This Is Fine

user15026

12:16 AM

@Memor-X Trust me, this is not a good way to do it

user15026

Chalking up his super harmful decisions as just "oh he's crazy" delegitimizes the very real harm that he is doing to people, and the fact that the harm he is doing is very, very deliberate

GodEmperorDune

@Ash so much this

Tim Stone

12:45 AM

why are so many outlets covering lindsay lohan like she didnt try kidnapping a refugee kid on instagram live like not even 3 months ago???

Tweeted by geekylonglegs on January 9, 2019 at 4:31 PM

Oh wow she did do that I had already forgotten

Slowly but surely my brain is breaking

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/…

Tim Stone

Extreme Mood

user15026

1:20 AM

@GodEmperorDune I like this, but I like all the responses going "sure now that the NT's are experiencing the thing it's a thing okay sure" from the spoonie contingent

SaintWacko

2:37 AM

@TimStone Wait what?

@GodEmperorDune Aww, and Outline doesn't work on it

Tim Stone

@SaintWacko Yeah

Memor-X

2:52 AM

House passes bill to reopen some government agencies, with 8 Republicans bucking leadership http://hill.cm/DBQoxB9

Tweeted by thehill on January 10, 2019 at 1:28 AM

so that helps some of those workers who were about to loose their homes

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune hooooly shit

We all knew it was true, but he's finally said it

Will make absolutely no difference of course

Trump Storms Out of White House Meeting With Democrats on Shutdown nytimes.com/2019/01/09/us/politics/…

Memor-X

@Wipqozn the way he worded it, and how he's going to present it, is that the dems would not fund border security. i do hope the dems didn't just say no but said something like "we will not fund your wall"

Tim Stone

@Memor-X I mean not really, McConnell won't allow a vote on it in the Senate

Memor-X

@TimStone oh. god dam it then

Tim Stone

3:13 AM

More Cruz... “So securing the border is a legitimate area for eminent domain where landowners would get reasonable and just compensation...” arguing land for the wall falls under public use. @TXCapTonight @SpecNewsATX @SpecNewsSA @SpectrumNewsDC

Tweeted by MLChadbourn on January 10, 2019 at 1:10 AM in reply to MLChadbourn

lmao, noted Tea Party platform "actually eminent domain is good"

At the border in #Texas, @POTUS is to be interviewed by @seanhannity.

Tweeted by W7VOA on January 10, 2019 at 3:14 AM in reply to W7VOA

Tim Stone

3:30 AM

The White House has hired 17 new lawyers as Trump’s team gears up for the coming onslaught of investigations. @CarolLeonnig goes inside Trump’s legal team https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-beefed-up-white-house-legal-team-prepares-aggressive-defense-of-trumps-executive-privilege-as-investigations-loom-large/2019/01/09/066b8618-1045-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html

Tweeted by PhilipRucker on January 10, 2019 at 3:15 AM

You mean Rudy doesn't have it covered?

Memor-X

@TimStone to busy replying to witches

@Ash actually now i believe even if there was more regulation passed, it'll just be repealed

New Florida bill would repeal gun control measures passed in response to Parkland shooting http://hill.cm/vakiWU0

Tweeted by thehill on January 10, 2019 at 2:28 AM

> Rep. Mike Hill (R) introduced the bill Monday that, if passed, would remove a mandatory waiting period to purchase firearms that aren’t handguns and would eliminate a provision that raised the age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, according to NBC News.

The measures that Hill is seeking to repeal were passed in March 2018 as part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Act, named after the high school where 17 people were killed in a shooting.

