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Wayne Knight posted:JFC don't read the comments. Twitter is a loving cesspit. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 02:37 on May 4, 2023 |
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The Daily Beast got a hold of emails that purport to show that Hershel Walker (former GOP Sen candidate in GA) may have done a bunch of crimes during the last campaign and possible wire fraud when either he or someone in the campaign got a donor to transfer money directly into Walker's private funds https://twitter.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1653912796688531458?s=20
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May 4, 2023 02:35
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Kalli posted:Dont' worry, at the end of the day they're still all friends
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May 4, 2023 02:57
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I can't tell whether or not there are actually any Florida House Dems in that array; the poster is someone working for the Florida Chamber of Commerce. It's not going to be anything like "literally crossing the aisle" because there's such a supermajority of Republicans, and that's a small fraction of the overall House membership dancing. It's from sometime Tuesday before the session started, an annual "boots day" celebration.
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May 4, 2023 03:24
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BiggerBoat posted:I don't see how this is even remotely legal. It's the practical definition of insider trading and I think a politician could make some inroads campaigning against it And the transaction isn't any kind of smoking gun that implies violation of that wall. You don't need any special congressional secrets to decide to sell your stock in a financially precarious bank whose stock price is plummeting, right after another bank in a similar situation failed. The sale a month and a half ago on March 16th is the same date that a bunch of other banks publicly moved $30b to First Republic to try to shore up confidence. It was public knowledge at that point that they had problems and were a riskier investment. "I should cut my losses" is not a strange decision: 
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May 4, 2023 03:35
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The fundamental problem with crypto as an industry going forward is that the SEC has started to make it harder to do a pump and dump scam if you are based within the U.S. and after the Silk Road got taken down, crypto isn't secure enough to use for drugs and international crime. There’s a theory that Crypto was really invented as a honey pot by one or more 3-letter agencies.
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May 4, 2023 03:58
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Saki Sanobashi or whoever the inventor supposedly was has never touched his bitcoin wallet.
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May 4, 2023 04:02
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I AM GRANDO posted:Saki Sanobashi or whoever the inventor supposedly was has never touched his bitcoin wallet. Must be nice to not need money.
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May 4, 2023 04:18
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VideoGameVet posted:There’s a theory that Crypto was really invented as a honey pot by one or more 3-letter agencies. Recently I was reading some articles on a few tech sites about using TOR and its history and how to access and stuff because I was interested in seeing if there was any non-crime/crypto/horrible reason to use it. And the one thing that caught my interest was apparently very easy access to a wide swathe of academic journals and also there being hacking chat groups and stuff. But it was also interesting how most (?) of its funding comes from the US government? So I browsed around a bit and I have to say, like you know how sometimes you speak to a person for like not even five seconds and you just immediately know they are a completely 100% full of poo poo person? Or you see an ad or listing for something and just at a glance you know it's horseshit? That was literally every single thing I saw. The presentation of the crypto exchanging and hire a hacker to do X damage to Y and so on all had major feelings of like this is literally only here to get you arrested or steal your money. I mean sure probably the ENTIRE thing isn't a honeypot and maybe there's some stuff on the lists that isn't a straight up scam but it just seemed completely useless unless you fall into some combination of wanting to do horrible things, buy drugs, or are extremely gullible. But anyway that experience did make me start to think that about crypto stuff in general like it's just a way for some agency or another to have an easier go at monitoring illicit transactions or something. I mean even if it wasn't initially invented for that purpose it surely sees use in that respect anyway.
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May 4, 2023 04:42
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Wayne Knight posted:JFC don't read the comments. Twitter is a loving cesspit. Also noticeable that every bigot on that thread had a blue check mark. It might as well be a swastika or confederate flag at this point, jfc.
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May 4, 2023 05:07
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commenting on coinz being a goc ops/honey pot: that sounds way tooo competent for a gov. org or project. also the macro economic effects of a bunch of well off "bros" throwing their legit money into a blackhole has to have some sort of effect. like remember all the stock fucknoy posts about using their roni bucks on meme stocks.
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May 4, 2023 05:14
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If it wasn't originally, it definitely could be now. Remember when they clawed back the ransom coins from Colonial Pipeline by using the private key, and never expanding further on how they got it.
