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  1. 16 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Apparently, the "no flip" language has now been removed from the vehicle order agreement.  My friend is keeping his pre-orders and just got his invitation to the delivery event. 

    Your friend must have some really REALLY dumb clients if they still want to buy one of these scalped lemons from him

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  2. sorry to interrupt your smearing shit on the walls annie - there's some actual news on the trump trials:

    https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-georgia-hearing-emergency-video-misty-hampton-jonathan-miller

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    ATLANTA — An attorney for one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election-racketeering case said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that he provided confidential video evidence to the media.

    "In being transparent with the court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I did release those videos to one outlet. And in all candor to the court, I need the court to know that," said Jonathan Miller, an attorney for former Coffee County election supervisor Misty Hampton.

    Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee scheduled Wednesday's hearing following a motion by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office in the wake of reporting from ABC News and the Washington Post on Monday that included videos from the four people who recorded interviews as part of their guilty plea deals.

    In his comments, Miller did not specify which media outlet he'd shared the videos with.

    Most of the 45-minute hearing — conducted live in Georgia and via Zoom for all of the attorneys — was devoted to a discussion of proposals for a protective order governing evidence exchanged between the parties in the case going forward.

    Willis’ prosecutors wanted a blanket order on all the evidence. Co-defendant David Shafer’s legal team proposed an alternative in which the state would specifically designate certain evidence as sensitive. Prosecutors agreed with Shafer’s counter-proposal, as did most of the defense attorneys for the other indicted co-conspirators, including Trump attorney Steve Sadow. 

     

     

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  3. 4 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    Because how much Conagra pays Deere for a tractor reflects the price of rent for the studio apartment you share with comradeant 

    well it's definitely less than the rent you should be charging me to live in your head lol

     

    And yeah, it's a solid tell for when yall are just reverting to your old partisan arguments when you just preemptively start calling anyone who you disagree with a "comrade" or "antifa" lol. Really cutting, witty remarks from the surly IDW as we have come to appreciate

  4. 10 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    The interest in bank custody is the same with spot ETFs - it's going to expose crypto to institutional investment.  You can snark on NFTs all you like, but you are missing the point.

    No I get it, the idea is to pivot away from decentralization as a selling point and hopefully attract more dumb money by tapping into new markets through centralizing the cryptos into banks and funds. Gotta keep drawing more people in to keep the music going

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  5. 2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If he can't get the votes, he doesn't get in office. 

    You don't need to hold office to lead a fascist movement. You simply need to continue to evade and dely and deny justice long enough to spark enough chaos to seize the moment. 

    We are currently riding right down the middle of that track and heading towards a cliff. Every day we delay trumps accountability is another notch more dangerous 

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  6. 2 hours ago, immamac said:

    In the world of easy money where line goes up no matter what this is true, but captainant is correct in his assessment of people who don't know shit about fuck running things when shit gets real inevitably fuck it beyond repair because they have no idea what the fuck they actually do, they just know money machine go brrrrrrr. It's exactly why amazon is going straight into the shitter and getting eaten alive with regard to market share etc. They have stopped listening to their customers entirely and just look at how to squeeze the most money out of the machine possible.

    They have ruined vendor relationships, NO ONE likes working with AWS/Amazon, they just have to because they buy so much. As soon as any capacity at a company comes online that isn't like AWS they prioritize them over AWS. 

    They have ruined customer relationships, they are staring in the face of mass customer exodus and are resorting and relying on incredibly unfriendly lock in practices to continue to show any kind of growth out of their captive audience.

    They have ruined their public leadership perception, they have laid a complete fucking goose egg when it comes to AI or LLM's and have constantly stepped on their dick with their own implementation (amazon echo) failing catastrophically as a business. 

    The future is open and competition is as real as it's ever been for cloud managed/hosted vs self-hosted/privately managed - the capex cycles can be made to look and feel like opex nowadays and you can get away with an order of magnitude better cost structure. Convenience is only something you can sell when no one gives a shit about anything but growth, now it's not about growth it's about sustainable profit and real organic growth without just pushing the burn cash to generate more revenue button. 

    IMO I think you're touching on something else in that AWS is really good at building infrastructure, but completely dog shit at building a good product. AWS is one of the best places to host at enterprise scale thanks to their massive global footprint, but their services and user experience are completely opaque unless you get lucky and have a good account team. GCP is super user friendly and approachable, and azure will give you a deal on that hoard of M$ licenses your business partners insist on maintaining. 

