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Shouldn’t the Skeksis half, Sen. Mitch McConnell, also die? I was never clear on the lore.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The Kingdoms of Amalur MMO was actually basically finished, but when the company went under the state of Rhode Island became the owner as they tried to recoup their lost loan money. It really wasn't. I know people claim it was 75% complete or whatever but I knew some people who worked at 38 Studios (and were hosed over by the company screwing them over on move reimbursement) and none of them claimed it was ready to ship if only they had a bit more time. Edit: getting back on topic how would Republicans be able to prevent a replacement being seated on Feinstein's committee positions? Is that one of those things that needs a 2/3 majority instead of a simple majority? Angry_Ed fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Sep 29, 2023 15:53
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Nonsense posted:There is no way the GOP lets her seat be replaced on Judiciary. What's the process for doing this? Does it require a majority vote among Judiciary members?
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Angry_Ed posted:It really wasn't. I know people claim it was 75% complete or whatever but I knew some people who worked at 38 Studios (and were hosed over by the company screwing them over on move reimbursement) and none of them claimed it was ready to ship if only they had a bit more time. I had only heard the public reporting that it was basically 75% to 80% finished. Also, the people working on the project often have very different opinions about what "finished and ready to ship" means than the publisher. Swapping members mid-session requires unanimous consent or 60 votes. Republicans have said they would block any attempt to swap someone out mid-session while Feinstein was still serving because it had never been done before, but they didn't say anything about not seating a new replacement. They could technically hold it up, but it has never been done before and McConnell had previously said he wouldn't object to having a new Senator seated mid-session (although, something never having been done before and McConnell's word are historically not guarantees that someone won't happen either). Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I had only heard the public reporting that it was basically 75% to 80% finished. Also, the people working on the project often have very different opinions about what "finished and ready to ship" means than the publisher. McConnell may not object, but Cruz, Lee, or Hawley sure as poo poo will. My money is on Cruz.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:07
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Shooting Blanks posted:McConnell may not object, but Cruz, Lee, or Hawley sure as poo poo will. My money is on Cruz. If McConnell actually does keep his word and doesn't object, then I really don't think the entire caucus is going to defy him. They would just need 8 Republican Senators to agree not to do it at that point.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:08
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So if the Republicans refuse to seat a replacement, does that mean judicial appointments stop until the next election?
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Sep 29, 2023 16:44
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As long as Feinsteins’s seat is vacant, Rs gonna be working the phones to encourage Menendez to flip. They already know what his price is.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:45
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duodenum posted:So if the Republicans refuse to seat a replacement, does that mean judicial appointments stop until the next election? Unless they get 1 Republican and every Democrat on the committee to support them. I think they are probably just going to seat them as normal like they usually do. Setting the precedent that older Senators can be removed from committees and their replacements won't be seated basically creates very strong incentives to not give older Senators powerful seats and could hurt Republicans. The AARP is more likely to set up a system that takes power away from elderly people than the U.S. Senate and Mitch doesn't want that applied to Republicans or himself.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:48
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I've read they can still appoint judges, it just mandates some number of hours of debate on the floor if it doesn't pass the committee. Which is perfectly OK with the Republican plans of 'gently caress you'.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:54
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zoux posted:Shouldn’t the Skeksis half, Sen. Mitch McConnell, also die? I was never clear on the lore. You're confused. Chuck Grassley is her counterpart, Mitch's counterpart is Bernie. Final Destination Death may finally use Grassley's lawnmower deathtrap.
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Gyges posted:Final Destination Death may finally use Grassley's lawnmower deathtrap.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Unless they get 1 Republican and every Democrat on the committee to support them. I’m not convinced that the Republicans are that worried about setting a precedent, considering the SCOTUS debacle illustrates that they won’t feel bound by any anyway. Edit: and also considering that, as they don’t feel bound by precedent, they likely believe (right or wrong) that the Democrats wouldn’t respect it anyway. Fork of Unknown Origins fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Sep 29, 2023 17:12
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zoux posted:Shouldn’t the Skeksis half, Sen. Mitch McConnell, also die? I was never clear on the lore. She was the Skeksis half, some sweet old grandma out in Idaho you’ve never heard of just keeled over for no apparent reason.
