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Tiny Timbs posted:Boot him out of the loving party. Sick of this big tent bullshit. Biden's folks are too: https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1472615926948376584?t=XPN8PlHIA-0fqQ96Sr7X8w&s=19 Comrade Blyatlov posted:From here: I agree, that area is also dramatically younger than the United States as well. But the news isn't all bad and I just don't see this adding up to an equivalent of a self shelter-in-place. Get your vaccine doses, wear good masks in indoor public spaces, at-home test (if you can) before any Christmas unmasked family stuff, don't have huge unmasked gatherings, and generally don't be stupid.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Ban this sick filth Bigfoot is real, even if only in our hearts. You would definitely want a chariot's worth of large dogs in some parts here. Lots of coyotes out here.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Boot him out of the loving party. Sick of this big tent bullshit. manchin is a piece of poo poo but without him, biden gets zero appointees through the senate for the next 3 years, including any and all federal judges manchin is the most powerful person in washington and he knows it
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pmchem posted:manchin is a piece of poo poo but without him, biden gets zero appointees through the senate for the next 3 years, including any and all federal judges I don't care anymore. This constant excuse and inaction because of federal appointments has demolished the party's platform and its ability to legislate. Time to eat the short term pain and recreate the party without him.
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Tiny Timbs posted:I don't care anymore. This constant excuse and inaction because of federal appointments has demolished the party's platform and its ability to legislate. Time to eat the short term pain and recreate the party without him. Yeah..."the party" (meaning everyone who needs to vote together to beat the GOP) is about a dozen kids who hate each other stuffed into a trench coat. There is no "the party." It's the GOP vs everyone else, but everyone else is also against each other and several are willing to let the GOP win to spite one another.
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What are the odds of dems courting a retiring republican to snag a vote? There are a few who have definitely said they're leaving, the couple that haven't been swallowed by tumrp fever. Or am I mostly thinking of the house?
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Dems voters deciding to vote Dem no matter what is what enables the party to not actually stand for anything. When a vote is guaranteed, the voter preferences behind that vote are irrelevant. That said I think Dem leadership would choose to kill the party rather than go left even if there were votes in going left, like what happened to UK labour. But Dems saying you have to vote Dem no matter what while also saying manchin is a Dem in good standing are not doing their party any favors. You can't have a real political party that believes in nothing besides restarting student loan payments and a bipartisan highway bill.
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It doesn't matter who's in the room, if you need 50 people to say yes then the only real power is being held by the final person to say yes. In this case that final person has no real incentive to say yes in the first place - he gets the same amount of money from the coal industry either way and his state is basically asleep at the wheel so he'll keep getting reelected until he rots in that chair. Sure he's a cynical opportunist with no interest in actually helping or improving anything and every interest in maintaining the status quo so he maintains his quality of life, but there's no punchline
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:What are the odds of dems courting a retiring republican to snag a vote? You can lead an elephant to water but you can't make them jeopardize their board seats.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Hey his great ancestors worked really really hard…to be able to own other Americans. How can you let Biden destroy this proud southern heritage of a cousin fucker? This take on West Virginia history is hilariously wrong. Edit: I really should elaborate so I'm not just dropping a take and moving along. West Virginia split way from Virginia over the issue of secession and upon becoming a state outlawed slavery in its state constitution. McNally fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Lol there is a reason there are two Virginias and only one fought for the south.
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That said, there's a comically large Confederate flag out along Rt 48 that is similarly incongruous with West Virginia's founding.
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https://twitter.com/Sega__JEANAsis/status/1472198123506257937 Apple leaning hard into the "tools for stalkers" market. Fortunately, your iPhone will alert you if it detects an unknown tag moving with you! So they've clearly considered the possibility, but decided that only iPhone users have the privilege of not getting stalked and murdered.
