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There is not one ounce of honor or decency left in the Republican party

Oh that was already the case with buttery emails and before that birth certificate two, the long form-aroo. We all saw an exodus of long standing Republican Senators in middle of the road positions, because they saw the writing on the wall. Batshit crazy is the new GOP.

As a GenX myself, yes, I am a donkey.

Not only that Southern States are not uniformly composed. A lot of Republican power in the south comes from gerrymandering the large populations. That whole political border thing is less a thing when a particular group of citizens have just been given the green light to raze the State Capitol.

Seceding states themselves would have massive civil unrest, there’s just zero ways the States themselves would be sustainable. Not to mention that if say Texas tried it, it’s likely drug cartels would join in the looting and destruction of the State. So that State would be fighting something like a four prong war, by itself.

Citizens are a lot more educated today, especially in the large cities. They would absolutely take any secession as permission to burn the whole thing down. And a lot of the seats of Government in these States are in their largest city. Whatever political majority that MTG think she has to support her calls is fiction supported by electioneering.

scope of modern AAA video games is unsustainable

Helpful hint, it's not just video game programming. Those hijacked gas pipelines in the US, unsecured SCADA systems weren't because every sysadmin was falling asleep, it's because nobody pulling the trigger wanted to listen to the sysadmins screaming that blindly deploying shit without audits, was a bad idea.

In pretty much every single technological failure, there's usually a common thread. Someone did (or forgot to do something) in the name of profit.

You know really at this point, I blame God. Don't blame the ants, blame the person who picked out the location for the picnic.

I'm just curious where he's pulling the money for this legal team? It's definitely not from X's "profits" LOL.

Yeah that's literally UNENFORCEABLE. We just had a case last year that indicated that you can scrap data from sites so long as the data being scrapped isn't used for profit.

Additionally, scrappers cannot be legally held to have agreed to the TOS. Just simply typing an address in and then receiving a page back doesn't mean that anyone agrees to the TOS of the server that gave the page. For pretty much the same reason software couldn't enforce the "if you don't agree with the terms on the CD-ROM, then you cannot open the package the CD-ROM is in." So just because X wrote that in their TOS has zero bearing on if they can actually enforce that through the court system, which likely that's going to be a big NAH.

That's based off of the point of the gate-up/gate-down test given by the courts. If a normal person can find a random "tweet (are we still calling them that?)" by typing a URL, the gate is up, you cannot pick and choose who gets to enter. If you don't want a random tweet being scrapped the gates must be down. That means nobody typing in a random URL can ever access that tweet, they have to go through the gate house to gain entry to the resource. But gates down means that no one is going to link to a tweet because when they click the link, instead of seeing the related information, they get handed a login page. Which X has been trying that and news outlets bitching that they're not going to post tweets in their story if Musk is just going to block everyone.

The thing that X could argue is that someone is using their tweets for "profit" which is exactly the case they're trying with the ADL and the CCDH. They're trying to argue that these not-for-profits are profiting off of convincing ad buyers to not buy ads. Which, if that sounds crazy, OH BOY IS IT. However, Musk's lawyers have attempted to muddle the waters on what is "PROFIT". So grab some popcorn for that one.

The thing is that, I get Musk wants to hold tight copyright on the tweets and not surface a lot to others who might use that data for who knows what purpose. BUT you cannot have cake and have eaten it as well. Musk doesn't get the best of both worlds. He can put everything behind a wall and attempt to enforce his TOS, but that's still not really go to go well for his ADL/CCDH case. Or he can surface the tweets for the Internet to read. But he cannot have both. We've settled that in courts and Congress hasn't made any kind of motion in changing that standing.

Remember when Matt Gaetz stormed a SCIF? His justification was that they were holding "secret impeachment hearings"?

I led over 30 of my colleagues into the SCIF where Adam Schiff is holding secret impeachment depositions.

And the reality was that it was a briefing on how we had agents from the CIA inside low level positions of the Ukrainian government working with the Government that were watching Russian moles that also had positions in the Ukrainian government? And that Russia had found out that it was happening but hadn't figured out who it was so they were launching all kinds of operations to try and get some information on who to kill? And this whole meeting was to figure out how best to help those agents before they got killed?

Fun times.

And what's even better, you haven't heard peep from Gaetz about his "brave" storming the SCIF since. Because he almost got a bunch of people fucking killed with his stunt, was told he almost got a bunch of people fucking killed, and all that "brave" shit disappeared like a fart in a hurricane. So...

