires her to actively interfere in a high profile criminal case in order to effect legal obstruction of justice. I said something here yesterday to the effect of, “We don’t know exactly why she decided to give him the special master. There may be limits to how far she is willing to stretch her ethics and torpedo her professional career in order to get him off.” And again, I’m not saying I’m necessarily hopeful, but it’s not a foregone conclusion just yet.
re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter
The indictment brought joy to many of us; but the assignment to Cannon cast a black shadow over the process. We have only to see how almost every Republican who currently holds office has responded — by lying and minimizing the charges and taking to the airwaves and social media to claim that there was there is no difference between Biden and Trump in the possession of classified documents or that Hillary was just as culpable as Trump. And of course, the efforts by the GOP to promote the story that Biden took a $5 million bribe to distract from Trump’s crimes.
You are right that we shouldn’t panic, at least not until we see what she does, but based on Cannon’s prior behavior, it is reasonable to be pessimistic. She is no different from the rest of the GOP officeholders, except she has a lifetime position. The judiciary has been seriously polluted by Trump appointments; although the worst on SCOTUS were those selected by the Bushes: Thomas and Alito.
And on a trivial note — double par for Monday
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a black shadow, as opposed to….?
Well, that didn’t turn out quite as I expected.
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Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results (The Economist, June 11, 2023)
“But its main forces have yet to be committed”
Jun 11th 2023 | Odessa
Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war
UKRAINE IS JUST a week into its counter-offensive against the Russians, but already the reports from the frontlines range from upbeat to gloomy. On June 11th its 68th brigade reported that it had liberated Blahodatne, a village in Donetsk province, 10km inside Russian-occupied territory. Russian military bloggers suggested that the raid had gone much deeper still, and taken in other nearby villages. There was some progress made near Bakhmut further north-east, too, with Ukrainians advancing to encircle the devastated town that has been the only real focus of Russia’s offensive efforts for the past year.
That progress contrasted with less encouraging news from another counter-offensive operation taking place further south and west, in the Zaporizhia region. Full-frontal fighting along the Orikhiv-Tokmak axis there has been hard going, a military source conceded, with Ukraine taking significant losses of armour and personnel. “More than dozens” of soldiers had fallen, he said. Ukraine had attacked using its well-equipped 47th brigade, but has struggled to cope with Russia’s traditional strengths in building fortifications and in electronic warfare, a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence added.
The full shape of Ukraine’s plans is yet to become clear. The scale of the deployment along the Tokmak axis—and the town’s strategic role as both a rail hub and a gateway to strike at the Russian main road to Crimea—suggested at one point that it might grow into a main push. But a source in Ukraine’s general staff urged caution. “We haven’t committed our main forces, and the Russians haven’t committed their main forces.” Both were involved in a “chess game” to draw out each others’ reserves, he said. Ukraine’s “immediate priority” is reducing Russian superiority in artillery, by targeting its systems with long-range fire. Footage from far behind the frontline suggests that they have already achieved some success.
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re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results (The Economist, June 11, 2023)
“But its main forces have yet to be committed”
Duh, that’s how you attack: probe the enemy for weak spots and then follow up on success
re: #61 TarHellion
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re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Duh, that’s how you attack: probe the enemy for weak spots and then follow up on success
The Economist is for civilians. That said, it would be helpful in that article somewhere if they’d explained that’s what an offensive does. All broad attacks start out as probes.
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 11, 2023
Official: Russia blows up small dam in area near counteroffensive operations in Donetsk Oblast (Kyiv Independent, June 11, 2023)
In the meantime, Norway has released seismic data showing the Kahkovka Dam was blown up, not hit with artillery or simply failed.
Valeriy Shershen, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Tavria military sector, said in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda news outlet on June 11 that the Russian military had blown up a dam on the Mokri Yaly River in the Donetsk Oblast, causing flooding on both banks.
According to Shershen, this was done in an attempt to “slow down Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
However, “this does not affect” the ongoing Ukrainian offensive operations in the sector, Shershen added.
“At first, the occupiers blew up the Karlov (water) reservoir, then the Kakhovka dam, then they blew up other hydraulic structures in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast,” he said. “They expect a breakthrough of our defense forces, therefore, in order to slow down our advance, they use this tactic.”
Shershen added that the Ukrainian counteroffensive already has “the first local results,” such as the liberation of the village of Blahodatne in Donetsk Oblast and the advance of the Ukrainian army to the village of Urozhaine in Kherson Oblast.
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“For me personally, Instagram was the last way of conveying information. They closed my personal account there one month ago”
~ Margarita Simonyan
Please note, Instagram has been deemed part of a terrorist organization in Russia. Margarita also has Twitter & Telegram accounts https://t.co/Q2ZM9pjkW5 pic.twitter.com/In16DSrWHd— Prune60 (@Prune602) June 12, 2023
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Official: Russia blows up small dam in area near counteroffensive operations in Donetsk Oblast (Kyiv Independent, June 11, 2023)
In the meantime, Norway has released seismic data showing the Kahkovka Dam was blown up, not hit with artillery or simply failed.
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Blowing up dams, and then killing people who try to rescue civilians. They are absolutely despicable.
re: #72 Nerdy Fish
Blowing up dams, and then killing people who try to rescue civilians. They are absolutely despicable.
What do you expect from Orcs? Civilized behaviors?
Dear Republicans,I wake up this morning to read a number of Republican elected representatives assigning themselves the role of judge and jury in the Trump espionage case. Why do I write “judge and jury”? Because to declare the man not guilty is to take the place of the judicial branch.
It’s one thing when an average citizen does this. We can all have our opinions. But it’s quite another when a senator or a representative makes such a claim. The basis of our Constitution is the separation of powers. When elected representatives take the place of judges and juries, they violate that spirit. They tell citizens that the laws they make are in fact meaningless.
I read also of Republicans who suddenly talk about unequal treatment of Americans in our judicial system. Yes, that is a problem, one recognized by the millions of people who don’t have the money to fund your campaigns or your lobbyists, or to fund teams of lawyers like Trump’s. It’s a problem for all of the typical Americans who see that people like Trump get off over and over again. Trump says that he is a wealthy man. To say that a wealthy man is above the law is making the real problem worse.
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Dear Republicans (Timothy Snyder’s blog, June 9, 2023)
re: #15 jaunte
We know there will be at least four busloads of Trump flag wavers from other cities in Florida attending, and probably a bunch of locals to stand and shout. But most will be old, and it looks like rain: Precipitation: 50% Humidity: 75%
They are lucky it might rain. Most Floridians know not to jump in any body of water unless you want an gator bite and not to stand around in the sun at 2pm in June-July-August (or practically all year) unless you want to drop dead from heat exhaustion.
re: #16 jaunte
Thank you for posting this. I knew that the “OMG Loose Cannon” crowd wasn’t seeing the whole picture. Her inexperience in handling classified materials was demonstrated during the special master debacle and that gives Smith and company all sorts of opportunities to have her removed.
re: #78 coin operated
Thank you for posting this. I knew that the “OMG Loose Cannon” crowd wasn’t seeing the whole picture. Her inexperience in handling classified materials was demonstrated during the special master debacle and that gives Smith and company all sorts of opportunities to have her removed.
If she is removed it will be spun as another example of how the Deep State is stopping at nothing to deny Trump a Fair Trial
re: #42 Targetpractice
Perhaps some of us can stop hyperventilating a bit:
As of now, Cannon is still assigned to the trial itself. But no, we’re not going to tune in on Tuesday and hear that she’s granted every one of Trump’s motions and personally gave him a piggy-back ride out of the courthouse.
This is funny as hell.
re: #78 coin operated
Thank you for posting this. I knew that the “OMG Loose Cannon” crowd wasn’t seeing the whole picture. Her inexperience in handling classified materials was demonstrated during the special master debacle and that gives Smith and company all sorts of opportunities to have her removed.
