This Is Fine

12:08 AM

I had heard it was 4-4 before which would have upheld the state supreme court ruling that yeah hang on let's do it this way

So it being 5-3 affirming is good but still suspicious imo

Tim Stone

> DNI Ratcliffe strayed from his prepared remarks last week to say publicly that Iran's spoof emails intimidating Dems were aimed at "damaging President Trump," blindsiding FBI Director Wray and CISA Director Chris Krebs who were standing behind him

> In other words, we know three justices — Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch — disagreed with denying relief, because they said so, but we don’t know the other votes because application votes aren’t public. So, it could have been 4-4 and that would still be a denial

Yeah, it seems that someone just didn't join with those three, for whatever reason

Whether they disagreed or just didn't want to be on record

So could be either/or

Anyway since everything's dumb there's probably like a non-zero chance Roberts looked at the polling and went "Huh maybe if he loses they'll get me someone who can competently cheat the system" or something

Memor-X

@TimStone me thinks Brett

Eddie Kal

@TimStone WTF? This is outrageous!

Memor-X

What this New Nudity Scandal Exposes, Cyberpunk 2077 Backlash, Amy Coney Barrett Election Impact, &

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timed to Brett Kavanaugh comments on deadlines

Tim Stone

12:26 AM

Just gonna assume he means that they'll catch on fire, like Teslas

> Tucker is claiming that his super-secret, extremely damming trove of documents about Hunter Biden was stolen while in the mail

lmfao

Wipqozn

Halifax restaurant says goodbye to tips, raises wages for staff cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/…

> Jamie MacAulay, owner of Coda Ramen on Gottingen Street, said staff at his restaurant will instead be paid higher wages, roughly $17 to $22 an hour, and receive health benefits.

Memor-X

@TimStone oh, i thought they finally quiet down on that

Wipqozn

> Menu prices at the restaurant will be raised slightly to account for the change, MacAulay said, but he added that it won't cover all that's lost.

> MacAulay said senior cooks and staff at Coda Ramen will earn a living wage, which is $22/hour in Nova Scotia, and new staff will gradually work up to that amount.

Eddie Kal

12:51 AM

@TimStone UPS, Fedex, USPS, and Amazon have all lost a ton of my packages. Ain't nobody ever fussed about my missing/empty packages/envelopes.

Tim Stone

> The #2 Space Force officer has COVID-19

Private Pansy

@TimStone Huh, Space Force has more than one officer

Tim Stone

I know, it was a surprise to me too

> Kelly Loeffler on Trump's “Access Hollywood” video from 2005: She’s “not familiar” with it, she tells 11Alive’s Doug Richards

lmao

Oh yeah that's definitely believable

Unionhawk

1:17 AM

my enemy, jpg_large, has been defeated

Memor-X

4:01 AM

Rudy Giuliani Flips Out On Live TV As Fox Interview Goes Off The Rails

> “Some could say you are acting like Christopher Steele,” [Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery] said, referring to the former British spy behind a salacious and unverified dossier on Trump.

That set Giuliani off.

“You better apologize for that!” he declared. “I’ve been a United States attorney, associate attorney general, mayor of New York City and a member of the bar for 50 years.”

His voice rising, he called it an “outrageous defamation” to be compared to Steele.

> He stayed another five minutes, but things remained tense as he accused Kennedy of “repeating lying propaganda.”

wait, i thought that was a good thing coming from Fox for a republican

> “Do you think Rupert Murdoch would let them print false material?” [Giuliani] shouted.

well, they do have Tucker Carlson on Fox

Eddie Kal

4:41 AM

@Memor-X Even Fox News is losing its patience with Trump and his minions

Memor-X

4:53 AM

@EddieKal and Trump is loosing his with their inability to worship him

Wipqozn

12:14 PM

Imagine working so many hours that in June your studio head sent out an email apologizing to everyone’s spouses/partners because it “often means [the devs] cannot participate on the home front” and then seeing quotes like this from an executive who owns $70 million in stock

Also, naturally, people still continue to defend CDPR

Imagine if this was EA. Gamers would be losing their minds.

Nzall

12:52 PM

I thought the leopard eating your face thing was a metaphor...