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It seems way too unlikely to have started as a honeypot tool. Remember, Bitcoin had a good 10 or so years when a very small amount of people were using it and it grew very slowly because it was completely useless. It's really only around when Ethereum came onto the scene and let people do more interesting things with the blockchain that it really started drawing a lot of interest. That's just way too much of a long game and also requires them hiring a Russian-Canadian teenager apparently. It's certainly very useful as a tool nowadays but that's largely due to the difficulty in switching between crypto and actual money. For people in the US, that involves signing up with a company which will have to follow KYC laws which is how the feds keep catching people: they at some point will track an address to an exchange and check who the account belongs to. If there was an anonymous way to exchange crypto for money, this would fall apart. There's just way too many steps to go from "invention of Bitcoin" to "feds regularly tracking down criminals via Bitcoin" for it to be anything but pure stupidity and chaos.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Would this work? I have no idea. USCE Spring - people think — wrongly — that they understand the coin
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May 4, 2023 09:25
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Daily Beast got a hold of emails that purport to show that Hershel Walker (former GOP Sen candidate in GA) may have done a bunch of crimes during the last campaign and possible wire fraud when either he or someone in the campaign got a donor to transfer money directly into Walker's private funds I mean, have we already memory holed the Trump campaign? Weren't two percent of disputed credti card charges in America in 2020 linked to their campaign? Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 10:20 on May 4, 2023 |
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May 4, 2023 10:18
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Well uh technically it wasn’t his REAL kid so really it’s just two generous guys helping out a kid who’s down on their luck. https://twitter.com/justinelliott/status/1654063623147225089?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA
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May 4, 2023 11:49
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OddObserver posted:"Just before sale" is dishonest. Bank sale happened like... yesterday or something, and it gives dates for stock transactions in March(!), also a few days after failure of SVB, when cryptobros where trying to engineer a run on the bank. I am looking at it and I agree that it's a hit piece, regardless of the fact that yes, congresscritters need to stay the hell out of stocks, this was the week after SVB collapsed and I well remember public fears that First Republic bank was going to be the next to fail but also that a bunch of other big banks including.... JPMorgan Chase, were putting money into first republic to stabilize them.
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May 4, 2023 11:59
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FizFashizzle posted:Well uh technically it wasn’t his REAL kid so really it’s just two generous guys helping out a kid who’s down on their luck. quote:Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. Several years earlier, Thomas disclosed a gift of $5,000 for Martin’s education from another friend. It is not clear why he reported that payment but not Crow’s So he can't even use the "whoops I didn't think this was the kind of thing that merited disclosure" excuse. Very happy with my monthly donation to ProPublica lately.
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May 4, 2023 12:25
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Is this Thomas stuff going anywhere? People knew he was an absolute monster in the 80s and he was still confirmed.
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May 4, 2023 12:32
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I AM GRANDO posted:Is this Thomas stuff going anywhere? People knew he was an absolute monster in the 80s and he was still confirmed. It has been pointed out that Congress has full authority over SCOTUS’ budget and they could say that their funding will be revoked if they don’t agree to ethics reforms, but I highly doubt that happens
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May 4, 2023 12:48
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I AM GRANDO posted:Is this Thomas stuff going anywhere? People knew he was an absolute monster in the 80s and he was still confirmed. Nope! This isn't a bug, it's a feature. You would need 16 R's to vote to impeach him, and that won't happen until they get a Republican president at best. Probably not even then.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Is this Thomas stuff going anywhere? People knew he was an absolute monster in the 80s and he was still confirmed. Right now there's just a few people clamoring for SCOTUS to adopt some ethics standards, but even that probably doesn't amount to much. The problem is that the only recourse that congress or the President has over a runaway judge like this is impeachment and removal from the court, and Dems don't have nearly the votes, and Republicans absolutely will not vote to remove a conservative judge. This is mostly just hoping Clarence Thomas actually feels some shame about the whole thing, and lol about that.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Dems have made no real moves on this so not really This will prompt the judges to just openly solicit more "gifts" to keep the lights on. They'll put decals on their robes like NASCARs.
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May 4, 2023 12:58
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Ethics_Gradient posted:This will prompt the judges to just openly solicit more "gifts" to keep the lights on. They'll put decals on their robes like NASCARs. I mean why not? Not like it would hurt them. Plus, the amounts they're getting are just laughable. $150,000 across years for a kid's private schooling? You're making rulings worth billions, possibly tens or hundreds of billions, to these people. Have some respect for the power you wield and the country that has foolishly given it to you within its system of government. Get some real money in exchange for selling out the future of 300 million people. Make it seem like there's something of value you're trading away, not just a country club membership or something.
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Ethics_Gradient posted:This will prompt the judges to just openly solicit more "gifts" to keep the lights on. They'll put decals on their robes like NASCARs.
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My favorite Bitcoin origin theory is that Satoshi was actually Steve Jobs and that's why no one's ever touched the wallet
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rscott posted:My favorite Bitcoin origin theory is that Satoshi was actually Steve Jobs and that's why no one's ever touched the wallet This seems simultaneously too technical and too awful a product to be him.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Is this Thomas stuff going anywhere? People knew he was an absolute monster in the 80s and he was still confirmed. Given the current makeup of the House and Senate, not really. Maybe it'd be different if evidence of a direct quid pro pro were found, since people generally care more about that, but Thomas has been an notoriously ultra-conservative shithead forever and I haven't seen anyone suggesting that all these payments have actually influenced his voting behavior in any meaningful sense.