It bears repeating, as it’s been said several times: Jack Smith is no one’s fool. He’s been around the block several times, and he saw the pantsing that the 11th Circuit gave her over the special master incident, just the same as the rest of us did. There is no possible universe in which he prepared to request an indictment in SDFL, with at least a chance of her being assigned to the case, and he didn’t have a plan of attack for how to handle things if he drew the short straw.
re: #81 Nerdy Fish
It bears repeating, as it’s been said several times: Jack Smith is no one’s fool. He’s been around the block several times, and he saw the pantsing that the 11th Circuit gave her over the special master incident, just the same as the rest of us did.
More than that, he served at the International Criminal Court. Cases get there when the national courts can’t or won’t handle them, which means he has deep experience navigating past corrupt and dysfunctional judicial systems.
Here are two paths to booting Judge Aileen Cannon off the Trump Espionage Act case: legal expertshttps://t.co/UV7oql3sxK
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 12, 2023
According to three leading scholars specializing in federal government ethics laws, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon needs to either recuse herself or be preemptively forced off overseeing the trial of Donald Trump related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the former president.
In a column for Slate, legal experts Norm Eisen, Richard Painter and Fred Wertheimer present multiple paths for the Trump-appointed Cannon to be ousted either using federal laws or allowances under Florida state law.
I took the training wheels off my daughter’s bike this morning. So much has changed in 10 years.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If she is removed it will be spun as another example of how the Deep State is stopping at nothing to deny Trump a Fair Trial
Let them spin. Let the tears of impotent rage flow. May thy cup overflow.
As for the Deep State…I have a Trumper buddy going with that angle already. I replied “They just saw millions of man-hours of their work product flapping in the breeze. They’re not going to let this one go buy without retribution. Would you?”
re: #85 coin operated
Let them spin. Let the tears of impotent rage flow. May thy cup overflow.
As for the Deep State…I have a Trumper buddy going with that angle already. I replied “They just saw millions of man-hours of their work product flapping in the breeze. They’re not going to let this one go buy without retribution. Would you?”
Any desk jockey can tell you, seeing millions of pages of documents you spent hours preparing, grumbling the whole time because of all the pointless drudgery the bosses make you grind through to do your job, just shoved into somebody’s bathroom is enough to make you see red.
re: #85 coin operated
Let them spin. Let the tears of impotent rage flow. May thy cup overflow.
As for the Deep State…I have a Trumper buddy going with that angle already. I replied “They just saw millions of man-hours of their work product flapping in the breeze. They’re not going to let this one go buy without retribution. Would you?”
“He had nuclear secrets and military defence plans stuffed in a shower. You’re okay with that?” Get them off the Deep State talking point and back to reality as quickly as you can in a conversation.
ladies and gentlemen,
this morning dangerman set a land speed record
one mile in 7:35
that’s 11 seconds faster than a one mile split in a 4 mile run last year in july
and about :28 faster than my last best one miler also in july last year
and there was a small hill/highway overpass - such that it is for florida, that def cost me a few seconds.
did i mention i i’ve been on medicare for 6 months?
and I PR’d a mile.
this heart rate training seems to work
oh, and i checked. still indicted.
re: #84 Nerdy Fish
I took the training wheels off my daughter’s bike this morning. So much has changed in 10 years.
Rites of Passage…… Congratulations.
Russia appears to be losing its grip on its own state media. That would be a disaster for the state’s messaging to the Russian people.
Head of RT Margarita Simonyan used Tucker Carlson’s “rude” firing from Fox News to prove that freedom of speech does not exist in the West or anywhere else. To her chagrin, she was ambushed with horrific examples of what is currently happening in Russia.https://t.co/39kpay8DOs
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 12, 2023
re: #64 steve_davis
And if the Federalist Society decides that having Trump sent up might be good for them and the GOP then Cannon could get instructions to play it straight. She is owned by them more than by Trump himself.
I would love to see Trump remanded to jail until the trial. If anything that might cut down on the expected delaying tactics. However, the MAGA and GOP outcry will be huge and I expect the DOJ and judges will be intimidated and back down from doing anything like that.
Looking at the weapons recovered out of those Russian trenches, I saw an M-16 in the mix. What am I missing here?.
re: #86 Nerdy Fish
Any desk jockey can tell you, seeing millions of pages of documents you spent hours preparing, grumbling the whole time because of all the pointless drudgery the bosses make you grind through to do your job, just shoved into somebody’s bathroom is enough to make you see red.
They made you go through long, intrusive investigations across your whole life to prove that you should be allowed access to these documents to do your duty. You have to spend days in crappy rooms with the windows covered, out of touch with friends and family, remembering to log and store every document without fail and worrying that you didn’t. You make sure to censor your conversations and tell the government where you go and what you did whenever you leave the country. And then these shitty crooks toss these documents in a fucking bathroom for America’s enemies to gawk at and laugh at it all.
BREAKING:
The International Criminal Court in the Hague has started an investigation into Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam.
Representatives of the organization have already arrived to the Kherson region. pic.twitter.com/58ricoYHxG— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 12, 2023
re: #94 ericblair
Oh, yeah, every thread I’ve seen where someone with TS/SCI clearance has commented has been nothing but incandescent rage. Some of these people have had relationships strained because the FBI showed up and interrogated family or friends who were from countries considered “suspect.” And Trump just left boxes of ‘em laying on a stage in a ballroom where public events were being held, free for anybody to crack open and take a look at.
Just another day in America.
Multiple people have been shot, a few fatally, Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson said while arriving in Annapolis to be briefed https://t.co/pj2wEhWhmg
— Dan Belson 🦩 (@DanBelson_) June 12, 2023
FYI, this makes 21 people shot in Indianapolis since Friday afternoon. https://t.co/6feFCczJWS
— Max Lewis (@MaxLewisTV) June 12, 2023
re: #96 Nerdy Fish
Oh, yeah, every thread I’ve seen where someone with TS/SCI clearance has commented has been nothing but incandescent rage. Some of these people have had relationships strained because the FBI showed up and interrogated family or friends who were from countries considered “suspect.” And Trump just left boxes of ‘em laying on a stage in a ballroom where public events were being held, free for anybody to crack open and take a look at.
When I was getting my background check for my Secret clearance, federal agents showed up in my little Michigan village to interview everyone in town. To say the least, they were shaken by that. I got several calls from family and acquaintances to which I pointed out “just answer their questions, they are doing their jobs.”
In very local news, second death in a gang shooting the other day.
A foreign citizen has died after the shooting on Saturday night outside the metro station in the Stockholm suburb of Farsta, which has already claimed the life of a 15-year-old youth. https://t.co/GpoWhaCxqJ
— The Local Sweden (@TheLocalSweden) June 12, 2023
And before anyone asks, the perps got caught within the hour of the shooting:
Från gripandet efter jakten på två misstänkta för skjutningarna i Farsta ikväll. pic.twitter.com/b0nYIMHbhv
— Carla Filt 🇸🇪🇵🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺🌍 (@HALLONSA) June 10, 2023
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
When I was getting my background check for my Secret clearance, federal agents showed up in my little Michigan village to interview everyone in town. To say the least, they were shaken by that. I got several calls from family and acquaintances to which I pointed out “just answer their questions, they are doing their jobs.”
They don’t do that for Secret clearance anymore, thankfully. However, when I lived in Northern Virginia, you could count getting a knock on the door every few months as somebody down the street with a TS clearance got their reinvestigation. Of course, all you know is that they mow their lawn regularly and don’t have any wild parties; the whole neighbor interview thing is a complete waste of time.
re: #100 ericblair
They don’t do that for Secret clearance anymore, thankfully. However, when I lived in Northern Virginia, you could count getting a knock on the door every few months as somebody down the street with a TS clearance got their reinvestigation. Of course, all you know is that they mow their lawn regularly and don’t have any wild parties; the whole neighbor interview thing is a complete waste of time.
Mike Dunford was talking about the FBI coming by to talk to people who lived near a building that was demolished 10 years ago, in the hope that some of the people who lived in those nearby buildings would remember the person who lived in a specific apartment who was up for reinvestigation.