Another part of the bill looks to remove a provision that allows law enforcement to take firearms away from individuals they deem as a thr…

British MPs have voted to approve an amendment that would force the government to reveal an alternative #Brexit plan within three days if Prime Minister @theresa_may's current deal is rejected. https://bit.ly/2H3oyXD

Tweeted by SkyNewsAust on January 10, 2019 at 2:30 AM

Theresa May: the alternative is we do fuck all and watch the fires burn

Tim Stone

3:55 AM

The Mainstream Media has NEVER been more dishonest than it is now. NBC and MSNBC are going Crazy. They report stories, purposely, the exact opposite of the facts. They are truly the Opposition Party working with the Dems. May even be worse than Fake News CNN, if that is possible!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on January 10, 2019 at 3:43 AM

Memor-X

@TimStone what did they say?

Tim Stone

Really glad the channels aired his crap, lest he get angry them 🙄

I'm not even sure what specifically he's on about here

Tim Stone

4:13 AM

Estimates from Trump’s chief economist peg the cost to the overall U.S. economy at about $1.2 billion for each week the shutdown persists https://politi.co/2D0Vc8f

Tweeted by politico on January 10, 2019 at 4:00 AM

SaintWacko

@Memor-X Do they even need to put the (R) on that anymore when they're talking about someone reversing gun control?

Memor-X

4:28 AM

@TimStone i think we have a clue

Gave an OFF THE RECORD luncheon, somewhat of a White House tradition or custom, to network anchors yesterday - and they quickly leaked the contents of the meeting. Who would believe how bad it has gotten with the mainstream media, which has gone totally bonkers!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on January 10, 2019 at 3:53 AM

got it from here which mentions the meeting with Pelosi Schumer

assuming he's talking about that and he did give an off-the record comment....he does realize that others can make on the record comments of their own does he?

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone wow what did they report?

@TimStone govt shutdown pissing contests are so easy to win

GodEmperorDune

4:43 AM

@Memor-X the last time an off the record thing got leaked it ended up being trump people leaking it

Memor-X

@GodEmperorDune yeh, my assumption would be that he didn't say it was off the record

GodEmperorDune

@Memor-X nah, off the record was pretty clear, i've heard several journalists who were there describe it as such

but off the record only binds journalists and only covers good faith

Tim Stone

6:13 AM

Pacific low pressure has deepened 58 mb in the past 24 hrs. Hazardous marine conditions include winds to 80 kt, w/seas building to near 60 ft. Earlier ASCAT passes returned textbook structure of mid-latitude cyclone, w/widespread hurricane, storm, and gale force winds. #MarineWx

Tweeted by NWSOPC on January 10, 2019 at 4:39 AM

GodEmperorDune

6:28 AM

@TimStone uhhh what does this mean? where is the storm headed?

Tim Stone

East across the north Pacific, it's just a pretty significant 24 hour drop. 24 mb in 24 hours creates a "weather bomb"/explosive cyclogenesis, which is just the sudden formation of an intense storm

GodEmperorDune

so the chinese are testing their climate change weapon in the middle of the ocean?

Tim Stone

Indeed

GodEmperorDune

rekt

qanon was right all along

Chippies

9:16 AM

I can't even a title

Chippies

9:54 AM

What the fresh hell. This is REAL. Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall. History not subtle enough for you? GUESS THE GRIFTER'S NAME (And watch until the end) https://t.co/6FA3p6KC00

Tweeted by _AlexHirsch on January 9, 2019 at 11:15 PM

Memor-X

10:26 AM

@Chippies if that clip is real, consider that the Simpsons predicted that Trump would be president and the US would be left with "quite the budget crunch"

Chippies

@Memor-X snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall

Memor-X

@Chippies hmmmmmmm

Mad Scientist

10:43 AM

> Narrator: The people were ready to believe. Like sheep they ran to the slaughterhouse. And waiting for them was the high priest of fraud.

Trump: I am the only one. Trust me. I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate.

Townperson: What do we do? How can we save ourselves?

Trump: You ask how do you build that wall. You ask, and I’m here to tell you.