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So is Feinstein finally going to step down or what?
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Push El Burrito posted:So is Feinstein finally going to step down or what? Why should she, she’s just as sharp today as she was yesterday.
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Push El Burrito posted:So is Feinstein finally going to step down or what? No. You can't resign when you are legally dead, but the seat is automatically considered vacant upon the death of the current occupant so she doesn't need to step down.
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I wonder if we’ll get to see Dan White’s diary now?
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Nucleic Acids posted:I wonder if we’ll get to see Dan White’s diary now? Why?
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The Las Vegas police raided some guys house about two months ago after they got a warrant that he had evidence related to Tupac's murder hidden in his basement. Apparently, the evidence they found was enough to charge and arrest someone for Tupac's murder. Very limited information out right now, but the Las Vegas police are expected to make a public announcement with the name of the person and the evidence they found soon - possibly this afternoon (Pacific Time). Based on the home they searched, it is likely to be Duane Keith Davis - who has long been rumored to have been in the car that Tupac was shot from and was sued by Tupac's family, but they could never prove he was at the scene at the time. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1707805375024533719 quote:A suspect was arrested Friday morning in connection with the murder of Tupac Shakur, who was shot and killed during a drive-by in Las Vegas in 1996, a senior law enforcement official confirmed to ABC News.
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Sep 29, 2023 19:21
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Because it’s weird that she was just allowed to keep that herself all this time.
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There’s nothing in the constitution that says a dog can’t be a senator
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Wistful of Dollars posted:There’s nothing in the constitution that says a dog can’t be a senator I would vote for the Good Boy for Louisiana. Better than who we have now.
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Nucleic Acids posted:Because it’s weird that she was just allowed to keep that herself all this time. Do you mean made public? Or do you mean the conspiracy theory that nobody but Feinstein has ever seen what was in it because she was implicated somehow? It's not going to be made public anymore than other court evidence would be just because she died. Maybe her estate could make it public, but there wasn't some kind of legal mechanism that kept it from being public as long as she was alive that would disappear now.
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The City of Atlanta just chose to doxx the phone numbers and addresses of everyone (116k or so) who signed anti Cop City petition. After specific rules/instructions to redact those. No published articles I can find but organizers all over are pissed,.. https://twitter.com/marisapk/status/1707757244018806895?s=20 https://twitter.com/hannahcrileyy/status/1707758118782775439?s=20 Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Silly Burrito posted:I would vote for the Good Boy for Louisiana. Better than who we have now. A magic 8 ball would be better than you have right now, that goes for every elected Republican at least the 8 ball would have a random chance of being right.
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Nucleic Acids posted:Because it’s weird that she was just allowed to keep that herself all this time. She had it? Why? Googling didn't give me anything.
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DeadlyMuffin posted:She had it? Why? He gave it to her. It was reviewed during the trial as evidence and then returned to her. It said that White was depressed and hated Harvey Milk for ruining his political career. That was in 1978 and it is assumed she kept it afterwards, but we don't really know what she did with it after the trial.
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Harold Fjord posted:The City of Atlanta just chose to doxx the phone numbers and addresses of everyone (116k or so) who signed anti Cop City petition. Those random Twitter people are wrong. They legally have to publish the signatures under open records laws. Only birthdays are not considered public information under the Georgia Open Records Act. This was the exact resolution passed by the city council:  The third link at this page has a list of exemptions that are required to be redacted from public petitions and what is required to be made public: https://law.georgia.gov/key-issues/open-government/law Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Third link does not mention petitions and what you shared says PII is redacted. So not sure what your analysis is based on. They have to publish the signatures the issue is addresses and phone numbers. Many of these people are already being harassed by fascists for opposing the cops too openly Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Sep 29, 2023 |
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Harold Fjord and Leon Trotsky posted:*Arguing about if unamed activists on the ground do or do not know things Am I stuck in groundhog day?
