> San Francisco's New Transit Center Is Now Open After Two Decades (August 23, 2018)

Ah, well, maybe they needed a little longer...

I didn't see that in here yet, right?

@TimStone oh yeah, i've been retweeting it all day but forgot to bring it here

fantastic piece

@TimStone given my feelings on salesforce, yep

I'm old enough to remember when he denied he would be leaving back in June

He's hoping to wait until after the confirmation of Kavanaugh though. Would be a real shame if uhhh that just didn't happen

I've never seen anyone pull "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" with this regularity

@TimStone they're voting friday

No, no, they're only maybe voting Friday! (is their excuse)

But I'm also not 100% sure they have the votes based on McConnell's rhetoric

@TimStone the "drinking age was 18" thing was debunked, it was raised to 21 in his state when he was 17

They have the votes

They probably do but I'm not sure he can guarantee it

I can guarantee it

🙄

Just because they're all shitty people doesn't mean he feels confident

he wants this stuff done before more comes out

And if they don't they'll just find some other federalist society immortal demon to nominate

Yes, that's true

@TimStone also there was something along these lines in one of his emails while he was in the white house

"don't tell the wives what we did on that trip yesterday, lol"

Yeah, he claims it's about his planned date with his later-to-be wife

Which is by far the most bullshit excuse I've ever heard

Like what

We are angry to inform you that the fl governor's race is apparently between two different marco rubios

you know what helps people in other nations? sanctions

@TimStone wasn't this at least rumored to always be the case

I mean that's not surprising but also that selection of photo has burned its way into my brain

Like a lot of details of The Beast are classified, but that one has been a rumor

@Unionhawk Probably but I don't think anyone anticipated the president's blood would be platelets mixed into a Diet Coke slurry

I mean it makes sense, if the President is shot or whatever that's likely where they end up first on the way to a hospital

Are we talking like a mini fridge or an industrial size fridge?

Cucker, please

@Unionhawk A very useful cause for Steyer to dump $5 million into, naturally

@TimStone I'm so mad

It's like 50/50 whether we're better off if the whole state falls into the sea at this point or not

@Ash same

@Ash From what I've heard (and I haven't really kept up with it), it's a lot more than just LGBTQ+ that's being compromised in the sex ed curriculum.

Ahhhh Elon

@TimStone elon_smoking_pot_face.jpg

> He does not even allow, not for an instant, for the possibility that he hurt people he doesn’t remember in ways he cannot recall, and that this wouldn’t make them liars or part of a coordinated smear campaign.

@Memor-X suuuuuuuuuuuure

Brett Kavanaugh: Trump doubts 'drunk' sex assault accuser: bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45634319

> "The second accuser has nothing," Mr Trump told reporters at the UN. "She admits that she was drunk."

@TimStone I wish I could read this

@Wipqozn Like, being drunk is literally given as one of the reasons for not being able to give sexual consent

apps.rainn.org/policy/…

@TimStone this is.just pitting workers against each other 101 tbh

@Unionhawk Yeah, it's not even inventive union busting

@Unionhawk The laws I hear about from certain American cities meant to target the homeless is just completely appalling

I honestly don't even understand how there could be people just so absolutely heartless that they'd pass laws whose purpose is to make being homeless illegal

Didn't Florida once have a law which made sleeping outside on public property illegal?

listen, it's simple, if you want to solve homelessness don't feed the bears - former cincinnati police chief 2013

@Unionhawk Gosh darn it if it works for Yogi then it'll work for the homeless too

Oh good even more traffic stops 🙄

I don't even know wtf a vehicle personal property tax is but it's sure as hell not something you should pull people over for 🤷🏼‍♂️

@GodEmperorDune Good deal bruh Trump is great about keeping promises everyone says so. (Not sure I believe this report)

Big Boy going off the rails

@TimStone Haha what

@GodEmperorDune Wow, yeah, that's what we need right now

Dude I'm pretty sure we all know Kim is working you behind the scenes, he has your personality flaws pegged

@TimStone That reminds that I need to renew my registration sticker.

@Memor-X "I was just pretending to be stupid."

