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GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
12:09 AM
.@DHSgov is "grandfathering" the right word choice to describe the keeping of stolen children? https://twitter.com/SybilT2/status/1009588053382443009
Tweeted by anylaurie16 on June 21, 2018 at 12:08 AM
its like they either have no understanding of history or they are intentionally making a slavery refrance
Confirmed: The White House will propose merging the Education and Labor Departments, as part of a much broader plan to consolidate the federal government https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-to-propose-merging-education-labor-departments-1529533148
Tweeted by MHackman on June 20, 2018 at 10:31 PM
this is weird
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
12:41 AM
Trump threw Starburst candy at Merkel at G-7, said "don’t say I never gave you anything": report http://hill.cm/eIXVOwz
Tweeted by thehill on June 20, 2018 at 11:31 PM
i just have this mental image of Trump throwing a tantrum before grabbing fists full of Starburst and throwing it everywhere
EU fires back at Trump, slaps US with billions in tariffs http://hill.cm/7BpneA7
Tweeted by thehill on June 20, 2018 at 11:49 PM
and we know what Trump will do next if his actions with China is any indication
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
President Trump: "The elite. Why are they elite? I have a much better apartment than they do. I am smarter than they are. I am richer than they are. I became president and they didn’t. And I am representing the greatest, smartest, most loyal people on earth, the deplorables.”
Tweeted by kaitlancollins on June 21, 2018 at 12:41 AM
I just don't know what you do with people that hear that and go "Ah yes, he is just like us" after he literally described himself as more elite than the elite
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
@TimStone if that's his quote don't forget the loyal part. to him loyalty is being a yes person for him
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
12:56 AM
He's giving a rally, again, for some reason
The Trump administration rebuked human rights watchdog organizations, blaming them for its decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council https://nyti.ms/2ysHNFR
Tweeted by nytpolitics on June 21, 2018 at 12:51 AM
Oh wow that's even more stupid than I expected
Not only are we like "lol human rights" but it's actually the fault of the relatively powerless groups that do actually make a point of caring, apparently!
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
WATCH LIVE: Trump holds campaign-style rally after signing order on keeping immigrant families together http://hill.cm/fy5eilD
Tweeted by thehill on June 20, 2018 at 11:58 PM
it's to celebrate his work in signing such a wonderful exec order
which is probably his #00th signed order
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
1:34 AM
> The Secretary shall not, however, detain an alien family together when there is a concern that detention of an alien child with the child’s alien parent would pose a risk to the child’s welfare.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
tl;dr they can still separate kids if housing them with their families would mean putting them in close proximity to “criminals”, like people trying to cross the border
 
quartata
quartata
@TimStone It's a dogwhistle
although he's usually not so blatant so maybe it wasn't intentional
usually when elite is used like that it means Jewish people
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@quartata That's fair
 
quartata
quartata
Anyone want to comment on the guy holding a "Women For Trump" sign in that thumbnail
That's deep
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@quartata no
 
quartata
quartata
I can think of at least 4 possible interpretations
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
1:45 AM
I'm currently busy
 
quartata
quartata
@Unionhawk tough but fair
 
 
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Memor-X
Memor-X
2:50 AM
Trump to meet with Queen Elizabeth during UK visit http://hill.cm/VjPtO6R
Tweeted by thehill on June 21, 2018 at 1:49 AM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
3:26 AM
folks,
the paper of record
 
quartata
quartata
nyt opinions section is out of control
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
this is some advanced both sidesing
next gen
truly innovatinve
MEANWHILE in kentucky teachers, shoutouts to the FOP
who signed on to the suit, but were eventually promised that their pensions would be untouched so they backed off
 
quartata
quartata
responding with just rage to authoritarianism is centrist
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
but thanks for your help guys
 
quartata
quartata
send tweet
@Unionhawk tsk
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
3:29 AM
@quartata yeah, we're not just mad, we're channeling it
@quartata since the suit won the leader of the secret facebook group kind of did a victory lap statement
it was
oh god
we're doomed
 
quartata
quartata
3:59 AM
@Unionhawk lmao I saw your reply
did you make that?
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
4:31 AM
The UN Refugee Agency has much experience here, and offered its assistance to the US on Monday. US has not accepted https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1009607956164431874
Tweeted by MarkLGoldberg on June 21, 2018 at 3:57 AM
goddammit
 
quartata
quartata
we all know how this will end
 
Memor-X
Memor-X
4:54 AM
@quartata more tarrifs
 
 
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Kevin van der Velden
Kevin van der Velden
6:41 AM
TARRIFS ON THE TARRIFS
 
