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yronic heroism posted:Nothing would have stopped McConnell from filling every R president’s Supreme Court nomination. It was not like Reid wanted to blow that up but if anyone thinks McConnell would have let 3 justices expire due to an existing fillibuster boy do I have a bridge to sell. Toss in McConnell not even allowing Garland to come to a vote and you can see why Reid's hand was pretty much forced.
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Trump absolutely ignored court decisions and would have ignored all of them if he wasn't reliant on the bureaucracy to do anything that mattered, but he never really had the opportunity to do so in a way that mattered (beyond investigations into him personally) because the bureaucracy largely refused to follow along. Even Republican bureaucrats generally aren't willing to ignore the courts, not openly at least.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 01:11 |
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Velocity Raptor posted:I had seen this story covered by CNN I'm curious as to why they only reinstated Jones to his position. From the CNN article, he was appointed back to his position since a special election isn't for a couple of weeks. But does anyone more familiar with TN state politics as to why only one of the two ousted members were reinstated? Because Justin J. Pearson represents Memphis, which is not the same city as Nashville and thus requires a different group of old white people to reinstate him?
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 01:32 |
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Ummmm guys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXBoqvgcB7E (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 01:41 |
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Anything cool leaked? What’s the behind the scenes opinion on Ukraine?
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 01:52 |
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Is that really how news anchors are dressing these days?
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 01:53 |
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https://twitter.com/schelzig/status/1645552011134345216?s=46&t=SGjc-kX_f4F_yldTowt91w
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 02:02 |
Yeah the US is spying on its allies, that's been leaked line 20 times already. We're not going to stop and I don't know why anyone has that expectation. The shortened title on that video made me think the Pentagon scrambled *jets* and there was something about to blow up.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 02:03 |
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Anything cool leaked? What’s the behind the scenes opinion on Ukraine? As near as I can tell the high level stuff I saw matched up pretty well with what OSINT types and Ukrainians themselves have been saying. Though there's also a really amateurish Photoshop version of the damage/casualty estimates that like trim a zero off estimated Russian losses and flip digits on estimated Ukrainian losses to make them look high, but that's no surprise. That's not to say the whole leak is a nothing, there's a lot of finer points that are absolutely valuable information to Russia or other state actors. And of course even if everyone spies on their own allies it's always super gauche to let your spying on your allies leak into public media.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 02:16 |
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Don’t countries always spy on each other anyway? Even if allies?
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 02:16 |
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https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1645521387581308946?s=46&t=6HOSYVrXffESMo0NlyR0Lg
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Gatts posted:Don’t countries always spy on each other anyway? Even if allies? yes but you should still get offended if they are stupid enough to be caught.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 02:48 |
Gatts posted:Don’t countries always spy on each other anyway? Even if allies? Yes, everyone spies on everyone. But everyone pretends that they aren't spying on everyone, and everyone pretends that they don't know that everyone is spying on everyone, but know that everyone is spying on everyone. Everyone knows!
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 02:54 |
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We treat espionage how the French treat adultery.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 03:12 |
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Gatts posted:Don’t countries always spy on each other anyway? Even if allies? Yeah but it's considered polite to at least pretend you aren't. If you get found out the intelligence programs make fun of you.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 03:52 |
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It's also how they spy on their own citizens. Their own hands are cleaner if another five eyes country does it and then tells you about it.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 04:06 |
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https://twitter.com/schelzig/status/1645564667312369667?s=20 they hosed up so, so, so, so bad Kith fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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This week, a new movie opened in select theaters in NYC prior to a nationwide rollout over the next few weeks. Based on a book of the same name, How to Blow Up A Pipeline is a taut heist film receiving high praise for both being a technically excellent film and for being a purposeful culture hack to widen the Overton window in America around direct action against fossil fuel companies. The plot focuses on people from frontline and fence line communities who come together in an autonomous cell to target oil infrastructure to mess with their money. It's brilliant in it's storytelling and series of reveals and misdirection set to an excellent score. What's different from a normal heist film is that the characters are real people, probably some of them are like people you might know. They don't have extensive training or tons of skills, just a sense of self preservation. It's really empowering to see. As described by one of the writers in a Q+A after the premier, the movie doesn't aim to encourage people to blow up pipelines, but rather to clarify the larger moral question we face right now in the United States(and elsewhere, but this is uspol). Specifically, we likely all generally agree