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Oh, you’re right - I recalled the article and just grabbed the first one that fit when I skimmed it.

I think my point that this is a clear message that the regulators are unable to regulate right now is still valid, but I will update my previous comment for clarity.

Since you’re bringing up language points, I’m wondering if you’d be willing to take a left turn with me.

What are your thoughts about applying the phrase “extraordinary rendition” to their situation?

I feel that it’s appropriate, but I haven’t seen anyone using it.

Where the fuck did USPS get those super-powerful electromagnets from and how do they know to use them to manipulate impossibly heavy packages!?!

But now it’s not just milk and the legally allowed amount of blood, pus, urine, dirt, fecal matter, cleaning agents, and the things the FDA USDA found and did nothing about.
Now it’s an unambiguous statement that unknown quantities of unknown substances in your food will not trigger enforcement actions! (Regardless of the regulating body)

It’s brainworm infested bear meat.

I don’t know what sort of dirt Bill has, but he’s got to have some sort of leverage over at HBO, given how fucking hard they try to push his show onto people.
Single-handedly, his show has made me wish there was a ‘block show’ feature so I never have to see his stupid face again.

And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.

As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.

He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.

I found out from the ‘dies of cringe’ meme, then shared that on to my wife and her best friend, telling them that was how I found out - and that’s how they found out.

I bear the same name as my father and his father. They both died when I was a young - over 30 years ago. I sometimes still get texts asking me if I’d like to “sell my house at [the address of my grandfather’s house that sold when he died in 1989].”

If the best that data miners can do is text me because they think I’m a 100+ year-old, then Musk’s sloppy efforts are going to be even worse.
Waiting for the day I get arrested for not having paid my own child support.

Oh, snap, bringing me the magic I need, but didn’t know to look for.

I’ve been refusing to update because of video station. Looks like I’m saving your comment for later.

No, because there isn’t a single IP range or user agent, and many developers are going to lengths to defeat anti-scraping measures, which include user agent spoofing as well as vpns and the like to mask the source of the traffic.

It helps because just like all the things Reagan destroyed, the American people will never be able to get those things back. Even when they do vote in politicians that pretend to represent them, the U.S. political system is too easily swayed with donor money to allow in things that truly benefit people again.
And if the government can close or sell facilities by the time sane policies prevail again (if they ever do), then it still benefits ‘them’, because the government can’t just create land and buildings from nothing. The only places they would be able to do that are new towns and rural areas. (White flight areas and conservative areas) So, you know, destroyed government services can’t even be reliably recreated in population-dense areas. (Cities - liberal areas)

I mean, it doesn’t help normal people, but it sure helps all the businesses that trade well-being for dollars. They’re going to do great.

Not without prosthetics.

The mask really gets in the way of eating ass, though.

They say regulations are written in blood.

Elaine Chao is a conservative government official who is famous for not enforcing safety rules or following up on safety complaints and may have violated ethics laws while Secretary of Transportation under Trump’s first regime. While in that role, she rubber stamped a sketchy driver control system implemented by Tesla that later helped kill her own sister (in addition to drunk driving).

Can the lightning bolt of consequences strike twice?

I hate voicing my dark thoughts sometimes because it feels like breathing life into them, but the nationwide protests are set to occur again on April 19th. On April 20th, there’s all that hoopla about hitting the 90 day point for the Trump admin releasing a determination if they can use the enemies and insurrection act.
Ostensibly the original executive order was about the southern border, but really, all that needs to happen is violence at 1 or two rallies, for the police to either over-react, or for them to pull back and let die-hard Trump supporters who already think we’re in a civil war to commit a terror attack against the protestors, and enough random footage that the news channels can skew the interpretation and put it on a loop.

And it’s sort of self-perpetuating from there. If he invokes the insurrection act, then arrests someone beloved (or at least widely liked), I can’t imagine it wouldn’t trigger more protests, which get targeted more, and in much the same way the anti-genocide protests were. Except instead of playing the protests as a way to portray national support for Trump as divided (as republicans did under Biden), they’ll portray protestors as anti-American revolutionaries plotting to take away guns and replace them with strap ones and forced gender transitions or some nonsense.

And for those who aren’t rich but have jobs with decent employer-provided healthcare, it will make those people fearful of undertaking any protest actions that may see them on the wrong side of a doxxing campaign or an illegal detention.

It’s about threading fear through the fabric of society.

Those darn millennials!
Such rascals.

Those are very well considered points, but Trump is an idiot.

Wait, wait, wait.

Trump, under the direction of parties unknown, is trying to force the EU to buy U.S. energy resources, and that’s the linchpin of his trade war with them?

Is he trying to give Europe a nudge back to Russian oil supplies?