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-Blackadder- posted:No doubt all those R's that voted "Nay" have a good explanation for their decision. All the luck to them in fitting that explanation into a sound byte while they're getting drilled with "Republicans don't think you should be allowed to buy condoms", over and over in their midterm races. "States Rights". That's all they need to say for their chud base.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:It's weird seeing dems forcing republicans to actually vote on stuff That's not really new, though. A lot of good poo poo has passed the House and most of the Rs have always voted no on it.
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 19:53 |
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Hey, friends. Small programming note. I mostly took the mod position after turning it down several times to try and influence the direction of this thread a little more and not hand out probes. I can't change any of the rules in D&D, but I did get permission from the other mods to try a change in the enforcement policy of some of the D&D rules for this thread. I plan to have a light touch in modding. My goal is to reduce the number probes and reports from this thread and increase the amount of debate and discussion. I can't control every other mod or report, but most of them have read my suggestions and agreed to them. To that end, here's some of the changes I got the other mods to agree to and a short explanation of my thoughts behind them: - I'm going to keep the enforcement of "subjective" rule violations (such as "white noise" or "stale" posting) as low as humanly possible. I know one of the bigger complaints is that people feel like the "subjective" rules aren't applied evenly and I feel like giving leeway and warning on the subjective ones will help reduce that a little. It's much easier to be consistent when you lean towards promoting a discussion rather than trying for maximum enforcement. If someone just makes one "white noise" post and it isn't disrupting or derailing the thread, then just let them be. Try to hold your reports for people who are doing it frequently and/or making it hard for others to actually read or participate and don't report people for their opinions. - I'm going to try and just give people a heads up if they are breaking some of the minor rules instead of a probe. I noticed a few new people who came into the thread wanting to post links and discuss, but they didn't provide any context to the link. I asked them to please provide a short description and they did. But, I know some people get upset because they have been hit with a probe for doing that without a warning. I don't want any new people to feel turned off from posting if their first post gets hit. I also think that giving a public heads up will make expectations clear for everyone and keep the unfair enforcement or unexpected punishment issue down too. So far, the only person I have ever probed is myself and it would be great to keep it that way. I want to keep a lighter hand because it sucks for people to feel like they need to walk on eggshells or that moderating is capricious. This thread is supposed to be about keeping up with current events, learning about public policy, and comedy. Just be cool to each other, share some exciting or funny news, be factually accurate, and have fun. If anyone feels unwelcome for any reason, then feel free to PM me. I am a middle-aged person with a full-time job and partner, so I am not going to always respond immediately, but I will respond. And I know that Koos and the other mods are willing and able to respond to PMs. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Best of luck Leon, those sound like good first principles.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Hey, friends. Small programming note. Always found your posts informative and compelling, especially liked the recent revelations on crime data and the successful homeless initiative in Texas. Hope to see more!
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 20:48 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:It's weird seeing dems forcing republicans to actually vote on stuff They started doing that as soon as they took the house in 2019. By the 2020 election I forget how big the stack was of House bills Mitch wouldn't even put on the Senate calendar, even the ones that had bipartisan support in the House, but it was huge.
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 21:04 |
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The FCC made the announcement on this last week, but they finally issued the order today. This will dramatically tamp down the auto warranty spam calls, but they will likely reassemble at some point and have to get squashed again. Requiring carriers to manually block the ports will make it a lot more expensive and annoying for the spam callers, but VOIP is so cheap that it probably won't be a huge burden. The blessing and curse of VOIP and advancements in telecom technology mean they have eliminated the need for roaming charges and the huge costs of international calls, but it is dirt cheap to buy a block of hundreds of numbers from anywhere in the world and call people. The FCC says this is a first step and that they are unmasking all the callers and the fake numbers they bought to spoof local calls in order for carriers to block all of them. Carriers are also liable now if they let them slip through. This is a pretty big escalation (which is honestly not that hard, because the FCC has basically done nothing about it since 2018) from the last ~5 years. No word on when/if they are going after spam SMS or text messages, though. https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1550208487065636864
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 21:07 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The FCC made the announcement on this last week, but they finally issued the order today. Used to be you had to be knowledgeable enough to commit toll fraud to get away with something like this. Now RingCentral will throw whatever you want at you for a month as a "first hit's free" demo. SBC's in particular have almost single-handedly killed off OG toll fraud though.