With photograph, Axios, yesterday
Thousands of dead fish wash ashore along Texas Gulf Coast
Cleanup efforts at Quintana Beach in Brazoria County have been under way since the event began on Friday, when the temperature there hit 92 degrees Fahrenheit.
Investigators have determined the fish kill was “caused by a low dissolved oxygen event,” per a statement from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Kills and Spills Team included in a Facebook post from the Quintana Beach County Park.
“The species most impacted was Gulf menhaden. Fish kills like this are common in the summer when temperatures increase. If there isn’t enough oxygen in the water, fish can’t ‘breathe.’ Low dissolved oxygen in many cases is a natural occurrence.”Of note: “Gulf menhaden have the largest fishery yield in the Gulf of Mexico and support the second largest fishery by weight in the United States,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Hi Elon, at present the platform is too compromised for me to consider it. It’s become a safe haven for hate speech, and meanwhile crypto scammers and bots are paying to be boosted to the top of replies. Everything that once made Twitter special seems to be leaching away.
— Fall of Civilizations Podcast (@Fall_of_Civ_Pod) June 11, 2023
Hi Ian, thanks for your concern, but I will probably not take advice on moral culpability from a man who wrote a column called “incel corner” for Milo Yiannopoulos, or advice on hate speech from the author of the following. All the best. pic.twitter.com/kiIZPZjW1p
— Fall of Civilizations Podcast (@Fall_of_Civ_Pod) June 12, 2023
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Menhaden as like sea-run shad. It’s a schooling baitfish. These kills are fairly common up and down the Coastal Bend. Something tells me this will be a banner Red Tide season in the fall. THAT is no fun.
— Forseti (@ForsetiLewyn) June 11, 2023
re: #84 Nerdy Fish
I took the training wheels off my daughter’s bike this morning. So much has changed in 10 years.
Soon she’s going to start dating. Are you ready for that?
re: #103 DodgerFan1988
Everything that once made Twitter special seems to be leaching away.
“leeching away” would also be appropriate
re: #106 sagehen
Soon she’s going to start dating. Are you ready for that?
Of course not. I’m a parent, I’m not ready for any of it.
I just met oldest daughter’s latest boyfriend (of the last year or so)
seems to be okay but we need to bring him up to speed on our family’s unique sense of humor
re: #103 DodgerFan1988
NSFW response:
Elon dickrider pic.twitter.com/lmQNCE5FsE
— Trump’s Celly (@TrumpsCelly) June 12, 2023
re: #96 Nerdy Fish
Oh, yeah, every thread I’ve seen where someone with TS/SCI clearance has commented has been nothing but incandescent rage. Some of these people have had relationships strained because the FBI showed up and interrogated family or friends who were from countries considered “suspect.” And Trump just left boxes of ‘em laying on a stage in a ballroom where public events were being held, free for anybody to crack open and take a look at.
And remember he’s not being charged with that (yet)
The Root, yesterday
13 Places You Might Find a Karen Causing a Ruckus this Summer
“Black people raise your cellphones in the air, it’s Karen season. Not even your own home is safe from a Karen tantrum.”
Karens are unavoidable. Wherever they spawn, they are most likely exercising the highest level of entitlement and white privilege with a sprinkle of villainy on top. Unfortunately, these places could be your driveway, a park - hell, maybe even outside the church house Sunday morning. They are the community watchmen no one asked for.
Their behavior is not only appalling but embarrassing to witness because they always act a fool in the most mundane areas. Yet, all the viral videos have people wondering, “When will it be my turn to confront a Karen?”
Well, the good news is that when the Karen-distribution-system finally works in your favor, you might find them in one of these 13 places.
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The strike at Reddit is now on against Reddit’s rent-seeking behaviour with a dramatic rise in their charge to access the Reddit API for developers.
Trying to enter any subreddit which is boycotting the site takes you to the front page.
Whoa!
Thought those folks were insistent that prayer works!
Most Christian pastors use armed church members to thwart a possible mass shooting
Prayer is not a part of their safety plan
A recent survey from Lifeway Research, an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, found that most Protestant pastors (54%) plan to thwart a potential church shooting by having armed members of the congregation. (In 2019, that number was 45%.)
None of the security measures involves praying more. Which is telling since that’s the typical response from Christian leaders whenever there’s a shooting in a public school. Thoughts and prayers are the default conservative responses after mass shootings, but conservative Christians refuse to let Jesus take the wheel when it comes to their own safety. They want action. They’re wrong about which action to take, but they know something needs to change, and a Higher Power won’t help.
It’s also noteworthy that so many of these pastors have just accepted that their places of worship could become actual battlegrounds. Apparently God can’t protect them as much as an assault weapon could.
Given all that, it would be nice if these pastors put an ounce of thought into why gun violence is on the rise.
You may recall that, shortly after the Uvalde shooting, a (now-deleted) tweet from a gun manufacturer called Daniel Defense went viral. That was the company that made the weapon used to kill 19 children and two adults. The tweet featured a child holding a weapon, justified with a Bible verse (Proverbs 22:6).
Conservative Christians think guns are the solution to a gun culture they helped create. Just as God is their solution to another problem they created (sin), they see more weapons as the response to a society made worse by more weapons.
The trial of John Eastman may feature testimony from key participants in Jan. 6 who have rarely spoken publicly.
John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election on Jan. 6, is about to go on trial — but not in a criminal court.
Rather, the attorney is fighting to save his California bar license from authorities who say he repeatedly breached professional ethics — and possibly the law — in his bid to keep a defeated Trump in power. And those proceedings, while not as prominent as the Jan. 6 select committee or as potentially punitive as a criminal prosecution, are slated to elicit some of the most revealing and comprehensive testimony from figures who aided Trump’s effort to derail the transfer of power.
That’s because Eastman and the California State Bar have amassed witness lists that include figures who have rarely spoken publicly about Jan. 6 but may hold valuable evidence — including Eastman himself, who is listed as a potential witness by the state bar’s trial counsel and by his own defense team. Their lists also include other high-profile figures, like former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who are slated to testify as experts about constitutional law or election administration.
Eastman’s list features Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who spoke with Trump multiple times on Jan. 6 and who helmed legal efforts to unravel the election results in multiple states; Peter Navarro, the former Trump trade adviser who authored discredited reports on election integrity during the final weeks of 2020; Kurt Hilbert, a lawyer who worked on Trump’s post-election litigation in Georgia; Linda Kerns, a lawyer who worked on Trump’s post-election lawsuit in Pennsylvania; former Georgia State Sen. William Ligon; Doug Logan, the CEO of far-right election “audit” firm Cyber Ninjas; and Russell Ramsland, who was involved with a review of voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, that became the source of pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
Meanwhile, the state bar plans to call its own notable list of witnesses, beginning with Greg Jacob, who on Jan. 6 was counsel to then-Vice President Mike Pence. Jacob tangled with Eastman in the days before Jan. 6 over Eastman’s claim that Pence could single-handedly prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
That theory is at the heart of the state’s case to punish Eastman on 11 professional charges, which include failure to support the laws and Constitution, seeking to mislead a court, misrepresentations to other Trump aides and the public, and moral turpitude.
“It is no overstatement that democracy stood on the precipice. Had Vice President Pence followed [Eastman’s] baseless advice … the country would have plunged into a ‘profound constitutional crisis,’” writes Duncan Carling of the California State Bar’s office of trial counsel in a pretrial brief. “[Eastman] and Trump’s plan violated our Nation’s most fundamental commitments to the rule of law and the orderly transition of power. And it rested upon transparently false claims of election fraud that continue to harm our democracy to this day.”
“The entire Republican Party continues to debase itself in service of Donald Trump.”
