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If Jack Smith had indicted Trump in DC for the theft of the documents he might still have thought he needed to bring the obstruction charges in Florida. No way around Cannon. Horns of a dilemma.

Moral of this story: VOTE.

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would have been a much more fragile case as trump was president thru a LOT of the doc transfer timeline. i very much doubt jack smith was unaware of all the risks of all the options.

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I am dumn so correct me if I'm wrong

Couldn't this open up a NEW case that could be tried separately considering the SPECIFIC 'top secret' nature of these documents...Clearly not a random selection...The 'trick' would be NOT to present them as court's evidence in the trial Cannon is overseeing...And depending on HOW 'top secret' this is, shouldn't the DOD be involved in this investigation? This train left the 'Perry Mason' station LONG ago and is now SOLIDLY in 'ongoing national-security-threat' territory...In fact, the case ITSELF is of secondary importance to the potential danger posed to the U.S.A.

Trump needs to be arrested, detained, and interrogated...

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Husband is sometimes terribly honest, which can be terribly hurtful.

After the forum tonight, he was not YAY YOU, which even if a lie, I realize I expect.

I thought it went well, I thought the opposition was a stupid b...but I was wanting "you were great! Here's why you're awesome!"

Just now he said that I needed to "get comfortable" with losing. I was like, are you kidding me? I KNOW I can lose, what are you saying?

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Not meaning to stick my nose where it doesn't belong...but since you brought it up. Maybe you're like my wife, super competitive. If she loses at anything she's miserable doesn't take it well at all. Fortunately, she usually excels at everything (sickening LOL! ) so losing is a rare occurrence. We have a niece who is the same way Got her Doctorate in record time, and landed a faculty position straight away, in addition to being an exceptional athlete and equestrian. Second place at anything just doesn't sit well with her. Sounds like you have a guy just like me and my nieces' husband. Not put back by you getting all the bows, curtain calls and awards, content to play a supporting role. so you win again! Keep winning, but don't cry too much when you don't We real men appreciate a strong accomplished woman and love you for it

Anyway, that's my two cents worth. I'll shut up now

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Nikki Haley says she'll vote for Trump. Like we didn't know that.

Pence says he will not endorse Trump but you know who the little weasel is going to vote for.

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Mother told Mikey he's not allowed to hang out with Fat Donnie anymore. She warned him about keeping "bad company" She wishes all the other Republican "Moms" would do the same.

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I was wondering why Nikki was not being attacked like all the rest of them.

Now I know why. She was always his centrist cover.

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republicans need to keep her a viable candidate in case Trump drops dead or can no longer hide his growing dementia. She has the potential to appeal to a lot of low-information pig-fucking navel-gazing shitbags

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Agree about Pence - he's going to vote for the guy who tried to have him killed. As for Haley, the only surprise is that she waited so long to make her announcement.

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Well, there goes the tech ...

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁... 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽

Pact made with WSJ, New York Post, Sunday Times, Australian publisher as lawsuit bullets ping around the industry

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/openai_news_corp/

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Guy in rubber monster suit gets stomped by an actual Godzilla.

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Well, at least a bunch of rw news people will be fired, and the quality of the journalism might actually improve...

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Open AI replaces Hannity. Suddenly Fox News becomes more palatable.

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Can AI maintain the Fox Minimum Hourly Rate of Lies? It's like John Henry and the drill.

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I'm sure that's just a parameter in the model

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Rome real estate agents are amazing. Waiting for one to try and sell us the Colosseum.

https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-57086578?r=19n7td

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Read Donna Leon's books for some Venetian apartment ownership problems. Her hero bought an apartment where some off the official books improvements had been made. Evidently Venetian authorities did not like off the books improvements.

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love her!!!

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Thnks! My bride has read that series. I've read some.

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OHJB: "Dude, if I wanted you dead, the FBI would have been at Bedminster. I know where you are all the time."

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As my Dad says, "Lightning strikes golf courses all the time."

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Interactions with law enforcement always carry the possibility of deadly force. They carry firearms for exactly that reason.

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Yeah, but it's pretty hard to have that interaction when Trump is in New Jersey and the FBI is in Florida. They deliberately did that to keep him, and his Secret Service detail, out of the way when they went after the documents.

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This.

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It's not like Dipshit Donnie doesn't the Secret Service around at all times. What. A. Idiot.

