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Crab Dad posted:Wasn’t that codified in treaties? Did we just really poo poo on all tribal treaties? Yup!
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Leon county school board approved their new lbgtq+ policy even though 100% of the people who came to the meeting spoke out against it. Included in the policy is a new parental notification procedure. If any student is open about their gender identity, the school will notify every single parent of any student that is in PE or goes on any overnight field trip with them via a form letter. Bunch of bad poo poo definitely not gonna happen because of this.
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Bored As gently caress posted:That escalated very quickly. e: wait i saw it wrong - it's basically a large bottle rocket stuck in the mud that then sets off all the fireworks that were behind the car.
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Jul 6, 2022 16:58
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Wow thanks for that - that was loving insane.
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Jul 6, 2022 18:33
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Is it a white guy and is he shouting wooooooo and talking about space mountain? yes it is a white guy
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Jul 6, 2022 18:33
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facialimpediment posted:So... apparently some rando non-police truck road raged after the guy and hosed up his own truck? Yeah vigilante truck was nuts. I'm guessing meth is the cause of this.
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Jul 6, 2022 18:35
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LongDarkNight posted:Late to insurance chat but that's my job, I investigate and handle auto claims. I've never heard of fireworks exclusion so they should get paid as it appears to be an accident. Assuming they have comprehensive coverage. The denial question was about vigilante truck dude who totaled his vehicle repeatedly ramming the stolen one from behind. I think that would fall under "technically this is not covered but we're gonna allow it rather than make a stink denying coverage to the one guy who tried to actually stop the dude before he hurt anyone else because the cops did not."
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he also plans on putting her in charge of twitter when the sale is complete.
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Jul 7, 2022 01:55
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Discussion Quorum posted:Just lol if Alabama ends up with not one but TWO dumb-as-rocks senators because they were good at football He’s running in Georgia against Reverend Warnock.
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I did not have former Japanese PM assassination on my july bingo card.
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IIRC, Biden has already said he's running again in 2024 when asked.
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Crab Dad posted:Was there a porn going in the background of that scene? Not porn. The guy on the stand is a private eye playing a recording of Jim Carey’s client’s infidelity.
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maffew buildings posted:Well if you're gone then I guess the "loving stupidest idiot" crown is being passed off here Yeah this poster is a real fucker.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I like the show but gonna politely disagree, some school eps have nothing happen and it feels like they forgot to include jokes. I mean even peak Simpsons had clip episodes there’s no reason to watch, pobody’s nerfect. There is an issue with apple safari browsers (both ios and osx) where pages will freeze when a tweet is listed by twitter as having sensitive content. As a temp patch over this while more investigation is ongoing, all tweet embedding is disabled on safari.
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Jul 12, 2022 21:55
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Ken Paxton continues to be a giant piece of poo poo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/14/texas-sues-biden-emergency-abortion/
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Grip it and rip it posted:This kind of poo poo is definitely going to get bad, quickly. Reading about the state investigating the doctor definitely fills me with a kind of revulsion and anger that is concerning. Thanks to Fox59 reporters putting in a public records request, we now know the doctor that the state AG and Fox News are trying to get killed did follow all of her mandatory reporting procedures.
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I’ve discussed this in a few places and we’re talking about it some in the lawgoon thread. Twitter has Musk over a barrel. They’re suing for specific performance because the contract Musk wrote has that as the penalty for breach. The $1bn in liquidated damages only occurs if he cannot get financing. He already has financing. Banks have issued the bonds. He has to put in more personally than he originally intended, but he has the money. The Delaware court of chancery is built upon the provision that clear and unambiguous contractual terms will be enforced. If a judge started ignoring terms or rewriting contracts, one of the biggest reasons everyone is incorporated in Delaware disappears. Musk may not be forced to buy Twitter by the court, but that only happens if they settle first. The settlement price right now is around $16-17b which is the difference in current share price and what Musk offered. The complaint from Twitter is very well written and is easy for a layperson to read. The judge in this case doesn’t gently caress around, and, earlier this year, has ordered specific performance when a buyer attempted to use bad faith tactics to tank the deal. This court also moves fast. There will be resolution by October - either Musk will own Twitter or Twitter will be paying a hell of a dividend to shareholders.
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Grip it and rip it posted:Also if the Twitter board goes for anything short of maximum shareholder value they will be sued by their shareholders. Which is why any settlement will turn into a massive dividend or buyback program.
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Jul 15, 2022 16:38
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:That never came across any of my feeds.. you got a link or a tweet or something about a large Russian grain vessel blowing up? He’s saying a russian vessel caused the beirut explosion (which it did) and destroyed the grain that is now on fire because Lebanon is devastated still from the explosion and literally can’t do anything about it.
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J6 defendant asked for change of venue for his trial because 100% of the people who have gone to trial in that court had been convicted. The judge's response: https://twitter.com/sfoguj/status/1547955538348036097 That's a fun lil thread regardless.
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Zamujasa posted:is there something particular about the name "BledsoeFuck"? my brain isn't working rn The defendant's name is Bledsoe.