that if someone holds a gun to your head, you have the right to self-defense. That could include disarming the threat and disassembling the gun. One purpose of the film is to very clearly define who(ONG companies) is holding a gun (extraction) to the planet (earth) and open the door of possibility for action (direct) based on individual circumstances. It's a very cool idea executed really well by smart and talented people. In the Q+A they also said that they tried to be as accurate as possible with everything technical in the film and I'll leave it at that. This has been a taboo subject on these boards, for very good and understandable reasons. However, I hope that the discussion of a film seeing nationwide release is palatable to the mods. Please keep conversation related to the film and potential impacts this kind of storytelling might have. Also! The movie needs support. Check out if it's showing near you soon, and get a ticket for you and your crew. Use your dollars to help it succeed opening weekend. I think we need stories like this to help us imagine the other world that is possible, just out of reach for now but waiting to be born.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 04:23 |
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Man, sabotaging pipelines from a front line camp... getting me nostalgic
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 06:53 |
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Killer robot posted:That's not to say the whole leak is a nothing, there's a lot of finer points that are absolutely valuable information to Russia or other state actors. And of course even if everyone spies on their own allies it's always super gauche to let your spying on your allies leak into public media. One of the bigger effects is going to be that everyone in the intelligence community are going to be super overworked trying to find the leak source, figure out how much has been leaked, what are the damages... this during a time when they are already overworked because of war.
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Uglycat posted:Man, sabotaging pipelines from a front line camp... getting me nostalgic You were one of the posters I thought of with experience, I remember your DAPL-era posts.
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Uglycat posted:Man, sabotaging pipelines from a front line camp... getting me nostalgic Oh good, I'm not the only FF7 fan itt
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Leon Sumbitches posted:You were one of the posters I thought of with experience, I remember your DAPL-era posts. Oh.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 13:23 |
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Kith posted:they hosed up so, so, so, so bad
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 15:20 |
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Crows Turn Off posted:Did they? What consequences will the Republicans face? They have to be in the same, very large room as an angry Black man But in all seriousness, none of course. That tweet earlier that said "this is the end of the Republican supermajority" was laughable. Giving these two guys a national spotlight will help their political careers, but in the long run is not going to affect the GOP one bit.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 15:24 |
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Crows Turn Off posted:Did they? What consequences will the Republicans face? Best I can think of is that they put two young and (so far) seemingly legitimately good men in the national spotlight that we almost certainly wouldn't have heard otherwise. Time will tell based on what they're able to do with said spotlight.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 16:00 |
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The NYT has printed an extremely detailed 2-year long investigative report on 34 major bitcoin farms in the U.S. They have found that they are stretching the power grid in some areas and consume roughly 30,000 more power than the average household. - Just 34 specific bitcoin mines in the U.S. represent consume about 2.5% of all non-industrial energy use in the United States. - The largest 34 bitcoin mines in the country are responsible for roughly 0.4% of all carbon emissions in the United States. - In Texas, the 10 largest bitcoin mines require the utilities to switch to more powerful (and expensive) generators that have raised electricity bills in the state by 5% - or roughly $1.8 billion - with price increases as high as 9% in West Texas. Additionally, bitcoin mines were the largest strain on the Texas power grid and partially responsible for the blackouts during the winter of 2021. Texas has approved a 300% increase in the amount of power allocated to bitcoin mining over the next few years, but the Texas utility board says that the price increase for everyone else won't be as steep as the previous 5-9% since the new generators are already up and running. They also argue that it will prompt faster research into cheaper sources of electricity. In addition to approving the huge expansion, Texas has declared itself "pro-bitcoin" and given them special pricing. One of the largest bitcoin mines in Texas pays approximately 2.9 cents per kilowatt hour, while the average residential bill is 13.5 cents per kilowatt hour (more than 4x higher). They also receive subsidies from a Texas power grid program that are pretty outrageous: quote:Each day that June, its computers’ guesses were winning Bitcoin worth an average of about $342,000. But the company had two additional ways to improve its profit margins. The entire investigation is very long, but definitely worth a full read. The bitcoin companies making huge powerplays in several states and the enormous amount of energy and pollution they generate are unbelievable when you read the full numbers and scope. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1645551298039930881 quote:The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
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Sax Mortar posted:Best I can think of is that they put two young and (so far) seemingly legitimately good men in the national spotlight that we almost certainly wouldn't have heard otherwise. Time will tell based on what they're able to do with said spotlight. Can someone more familiar with Tennessee tell us if it's possible to flip it? Places like North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia I get because they are growing states, rapidly urbanizing or expanding. Can Tennessee be organized in any fashion outside of Memphis and Knoxville (though we should always be organizing!)
