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My Spirit Otter posted:i thought that was only a condition to get whoever the last guy was in place after a thousand votes Oh, I thought that was a rule for this entire session of congress. I don't know the rules.
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As of three days ago,https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-motion-to-vacate-threshold-change/ posted:Washington — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he wouldn't back a change to the rule that allows a single member to force a vote on whether to oust the speaker, even though he said the threshold "has harmed this office" and the Republican majority.
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goddamn, thats incredibly stupid. imagine being able to change the rule, but not doing it. but by not doing it, you have a chance of being known as the guy who lost his job because of marjorie taylor greene. if she ever learned how to write a bill.... or write
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My Spirit Otter posted:goddamn, thats incredibly stupid. He might expect the Democrats to save him, and they may want to.
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My Spirit Otter posted:goddamn, thats incredibly stupid. That’s a feature - Republicans choose their speaker by picking whoever said “not it” last.
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OddObserver posted:He might expect the Democrats to save him, and they may want to. Government is funded. Ukraine Aid passed. Why save him now, especially since a misstep and missing members could elect a democratic speaker?
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Flikken posted:Government is funded. Government is only funded until September.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Government is only funded until September. thats the longest your government has been funded in years
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I'd be pretty OK with dems screwing Johnson like that and making the entire party eat poo poo a month or two before elections. What're Republicans going to do, hate them and scream on Fox about dems playing politics? That'd be a slow day at the office for right wing media.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Government is only funded until September. Eh we would have 4-5 months to figure it out. Increasing the chances of the house flipping.
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Flikken posted:Government is funded. You have a member of the opposing party who needs you, in a house leadership position, and who can be used to drive a more complete wedge between his coalition and the fringe right. If the Dems can't make lemonade out of Speaker Johnson's situation they should retire from governance
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Flikken posted:Government is funded. 
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Best political move would probably be to prop him up until just before the elections and then let it all fall apart to remind everyone how bad Republicans are at governing.
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Is today the deadline for Trump to potentially eat poo poo on the $175M bond he put up?
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CBJSprague24 posted:Is today the deadline for Trump to potentially eat poo poo on the $175M bond he put up? There's a hearing on it today, yes. They'll likely toss the knight bond and give him another 10 days to either put the $175m he claims was backing the bond into the court register or an actual proper bond.
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And here's NY's theory of the case against Donnie: https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1782417150113694145?t=XIfTbhb-ef_bcxKwj09O7g&s=19 https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1782418766388695493?t=sfBsNpwLjyG-Po4pvRzvOQ&s=19 The election corruption thing is the uncharged felony that scales up the misdemeanors.
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In the last week, several major institutions in the liberal education space have carried out aggressive crackdowns against student, pro-Palestine protesters, with Columbia standing out for its ham-handedness. Citing public safety concerns and alleged incidents of antisemitism, the president of the University directed the NYPD to raid the peaceful protest encampment, suspended all arrested students, and expelled them from campus housing. Over the weekend, everyone, including faculty, was barred from campus and, today, all classes were shifted to virtual. Will be interesting to see if things peter out or if the admin has just inflamed things further. Either way, a terrible look for these universities.
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Mr. Nice! posted:There's a hearing on it today, yes. They'll likely toss the knight bond and give him another 10 days to either put the $175m he claims was backing the bond into the court register or an actual proper bond. This one's now over: https://twitter.com/rscharf_/status/1782431758983504102?t=_WmiLKRO7oC8cC8I9aS_VQ&s=19 Knight being in control of Donnie's money now made the AG happy enough. Makes way more sense now as an arrangement instead of just Donnie keeping full access and going "yep, I still got it" if Knight can't pay. Cugel the Clever posted:Will be interesting to see if things peter out or if the admin has just inflamed things further. Either way, a terrible look for these universities. From what I gather, the Columbia situation is especially full of dipshittery as the nutbag wing of the pro-palestinians that showed up over the weekend weren't even students. So now Columbia is lumping in peaceful student protestors with borderline-harassment types. The admin definitely inflamed things further - tent city would've petered out. Now there's comedy like this: https://twitter.com/LyleGriggs/status/1782365796246696294?t=PwFG7BSJJklo1NQ2MSmolg&s=19
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A university using their own transportation to cart students off to jail is great optics
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If my university did this it would have a full on revolt on its hand. Like, flaming pitchforks coated in whatever nasty poo poo the chemistry institutes could cook up.
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Antigravitas posted:If my university did this it would have a full on revolt on its hand. Like, flaming pitchforks coated in whatever nasty poo poo the chemistry institutes could cook up. The arrests, or having Jewish students face "go back to Poland" chants?
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Antigravitas posted:Playing cops. Dunno about Columbia (or Yale, I guess), but some US universitys' police departments are on paper actual cops that have undergone whatever appropriate procedures that entails (except they often end up deferring to real cops for things more serious than drunken hujinks anyway).
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OddObserver posted:Dunno about Columbia (or Yale, I guess), but some US universitys' police departments are on paper actual cops that have undergone whatever appropriate procedures that entails (except they often end up deferring to real cops for things more serious than drunken hujinks anyway). This is the case at every US state school I have been or worked at, idk about private schools except that MIT cops were trained police.
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The last time universities played cops in Germany… well, 
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That Works posted:This is the case at every US state school I have been or worked at, idk about private schools except that MIT cops were trained police. My private university also had real police department with real police.
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Same with both NC universities I attended (both part of the UNC system). How else do you think the UNC system would hide all the actual dumb/criminal poo poo that happens on their campuses? 
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Tiny Timbs posted:A university using their own transportation to cart students off to jail is great optics The man they honor smiles from Hell. 
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Voyager I died in November. NASA undied Voyager I today. https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1782454277895749857?t=PVxZerHHYBlTAamDhoE8wA&s=19 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth They figured out an onboard flight data subsystem memory chip died, but the craft was otherwise fine. So they shot it a message to perform that chip's functions on other chips and the craft woke up.
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facialimpediment posted:Voyager I died in November. NASA undied Voyager I today. That's incredible
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NASA engineers are wizards and I will not hear otherwise.
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That sounds like the techno-necromancers from alpha centauri poo poo.
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McNally posted:NASA engineers are wizards and I will not hear otherwise. 17776 is a documentary
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Spacecraft and payload design is pretty remarkable. Some real "this apple is now an orange" stuff goes on as components wear out and get blasted by charged particles.
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Flikken posted:Fund NASA!
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The story of how the Galileo spacecraft was fixed is pretty cool. Galileo used magnetic tape for data storage. The tape position was controlled in part by an encoder wheel, with LEDs picked up by phototransistors.   During a close encounter with Jupiter’s fifth satellite, Amalthea, the spacecraft was subjected to intense bombardment of protons and electrons. This radiation changed the structure of the LEDs. The most dramatic example of crystal displacement under hard radiation is the Windscale fire, which you may have heard of before. In this case, rather than storing ungodly amounts of energy that let loose and caused a reactor fire, the effect was that the diodes no longer emitted light that could be picked up by the phototransistors on the other side of the encoder wheel. Thanks to prior work on the behavior of semiconductor devices in the space environment, this was sussed out and modelled on Earth. The solution turns out to be annealing the LEDs by passing current through them for long periods of time. The movement of electrons and the heating it causes both act to change the structure back into something that functions to emit light. Eventually the images of Amalthea were read from the tape and beamed to Earth. Here are a couple of them that function as a stereographic pair, like a “magic eye” image for parallel viewing. 
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facialimpediment posted:Voyager I died in November. NASA undied Voyager I today. That's so loving dope.
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