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26 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:
Who do you think is mostly running the show on this, Trump or McConnell? I would've said McConnell, but can't Trump hold that as a bargaining chip w/respect to his power of their re-election chances? Seems it cuts both ways on that, but if they didn't affirm his pick, he'll still have people that support him.
I wouldn't leave barr out of that calculus either. Much of his legal fuckery has been enabled by the packed courts
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26 minutes ago, GRHorn said:
well at least yall will have something to celebrate in DT the next time someone """self-defenses""" someone else's property
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11 minutes ago, tokamak said:
They're going to nominate now, so they can parade the nominee around before the election, then confirm in the lame duck no matter what happens on November 3.
ring a ding ding. If the election goes blue in a big way, we're going to see a shitload of legislative looting and burning from the GOP
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10 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable...
CaptainAnt: Fuck yes!
We admire the first Christians who were led by the Holy Spirit to form a community. Those early believers put their lives and their possessions in common, and "there were no needy persons among them"...We have lived closely with our neighbors and worked together to help meet pressing neighborhood needs. Our efforts include: running camps for hundreds of children, repairing neighborhood homes, hosting prayer meetings, growing healthy food on an urban farm. Longtime local residents have credited these efforts with lowering the crime rate and making the neighborhoods more beautiful and peaceful places to live.
CaptainAnt: But what about the oath of loyalty to a fringe group!
The southern baptist church I grew up in had all the same shit on their pamphlets too. And sure, they did do a fair bit of it - but it was closer to Jesus camp than kum bye yah. So I'll stick with expecting the worst
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Just now, formermav43 said:
This sounds like the same argument that was trotted out against every Catholic candidate for President in the good old days.
Except in in this case, they have literally sworn an oath of loyalty to their fringe group. So where the anti-catholicism of the 50s/60s was based in conjecture, this is based in evidence
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32 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
Did not really expect you to bite on that low hanging fruit wash.
This looks really really scare and dark. Not my cup of tea, but doesn't throw up red flags, unless you are just categorically opposed to a Christian being nominated.
What is the People of Praise?
The People of Praise is a charismatic Christian community. We admire the first Christians who were led by the Holy Spirit to form a community. Those early believers put their lives and their possessions in common, and "there were no needy persons among them."
We are Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Pentecostals and other denominational and nondenominational Christians. Despite our differences, we are bound together by our Christian baptism. Despite our differences, we worship God together. While remaining faithful members of our own churches, we have found a way to live our daily lives together.
Like hundreds of millions of other Christians in the Pentecostal movement, People of Praise members have experienced the blessing of baptism in the Holy Spirit and the charismatic gifts as described in the New Testament. This is a source of great joy for us and an important aspect of what God is doing in our world today.
Founded in 1971 in South Bend, Indiana, the People of Praise has grown into a community of about 1,700 members. We are currently in 22 cities across the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
How does the People of Praise serve the broader society?
In 1981, in response to a call from God, we established Trinity Schools—private Christian schools in South Bend, Indiana, Falls Church, Virginia, and Eagan, Minnesota. These middle/high schools have received a total of eight Blue Ribbon awards from the U.S. Department of Education. The Trinity curriculum has also served as a model for more than 30 private and public charter schools nationwide. Additionally, members of the People of Praise founded Trinity Academy, a middle/high school in Portland, Oregon, as well as Praise Academy, an elementary school located in an impoverished neighborhood of Shreveport, Louisiana.
In 2002, inspired by the Holy Spirit, some People of Praise members began moving into some of America's poorest neighborhoods. Since then, we have lived closely with our neighbors and worked together to help meet pressing neighborhood needs. Our efforts include: running camps for hundreds of children, repairing neighborhood homes, hosting prayer meetings, growing healthy food on an urban farm. Longtime local residents have credited these efforts with lowering the crime rate and making the neighborhoods more beautiful and peaceful places to live.
People of Praise community life provides a natural support for marriages and families. This has led us to develop Marriage in Christ, a course for married couples. Marriage in Christ helps couples renew their love and affection for each other while building crucial habits of prayer, conversation and forgiveness. More than 1,300 couples have completed the program.