Wipqozn

Ending The Coronavirus Pandemic Is NOT One Of Donald Trump's Accomplishments

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The MLB segment is just what

Wipqozn

1:04 PM

In GOP is completely evil and corrupt related news

Texas Supreme Court sides with governor on rule requiring one ballot drop box per county cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/texas-supreme-court-drop-boxes/…

> Just alone in Harris County, which is centered on Houston, 1.15 million people had voted through Monday evening, compared with 1.3 million total in the 2016 election. The state's other big cities and inner suburban counties are experiencing comparable increases.

> In a statement Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office cheered the ruling as having "correctly stopped the district court's unlawful injunction and preserved election integrity."

lol oh fuck you

> The court also argued the risk of mailing the ballot is "small," and "voters who are worried about it can mail their ballots in plenty of time before Election Day to eliminate the chance of untimely delivery."

You made this ruling less than week before the election, fuck off

Nzall

@Wipqozn HOW?

Wipqozn

Like at least to not be corrupt

Like I know every member of the GOP should be in jail for corruption, but christ, this is exhausting.

Nzall

USPS already said mail-in ballots sent at this point in time won't arrive in time anymore

Wipqozn

first heard about here:

The GOP's Voter Suppression Efforts Are Inherently Evil

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Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn One interesting aspect here is that they are likely also very incompetent in this case. Some of the early voting data suggests that democrats tend to vote earlier than republicans, so it's not a given that the late arriving votes are actually favoring democrats all that much.

Wipqozn

1:14 PM

@MadScientist Amazing

Mad Scientist

It would be quite funny if they're all prepared to discount the late arriving ballots, and it turns out that those ballots actually favored republicans

Wipqozn

Don't worry, I'm sure the texas supreme court will side with whatever bullshit the GOP come up with to give them the victory.

Mad Scientist

Florida is probably the biggest danger, if they need to cheat in Texas, they need to cheat in too many states to win

Wipqozn

That's quite the point

It would be so amazing if the GOP just lost everywhere

I mean it won't happen, but who knows!

I mean I'm still not convinced Trump is going to lose, let alone the GOP will lose with any notable margin.

Mad Scientist

I find the polls quite convincing, especially combined with the 2018 results. But I do certainly expect some fuckery to occur, I just think the Republicans are trying to cheat and intimidate on too small a scale to win unless there is also a large polling error in their favor

Memor-X

1:25 PM

@Wipqozn and a day before election i can bet you they'll pass that they wont count votes that arrive after election day

all so Trump can call victory on Election Night

Mad Scientist

If they actually try the "mail ballots are all fraud and we just appoint the EC delegates ourselves" in several large states, that would be something different. But I have a hard time believing they could get away with this

Memor-X

@MadScientist oh they'll try

Trump would for sure

Mad Scientist

@Memor-X that's something like 1% of mail votes, so you need an extreme democratic bias in those votes and the election must be closer than 1%

Memor-X

and the GOP would let he no matter how illegal it is because they gave him the free pass to commit crime

@MadScientist yeh but in some states in 2016 the vote was decided within a few thousand votes

Every Terrible Thing Trump Has Done As President

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nice and catchy

the one issue i have though is the part saying he's voting remote. initially when i heard that part i thought they were talking about now but i think they are talking about the Primaries so it can be a bit misleading there

unless he is voting remotely in this election which means he's actually committed a feudal felony the other day by voting a second time

Nzall

@Memor-X feudal? you mean federal, right?

Memor-X

1:38 PM

@Nzall yeh that. shit i keep typing the wrong one i need

Tim Stone

> An absolute barn burner from @jeremybmerrill about how Facebook needs to pump its users full of wild, inchoate rage at all times, so it charged a lower rate for Trump's political ads, which do precisely that, than for Biden's ads, which don't

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Nzall

Jeremy Corbyn suspended by his party over antisemitism report respone

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Tim Stone

> Wisconsin Republican Party chairman says hackers stole $2.3 million from account dedicated to Trump reelection

Sometime later we'll probably just find out someone internal stole the money

Ronan

Or they don't want to admit they wasted it

Tim Stone

1:55 PM

Maybe they sent it to Foxconn

> The Trump appointee steering the $300M ad campaign to “defeat despair” about coronavirus privately pitched a different theme — “Helping the President will Help the Country.”