The Nation’s @ElieNYC condemns Republicans’ defense of Donald Trump and their courting of his “white supremacist base.” pic.twitter.com/FtfRfN0r9m— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 12, 2023
re: #117 Backwoods Sleuth
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I used to be a lot more active on Reddit, but I hardly ever stop by there anymore. These latest proposed changes that are being boycotted are just the latest in a series of bad decisions that have steadily made it a more and more uninhabitable space for normal, rational people.
Apparently after endorsing Desantis over the weekend, OK Gov Stitt is now a traitor who hates “the Indians.” pic.twitter.com/CjP8aWLics
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 12, 2023
re: #119 Backwoods Sleuth
I swear it’s Baron running his TS acct.
re: #120 GlutenFreeJesus
I swear it’s Baron running his TS acct.
Baro is probably already too mature to write crap like that
re: #116 Joe Bacon ✅
Elie joined at mastodon in April. I would like to encourage lizards to follow him there so he can post less at twitter.
re: #123 🔧-wench
Elie joined at mastodon in April. I would like to encourage lizards to follow him there so he can post less at twitter.
I even joined Mastodon out of curiosity but still remain clueless how to use it
Charlie “dry toast” Kirk, woman expert. https://t.co/ioqEAfAanM
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 12, 2023
re: #126 Backwoods Sleuth
By the way has Charlie Jerk had any kids yet?
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re: #128 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
From the days when a 5 o’clock shadow was considered unprofessional. Post-pandemic, I’ve noticed a lot fewer people either notice or care when men are sitting on video calls with a bit of scruff.
re: #65 Nerdy Fish
Well, that didn’t turn out quite as I expected.
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holy fucking shit, Donald Trump kept a fucking COPIER in the same room with the stolen war plans and nuclear secrets. I hope Bone Saw Arabia sent him a nice two-billion-dollar thank-you note. LOCK HIM THE FUCK UP pic.twitter.com/Brh6SVOGMV
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 12, 2023
re: #131 The Pie Overlord!
To be fair, this looks like just a disused storage closet (another picture had what looked like a guitar case), so I doubt that copier is plugged in or ready for use.
re: #74 William Lewis
What do you expect from Orcs? Civilized behaviors?
There are, in fact, no orcs fighting in that war, and thinking of the enemy as subhuman rather than war criminals will elicit orclike behavior from the “good guys.” (See “enhanced interrogation.”)
(Spell check has no problem with orcs, but rejects “orclike.” Curious.)
re: #126 Backwoods Sleuth
Charlie Kirk warned young women against “putting your career first” and said “the best thing that a human being can do” is “to get married and have kids.”
what about the concept of individuals and families deciding freely for themselves how they want to lead their lives?
re: #133 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
There are, in fact, no orcs fighting in that war, and thinking of the enemy as subhuman rather than war criminals will elicit orclike behavior from the “good guys.” (See “enhanced interrogation.”)
(Spell check has no problem with orcs, but rejects “orclike.” Curious.)
how about orcish?
nope
WTAF
Anti-LGBTQ Trump supporter Ethan Schmidt is trying to sell his used “Nike Gatorade Jordans” that he used to stomp a Target pride display. Asking price: $10,000.
Ethan also very clearly admits to destroying Target property in the video and is now attempting to profit off it. pic.twitter.com/lujWsqucI7— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) June 12, 2023
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what about the concept of individuals deciding freely for themselves how they want to lead their lives?
No, that’s not allowed. The Bible prescribes what males and females are allowed to do. Free agency is bullshit, God has ordained a specific plan for every individual person, and for women, that plan is “be fruitful and multiply. Oh, and get in the kitchen and make me a sammich.”
re: #137 Nerdy Fish
No, that’s not allowed. The Bible prescribes what males and females are allowed to do. Free agency is bullshit, God has ordained a specific plan for every individual person, and for women, that plan is “be fruitful and multiply. Oh, and get in the kitchen and make me a sammich.”
reminds me of one of my favorite Zippy the Pinhead quotes (from his Dear Zippy advice column):
“I see you are suffering from what we call a Mary Poppins complex! Now get down off your high horse and bake me a nice meatloaf!”
Goddamn it, now I want a meatloaf sammich and Mary Poppins is nowhere in sight.
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I even joined Mastodon out of curiosity but still remain clueless how to use it
yeah, same here. I just don’t really know how to make use of it. I will give Twitter credit that, at least before Musk got ahold of it, I kind of understood what was going on when I was on the site.
re: #136 The Pie Overlord!
WTAF
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Mom’s SECRET INGREDIENT for a Crispy Meatloaf Crust.
She used a bit of baking soda in her glaze.
re: #136 The Pie Overlord!
WTAF
From 2015. Gatorade was Woke before the Woke knew about the Woke and started to Wake. One more Woke. For good Woke measure.
#LoveWins pic.twitter.com/wBWmI4j5hs
— Gatorade (@Gatorade) June 26, 2015
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what about the concept of individuals and families deciding freely for themselves how they want to lead their lives?
Woke mind control!!!
Unacceptable!!!!!
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re: #147 Dr. Matt
Jebus Fucking Crisps
I get that Henry Kissinger still existing on this planet is essentially proof that God doesn’t exist, but being upset that Ted Kaczynski is dead instead is… holy fuck.
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Charlie Kirk warned young women against “putting your career first” and said “the best thing that a human being can do” is “to get married and have kids.”
what about the concept of individuals and families deciding freely for themselves how they want to lead their lives?
Conservatives rule. There is no equality under conservatism. Women and children are property.
re: #141 steve_davis
yeah, same here. I just don’t really know how to make use of it. I will give Twitter credit that, at least before Musk got ahold of it, I kind of understood what was going on when I was on the site.
Same here. Though I’ve never had an account on Twitter, navigating around the site and understanding what’s going on was pretty simple. (It’s intentionally harder now, but there are workarounds for things like the blocked search function.)
Mastadon leaves me scratching my head. It is so fractured between “instances” I can’t figure out how to find someone or follow any topics there.
re: #132 Nerdy Fish
To be fair, this looks like just a disused storage closet (another picture had what looked like a guitar case), so I doubt that copier is plugged in or ready for use.
I can see the cord coming out of the back of the copy machine, but I can’t tell if it’s plugged in or not. Even if it’s not, if he wanted to copy any of that massive pile of stuff, his minion could just plug it in somewhere.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can see the cord coming out of the back of the copy machine, but I can’t tell if it’s plugged in or not. Even if it’s not, if he wanted to copy any of that massive pile of stuff, his minion could just plug it in somewhere.
again, imagine the vapors if that were Hillary’s or Biden’s cellar
re: #132 Nerdy Fish
To be fair, this looks like just a disused storage closet (another picture had what looked like a guitar case), so I doubt that copier is plugged in or ready for use.
it really wouldnt matter where it was / how close to the boxes
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The strike at Reddit is now on against Reddit’s rent-seeking behaviour with a dramatic rise in their charge to access the Reddit API for developers.
Trying to enter any subreddit which is boycotting the site takes you to the front page.
Well, I just tried to load Reddit’s front page in my browser5 and it’s logging me out and giving me a default page. Then, if I attempt to log in, the main page will not load. I guess Reddit’s dead for the next few days. They only have themselves to blame for that!
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can see the cord coming out of the back of the copy machine, but I can’t tell if it’s plugged in or not. Even if it’s not, if he wanted to copy any of that massive pile of stuff, his minion could just plug it in somewhere.
There is a conduit right behind the machine, but I couldn’t see if there was a power outlet on the end of it. (The room obviously has to have some power, there is a light in there.) I’m less worried that he would make copies of it, and far more worried that one of the legions of people who have access to a clearly unsecured room - including the foreign agents who are guaranteed to be ever-present at Mar-a-Lago - could have had easy access to make copies of it.
re: #155 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
it really wouldnt matter where it was / how close to the boxes
It’s all moot when everybody is walking around with a copier in their pocket.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can see the cord coming out of the back of the copy machine, but I can’t tell if it’s plugged in or not. Even if it’s not, if he wanted to copy any of that massive pile of stuff, his minion could just plug it in somewhere.
gmta
re: #158 🔧-wench
It’s all moot when everybody is walking around with a copier in their pocket.