In addition, branches of the People of Praise in various cities have many local outreach activities, from running prayer meetings to serving the needy.
Not against the christian faith, but a justice in the top court should not be swearing oaths to a religious group when they will be charged with upholding the constitution, including the separation of church and state.
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5 minutes ago, Leamas said:
Or just use an OLED TV.
Input lag tho
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3 minutes ago, Eastwood said:
I don't how right this is, but Twitter was saying that for the first time in history, options volume exceeded stock volume in August. Usually it's around 40%. Crazy, if true. Also explains how insanely expensive options have been.
Robinhood has brought quite a large market of suckers into the market. I'm not sure of any other platform that so freely lets folks trade options
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Alright, which one of you chucklefucks was this?
QuoteBrett Bachtle
Created: September 17, 2020 06:44 PM(ABC 6 News) - An Austin man, whose heritage is Chinese, claims he's possibly the victim of a hate crime after the words 'China virus' were burned into his front lawn.
David Chao believes the hate speech was spelled out with some type of fertilizer.
"It's just an awful thing to see, to experience, let alone the issue that my heritage is Chinese. I'm not full Chinese. There are some people who know it, but they wouldn't know that," said Chao. "It's dehumanizing, demeaning." -
@Your Mom I just took a look and this monitor is pretty much perfect and is probably in stock at your local costco
https://www.costco.com/msi-optix-27"-class-fhd-freesync-curved-gaming-monitor.product.100655709.html
It looks like it has decent support for g-sync compatibility too, so that'll be one hell of a monitor
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This is the trump strategy - he used it in the 80s and 90s while losing a fortune in the casino business. When shit goes bad, distract. If the news isn't good, change the news.
It's trump's single greatest strength and is key to how he has remained untouchable. He can't dazzle us with brilliance, so he baffles with bullshit
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I would go with a 24 to 27" 1080p 144hz monitor.
I found this one from a quick look on Amazon for $160 and it's even got 1ms response time, so it'll be extra snappy for shooters. Reviews say it's g-sync compatible but it's iffy for variable refresh rate.
Or just go to Costco, they actually have a decent but narrow gaming monitor selection. Definitely grab a starter/cheapo keyboard and mouse and you can give upgrades as future gifts! Another thought too is to grab a WiFi adapter if the motherboard doesn't have an integrated card
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3 hours ago, MillerEP said:
/skepticalface
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chinese-virologist-government-intentionally-coronavirus
Chinese virologist: China's government 'intentionally' released COVID-19
'I work[ed] in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world'The Chinese government intentionally manufactured and released the COVID-19 virus that led to mass shutdowns and deaths across the world, a top virologist and whistleblower told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday.
Carlson specifically asked Dr. Li-Meng Yan whether she believed the Chinese Communist Party released the virus "on purpose." "Yes, of course, it's intentionally," she responded on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
Yan said more evidence would be released but pointed to her own high-ranking position at a World Health Organization reference lab as a reason to trust her allegation.
"I work[ed] in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world, in the University of Hong Kong. And the thing is I get deeply into such investigation in secret from the early beginning of this outbreak. I had my intelligence because I also get my own unit network in China, involved [in] the hospital ... also I work with the top corona[virus] virologist in the world," she said.
"So, together with my experience, I can tell you, this is created in the lab ... and also, it is spread to the world to make such damage."
Yan's comments conflicted with the opinion of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and White House coronavirus adviser, who previously cast doubt on the idea the virus was artificially created. In May, he told National Geographic: "If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what's out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this [virus] could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated — the way the mutations have naturally evolved."
Other scientists have panned the idea that COVID-19 served as a sort of bioweapon or was released by a lab.
Fox News previously reported on Yan back in July, when she blew the whistle on China's alleged attempts to suppress information about its handling of the virus. With a vast network of contacts in Chinese medical facilities, Yan attempted to gather more information about the virus as China blocked overseas experts from conducting research in the country.
Her revelations fueled ongoing complaints that the Chinese government failed to tell the world early on about the virus' threat. Specifically, she believes the Chinese government ignored research that could have saved lives. The State Department did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
In response, her former employer, the University of Hong Kong, criticized her account. A press release noted "that the content of the said news report does not accord with the key facts as we understand them."