> The $300 million requisitioned from CDC for this campaign is more than the funding provided to states for COVID19 vaccine preparedness

> Whitaker and Barr repeatedly tried to derail the SDNY criminal investigation of Halkbank—a Turkish bank thought to be laundering money to fund Iran’s nuclear weapons program—while Erdogan wooed Trump

Tim Stone

2:27 PM

> Jerry Falwell Jr. is suing Liberty University after his forced resignation over sex scandal

Wipqozn

Conversion therapy ban gets approval in principle, exposes Conservative divisions ctvnews.ca/mobile/politics/…

> But seven [Conservative] MPs voted against it, two abstained and eight others made it clear they were supporting it only grudgingly for now, in hopes that it will be amended by the Commons justice committee.

> Some Conservatives have expressed fears the bill would outlaw conversations between parents and their children or counsel from religious leaders.

Golly gee, why does everyone think Conservatives are bigots?!

I can't even begin to imagine why

It's "only" 17 / 121 Conservatives MPs, but that's still waaaaay too many.

Memor-X

@Wipqozn what sort of conversations are they having?

Jolenealaska

@Nzall exoticanimalparties.com/home/poggi

Wipqozn

Oh and in other shitty news!

@Memor-X I'm assuming "We hate you, and you're going to hell. We're going to try and beat it out of you though!"

Note: I have no respect at all for parents that don't fully accept and love their LGBT+ children.

Fuck every single one of them.

Mass evictions in Dartmouth add to worrying trend for housing support worker cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/…

> Young and every other tenant at two neighbouring apartment buildings on Victoria Road in North Dartmouth, N.S., received eviction notices at the start of October.

> Grace Fogerty received a notice last week of a $650 rent increase, an increase of nearly 90 per cent from her current rent of $725 for her one-bedroom apartment on Dutch Village Road.

Tim Stone

> In one of the surest signs of an impending apocalypse we have yet seen, a New York City man fell about 15 feet into a pit of rats when a sidewalk sinkhole opened under his feet

My man's name is Lenny Shoulders, fantastic

Wipqozn

2:41 PM

@TimStone This is some straight up old testament shit right here

but also yeah to the above, fuck landlords

SORRY FRANK

but this shit is happening all over the city. It's absurd.

Also Dartmouth is Halifax, for non-canadians.

and Halifax being the capital of Turtleland

Basically we don't have a capital city, we have a capital county. or something. Shits weird.

BradC

I'm sure you'll all be absolutely shocked, but it looks like Trump might have done some (more) corruption:

REVEALED: Trump’s DOJ moved to quash probe into Turkish bank after lobbying from Erdogan

(Story links to original NYT article)

Just outright favor peddling for a foreign dictator by both Trump and Bill Barr

Sen. Loeffler: 'Not familiar' with Access Hollywood tape

lolwut

> Loeffler told reporters Wednesday that she doesn’t know anything about an Access Hollywood tape made in 2005 in which Trump described sexually assaulting women. This came up again after Loeffler said she doesn’t disagree with anything Trump has said or done.

Tim

Is this real?

"The UK Labour party suspends former leader Jeremy Corbyn following his comments on antisemitism within the party"

The talking point of the conservative party is now used by the labour party

Nzall

3:03 PM

@Tim it's real

1 hour ago, by Nzall

Jeremy Corbyn suspended by his party over antisemitism report respone

Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn how is that legal?

Tim

@Nzall Sorry, I didn't see that.

Dire warning

Michael Moore: Why I Still Think Trump Could Win

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Wipqozn

3:20 PM

@MadScientist There's no rent control in Nova Scotia. IT's fucked.

Mad Scientist

you don't even need rent control, this would be illegal here in Germany. There is no rent control in general, but you can't arbitrarily increase rent for existing tenants.

Wipqozn

There are limits around WHEN you can increase it, i.e. just on the 1 year anniversary, but there's no actual limit on how much it can be increased

@MadScientist It SHOULD be illegal here. There's no restrictions at all on how much a landlord can increase rent.

It's the main reason I'm looking to buy a house.

Mad Scientist

you can increase rent here, but only up to the average rent level in that area (or a bit above that or so). And then it's also limited to 20% in 3 years. Increases after renovating are something different again

Wipqozn

@MadScientist Yeah, nothing like that here, which is absurd.

The day I learned that I was completely baffled. It makes absolutely no sense there's no restrictions on it.

Nzall

@Wipqozn it makes sense if you're on the economic right and want the free market to dictate stuff

Which of course only makes sense if there's actually a surplus on the market so people can switch if they got problems

fredley

3:28 PM

@Tim My thoughts exactly. This is crazy! Not in the sense of right/wrong, but in the sense of momentous.