 
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Wipqozn
Wipqozn
10:56 AM
Canadians overwhelming disapprove of Donald Trump, poll says

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/06/20/canadians-overwhelming-disapprove-of-donald-trump-poll-says.html

Shared from my Google feed
> Four out of five Canadians disapprove of U.S. President Donald Trump in the wake of an escalating trade war with Canada, a new poll has found.
 
Nzall
Nzall
11:41 AM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
12:20 PM
@quartata no
 
 
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Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
1:26 PM
We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.
Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 21, 2018 at 12:12 PM
So he wants to abolish asylum entirely, it seems (if he even understands what that means)
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
1:57 PM
@MadScientist I'm not sure if Ice-T would work for the government.
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
2:38 PM
@Yuuki according to his twitter feed, no
looks like pruitt is spending taxpayer money on fancy pants
Scott Pruitt has spent a total of $4.6 million on security, new disclosures show — including $1,500 on “tactical pants” https://interc.pt/2yubiXH by Lee Fang @nicksurgey
Tweeted by theintercept on June 20, 2018 at 10:22 PM
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
He's pretty much the poster boy for Stupid Watergate, huh?
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
he needs tactical pants to defend against greenpeace
which honestly is a fair fear but perhaps there are easier ways to address it
but that would require like, caring about your job in a fashion other than simply the destruction thereof
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
2:54 PM
Some things are awful right now, but this Nova Scotia chocolate factory run by a family of Syrian refugees has made a line of Pride chocolate bars and it is just very, very nice https://twitter.com/peacebychoco/status/1009057501017501697
Tweeted by anne_theriault on June 21, 2018 at 3:03 AM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
remind me, whose website is daily caller
is that tucker?
or is that shapiro
I get daily wire and caller mixed up
they both suck ass and in the case of the caller incite harassment as in formerly buzzfeed Benny's post about how one of the people who yelled at Sec. Nielsen is a doj paralegal
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Unionhawk doxing is bad, doxing is bad, hold up let me dox this protestor
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
they threw everyone in twitter jail for posting a public official's phone number, including splinter, that compilation of everyone on linkedin with ICE as their employer keeps getting taken down, but yeah sure this is fine
 
quartata
quartata
3:09 PM
daily reminder that Twitter isn't just lazy about dealing with hate speech -- they actively punish leftist speakers, and far more severely than conservatives. That sock of Cantwell's I reported, even though his tweets were the most vile evil shit, when the report was "processed" a month later and they said they did something about it the account and tweets were still up. Meanwhile, pickle juice slushies
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
hey, NYT did a thing that is not shitty
Michelle Alexander, author of THE NEW JIM CROW, will be a @nytimes columnist starting in September. This is phenomenal news, through and through. My goodness. https://www.nytco.com/michelle-alexander-joins-the-new-york-times-opinion-pages-as-columnist/
Tweeted by JamilSmith on June 21, 2018 at 1:17 PM
 
quartata
quartata
I joke about The Brands paying off twitter and whatever but we all know how it really is
@GodEmperorDune ooh
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@GodEmperorDune this reminds me that I should reread/finish "are prisons obsolete" which references this book
I should also read that book too
My problem is I'm slow lol
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Unionhawk i've heard its dense like a textbook but great content
 
quartata
quartata
@Unionhawk hey yo which book is this, I've been wanting to read a book discussing this for a while now since I'm of two minds on it
oh
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
3:19 PM
@GodEmperorDune Democrats don't deserve the black vote, but holy crap people please do the math on your electoral system. Abstention still means something.
 