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Well, for school, I had to review a colleague's piece and in my comments, I told her I would like to see her examine her own actions and behaviors as hard as she examines those of her family members as it's a creative writing program, not a journalism program. In her piece, about skydiving with her son, but every time she talks about her son in it, she is very aggrieved over his growing up and leaving the family, especially since he left the family for a career that they did not want him to have. She has written before that they provided him so much opportunity, yet he chose a career that doesn't follow that life path.

So my assignment due today is to expand on my comment, which I can do with lots of sensitivity.

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I do not think I could like that person.

Who the heck complains that you provided so much for your spawn and then they dared went and lived their life not according to your wants?

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And then...and this is just speculation on my part..it may never happen but she'll be really shocked if and when he goes no-contact with her.

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LOL, I know! She is otherwise a great writer!

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Many a great writer was not a great person XD Maybe that is part of what makes one a great writer? Sort of the adversary of the self sort of thing.

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What makes a great writer?

Lack of introspection!

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I always figured it was how many book shaped objects they could sell XD

Was thinking about that the other day also. How many books, pre internet mind, that got actually published and we never really hear about because it is not considered a classic, so then I was all, well, what does make a classic then? And it seems to be "sold a lot of book shaped objects"

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Edit: Today's theme is for sure how the mind wanders about whilst out digging all them holes

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It makes her work "interesting" but I don't know of she means that.

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Kind of interesting that she's put it on paper.. some stuff going on there..

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I had two semesters of creative writing, and took the capstone twice. She's not the only one.

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She is a really great writer, TBH, but slightly deaf to her own tone.

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The bit about how the "left the family" by choosing a career they do not approve of is especially o.O

erm.

Pretty sure that was YOUR choice to kick them out, then, lady.

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I saw this yesterday and it very well may be

THE MOST INCREDIBLE TORNADO VIDEO EVER CAPTURED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFXN3X4e5sE

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One came through my neighborhood in '83. Not a fan.

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Yeah, right! You Seen The Wizard Of Oz? Authentic!

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Tiny tornados in big tornado.

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I've seen that before but never so clearly.

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Weird how the wind turbines keel over, but the blades hardly move.

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Looks like it crushed it

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I was wondering if that is by design ... I noticed that, also too.

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Yup, those blades were clearly "feathered" so as to allow wind to pass through with as little resistance as possible, so as to mitigate damage.

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trump hack Blanche looks constipated in every picture I see of him.

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Constipated, and bloated, seem to be every remaining Trumper's expression.

Costello looks like a semi-deflated donut. Rudy looks like a lemon that's been left out in the sun too long.

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That's what happens when you get fucked in the ass daily.

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And not get paid.

Or the face you make when you've realized you threw your whole life and career down the toilet for a dipshit asshole.

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Many people are saying!

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I was pondering the other day about sterotypes and what not, and it got me thinking about what started them off. Like why are there stereotypes to begin with, and more importantly, who is the one applying these things.

Then I started sensing a pattern: the ruling class, whomever they might be in a given place, are the ones making these things up and sticking them on other people. So then I started wondering why. They're already ruling, why would they even bother?

So now I am wondering if the othering of others comes about when said ruling class starts feeling threatened or that they might not be ruling anymore, or their rule is getting lessened to some degree, or is it pre-emptive to try and nip opposition off at the bud?

Specifically I was pondering all this and how it applied to white folks labeling everyone else this or that through US America history. Like were women mentally deficient hysterical emotion bags before they started working toward equality in the 1800s? Or did that become a thing when women started getting more independence? Were all the things about black people bandied about before people started really agitating for abolition?

Course then it started me down the musing lane toward how some in said groups try to "prove it" to said ruling class that they are totes on board with the program and NOT like the thing they said they were, and how that never ever works in the end, cause the ruling class will always turn on the other when things get tight.

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Stereotypes and "names" are a fast way to identify us versus them? Like "one of *those* people" ...

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What is your trick to get your dog to stop licking you if you’re not petting him?

He gets lots of pets I promise!

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Move away from him. My dog LOVES my lotion.

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I have no lotion on! It seems to just be a give me more attention. Moving away does help, but I was comfy

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Coming to a Windows update soon. Just ... no.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘈𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳, 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘬. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘰𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 11 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘵+ 𝘗𝘊 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘱𝘱 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘺-𝘵𝘩𝘦-𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘭.

𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱

It's only a preview, and maybe it should stay there ... forever

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/22/windows_recall/?td=rt-3a

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OK, how do I get/keep copilot off my laptop. It's icon showed up in the lower right hand corner of my task bar labeled with a PRE. I do not want it.

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This would be a neat feature if it was an optional and manual process, like snapshots on a VMWare VM. But as it is it sounds like a terrible idea.

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How do I burn out my SSD drive in just a few months? Oh, I know! Configure the OS to regularly dump several megs of stuff onto it every minute!

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What could possibly go wrong?

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nothing to see here, move along...

𝐼𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝐺𝐷𝑃𝑅 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎. 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎, 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡?

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In listening to the explanation, they get are not in violation of GDPR because the data it captures never leaves the PC in use, ie. all the data and AI exist only your PC, not in the cloud. Hmmm ...

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yeah right.

With how windows now auto saves shit to your onedrive? And how aps can mine everything without you even knowing it?

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oh boy.. Corporate IT is going to love it, until Corporate Security gets a whiff of it..

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Corporate IT management is going to love it.

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InfoSec is going to go bonkers with this shit.

Disable or remove setting in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

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As soon as I can find a GPO to disable that across the board...

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ya know what would be really useful, windows? Not that.

But you could "snap" a back up of actual files instead of having people jump through hoops to do it themselves, and hiding the dang process so you have to spend time just looking for the thing.

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Lovely.

𝗦𝗽𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗦 𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸-𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀

The check-in computers at several hotels around the US are running a remote access app, which is leaking screenshots of guest information to the internet

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spyware-found-on-hotel-check-in-computers/

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Mask up for safety

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It was like 30 years ago that the Lincoln Tunnel people didn't want to switch from coins to swiping cards. They were correct.

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Subways, also too. I still use metro cards in NYC.

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You buying with cash though?

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TBH the only time he hid what he is was during his confirmation hearings. Thanks shrub.

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Please, lord, let this man be a martyr at some time when no one psychos need martyrdom...

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Thought he was Catholic?

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Snerk!

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They do not know their history very well.

When the dominionists are in, the catholics are ALWAYS the first ones against the wall

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They're all going to kill each other in the religious war to come.

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No he did not! It was his wife, LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

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How does he call himself a man when he doesn't even have a tradwife?

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These Republican men sure do pick some good wives that do all this nefarious shit.

but I guess the My Wife Did It defense worked for Bob McDonnell so.....

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Blaming women started with Eve.

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That gawd's an asshole. That Garden was so rigged.

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Twas Eve that ate the apple

Twas a he creature that tempted her!

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hmmm ... gonna have to look deeper into this one. For those playing along at home, section 230 is the part of the law that protects websites from being sued over the content that, say, non-commenters post. So Facebook and the like love this. Small sites like Wonkette, also too. But it keeps there from being consequences when the site hosts hate speech, etc.

𝗟𝗮𝘄𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟯𝟬 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻—𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘀

Repeal bill is bipartisan but has opponents from across the political spectrum.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/lawmakers-say-section-230-repeal-will-protect-children-opponents-predict-chaos/

𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘔𝘤𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘙𝘰𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 (𝘙-𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩.) 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 230 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸, 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴. 𝘈 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭 "𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 230 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 31, 2025," 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 "𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 230 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 230."

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I mean, if your goal is to kill the internet (maybe not the worst idea...) this would sure do it.

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"𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 230 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 230."

Uh huh.

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It might kill social media and that seems like a good thing

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Whenever they say it is For The Children, it never ever is.

Also, I never trust anyone who will repeal a thing instead of just making the thing better. If they really wanted to Protect The Children, they would simply amend the existing to include whatever it is they think they can force on companies

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I think, if they REALLY wanted to protect children, they would want MORE responsibility and accountability on the part of the SM companies, not less.

None of this is about debate. It's about maintaining the right wing radicalization tool and protecting their right to spew hate.

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That precisely

And bullying the little guys with litigation so that they will fold and people are forced to only go to the big guys

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Yeah ... the "let's sunset this law with no replacement" sets off a LOT of alarm bells. Time to follow the money.

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I doubt it. He needs it to keep twitter from being sued endlessly for domestic terrorism

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