A copier can handle multiple pages much quicker than taking phone snapshots.
Copier is likely there just to expedite the spying. Trump is nothing but thoughtful when it comes to helping his friends /s
Hope the FBI confiscated or copied the copier hard drive.
re: #156 mmmirele
Well, I just tried to load Reddit’s front page in my browser5 and it’s logging me out and giving me a default page. Then, if I attempt to log in, the main page will not load. I guess Reddit’s dead for the next few days. They only have themselves to blame for that!
I tried going directly to pages that were working (r/Conservative, r/NotHowGirlsWork, r/ReligiousFruitcake, r/News). The whole site appears to be down, even reddit.com main page.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
again, imagine the vapors if that were Hillary’s or Biden’s cellar
im gonna keep beating this horse because i’m obnoxious that way
while we all are having fun pointing out how much he took and how he stored it and how lax the security was, and how tacky the bathroom is, or where the copier is, or that there’s a copier at all, remember:
he’s not been charged for any of that shit
the charges are detailed, specific, and (so far) only go to (some) of what he did after the subpoena and fbi search.
The banner at r/Libertarian:
This subreddit is temporarily private as part of a joint protest to Reddit’s recent API changes, which breaks third-party apps and moderation tools, libertarianism believes that users can vote with their wallets when companies make decisions they do not like. This is one such instance of the free market at work.
r/all is still working, but it’s mostly protest memes.
From Yahoo! (unconfirmed story), your cryptocurrency at work.
Hacker drains Russian special services wallets, transfers funds to Ukraine (June 11, 2023)
The mysterious user seems to have been able to put blockchain and Bitcoin technologies to work against the Russian terrorist state.
The hacker gained access to hundreds of crypto wallets that likely belong to Russian security agencies, cryptocurrency industry news site CoinDesk clarified, citing Chainalysis, a cryptocurrency monitoring company that works closely with the U.S. government.
Chainalysis analysts believe that the hacker used the transaction documentation feature of the Bitcoin blockchain to identify 986 wallets controlled by Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency (GRU), the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and the Federal Security Service (FSB).
The analysts did not say what feature they were referring to.
At the same time, the hacker left messages in Russian to the owners of the wallets, in which he stated that these wallets were used to pay for the services of hackers working for Russia.
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Variety, June 11, 2023
Incoming lawsuit
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s production banner Artists Equity states that it “did not consent” to the use of a monologue from the film “Air” in a new campaign ad for Donald Trump.
On Saturday, Trump shared a fundraising video on his Truth Social platform. The ad features footage and images of the former president throughout his life, accompanied by audio of Damon’s climactic monologue from the film “Air.” In the spring release, Damon’s Nike exec gives the speech to a young Michael Jordan to convince him to sign a sponsorship deal with the shoe company.
“We had no foreknowledge of, did not consent to and do not endorse or approve any footage or audio from ‘Air’ being repurposed by the Trump campaign as a political advertisement or for any other use,” a spokesperson for Artists Equity told Variety on Sunday. “Specifically in terms of any and all rights available to us under U.S. copyright and intellectual property law, we hereby, expressly give notice that in the case of any use of material from ‘Air’ by the Trump campaign where approval or consent is required, we do not grant such consent.”
As of this article’s publication, the video remains available to watch on Truth Social.
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re: #132 Nerdy Fish
To be fair, this looks like just a disused storage closet (another picture had what looked like a guitar case), so I doubt that copier is plugged in or ready for use.
Looks like an electrical conduit along the side of that water pipe behind the copier.
As if we didn’t know already…
Ex-Infowars staffers describe Alex Jones as a tyrannical and abusive boss
re: #162 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
he’s not been charged for any of that shit
the charges are detailed, specific, and (so far) only go to (some) of what he did after the subpoena and fbi search.
Yup. I keep thinking Al Capone and tax evasion…it gets him off the street. I’m not going to be surprised if we start seeing superceeding indictments as this plays out.
re: #170 Joe Bacon ✅
As if we didn’t know already…
Ex-Infowars staffers describe Alex Jones as a tyrannical and abusive boss
Possibly the least shocking reveal ever.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The strike at Reddit is now on against Reddit’s rent-seeking behaviour with a dramatic rise in their charge to access the Reddit API for developers.
Trying to enter any subreddit which is boycotting the site takes you to the front page.
The limited discussion on the issue I perused also mentioned that the modified API costs will also essentially price out most bot usage there as well.
Folks around here and other places who follow politics closely get this, but the great number of people who only pay attention in the last few days, or the “pox on both your houses types” don’t get it. Media outlets ought to be informing about this, but they don’t seem to care much.
Here’s the tactic that’s worked so well for Russia: They’ve been so OPEN and BLATANT about their actions interfering with US politics, helping disruptive candidates, and spreading lies among the US public, that now US pundits/media often laugh it off instead of sounding the alarm
— Vlada Knowlton 🇺🇦 (@VladaKnowlton) June 12, 2023
re: #172 coin operated
Yup. I keep thinking Al Capone and tax evasion…it gets him off the street. I’m not going to be surprised if we start seeing superceeding indictments as this plays out.
I grow more and more convinced that they have some serious kompromat buried safely with Ivanka’s remains at Bedminster
Heads up, Wendell Zurkowitz
Meanwhile in Russia: Professor Dmitry Evstafiev claimed that life in Germany has gotten so bad that everyday Germans want to invade Russia, so they can rob and kill Russians. Evstafiev argued that Germans haven’t changed in the last 80 years.https://t.co/MEpbaxozAU
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 11, 2023
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grow more and more convinced that they have some serious kompromat buried safely with Ivanka’s remains at Bedminster
I hope Trump didn’t bury Ivanka alive. That would be pretty cruel to his daughter. /s
a) He’s an endless drama queen
b) Is he laying out his terms?
They want me in jail or dead.
— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) June 12, 2023
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 12, 2023
WEE MUST SICKYUR TEH NORTHERN BORDER!!!1!!!11!!
217 pounds of cocaine found in semi truck on Blue Water Bridge https://t.co/er04pErM01
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) June 12, 2023
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I grow more and more convinced that they have some serious kompromat buried safely with Ivanka’s remains at Bedminster
1. It’s Ivana (Ivanka’s mom) planted at Bedminster.
2. Fun thought, but it doesn’t make sense to (literally) bury “serious kompromat” in a (quite public) grave. Seems to make more sense that it TFG wanted to get rid of stuff like that, he’d just burn it; if it was stuff he wanted to have possibly available at some future date, there are other alternative places to stash it* that wouldn’t require hiring the New Jersey branch of Burke & Hare, Ltd. to retrieve.
*though given the Trump folks’ cavalier treatment of sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago, who knows??
Time to sit back and listen! 43 entries were received for Fedivision 2023, spanning EDM, metal, folk, classical, and other styles hard to classify!
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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They want me in jail or dead.
— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) June 12, 2023
As Fats Domino said…
re: #184 Jay C
1. It’s Ivana (Ivanka’s mom) planted at Bedminster.
2. Fun thought, but it doesn’t make sense to (literally) bury “serious kompromat” in a (quite public) grave. Seems to make more sense that it TFG wanted to get rid of stuff like that, he’d just burn it; if it was stuff he wanted to have possibly available at some future date, there are other alternative places to stash it* that wouldn’t require hiring the New Jersey branch of Burke & Hare, Ltd. to retrieve.*though given the Trump folks’ cavalier treatment of sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago, who knows??