Not sure it's a good move, could literally split Labour in two

Wipqozn

@Nzall There's not. 1% vacancy right now, I think?

The free market doesn't solve aanything except make the rich richer.

It can kind of help the consumer if there's actual competitiona nd supply, but when you're talking about basic necessities, it falls apart.

Nzall

@Wipqozn Free market solves price gouging if there is a market for alternatives. But yeah, the rent market doesn't make sense because there's not really a point to have houses be empty

Like, you're not going to have 20% of your houses be empty in most areas, and houses are a physical thing in a fixed location so unless you work remote you can't really go wide in your search

Tim Stone

> Last year at @CompPolicyLab, we created the country’s first race-blind charging platform, intended to reduce racial bias in prosecutor’s charging decisions. We’ve analyzed the data! Here’s what happened when we deployed it in a major district attorney’s office (thread)

> Fortunately, we found no evidence of disparate treatment in historical charging decisions. So unsurprisingly—given this lack of disparate treatment historically—we also found that charging rates by race did not change with the use of race-blind charging

So that's good but unclear what the impact would be had there been more evidence of historical disparate treatment.

As the thread notes though, disparate treatment in charging has little to do with disparate impact, and this is only after whatever disparate treatment the police give

Since you can decide to e.g. prosecute possession charges but if the police mostly only arrest people of certain races for that crime to begin with the outcomes are still disparate

Tim Stone

4:07 PM

> A protester in Florida accused of using a Patron bottle as a weapon was charged with a crime affecting 'interstate or foreign commerce,' because Patron liquor is made in Mexico. @SamTLevin investigates the charges against protesters across the country

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> Rudy Giuliani says Twitter's Jack Dorsey should be thrown in jail as an "accessory" to Hunter Biden's "crimes." He also suggested Twitter's handling of the story is worse than Japanese internment

MBraedley

4:26 PM

@TimStone So using Tennessee whiskey for Molotov cocktails is fine, but not Mexican tequila?

(Not that using 80 proof alcohol is a good idea to begin with, since it can't sustain a flame. Use gasoline instead.)

Tim Stone

> UPS has found Tucker Carlson’s mystery package of Biden papers, suggesting it wasn’t stolen by the deep state after all

lol

Tim Stone

4:58 PM

> Judge Marrero won't reconsider or stay his order forcing Jacob Wohl to tell recipients of his robocall that the election-related messages were false and illegal

ahahaha, fantastic

Tim Stone

5:10 PM

> US OKs Extradition of Mass. Father, Son Nabbed in Ex-Nissan CEO's Escape

Just absolutely wild how many completely unhinged stories there's been the last few years

Tim Stone

5:42 PM

taps earpiece We're now getting word that Glenn Greenwald has Glenn Greenwalded harder than he's ever Glenn Greenwalded before

Wipqozn

@TimStone I have no idea what this is, but was his "criticism of Joe Biden" QAnon nonsense?

Tim Stone

Glenn seems to think that we're all covering for Biden by not giving the NY Post story more credence

Wipqozn

oh okay

Tim Stone

Instead of just, you know, gesturing at the President and Rudy and going ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wipqozn

BuT hEr EmAiLs

Tim Stone

5:49 PM

It's just extremely funny because he's cared about some legitimately important things but for some reason went "but what if I gave people a reason to not take me seriously at all?"

And just went full throttle in that direction

Fantastic work really

Oh, and he also likes going on Tucker Carlson's show a lot

For some reason

Wipqozn

tbh these last 4 years have really brought out peoples inner crazy

Tim Stone

Definitely not related to anything

Wipqozn

Not at all

Probably related to some Mayan calendar or something

Tim Stone

It's also really funny that people on Twitter are just like "lmao" and you know they're talking about this with zero context

Nzall

6:25 PM

@TimStone Does the NY post story have any real impact on the election cycle though? It hardly seems like a story on the scale of "but her emails"

Like, Hillary's emails was brought as a matter of national security, because they weren't stored on a secured government server but instead on an easily hacked machine somewhere in a basement in Clinton Ranch. The Hunter Biden stuff just feels like a mild case of nepotism