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McNally posted:This take on West Virginia history is hilariously wrong. No, I’m quite aware of that, but it’s not a totally clear cut case (in regards to the end of slavery in the state). quote:The West Virginia Constitution of 1863 left in lifetime slavery all of the enslaved people in western Virginia who were then older than twenty-five. But when the West Virginia legislature ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 3, 1865, it also passed a bill immediately abolishing slavery in the state. Similarly the last slaves in New Jersey weren’t freed until the 13th amendment took affect. That said I am very happy to see the amount of people who like being out in the woods and also Bigfoot. It’s all very good and awesome. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Apple leaning hard into the "tools for stalkers" market. Fortunately, your iPhone will alert you if it detects an unknown tag moving with you! So they've clearly considered the possibility, but decided that only iPhone users have the privilege of not getting stalked and murdered. Android gets it too, but it's not automatic: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/13/apple-releases-airtag-tracker-detect-app-for-android
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://twitter.com/Sega__JEANAsis/status/1472198123506257937 There have been some posts on car blogs about this being a thing for thieves to tag targets. e: fixed a hilariously embarrassing typo from which I will never recover my posting persona. e2: example: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2021/12/apple-airtag-allegedly-hot-new-tool-for-car-thieves/ davecrazy fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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victorious posted:Android gets it too, but it's not automatic: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/13/apple-releases-airtag-tracker-detect-app-for-android I thought to myself that's an expensive way to track but for some reason stalker tech doesn't get the requisite 50$ apple mark up This is cheaper than anything I could throw together DIY.
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davecrazy posted:There have been some posts on car blogs about this being a thing for thrives to tag targets. "thrives"?
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In a reverse use case, there's a market for people now using them on older cars as essentially a cheap lojack alternative.
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Madurai posted:"thrives"? Thieves, I think.
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Defenestrategy posted:I thought to myself that's an expensive way to track but for some reason stalker tech doesn't get the requisite 50$ apple mark up I mean it can automatically reach out to 50% of all cell phones and update the user in real time thanks to the privacy too!
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Defenestrategy posted:I thought to myself that's an expensive way to track but for some reason stalker tech doesn't get the requisite 50$ apple mark up It doesn't even need to know its position, just its position relative to other Apple devices. Something to sense position, something to talk to Apple network, and power. Porbably costs less than $2 to make. If you had access to their network that's easy, otherwise you would have to find some way to talk to it but can easily do that off the shelf under $10.
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lightpole posted:It doesn't even need to know its position, just its position relative to other Apple devices. Something to sense position, something to talk to Apple network, and power. Porbably costs less than $2 to make. If you had access to their network that's easy, otherwise you would have to find some way to talk to it but can easily do that off the shelf under $10. I mean that's how much apple could do it for at the end of the day, but DIY you're looking at an arduino board, a GPS module, a gsm module and something to power it. The board and modules alone are gonna run you 30-40$.
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Youre going to offload almost everything to Apple devices so it doesn't actually need most of that. Most arduinos have way more of everything than you actually need anyways. If you designed the board yourself it would be even cheaper since you can cut out all the redundant/extraneous stuff but getting a single board made would be expensive I think. Oh, you would just use a breadboard I'm dumb.
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Untagged posted:In a reverse use case, there's a market for people now using them on older cars as essentially a cheap lojack alternative. Well yeah, why pay a subscription for lojack or onstar when you can track your stolen car and have the cops tell you that they DGAF for only a one time payment.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Well yeah, why pay a subscription for lojack or onstar when you can track your stolen car and have the cops tell you that they DGAF for only a one time payment. I guess it would be to just have a tow truck snag it.
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Additional good poo poo https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1472698108551254025
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Wingnut Ninja posted:https://twitter.com/Sega__JEANAsis/status/1472198123506257937 What a lovely world in general but man that it's even worse if you're a woman
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Milo and POTUS posted:What a lovely world in general but man that it's even worse if you're a woman I've thought for a while that there were two gigantic macro miscalculations that have really kept things on the hosed trajectory. The first was the concept that throwing American corporate money/capitalism/culture at China would somehow make more China more liberal (woops turns out Americans liked Chinese money and dgaf all the bad poo poo). The second was that technological improvements in communications would be a net benefit (woops, turns out they're just a new set of tools for bad people to project their badness).
