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So here's the problem with how Pelosi is handling this:

I cannot imagine a worse way for her to actually handle this shit. There are a dozen different ways to slow play impeachment and still say "this is worthy of impeachment" and she can't do it. 

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I fucking love this President. My 2 faves during my lifetime are Trump and Nixon. They share a lot of similarities and were besieged by the same groups of assholes. No I’m not trolling. Y’all, the lef

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This.....is magnificent. The "younger generation" is going to have to work double-time to fund YOUR Social Security, which YOUR generation of elected officials raided the fuck out of.  And which,

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Just now, SimonBolivar said:

She's scared to lose in 2020 simple as that. Her advisers and number crunchers have said impeachment is viewed unfavorably. This isn't about what's good for the country or about what's right it's about what is good for Team D.

I agree, but it can be good for both if played correctly.  I still say start impeachment inquiry, draw it out with public and private hearings over the next year and a half, right up until before the election, then impeach, and don't allow Senate enough time to acquit.  Done and done.

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2 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

This is why I laugh when anyone thinks Mayor Pete will ever even have a chance in this election, even as a VP candidate.  If you think pushback against a black president brought out the worst, wait until the homophobes get started.  

There is an absolute overlap between the two groups, but which group of Americans do you think is larger: racists, or homophobes? I think it is the former. Of course, the latter is probably more open and vocal about their shitbag views.  

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So no need to say anything more than our President is a liar and a felon (unindicted co-conspirator).  And we wonder how so many people we thought were principled embrace Trump despite the clear truth of his wrong doings.  We honestly thought our friends on the R side of the aisle had some degree of non-hypocrisy in their prior criticisms of Obama's Presidency.  NOT ONE OF THEIR PRIOR CRITICISMS was based on principles... it was and is always politics for the GOP. 

I used to honestly believe that the vast Majority of the GOP would put the country first.  Clearly from a budget, debt, legislative, moral, and principled point of view this is simply not the case.

 

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1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

Okay all you doctors or medical professionals - what could be causing his tiny paws to be so gross and cracked out?

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Hopefully nothing life threatening.

My medical training tells me that is a clear case of vaginitis 

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Trump was bragging this morning about how the tariffs on China have ruined them. People fleeing the country, etc. Then about 30 seconds later he was saying how great it is that we have a good relationship with China now. 

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Trump was bragging this morning about how the tariffs on China have ruined them. People fleeing the country, etc. Then about 30 seconds later he was saying how great it is that we have a good relationship with China now. 

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The strategy as always is to use good words to make himself look good and to use bad words to make enemies look bad. 

Truth, intellect, and reflection don't enter into the equation. Truth is the cheeseburger scarfing slob in the poorly tailored suit. Oh, wait, I mean the 239 lb medical marvel of perfect health. 

 

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As good a place as any.

\https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/30/twitter-hurting-intelligence-not-smart-study

 

Twitter is eroding your intelligence. Now there’s data to prove it.

 
 

Twitter, used by 126 million people daily and now ubiquitous in some industries, has vowed to reform itself after being enlisted as a tool of misinformation and hate.

But new evidence shows that the platform may be inflicting harm at an even more basic level. It could be making its users, well, a bit witless.

The finding by a team of Italian researchers is not necessarily that the crush of hashtags, likes and retweets destroys brain cells; that’s a question for neuroscientists, they said.

Rather, the economists, in a working paper published this month by the economics and finance department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, found that Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it.

“It’s quite detrimental,” Gian Paolo Barbetta, a professor of economic policy at the private research university and the paper’s lead author, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I can’t say whether something is changing in the mind, but I can say that something is definitely changing in the behavior and the performance.”

 
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To the best of Barbetta’s knowledge, his study is the largest and most rigorous examination of Twitter’s effect on student achievement, with applications to learning and information retention in other areas of life.

The investigation drew on a sample of roughly 1,500 students attending 70 Italian high schools during the 2016-2017 academic year. Half of the students used Twitter to analyze “The Late Mattia Pascal,” the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction. They posted quotes and their own reflections, commenting on tweets written by their classmates. Teachers weighed in to stimulate the online discussion.

The other half relied on traditional classroom teaching methods. Performance was assessed based on a test measuring understanding, comprehension and memorization of the book.

Using Twitter reduced performance on the test by about 25 to 40 percent of a standard deviation from the average result, as the paper explains. Jeff Hancock, the founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, described these as “pretty big effects.”

Notably, the decline was sharpest among higher-achieving students, including women, those born in Italy and those who had scored higher on a baseline test. This finding, the paper notes, bolsters the conclusion that blogs and social networking sites actively impair performance, rather than simply failing to augment learning.

A spokeswoman for Twitter declined to comment on the study. The company does not purport to make its users smarter. But its mission statement sets forth goals not so different from those of a literature course — “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers.” And in describing the platform as a “digital public square,” Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, appeared to embrace civic and social aspirations, saying last year that the standard to which the company should be held is “building a systemic framework to help encourage more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking.”

