Remember that this is the same man who the Supreme Court asserts has such an important job that he can’t be subject to the distraction of a criminal prosecution…

It’s not the path (although that could use a change), it’s the candidates. I didn’t have as much of a problem with Harris as the lot of you, but I acknowledge the problems with Harris. They might have been solved if she had a full primary to prove herself out first, but now we’ll never know.

Democrats need to get past the “next one up” mentality and look for a candidate that will resonate with these voters, even if that person hasn’t put in the time and lines up all the donors as the “next one up”. (Looking at you, Gavin…)

The election apparatus in the US is extremely hard to rig. It’s run by local officials, so in order to fix the counting of voters you need to get to thousands of individual county/city/town election boards, all at once. Those boards have members of all parties generally present on them so there is a fair amount of local oversight to overcome, too.

There was a bit of time in the early 2000’s where the voting machines themselves were suspect but some good work by independant researchers shined some daylight on that. Now most votes in the US are either done purely by paper ballots (counted by machines) or on machines that generate verifiable paper trails, and are very hard to just casually alter the count without being found out.

Republicans rig the vote by manipulating their media. Roger Ailes was one of Nixon’s media advisors during Watergate. The lesson he took away was that if the media didn’t hold Nixon to account, he would have never had to resign. Ailes went on to run Fox News in the mid-90s, and the rest is history.

The two men with him were taken into custody. He does not know why.

I think I know why; they probably looked “foreign” too, and didn’t have their Proof of Citizenship on their person.

I like how the article just skates past that point. Presumably the guy knows these people, they were in his car. And the article is just like “ICE took them, and I don’t know why”. I would be much more visibly pissed off if ICE took my friends because they didn’t have passports on their person. It seems like a much more important point than the article makes it out to be.

But this is exactly what AI is being marketed toward. All of Apple’s AI ads showcase dumb people who appear smart because the AI bails out their ineptitude.

There were, like, six or seven different agreements, I read them all and only declined the most egregious ones, that explicitly said they would share my data with third parties without limit. I understand they need an agreement to cover basic data sharing between me and them, but I will not consent to having them immediately send the data to my insurance agent (or the government).

Right, there are legitimate cases for this. The argument, though, is that these companies are not to be trusted.

I bought a new Toyota recently, and know from others that their app has some car tracking built in to it, where once you connect the app to the car you can see info on trips and gas mileage and such. When I bought mine, though, I carefully read all the T&Cs, and specifically declined the one that said it would sell my driving data to third parties. Guess what? I don’t see that historical data. A minor inconvenience, but it lets you know who they consider their real customers to be.

https://x.com/KashPatel_News could be anyone.

But it has a blue check! Surely that means something… _/s

Actually, this is good news, because they were able to fulfill all those redemptions. It means they were not doing shady things with all those deposits.

Do I understand this correctly, then, that this was some sort of MITM attack where valid requests to the multisig parties were replaced by malicious code while still appearing to be valid to the signers? That must be an inside job.

And this is the first time I have heard the word “musked” in this context…

Well, either it wasn’t as offline as they all thought, or someone pulled off an epic inside job.

At least in this era of “Roman salutes”, we are going back to the classical definition of decimate…

They would volunteer that info on their neighbors, but not themselves. Why? Because the only moral abortions are their own.

It’s not designed to have women register themselves. What self-respecting woman would voluntarily report that they might get an abortion, in a state that is openly hostile to that?

Nope, the reporting would be done by nosy health care providers (and perhaps even neighbors, like in TX). Are you a woman of child-bearing age who has to go out of state unexpectedly? Someone might add you to this list. You know, just in case.

But wait, Elon said the DoE had been “deleted”. Which is it?

Let’s see if he can enforce it…

Ah, I know a bit about Kodak, being a resident of Rochester, NY (and a former employee). Go back 100 years, and George Eastman was the Steve Jobs of his day. Kodak was just like Apple, bringing the obscure technology of photography to the masses.

But that tech was very much dependant on chemical processes, specifically the Silver Halides used in film. Although Steve Sasson invented the digital camera whike at Kodak, Management basically told him “Great job! Here’s a bonus. We’re not gonna sell it, though, this will ruin our film business”.

Ridge Road in Rochester is full of factories with large roll coating machines to make film which are now functionally obsolete. As far as I know many of those buildings are still there, but in truth its been a while since I’ve been up there. Kodak sold off bits and pieces of that factory space over the years, even before the bankruptcy. But they tore down much more factory space, entire buildings, because the property taxes were cheaper on vacant lots than on buildings. Yet they haven’t gotten around to divesting it all.

Kodak still technically exists after the bankruptcy, but is far less relevant to the local economy now. Back in the day, when Kodak Park ran 3 shifts making film, local car dealers timed their promotions around Kodak’s “Wage Dividend” bonus. But it turns out their technological advantage had an expiration date.

George Eastman’s influence is seen all over Rochester, though. His name is all over various buildings in town, as well as the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music. And when he decided his health was declining and his work was done, he shot himself to end it all in the most efficient matter possible. Even most Lemmings, who abhor the rich, might have a soft spot for an insanely rich person who not only gave back to his community, but also took it upon himself to end it without being a burden to anyone.

Kodak’s value is as a film company. Now that film is a niche product, their brand name has no value whatsoever, except for the fact that it’s still familiar. If you see Kodak branding on a consumer product, I doubt it was actually developed by Kodak, I would bet they just licensed the name.

The cruelty is the point.

Get a few fake (but convincing) articles about revolutionaries across the country.

They already have been describing migrants as an “invasion force”, and describing male migrants in their 20’s as “military-age”…

What makes you think it won’t happen? They have the votes for it.