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RWM would just declare it photoshopped or AI generated. See the false flag crisis actor bullshit around the students from.. Parkland?
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Willa Rogers posted:The survey did include cutting military spending, as the linked piece shows, and it garnered the highest percentage of pro-cut votes (eta: in the graphic posted by AP that I pasted below): Technically this graphic is also chopping off a bunch of data. The NORC article has the actual full data. Foreign aid has the highest support for cuts (by a pretty large margin too lmao Americans are so loving stupid): koolkal posted:
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Who are these onlookers that need people to factcheck Greene for the 50th time about whatever insane poo poo she's saying?
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Zamujasa posted:Trump withdrawing would cement his status as a Loser before the votes are even cast, and for that reason alone I don't see him withdrawing. I would expect a Stop the Steal movement and protesters to attack whoever's in the lead. Which could be funny?
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I certainly won't but it's still good information to have and perhaps might lead to people keeping track of their health in regards to alcohol-related issues more closely. Like asking your doctor to screen for liver disease or something IDK. For example, I tend to get bloodwork done every other year and screen for a few different things that may be issues for me due to family history, past issues, etc. but I've never been a heavy drinker so I didn't take it into consideration. koolkal fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Round here we call that pulling a Bust Rodd.
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Gumball Gumption posted:What happened to the judge in Washington who ruled that the FDA can't restrict access? How does that play into setting precedent? Yeah I'm curious about this too. Is there some kind of jurisdiction difference?
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texas-judge-halts-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-mifepristone This article makes it seem like the FDA could choose to continue allowing the drug so kinda sounds like Biden is just willingly choosing to follow the Trump judge's order instead of the other judge.
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Google Jeb Bush posted:As someone else mentioned, I think you either misread or posted the wrong article. At the moment, according to the article you posted I was going based off the tweet posted a page or 2 ago from the HHS spokeswoman had posted which made it seem like they were going to pull it but sounds like I misinterpreted it and there's nothing actually changing for a few days at least.
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Willa Rogers posted:I.R.S. Official Is Said to Assert Political Meddling in Hunter Biden Inquiry (NYT story that should be able to pass scrutiny): I for one hope he gets charged for both issues because the idea of Republicans coming out against dodging taxes and buying a gun would be pretty funny.
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It sounds like the case will go back to the 5th circuit (the crazy conservative one right?) for a full case in May right? And they will presumably ban it? And then it gets appealed to SCOTUS and they can either take it up (and likely ban it? not sure where Roberts + Gorsuch would stand) or refer to the lower ruling. Is this a good interpretation of what's likely to happen?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The FCC is working with the European Union to develop 6G standards and technology to be distributed around the world. 6G doesn't exist as a standard yet. Right now it is essentially "5G but faster". Everything else is just a wishlist of features that will have to be nailed down by the people actually working on establishing the standard (usually a mix of various tech/telecom companies, academic researchers, the government, etc.). koolkal fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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haveblue posted:Lmao that that is almost the exact same thing they used to drive home the impact of Logan Roy dying on Succession two weeks ago Lol, I was just thinking that too! 
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Willa Rogers posted:Reminder that one of Tucker's largest demographics was millennial Democrats, at least as of a year and a half ago. I think you're misinterpreting this since millennials of any persuasion aren't a large part of Fox News demographics. Their median viewer age is in the 60s (also true for MSNBC and CNN). Of the millennial Democrats that watch cable news he's the biggest, but that demo is very small.
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Comstar posted:Wow, SomethingAwful still has that much power? I'm impressed. This is dumb because the FDIC has made it clear they will cover even uninsured deposits. The only losers are shareholders. If you hold a bank's stock you should certainly get out but as a depositor there's no reason to worry. It might save a bit of headache while the FDIC works out transfership but that's more of an inconvenience than a major concern. koolkal fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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Just an update on bank news: the feds orchestrated a sale of First Republic to JPMorgan who will acquire the entire bank. Shareholders wiped out but everyone else should be fine (well, most staff will be fine, I expect there might be some layoffs). The feds would prefer to minimize disruption so they set up sales to big banks that can afford to absorb the bank as a whole instead of carving it up. The feds chip in some money (taken from the FDIC fund which is funded by all banks essentially) since the bank essentially has negative value. This is identical to what happened with SVB and Credit Suisse and is the model for all bank failures from the current crisis. And it's really only small or medium sized banks that will go under because the big banks can absorb losses more easily and in the worst-case scenario, they are Too Big To Fail. koolkal fucked around with this message at 20:53 on May 1, 2023 |
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May 1, 2023 20:49
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Charlz Guybon posted:Would this work? I have no idea. It's a trick I've seen tossed around by others like Matt Levine so it should work but it's one of those things where it's new and weird and someone will probably sue for some reason which could halt sales temporarily.
