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Gumball Gumption posted:I have horrible news about Alzheimer's and your ability to follow directions. that's why her staff is with her on votes. as far as I am aware she's never oopsied a vote, though she's expounded at length in an interview on a position and then immediately reversed it in writing when her staff managed to separate her from reporters multiple times
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evilweasel posted:i mean, at the end of the day i would rather have feinstein as my senator than whoever the last republican who ran was. the thing about legislators is they really only need to do what they're told to be pretty good. It's not really a choice of Feinstein or Republican, though. People have been trying to gently push her out for at least 4 years. But, she just gets even more resistant to resigning when people try to push her out. Voters could have supported a primary candidate/a different candidate in the jungle primary system. Last time it was Kevin De Leon who turned out to be... not a great person. The problem is that she is lucid enough more than half of the time, so when you call her out, then she can answer questions every once in a while and isn't just senile 24/7 and nobody is going to push it. Plus, nobody wants to publicly bully out the longest-serving female Senator who still has support from a lot of other women. But, it is a weird scenario where everyone is trying to get her to resign, she won't, and then everyone just kind of throws their hands up. She probably should have just gone out on a high note and not run for re-election in 2018, but that obviously is not something that can be changed now.
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Judgy Fucker posted:“Oh, it’s so nice. She curls up around you,” Feinstein said. “The best.” I mean... she's not wrong here.
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Dec 13, 2022 20:33
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evilweasel posted:that's why her staff is with her on votes. Still seems like a thing that should be fixed though. I really doubt Senator is such an easy job that you are 100% fulfilling all your duties if you need staff with you to make sure you remember how to vote because you have Alzheimers. It can't both be one of the most important roles in government and something that can reasonably be done by someone who is actively losing cognitive function.
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Being a Senator is also more than just pressing the vote button. California has 50% of their Senators unable to work for them to advocate for appropriations and amendments for their people, advocate for Californians for judicial nominations, push Californians for executive jobs, etc. Maybe it would be better if everyone just followed and pushed a button, so we could just do national planning instead of every state fighting for appropriation for themselves, but we don't live in that world, so California is being hampered by having someone who just shows up to press the button and ask a few questions at hearings.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Still seems like a thing that should be fixed though. I really doubt Senator is such an easy job that you are 100% fulfilling all your duties if you need staff with you to make sure you remember how to vote because you have Alzheimers. It can't both be one of the most important roles in government and something that can reasonably be done by someone who is actively losing cognitive function. i mean, if i were in california, i would absolutely be voting for any other democratic candidate in the jungle primary and, assuming the general was d v. feinstein, vote for the other one (within reason). but at the end of the day, voters are allowed to make really stupid choices so the only real fix is: communicate the issue clearly to voters and argue that five good terms deserves a rest. it might not work any better than the slogan that three good terms deserves a rest, but ultimately that's up to the voters. there's not really a better way to solve it. the only real "fix" is to end the culture that reporters don't report on when senators are senile, so voters have that information.
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for example i imagine many of strom thurmond's constituents that voted for him valued sending a known virulent segregationist to the senate above having a senator that still had their wits about them
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Gumball Gumption posted:Still seems like a thing that should be fixed though. I really doubt Senator is such an easy job that you are 100% fulfilling all your duties if you need staff with you to make sure you remember how to vote because you have Alzheimers. It can't both be one of the most important roles in government and something that can reasonably be done by someone who is actively losing cognitive function. Usually your staff tells you what votes are coming up and recommends what your votes should be. Usually written in memorandum.
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evilweasel posted:for example i imagine many of strom thurmond's constituents that voted for him valued sending a known virulent segregationist to the senate above having a senator that still had their wits about them Going to go out on a limb here and say it was probably more complicated than that because of course it was. Lots of different things are coming together to decide who ends up in office, even before the votes happen since there is a lot of soft process going on before you know who the viable candidates are.
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Apple just surrendered to the U.S. DOJ, Epic Games, and E.U. and gave up their nearly decade-long legal fight to require all apps on the iPhone go through the app store and banning installing your own apps.quote:Apple is reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23507766/apple-app-store-eu-dma-third-party-sideloading
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Apple just surrendered to the U.S. DOJ, Epic Games, and E.U. and gave up their nearly decade-long legal fight to require all apps on the iPhone go through the app store and banning installing your own apps. If apple does this I might actually buy an iphone.