Tim Stone

6:37 PM

Not really, which is why Glenn's insistence we Care About It is really silly

Mad Scientist

@TimStone I have wondered if he just became crazy after the NSA story, or if he always was that crazy and simply got that one legitimate story that actually fit his craziness

Tim Stone

> Court votes 5-3 to deny another ballot-receipt emergency application from North Carolina Republicans. Again, Justice Barrett did not participate

> Trump, making a truly tortured argument, says that since Biden has referred to both antifa and the United States as an "idea," that means "he puts us in the same category as antifa."

all ideas are now antifa

> To the extent this is potential 4D chess on Miles Taylor's part: There's under 6 days left to turn this around and the odds the president tweets about this nonstop for 4 of them sure seems high

planned or not it is extremely funny that the president is this predictable and it's absolutely playing out like this

Sure glad he has sole nuclear launch authority, good stuff

> Kayleigh McEnany has suddenly been appearing from the Trump campaign HQ on TV as both a White House press secretary and a campaign senior adviser, encapsulating the ignoring of the Hatch Act and total blurring of lines in the administration

Unionhawk

@TimStone I cannot stop reading this guy's name as miles "tails" prowler

Private Pansy

@Unionhawk Same. I hate my brain sometimes

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk This is correct

Unionhawk

6:48 PM

Actual footage

Damn I forgot how good the sonic adventure soundtrack was

Tim Stone

> The Maine Republican senator has become the No. 1 Senate recipient of private equity donations

Unionhawk

gz

Tim Stone

Good ol' Susan Collins

Unionhawk

what a good scheme

Appear to be one of the three moderates to secure even more money out of "hey remember who you work for here"

It's brilliant

Tim

7:21 PM

dire warning: Trump Approval REACHES 49% before Election Day

Wipqozn

I mean he did defeat covid!

MBraedley

@Tim ...in a Rasmussen poll. I wouldn't put too much stock into that.

And actually, he hit 52%, but 538 adjusts that back to 47% approve, 48% disapprove

Still a clear outlier

Tim Stone

7:42 PM

> Intercept EIC Betsy Reed sent me this statement regarding the departure of @ggreenwald, saying there's a "fundamental disagreement over the role of editors in the production of journalism and the nature of censorship."

lmao

> Wait, did Trump try and fail to get on Between Two Ferns?

lol

What a day

Unionhawk

Yeah y'know gotta be on all the most prestigious shows

Tim Stone

8:10 PM

> A U.S. District Court has denied a motion seeking a preliminary injunction against the CDC eviction moratorium. The federal order banning evictions is still in place

@Unionhawk I mean I guess since Obama was

Wipqozn

Here's CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Kiciński talking to investors about crunch yesterday (left) and him apologizing to his employees for those comments today in an email obtained by Bloomberg News (right). Quite a turnaround t.co/YaYNtPDphY

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What a scumbag

Don't worry I'm sure plenty of Capital G Gamers will jump to his defense.

Unionhawk

8:53 PM

Imagine if this was like EA

Like they do this shit too but not as openly as this

Jolenealaska

9:08 PM

The Washington Post's top story right now trolls Trump so nice As Election Day nears, Trump ponders becoming one thing he so despises: A loser

That was painful. I need coffee. And my phone. My phone makes chatting easier with a broken wrist. But this is 2020. It was stolen 3 days ago.

Tim Stone

9:42 PM

> New from @oneunderscore__ and me and it’s a weird one. Behind the fake account peddling a Hunter Biden dossier

Jolenealaska

> Aspen's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator

ffs

Wipqozn

So apparently tucker Carlson is claiming there was some "damning hunter Biden documents" that were stolen from his mailbox? Lol

Jolenealaska

There have been updates to that story

5 hours ago, by Tim Stone

> UPS has found Tucker Carlson’s mystery package of Biden papers, suggesting it wasn’t stolen by the deep state after all

Stormblessed

10:29 PM

Yay we're gonna get another MA Senate election possibly

Memor-X

@Tim you can be a progressive and still be a racist or anti-Semite

just as how you can be a conservative and support same sex marriage

Eddie Kal

@Memor-X Reminds me of this:

Nations Of The World Song - Yakko Warner - Animaniacs

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Memor-X

10:52 PM

@Wipqozn assuming that crunch hasn't already been diluted (in which case CDPR is just making it worse) got to love how investor meetings clear up lying like this

though can bet you that this wont stop people buying the game. not just the defenders but the people who decry this

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