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The man who attacked Pelosi's husband just got life without parole https://apnews.com/article/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attacked-454cbde088fcae22a356f1f8dd0e9eba Before sentencing DePape to life for the kidnapping conviction, Judge Harry Dorfman rejected defense attorneys’ arguments that he be granted a new state trial for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi, who was 82 years old at the time. “It’s my intention that Mr. DePape will never get out of prison, he can never be paroled,” Dorfman said while handing out the punishment. He later said, “I don’t feel sympathy for you. I feel sympathy for the victim in this case, who’s lucky to be alive.” ... When given the chance to address the court prior to his sentencing, DePape, dressed in prison orange and with his brown hair in a ponytail, spoke at length about Sept. 11 being an inside job, his ex-wife being replaced by a body double, and his government-provided attorneys conspiring against him. “I’m a psychic,” DePape told the court, reading from sheets of paper. “The more I meditate, the more psychic I get.” The judge interrupted DePape multiple times to ask if he wanted to address the jury’s verdict or his conduct on the night of the attack, but DePape ignored the offers.

I mean, "JV" seems a pretty appropriate moniker to me

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-militia-organizing-election/ What the actual fuck? Wouldn't they be shedding their section 230 safe harbor protections by creating that content as a platform? There have also been some recent instances where Facebook has even auto-generated pages for militias. In May, Facebook auto-generated a page for AP3’s Arizona chapter. In June, Facebook auto-generated a page for “AP3 NM [New Mexico] Training Range.” If you hover over the information widget on the page, Facebook’s explainer reads: “This unofficial page was created because people on Facebook have shown interest in this place or business. It’s not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with AP3 Training Range.” (Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has repeatedly come under fire in the past for auto-generating pages for extremist, white supremacist, and terrorist organizations; a whistleblower first flagged the issue in 2020 in a supplement to an earlier petition filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)

Maybe he drove into Portland ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

continues to bottle the mind how anyone could really believe that trumpco didn't fully endorse the joke - the fuckin thing was on the teleprompter!

Kinda interesting tech video a work peer sent to me showing the supercomputing cluster that xAI is building lotta flops to build a pretty middling LLM, but the datacenter architecture is neat to see as a techie

Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism lays out a pretty damn striking set of identifying properties of a fascist:

Probably lean more into slave prisoner labor, and use the #lawandorder fascist tactic to ensure plenty of free labor to the private prison system that we already have.

I mean, they're already using child labor https://www.npr.org/2023/09/25/1201524399/child-labor-perdue-farms-tyson-foods-investigation

[Laughs in child labor law rollbacks]

ayo @Incredulity come get yo man

I'm sorry I've read history books and am pointing out the striking parallels between our current path and past successful fascist takeovers of democratic governments? We still haven't even prosecuted trump's insurrection - we have an even weaker and slower response than the fucking Germans did to the beer hall putsch. Also from my view today as a Texan, hate absolutely trumps love in our state and nobody is doing a goddamn thing about basic human rights being taken away. The beatings will continue until morale improves. If they're thinking about voting for trump, it's "having my head up my ass" to call out a literal part of his campaign platform? If they're so willfully and intentionally uninformed they're about to vote for someone who wants to have mass deportations so that they can realize economic gains, that's pretty goddamn similar to the Germans of 1932-45 who didn't realize HItler was bad because they spent no time thinking about it because things were nice for them personally. Now, I'm not saying your friends are Nazis and I'm sorry for drawing parallels between their current behavior and what the people who brought Hitler to power did at the time. I didn't mean to give that impression, but mainly that if they try to sell me on voting for trump I'll just ask something like "why are you voting for a 34x convicted criminally fraudulent rapist"? And then we'll see where things go

Who's mocking them? Useful idiot is a term of art that I think is pretty apropos in this case

IMO, that's willful ignorance at this point. They're choosing to drink poison and believe that trump isn't so bad. That's not a position that they were reasoned into, and it won't be a position they can be reasoned out of. In my experience, the first group you mention often has more overlap with the second group you mention that you'd expect. You double click enough and dive into their """economic anxiety"""/"wallet voting" you'll find plenty of hate simmering beneath. Hitler's big pitch to gain office in the 1930s wasn't "let's gas all the Jews", it was "vote for me and I'll fix the economy and increase profits, while making our society into a new great version of past glory". People voting with their wallet and nothing else are useful idiots that take measures to remain uninformed and maintain their plausible deniability of their own deep hatred. Or, they love money more than they hate fascism. The next time theres someone who isn't losing, they'll happily vote for fascism again.

At least two customers who gained certification through the ring were determined to be sexual predators, officials said. I wonder how TEA let that slip through the cracks, don't you have to submit fingerprints and a background check as part of the cert process?

I guess I just don't believe in using kid gloves when people are planning for vote for a goddamn fucking criminally fraudulent fascist rapist. Hell one of my neighbors has a big ass trump/Vance sign in their yard and I am perfectly friendly with them, even let them come say hi to my baby that I was walking around the neighborhood. But I just don't talk politics with trumpers, and if they insist on pressing the subject, I'll share my honest opinion with them and not use kid gloves to protect their feefees. Again, if they were still planning on voting for trump, they weren't """normies""". They were planning on voting for fascism. That's not fucking normal. And yes, we know those ostriches generally choose to be a piece of shit when confronted with reality, we have in fact read the Daily Texan board.

If they were already planning on voting for trump after Jan6, they're fucking fascists. Not """normies""". Overlooking extremely negative social costs in favor of goosing your corporate profits with the hopes of state favors is literally the MO of 1930s Germany and how they ended up with goddamn fucking Nazis. They're only just now backing off their vote because they don't see it as a winner anymore, they don't give a shit about the racism. They certainly fucking didn't before.

https://ktxs.com/news/local/parents-outraged-after-aisd-staff-suggests-tracking-students-menstrual-cycles ABILENE, Texas — Students at Clack Middle School were allegedly told by a staff member that they would begin tracking menstrual cycles for female students. Parents have expressed that they are outraged that this comment was made to their kids. ... The comment was allegedly made to the students in a classroom setting and several parents have contacted the school. They were told to email the assistant principal with their concerns and complaints.

It'll be filed in Texas and go to the 5th circuit and heard same day, and ruled on in a week.

I didn't know you've sued pluckers before

Musk is not exactly "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore". Those would be the people he was rallying about rounding up yesterday. I just couldn't imagine elmo being used as a positive example

They literally evaporate vodka for their aircraft A/C Given the immense heat emitted by engines when a jet is flying, you can imagine how hot the air is when extracted from the compressors. As such, it must be cooled before being pumped into the cockpit. On the Tu-22, this cooling was provided by a large total-loss evaporator, which ran on a mixture of 40% ethanol and 60% distilled water. If this composition looks familiar to you, it’s because that is what makes up the popular Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe alcoholic beverage, vodka – hence, earning the Tu-22 the moniker ‘Booze Carrier’.

Russian aviation still drinks their ethanol working fluid

https://theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819583529/