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Trump DOJ launches bizarre investigation into Nixon Watergate scandal Department of Justice officials are thinking about reopening the files pertaining to the Watergate scandal to review whether or not the special prosecutors committed misconduct. Officials within the Department of Justice are thinking of reopening the files pertaining to the Watergate scandal to review whether or not former President Richard Nixon might have gotten a raw deal.

GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, according to multiple reports. Imagination Library, the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world, faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri as Republican lawmakers limit public funding, Newsweekreported Wednesday.

…third (ineffective) impeachment. Impeachment is useless if it’s effectively meaningless.

So YT’s algorithm is pushing right wing racist distros? Huh. Wonder who is paying to make that algorithm work that way.

Descent Battlefield 1942/DC mod Tie Fighter (‘94) Myst Farcry 5

Cats don’t like their tails touching anything when they go. So if you have an enclosed litterbox where the only way cat doesn’t feel like their ass is confined and touching stuff, they’ll stick it out the door. So you can try taking the lid off, or try taping a washcloth over the opening blocking 1/2 of the top so that the cat butt will touch that in hopes that this is more disagreeable than just being all the way in the box.

Any inmate leaving the facility could describe all of that without glasses.

Fuck these clowns. Their “compromise” is finding some way to quiet the bad press while continuing to do what they’ve been doing. “We’ll stop putting our cameras where people don’t want them and just put then where our clients want them.”

20 years ago was 2006. I do not recall any tech resistance by the masses. In fact a couple years later there were people camping out overnight waiting for the release of the latest gadgets like the iphone. Ffw to today…those same masses dgaf about their lives being tracked and monetized today; in fact, many are active and willing sycophants pushing being social media personalities as careers while using that personality to shit on higher education and intelligence. I do agree that the limited tech community capable of independent thought and action are against the surveillance corporate state we’re headed into, but the rest are doing their best to hurry and profit off it while the dumpster fire flames get closer and closer to them.

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” From Ron fucking Paul of all people.

You’re not really a “cyclist” if a motor is doing a bunch of the work. That’s the equivalent of those mopeds we had in the ‘70s that you could pedal, too. Probably went 35-40 mph. Nobody in their right mind would call them bicycles or call the riders cyclists. It’s a motorized bike.

AI/LLMs are the modern equivalent of the house or business with “Psychic” and “Tarot Reading” signs out front. The proprietor isn’t going to tell you any hard truths or make you feel bad, that’s bad for business and you won’t come back. They want you to come back and stay engaged. Whatever they tell you is going to be what they think you want to hear based on skills picked up over the years - the equivalent of LLMs petabytes of scraped and stolen knowledge used to predict what comes next. What they tell you has a high likelihood of being wrong, or just general enough that you can’t actually act on it.

JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time. Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.

The same people that say the economy is shit because life’s hard and they can’t get ahead are the same ones that point out that the president says the economy is doing great whenever someone criticizes him.

Next in AI: realistic eyes!

Damn right, Bernie. I was a blue-no-matter-who because they actually make some policy sense, but now it’s only because the Right is absolutely insane. If a Progressive or Social Democrat actually had any traction I’d vote for them over the straight (D) instantly.

I assume you live someplace warmer?

SSE is a decent company. If they printed it, they knew what they were doing. And it made people look up the meaning. I think they made a fair choice.

I was not able to find a source I find reliable, but there are many sites that suggest elephants recognize individual humans and recognize guns as threats, and can even recognize a gun pointed at them is a threat. So if someone they don’t know has a gun, and we’ll never know if he aimed one at an elephant for funsies, they may have identified him as a threat and defended themselves by killing him.

“Hypocrisy.”

Former rose garden, now “tacky patio”.

Mycography makes for some amazing images.

Then they get their power bill and heating oil bill.

Hm. I‘m curious who was polled. I‘m surprised there isn‘t the usual ~30% boot licking fascist bracket.

Nobody else will talk to him.

Ok; This is the observable universe. Not the entire universe, which we have no idea how large it is. So the observable universe has 10^80 atoms or so. The number of possible moves in all possible chess games is supposed to be around 10^120. That number is called the “Shannon Number.” According to this site.

I had to look it up, no clue what “destination Saturn” was. I picked up all the series games individually.

I didn’t either. I kinda assumed it was them having a group of already identified cats ans then doing science-y stuff and saying “wait! This one’s different!” And poof, new species.

Fake. A report would list the violations, the code reference, and have a lot of extra text describing the municipalities rules regarding said violations and a list of consequences for failing to correct said violations. It would certainly not list a price because the inspector doesn’t set repair costs or estimate them, and these were fines they aren’t “estimated,” much less printed out on a sheet like this. Even if it were remotely real, why would the tenant ever get a copy? The notice of violation goes to the landlord.

They don’t wanna kill art. They want to place themselves between you and everything. While it’s free now, when they get done destroying all the books and shutting down all the independent websites, you’ll pay. Just like the streaming services shut down physical copies of games, music stores and video rentals. You’ll pay.

Gross “We did it knowing nobody was going to prosecute us because Trump and that’s what bribes are for” reasons.

I clean cast iron how I want, purists be damned. If it needs seasoning again, then it’s done. That’s all there is to it. It’s cast iron ffs; you’re not gonna hurt it, it’s gonna outlive you.

Guillotines held many to account. “Never” is completely wrong.

Yes. We know about trump. But what about the article?

You jest, but this is exactly what trump would do.

“ It’s the end of the world as we know it” by REM would seem appropriate these days.

Yet

I honestly DGAF about the employees, I do care about the internal documents indicating what they’re collecting on innocent parties and sitting on regarding the rich and dirty ones.

Same list of links? Since when? It used to give you what it thought was the most relevant based on the terms placed in the search field. It was excellent. Now it gives you: AI, youtube, sponsored links, ad links, shopping links, SEO garbage, social media links, and out of all of these there’s a good chunk that have only tangential relevance to your search at best, and then MAYBE you might get a link to a site that presents the information you seek. Sometimes google search returns nothing at all. Same list of garbage.

Back when you could write your own savefile names i‘d cadge together some shorthand for the filename to help: sdqstswordgetthing.sav or some such. “Side quest to get sword get the [item] next on teh list.”

Iphone equipped with AI…

Kennedy is a serial killer.

Reminds me of this: An ex-convict gave horrific insight into serving in the Russian army, saying his officers refused to collect the dead bodies of soldiers from the battlefield so that the Russian military wouldn’t have to pay their families, according to The New York Times. In an interview, the soldier who served in one of the Russian Ministry of Defense’s convict units — who was identified as “Aleksandr” — told the Times he was ordered not to collect the bodies of his fellow troops. He told the Times that officers could register the men as “missing in action,” meaning their families couldn’t collect compensation for them being killed in battle. One shitty dictator starting a completely unwarranted war doing the same thing as another shitty dictator running a completely unwarranted war.

Hard to believe the letters associated with numbers on a phone numeric keypad is becoming uncommon.

Harkonnen is a bastard, but he was manipulated into the war on Arrakis. Trump just does it because he’s a bastard.

I appreciate that he os fighting them on their own turf and pointing out that they‘re charlatans. But he‘s just more religion in politics.

It’s also “don’t rock the boat.” Because if society decides that rich people don’t get to be filthy rich, the rich peoppe will take it out on the peasants so they can stay as rich as possible. IOW if we don’t leave the rich people alone they’ll be mean to us and take even more.

It’s a joke, friend.