@GodEmperorDune Okay, but I'll just leave it here because that's a terrible thing to put on social media, not in the least because some idiot might take it seriously because Poe's Law or whatever.
but california has wildfires because 1) people build structures in areas that require wildfires to burn 2) we have fire zone charts for mandated fire insurance that are about as woefully out of date as the flood zone charts 3) climate change makes wildfires more intense
so houston flooding and california burning are pretty analogous
ooh i forgot 4) home prices are such that buying houses in fire zones may be the most affordable housing in the area
with the minor caveat that SUPER RICH people like to live on the hills to lord over everyone and the tops of the hills is what is likely to burn as well (like rupert murdoch)
@Unionhawk which iirc kim jong un has literally said he was down to do if he was backed into it
"if they're going to take us down, light them all up first"
Trump Jr. cites attorney-client privilege in not answering panel's questions about discussions with his father http://politi.co/2jmMkQ5 via @KyleDCheney
Number of days Trump admin was able to even pretend to care about homeless veterans: 4
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/homeless-veterans-benefits-trump-207781?cid=apn
Don Jr. may have been thinking of the Sopranos episodes where they family held meetings at their lawyer’s office because attorney-client privilege prevented the FBI from bugging it.
Two years ago, Kim Davis denied David Ermold a marriage license because he was gay, despite it being legalized.
Today, she had to watch as he signed up to run against her in the next election.
this is the same guy who tried to tip off a Chinese official that his phones may have been bugged, got donations from him and went against labor party policy and said Australia should stay out of Chinese affairs in the south china sea
the fact this guy still hasn't been questioned for treason is baffling
Thank you #Texas! So enjoyed my visit with everyone today. Special thanks to 1st responders & @CoastalBendFB for all that you do! We are with you Texas. #TexasRebuilds
“Trump + Jared figure that after...a few days of riots, things go back to normal when it comes to the negotiations.” https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/jared-kushner-trump-jerusalem-mideast-peace-283770
> He is banking on the hope that the opposition is just a facade — and that, privately, after a “cooling-off period,” Arab allies will continue to work with him on a peace plan he still expects to announce at some point in the early months of 2018.
.@RichardDiNatale says he believes a by-election is certain in the seat of Batman and that since he cannot prove he isn't a dual citizen, @Feeney4Batman should resign immediately. #auspol MORE: http://bit.ly/2zSLYH7 https://t.co/dbvwpdk1Ra
The Division of Batman is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. The division was created in 1906, replacing the Division of Northern Melbourne. It takes its name from John Batman, one of the founders of the city of Melbourne.
The current Member for Batman, since the 2013 federal election, is David Feeney, a member of the Australian Labor Party.
Batman has historically been the safest Labor seat in the nation, but came narrowly within being lost to the Australian Greens at the 2016 federal election after having been overtaken by them on the primary vote.
The division is located...
@TimStone a while back someone posted here something about someone suggesting to pay or tip in only bit coin. if it crashes it just shows what a stupid idea what was
Al Franken defenders on Fox News!Gingrich and Ingraham just now: This is “political calculation.” And “weird puritanism.” He’s accused of “minor stuff.” Dems are a “lynch mob.” There’s “no due process.”
Ending the late capitalist practice of spending resources to generate fake value would be very good
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Considering I worked in a bitcoin industry through some "crashes" I suspect, especially considering current value, that it won't "crash" to an actual breaking point that actually changes much, all things considered
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I mean I don't understand all the bits
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but I understand some of the ways it is assigned usefulness to people
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so I will be curious what, if anything, actually happens, and if it actually has more of an impact than a news cycle of OMG BITCOIN IS DEAD
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because so far, every time, it's never actually dented enough to really do a whole lot
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3:55 AM
(oh wow self you are becoming very cynical about things sometimes)
Well, it seems the one thing that apparently has bipartisan support is getting Democrats out of the Senate.
(But yeah, he needs to resign.)
I'm surprised McConnell could find enough spine parts in his skeleton closet to call for Franken to resign though.
@TimStone It has to do with Bitcoin's tech.
Basically, Bitcoin has a size limit and general consensus has decided to not increase said size limit.
> "Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for a clean block size upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was never the goal of Segwit2x."
And now merchants are dropping Bitcoin because it has essentially decided to not scale.
As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613
Lol so we have a news satire in our national radio simply called "Fake News". Best headline I've heard so far: "Putin will be running for president again in 2018. The election results will be made public next week"
Great news! @msnbc recognized their massive error in firing @SamSeder and reversed their decision.
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/07/sam-seder-msnbc-reverses-decision-to-fire-contributor-sam-seder/
So wait like how does this work now, they conference it together (minus Susan and Chuck naturally), and then it goes back again to each chamber?
Also excluding others who made any kinds of demands
I forget who else was like "hold on"
Unrelated, this is pretty much my take on Franken/Conyers
A lot of takes seem to be equating Dems pushing Franken out with an unwillingness to "play dirty," as though allowing sexual predators in positions of power is some kind of clever, savvy tactic.
@Yuuki Yeah, but he's head of crypto at Cloudflare so I wasn't sure if there was a pending vulnerability or something that he expected to tank the value immediately
"The Los Angeles Police Department asked drivers to avoid navigation apps, which are steering users onto more open routes — in this case, streets in the neighborhoods that are on fire." http://fw.to/EMJxt2E
There is of course a partisan divide on "most disliked national or world leader." But note that even independents have Trump ahead of Kim Jong-un, and Republicans mention Trump ahead of Putin:
Just a few years ago, if you told me that Americans would, on average, dislike the current sitting President more than Vladimir Putin, I would've told you... that that's actually somewhat understandable in the vaguest sense.