@SaintWacko It's important to add that this was a nonproliferation meeting so like even if it wasn't bad on its face it also doesn't even make sense in context

Sadly working as designed

ಠ_ಠ

FOR SKIS

I'm sorry I thought I couldn't hate him anymore but "brewskis" is already an absurd word, I refuse to tolerate this

@GodEmperorDune I'm still not clear if no one's punted Stephen Miller right in the crotch yet or if he's a reptile man with everything on the inside

Uhh Avenatti put out the claim and also…tweeted a picture of the victim? For some reason?

@TimStone Nice call.

@GodEmperorDune Something something but not racist

@TimStone Ugh exactly more police stops is a terrible terrible idea.

You know what offsets regained personal property tax revenue? Wrongful death settlements!

Okay, we've had a lot of disgusting news already this morning, let's make take a break for some funny news about a city shooting itself in the foot instead.

@puzzlepiece87 Pretty sure there's a daily article about Florida Man literally shooting himself in the foot.

Venice to fine tourists 500 euros for sitting down

Deleted because I just looked up the story I referenced and it was more "horrifying attack on homeless person" than "hahaha funny zombies".

Everything sucks, you all. It's official. Can't even laugh about bath salt zombies anymore.

Thank you Venice for your service.

@puzzlepiece87 From the story I recall, bath salts dude literally ate someone's face.

Yes, I didn't realize it was so bad.

I thought it was "haha dude is acting but not aware and trying to eat people and at most someone got a bite on the arm"

But really it was "random guy assaults the **** out of a homeless person"

> Visitors are instructed not to swim in canals, make picnic stops out of public areas, pause too long on bridges, drop litter, ride or wheel bikes, stand or lie on benches, busk or make art without a permit, attach “love locks” to monuments and bridges, climb on trees, buildings and monuments, get changed in public, feed birds or sightsee topless or in swimwear. Making too much noise, whether at night or during siesta time (1-3pm), is also forbidden.

I'm not sure what it means to "wheel" a bike

@Wipqozn Where you push it while walking beside it.

@Wipqozn Some of this is obviously reasonable - no littering. Others are stranger - benches are expressly made for sitting or laying (?).

It seems similar to me to places like San Francisco, Venice Beach, etc. that refuse to build more housing to protect the property values of people who already live there. It seems like another form of NIMBY to me.

@Ash No, they had already covered sitting by the time you get to that paragraph.

You could argue it's only in certain locations, and to keep traffic moving or something, but they expressly say it's because there's too many tourists.

Also, to be fair, the fine for sitting hasn't been approved yet, it's just up for vote.

I was just having a good time laughing at this story tbh since things are daaaaark.

@puzzlepiece87 Well there's no argue, that's exactly what it is

> Visitors to Venice could be fined up to €500 (£440) for sitting in undesignated spots, after the mayor suggested a new ban as part of wider efforts to crack down on undesirable tourist behaviour.

500 euros is definitely excessive, but depending on what's considered an undesignted spot I can understand it

It sounds like the problem is just there's a lot of tourists who are just assholes

It makes me think of this nova scotia story from last year: cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/…

> "It's just been an exponential increase of hikers and there's been garbage, lots of litter, dog poop, and it's just getting out of control here," she said.

> "If they fall and hurt themselves, I'm liable. And I can go and yell at them and say, 'This is private property,' and they look at me and basically give me the finger," he said.

Some people just have absolutely no respect for other people or their property (public or otherwise) and are just complete dicks, so if that's what's going on in Venice I certainly aren't going to fault them for taking action. I'll certainly fault them for being excessive harsh in their reaction (which a 500 euro fine is), but it's definitely understandable.

What you're saying is true, but I mean also at the same time, when you have a lot of people visiting you earn money, and you can reinvest some of it in dealing with the wear, litter, etc.

Having a lot of people eager to see a great place is not fundamentally a bad thing. But yes, behavioral management is important.

I'm much more supportive of tourist restrictions for places mentioned like the Galapagos where too many people will destroy it just by walking around - literally unpreventable.

But I mean, if it's a city, come on.

Besides, Venice is going to be underwater anyway, might as well enjoy it while it's still around.

If people have to wait for hours to get into the Eiffel Tower, seems fine to me, etc.

@puzzlepiece87 Have an HD drone do a fly-through and construct a nice virtual tour.

@puzzlepiece87 Sure, but that doesn't mean people should get a free pass on being an asshole. If I buy something from a shop that doesn't mean I can then toss some garbage on their floor.