quartata
quartata
that's literally the title
on the nose lmao
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@quartata this lol
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@Yuuki Abstention is a vote for the status quo
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Fun fact that was part of why I started going to DSA stuff
since they posted on twitter that there would be a reading group of it at a brewery I was familiar with
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@SaintWacko Abstention is a vote against the party you're more ideologically similar to because we live in a two-party system.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
3:20 PM
I didn't end up going, but that's how I found the facebook page
That one would have been interesting as a first event, apparently some alt right dude filmed us and then got kicked out of the bar for life for it
 
quartata
quartata
Awh bummed me out
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
TIL IWW Communications, Computer, and Software Workers Industrial Union 560 is a thing
Thanks #tech-workers on the discord
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
3:36 PM
@Unionhawk oh hey this isn't a local
how do we join?
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Figuring that out, but it looks like "be a member of IWW"
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
So you have to be a member of IWW to be a member of IWW?
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
I'm still in awe that the sex workers section is 690 though
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I wasn't aware that I changed my name to Yossarian.
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Unionhawk nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice nice
 
quartata
quartata
3:39 PM
@Unionhawk lewd
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@GodEmperorDune like it isn't even exactly arbitrary, since it fits with the other 600s
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Unionhawk galaxy brain, setting up a taxonomy where that works out
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Speaking of unions, I still find it weird that the player's association/union for LoL was set up by Riot (the company that owns/runs LoL).
It's probably a factor of the players being relatively young, which means they tend to not care about unions.
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
Protesters confront Stephen Miller at Mexican restaurant, call him a "fascist" http://hill.cm/MSm5RgS
Tweeted by thehill on June 21, 2018 at 3:04 PM
 
quartata
quartata
what is it with these people and mexican food, sod off
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
3:52 PM
@Yuuki a lot of current labor movements kind of act as an intermediary between the company and the workers, top down and low engagement etc
So this honestly kind of feels like a logical conclusion of where we've been
Some extension of HR almost
This is, from what I understand, basically all UFCW does for Kroger workers, for instance
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
@Yuuki From what I understood, Riot's strategy was explicitly to take care of the players to build up fandoms and become more successful themselves.
Maybe you already knew that.
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I like the way quality of life has improved for NA pros, but it’s unfortunate that it’s been and likely will continue to be overshadowed by lack of international success.
 
fredley
fredley
4:17 PM
This is getting worse. When these Scarfolk images were created, a mere 3 or so years ago, they were preposterous. https://www.revealnews.org/blog/immigrant-children-forcibly-injected-with-drugs-lawsuit-claims/ https://scarfolk.blogspot.com
Tweeted by Scarfolk on June 21, 2018 at 10:04 AM
 
 
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GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
6:19 PM
In 2012, Former Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including seven children, in one of the nation's most notorious war crimes. Now he may ask President Trump for clemency http://bit.ly/2JWU22V
Tweeted by jaredbkeller on June 21, 2018 at 6:13 PM
ughhhhhh
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
lol, RIP to the third "you can't boycott this list of countries" bill passed in the NY senate and killed by the end of legislative session in the assembly
(the list is something like: members of NATO, signatories of the Southeast Asia Treaty of 1954, Signatories of the Rio Treaty of 1947, Israel, Japan, and Republic of Korea)
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Unionhawk thats a weird law
how do they enforce that? are you required to buy goods from these countries?
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@GodEmperorDune most of the time they implement it by requiring government contractors to sign an affidavit that they do not participate in BDS
I think this one was also going after students in public universities too
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
ah so this is a "pro much israel" bill?
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Yes
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
6:28 PM
no matter what israel does, admonishing or punishing them in any way is clearly antisemetic
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
All government contractors must own a sodastream and use caterpillar bulldozers
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
protip israel, people wouldn't BDS you if you stopped doing fuct things to the palestinians
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
I think we need to look into this missing vertebrae epidemic.
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
I mean, in cases related to net neutrality, it has been shown in double-blind clinical experiments to be caused by exposure to telecom donations.
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
6:34 PM
@puzzlepiece87 dammit ><
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
For selling out an entire state, you received: $8,800 from AT&T, $4,400 from Charter, $4,400 from Cox, $4,400 from California Telecom Association, $4,200 from Verizon, $4,000 from CTIA, $3,000 from Frontier.
Just get all the way in the sea with your $34,000
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@Unionhawk looks like this dead bill would have banned universities from funding student groups that promote boycotts
joke's on you guys YDSA is member funded
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@puzzlepiece87 jeez, such a low amount too
if you're gonna sell out to the telcos, make them pay through the nose
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@GodEmperorDune State representatives are notoriously desperate for anything you'll hand them.
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Yuuki unfortunately my assembly rep doesn't sit on the involved committees so i don't see how she could fix this
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
7:08 PM
🤔 Melania wears jacket saying 'I REALLY DON'T CARE' to visit immigrants https://dailym.ai/2MG7k1r
Tweeted by lukeoneil47 on June 21, 2018 at 6:11 PM
Like…did Miller give her the jacket on the way out the door?
I'm not confident in Melania's sincerity but her staff seems to want to give the impression she's concerned so like…who let this happen?
 
Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
@TimStone there's really no sensible explanation that would make this accidental. So it's either a gigantic "fuck you" to the refugees and essentially everyone else, or a "fuck you" to her husband by creating bad press. I don't really believe the latter, but the former just sounds quite insane
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@GodEmperorDune She could kick them all in the shins
 
murgatroid99
murgatroid99
> [Melania] insists there is 'no hidden meaning' in her choice
I mean, I wouldn't call it "hidden" either
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@MadScientist I mean honestly given gestures towards everything else I'm surprised she even owns a jacket < $100
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@puzzlepiece87 Fuck
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
7:15 PM
What with Trump's propensity for extravagance
 
Mad Scientist
Mad Scientist
@TimStone that's one of the reasons it's unlikely to be accidental. If it was some expensive designer thingy, it might have been believable. But at that price, it's unlikely it's in her regular wardrobe
My best guess is that she's truly pissed about Stormy Daniels, being embarrassed like that in public, and is sabotaging PR intentionally.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@TimStone going back to a better time in america where congress would bring canes to the floor to hit people with
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
My conspiracy guess is that they're shipping lost children to Zara's sweatshop
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
didn't someone beat a guy to death on the house floor one time
I'm like 80% sure that was a thing
I mean, the same reason congressional baseball is a thing
yes someone got shot, but like, not by another member of congress
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Then he got better and came back to take revenge on The Poors
@cfarivar tl;dr: Tesla accused a former worker who says he's a whistleblower of being a potential mass shooter, but authorities found no "credible threat." Also, he and Elon went at it over email. This is not normal for a $60 billion company https://wapo.st/2JVjANz
Tweeted by drewharwell on June 21, 2018 at 5:37 PM in reply to drewharwell
#BREAKING We are suing the President to put an end to his cruel policy of separating immigrant families. #KeepFamiliesTogether
Tweeted by MassAGO on June 21, 2018 at 7:15 PM
Is someone keeping a tally of how many times the states have sued Trump? It's not unusual, but it seems more frequent?
DOJ has filed its emergency motion to modify the Flores settlement and it is a doozy. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4550067-Flores-Notice-of-Motion-and-Motion-Re-Settlement.html
Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on June 21, 2018 at 7:17 PM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
7:33 PM
oh god
 
Kevin van der Velden
Kevin van der Velden
@MadScientist or it might be that she's not a completely awful person but just a shallow person that married an old guy for his money and oops that old guy is a fascist and now POTUS
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
page 2 line 19, isn't it civil law
their specific ask:
> First, the Court should provide a limited exemption from its construction of the Flores Settlement Agreement's release provisions so that ICE may detain alien minors who have arrived with their parent or legal guardian together in ICE family residential facilities. Second, the Court should determine that the Agreement's state licensure requirement does not apply to ICE family residential facilities.
("let us hold people in family jails indefinitely")
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
They can't find a state where the license requirements are lax enough is anything but reassuring
Also Sara Netanyahu was indicted? lol
Judge denies Paul Manafort's motion to suppress evidence from the self-storage unit. The opinion is here, and let me add a few thoughts on the opinion. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4550599/ABJ-Opinion-Evidence-Suppression-Manafort.pdf
Tweeted by OrinKerr on June 21, 2018 at 7:19 PM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
The government is arguing that an increase in the rate of apprehensions at the border constitutes a significant change in circumstances under the federal rules of civil procedure, which allows them to make a motion to alter a final judgement
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
7:53 PM
Federal judge denies Missouri SoS Jay Ashcroft's motion to dismiss lawsuit alleging Missouri is violating federal voting law https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4550743/Jay-Ashcroft-Motion-to-Dismiss-Denied.pdf
Tweeted by srl on June 21, 2018 at 7:42 PM
A bad legal day for losers
my god this is some sad shit https://www.gq.com/story/real-story-of-donald-trump-jr
Tweeted by SimonMaloy on June 21, 2018 at 2:23 PM
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
I absolutely would not want to have a beer with don jr
thanks
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Don Jr. seems like the kind of person who pour his beer from a can into a champagne flute.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Which like I wouldn't judge if it was a normal but specialized glass because I use specialized glass but
it isn't
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Not really saying that's a good or bad thing, it just seems like something he would do.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Though I could buy drinking like, a particularly effervescent gose, or something, out of a flute
but honestly a tulip is the better tool for the job there still
 