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Apple is probably going to find a way to make using such apps worse than using first-party app store apps
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I wonder how many people actually install third party stores on Android (not counting devices that weren't using Google's store to start with) --- it's quite possible this concession won't actually make much of a difference...
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haveblue posted:Apple is probably going to find a way to make using such apps worse than using first-party app store apps Probably turn their installation into a nightmare. Sideloading requiring you to delete all your current apps, or something like that.
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OddObserver posted:I wonder how many people actually install third party stores on Android (not counting devices that weren't using Google's store to start with) --- it's quite possible this concession won't actually make much of a difference... some manufacturers (such as Samsung) have their own stores which are loaded on their phones in addition to the Google Play store, but I don't know how prevalent that is or if that even still goes on.
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Meatball posted:Probably turn their installation into a nightmare. Sideloading requiring you to delete all your current apps, or something like that. Due to security precautions, third-party apps are not permitted to access the camera, microphone, speaker, headphones, GPS, secure enclave, NFC transmitter, Lightning port, flash storage, Bluetooth, Wifi, cellular, touchscreen, or CPU
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haveblue posted:Due to security precautions, third-party apps are not permitted to access the camera, microphone, speaker, headphones, GPS, secure enclave, NFC transmitter, Lightning port, flash storage, Bluetooth, Wifi, cellular, touchscreen, or CPU Also you must pay full price for your next iPhone up front
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There's a local story here where a big time 50 year old GOP donor with huge connections to Desantis was under criminal investigation and shot himself https://www.firstcoastnews.com/arti...5e-2cae05d92f2a quote:JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Politically well connected mega-donor and businessman Kent Stermon was under investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in the weeks before his suicide over allegations of sexual misconduct, according to multiple law enforcement sources. Here's the part that caught my eye though quote:Stermon's influence and political reach cannot be overstated. He was a friend and close political ally to Gov. Ron DeSantis and so deeply emmeshed in local law enforcement circles that he had free access to JSO headquarters. (Late this afternoon, JSO confirmed Stermon had an access card to the Police Memorial Building "prior to the current administration coming in," a spokesman said in an email. "The decision was made following the election to remove his access privileges and he had been informed of this.") So let that loving sink in. ... Oddly, it's not getting a TON of coverage locally and, even more strange, is that there's very little conspiracy talk going on surrounding his suicide. I was expecting a lot of "Biden had him killed" type of poo poo but it seems like everyone accepts that he killed himself.
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haveblue posted:It went like this (numbers made up): Problem solved. I do science.
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Crows Turn Off posted:So instead of 1 fusion worth 10k watts, just make 11 fusions worth 110k watts, and then you can power the factory that uses 100k watts. Throw hundreds of unnecessary words in there about disruption and blockchain or whatever, and venture capitalists will line up to throw money at you.
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BiggerBoat posted:There's a local story here where a big time 50 year old GOP donor with huge connections to Desantis was under criminal investigation and shot himself Yeah I've been following this too. He apparently used that access very frequently. I've definitely heard some conspiracy poo poo around this that is not worth repeating, but I don't think this one is going to fade away unanswered.
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Angry_Ed posted:some manufacturers (such as Samsung) have their own stores which are loaded on their phones in addition to the Google Play store, but I don't know how prevalent that is or if that even still goes on. Samsung at least still does this and according to Statista is about 22% of global smartphone shipments. Source: I have an S22+ and Statista.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Reps. Ro Khanna, Katie Porter, Adam Schiff, and Barbara Lee have already been asking for money and endorsements for a potential 2024 Senate race.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Apple just surrendered to the U.S. DOJ, Epic Games, and E.U. and gave up their nearly decade-long legal fight to require all apps on the iPhone go through the app store and banning installing your own apps. That sound you hear is every corporate IT department gearing up to block this on managed devices.
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Meatball posted:Also you must pay full price for your next iPhone up front And it instantly voids your warranty.
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Zero_Grade posted:I hope Barbara Lee wins, she rules (only Congressperson to vote against the Iraq war, and her reasons for doing so turned out to be 100% correct). She'd be a great voice to have in the Senate, it's a shame she's in her mid-70s. Katie Porter would be my pick, besides her being cool and good I'd rather the Dems not play actuarial table roulette with any more senate seats than they have to.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Still seems like a thing that should be fixed though. I really doubt Senator is such an easy job that you are 100% fulfilling all your duties if you need staff with you to make sure you remember how to vote because you have Alzheimers. It can't both be one of the most important roles in government and something that can reasonably be done by someone who is actively losing cognitive function. A well set up staff can run on inertia for a long time. It might be she managed to offload more than we might think before things got really bad. I certainly hope so.