    I think Amazon's move is away from their strengths and is stupidly chasing the trend. They shouldn't be trying to build their own LLM, they should be hyping up their custom ML hardware that is way cheaper and more available than an H100 - it's what Anthropic builds their LLMs with even. But since they're trying to play "chase the boardroom" they're tripping over dollars to pick up pennies

  7. That's quite a lot of "ALL IS WELL!!!!" when my local school board is banning books and the state lege thinks a 12yo is old enough to have a kid but is vulnerable to the depravations of a library. 

    Atom, you need to stop maddogging on trumps electoral chances and wake up to the fact that it's far more pervasive and widespread than a single walking hemorrhoid. Steve fucking Banon has been just as damaging as trump and he's not elected. He just knows how to ride the lightning and direct right wing hate at his "other" groups. 

    I know that """they'll get caught by the justice system""" but I'm worried it's going to be more Nuremberg than Jack Smith when it comes to actually fucking doling out punishment that sticks and withstands appeals to a subverted supreme court. 

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  8. 5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    He is not bothering to actually campaign at all in MI/PA/WI and those states are sliding farther to the left, and the elections last week show that.  Doing rallies in red areas of red states like Iowa, Florida, and Texas do nothing for him in MI/PA/WI. Nothing.

    Show me where he's going to make up those 46 electoral votes.

    High School GIF

    did you not read my entire post? The problem isn't just trump. It's the entire orbit of sycophancy that he commands. There is a fucking movement of fascism at work in this country dude. They're on your school board. They're in your local government. They're in your state government. 

    It's not just trump we need to fucking worry about. No matter how much you want to be an ostrich on the fascist threat in this country.

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  9. 13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    You've got recency bias going on.  The man is not doing anything to actually win WI/MI/PA/GA/AZ/NV - his recent rallies have been mostly in "safe" areas that were going to go for him no matter what (South Carolina, Iowa, Florida, Texas), and it's clear from who he is targeting with said rallies, that he's just grifting to pay his legal expenses.  And his rallies, they're just him whining about how everything is unfair. He's not doing anything to inspire the masses in the states he needs to win back (and his profile is so much lower than it was in 2020, probably thanks to social media bans).

    Speaking of legal expenses, and his legal issues, he's got four different trials going on, and yet the MAGA masses are not trying to shut them down in any way.  There aren't hundreds of them showing up to cheer him on.

    It's like somebody saying they are going to win the lottery, but they aren't actually playing the lottery - Trump is losing ground steadily in WI/MI/PA alone (thanks abortion and batshit would-be school board officials!) and the GOP is losing power in those and other states. Hell, candidates that he's endorse are even losing races that one would think they should easily win.

     

     

    8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    They honored their vows in 2020, and the guy who replaced General Mark Milley is definitely not going to side with Trump.  The rank-and-file in 2023 is the same as the rank-and-file I was around in 1993 - they wanna get paid and get laid, and they want to do just enough to keep the NCOs and officers out of their hair.

    And the senior officers are getting shit on by Tubberville and the other Republicans (who won't deal with Tubberville), and it's trickling down to the officers below them.

    I appreciate your optimism, but dude. The entire strategy of trumpism is to do things so outrageous that nobody would ever think they would dare try. They are hoping people will think once again like in 2016, "there's no way that will happen", and dismiss the growing fascist threat. 

    It may not be from trump, but the fascists are fucking coming for you and for me and for our democracy 

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  10. 7 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    Andy Jassy, while not a visionary or disrupter, seems like he is a good operator.

    It smacks of the technical leadership getting replaced by people who only understand arbitrary KPIs and synthetics dashboards, and not really understanding the value of diversification. I recently worked with a group that had re-orged to specialize on "energy industry verticals" and after the reorg, they lost all the variety of solutions and creativity and just settled on rolling out the same two or three playbooks no matter the customer needs. 

    I see moves like that as shortsighted and completely decoupled from what attracted their customers and set them apart from the competition in the first place. It's not growing a business' actual value - it's exploiting customers with a worse experience to drive down costs and make shareholders happy. 

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  11. 7 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    I think in a few decades it will appear that none of us really recognized how serious all this shit really was. But, I guess history is irrelevant without a future. 

    No, there was a very loud group screaming from the rooftops how dangerous trump is. They got labeled with tRuMp DeRaNgEmEnT sYnDroMe and laughed at as hysterical. Turns out pretty much all of the worst shit was worse than we thought. 

     

    Hell, we even have proof that rudy was straight up pumping russian propaganda into our political dialogue. The entire hunter biden thing has been a fucking russian misinfo op. 

    And you'll still get a timeout from Blacklab for pointing that out outside of the CR if it comes up

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