Amazing

@Ash I'm not sure if anyone should explain romance novels to a five year old.

@Ash :D

apparently the NRA doesn't like the fact that Seattle is fining gun owners who don't store their guns safely

The NRA is a Russian organization and they don't like any laws that increase the chance of American casualties.

@TimStone christ i'm only half-way though it

@Ash you might know more on this, what's the problem with ghostwritten content in that Verge post?

@Ash oh so it's like asset flipping in games

i thought ghostwriting was a legit profession that people hired for

@ash so how many of these thousand page romances have you read?

yeah it sounds like a waste of bandwidth

but clearly we should replace all libraries with these 3000 page ebooks on amazon because capitalism

ok finished the article and WHEW

but in the most super important news of the day:

@GodEmperorDune let people drink it. worse case they become deranged super villains with dark powers, best case is the world is spared the idiocy of a few people in the future

Ah. I see. The President is Mad Online

Like "Let's start a war" mad

Seems healthy and normal

goddammit

did he watch wag the dog recently or something?

Nah, Rouhani said something mildly typically Iranian

peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, war with Iran is the mother of all war etc etc

Which like we're pretty blatantly trying to destabilize the regime so not really unexpected they'd be displeased but Big Boy President takes everything personally

Pompeo and Cotton and Bolton and Graham all want to start a war with Iran anyway so 🤷🏼‍♂️

:(

@TimStone WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?

@GodEmperorDune great, now we're trying to invoke Cthulu

Belgium has lowered the age of consent from 16 to 14, but only if the other partner is 19 or younger. Article (in Dutch): hln.be/nieuws/binnenland/…

@Ash oh good you're fine. I know you don't live in Toronto but you're close enough to be visiting family.

So was worried

and he's ranting about the FISA stuff again

He's clearly very Not Mad Manafort's trial is starting this week

I guess it's apparent in retrospect from the pictures top-right but I wasn't sure offhand if Spicer had kids

That said they seem to be older so that doesn't really clear up my question about the bear chilling in the chair there

lol

"WHY DON'T THE PEOPLE LIKE MEEEEE?"

at least new york primaries are designed to keep incumbents in power

God bless America

@TimStone Like, seriously, how come this guy hasn't been banned on Twitter yet? He literally does nothing but threaten people, attack the rule of law, cause serious global economic issues and destroy the credibility of the US government.

@Nzall the problem isn't that he's on Twitter, it's that he is the president

@MadScientist So what? He's above the rules of Twitter because he is the most powerful man on earth?

or rather, the second most powerful man after Putin

@Nzall yes this is the official corporate line from Twitter

you can't really remove his megaphone, the stuff he says is news simply because he's president. Taking away the platform to distribute hate works for people that don't have other ways of reaching that kind of audience, it does nothing for someone like Trump

to be fair they don't take away the platform to distribute hate either so

not defending Twitter, I just don't see the point in getting Trump removed there

Their claim is that the work is "voluntary", jfc

ah, that's right the exception is "as punishment for a crime" not "anyone in jail"

lol

@TimStone About as voluntary as the work of a human sex trafficker victim for her pimp

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm surprised they haven't started using these people for this yet

🤷

Almost like the system is fundamentally vulnerable to the whims of the highest bidder who knew

Okay when we talk about redistributing the wealth we don't mean "for votes" I'm pretty sure

@TimStone "sorry, this content is not available in your region"... fucking GDPR

> Willie Wilson, the millionaire businessman and candidate for Chicago mayor, handed out cash to potential voters Sunday morning at a church on Chicago’s South Side.

Is the important bit, $300,000 divided among 2000 people

@TimStone I'm fairly sure it's illegal to buy votes

Ah, but if you do it as part of a charity, who's to say?

Abolish ICE, asset forfeiture, etc

Maybe we should refocus our talent on breaking the private equity that's running everything into the ground 🤔

lol somehow he ended up back on Amazon, jfc

lol, beautiful

lol he's doing this again?

Looks like anyone can get a gun now

Like, no license needed, no education, just a 3D printer

no background check, no training, no curating, no limits

@TimStone Yes because THIS is the thing that gets you to stop using Uber.

rants for another 30 minutes

@TimStone Remember that time when they killed someone HoneyBeeAlaina?

@TimStone Hahahaha well played on FDR open borders

@TimStone I'm still cynically leaning towards inveterate liars for all these people - them being actually stupid would just be the icing.

"Mortgage, Groupon and card debt: how the bottom half bolsters U.S. economy" - reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-consumers-insight/…

@Nzall can you print bullets?

also, strange the the Gun Lobby doesn't realize there's a thing called Piracy. you know, that thing you do with bittorrent which will allow you to get these plans for free and thus never have to buy a gun again

@MadScientist Sorry but I'm going with Trump not banned from Twitter real reason: profits.

@puzzlepiece87 i would love for him to be booted to gab

its not gonna happen but it would be nice to dream

@Nzall Lol, GDPR is wonderful. Put the blame where it belongs: with lazy news orgs that would otherwise be violating your privacy.

@GodEmperorDune Exactly, this would be a nice change. You certainly can diminish someone's platform, even the President of the US. There's a reason he's on Twitter.

Not sure why we're pretending we can't.