It’s been a persistent conspiracy since she died and was buried on the Bedminster course for tax evasion purposes. I’ve never put much stock in it, since I could never quite understand the rationale for burying documents. If it was just state secrets, he’s been perfectly willing to retain those in the open; no reason to bury those. If it was compromising information, that’s simple enough to destroy, and we also know he’s been willing to do so (stuffing documents down the toilet, for example). Nothing in these behaviors suggests that he has any particular motivation for “disappearing” documents in such an unusual and very specific way.
re: #184 Jay C
2. Fun thought, but it doesn’t make sense to (literally) bury “serious kompromat” in a (quite public) grave. Seems to make more sense that it TFG wanted to get rid of stuff like that, he’d just burn it; if it was stuff he wanted to have possibly available at some future date, there are other alternative places to stash it* that wouldn’t require hiring the New Jersey branch of Burke & Hare, Ltd. to retrieve.
*though given the Trump folks’ cavalier treatment of sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago, who knows??
Never underestimate the stupidity of Donald Trump.
My grandfather is spinning in his grave. https://t.co/Qb5lV9ChbF
— Abigail Disney (@abigaildisney) June 12, 2023
“Pro-life”
‘I want blood’: Rabid Trump supporters’ fury is building as arraignment nears https://t.co/7nh1ZmkC9P
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 12, 2023
re: #185 🔧-wench
Caution: Math
by @futzle@old.mermaid.town , representing The Old Mermaid Townsfolk
Code OMTF
Some words about this song
“Haul on the Jib” is a recursive C shanty about Fibonacci numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …). Sea shanties became popular during the early Days of Lockdown, and while several nerdy types joked that a C shanty would be fun, none ever materialized. With “Haul on the Jib” I wanted to make something that was accessible to non-geeks but with hidden and chuckle-worthy easter eggs for computer-touchers, with additional bonus points for sheer earworminess. While the verse uses the Dorian mode in true sea shanty style, I’ll concede that the major-key chorus is more of a jig than a shanty. Please look out for the Old Mermaid Townsfolk’s next C shanty, “Twenty-Five Thousand Tail Calls on the Wall”.
re: #193 The Pie Overlord!
What is up with “Family Guy” always portraying Walt as an anti-Semite?
It’s a smear made up during Walt Disney’s days during WW2.
Disney made rather famous anti-Nazi propaganda cartoons.
The Jerusalem Post, February 25, 2020
‘No truth in claim that Walt Disney was an anti-Semite’
Panelists over the weekend promoting PBS’s Walt Disney, a two-part American Experience film that will air on September 14, defended Walt Disney’s character claiming past charges of anti-Semitism against the entertainment legend were not true.
“There are many charges against Walt Disney, and if you answered every one of them, you’d have a four-hour film that was nothing but rebutting charges,” said Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, USA Today reported.
Gabler said he read every one of Disney’s papers in the company’s archives, and says “I saw no evidence, other than casual anti-Semitism that virtually every gentile at that time would have, that Walt Disney was an anti-Semite,” according to the report.Producer and director of the documentary, Sarah Colt, said the film succeeded in uncovering the real Disney.
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re: #123 🔧-wench
Elie joined at mastodon in April. I would like to encourage lizards to follow him there so he can post less at twitter.
Mastodon msg:
Could not find anything for these search terms
re: #197 BeenHereAwhile
Mastodon msg:
Could not find anything for these search terms
I get this:
https:// ohai.social @elienyc@birb.stream
if you take out spaces after slashes.
Secret documents planted with Ivana sounds like a tip from “The Hitler Formula” by Bruce MacCall. (July 1980 Esquire, classic.esquire.com. I counted this time, goddamned telephone failed on 13 attempts to highlight the words “Hitler Formula” for a link.)
This is a set of suggestions for writing a best-selling World War 2 espionage thriller.
It begins with the required “The (proper name) (document type)” title format, e.g. “The Quiller Memorandum,” “The Eiger Sanction” etc.
One piece of advice was to include totally bizarre methods of doing fairly straightforward things, especially evil deeds. Suggestions included assassination by drowning in Jello or being strapped to a live dolphin. Burying sensitive documents with your ex, on a golf course no less, fits right in with that.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
a) He’s an endless drama queen
b) Is he laying out his terms?
He’s not entirely wrong.
re: #200 🔧-wench
And then I can submit a ‘follow request’.
I find three ElieNYCs and none are at birb.stream
re: #202 darthstar
I find three ElieNYCs and none are at birb.stream
I withdraw the suggestion. Says it is a bot. Posted 74 thingies, all on April 13. And the posts don’t render here.
I hate how annoying it is to find people on Mastodon.
re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The claim that Walt Disney was an antisemite came from an incident which occurred before World War 2.
Disney had heard Leni Riefenstahl was an important film maker in Germany, so he sent her an invitation for her to tour his studios. After he’d extended the invitation, he found out she was really Hitler’s film propagandist. He sent her packing back to Germany when she arrived.
When Reifenstahl returned to Germany, she turned the aborted visit into propaganda, saying that Disney understood the “Jewish problem” (it pains me to write that), and many Americans agreed with Germany’s position (that part was true).
It was Reifenstahl’s propaganda repeated in the New York Times which cemented the idea Disney was an antisemite.
In Abigail Disney’s case, the wingnuts have it wrong as Walt was not her grandfather. Roy O. Disney was her grandfather.
re: #206 🔧-wench
Me? I had a dream that I was in an Apollo command module orbiting the moon while Carl Reiner and Richard Pryor were on the moon yelling at each other…I was yelling at them to get back in the LEM and get their asses off the Moon…
re: #208 Joe Bacon ✅
Me? I had a dream that I was in an Apollo command module orbiting the moon while Carl Reinder and Richard Pryor were on the moon yelling at each other…I was yelling at them to get back in the LEM and get their asses off the Moon…
What’s the seating like in your Theater of the Mind?
re: #1 silverdolphin
I’m remembering one of Frank Miller’s works, Give Me Liberty.
In it California was an AI run country. No meat sacks allowed.
re: #208 Joe Bacon ✅
Me? I had a dream that I was in an Apollo command module orbiting the moon while Carl Reinder and Richard Pryor were on the moon yelling at each other…I was yelling at them to get back in the LEM and get their asses off the Moon…
A couple of days back, I had a dream about getting lost in a coastal city in Mississippi, looking at the wrong map for Jackson instead of… wherever I was, and wondering if I’d ever get on the highway out of Hell and back to God’s own country. I don’t dream every night, or very frequently, as a rule. Or I should say more properly, I very rarely remember details of my dreams.
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Aren’t they allowed to run protestors over in Florida?
re: #198 🔧-wench
I get this:
https:// ohai.social @elienyc@birb.stream
if you take out spaces after slashes.
Usual mastodon link nomenclature to follow is @displayname@instance
If bird.stream is elienyc’s instance.
If ohai.social is elienyd’s instance.
I don’t see it.
Oh well.. .
re: #214 Romantic Heretic
Aren’t they allowed to run protestors over in Florida?
I think the caveat is that the protestors have to be obstructing traffic, but of course, you and I both know that the law is only intended to be used against Those People (tm) - Blacks, Antifa, etc. - and not fine upstanding Nazis.
re: #214 Romantic Heretic
Aren’t they allowed to run protestors over in Florida?
The bill is enjoined by the 11th Circuit Court. Gov. DeSantis and the Sheriff of Jacksonville/Duval County have appealed the injunction.
Florida’s controversial anti-riot law remains temporarily blocked (WFSU-FM, Tallahassee, Fla., January 24, 2023)
A controversial measure that critics argue chills Floridians’ right to peacefully protest remains blocked as a legal challenge to the new law moves through the courts.
“We can continue to exercise our constitutional rights, and not worry about being arrested under the racially discriminatory provisions of HB1,” said Ben Frazier, a civil rights activist with the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, one of the plaintiffs suing to block the law.
(more)
re: #215 BeenHereAwhile
As it turns out, I went to birb.stream to find out what was going on, and it is a service that basically provides a “fake account” that republishes tweets on ActivityPub. Given that I’m sure Elie has been more active than April 14 - the last published toot from him when I search on my Mastodon instance - I’d imagine there’s some way to make it selective.
re: #219 Dr. Matt
Unhinged
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Objection, assumes facts not in evidence. Prosecution has yet to prove that he was ever “hinged” to begin with, in order to become “unhinged.”