@Wipqozn Technically speaking, they didn't get a free pass. What are plane tickets to Venice going for right now?

@Wipqozn Yup true. I'm just opposed to behavioral management in the form of "no sitting in popular place". That makes it incompatible for folks with fitness or disability issues that need to be able to sit, especially if they've been in line.

But I agree behavioral management is very important.

@puzzlepiece87 The point about disability is fair, but again, we really don't know what's considered an 'undesignted spot'.

Littering fines are great especially if enforced, in my opinion.

It seems your funny story didn't work so well as a mood lightener, so here's a gif of a seal slapping someone with an octopus.

@Wipqozn Yup, they said it's like 5-6 of the popular attractions.

They listed them, if not in that story then in others.

@Yuuki Thank you :D

@puzzlepiece87 I don't remember seeing that, so it's either a different story or I missed it.

Oops, may have misremembered. From the linked story:

> Sitting in certain parts of Venice, such as St Mark’s Square and on the steps of Rialto Bridge, is already prohibited, but the new proposal would take things a step further.

Different story, current list:

> Sitting is banned in the following places: “in St. Mark’s Square and in Piazzetta dei Leoncini, beneath the arcades and on the steps of the Procuratie Nuove, the Napoleonic Wing, the Sansovino Library, beneath the arcades of the Ducal Palace, in the impressive entranceway to St. Mark’s Square otherwise known as Piazzetta San Marco and its jetty.” (€200)

New proposal:

> a new proposal from mayor Luigi Brugnaro to ban sitting on the ground throughout the city, with offenders facing fines between €50 and €500. The rule will be voted on in October.

@Ash you were right

You can sit on benches

I misunderstood

This is definitely sounding much more reasonable.

No sitting on the ground (okay), no sitting in entryways or transportation bottlenecks like bridges (okay), no lying or camping on bridges (anti-homeless, not okay but typical)

Not as funny but more reassuring.

Thank goodness we still have Yuuki's humor.

@puzzlepiece87 Oh man, a minimum of 50 euros just because your child got petulant.

I wonder how many fines they actually give out already

*Oops, that should be no lying or camping on benches, I brainfarted that third item.

lol buddy that is why we're here today, because you're a freakin' liar and thus quite easily the person these women have stated

Ittttttttttt's Rudy

@TimStone Isn't every picture of Rudy Giuliani "Rudy Giuliani Photographed With White Nationalist Mayoral Candidate"?

lol

I'm surprised that's nowhere in the Twitter replies, tbh.

I uh

🤔

Is he not familiar with the show?

Amazon's anti-worker tactics revealed in a leaked 45 minute manager training video

Like the Twilight Zone is literally chock full of tales about the hubris of humanity, these statements being from the show would literally be a mechanism by which he was meant to suffer from his own folly

> We do not believe unions are in the best interest of our customers

Actually that's probably true, but it's at the expense of the employees.

takes hit of The Discourse Ahh that's the good shit

2020 elections are a go folks

(HIV/AIDS relief for Africa and other places)

Alright, let me hold my breath so I pass out first

@TimStone I mean, I'd say you're partly not wrong here, but...

@TimStone You will be shocked that it doesn't sound like he's taking any significant stance here

He thinks we should apologise to both Ford and Kavanaugh 🤔

I mean his point isn't wrong per se but also like if they hadn't put forth an attempted rapist then we wouldn't be here either idk

lol, he took a swipe at Trump though

And fin

@TimStone /r/yesyesyesno

@GodEmperorDune That it happened was sad, but that it has to also be explained is incredibly depressing.

@GodEmperorDune I, for one, am shocked

> Amid Effort to Ram Kavanaugh Through Senate, House GOP Refusing to Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act

Uh... maybe "ram" isn't the most appropriate word choice here, but yeah.

@Yuuki I think it's a fantastic word choice for this situation lol

@Yuuki i dunno why the Violence Against Women Act was set up to expire in the first place

was it like "violence against women is bad, but only for the next X years"?

Yeah, that's my assumption too.

The Act included a lot of grant programs.

It is definitely a funding bill

> The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose to leave un-prosecuted. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice.

Yeah it's often funding when stuff like this is cut

@Ash jeez, no love for enbies? rude

It was also 1994 (though Obama signed a re-authorization bill in 2013).

