NevermindNoMind @ NevermindNoMind @lemmy.world

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Your a billionaire, donating to a SuperPAC in order to get your little bitch candidate elected to do your bidding. You spend millions expecting the top political minds to come up with brilliant strategies to help your puppet. You see the debate memo gets "leaked" and the PAC's advice is for DeSantis to "take a sledgehammer" to another candidate by calling him "Fake Vivek" or "Vivek the Fake." Are you getting fucking scammed?!

Be Likable Ron!

Your right, it's usually when the defendant is engaging in bad faith, like purposely hiding documents. The case I remember, defendant intentionally refused to turn over a bad document and might even have destroyed it, but one of the law clerks at defendant's firm decided to be a whistleblower. I don't know if there's specific precedent for this if the grounds are just I'm to broke to conduct a search, but it's possible. It's usually a last resort, the judge will just keep issueing fines and attorneys fees for a few months. But at some point the case needs to move forward in the interst of justice, and the judge is going to have to figure out a way to do that if Guliani won't turn over the documents needed for the case. I doubt the "I'm too broke" excuse is going to hold up forever.

He's doing this because of the Republican Debate which is like two days later. "Governor DeSantis, former president Trump gave a press conference laying out what he claimed was conclusive evidence that the Georgia election was stolen. Have you reviewed that evidence and do accept that the Georgia election was rigged and Trump in fact won in that state?"

A (arguably wide, depending on the poll) majority of Republican voters believe Trump won in 2020 and the election was stolen. Republican candidates have been trying to walk a very fine line of not pissing off the Republican base they need to win the primary by saying Trump is wrong, but also not committing to the stolen election theory which they know is toxic in a general election. So when asked if Biden won they say things like "Biden is the current president." What happens at debates is the moderators tend to focus in on the news of the day. Trump's indictment is news of the day, but all the Republican candidates are very practiced at ignoring the substance of the charges and instead answering with generic "Biden is weaponizing the Justice Department" bullshit nonanswers. What Trump is doing is making the election fraud claims the "news of the day," forcing candidates to specifically deal with the claims of rigging, and any attempt to deflect to complaining about the Justice System will be a dodge so obvious even mouth breathing Republican primary voters will recognize it. In short, Trump is fucking with the other candidates.

And legally, it's not a bad play. He's already fucked on the facts and law, I think he's correct that his best chance of avoiding jail time is winning the presidency. Even with a Georgia conviction, I wouldn't put it past SCOTUS to say a sitting President can't serve jail time for state crimes, or some other wacky shit. All in all, doing this bullshit press conference may actually be a "smart" move from his perspective.

I just checked the playstore from the US. Same thing, not on the top 200 at all. Relay for Reddit is at 141. Fucking Truth Social is at 16. Reddit is still an editors choice app though.

Oh hell yes I'm down for that!

I know literally nothing about computers and I've been daily driving Linux for well over a decade. I just use Ubuntu and I've been pretty much using all the default settings, apart from some customization here and there. There was a time years ago when I wanted to learn and tinker, but in reality I never learned to use the command line for more than running updates (I still sudo apt-get update cause it makes me feel like hackerman).

My point is, Linux is super easy to just set up and run. If you want to learn more, there's plenty of opportunities for that. But it's not something to be intimidated by at all. A lot of the community is enthusiasts (who've I've found extremely helpful back when I used to have problems) so you'll hear more jargon in these spaces. But I'm sure there are tons of others like me that use Linux just fine day to day without understanding a ton about computers.

His problem is he tried to ride those coattails to the Whitehouse and got trounced. I think it broke his brain. I need a well produced documentary about this scumbags rise and totally epic fall.

Alright this is just too juicy to ignore.

In civil litigation, the plaintiff will often seek discovery of the defendant's finances, insurance policies, etc to find out if the defendant will ultimately be able to pay a judgement. Looks like Guliani is trying to avoid that because he's embarrassed he's broke:

While the former mayor has declined in court to provide details of his financial state, his lawyers wrote this week that “producing a detailed financial report is only meant to embarrass Mr. Giuliani and draw attention to his misfortunes.”

The article also cited campaign disclosures showing Trump's PAC was paying Guliani's bills related to record storage and production, at a cost of $300k. But it sounds like Trump cut him off:

On Wednesday, Katz argued Giuliani did not have the funds to pay for producing records in a lawsuit brought by voting technology company Smartmatic, adding that the “third-party source” that paid for his earlier bill was “not willing to give any additional money.”