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The bigots are racing around like dumpster roaches this morning defending grand wizard DeSantis from “the KKK Democrat party.”
Trump claims that while president he was on a call with Russia and Saudi where he pleaded for higher oil prices pic.twitter.com/9eMlsdOZUs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 11, 2023
The House GOP hard-liners are still grumbling and are considering tanking more bills teed up for floor action this week.
McCarthy can’t move any significant legislation across the House floor until they’re brought back into the fold.
“We could be sitting here all week just…— POLITICO (@politico) June 12, 2023
The Independent (UK)
Trump struggles to find new defence counsel as Miami arraignment looms
“…As it stands now, Mr Trump is expected to be represented at his arraignment by Christopher Kise, a former Florida Solicitor General who joined the ex-president’s team in the wake of the 8 August 2022 search of his Palm Beach, Florida property by FBI agents, as well as Todd Blanche, a veteran New York-based criminal defence lawyer who has previously appeared for Mr Trump after a Manhattan grand jury indicted him for falsifying business records earlier this year.
Mr Kise, a veteran Sunshine State practitioner who is licensed to appear in the Southern District of Florida — the venue where Mr Trump now faces charges — is not known as an experienced criminal defence attorney, as he was first brought on to handle Mr Trump’s failed effort to block the Department of Justice from using the evidence recovered during the search of his home and office.
Though Mr Blanche is not licensed to practice by the Florida State Bar or the Southern District of Florida, he can appear for Mr Trump on Tuesday if an attorney licensed to practice in the district such as Mr Kise is willing to vouch for him.
re: #224 jaunte
The Independent (UK)
Trump struggles to find new defence counsel as Miami arraignment looms
Ask Lindsey Graham if he’ll defend him. He seems to be Trump’s most passionate defender.
re: #219 Dr. Matt
Unhinged
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Is he promising to accomplish all of that as a criminal defendant? He says nothing about becoming President again - just that the “SEAL” has been broken…I assume he meant on his indictment, or is he talking about precedent of former presidents being prosecuted for being criminals like he is?
Unhinged is a good start.
re: #196 Teukka
So, this story made it across my feeds. I’m fucking so pissed off that anyone can mistreat their own child like this:
⚠️ CW/TW: ALL OF THEM ⚠️
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Posted it on my FB, with the addendum “If you suspect a child or disabled person is being mistreated, especially by a next of kin, never ever be afraid to sound the alarm. Better one time too many than one time too few. None are above suspicion.”
That “SEAL” broken language sounds like he’s trying to simulate some Nazi mysticism to get his followers excited about blood and soil.
re: #224 jaunte
The Independent (UK)
Trump struggles to find new defence counsel as Miami arraignment looms
Oh, Chris Kise. I wonder if he was Trump Attorney 2 in the indictment; Attorney 1 was Evan Corcoran, Attorney 3 was Christina Bobb.
Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley
As of now, per ppl familiar, Trump expected to do his arraignment with Todd Blanche and Chris Kise — who is barred in Southern District of Florida — but if he retains new counsel today, they could also appear. For the arraignment, Trump will enter thru sally port, not main door.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 12, 2023
Notably, however, the indictment does not charge Trump with the illegal retention of any of the 197 documents he returned to the archives.”
“That shows that if Trump had simply returned all the classified documents he had, he probably never would have been charged with any crimes.”
re: #229 jaunte
That “SEAL” broken language sounds like he’s trying to simulate some Nazi mysticism to get his followers excited about blood and soil.
And Christian mysticism about Revelation and the Apocalypse.
Others are still going door to door! https://t.co/jtUlAObIEt
— FFRF (@FFRF) June 12, 2023
re: #219 Dr. Matt
Unhinged
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kinda like weaponizing the government a bit
he just negated everything the R’s have said since the indictment dropped.
of course though when an R does it of course it’s justified
re: #236 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A slight improvement over those pesky Jehovah’s Witnesses crickets.
A dimwit’s dimwit.
Cue desperation. https://t.co/073FQ1jFgr
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) June 12, 2023
More violent language. #KariLake is trying to activate National Rifle Association members (4.3 million of them) in defense of Donald Trump. Threats like these are only going to get more intense, and many will include the invocation of God.https://t.co/NLD3DNeXL8
— The Thinking Atheist (@ThinkingAtheist) June 12, 2023
re: #239 jaunte
A dimwit’s dimwit.
He doesn’t seriously believe that it’s OK to keep some of the nation’s most highly classified information in a goddamn bathroom. He can’t be that stupid. I refuse to believe it. This has to be pure partisanship… right?
re: #231 jaunte
Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley
if he’s so innocent, where’s all the lawyers lined up?
imagine having to find a lawyer the day before an arraignment of this magnitude
“Mr. Trump, if you cannot secure an attorney because you are notorious for not paying your bills, ruining the reputations of your lawyers, and getting your lawyers disbarred and/or jailed, one will be provided for you by the Court.”
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 12, 2023
re: #223 Captain Ron
No great loss; they were just messaging bills anyway. The only thing the House needs to do this year is an appropriations bill to keep the government from shutting down (or reopening it after the GOP shuts it down, which seems likely to happen).
re: #242 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
if he’s so innocent, where’s all the lawyers lined up?
imagine having to find a lawyer the day before an arraignment of this magnitude
ISTR, from the special master hearing, Chris Kise is at least competent. I saw on Twitter or Mastodon that he does not have experience as a criminal defense attorney, but he is barred in SDFL and could do for the indictment until Trump finds someone better suited to his defense.
re: #239 jaunte
A dimwit’s dimwit.
a) Garage doors lock, dipshyte
b) Obvious deflection to Biden is obvious. Even if Biden was guilty of wilful retention of documents, that in no way exonerates Trump.
re: #243 jaunte
like i said
If everyone loves him why doesn’t anyone want to represent him? I mean that’s what he claims everyone loves him. 🙄 This is a high profile case lawyers love to win these high profile cases. So what does this tell us about this particular case and the defendant? #Traitor
— Laurie Krebsbach (@LaurieKrebsbac1) June 12, 2023
re: #239 jaunte
A dimwit’s dimwit.
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Most human beings could knock down or otherwise access a bathroom door with minimal effort. A garage door, unless one has a vehicle to ram through it, would be a little more difficult.
re: #244 No Malarkey!
No great loss; they were just messaging bills anyway. The only thing the House needs to do this year is an appropriations bill to keep the government from shutting down (or reopening it after the GOP shuts it down, which seems likely to happen).
amazing how little we expect congress to do
re: #246 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
a) Garage doors lock, dipshyte
b) Obvious deflection to Biden is obvious. Even if Biden was guilty of wilful retention of documents, that in no way exonerates Trump.
follow up to kevin:
‘garages weren’t the question’
LOL
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re: #249 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
amazing how little we expect congress to do
And even then they barely get it done.
re: #250 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
follow up to kevin:
‘garages weren’t the question’
“To the representative from the Great State of Denial: Were you born stupid, or did you get that way from years of being a Republican? I didn’t ask about garages, I asked about bathrooms. Please don’t try to equivocate, simply answer if you think it’s OK for the leader of your party to be caught hoarding boxes of classified intel in a tastelessly decorated bathroom. Yes or no will do.”
re: #244 No Malarkey!
No great loss; they were just messaging bills anyway. The only thing the House needs to do this year is an appropriations bill to keep the government from shutting down (or reopening it after the GOP shuts it down, which seems likely to happen).
I eagerly await one or more from the Douchecanoe Caucus to call for the chair to be vacated.
Now that an ethics violation investigation has been reopened on Rep. Matt Gaetz, maybe we’ll see some popcorn action there.
This has been part of a few tears this last weekend….. Glad I can make it.
Heading back to Phoenix next week to lay my #AA Sponsor to rest. What a guy. 30 yrs without a drink because of this man due to the guidance and friendship we had. Some things must be passed on that can never be repaid.#RIP Mr. Bill.