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If only you had a reputation for being correct, we might be willing to take your word and that of unnamed local activists. For real content, a dog could not be senator because of the age requirement.
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Are these local activists in the room with you right now? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I remember when local activists were considered subject matter experts and their word was golden of course that was a now perma-band creeper who opposed actual leftist Lee Carter so maybe there was other stuff going on than what people were saying the basis was. Looking forward to being the only person punished for this very high quality interaction y'all got going on. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Harold Fjord posted:I doubt you know what local rules were passed better than the local activists but I'll go find those rules because otherwise people might believe you. Leon posted the exact rules that were passed. The City Council president did send the Municipal Clerk a letter requesting that they to redact the information, but that request was not legally binding. The actual order passed by the City Council only requires them to redact it as required by the Georgia Open Records Act, which does not require the redaction of addresses and phone numbers. So the Municipal Clerk was asked to voluntarily redact that info, but was not required to by either the City Council or Georgia law. This article, which is currently the first Google result for "Atlanta petition" (so it isn't exactly hard to find if anyone actually bothered to look!!!), goes over some of the specifics. Here's the relevant excerpt (emphasis mine): quote:The Municipal Clerk’s Office has made public scans of what organizers say is more than 116,000 signatures of Atlanta residents who want to see the city’s public safety training center on the ballot.
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Morrow posted:If only you had a reputation for being correct, we might be willing to take your word and that of unnamed local activists. Excuse me but I believe the standard conversion of one human year equaling seven dog years would be in play. Harold Fjord posted:I remember when local activists were considered subject matter experts and their word was golden of course that was a now perma-band creeper who opposed actual leftist Lee Carter so maybe there was other stuff going on than what people were saying the basis was. Looking forward to being the only person punished for this very high quality interaction y'all got going on. Local activists may know a lot more about a given situation. You have to understand that second hand claims as to what local activists are said to have said are not compelling. You may well know that you’re accurately conveying what they’re saying. We don’t. And we don’t even know who these local activists are to know if what they’re saying is even worth anything. There are a lot of “local activists” trying to get cat litter taken out of schools too.
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I know that's why I shared the first hand accounts of people who are concerned that their information has been shared after they spent years scrubbing it to avoid harassment from Nazis
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Harold Fjord posted:Third link does not mention petitions and what you shared says PII is redacted. So not sure what your analysis is based on. The law refers to "Public Records" which it defines this way https://law.georgia.gov/document/here-3/download posted:(2) "Public record" means all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, tapes, photographs, So I think the petition falls under this definition. Whether or not the names and addresses need to be redacted isn't obvious to me, the text is confusing and I would have to study it for a while to puzzle it out. Harold Fjord posted:Looking forward to being the only person punished for this very high quality interaction y'all got going on. If you had just gone and dug up something contradicting Leon rather than saying "I doubt you know what local rules were passed better than the local activists but I'll go find those rules because otherwise people might believe you" you wouldn't be getting clowned on. Continuing to post through it without providing anything at all just makes the clowning worse.
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Harold Fjord posted:I know that's why I shared the first hand accounts of people who are concerned that their information has been shared after they spent years scrubbing it to avoid harassment from Nazis Buddy, I am here to usher you to a magic subforum called CSPAM, where you are allowed to say obviously true things like "The Atlanta city leaders doxxed 100,000 people in retaliation for supporting the Stop Cop City movement". You post that in CSPAM, everyone goes "Yes, obviously, gently caress the police" You post that here, 80 nerds start looking at various clauses of the Atlanta City Charter to define what "information" means. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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