Chippies

@MadScientist I know, he even sounds like "modern-day Trump"

Mad Scientist

Trust Me

Memor-X

11:01 AM

humpf, the last guy who said "Trust Me" disappeared into a blue box

fredley

12:40 PM

"Hayley Brexit"

Nzall

@fredley person A: "brexit means we need to cut down on Welfare." Person B: "Does that mean we need to cut down trees"? Now I know what Michael van Peel means when he talked about "Breinscheten"

fredley

@Nzall If you want to really lose hope, look up her interview with Nigel Farage

Nzall

1:00 PM

@fredley Sorry, I'd rather avoid foreign stupidity induced aneurysms

It's hard enough just with Trump

Wipqozn

2:39 PM

@Chippies Wooow. Amazing.

Tim Stone

3:44 PM

Rep. Steve King to the New York Times: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/steve-king-trump-immigration-wall.html

Tweeted by KFILE on January 10, 2019 at 1:37 PM

Kevin

@TimStone not sure about how... but for when... somewhere after 1945

Tim Stone

"I think it was an offhand comment. I walked into the gaggle and I was assaulted,” Cuomo says of his #metoo joke. Says equipment hit “all parts of my anatomy.”

Tweeted by J__Velasquez on January 10, 2019 at 3:10 PM

🤔

My dude, like…just no

Yuuki

About the only thing more ironic would be if he gave this speech at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

fredley

@Yuuki "Nostradumbass"

Yuuki

> Bezos finally found out that marriage is a union and had to break it up.

cc @Unionhawk

GodEmperorDune

4:12 PM

@TimStone I came here to post this

@TimStone bruhhhh please do not try to tweet through this

Tim Stone

Really cannot imagine the mindset that allowed saying that as a defense to make sense

BradC

@TimStone Guess I missed the original, what was Cuomo's "metoo joke" that he's getting heat for?

Tim Stone

18 hours ago, by Tim Stone

Andrew Cuomo just had a semi-impromptu gaggle with reporters. It started with an aide asking us to move back a few steps to give him room. “I’ll bring you all up on charges under the Me Too movement,” Cuomo said. https://t.co/fLe5ddnIyJ

Tweeted by JonCampbellGAN on January 9, 2019 at 10:12 PM

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone he’s a cuomo

Hedge fund tycoon Robert Mercer’s sheriff’s badge has been revoked https://bloom.bg/2Fiwa6e

Tweeted by New_Narrative on January 9, 2019 at 12:37 PM

Tim Stone

lol

BradC

4:16 PM

@TimStone oh. hmm. ok

GodEmperorDune

4:28 PM

The president wants billions in taxpayer funds for steel slats that DHS has discovered can be sawn through with “common tools”: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856

Tweeted by b_fung on January 10, 2019 at 4:18 PM

I know Twitter is limited to NYC/DC concerns but I can't emphasize enough that this is a *real map* of what El*n M*sk is proposing for Chicago and it literally runs parallel to a train that costs $2.25 and leaves every 7 minutes. I am not kidding, this is it. 1/3

Tweeted by gin_and_tacos on January 8, 2019 at 12:32 AM

lol elon grift

Tim Stone

Countdown to it somehow impacting the integrity of the existing tunnel and then ruining everything

Also I did not know there were multiple Bryn Mawrs

@fredley yeah @Chippies posted this

fredley

@GodEmperorDune NOT STARRED

GodEmperorDune

7 hours ago, by Chippies

What the fresh hell. This is REAL. Filmed in 1958- about a conman who grifts a small town of suckers into building a wall. History not subtle enough for you? GUESS THE GRIFTER'S NAME (And watch until the end) https://t.co/6FA3p6KC00

Tweeted by _AlexHirsch on January 9, 2019 at 11:15 PM

@fredley non news items can't be starred

fredley

4:40 PM

50 secs ago, by fredley

@GodEmperorDune NOT STARRED

Chippies

@fredley you don't read everything when you join up to your last post?

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies look, i'm not saying this is how they got brexit but....

anyway here is REAL, NON REPOST NEWS @fredley

Beto is Instagramming his dental cleaning

Tweeted by KFILE on January 10, 2019 at 4:37 PM

fredley

Who is Beto?