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 16:10 |
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When mine-related things gently caress up your energy and they're not even actually mining anything physical...
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 16:11 |
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It's pretty much a perfect summary of how there will be no winning against climate change because conservatives will pay one another to roll coal, own the libs, and cast Meteor Jenova's paradox
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The NYT has printed an extremely detailed 2-year long investigative report on 34 major bitcoin farms in the U.S. If bitcoin was ever anything else, what it is now is yet another mechanism for large financial institutions to hoover up money from the gullible and desperate by drawing them into a rigged game. E: Harold Fjord posted:It's pretty much a perfect summary of how there will be no winning against climate change because conservatives will pay one another to roll coal, own the libs, and cast Meteor What the NYT op Ed demonstrates - along with another they printed today about the shocking climate impact of megayachts - is that “we all need to make huge sacrifices” was a lie perpetrated by people who didn’t want any action taken. And one that was, with good intentions, widely spread by climate activists themselves. With our technological advances we actually have reached a point where doing things like curbing private jet use, reducing use of mega yachts, cutting the poo poo with bitcoin, and attacking industrial inefficiencies - along with subsidizing emissions-lowering industries, as we have been - actually can get us a huge portion of the way. On top of that you can add lifestyle changes for individuals that are not sacrifices like working from home. “It’s all marginal,” you might say - well, 0.3% here, 2% there, 1.8% there… that poo poo starts to add up, when considering the sheer volume of stupid, useless stuff we use energy to do in this country. We were all led to believe we would have to give up our comfort, because it was convenient for the people who would have had to give up their profits to pretend it was the case. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Harold Fjord posted:It's pretty much a perfect summary of how there will be no winning against climate change because conservatives will pay one another to roll coal, own the libs, and cast Meteor Listen, Shrina has my best interest at heart, sure this slum is dirty and mako poisoning killed my family, but could you imagine what would happen if we didn't have them around.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Can someone more familiar with Tennessee tell us if it's possible to flip it? Places like North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia I get because they are growing states, rapidly urbanizing or expanding. Can Tennessee be organized in any fashion outside of Memphis and Knoxville (though we should always be organizing!) I will leave fuller discussions to someone who is more familiar with Tennessee politics, but I do know Tennessee is egregiously gerrymandered both for U.S. House and it's own Assembly: U.S. House Tennessee Senate Tennessee House So there'll be that to fight against.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 16:21 |
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DarkCrawler posted:When mine-related things gently caress up your energy and they're not even actually mining anything physical... Something something Gordon Gekko saying "greed is good", and if only that could be mined. But I suppose that's what capitalism is all about. Too bad about the environment.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Did they? What consequences will the Republicans face? Sexton got hilariously exposed living in Nashville and not in the district he's representing, Crossville, a couple hours away. He's on the hook for commiting fraud, at the least. Edit: he's been claiming a per diem now worth five figured on housing and commuting from Crossville to Nashville, plus never paid the property taxes on his condo in Crossville. While he won't likely see punishment from the TN legislature, it does open him up to a court challenge vs. his residency whenever he goes for reelection. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Apr 11, 2023 |
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Crows Turn Off posted:Did they? What consequences will the Republicans face? Realistically not much. However elections are about voter excitement and they just elevated some local politicians and possibly lifted Dem voter engagement.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 17:53 |
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For the Nashville shooter: Were they ever confirmed to be trans, or was that police misinfo? The Wiki article says they were, but it sources back to cops.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 17:58 |
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Jaxyon posted:For the Nashville shooter: It basically was. The private messages they sent to their friend the morning of the shooting used a different name (Aiden), they had "he/him" on social media, and one of their friends said they were.
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# ? Apr 11, 2023 18:03 |
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However we did get an article over the weekend that basically confirmed the manifesto has none of the interesting stuff people hoped for, just more 4chan pap about how cool school shooters are https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tbi-director-shares-new-details-on-the-covenant-school-shooters-manifesto
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Kalli posted:However we did get an article over the weekend that basically confirmed the manifesto has none of the interesting stuff people hoped for, just more 4chan pap about how cool school shooters are Nobody who needs to hear this is going to believe it.
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