"Specifically, Dr Yan never conducted any research on human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus at [the University of Hong Kong] during December 2019 and January 2020, her central assertion of the said interview."
Yan, who said she was one of the first scientists in the world to study the novel coronavirus, fled China and currently fears retaliation. She was allegedly asked by her supervisor at the University/WHO reference lab, Dr. Leo Poon, in 2019 to look into the odd cluster of SARS-like cases coming out of mainland China at the end of December 2019.
Fox News' Barnini Chakraborty and Alex Diaz contributed to this report.
On 9/16/2020 at 8:47 AM, Captainant said:I have and I'm glad that you have enough expertise to call bullshit, but that's exactly the mechanism used to disinform otherwise uninformed folks. It's laundering a legitimate looking finding through a legitimate looking academic to further a messaging agenda.
The academic in question, Dr. Yan Limeng, has already had her claims publicly denounced by the University of Hong Kong and appears to have lied about her first hand experience WRT covid. Dr. Yan has been spotted at Guo Wengui's villa in NY (the source on this is state chinese media, so big grain of salt, but it was published back in May) - the same Guo whose yacht Bannon was found on by USPS agents when they arrested him for felony fraud.
I'm calling tinfoil on myself because it all seems fantastical and like a movie, but given what we know about bannon's stance on the use of disinformation to push a narrative and our proximity to an election... This seems like genuine propaganda efforts on the part of Bannon and Guo.
You’re repeating propaganda originating from Steve bannon
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So you don't see anything morally/ethically/legally wrong with shipping planes with known critical safety indicator defects and undocumented behaviors to the average commercial pilot in less developed countries? By boeing's own assessment, if the event wasn't addressed in under 10 seconds it would be catastrophic.
The MCAS system would continually fire the elevator correction even after being mitigated the first time, so you had pilots trying to diagnose an unknown system where their mitigations were being actively undone by the unknown system put in place and concealed by Boeing to avoid a new type classification. Sounds like the root issue isn't just a couple of pilots to me.
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3 minutes ago, DaysOff said:
Yes I have. It's a non event. That's what we've been trying to say. I'm sure the FAA will waste sim time making us repeat this failure annually after its been engineered out of the plane instead of more important things.
Nobody is advocating for Boeing or polyester wearing FAA dorks. We're advocating for the 346 dead people that deserved well trained crews.And the reason they did not have well trained crews is that Boeing took active steps to conceal the need for additional training or even basic information about the MCAS system.
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Have y'all actually read the report and/or an analysis of the report? It's pretty damning.
The 238-page report details how Boeing attempted to minimize both the regulatory testing and pilot training required to fly the new Max, which was being rushed out in an attempt to compete with the Airbus A320neo.
It found the company successfully persuaded the FAA not to classify the anti-stall system as “safety critical,” meaning that many pilots did not even know of its existence before flying the Max.
In doing so, Boeing concealed from regulators internal test data showing that if a pilot took longer than 10 seconds to recognize that the system had kicked in erroneously, the consequences would be “catastrophic.”
The report also detailed how an alert, which would have warned pilots of a potential problem with one of their anti-stall sensors, was not working on the vast majority of the Max fleet. It found that Boeing deliberately concealed this fact from both pilots and regulators as it continued to roll out the new aircraft around the world.
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Who gives a shit if given ideal conditions, any pilot should have been able to recover?
Boeing hid material design flaws from pilots, passengers, and regulators. Those design flaws directly led to the death of hundreds of people.
Why are you chuckleheads spending so much effort to shit on the dead pilots and victims, when there is substantial, corroborated, and addressable wrongdoing by boeing? Who is still trying to rush the airframe through the same certification process that produced a deadly bird in the first place?
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6 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
Except in NY, which as we all know has outlawed virtually all holds and physical restraint methods....so spray them in the face, and unsuccessful, crack their skulls or knees as that is all that you are left with. You know...for their own good.
Oh I'll let Eric Garner know that they banned all the chokeholds - he'll be elated to know
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11 minutes ago, bernorange said:
If Main Street starts to see serious pain (and they might), I expect a 2008ish "gun to the head" meeting between JPow & Associates and Congress - the kind of discussion they had prior to TARP.