Unionhawk

hes running

GodEmperorDune

@fredley beto o rourke, he was a democrat senate candidate in texas and lost but gain national popularity

fredley

4:44 PM

RUN FROM FEAR

FUN FROM REAR

GodEmperorDune

he hasn't officially said he's running for president yet but its likely

oh no @badp has taken over @fredley's account

fredley

I thought Biden was the chosen one?

GodEmperorDune

@fredley nah there are gonna be many to choose from

Tim Stone

@GodEmperorDune come on, lmao

fredley

It's ART

@GodEmperorDune Oh yay a crowded Primary

GodEmperorDune

4:46 PM

1 min ago, by GodEmperorDune

oh no @badp has taken over @fredley's account

Tim Stone

> ‘He’s a gut politician’: Trump’s go-to negotiating tactics aren’t working in shutdown standoff

I think that's just a parasite

BradC

@fredley Biden seems to believe he is the "chosen one", but frankly I don't see a ton of support for him among the younger, more progressive wing of the party. I'm not a big fan, personally.

A very good article (actually, the first of many) about the support for various candidates among various subgroups of the democratic party:

GodEmperorDune

yeah we don't need more old white guys running things

BradC

538: The 5 Key Constituencies Of The 2020 Democratic Primary

Unionhawk

Remember that time when he made student debt stick even through bankruptcy and then in 2017 or whatever said something like "I have no empathy for these millennials complaining about student debt"

GodEmperorDune

4:56 PM

this counts for both biden and bernie

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune So exactly what are the estimates for the rapid-transit tunnel time? And what would be accurate estimates for the average run time of the blue time? Assuming you're aware of that, anyways.

Unionhawk

Remember that time when he opposed school integration and convinced the rest of the caucus of this

BradC

@GodEmperorDune Yep. I could definitely become an issue during the primary among his most ardent supporters, but I think that Bernie's time has past

GodEmperorDune

@Wipqozn it doesn't really matter, building a tunnel is so expensive that you want coverage of different physical areas to expand the system rather than putting in another line right next to the existing one

BradC

Not sure if this was posted above, but Kamala Harris appears to be ready to announce her candidacy:

GodEmperorDune

4:59 PM

if you want to add capacity in an existing area, you add more subway vehicles

BradC

KCBS Radio: Kamala Harris Ready To Enter Race For President, Sources Say

Here's the very clever graphic from the 538 article above:

The 5 key corners of the 2020 Democratic primary: https://53eig.ht/2D0zRfc

Tweeted by FiveThirtyEight on January 10, 2019 at 1:27 PM

GodEmperorDune

@BradC this is an interesting article

BradC

Shows axes of support for various (possible) candidates among the democratic subgroups

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune I don't disagree, but I'm curious what the time savings of his proposed tunnel is compared to the blue line, just in general. Although more importantly, are people supposed to drive on this with their own vehicles, or is there a "shared vehicle" system going on? Kind of confused about that based on the comments.

BradC

@GodEmperorDune Yep, I think it is a useful way to think about it; not sure where they are getting all the individual stats, though (does Klobuchar have that little support among those groups?), but sounds like that will be explored in future articles in this series.

GodEmperorDune

5:04 PM

@Wipqozn its confusing because like with most elon things, it is intentionally vague to drive hype

Wipqozn

@GodEmperorDune Oh fun. Because if it's just your own personal vehicles then I don't like that at all.

Unionhawk

It's personal vehicles

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk That's really dumb

Unionhawk

Yes

Adelaide O-Bahn Route No.501 Driving View City to Walkleys Road Bus Stop

►

It's literally this but not busses

That's the concept

Wipqozn

More and better public transport is the answer to reducing resource consumption, emissions, traffic / parking concerns in high density urban areas, and helping to close the "travel" disparity gap between lower and higher income individuals.