By May, Giuliani was more than $320,000 behind in payments to the document hosting company, according to a sworn statement he made in court. “I do not have the funds to pay this amount at this time,” he wrote. 

He negotiated for a year with what his lawyers say were “third-party funding sources” for help in paying his legal bills, and awaited funding for six months for help with the Trustpoint bill, according to Giuliani’s filing this week in the Smartmatic case. But the $340,000 payment [previous one time payment from Trump's PAC to catch Guliani up on data hosting bills] isn’t enough to cover more searches, Trustpoint “will not extend any further credit” to him, and his bill to keep his data held by the company will keep growing by the month, his court filings say. On Wednesday, the New York state judge in that case gave Giuliani two weeks to find the money needed to produce the records to Smartmatic. If he fails to do so, the judge said Giuliani would be forced to pay some of Smartmatic’s legal costs.

What is fun is if he doesn't produce documents he may ultimately get sanctioned with negative inferences (instruction to the jury that they should assume anything Guliani didn't turn over was basically a smoking gun against him) or a default judgement as to liability (see Alex Jones). He's fucked lol. Damn I am never not fascinated by the epic fall of Guliani.

He's also being sued by his former employee whom he sexually assaulted/harassed (I'm not saying allegedly because he was recorded doing it). I believe she's looking for a couple million dollars. And then of course there's the criminal indictment, with probably more to come. I'd imagine his only source of income, apart from any investments he might have, is speaker fees from shitty Trump aligned group events, maybe he can write a book to raise cash. America's mayor is fucked.

Maybe read the article? Your right, part of this is the parent's fault - she was 13 and her parents hadn't told her where babies come from because they wanted her to "be a kid." Yeah that's shitty parenting, it's not clear if the kid even knew what was happening or what happened to her,, and certainly wouldn't be comfortable talking to Mom about it. Mom says a stranger raped her, but that might be bullshit since child rapists are often friends/family and either child or mom may be covering for them. But that's speculation.

All of that aside, the problem here is absolutely the Republican abortion ban. When they confirmed pregnancy around 15 weeks, mom asked about an abortion but was told it couldn't be done in the state and they didn't have options of traveling. As for the rape exception:

Mississippi’s abortion ban contains narrow exceptions, including for rape victims and to save the life of the mother. As Ashley's case shows, these exceptions are largely theoretical. Even if a victim files a police report, there appears to be no clear process for granting an exception. (The state Attorney General’s office did not return TIME’s repeated requests to clarify the process for granting exceptions; the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure and the Mississippi State Medical Association did not reply to TIME’s requests for explanation.) And, of course, there are no abortion providers left in the state. In January, the New York Times reported that since Mississippi's abortion law went into effect, only two exceptions had been made. Even if the process for obtaining one were clear, it wouldn’t have helped Ashley. Regina didn’t know that Mississippi’s abortion ban had an exception for rape.

If it makes you feel any better, as a fan of Knowledge Fight, I followed the Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation trial in Texas pretty closely. Alex did his best to turn the trial into a circus, throwing out deep state conspiracies, complaining about the process and his first amendment rights on the stand, and otherwise showboating. The judge was on top of it and shut it all down, and a lot of that came back to bite him in the ass. It didn't help that Alex kept doing his show while the trial was ongoing and freshly defaimed the plaintiffs and alluded to the jury as being brainwashed liberals.

I'd imagine the same thing happens here. Whether trying to make a circus out of the proceedings helps Trump in the presidential race, I don't know. But it's not going to do him any favors with the judge and jury.

I regularly go weeks without touching my personal laptop. I do nearly everything on my phone and it's generally as easy if not easier than on a laptop (for example, I personally find cleaning up my email to be easier to do on my phone then my laptop). I have my todoist on my phone, I track workouts on my phone, my music and podcasts are all on my phone, I bank and pay bills on my phone, I shop on my phone, I navigate in my car using my phone, I read news and post on lemmy from my phone, on and on. Not to mention my phone is the only picture taking device I have and I want to be able to have good quality pictures to look back on over the years. My phone is the device that runs my life life, so when it comes time for a new one I have no problem sending a little more for good quality.

They were serving an arrest warrant in addition to a search warrant, which means they had probable cause for an arrest and a judge signed off on this. It wasn't just shit posting, he was making plans which for reasons we don't yet know the feds and a judge considered credible and serious. We also don't know why he was shot, but "summary execution" seems unlikely, especially given how the feds always walk on eggshells around right wing extremists so as not to ruby ridge their way to another oaklahoma city (see e.g. basically every standoff with the Bundys). My money is the guy was a nutcase who started shooting when the feds showed up leading to a fairly predictable result for him.