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Discussion Quorum posted:https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1548502759858548738?t=rZ90_toxMhniX9CdFe1fMw&s=19 https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1548510177330188288
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I caught up a bit this morning on Alex Jones/Sandy Hook trial shenanigans. For a timeline/background: Jones gets sued by Sandy Hook families in both Connecticut and in Texas. In both cases, Jones has done everything possible to act in bad faith and delay things. Both cases awarded death penalty sanctions against Jones, granting full defaults on liability. The only remaining issue is damages. I can't speak to the Connecticut case, but the Texas case was defaulted, in large part, because Jones refused to actually provide anyone at deposition who could answer any questions. Three of five depositions, Jones sent the same guy who knows nothing and could not answer any questions. After each deposition, Jones was ordered to pay for the plaintiffs' attorneys' fees because of his tactics. In one of the other depositions, they sent a different completely unprepared person who could not answer any questions, and in the other they sent their high school grad bookkeeper. Immediately after the deposition, Jones said that the bookkeeper's testimony was unreliable because she is not a CPA and is only a high school grad that punches things into quickbooks for Jones. Because of these repeat discovery sanctions the judge sanctioned Jones $1m. On the eve of trial in April in the Texas case, Jones filed for bankruptcy using three shell companies that had no assets. The Texas plaintiffs' dropped the bankrupt entities from the suit, but nevertheless the trial was canceled and the cases dragged into bankruptcy court. Ultimately, Jones stipulated to letting the Sandy Hook plaintiffs out of the bankruptcy (because it would have been worse/more sanctionable otherwise) and withdrew the bankruptcy petition. Following the return to Texas, Jones sought to modify the $1m in discovery sanctions saying that they only apply to Free Speech Systems, LLC and not him personally, because he is a natural person and cannot have a corporate rep. They also submitted an affidavit of the same person they called an uneducated bookkeeper before with the new title of FSS Comptroller to say that FSS doesn't have the money to pay the $1m and keep operating. During the hearing on this motion, Jones' lawyer admitted that Jones had more than enough money to pay the sanction, and the judge told him to pay the sanction, then. He appealed this order and was swiftly denied. Jury selection for the damages trial is set to begin on the 25th with the trial starting on July 26.
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There is also a much more recently filed companion suit to the Texas defamation suit. They’ve tracked down a bunch of Jones’ transfers of money out of his LLCs and into various trusts for his parents, kids, and himself in an attempt to thwart the impending collection action against him after juries award the families $Texas in compensatory and punitive damages. With luck, the court will be able to unwind those transfers and get the money to the victims of his more than a decade of abuse.
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I've actually looked at the numbers, and I can tell you that Musk is an idiot. I trust Twitter's mdau numbers short of actual fraud on their end. In statistics, there's a formula you can use to determine a sample size needed to meet desired statistical constraints. Twitter has about 229m users per quarter after all of the bots/spam accounts detected by the automated system have been removed. If I want to build a statistical test with a 99% confidence level, 1% margin of error, and start with the default assumption that 10% of the population is a bot, I'll need a sample size of 5991. With my randomly sampled 6k accounts, the proportion of those that are bots will be with 1% of the true population. If I want 99.9% confidence, the sample size increases to 9742. Twitter samples 9k per quarter of 229m active users that get past the automated systems. Of that, they find that fewer than 5% are bots. Assuming their sample is random and the human classifiers are correct all of the time, the methods are statistically sound and the numbers are trustworthy. Brain genius Musk thinks that he could build a better sample by exporting his follower list, skipping the first 1000, and reviewing each 10th account after that. Musk does not understand enter level college statistics.
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This is what that type of fish looks like at its natural depth:    Note that these are pictures of the same fish from different angles.
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Garland had said that he will not be indicting anyone because of a Barr memo that they’re not creating any large indictments during a midterm that could impact the outcome. There is also DOJ policy to not investigate any candidate for federal office or their employees.  just
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In Twitter news, judge sets trial date in October while essentially disregarding everything Musk's lawyers had to say. Musk's attorneys did not get the time of day. Here's a livestream thread of the hearing if you wanna read through it. https://twitter.com/chancery_daily/status/1549434529689083904
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AOC and a number of others arrested while protesting outside SCOTUS just now. https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1549447490684026881 Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jul 19, 2022 |
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Also, a power transformer or something just blew up at the hoover dam: https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1549447547957166086 Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Jul 19, 2022 |
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Grip it and rip it posted:We need patriots to move to Wyoming, and Alaska, and the Dakotas, and Montana! You go first. We're right behind you.
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Texas is only the south in east texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JREkqCvLzSo I'm a panhandle native, and he's right, we're forgotten.
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The panhandle is very much a mishmash of every culture around it. It's just rural emptiness for the most part and the culture is not very different than any other patch of dry rural emptiness anywhere in the nation. I live in the south now. I have also lived in west texas and the panhandle. While they are redneck, they are not southern. For example, my first experience with collard greens or grits was on a navy warship because those are not staple foods in west texas or the panhandle the way they are in the south. The food there is a mix of mexican and midwestern and has basically zero southern influence. I have far more in common with someone who grew up in eastern new mexico than I have with anyone that I've ever known in the south. I thought the greens were steamed spinach and boy did I get a surprise with that first big bite.
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Grip it and rip it posted:I hate this country, actually. Hmm, yet you choose to live in it.
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I wonder why all the meteorologists are fatalistic. HMMMM.
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Monoclonal antibodies aren't really used anymore because they're not effective against omicron and new variants. They do have effective antivirals in the form of paxlovid, which he is on.
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Also, if Biden dies, I think we end up with a vacant VP spot until after midterms and potentially through the rest of her presidency. This will be bizarre, because no VP means no one to count the votes according to the constitution and ECA. Filling a vacant VP slot just requires a simple majority from both congressional houses, but there is no tie breaker for a tied senate. e: prior to the 25th, the president pro tem would count votes when there was a VP vacancy, but they cannot cast tie breaking votes. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It wouldn't be the first time. Before 1967 and the 25th Amendment, there wasn't any actual mechanism to replace Vice-Presidents that ascended to the Presidency. Yeah, I edited my post with some updated info. The president pro tem would probably be the one actually counting the EC votes, and there simply would be no tie breaker in the senate.
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