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 21:19 |
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DHS just announced they have opened a criminal investigation into the Secret Service for "accidentally" deleting their text messages and backups from January 6th. They are also ordering the Secret Service to immediately stop their own internal review because of concerns that the Secret Service could end up getting rid of more evidence while they review. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1550196850157813761 quote:DHS inspector general opens criminal probe into deleted Secret Service texts
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 21:19 |
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For anyone curious, DHS IG is a trump appointee (from 2019) with a phd from a diploma mill but otherwise appears to be generally above board and has previous experience running high profile IG offices. He previously launched investigations into former DHS head Chad Wolf and other trumpists back when DHS was being used as Trump's personal security force. Appears to be relatively on the institutionalist end of the spectrum afaict?
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# ? Jul 21, 2022 21:37 |
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Since been deleted, but were looking at the Freudian Slip of the year. This was in response to a Jan 6 witness.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 02:05 |
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We are 5 minutes from fascism and the Republicans have detonated the GOP. It's going to be a civil war. This is a correction of historical fact by deep state Republicans. What I really mean is the trump GOP is so leakey of an organization and so desperate to court allies it has literally turned itself into a giant Jenga tower.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 03:36 |
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How in the HELL did we allow polio to come back? https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1550213297751920643?s=20&t=U6lIZDR-WMAfcMGlUx-L3g https://twitter.com/AP/status/1550181572724277251?s=20&t=U6lIZDR-WMAfcMGlUx-L3g Like the link above says, I thought we eradicated it back in 1979.
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Silly Burrito posted:How in the HELL did we allow polio to come back? Eradicated locally. We didn't eliminate it globally. People haven't been vaccinating for polio for a while if I recall correctly. Hopefully it doesn't become a thing again, but it seems unlikely.
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Silly Burrito posted:How in the HELL did we allow polio to come back? Read the article. Are Polio vaccines not kosher? WP posted:Polio is a very contagious, life-threatening viral disease that causes permanent paralysis in people who are not fully vaccinated in about 5 out of every 1,000 cases. Most of the U.S. population has protection against the disease because they were vaccinated during childhood. But in areas with low vaccination coverage, such as the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Rockland County, people who are not vaccinated are at high risk. There is no treatment for polio, but vaccination prevents the disease. Basically an unvaccinated Orthodox Jewish man traveled to Hungary and caught the virus from someone there who had taken an oral-Polio Vaccine, a type that is no longer used in the United States.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Eradicated locally. We didn't eliminate it globally. People haven't been vaccinating for polio for a while if I recall correctly. Hopefully it doesn't become a thing again, but it seems unlikely. I honestly thought it was eradicated globally back then. And after the last two years, anything is possible.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:Read the article. Are Polio vaccines not kosher?
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yeah it's eradicated in america, but worldwide there's pockets of anti-polio-vaccine people that use the same playbook as anti-covid-vaxx people here leading to small clusters of polio floating around where occasionally once in a while they show up in wastewater
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 05:37 |
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Eradicated locally. We didn't eliminate it globally. People haven't been vaccinating for polio for a while if I recall correctly. Hopefully it doesn't become a thing again, but it seems unlikely. I think you’re confusing smallpox and polio. Kids still get polio vaccinations as a matter of course.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 05:48 |
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Scuffy_1989 posted:Read the article. Are Polio vaccines not kosher? That's kinda ironic when you consider who first came up with the Polio Vaccine: [quote[The first effective polio vaccine was developed in 1952 by Jonas Salk and a team at the University of Pittsburgh that included Julius Youngner, Byron Bennett, L. James Lewis, and Lorraine Friedman, which required years of subsequent testing[/quote] Trivia, when the University of California, San Diego recruited Salk to join their research institute the president of the University had to deliver a "poo poo or get off the pot" to the leadership of La Jolla, which was restricted at the time (no Jews allowed to buy real estate). They relented.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 06:04 |
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Silly Burrito posted:How in the HELL did we allow polio to come back? Anti-Western sentiment is what stopped the UN short of its goal of eradicating polio by 2000. The conspiracy theory is that the polio vaccine is given to Muslims to make them infertile.
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Also the CIA used Hepitis-B medical teams as cover to find Osama bin Laden. They ran DNA tests on the used needles to make sure that his extended family was in a particular location. So people in Pakistan from the goverment on down are skeptical of vaccination drives as a cover up for something else the Western powers are plotting.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 07:49 |
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Actual video and audio recordings = heresay ... I mean heresy.