Not just, another road for cars to drive on

fredley

5:09 PM

@Unionhawk There's one of those in Cambridge in the UK. The guided busway (or misguided busway)

So in conclusion, it's busses

Wipqozn

I really wish Elon Musk actually cared about helping people, as opposed to just doing "cool science shit".

Because some of his initial ideas certainly have great potential to help humanity, but then seems to remember, oh wait, fuck poor people! How can I make this only help the wealthy?

fredley

In general, the 'coolest' tech/engineering tends to be the stuff that's for the military/wealthy, whereas the really interesting stuff that provides wider benefits to far more people is generally less cool.

I mean that's how the whole military side tends to tempt people in. Tanks are cool! Come and work with tanks!

Wipqozn

@fredley Seems to be how it works

fredley

Sewer systems are not cool at all but much more interesting ultimately.

Factorio taught me that a well-designed supply chain is much cooler than a tank (but flamethrowers are actually still pretty cool actually)

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Okay, that's actually really cool

fredley

5:17 PM

@SaintWacko Not as cool as drones with motherfricking lasers attatched to their heads!

Unionhawk

@SaintWacko check this out though: wouldn't it be cooler if it were low occupancy vehicles so you didn't have to sit next to the unwashed masses

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Briliant

Tim Stone

The airport, that classic place I like to leave my car for extended periods of time

Unionhawk

presumably such a system would only support compatible vehicles

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk And they'd have to license it out

Unionhawk

5:20 PM

so the obvious question there is "is this literally a tesla tunnel"

to which the answer is "probably"

SaintWacko

@Unionhawk Hm. To be fair, they could save a lot of money on ventilation systems that way

Well, maybe

I wonder if there's a significant difference in a ventilation system capable of maintaining a sufficient oxygen level and one capable of clearing exhaust fumes

Wipqozn

The idea of a high speed, low emissions and affordable public transport is an extremely important thing that society as a whole needs. Not yet another way for cars to exist.

That was meant to be posted like,. forever ago, but work called

GOSH DARN WORK

Unionhawk

I see your affordable and raise you "free" but in any case

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk Free is pretty affordable

Unionhawk

the ultimate in affordability

Wipqozn

5:24 PM

@Unionhawk Personally I like the idea of their being a low fee for middle income earner and higher, but low income individuals are provided with free transport passes.

It helps to fund and maintain the system, while still providing low income individuals with free transport.

And people get these passes annually. Literally when you get your tax forms from the government in the mail, you get your "bus" pass well, based on your tax bracket.

so there's no undue stress on "ugh, how do I find time to go get one!" or "how do I even get to the office!?"

fredley

@Wipqozn That sounds suspiciously like socialism 🧐

But yeah. The hard part is making sure it's not a disincentive to go up a tax bracket

Wipqozn

@fredley OH NO! I'VE BEEN REVEALED!

Unionhawk

Eh, means testing like that tends to both make programs less popular and more complex

Wipqozn

@fredley Yeah true

Unionhawk

It's dead simple to say "you can hop on a bus and that's funded through a progressive tax"

fredley

5:27 PM

If it's just train tickets, that might be ok but typically there's a raft of other things you'll want to kick in below a certain threshold.

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk hm yeah true.

Unionhawk

I don't want to recreate the ACA 138% federal poverty level problem

Wipqozn

and to get the most benefit from it people should be highly encourage to always take public transport unless there's a really good reason to take a car. A fee doesn't help with that.

and "make it fast" is one of the big things for that. I've never taken public transport in my city, because it's absolutely terrible. For example, right now, if I wanted to travel to the downtown core it would be a 20 minute drive. Taking public transport would be an 1 hour and 10 minutes minimum.

That's completely fucked

fredley

@Wipqozn London does pretty well at this. Congestion charging in the center, taxis exempt (since loads of people sharing a taxi is much better than them individually driving/parking cars). Great public transport. Very few people drive ever, except to leave the city.