— TravisBlues (@Travisblues01) June 12, 2023
re: #243 jaunte
Heh.
LOL time at the thought of some newbie Public Defender in Miami getting a call to her boss’s office:
“Sandra? Get down to the Federal Courthouse by 1:00: there’s a defendant waiting who can’t get a licensed Florida lawyer to represent them: we’re gonna have to step in….”
Shades of Aktion T4
This tweet, just boosted by Elon Musk, is one of the most vicious online attacks on #autistic people I’ve ever seen. I honestly feel sorry for any autistic folks who ever took him as a role model. Not only is he not any kind of “savant,” he’s a standard-issue eugenicist. pic.twitter.com/cnacNfo5RL
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) June 6, 2023
re: #224 jaunte
The Independent (UK)
Trump struggles to find new defence counsel as Miami arraignment looms
Has he checked every bus stop bench and highway billboard sign in the greater Miami area. All those lawyers are just waiting for his call.
She edges out from under her hiding place.
As I’ve stated before, no one is above the law but every American is innocent until proven guilty. Still, the charges in this case are quite serious and cannot be casually dismissed.
— Sen. Lisa Murkowski (@lisamurkowski) June 9, 2023
re: #257 Teukka
Shades of Aktion T4
WOW. For obvious reasons, I’ve known about the bias against autistic people for a while now, but to see Elno - who, by the way, has a decent probability of being somewhere on the spectrum himself - share a eugenicist anti-autism meme… I am SO GLAD I’ve always mistrusted him.
re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She edges out from under her hiding place.
Has there been any word from So Concerned or Mitt Romney, yet?
re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She edges out from under her hiding place.
What? No false equivalencies? No “what about”s? No buts? Ain’t ya skeered of the Magats coming’ for ya, Lisa?
re: #254 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I eagerly await one or more from the Douchecanoe Caucus to call for the chair to be vacated.
Now that an ethics violation investigation has been reopened on Rep. Matt Gaetz, maybe we’ll see some popcorn action there.
They have no one who could get 218 (or whatever) votes
Or who would accept the job with conditions like Kevin did
So, checking on Twitter on a story about WWII corpses of Nazi soldiers being unearthed, and what do I see when I search on the story you told of? Copypasta’d tweets from bot accounts, all saying how it is a “bad omen” for the “Ukronazis“…. twitter.com
re: #224 jaunte
The Independent (UK)
Trump struggles to find new defence counsel as Miami arraignment looms
IIRC, local rules in S FL District Court allows Todd Blanche to appear with local counsel Christopher Kise.
Much to-do about nothing.
re: #258 sizzzzlerz
Has he checked every bus stop bench and highway billboard sign in the greater Miami area. All those lawyers are just waiting for his call.
Morgan and morgan
re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She edges out from under her hiding place.
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She and mitt. The only ones so far
re: #260 Nerdy Fish
WOW. For obvious reasons, I’ve known about the bias against autistic people for a while now, but to see Elno - who, by the way, has a decent probability of being somewhere on the spectrum himself - share a eugenicist anti-autism meme… I am SO GLAD I’ve always mistrusted him.
Ummm… that’s not an anti-autistic meme; that’s a GENDER IDEYOLOGY WANTS TO STERILIZE AUTISTICS!!!!!1! meme accusing the trans-rights movement of being closet eugenicists. Absolutely vile, and could be another case of projection, but there ya go.
re: #247 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
re: #259 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She edges out from under her hiding place.
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The rest of her statement
“mishandling classified documents is a federal crime because it can expose national secrets, as well as the sources and methods they were obtained through. The unlawful retention and obstruction of justice related to classified documents are also criminal matters. Anyone found guilty - whether an analyst, a former president, or another elected or appointed official - should face the same set of consequences.”
re: #262 aatharuv
Has there been any word from So Concerned or Mitt Romney, yet?
Romney blistered the Tangsnorter. Collins still waiting for Moscow Mitch’s Marching Orders.
Iowa christian missionary, Jordan Webb, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for repeatedly raping a child under the age of 12 & giving her gonorrhea. pic.twitter.com/UlLegQR01v
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) June 12, 2023
re: #275 Dr. Matt
He’s going to be quite popular in prison.
Probably get choked out by another inmate. Internally, if you get my drift.
Monday mood.. pic.twitter.com/BCTAjq9Nyt
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 12, 2023
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At the end of 2022, NIH had it at about $1,000, not counting other things required to make that analysis useful to someone. It has dropped dramatically from about $10MM. That said, it’s pretty much smoothed out (it hasn’t dropped in several years).
It still is somewhat following Moore’s Law as so much of the data gathering is computation.And the sequencing is no longer the most expensive part. Ssample preparation is. And the benefits of using it as a screening test are becoming more cost-efective. A recent paper in NEJM “Ultrarapid Nanopore Genome Sequencing in a Critical Care Setting” used long read nanopore technology to determine the genomic sequence for 12 patients. Five of them had a genetic diagnosis. They were able to get the sequence and an initial diagnosis in as little as 7 hours. The sequencing cost was as low as $2000 and total cost was about $5000 incuding sample prep and post sequencing computation. This was actual cost in the real world, not in a reseach lab.
So, in many settings the cost of the genomic sequencing is well within reasonable amounts (ie ICU costs). This is not the cheapest approach (the NIH has the cost of sequencing at $1000) but it is the most rapid. So we can trade off speed vs cost. And newer technologies may get the sequencing cost down to $15.
Thus why I expect the government to eventually pay for the genomic sequencing at birth. Without taking into account lower prices due to the large numbers of tests, this is about $18 billion (3.6 million births at $5000). The benefits when amortized over a lifetime are too great.
re: #260 Nerdy Fish
WOW. For obvious reasons, I’ve known about the bias against autistic people for a while now, but to see Elno - who, by the way, has a decent probability of being somewhere on the spectrum himself - share a eugenicist anti-autism meme… I am SO GLAD I’ve always mistrusted him.
And there are a shytetonne of eight-buck chucklefucks in that thread defending him. Schrodinger’s Douchebags “it’s just a joke” or citing some dubious source claiming autistic people have a much higher transition rate than “normal” people.
It’s not just the young ‘uns….
People aged over 65 among most sexually fluid in UK, study finds https://t.co/MpVzjLhQLU
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) June 12, 2023
re: #237 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
kinda like weaponizing the government a bit
he just negated everything the R’s have said since the indictment dropped.
of course though when an R does it of course it’s justified
How dare biden weaponize the justice system to persecute his innocent opponent (me).
He’s destroying america
I can’t wait to get back in power so i can weaponize the justice system to persecute Biden and save america!
re: #231 jaunte
Sneakin’ Sally Through The Alley
Hugo Lowell
@hugolowell
As of now, per ppl familiar, Trump expected to do his arraignment with Todd Blanche and Chris Kise — who is barred in Southern District of Florida — but if he retains new counsel today, they could also appear. For the arraignment, Trump will enter thru sally port, not main door.
Just like former Panama Dictator Manuel Noriega.
Wonder if Trump will get a tour of the submarine.
re: #229 jaunte
That “SEAL” broken language sounds like he’s trying to simulate some Nazi mysticism to get his followers excited about blood and soil.
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re: #249 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
amazing how little we expect congress to do
To MAGNA that’s a feature not a bug.
re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The strike at Reddit is now on against Reddit’s rent-seeking behaviour with a dramatic rise in their charge to access the Reddit API for developers.
Trying to enter any subreddit which is boycotting the site takes you to the front page.
Abusing the people who create its content and give it a eason for existing.All to generate income for its IPO. The worst kind of rent-seeking behavior. And nothing is to prevent another entity creating a similar site.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I can see the cord coming out of the back of the copy machine, but I can’t tell if it’s plugged in or not. Even if it’s not, if he wanted to copy any of that massive pile of stuff, his minion could just plug it in somewhere.
I wonder what’s in its memory?
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