quartata
quartata
8:06 PM
>sharing the memes
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
The meme war trenches
 
quartata
quartata
i have literally never seen these people put together a coherent meme
that doesnt involve frogs
there's definitely a psychological complex, with the frogs
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Somebody needs to raise attention to the critical issue of them turning the friggin' frogs gay.
 
quartata
quartata
ah yes that's it
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
8:22 PM
Breaking news from the Reality Winner docket: it appears she is going to plead guilty on Tuesday.
Tweeted by xor on June 21, 2018 at 6:25 PM
 
user15026
FFS, now Jordan Peterson is suing Laurier over the whole Lindsay Shepherd debacle
 
user15026
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
:|
At Governors lunch with @POTUS, Gov Rosello of Puerto Rico made a pitch for statehood: “We don’t want to be a territory anymore, we want to be a state.” @POTUS asked if he could guarantee 2 GOP Senators from Puerto Rico. Rosello said Puerto Rico will be "a battleground state."
Tweeted by markknoller on June 21, 2018 at 6:38 PM
"I meant like, can you rig the election?"
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
Holy shit
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
#BREAKING: Sources tell KDKA-TV that the police officer who killed 17 year old Antwon Rose was only sworn into the East Pittsburgh police force a few hours before the fatal shooting. https://cbsloc.al/2ysMjEp #antwonrose
Tweeted by KDKA on June 20, 2018 at 8:18 PM
…
 
Ave
Ave
8:33 PM
wtf
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
@TimStone Fuck.
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
What the fuck
 
quartata
quartata
Uhhhhhhhh
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
The Cops
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
@Unionhawk 's abolish everything stance winning me over more by the hour.
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
8:34 PM
I know the police academy is supposed to provide training but still wtf.
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
Also, @Unionhawk has me completely on team anti-Elon since his raging douchebaggery became even more pronounced or public than before.
Good Overton window work, Uni.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@puzzlepiece87 Any "disarm everyone" proposal that doesn't include "including and especially the police" is garbage
@puzzlepiece87 socialism is when I'm allowed to have a billion dollars, and the more billion dollars I have, the more socialister I am
 
quartata
quartata
The UK police seems to do OK with billyclubs, correct me if I'm wrong @fredley
Been thinking about this for a while
@Unionhawk marx was an anarcho-captialist, he wrote a book about it called Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
@quartata Yes mostly though they have SWAT teams with guns.
@quartata But to reframe it back the other way, this is like saying "garbagepeople seem to do okay without guns" since garbage collector was a more deadly job than police officer if I remember correctly.
 
quartata
quartata
Fair. The distinction of "don't use military domestically, but have SWAT that are like military but with less vetting" sucks ass
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
8:42 PM
@puzzlepiece87 To be fair that can also get framed as roofers, who also die at higher rates than police officers, but objectively a gun can not possibly help them
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@quartata But also with more vetting than a normal cop. But probably not because law enforcement is fukt.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@Unionhawk nail guns tho, makes u think
christ https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/ziosk-presto-tabletop-tablet-restaurant-rating-servers?utm_term=.yn06r5x6z#.ca3WoJkWZ
Tweeted by libbycwatson on June 21, 2018 at 8:31 PM
 
puzzlepiece87
puzzlepiece87
@TimStone indeed
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Bad police officers are treated like the Catholic Church used to (and probably still do) treat pedophile clergy. They just shuffle them off to another district/parish.
 