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facialimpediment posted:I've thought for a while that there were two gigantic macro miscalculations that have really kept things on the hosed trajectory. The first was the concept that throwing American corporate money/capitalism/culture at China would somehow make more China more liberal (woops turns out Americans liked Chinese money and dgaf all the bad poo poo). The second was that technological improvements in communications would be a net benefit (woops, turns out they're just a new set of tools for bad people to project their badness). Money from the US (and EU) got thrown at China because we needed a cheapo manufacturing base, this was post Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan (and now Vietnam is the new factory base) depending on what era you're talking about in the last 50 years. It'll be my relatives in Africa next until we run out of spaces for the cheapo factories. The second bit, just from observation, you can't do anything about another culture and thinking it's wrong, (and thinking you understand the nuances of it is arrogant as hell), but if you want to give someone from the other place an out - open your borders to them, make them at home. Only way to win. Nobody does anymore because a shitload of people around the world have hit comfort level. Shame about the climate catastrophe.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/chile-far-right-candidate-jose-antonio-kast-win-presidencyquote:Kast, whose Germany-born father was recently revealed to have been a member of the Nazi party... https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/americas/chile-election-gabriel-boric-intl-nk/index.html quote:Leftist and former student leader Gabriel Boric, 35, will become Chile's youngest President since its return to democracy in 1990, after he won a presidential runoff election on Sunday.... When confronted with a Pinochet supporter who is literally the son of a Nazi who escaped to South America, the liberals of Chile actually threw their weight behind the leftists, and as a result the fascist lost.
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golden bubble posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/chile-far-right-candidate-jose-antonio-kast-win-presidency Less snarky: awesome! Don't know a drat thing about the new guy but getting a proper socialist in office is a huge win (as is keeping fascists out of power). Cugel the Clever fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Looks like Christmas has been ruined for 4 UK Special Forces - 2 captains and 2 warrant officers are being courtmartialed for pocketing the £20k proceeds from scrapping all the used brass after a big exercise in America. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10327409/Four-Special-Forces-officers-face-trial-allegations-pocketed-20k-selling-spent-ammo.html
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https://twitter.com/moderna_tx/status/1472869857209327617 This is good news and the increase in dose could be implemented quickly. FDA needs to stamp this one because it would be a material change to the EUA, unlike the last few tweaks to booster policy that have involved only CDC. It’s a shame that so few people have gotten boosters, but the good news on that front is that they take effect quickly, starting to diverge from the no-boost cohort at one week and are more or less in full effect after the second. It’s not like the agonizing wait of four weeks for the second dose and an additional two weeks after that that we had with the primary series.
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^ What would this mean for those who've already gotten a half-dose booster? Would getting another half-dose booster be equivalent to having gotten a full-dose one in the first place? Is it likely we'll even be officially eligible to receive a second half-dose booster in the near future? [edit] vvv thank you! idempodunk fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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idempodunk posted:^ What would this mean for those who've already gotten a half-dose booster? Would getting another half-dose booster be equivalent to having gotten a full-dose one in the first place? Is it likely we'll even be officially eligible to receive a second half-dose booster in the near future? Your/my half-dose booster is fine and it doesn't look like in the press release that they're shooting to amend their booster to be a full dose. It's mostly research about half/full doses. And antibodies aren't the end-all be-all of infection protection anyways. The bottom line is that the Moderna booster works, as it produces the right omicron-fighting antibodies. A full dose is "better" on antibody numbers, but there's no magic infection-precenting number to begin with. From the press release, by the time you're up for needing another booster, there *could* be an omnicron-specific booster for you, rather than just the generic, so just hang tight, you're fine. This isn't a case where you should be too concerned about it because Pfizer/Moderna make the right antibodies. People (the world) that got AstraZenica/Sinovax have more justification to be concerned: https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1472749977797632002?t=cZ5tnOnpWiFZTiso_VJhEg&s=19 Big note though: those vaccines don't make the right antibodies, but there's plenty of positive spillover effect (per Fauci) in the T-cell areas, so it helps to keep people out of the hospital still.
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