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  1. 33 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

    Need to rewatch the Heavy Metal episode of black mirror. 

    I would think a 12 Gauge with 7 shot would work well against one if you see it.

    There was a spooky short from a while back that posed the thought idea of drone swarm attacks becoming the norm

    The attack scenes in the short are eerily similar to the footage we see eliminating the orcs

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  2. 38 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Making the rounds on twitter

     

    As a Houstonian that owns a house that has 35% more sqft than the lot it sits on, these sorts of communities are pretty dang dense. Parking is always a contention, and as pointed out frequently in that doc, the homes that get built in these communities aren't really what $65k/yr incomes can expect to attain in this market. There's not enough margin in building affordable housing

  3. 48 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


    Saw the comments. People saying he had the right to open carry like that. Look like he’s in firing position (not slung over his back). I could see someone capping his ass in self defense. What am I missing?

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    He's another rittenhouse wannabe. 

  4. 20 hours ago, bolverk said:

    If that argument wins, wouldn't it also extend to increases in property taxes due to higher valuations?

     

    1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:

    Fuck them schools. They don't need nothing but the Bible to learns from anyways.  

    I mean taxation is theft anyways amirite?

  5. 8 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    And, I submit that we as a country have a bizarre obsession with people being punished and the only rational support for it (besides just vengeance, if you call that rational) is deterrence and it's a nearly undeniable fact that punishment doesn't deter the vast majority of criminals.  Punishment wouldn't deter Trump either, if he lived past it.

    You can't deter a narcissist. Their brains don't accept anything that goes against their worldview. That doesn't mean we should just let them get away with fucking everything and ACTIVELY INCITE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE COURT SYSTEM ATTEMPTING TO CONCLUSIVELY ADJUDICATE HIS STATUS AS A LIAR AND FRAUD!

    I gotta say though, your heel turn to "we shouldn't punish fascists" is tipping your former republican cred just a liiiiitle too much. You wouldn't happen to be related to Neville Chamberlain would you?

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  6. 14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    If someone is to be detained on grounds other than flight risk, they need to be a drooling, incorrigible violent criminal

    How about repeatedly inciting violence against court officers?

    https://www.salon.com/2023/11/27/this-is-in-purpose-experts-alarmed-after-filing-reveals-shocking-extent-of-inspired/

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    Last month, the former president posted an image of Greenfield on his social media platform Truth Social falsely describing her as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's "girlfriend" and linking to her personal Instagram account. The act prompted Engoron to issue a partial gag order barring Trump — and later his legal team — from commenting on court staff.

    A New York appeals court earlier this month, however, paused the gag order, allowing Trump to speak freely about court staff while a longer appeals process takes place. 

    Greenfield's personal contact information has since been compromised, a court safety official, Charles Hollon, told The Guardian. 

    “I have been informed by Ms. Greenfield that she has been receiving approximately 20-30 calls per day to her personal cellphone and approximately 30-50 messages per day online,” Hollon said. “Ms Greenfield also informed me that since the interim stay was issued lifting the gag orders on November 16, 2023, approximately half of the harassing and disparaging messages have been antisemitic.”

    He fucking knows what he's doing. The legal system is letting an arsonist run around handing out matchbooks under the guise of free speech. 

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/politics/trump-pardon-braun.html

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    A Staten Islander with a history of violent threats, Mr. Braun had told a rabbi who owed him money: “I am going to make you bleed.” Mr. Braun’s family had told confidants they were willing to spend millions of dollars to get him out of prison.

    At the time, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department and federal regulators, as well as New York state authorities, were still after him for his role in an entirely separate matter: his work as a predatory lender, making what judges later found were fraudulent and usurious loans to cash-strapped small businesses.

     
     

    Nearly three years later, the consequences of Mr. Braun’s commutation are becoming clearer, raising new questions about how Mr. Trump intervened in criminal justice decisions and what he could do in a second term, when he would have the power to make good on his suggestions that he would free supporters convicted of storming the Capitol and possibly even to pardon himself if convicted of the federal charges he faces.

    Just months after Mr. Trump freed him, Mr. Braun returned to working as a predatory lender, according to New York State’s attorney general. Two months ago, a New York state judge barred him from working in the industry. Weeks later, a federal judge, acting on a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, imposed a nationwide ban on him.

    A New York Times investigation, drawing on documents and interviews with current and former officials, and others familiar with Mr. Braun’s case, found there were even greater ramifications stemming from the commutation than previously known and revealed new details about Mr. Braun’s history and how the commutation came about.

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    William P. Barr, a Trump attorney general who had left by the time of the Braun commutation, said when he took over the Justice Department he discovered that “there were pardons being given without any vetting by the department.”

     

    Mr. Barr added that he told Trump aides they should at least send over names of those being considered so the department could thoroughly examine their records. While the White House Counsel’s Office tried to do so, the effort fell apart under the crush of pardon requests that poured in during the final weeks before Mr. Trump left office, according to people with direct knowledge of the process.

    I mean, it's nothing we didn't already know or couldn't discern with some basic fucking empirical observation, but wow what a surprise that trump actively protected loan sharks and threw sand in the gears of prosecutions 

  8. If you've got a "smart" thermostat - or at least one that talk to Apple Homekit - you can use automations to check the temp every so often and set it back to whatever temp is correct. So they'll see the thermostat change to whatever they set it to, and then after they walk away it changes back to whatever you've set it to

     

    I've got honeywell smart thermos that came installed in my house, and the setup with homekit was surprisingly easy

  9. 29 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    No employee should earn more than X times the lowest paid FTE.

    Smash cut to the rise of contractors as the primary workforce. Amazon's entire delivery system is all 3rd party providers. That work exclusively for them and use their equipment and follow their marching orders.

    Totally not FTEs though 

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  10. 6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Not remotely related to what I said.

    "Unringing that bell" means no longer subsidizing their underpayment of workers, which was artificially propping up many firms business model and ability to price out competitors to set up a profit taking maneuver. Which would ultimately mean slimmer profit margins and losing the guaranteed "line go up"

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  11. 2 hours ago, YChang said:

    CA is on the tright track of teaching media literacy to their kids. But overall, as citizens we just lack a lot of critical thinking... or just having the ability to pause, reflect, and think about what we consume with any semblance of curiosity. 

    It's literally a platform plank of the republican party to be opposed to critical thinking. It's no accident that our collective ability to discern bullshit has been reduced and diluted

  12. 14 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    TikTok is doing to Gen Z what Facebook did to boomers in 2016. Chinese or Russians, doesn't matter. Our gullibility knows no end. 

    We genuinely need some legislation around data collection and microtargetting users. It's absolutely insane how much we let private, for profit entities steal our data and monetize it

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