quartata
quartata
8:44 PM
@TimStone The Apps are out of control
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Seriously, throw all of that right in the trash
or some other senior leadership figure on the job of making sure each and every child is returned to their parents. And the President should fire Stephen Miller now. This is a human rights mess. It is on the President to clean it up and fire the people responsible for making it.
Tweeted by RepMikeCoffman on June 21, 2018 at 8:35 PM in reply to RepMikeCoffman
It's not just Miller of course but I am totally on board
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@TimStone As usual, it's not the technology that's a problem, it's how the business owners are using it
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Fire him. Directly into the sun
Space Force!
@SaintWacko Yeah but there's like zero chance it wouldn't be used this way and the app maker cares not
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@TimStone Ah yes, the "rate on a scale with average in the middle but really everyone should better than average despite that notion completely flying in the face of basic statistics" idiocy.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
VCs stop funding stupid shit please
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
8:47 PM
@SaintWacko Everybody needs to be exceeding expectations as if expectations aren't molded by your experiences!
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@TimStone I mean, it sounds like the survey is about the restaurant as a whole. The problem is that the owners are pretending it's only about the server
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Right but doing the survey at all is a dumb gimmick and they should not include it
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
I mean, it's definitely a problem, but blaming the technology is ridiculous
> Baum said that if he owned a restaurant chain (which he did, for 18 years), he wouldn’t use Ziosk scores as a disciplinary tool. “The restaurant has control over how they use it,” he said. “My only request is they use it as a carrot and not a stick.”
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
On the one hand, he has a point. On the other hand, why have a survey at the end?
Really, the core technology of placing orders on a tablet is fine.
Great, in fact.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
It's a problem solved by not including the rating system, which they're almost definitely using in marketing materials, and on top of that they're clearly associating the survey data with the server and/or tables, which is not necessary
Like it even lets the restaurants pick their own-worded questions which makes the whole thing an exercise in futility
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
8:55 PM
@Yuuki That was probably a major selling point of the system
Feedback from consumers is big and has been getting bigger
@TimStone Yeah, at this point, seeing how the rating system is being used, they probably can't remove it
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
Maybe they could package the new tablets with a home page redirect to this Buzzfeed article.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I mean they could, but they won't obviously. I argue that there is actually not any significant benefit to this feedback except the perception that you have data
Like people didn't have an issue before talking to a manager if something was really that bad
 
user15026
9:11 PM
@TimStone But we live in a digital age! WE NEED TO JUDGE EACH OTHER WITH A 5 STAR RATING
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
That's actually basically what the CEO says, lol
And it's like "mmm my dude I dunno 🤔"
 
user15026
yeah how about we DONT judge each others worth with a broken 5 point thing
 
user15026
because lets be honest, people doing the survey treat it as 1-5 range
 
user15026
but the people who get the results are like IF YOU ARENT PERFECT YOU BELONG IN THE ALLIGATOR PIT
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
(the alligators are also rated)
JUST IN: Supreme Court rules states can require online shoppers to pay sales tax http://hill.cm/SqRzZYR
Tweeted by thehill on June 21, 2018 at 2:43 PM
laughs in Delawarean
Wow — Melania is wearing the jacket as she lands. Owning it.
Tweeted by kathrynw5 on June 21, 2018 at 9:16 PM
Oh come on
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
9:26 PM
@TimStone Uber star rating guide: 5 - a taxi experience happened. 4 - a vastly subpar taxi experience happened. 3-1 - I felt unsafe in the driver's presence.
Similarly with this shit, unless the waiter actually punches me in the face that's a 5
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Peter Daou join dsa
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@TimStone ಠ_ಠ
Big Supreme Court win on internet sales tax - about time! Big victory for fairness and for our country. Great victory for consumers and retailers.
Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 21, 2018 at 8:46 PM
Wait what
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@TimStone Remember, Trump doesn't like Amazon because Bezos.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
I mean I know he's just giddy about Amazon
Right
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
9:32 PM
Other than that, he's dumb.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
But like, maybe just don't mention the consumers who can't possibly benefit in the context of being consumers by having to pay tax?
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@TimStone does this strike the weird "when buying online from an out of state entity you don't get charged sales tax at time of purchase" or just uphold "the state of Ohio can ask you if you made online purchases when you file your state taxes"
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@TimStone Alligators were smol and did not bite: 5/5
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@Unionhawk The former
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
Ugh
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
9:36 PM
No requirement for physical presence, basically
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Oh well, Amazon has been in Ohio for a bit anyway
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
@SaintWacko That can only end badly.
 