@puzzlepiece87 On a somewhat unrelated note, today at work I discovered ASP.NET Core has built in "GDPR support"

It basically amounts to allowing you to mark cookies as non-essential so users can opt out of them, and adding a Download and Delete button to the default user profile page the scaffold project sets up

Oh, and a privacy policy template is now also included

@GodEmperorDune relatedly, I'd love to see gab lose their payment processor lol

(kessler apparently can only accept donations by mail now)

@Unionhawk lol

@Unionhawk yeah same

@PrivatePansy well that's fancy

@Nzall Old news :D

@GodEmperorDune I think they're on stripe? Or something? I forget

@PrivatePansy These are wonderful changes. I'm very pro-GDPR.

@puzzlepiece87 own the NRA by making guns cheap again and bypassing gun manufacturers entirely

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/…

It is pretty well thought out as far as templates go

@puzzlepiece87 Making guns untraceable. Oh, I'm sure there are benevolent uses for that.

@Yuuki So I 99% agree with you but since American society sucks and I laugh to keep from crying: printers are pretty aggressive in making their products traceable.

Love too put faint yellow dots all over printed guns that tell the exact time printer and location it was printed.

The printer code that led the FBI to Reality Winner

I'm talking more about that ghost gunner thing he mentioned rather than the gun printing.

@Yuuki Ah got it.

I was desperate for humor, sorry.

@Memor-X Bullets are a lot simpler to make than a gun, IIRC.

this is correct

There are more gun hobbyists that make their own bullets than make their own guns.

Yeah we did reloading in scouts

I think we did .30-06 rounds

it was either that or shotgun shells

@TimStone I just know that this is going to be used as "black people cause violence" fodder somehow.

Or "black people kill white people" or something incredibly dumb.

@Memor-X No, but AFAIK bullets aren't really as regulated as guns

> Among what Monmouth calls “potential voters” — those who have voted in any election since 2010 or have newly registered to vote — Rouda leads 46 percent to 43 percent. Among voters who are likely to vote based on historical midterm turnout, the Democrat is up 47 percent to 45 percent. And among likely voters in a “Democratic surge” scenario, Rouda defeats Rohrabacher 48 percent to 44 percent. (All three leads are within the margin of error.)

@TimStone love to piss off the auto industry

also "states' rights" groups, u up?

@TimStone hell yeah

But probably though they'll just call for a return to bipartisanship

:/

Most 2018 Headline

@TimStone wtg zinke and pruitt

@TimStone no they won't

This seems entirely in line with everything else

Oh hell yeah Barbara Lee is running for Crowley's position as house democratic caucus leader

Iirc she's the only one still in the house who voted no on the invasion of iraq

@TimStone ah i guess they don't want all the hate clicks and hate shares

(ok to be fair the library number is $34,000,000, at a rate of $28.48 per $100,000 in property value)

lol imagine sticking by Pruitt though

Not because of anything he did generally, they're all horrible people, but Pruitt intentionally treated his own folk like crap

Manafort trial delayed until the 31st now

I'm starting to think this new york real estate guy named donald trump might surround himself with a bunch of criminals

Trump also now trying to revoke the security clearances of ex-officials who criticize him

do ex-officials need clearances?

They usually retain them in case there's like, a need for advice or whatever

But they don't just automatically have access to stuff or anything

I'll allow it

Me allowing it is immaterial, however,

So it's mostly being floated because Trump listens to idiots (Gateway Pundit and Gorka) and wants to have people talking about something else

my current fan theory of 2018 is that Gorka and Elon are the same person

have you ever seen them in the same room together I didn't think so

I mean a complex prosthetic mask would explain Gorka's abnormally large head

Just a solid unit, that

It'd work so well for the Gorka is actually just Moonraker theory too

I'd buy it

lol I've never wanted more for a company like John Deere to have a dumbass trademark on yellow on green

WE HAVE THE MEATS

I wonder if this means meat prices will drop.

You never know because there are all sorts of price controls and subsidies in agriculture.

Meeat

loool

I mean it would be pretty good if those people didn't have to lose their jobs though

But I trust none of these players

did Cynthia Nixon promise a statewide jobs program for journalists that I missed

He's gotta deflect from spending $30 million on coloured tiles so best to spend a few more million bailing out a paper that's likely only underwater because management is milking it dry

@TimStone another week of all caps twetes

@TimStone way to mess with colorblind trump fans

@TimStone too bad we also have the salmonella

What's a little salmonella between friends though?

An outbreak. It's an outbreak

@TimStone lol Twitter reminded me about the Chinese and green hats

@TimStone so 2020 election is brought to us by china?

(there are varying accounts but basically if you're a dude in a green hat you're a cuck)

lol, rekt

i knew red is a lucky, prosperous color, didn't know about the green

Poor Luigi

We're deep in the "lol owned" hole today

@TimStone lol, Calk

👀

It passed

Ah, I believe mistakes were made

lol

@TimStone does he get that choice?

Mueller is unlikely to subpoena him without extremely good cause because it'll set off a nightmare, so in that sense yes

like i know he gets the choice to do the interview or not but does he get to bargain what he gets asked about in order to agree to one?

But it's rather silly

I can't believe he's not accepting the call to resign and retreating into a cave, that was just...it's just sad

@TimStone i'm laughing at the idea at someone yelling racial slurs about Sacha Baron Cohen who then just changes persona to someone else

like maybe be someone foreign like Admiral-General Aladeen, someone saying something racist and for him to "go back to his own shit hole country" and then he changes to Time and logically explains how Time has no nationality