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elfenix

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    Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times

    Nominee Ed Martin did not initially disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate. The State Department has said the networks act like arms of Russian intelligence.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/16/ed-martin-rt-sputnik-usattorney/

     

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    WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and wasting U.S. taxpayer money.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-state-department-closing-office-aimed-countering-foreign-disinformation-2025-04-16/

     

     

    again, it's not whether he's a russian agent, it's what exactly would a russian agent have done differently?

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  2. 27 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

    The people who do their own research definitely don't do their own research 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Ag with kids said:

    I'm confused by this argument.

     

    So DOGE, an agency under the purview of the executive branch, is getting access to data from the Social Security Administration, another agency under the purview of the executive branch.

     

    Would there be some reason why executive branch agencies should segregate?  Seems inefficient...

    username checks out

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    members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.

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    The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure.

     

     

    https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

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    In July 2022, Lauralei Crouch searched the Internet for advice on how to report child abuse.

     

    Her inquiries were not academic: Prosecutors say Crouch had for weeks been watching her boyfriend pummel his 2-year-old son, Wyatt, slapping and flinging him into tables and door jambs as punishment.

     

    But Crouch never made that call. Later that month, Randall Pickett, 29, beat Wyatt so viciously that Crouch told police the boy appeared drunk. Rather than calling police or rendering aid, Crouch beat the toddler herself.

     

    Horrible, awful story 

     

    https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-child-endangerment-dangerous-homes-safety-services-removal/

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  6. 22 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I lived in Uzbekistan during the waning days of the brutal and bizarre Karimov dictatorship.  I was there when he tossed his once-favored daughter Gulnora (pop-star name: Googoosha) into jail for maybe being a witch.  We used to talk about how fortunate we were not to be in Turkmenistan where it was really weird. 

    Googoosha video apropos of nothing. 
     

     

     

     

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  7. 6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    So...these women took an inspiring journey that lasted twice as long as the average "inspiring journey" that Surly posters take women on.  Totally worth it.

    Giving us too much credit 

  8. 46 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Why do we need those things to be built in America?

    Keep in mind the reason this shit isn't built in America is because 1) Intel turned Apple down at making chips for the first iPhone; 2) Intel, after spending years well ahead of everyone else (tsmc got hung up at 28 nm), got hung up at sub 14 nm and still really hasn't figured it out. Tariffs aren't going to fix that. 

     

    This ignores that tsmc and Samsung are already building huge new fabs here. These fuckers are going to show up to the openings to do a victory lap that their tariffs worked 

  9. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well wait a minute.  If "amateurism" was an idiotic pursuit, then college athletics should have been a thunderdome arms race, with attendant corruption, from jump.

     

    They were literally paying ringers back in the day. The NCAA imposing "amateurism" is what put a stop to that. 

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  10. 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I would honestly not give a shit if this blew through the anti-vaxxers and dropped them like flies.

    Unfortunately, there's a lot of babies/kids that are unable to get the full vaccine until they are old enough, and so fuck this people for putting them at risk.

    Measles can infect the vaccinated, just at a much lower rate (same with pretty much all other vaccines)

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  11. On 4/8/2025 at 7:26 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    Also, isn't the meme and memecoin pronounced doggy?  Shouldn't we give it the full measure of stupidity by pronouncing it doggy instead of an Italian word for duke?

     

     

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