Main street HAS been seeing serious pain - unemployment and evictions are at historic highs. None of the record stock market highs seem to have trickled down yet for some reason...
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5 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:
is the JPow Feb brrrrrrrrrrrrt machine broken, or has all Fed stimulus ever already been priced into the market?
imagine relying on government handouts to make your profit margins, gotta love that free market capitalism
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13 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:
Why is nobody talking about Swammy? He was the most hilarious dunk on himself poster on TOS and briefly on this one. Sure he was annoying but also constantly unintentionally hilarious. Was crowdbanned here. I miss him.
Did we ever figure out who his new sock was?
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I mean it's not like Boeing had documented concerns from sim and test pilots on the issue or anything - it's just unreasonable to expect an aircraft designer to design inherently safe aircraft that don't require undocumented and band-aid fixes to get it good enough to squeak through cert, right?
The desperation to spread blame to the dead pilots just smacks of "both sides" bullshit. Boeing violated so many basics of ethical engineering that directly led to the death of hundreds of passengers. They put completing the project on time ahead of ensuring its safety, according to the test pilots and flight engineers that were told not to "rock the boat".
THAT is dangerous. THAT is what you should be more concerned about, rather than watering down their negligence and malfeasance.
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1 minute ago, Bobby_Batronic said:
Life’s short. Being a bitch is optional.
Both crews responded poorly on top of the sins of Boeing and the FAA. Responding in a manner consistent with uncommanded pitch procedures in the 737 fixes both situations whether they knew about the new system or not. Sorry that’s hard for some to understand.
Shit, even the lead engineers didn't know about the actual behavior of their system. Stop covering up for these negligent fuckers. The planes were behaving aberrant and non-aerodynamically due to the unmentioned MCAS system continuously inputting nose down - and Boeing engineers assumed that these pilots who were't made aware of the new MCAS would magically just handle it perfectly.
Quote“I had no knowledge that MCAS had a repeat function in it during the development,” Teal told investigators. “The technical leaders well below my level would have gone into that level of detail.”
Likewise, only “when it showed up in the press” later, did Teal learn that a warning light that was supposed to tell pilots if two angle of attack sensors disagreed wasn’t working on most MAXs, including the two that crashed — even though Boeing engineers had discovered this glitch in August 2017, more than a year before the first accident.
And Teal, who said he “signed off on the configuration of the airplane to include the MCAS function,” couldn’t recall any discussion of the decision to remove all mention of MCAS from the pilot flight manuals.
Leverkuhn also said he knew nothing of these key details about the flawed flight control system and said there was minimal focus on MCAS at his level.
“MCAS is a revision of a software in the flight control computers,” Leverkuhn said. “It really wasn’t considered, to my understanding, new or novel.”
Keep on blaming the deaths of hundreds on a """lack of basic airmanship""" and not negligent engineering. Shit, I'd bet you'd blame the astronauts and not Morton Thiokol too, huh?
This is basic engineering ethics 101. Fuck Boeing, and fuck anyone who carries their water on this issue. Blood is on their shareholders hands.
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14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:
You've read my opinion of that work then. I was not aware of the connection to Bannon though, so thanks for pointing that out.
I have and I'm glad that you have enough expertise to call bullshit, but that's exactly the mechanism used to disinform otherwise uninformed folks. It's laundering a legitimate looking finding through a legitimate looking academic to further a messaging agenda.
The academic in question, Dr. Yan Limeng, has already had her claims publicly denounced by the University of Hong Kong and appears to have lied about her first hand experience WRT covid. Dr. Yan has been spotted at Guo Wengui's villa in NY (the source on this is state chinese media, so big grain of salt, but it was published back in May) - the same Guo whose yacht Bannon was found on by USPS agents when they arrested him for felony fraud.
I'm calling tinfoil on myself because it all seems fantastical and like a movie, but given what we know about bannon's stance on the use of disinformation to push a narrative and our proximity to an election... This seems like genuine propaganda efforts on the part of Bannon and Guo.
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circling back on this - stop posting fucking propaganda and disinformation in these threads.