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I have to respect Fetterman's commitment to the bit on this one. Bill Pascrell - the Congressman who represents the North Jersey district where Dr. Oz's mansion and legal residence until late 2020 is located - has officially nominated Dr. Oz for a spot in the New Jersey Hall of Fame. The requirements to be nominated are: quote:Nominees must have a contribution in one of five categories: General, Enterprise, Sports, Arts & Entertainment, and Historical. With only rare exceptions, nominees must have resided in New Jersey for a period of at least five years. The New Jersey Hall of Fame appoints 100 people (20 experts from each category) to nominate inductees. Only those 100 people can nominate new candidates, and Bill Pascrell is one of the 100 experts nominated by the board, so Dr. Oz is actually officially nominated for the New Jersey Hall of Fame class of 2022. https://twitter.com/PascrellforNJ/status/1550228745113460738
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This is a great bit I still don’t understand why Oz wants to be a Senator of all things, at his age and after making hundreds of millions shilling for lovely diet pills
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is a great bit Ego. All for his ego. Same reason a dipshit like Trump would run for president.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 14:40 |
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Has anyone ever become a senator for good reasons? It seems unlikely.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 14:42 |
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I mean the dude's worth ~$100m. Access to the ultimate insider trading network seems like the easiest way to turn that into $300m.
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projecthalaxy posted:Has anyone ever become a senator for good reasons? It seems unlikely.
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Madkal posted:Ego. All for his ego. Same reason a dipshit like Trump would run for president.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 14:46 |
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projecthalaxy posted:Has anyone ever become a senator for good reasons? It seems unlikely. Few and far between. Off the top of my head for current senators, maybe Bernie Sanders?
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 14:54 |
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Oregon's senators are objectively great. Step it up, America.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 14:58 |
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Kalit posted:Few and far between. Off the top of my head for current senators, maybe Bernie Sanders? Harry Reid was good. Paul Simon from IL was good.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 14:59 |
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Oracle posted:Harry Reid was good. Paul Simon from IL was good. Are you talking about "good" Senators or people who became Senators for "good" reasons? You can argue Paul Simon was a good Senator, but the main reason he ended up a Senator is because he lost his campaign for Governor. Harry Reid ran for Congress (and then Senate) because people kept trying to kill him with car bombs when he was the Nevada Gaming Commissioner. I don't know if that is a "good" reason to become a Senator in a moral/philosophical sense, but it is definitely the best reason to become a Senator that I can think of.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Are you talking about "good" Senators or people who became Senators for "good" reasons? You can argue Paul Simon was a good Senator, but the main reason he ended up a Senator is because he lost his campaign for Governor. quote:Harry Reid ran for Congress (and then Senate) because people kept trying to kill him with car bombs when he was the Nevada Gaming Commissioner. I don't know if that is a "good" reason to become a Senator in a moral/philosophical sense, but it is definitely the best reason to become a Senator that I can think of.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Are you talking about "good" Senators or people who became Senators for "good" reasons? You can argue Paul Simon was a good Senator, but the main reason he ended up a Senator is because he lost his campaign for Governor. Yeah that's more what I meant. People talk about Dr. Oz becoming a senator for his Ego, or previously like Sinema to collect bribes or whatever, so I was wondering what the Good motive for becoming a senator is and if it's ever worked. Like maybe I'm just too cynical but it seems like someone who's like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington here to Fight for the Little Guy will both 1. be corrupted by the grind and backdoor deals needed to become senator and 2. not be allowed into the smoky rooms needed. Like I'd love to think like Fetterman is a good guy doing good things but who knows man.
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Kelly Loeffler pretty nakedly became a senator just so she could get insider trading info, and in fact got caught doing it. She never showed any interest in policy in any way, shape, or form. Never even showed an actual consistent personal or political identity other than "I like money". This probably describes most senators, but there are people like Fetterman who have an extremely focused interest in government policy. He's gone above and beyond to actually affect how government works in PA, particularly on the issue of prisoners' rights. The problem is that you get people like Sinema who kind of start out this way but then actually get into the Senate and find out how loving rich you can get off of it, so they shed that and become a ghoul instead. Xombie fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Star Man posted:Anti-Western sentiment is what stopped the UN short of its goal of eradicating polio by 2000. The conspiracy theory is that the polio vaccine is given to Muslims to make them infertile. I mean, wasn't that around the time when that was literally happening? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2013-01-27/ty-article/.premium/ethiopians-fooled-into-birth-control/0000017f-f512-d044-adff-f7fb92c30000 It's less of a conspiracy theory when that was the lived experiences of a group of people in the region.
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DeathSandwich posted:I mean, wasn't that around the time when that was literally happening? It wouldn't surprise me. I only knew about the side of it with polio, but I would not out it past Israel to be sterilizing women at the same time they were getting vaccinated for polio.
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DeathSandwich posted:I mean, wasn't that around the time when that was literally happening? Yes. Anti-western sentiment is an uncharitable way to describe people who are reasonably worried because Western organizations have used vaccines as a cover multiple times for covert operations.
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