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Queering Wheel posted:Florida keeps getting worse. Just openly going after all trans people, including adults. Guarantee that this will result in more cis women being reported than trans.
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Main Paineframe posted:Given the current makeup of the House and Senate, not really. Maybe it'd be different if evidence of a direct quid pro pro were found, since people generally care more about that, but Thomas has been an notoriously ultra-conservative shithead forever and I haven't seen anyone suggesting that all these payments have actually influenced his voting behavior in any meaningful sense. Out of curiosity, has anyone even done a Supreme Court approved direct bribery quid pro quo at any point since the rise of the mafia?
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I AM GRANDO posted:Is this Thomas stuff going anywhere? People knew he was an absolute monster in the 80s and he was still confirmed. The only place its going is into building a narrative that the court is fundamentally flawed and corrupt and that serious reform is the only solution, a public narrative which might bear fruit if the Democrats ever regain a strong legislative advantage. Directly and immediately, it will accomplish nothing.
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bird food bathtub posted:I mean why not? Not like it would hurt them. Plus, the amounts they're getting are just laughable. $150,000 across years for a kid's private schooling? You're making rulings worth billions, possibly tens or hundreds of billions, to these people. Have some respect for the power you wield and the country that has foolishly given it to you within its system of government. Get some real money in exchange for selling out the future of 300 million people. Make it seem like there's something of value you're trading away, not just a country club membership or something. he's internalized anti labor ideas and under values himself and his highly specialized job. in a truely gay socialist commie utopia, he would get his fair market rate bribes.
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Gyges posted:Out of curiosity, has anyone even done a Supreme Court approved direct bribery quid pro quo at any point since the rise of the mafia? Given that the law is built upon centuries of technicalities and "Well actually..."s, probably not. At least not by the people who actually get away with it. I'm sure there's some idiots who have tried to do an outright bribery, but anyone in a position of serious power probably has enough sense to launder it at least the bare minimum to become a "donation" or friendly dinner before accepting. Then again, given the slate of leaks involving mycrimes.txt, I could be giving them too much credit.
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GlyphGryph posted:The only place its going is into building a narrative that the court is fundamentally flawed and corrupt and that serious reform is the only solution, a public narrative which might bear fruit if the Democrats ever regain a strong legislative advantage. Without a threat of impeachment there is really nothing you can do to reign in SCOTUS
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Gyges posted:Out of curiosity, has anyone even done a Supreme Court approved direct bribery quid pro quo at any point since the rise of the mafia? There's been a bunch at the state level. At the national level, the major ones I can think of off the top of my head are the CEO from the Keating 5, Chaka Fattah, and William Jefferson. I'm sure there have been some others. Not sure if Rod Blagojevich counts as state or national since he was Governor, but trying to sell a Senate seat.
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A federal jury has convicted four proud boy members of seditious conspiracy for their planning and organizing a violent group on January 6th. They have also convicted them of "Obstructing and Official Proceeding of the Federal Government." The maximum penalty is 20 years, but at least one of them has been cooperating. So, they will likely get very different sentences. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1654140200774139906
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https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/transit/2023/05/03/manhattan-da-investigating-death-of-man-choked-on-subway As of yesterday, the murder of the homeless man on a NY Subway is now being investigated by the DA. There has also been protests. We'll see. Obviously a lot of people tacitly approve of vigilante violence against the homeless, and Governor Hochul has given a masterclass in triangulation to capture that voter demographic: Hochul posted:People who are homeless in our subways, many of them in the throes of mental health episodes, and that's what I believe were some of the factors involved here. There's consequences for behavior.
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James Garfield posted:The rental and homeowner vacancy rates are at or near historic lows, rents are going up because there isn't enough housing in places people want to live and landowners have been pretty successful at organizing against new construction. Aren't vacancy rates skewed lower right now because of things like Air BnB?
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"Consequences for behavior", but whose; the guy who murdered a dude, or the homeless guy, because that little bit has some very different implications
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tecnocrat posted:Nope! This isn't a bug, it's a feature. You would need 16 R's to vote to impeach him, and that won't happen until they get a Republican president at best. Probably not even then. There's a dozen ways to get rid of a Supreme Court Justice but half of them are illegal (and will not be discussed) and the other half would require a President with more backbone to pursue them because they'd be pushing it. Like, if Thomas committed a severe crime like murdering his wife or began threatening other Justices, he'd still would need to be arrested regardless of an impeachment hearing? Congresspeople have been arrested and convicted of crimes and impeached after the fact before, why not a Supreme Court Justice? Young Freud fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 4, 2023 |
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