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Kalit posted:Nope, Waters' comments was before they were sequestered. The jury wasn't sequestered until after closing arguments yesterday. But yes, the jury was told to avoid all news during the trial by the judge. Here's what the judge thinks: The judge in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin criticized comments made by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., over the weekend, calling them "disrespectful to the rule of law," but rejected a motion from the defense to use her rhetoric as grounds for a mistrial. "I'm aware that Congresswoman Waters was talking specifically about this trial, and about the unacceptability of anything less than a murder conviction, and talk about being 'confrontational,' " Judge Peter Cahill said on Monday as the closing arguments wrapped up in the trial of Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd. Cahill said he wished "elected officials would stop talking about this case" but said that the jury had been instructed not to watch the news and therefore Waters' comments could not prejudice the jury and warrant a mistrial. "Beyond the articles that we're talking specifically about the facts of this case, a congresswoman's opinion really doesn't matter a whole lot," Cahill said. He noted separately, however, that Waters may have provided the defense "something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned."
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Apr 20, 2021 21:28
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cr0y posted:How do you even begin to get an unbiased jury when they all know they are either going to be hunted by the police or by the mob You have to find the dumbest motherfuckers possible who aren't aware of anything
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Apr 20, 2021 21:33
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His Divine Shadow posted:Can't help but think this was revenge for the floyd sentence. They must have precogs working at the PD there
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Apr 21, 2021 11:24
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zoux posted:Check again, Bitcoin is good now A decade ago, the bankrupt owner of the Greenidge power plant in Dresden, New York, sold the uncompetitive coal-fired relic for scrap and surrendered its operating permits. For the next seven years, the plant sat idle on the western shore of Seneca Lake, a monument to the apparent dead end reached by the state's fossil fuel infrastructure. But today, Greenidge is back up and running as a Bitcoin mining operation. The facility hums with energy-hungry computers that confirm and record Bitcoin transactions, drawing power from the plant's 106-megawatt generator now fueled by natural gas. https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/04/13/new-york-bitcoin-mining-threat/
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Apr 22, 2021 16:05
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Thom12255 posted:Using your current PC to mine is only going to get you enough to buy a Starbucks coffee every other week, it's really not worth the trouble.
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Apr 22, 2021 16:36
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Apr 22, 2021 17:06
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Biden is pushing probably the most progressive agenda ever Most people approve it Goons: what a bunch of assholes! Like ok you want full communism and anything short of it is treason but I'm not sure this is a healthy way of looking at things.
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Apr 23, 2021 21:01
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Bootleg Trunks posted:I too have been smitten by bidens true leftism The first 3 points make him more like FDR than anything (If they were accurate)
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Apr 23, 2021 21:26
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Vorik posted:What does that have to do with Biden? He's going to bribe them by cancelling their debt
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Apr 24, 2021 00:11
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Acebuckeye13 posted:"why do police keep shooting people" makes a lot more sense when you realize that much of police training emphasizes that you could be murdered at all times, and many academies use videos of officers getting killed while waving neon signs saying THIS COULD BE YOU Can you blame them when there's a threat at every corner?   (This is another training video called Surviving Edges Weapons) 1glitch0 posted:But you probably have to wear a mask, so...
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Apr 26, 2021 07:32
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People seem to be happy to send some random street cop to jail for making a lovely split-second decision, but I'd say this warrior-cop guy is doing way more damage overallAlkydere posted:Is that the one where it shows ridiculous poo poo that could be used by supposed criminals like the guy with fish-hooks hanging from the back of his jeans' pant-leg? Or a hat with a bunch of razor blades obviously and lazily stitched into the back of a baseball cap (you know: the part with little to no real mass or structural integrity) that would be obvious from a million miles away from any angle from the direct front and could be flopped against a cop to make him die of a thousand papercuts? Yes that's the one. There's a fun summary of it here https://youtu.be/p1sxc3V0lzQ (about 31m in) though you can also find the full thing too.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1386685340522536961 Wait, that's Santorum, of the cum/lube/poop fame? And he's employed by CNN now? 
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Grossman has waxed poetic about how the best sex you'll ever have is right after killing someone. The man who has formulated one of the most widely used police training methodologies in the US everyone! Didn't it turn out that he never actually killed anyone? Which, of course, is good, but 
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Stickman posted:...Wow, that's pretty hosed up. Not only is it FTP with simple plurality to win, people voting "no" on the recall are probably much less likely to vote on the replacement question. I guess it's fortunate that the recall is extremely unlikely to pass. Not to mention the people not interested in doing thr recall would be less likely to vote at all. So it seems like this could easily get Jenner (or Pepe the frog) elected if there's no requirement for turnout
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Apr 27, 2021 06:53
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The ID situation looks pretty funny from the outside because on the surface the republicans want a pretty sensible thing (standardized IDs which can't be faked by every teenager looking for booze) but as usual for racist reasons. The opposition makes sense but nothing is actually done to address the availability of the IDs so everything stays dysfunctioal
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Apr 27, 2021 18:41
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Nenonen posted:Where does one automatically get a free ID? Here it costs around 50 eurobucks + official photo about 10 bucks (though you can take the shot yourself as long as it passes the official requirements). Sounds like fasciam! (It's more or less the same here)
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Apr 27, 2021 21:06
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Ither posted:Random Question: Why do Elephants have smaller tusks than their predecessors? The longer tusks probably got stuck in the ground constantly Thom12255 posted:I'm sure there is someone out there that has said the Holocaust wasn't so bad because they got Israel out of it. 