It's kind of crazy that even among Republicans Trump is more disliked than Putin and within two points of Obama and Clinton, but I suspect that the people who picked Obama and Clinton had to flip a coin so
JUST IN: Minnesota's female lieutenant governor to replace Franken: report http://hill.cm/AlDGlJR
Before we start riding the "whoo, we're actually dealing with sexual harassment" train, note that Terry Crews came out about being sexually assaulted and by the looks of it, it's being swept under the rug.
I mean, there's been articles about it and his comments were widely shared on Twitter? I'd agree that there's less of a focus on "What will the accused do?" because most people don't have any context for who they are
Context for that Haley comment:
@DLind No, it’s fine. Her longer statement is way less dramatic. Apparently Fox News just keeps asking Trump admin officials if Americans will be safe during the Olympics because of North Korea. Others have said they’ll be fine.
Pelosi says Dems will NOT support the CR today
"They either have the votes or they don’t have the votes today."
cites CHIP, Dream Act, drug abuse funding, veterans...
Kids dressed as elves are delivering “coal” to @SpeakerRyan’s office, singing carols, etc. to request a #DreamActNow.
Capitol police immediately pulled out zip-tie handcuffs.
Franken announces resignation (effective 'in the coming weeks'),
Franken: "There is some irony that I am leaving while a man who bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who preyed on young girls runs for Senate with the full support of his party."
My guess is they called it that because there are other religions besides Christianity that also have celebrations this time of year, so they wanted to include everyone
@cazc_941 the irony here is that there is a huge right wing backlash against calling things "holiday party" instead of "christmas party" or saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas" because some people feel that using "holiday" is offensive against people who celebrate christmas
Whatever, that sounds dumb. If I want to tell someone merry Christmas, they are being an asshole if they get offended even if they don't celebrate Christmas. Cause I do and I'm giving you a positive interaction
trump of course feeds into that by saying he is going to "make christmas great again" and "end the war on christmas" and here his company is going with "holiday party" instead of "christmas party"
lol the last WI-1 election had 4 candidates on the ballot
Republican incumbent Paul Ryan, Democratic candidate Ryan Solen, Trump Conservative Spencer Zimmerman (that's what Ballotpedia lists as his party), and Libertarian Jason Lebeck
the libertarian got 2,000 fewer votes than the trump conservative candidate
Dear Patreon: In passing processing fees on to me, a patron, my monthly contributions should be going up by about $1. I could live with that. Instead, it's going to go up by nearly $5 (or more, if per creation pledges get individually tagged with the $0.35 fee). That is really shitty, especially since credit card companies and PayPal will only be dinging you once for the dozen or so creators I back.
.@CLewandowski_, when asked if he has any regrets about his behavior towards women: "You know what my regret is? I didn't get to serve my country in the military – that's my regret" http://snpy.tv/2AE7ssJ
Wanted to share a video of Roy Moore in 1997 arguing that kids commit drive-by shooting because they are taught evolution in school: "They're acting like animals because we've taught them they come from animals." https://t.co/YoHZXKfpAl
@Unionhawk Yeah. I mean I've sometimes seen it split in two, monthlies and per post in the email I get from Patreon (i.e. I've gotten two emails for a month), but I don't think I've seen it in the PayPal charge.
@TimStone Except my understanding is that revenue (from their 5%) shouldn't change that much. Patreon was always taking their 5% straight off the top, before the processing fees, and basically handing every creator $0.95, and then clawing back the processing fees.
You're talking about the anti-Jones "OMG NFL PLAYERS KNEELING!" one?
Or a different one?
Big new economic study, on the problem of "Lost Einsteins." Our extreme inequality is almost certainly denying us important innovations. My column: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opinion/lost-einsteins-innovation-inequality.html
Is there something in a Democratic candidate's brain that can't allow for easy layup elections and makes this shit happen? https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/938772102089408512
❗️NEW VIDEO❗️
Wildfires continue to grow in Southern California. Here is amazing footage of a 'firenado' over the #ThomasFire. Turbulent winds interact with intense heat rising over the wildfire and this interaction creates a whirlwind, very similar to a dust devil. https://t.co/77h7Xo1AFz
Blake Farenthold just said his constituents are concerned that there's a special counsel investigation into the the Trump administration but "no one is addressing the Clinton administration. "
I know he means the Hillary Clinton administration because like that's how deranged these people are, but it's funnier to imagine he's talking about investigating things (ambiguous) that occurred 20 years ago
Like what are we investigating friend
That Superpredators(tm) and mandatory minimums were both really bad things and accelerated the growth of the carceral state?
.@SHSanders45: “We think it’s unfortunate that these members of Congress wouldn’t join the President in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history."
CNN Exclusive: Previously undisclosed emails show follow-up after June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians
with @mkraju @jeremyherb http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/07/politics/previously-undisclosed-emails-after-trump-tower-meeting/index.html
"It is unclear exactly why Franks is stepping down, but one Arizona Republican noted there had been rumors of inappropriate behavior" http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/arizonas-trent-franks-expected-resign
If the Trent Franks rumor I’m hearing is true—at this point, no idea if it is—he won’t belong in the same category as these other “inappropriate behavior” guys.