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May 3, 2023 18:22
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Willa Rogers posted:Most goons are too young to remember George Schultz's glory days but those of us ancient enough to have listened to the Iran-Contra hearings will never forget the earth-shaking disclosure that Schultz had a tiger tattooed on his rear end in honor of his alma mater. I imagine most people nowadays that do know of him know him as Jack McCoy's character
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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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If over time, right wingers successfully pull what they did with Bud Light, you will see companies dropping support for #pride stuff, hiring trans people, etc. It seems bad to say that we should not push back on this when the long term effect of allowing right wingers to pressure corporations will have an overall chilling effect. But I guess this doesn't fit into the leftist "class war is the only war" philosophy.
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Willa Rogers posted:Are you addressing a particular post? Who has said "we" should not push back on this? I was mainly responding to Fister's post, which to me was saying this stuff doesn't matter, which I disagree with. I think we should be fighting on every frontier and over every stupid issue. If companies see 1 side going apeshit over every small issue and the other side shrugging and going "rainbow capitalism lol" they're going to do what's easy and appease. koolkal fucked around with this message at 19:49 on May 6, 2023 |
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Koos Group posted:That part is fairly obvious. I'd be interested to know why it's happening now in particular. Shortage of labor pushed rich people to want to increase the labor pool, they called up one of the right wing groups that drafts boilerplate legislation that all the republicans distribute (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/ or Chris Rufo for example) and suddenly you see a wave of states like Arkansas or Idaho passing these bills. That's my theory at least.
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pencilhands posted:goons itt:  This article is older than some posters itt lol
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Barrel Cactaur posted:Selling existing debt in that framing still causes inflation, debt financing is inflationary. Also, increasing the amount of publicly circulating US debt in this manner at the same time as an unusual financial maneuver is going to hurt US bond prices. Much of this debt was acquired at lower interest rates, so your going to have to sell it at a discount from its face value to account for the difference from market rate, locking in even MORE inflation of the effective supply of money. Its a bad idea, and worse magic thinking. I don't think you quite understand the premium bond idea. The bond would still be auctioned off at the current interest rates but the FACE value of the bond would be lower. "The premium-bond gimmick is: Treasury sells you one one-year $100 bond today, with an interest rate of 109%. In a year you get back $209: the $100 face amount of the bond, plus 109% interest. That bond has a face amount of $100, but it is clearly worth $200 today: It is economically the same as the two 4.5% bonds from the previous paragraph. So you’d be willing to pay Treasury $200 for it: the $100 face amount, plus $100 of “premium” to make the yield work out. And Treasury would be willing to sell it to you for $200: It sells you this $100 bond for $200. Treasury gets $200 of cash. But technically this bond is only $100 of “debt,” of face amount, so it only increases the debt by $100." The Treasury is constantly issuing bonds so these would just be offered in their upcoming auctions in place of the regular bond. koolkal fucked around with this message at 20:24 on May 13, 2023 |
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Iamgoofball posted:you gamers Whoa there, this kinda language is uncalled for.
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If someone/s can't build a base of support to win a primary, surely they will set up a 3rd party and take over a state.
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zoux posted:People seem to think that Donald Trump winning a black swan election by 10,000 votes across a few key states against a terrible candidate the right had spent 20 years making into the Antichrist makes him an unstoppable juggernaut. He won 2016 by about 80000 votes across 3 states. He lost 2020 by about 50000 across 3 states. And 2020 had a lot more voters. If anything, 2020 looks like more of a black swan event considering the parties have been switching after a 2 term president each for several cycles.
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Mooseontheloose posted:Biden won more states than Clinton and even if you take it as PA, Georgia, and AZ it's over 100,000 votes. And Biden had more voters than Trump. Yes, I would assume the winner of an election would win more states than the loser of one? WI was +20000 Biden, AZ was +11000 Biden, GA was +22000 Biden. If all 3 of those had swung to Trump, Trump would have won the election. 2020 was a closer election and more of an outlier by pretty much every metric besides lovely pre-election polling. Calling Trump's 2016 win an outlier and "black swan" is bizarre and doesn't match up with any reality beyond "vibes."
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Just find a staircase and have an accident (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 19, 2023 06:37
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Going to be great when a 14 yo needs more verification to go on reddit than to go to their job at Hooters
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SubG posted:I kinda felt the same way about the Morris worm. That was 1988. Instead we've ended up with a situation where substantial chunks of the internet are dependent on load-bearing single-developer NPM libraries. There was some noise about it earlier this year but I haven't really been tracking it: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/biden-administration-wants-to-hold-companies-liable-for-bad-cybersecurity/
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It would be helpful if the Democrats had someone at the national level with a large media presence. Someone who could really highlight the good things Democrats have done and point out all the awful things Republicans are doing Alas...
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Killer robot posted:This here is is something that absolutely happens all the time but just doesn't get the same engagement, even from the left, as Trump's latest deranged social media post. According to the Democrats, it's not just engagement that's the problem: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/24/democrats-angry-debt-limit-messaging/
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Technically, the Dems could keep McCarthy as speaker too. Especially if it's to get a favorable debt deal through. Efb
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NYC has usable subways, for one thing. I live in a different major US city and take more NYC subway rides on average just from the few times I visit throughout the year
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Last I checked the UK has more than 2 parties and is Transphobia Island
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the_steve posted:Almost certainly this. Well apparently Desantis agrees so...
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Don't do a crime that can be understood via a picture of your toilet.
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