Unionhawk

Yeah I think it's 2 hours to anywhere other than downtown for me

fredley

5:29 PM

I've never owned a car.

Wipqozn

That reminds me I've been meaning to yell at my local rep to install bike lanes in the business park I drive through so I can bike to work.

I want to bike but to do so now would basically just be a death trap. I did it once and it was miserable. I've never been so stressed.

some people hate bikers so fucking much

Yes I too get frustrated by bikers slowing down traffic, but it's not their fault there's no bloody bike lanes. Instead of honking call your MLA and yell at them to install bike lanes.

user15026

Pretty much.

Wipqozn

Anyways I actually got work to do

BradC

6:05 PM

I can't help but think about the stories I've read about US auto companies (and gas companies, I think?) fiercely fighting public transportation plans in many major US cities, solely for their own profit

Makes you wonder how different our cities would be today if those early efforts hadn't been so successfully sabotaged

Unionhawk

Yeah it's a good thing elon isn't the chief executive officer of an automaker

BradC

(the stories I'm thinking of were in the early 20th century, as many of these cities were in early development. clearly there are firms that still fight these plans)

@Unionhawk lolsob, yep

I have a relative that lives in Vancouver BC, Canada. A ton of stuff going on there in terms of insane housing prices and stuff, but the relevant bit we were talking about recently was the key element of the commuter trains, and how the extension of certain lines (and schedules, and stops) correlated directly with housing prices, and how exactly certain suburbs sprung up, etc.

It is a major force in literally shaping the city and its suburbs

(it = decisions about light rail)

user15026

Oh, for sure - we are seeing a similar thing in KW with how our light rail is laid out and such

user15026

@BradC Yep! It's one of the reasons the US has so little light rail/streetcar stuff, because GM etc fought against it to sell more cars, etc

BradC

Much harder to come along after the fact on a city built from the ground up for cars, and wedge in rail in an affordable and effective way

user15026

6:20 PM

For sure - that's where we struggled with our light rail, and I am sure once the trains are actually running with passengers all the time (we are in the burn in test phase right now) it's going to be...interesting (there have been some changes to some intersections in regards to allowed turns, the LRT gets priority in a lot of spots, etc)

user15026

(Sorry, I like transit a lot.)

Yuuki

7:11 PM

Fun times at the Wall Street Journal.

@BradC I can't remember if Los Angeles ever had any plans for public transit, but that city was designed with the idea that everyone would have a car and that there's no way humans would ever reach a global population of 5 billion (let alone the 7.7 billion we're at now).

BradC

@Yuuki Here's a story that repeats (and then partially debunks) one of the most legendary versions of the myth:

Did a conspiracy really destroy LA's huge streetcar system?

Here's another recent article that points toward poor management decisions by transit systems:

Why Did America Give Up on Mass Transit? (Don't Blame Cars.)

> What happened? Over the past hundred years the clearest cause is this: Transit providers in the U.S. have continually cut basic local service in a vain effort to improve their finances. But they only succeeded in driving riders and revenue away. When the transit service that cities provide is not attractive, the demand from passengers that might “justify” its improvement will never materialize.

Wipqozn

7:28 PM

My god I hate mobile chat

IT's so fucking terrible

Had a message to bradc typed out, wouldn't send. Seems to be too long ?NO WARNING LOL

and since the input box is so damn small cutting up the message is just a huge pain in the ass

Seriously just double the size of the mobile input box and it be so much better with that alone

ANYWAYS, TIME TO RETYPE IN DESKTOP

@BradC Transportation has always had a huge impact on human settlements. Originally cities were founded near water, but started to move in land as transport ion improved (trains were a huge factor for this in the US). As cars become popular suburbs started to pop up, and the wealthy moved to them since they could afford cars. However as cars become more affordable the traffic getting into a city got drastically worse, so the wealthy started to move back into the city core to avoid traffic

and that's why we see inner city prices skyrocketing so much in the past 20-30 years, and in cities experiencing a lot of growth

Yuuki

@BradC And when ground composition makes a subway system completely untenable.

wew houston

BradC

@Wipqozn Makes sense

Yuuki

@Wipqozn Were those trains positively or negatively charged?