Barbetta said more results were necessary to draw definitive conclusions about the “possible negative effects” of Twitter on learning. “As results accumulate, we definitely should be more wary about how we use social platforms,” he said.

The study focused narrowly on high school literature students. But that approach gave the researchers access to a large sample, as several hundred Italian schools had already adopted a framework for Twitter-based conversations about literary masterpieces, called “TwLetteratura.” The method also allowed them to avoid problems plaguing past studies, some of which allowed participants to opt in to social networking, skewing the data toward those with an aptitude or particular interest in online engagement.

The relevance of literature and reading comprehension to evaluations of digital communication was underscored on Wednesday, when special counsel Robert S. Mueller III seemed to enjoin the nation to heed the warnings in his 448-page report — in other words, to do the reading instead of consuming sound bites on social media.

[As he exits, Mueller suggests only Congress can ‘formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing’]

Karen North, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said the study had stark implications for politics, adding that its findings were hardly surprising.

“It’s the same problem that we have with the level of political discussion,” said North, who previously worked on science and technology policy in Washington, both in the White House and on Capitol Hill. “People get 280 characters, and it’s not enough. Without the full background, you’re more likely to be led astray.”

Recent analysis has suggested that broad swaths of the electorate are not as engaged online as is an especially vocal cohort of digital aficionados. Still, Twitter, which is President Trump’s preferred medium of communication, has cemented its place in the political ecosystem, and its role is only likely to expand in advance of the 2020 election. Twitter is where candidates go to issue announcements and respond instantly to news developments. It’s also where pundits react in real time.

But the platform doesn’t lend itself to explanation or in-depth analysis, North said. “Remember when we were debating whether people have the attention span to consume 280 characters, instead of just 140?” she recalled.

Although social media shouldn’t be dismissed as a learning tool, more thought is required to determine the strengths of different technologies and their proper audience, she said. Above all, the communications professor emphasized, platforms like Twitter should not replace more traditional methods of engagement, especially in grappling with complex topics — whether that means a presidential election or the plot of “The Late Mattia Pascal.”

The problem, said Barbetta, is that people will take a shortcut if it’s given to them.

“But a shortcut won’t take you to the destination in this case,” he added. “It will take you somewhere different.”

As the study indicates, Twitter is the ultimate shortcut. Barbetta suggested that declining performance among students who had used the social networking site to study the novel was a result of two factors. The first was a mistaken belief on the part of students that they had absorbed the book by circulating tweets about its contents. The second was that time spent on social media simply replaced time spent actually poring over the book.

The study contributes to growing skepticism that human activities — and learning, specifically — can be transferred to cyberspace without a cost. For instance, analysis has found that screen-based reading lends itself to skimming. In a 2016 study, it was discovered that test scores were lower among American undergraduates assigned to classrooms where computers were allowed than among those required to resort to pen and paper.

In the case of Twitter and Italian literature, the initial assumption of the study turned out to be faulty. “We thought we were testing a positive intervention,” Barbetta said.

Among some researchers, the urgent question is now whether social media — once embraced uncritically — is a net positive, indeed whether it is capable of accurately reflecting reality.

It’s a problem once captured by Luigi Pirandello, the author of the literary text used in the Italian study.

"There is someone who is living my life,'' the Nobel laureate wrote in a diary entry in 1934. “And I know nothing about him.”

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Rick Fucking Perry Ladies and Gentlemen

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-department-molecules-freedom-fossil-fuel-rebranding

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'

Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’

 

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Rick Fucking Perry Ladies and Gentlemen

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-department-molecules-freedom-fossil-fuel-rebranding

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'

Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’

 

Jesus fucking Christ.  We deserve the meteor that will eventually clean us off the planet.  Maybe the next intelligent species to evolve will be better. 

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2 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

Jesus fucking Christ.  We deserve the meteor that will eventually clean us off the planet.  Maybe the next intelligent species to evolve will be better. 

I saw the term "applied misanthropy" the other day and have chosen to adopt it for my own.

 

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6 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

Jesus fucking Christ.  We deserve the meteor that will eventually clean us off the planet.  Maybe the next intelligent species to evolve will be better. 

Will there be another race

To come along and take over for us

Maybe Martians could do 

Better than we've done

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:

Trump was bragging this morning about how the tariffs on China have ruined them. People fleeing the country, etc. Then about 30 seconds later he was saying how great it is that we have a good relationship with China now. 

That sounds like dementia to me.

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2 hours ago, Red Five said:

Trump was bragging this morning about how the tariffs on China have ruined them. People fleeing the country, etc. Then about 30 seconds later he was saying how great it is that we have a good relationship with China now. 

So he's inforcing a tariff in an attempt to curtail people fleeing Mexico, yet he's bragging on how the tariffs against China are destroying the infrastructure of said country causing their residents to flee? His nex book is going to be amazing. 

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Rick Fucking Perry Ladies and Gentlemen

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/29/energy-department-molecules-freedom-fossil-fuel-rebranding

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as 'molecules of freedom'

Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’

 

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