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Android user here, but I'm more excited about Apple being forced to use USB-C rather than the Lightning port for their phones. It would be nice to get that as a global standard, if other countries/regions follow suit.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Android user here, but I'm more excited about Apple being forced to use USB-C rather than the Lightning port for their phones. It would be nice to get that as a global standard, if other countries/regions follow suit. Since Apple is being forced into USB-C, isn't it effectively a global standard on phones now? Are there new phones being released that have proprietary ports?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Since Apple is being forced into USB-C, isn't it effectively a global standard on phones now? Are there new phones being released that have proprietary ports? They only have to do USB-C in the EU, right? So its not a universal standard. They may have done the math it makes them more money to keep it proprietary everywhere else.
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Barudak posted:They only have to do USB-C in the EU, right? So its not a universal standard. They may have done the math it makes them more money to keep it proprietary everywhere else. This. What will tip the scales if if other countries start to follow suit. China would be my first guess - they're a huge market, it gives them a way to screw with a US tech company the same way the US screws with theirs, and it's effectively a low/no cost way to claim that they're forcing companies to go green (reducing e-waste, the same argument the EU used).
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i'm listening to today's house hearing on ftx, and i'm surprised by the number of republican reps who are insinuating that the department of justice and sec deliberately timed the indictment and arrest of sbf to prevent him from testifying before the house. i can't tell if they're just grumpy because they feel someone is stepping on their prerogative, or if they actually believe that if sbf had been allowed to testify he would have revealed something that justice wanted to cover up i know everyone i talked to about was complaining that he wasn't in jail already, so suggesting that the arrest should have waited seems kind of wild
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i'm listening to today's house hearing on ftx, and i'm surprised by the number of republican reps who are insinuating that the department of justice and sec deliberately timed the indictment and arrest of sbf to prevent him from testifying before the house. i can't tell if they're just grumpy because they feel someone is stepping on their prerogative, or if they actually believe that if sbf had been allowed to testify he would have revealed something that justice wanted to cover up I mean he was in the Bahamas, was he really going to just call up the House and do it like that? I don't imagine he was going to take the red eye in and show up after a light breakfast to do it in person.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i'm listening to today's house hearing on ftx, and i'm surprised by the number of republican reps who are insinuating that the department of justice and sec deliberately timed the indictment and arrest of sbf to prevent him from testifying before the house. i can't tell if they're just grumpy because they feel someone is stepping on their prerogative, or if they actually believe that if sbf had been allowed to testify he would have revealed something that justice wanted to cover up Turns out SBF is in possession of Hunter Biden's iPad. Which is where all the super dirt on Joe Biden is stored.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i'm listening to today's house hearing on ftx, and i'm surprised by the number of republican reps who are insinuating that the department of justice and sec deliberately timed the indictment and arrest of sbf to prevent him from testifying before the house. i can't tell if they're just grumpy because they feel someone is stepping on their prerogative, or if they actually believe that if sbf had been allowed to testify he would have revealed something that justice wanted to cover up They are mad because he made donations to democrats so they were railing about him not being investigated because hes a democrat supporter (ignore all the much lager donations he did under aliases to republicans) and this indictment is just early enough they come across as stupid instead of being able to claim they forced those shady dems to act!!!!
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evilweasel posted:that's why her staff is with her on votes. When you say "immediately reversed it in writing," do you mean Feinstein herself wrote a statement and sent it out to reporters? Or is this a polite fiction and what you actually mean is "her staffers immediately reversed her statements in writing"?
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Sharkie posted:When you say "immediately reversed it in writing," do you mean Feinstein herself wrote a statement and sent it out to reporters? The latter, though they pretend she had a hand in it.
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evilweasel posted:The latter, though they pretend she had a hand in it. It's a great refinement of the system! Feinstein's largely anonymous staffers are probably much cheaper to
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Zero_Grade posted:I hope Barbara Lee wins, she rules (only Congressperson to vote against the Iraq war, and her reasons for doing so turned out to be 100% correct). She'd be a great voice to have in the Senate, it's a shame she's in her mid-70s. Over a year later, the majority of Congress (and by and large the country) still supported the AUMF against Iraq specifically, but that resolution had a lot more nay votes (133 in the House, 23 in the Senate), including Lee. Not to take anything away from every Congressperson who voted against the Iraq War, but to have the clarity/resolve to act like Lee did three days after 9/11 is something else.
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