BradC

7:50 PM

tra-ions?

Yuuki

Well, he mentioned they were transport ions.

BradC

ah, yes

Wipqozn

8:04 PM

@Yuuki Both

Unionhawk

9:14 PM

The British press is misleading the public about trans people. It's so bad that the toothless industry 'regulator' IPSO can't make excuses anymore and has obliged the Times, Daily Mail and co to publish corrections. Please retweet this so as many people as possible see the truth.

Tweeted by parislees on January 9, 2019 at 3:19 PM

hwoops

honest mistake

Yuuki

@Unionhawk Wait, did that newspaper out the person who complained about them to a regulatory body?

Well, not "out" as in "out of the closet" so much as "give everyone their name".

Tim Stone

TRUMP: "They drive, they just go where there's no security, fencing or walls of any kind, they just make a left into US & they come in and they have women tied up, they have tape over their mouths, electrical tape. Powerful stuff. Not good." Fox News quickly cuts away. https://t.co/EOrVuSRHrB

Tweeted by atrupar on January 10, 2019 at 7:26 PM

That just seems...oddly specific

Unionhawk

noted most powerful variety of tape, electrical tape

Tim Stone

9:30 PM

He also made the bizarre claim that the wheel is older than the wall?

CTO Of Vizio confirms that Data collection in Smart TV's is now offsetting the cost of the hardware to the point that a non-Smart TV would have a higher price tag. Just like android phones, user data is used to reduce costs and stay competitive. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/7/18172397/airplay-2-homekit-vizio-tv-bill-baxter-interview-vergecast-ces-2019

Tweeted by DJSnM on January 10, 2019 at 5:50 PM

Gross

Yuuki

@TimStone Given that beavers exist, I would argue that the wheel is in fact not older than the wall.

Mad Scientist

10:10 PM

> "They say a wall is medieval. Well, a wheel is older than a wall," Trump said, though the earliest known border wall is actually thousands of years older than the wheel. "And I looked, and every single car out there, even the really expensive ones that the Secret Service uses — and believe me they are expensive — I said, 'Do they all have wheels?' 'Yes.' 'Oh. I thought it was medieval.'"

Unionhawk

10:34 PM

Atlanta airport TSA workers go on strike to protest shutdown http://hill.cm/27819Ts

Tweeted by thehill on January 10, 2019 at 9:46 PM

(Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world, with over one hundred million passengers last year. Obviously not all of them are security screened in atlanta though)

user15026

@MadScientist I....what is he trying to prove here

Mad Scientist

@Ash I don't try to understand it anymore, that only leads to headaches or worse

murgatroid99

10:56 PM

@Ash He seems to be saying that people object to the wall as a solution because it's "medieval" and arguing that wheels are even older and we use them so that's not a valid objection

user15026

11:08 PM

Okay, I kinda get that as a really lame argument but no

Yuuki

11:19 PM

I mean, no one's trying to outsmart a wheel.

Tim Stone

11:35 PM

Exclusive w/ ⁦@ckubeNBC⁩ Trump weighing taking money from Puerto Rico and other disaster areas for wall https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-could-take-billions-disaster-areas-fund-wall-n957281

Tweeted by JuliaEAinsley on January 10, 2019 at 9:50 PM

Unionhawk

11:53 PM

A lawsuit filed today by an Alphabet shareholder claims that the company's board of directors covered up sexual harassment by numerous Google executives. https://wired.trib.al/VJdAbE0

Tweeted by WIRED on January 10, 2019 at 11:51 PM

Memor-X

@TimStone think that falls under misappropriation of funds does it not?

Tim Stone

That won't stop them from trying

But it's probably from the general relief fund so it's okay

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