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Apr 28, 2021 14:06
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Fame Douglas posted:Giuliani had almost a year to get rid of all evidence, with tons of advance warning. Nothing is going to come of this. On the other hand: he's a loving idiot. So Im pretty sure he still has a mycrimes.txt file on the desktop
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Apr 28, 2021 20:44
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The few Republicans who want to "move past" Trump are never going to win.
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May 17, 2021 19:42
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VH4Ever posted:Don't like 80% or more already believe this....? Nit a significant chunk but as I said, I was legit shocked the other poll showed 65% thought the election was stolen. I legit thought it's like 30% max (which is still too much)
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May 18, 2021 00:16
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Here's an interesting article on Biden's background with Israel. https://www.vox.com/22442000/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-history-policy Based on that and everything we've seen so far, it's clear he's not going to be super hard on them, but it seems like he has his limits too, e.g. like when they started settlements. The private diplomacy makes sense IMO, the UN resolutions are worthless anyway so that's how I'd approach it too. Of course whether or not this actually happened or Bibi is just satisfied with the number of dead civilians, that's another matter.
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May 21, 2021 00:08
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James Garfield posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1395730553249349635 According to the comments, they got married, then divorced, and then she killed herself when she was 20. We call this The Aristocrats!
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/owillis/status/1395823353554997252 "Service as a husband" or "husband as a service"? HaaS? I hope the VCs have the cash ready for my new startup.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:They said there was a bomb on the plane when it was over their airspace, and directed the aircraft to Minsk. It was much closer to its destination in Vilnius than to Minsk so that wasn't really a good excuse.
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May 23, 2021 16:58
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Velocity Raptor posted:Can you expand on this? I imagine squirreling away all those I don't think you can (legally) just pocket the donations and financially it would almost certainly be better to just get hired as a lobbyist by one of the companies you were just regulating
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May 23, 2021 23:09
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Bugsy posted:Good job on understanding the first amendment florida.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:Obviously not enough guns. Texas legalized all guns for everyone and it didn't happen there so theory checks out
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May 26, 2021 18:22
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Jaxyon posted:Almost nobody (especially nobody in this thread) has said that it IS enough. Yeah I totally get that it's frustrating. But also constantly bitching about him seems pointless. That's who the people elected and he represents them, if they wanted to elect MegaBernie they could've. Trying to blackmail him to do what his base doesn't want seems like a pretty bad idea.
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May 28, 2021 00:05
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Thom12255 posted:A lot of the social welfare reforms in the UK in the 20th century were aimed at making the nation's population stronger in a war so it's a good route to go! Same in Germany!
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Jun 9, 2021 15:26
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Someone up there loves Andrew Yang, because his biggest competitor just got caught in an even worse situation than living in upstate New York and running for Mayor of NYC... living in New Jersey and running for Mayor of NYC. So he just takes the PATH in? That's what I did daily while staying with my cousin in Jersey City in the before times
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Grouchio posted:It takes one to get Manchin to kiss his ring. Sure, it's extra-legal
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DoomTrainPhD posted:The best solution is to ban corporations from owning homes. ReidRansom posted:Wife and I are basically resigned to not owning a home until our parents have died and we're able to sell one or both of theirs. And like, we do alright! We're pretty bougie! But you can't chase a bubble being pumped by cash buyers who will buy sight unseen. I don't know where all this money is coming from. It's crazy.
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evilweasel posted:it is impressive you are managing to complain about this And think about what it'd do to local mom&pop vaccine manufacturers!
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Jun 10, 2021 21:57
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:property taxes aren't really a barrier to homeownership but if the value of your home increases due to gentrification or just general number-up then your appraisal and thus tax burden can increase as well. this is really a problem for retired people on fixed incomes who bought the house in 1971 or whatever and really can't afford to move and may be in trouble if their property tax bill goes from $1200 to $4000
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Jun 10, 2021 22:15
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Deteriorata posted:These businesses found a way around the worker shortage: Raising wages to $15 an hour or more Seems like the minimum wage isn't needed after all. Checkmate libs!
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mdemone posted:Wanted to draw attention to this because it's a remarkable piece of journalism and well worth your time. Yeah that's a pretty horrifying pro-click, holy poo poo.
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Bishyaler posted:Are you shocked that the lab leak conspiracy is entering the mainstream, even among liberals? Biden took Trump's sinophobic horseshit and promoted it as a real possibility. It is a real possibility. It's happened before, multiple times. The question is how that possibility is handled.
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Deteriorata posted:Tucker seems to be more of a grifter and opportunist than an ideologue. He would be preaching about the workers' control of the means of production if he got paid enough to do it. Idea forna goon project. Let's crowdfund Tucker's new Communism, Now show. Dubar posted:The real problem with the lab leak theory is that it normalizes "correlation = causation" as a thought process, which is a huge victory for the anti-truth movement. Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Let's assume someone from the lab accidently (or nefariously on purpose!) let a deadly virus out into the wild (with Wuhan as ground zero) But it's absolutely important to find out the origin of the outbreak, at the very least to fix the procedures that led to the virus escaping containment if it did get out of a lab.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Of course the GOP nominee for NYC mayor is some kind of brownshirt leader who was last relevant in the 1980s. Well he does want to save the kittens and puppers at least
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