During an earnings call on Tuesday, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said that by the end of its five-year contract with the Teamsters union, the average full-time UPS driver would make about $170,000 in annual pay and benefits, such as healthcare and pension benefits.

The headline is sensationalized for sure. But the article itself actually makes the point that the tech workers are misunderstanding that the $170k figure includes both salary and benefits.

"This is disappointing, how is possible that a driver makes much more than average Engineer in R&D?" a worker at the autonomous trucking company TuSimple wrote on Blind, an anonymous jop-posting site that verifies users' employment using their company email. "To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks."

It is important to note that the $170,000 figure represents the entire value of the UPS package, including benefits and does not represent the base salary. Currently, UPS drivers make an average of around $95,000 per year with an additional $50,000 in benefits, according to the company. The average median salary for an engineer in the US is $103,845 with a base pay of about $91,958, according to Glassdoor. And TuSimple research engineers can make between $161,000 to $250,000 in compensation, Glassdoor data shows.

On the whole though this is a useless article covering drama on Blind, wrapped up with a ragebait headline.

The Twitter part of this is hilarious. Basically Twitter was so disorganized they didn't respond to the warrant on time and ended up with a $350k fine. Twitter was arguing against the protective order that prevented them from talking about it, but they didn't contest the validity of the warrant and handed over the information. This all played out months ago, we're finding out about it now because the appeals court decision has been partially unsealed.

From Politico's article on this:

The opinion describes the Justice Department’s “difficulties” in initially making contact with Twitter — which had only recently been taken over by Musk — to serve the search warrant. Prosecutors first attempted to contact the company on Jan. 17 via its website for legal requests but found the page to be inoperative. On Jan. 19, the company finally connected with prosecutors but did not immediately comply with the warrant. On Jan. 25, when prosecutors prodded Twitter again, the company’s counsel claimed she “had not heard anything about the warrant.”

Finally, on Feb. 1, four days after the production deadline, Twitter raised a legal objection to the nondisclosure order.

“Although the company did not question the validity of the search warrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,” Pan noted. “Twitter informed the government that it would not comply with the warrant until the district court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”

On Feb. 2, Twitter filed a motion to vacate the nondisclosure order and Smith’s team sought a contempt order from Howell. Howell held Twitter in contempt and approved fines beginning at $50,000 a day, doubling for each day of noncompliance.

“The court adopted that suggestion, noting that Twitter was sold for over $40 billion and that its owner’s net worth was over $180 billion. Twitter did not object to the sanctions formula,” the appeals court noted.

Twitter did not fully comply until Feb. 9, resulting in the $350,000 fine.

Part of the problem is news consumers, that was part of the point of the article. "News" outlets know they can just embed a musk X-eet, write a couple of paragraphs of context (or have AI do it), add the headline "Musk says ____" and boom an easy ten thousand clicks. The author argues these outlets should at least acknowledge prominently in their articles that Musk is a serial liar. He specifically calls out a few outlets over their coverage of Musks unilateral claim that the fight will be streamed on X without ever acknowledging that the claim was likely bullshit without Zucks verification. Just shitty clickbait journalism.

This is a really interesting idea, I'm definitely considering it. I'm already giving on lemmy.world patreon more than your plans cost. I have two questions. First, just from a business perspective, how do you think about differentiating yourself from the donation based servers? Is there something of extra value that people get from your instance and service that they can't get elsewhere?

I'm also interested in your moderation and federation policies. I think a potential barrier here is paying upfront for a year only to disagree with a federation decision down the line. Maybe you could have different instances with different policies? Like one that is federated with threads, one that isn't, one that's federated with hexbear one that isn't. Maybe that's overly complicated once you start adding up all the different combinations that people come up with (personally I'm fine with threads, meh on hexbear, and a no on explodingheads).

7am eastern on ESPN will be a 30 minute cut of it. Sounds like the full multi hour match will be posted on YouTube. I was trying to find last year's, likes like it might be on Financial Modeling World Cups channel. Not positive though.

Sorry! I just copied a relevant chunk from the article, so that's their spoiler. I'll edit though, it is confusing (and this is the first time I've heard about excel games so I was tempted to look up last year's until the verge spoiled it).