SaintWacko
SaintWacko
@Unionhawk I mean, same in Oklahoma, but still
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@Unionhawk Yeah, it's a bigger issue for small sellers, and this just gives the state the right to require this, it doesn't like, instantly apply everywhere
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
Honestly the bigger issue would likely be for mid-sized sellers
I imagine most smaller sellers have a vendor product that handles sales
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
9:39 PM
I'd have to check exactly what South Dakota was requiring here
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
just slap on a "find sales tax by zip code" and bam
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Like their law says that companies must register for a license to collect and remit sales tax but I don't know who has to do that
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
ah
so it's even dumber than "the storefront platform updates"
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Yeah, it's not unlikely that Congress will try and follow this up with legislation at some point
 
quartata
quartata
@SaintWacko zoooommgggg
it's like very big cute lizard i love it
@kathrynw5 Current temperature at Andrews: 80 degrees
Tweeted by POLITICO_Steve on June 21, 2018 at 9:17 PM in reply to kathrynw5
just in case anyone was wondering if it wasn't intentional
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
9:43 PM
It's cute but it's also like an alligator and we have many serious problems stemming from people trying to make pets out of animals that really shouldn't be pets.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
@quartata I mean there's no way they didn't at a minimum know it was a thing on the flight back so the fact she didn't just not wear it, I don't even
 
quartata
quartata
@Yuuki i'm hoping this is a trained alligator petter
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Also the House passed the work requirements farm bill, but barely, so on to the senate
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
it'll pass
spoiler alert
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Unclear what exactly will happen
The Senate version avoids making significant changes to SNAP so we're going to have another Conference Showdown
Looks like the House version results in 400,000 losing SNAP, some thousands of children losing school lunch coverage/price reduction
Throwing as many children under busses as possible is a bold move, let's see if it plays out for them
 
Yuuki
Yuuki
9:54 PM
@TimStone Congress is trying to see if they can beat the White House for "Best Governmental Body In Traumatizing Children".
Not sure if I like this new Oscar category.
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
@TimStone state of Kentucky is throwing a quarter of the state through paperwork hell starting July 1 rolling out through the end of the year.
Anything is possible
With an estimated 95k losing Medicaid immediately through non-compliance with paperwork hell
Log on to this cool website to update your work status or else you're off for 6 months.
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
10:24 PM
Bevins! shakes fist
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
11:09 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize winner and longtime Fox News contributor, dead at 68. https://fxn.ws/2Mb078A https://t.co/lsPiIwvUoj
Tweeted by FoxNews on June 21, 2018 at 10:16 PM
Stories about why what Melania wore was wrong are better for the WH than stories about why journalists can't get access to the tender age facilities holding children taken from their relatives at the border.
Tweeted by thegarance on June 21, 2018 at 7:35 PM
(the meme jackets are a fun dsitraction tho)
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Counterpoint tho both stories are better than WaPo letting frickin' Michael Anton write "lol do we need more people in this country?"
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@TimStone ah christ wapo did you really?
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Oh it did
 
Unionhawk
Unionhawk
lol
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
> Trump to Puerto Rico governor: I think we've helped you a lot
“I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” written on the back of Melania’s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media. Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!
Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on June 21, 2018 at 9:51 PM
Ah.
Makes sense
Her spokesperson said it didn't mean anything but you're the Big Boy President so
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
11:22 PM
@TimStone yep, definitely trying to pivot to bashing the media coverage instead of defending the horrific thing
 
Tim Stone
Tim Stone
Toxic breast milk. Contaminated umbilical cords. Testicular cancer. Organ failure. No wonder the White House and EPA didn't want this water contamination study to see the light of day http://bit.ly/2K9R36w
Tweeted by TaskandPurpose on June 21, 2018 at 8:36 PM
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@TimStone love to redo superfund
 
user15026
 
GodEmperorDune
GodEmperorDune
@Ash :(
 
user15026
@TimStone Love to be like "support our troops" but also we're poisoning them
 
quartata
quartata
11:37 PM
@TimStone oooff
@TimStone ??????
 
user15026
@quartata In my defense, I was on a bus at the time and did not see this :P
 

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