These ass-hats are putting people’s lives and national security at risk over this nonsense

It's not just this nonsense they're doing it over. They do it over all kinds of bullshit. And people like Gaetz do not vet shit and eat it up like it's the gospel. And nations like China, Russia, India, and what not know these fuckers will eat it up and feed it to them. They constantly bitch about "government conditioning" and other pyops bullshit, but they themselves are the major victims of it.

It's got to be a fucking uphill battle when you have a political party that's just eating foreign bullshit and calling domestic intelligence "weaponizing government". Our intelligence apparatus does not want these fuck wits handing our country over to someone else, but goddamn it, they keep having so little trust in the USA because, IDK, but all I can chalk it up to is that they are absolutely fucking morons. They just want "someone" to be wrong so they can stroke their massive ego dicks is the best I can figure out.

What's that mnemonic device for counterintelligence? MICE. There are four general things that will convince someone to betray their nation, "Money, Ideology, Compromising information, and Ego". And goddamn it, these fuckers get every single one of those tickled by the very fuckers that want to destroy this country. It has to be frustrating to see them time and time again sitting up there in the committee acting like some CIA agent that risked their lives trying to keep bad people out of our interests is fucking trying to destroy Donald Trump or some shit. Like, "MY DUDE. Bigger picture here Senator/Representative. Believe it or not, there's more to all of this shit than some megalomaniac asshat who was once President." Shocking!

Not to mention that because of the standing rules of the Senate, all you have to do is send an email saying you’re filibustering and any one person can bring to halt something all the other 99 Senators just want to move on to the next topic.

Literally this guy stands alone on this and the brain dead rules allow him and him alone to bring it all to a halt.

The US is #1 in spending as a percentage of National GDP on healthcare.

Also the US: is #47 in life expectancy.

The US is getting fucking robbed by their medical industry. Of course I expect nothing less from the nation that had AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc steal $400B for Internet they never built. Which is also the nation that spent $700B on banks to “save” them.

Damn, I need a loan from the bank of the American taxpayer.

WD-40 used to come in big cans before it was an aerosol. And there has been spray bottles of it for some time too.

From what I remember, WD-40 is just mineral oil plus some hydrocarbons. The aerosol version is just so that tiny target straw works well, but you can literally just spray it on the work area and “rub” it in as it’s a penetrating oil for water displacement. In fact, I’m pretty certain that’s what the WD stands for, water displacement.

Oops all rope.

Moral qualms about bringing a frivolous ambulance chasing lawsuit? Get a lumpy pillow and you’ll sleep better at night.

but this is Google, and they control Chrome, and this probably still won't make people switch to Firefox

Yeah. People just simply will not do things that are in their best interest. This is literally the biggest issue that was had with IE. Inertia.

Except they are also selling it for $139.

So it isn’t “you’re the product” it’s them double dipping.

Twitter as WeChat is exactly what I’m guessing Musk is attempting. I wouldn’t be surprised if he started linking Teslas and the Supercharger Network to Twitter.

He has mentioned that the three would have some interconnectivity via his xAI platform. Along with StarLink providing the networking to the platform.

What all it means and how it all works has yet to be seen. Pretty hard to work on new ideas when your company is hemorrhaging money faster than an executive at a top dollar strip club.

Ezra found that Texas' buoys obstructed free navigation in the Rio Grande

Navigable servitude. Article I Section 8 of the Constitution grants the Federal Government ultimate control of navigable waters.

It was one of the arguments in the original filing that I had a suspicion that the courts would favor on enforcing. Part of the Rio Grande that has some the floats isn’t exactly used for boat traffic so it was interesting to see the Court give the entire waterway to the US government.

That all said, with this injunction this quickly for this reason, Texas’ floating barrier is pretty dead, never to return. Even the textualist of the SCOTUS will have a hard time trying to bend backwards on the Constitution explicitly indicating that the various rivers of this country belong to the US government first and foremost.

Yeah, the killer part of that whole thing is him admitting he knew better. Like you can’t claim ignorance or that it wasn’t willful.

It’s literally that scene from the Big Short. “I don’t get it, why is he confessing? He’s not confessing. He’s bragging.”

Trump literally IRL that scene and if the courts give him a pass on that, then we don’t have a justice system. Because Trump literally confessed to a fucking crime as he was committing it.