We like to dunk on twitter for being a hellsite, but this seems like a legit, if small, good thing

@GodEmperorDune Where else online can we find the current and next president having a beef though, anyone who says it's a hellsite is not paying attention

Speaking of beef, Steak-umms is Getting Real, whew

Today has been a strange day online

@TimStone unless its a gritty crossover i am uninterested in The Brands(tm)

you know what the real gritty crossover is

@twitter rebranding as @wendys

god

@GodEmperorDune Incidentally it is very Brands™ meta

@TimStone friendship ended with gritty, steak-umms is my new best friend

Steak-umms don't play

I block all brands trying to be relatable

I refuse

i might unblock steak umms for this

i block pretty much anything that puts a promoted tweet in my TL

@Unionhawk Hey they were a mere non-checkmark like the rest of us until recently

If you're going to be a brand online at least post some un-self-aware shit like "what raytheon products do you like the most :)"

@Unionhawk or the airline posting a pic of what people use small scale airline toys for

lol #neverforget

@TimStone some day there is gonna be a book of all the "accidental" porn tweets from main and it's gonna be great

@Ash the current @twitter social intern is my actual enemy now

completely awful

Can't have any new cracks down the road if the whole building is made of cracks taps head

@TimStone like i said, very on brand for salesforce

lol wow they're really sore about Canada, my word

@TimStone If you interpret "banana republic" literally, no. But if you word-swap "banana" with "oil"...

I'm not even positive what the implication was supposed to be honestly

lol, I mean

@TimStone I mean, at this point, I'm not sure you can consider "former Republican" as crossing party lines.

It's not like Kaine is so far to the left either, and Corey Stewart is straight trash and losing anyway so 🤷🏼‍♂️

Ahhhh everyone's favourite Syria apologist

@TimStone Wait what

Al-Qaeda wishes they had that many people, period

Gabbard is insane, I don't know what her deal with propping up Assad is

@TimStone oh no rep gabbard, wut is you doin

@TimStone i was sad she didn't get primaried

it's just so weird how much she is into pro russian conspiracy theories

Just a few months ago, wasn't she holding the "totally young Bernie Sanders" title belt?

I think Ocasio-Cortez has it now.

Kamala Harris also had it for awhile there.

@Yuuki i don't think she ever held that

she was deep into repeating weird talking points during the obama admin before bernie announced he was running

I definitely remember her being mentioned a lot after Bernie lost the primary though.

Or after Trump won the election.

One of those two.

lol the white house has released a new list of kavanaugh defenders, because the previous list worked so well

and trump is off the rails on another press conference about how sexual assault is no big deal

goddamn

@GodEmperorDune I can't stand to actually watch that stuff, but from what I've read second hand of it, it started crazy and is getting off the rails now

I feel like at this point, Trump staying on point is actually what "off the rails" would be.

For him, at least.

now instead of talking about the kavanaugh accusations, trump is talking about how he personally was accused of assault

and trashing all the people who accused him, naturally

It's not a Trump appearance if he doesn't eventually arrive back at himself.

And himself winning the electoral college.

I'm just imagining if he's ever held in North Korea. "Just mention your electoral college victory if they're torturing you."

I watched like 30 seconds of it just now, but I just can't take it. Not sure if I could ever drink enough to be able to get through a whole press conference

Narrator (who is a dictionary): That was, in fact, obstruction

Gotta get that phrenology in too

@Ash yeppppppp

@Ash measuring brain size without killing the subject is probably not that easy

@Ash yes, it is the thing they used to use to measure foreheads and stuff back when they were rationalizing slavery and other awful shit

@GodEmperorDune calipers are also used to measure a lot of other stuff

@MadScientist true, it is a basically a more accurate ruler

And plenty of non-slavery related things.

@Yuuki yep, it is a standard industrial tool now and they are quite fancy and accurate

the old ones look like curly braces

@Ash I suppose that explains why you're so open-minded.

@Yuuki HUE

that would be starworthy in bridge

@MadScientist CT scan?

iirc, if your brain is too large that causes health problems, not supernatural intelligence

@Ash nah it is a badass patchwork quilt of BONE

@murgatroid99 yeah, probably. The whole subject does lead me down paths that are far outside "Be Nice" though

Ah. Well.

@Ash ahhhh, i was thinking of the swelling thing where they need to open holes to vent pressure but this is more accurate

@TimStone see he's not misogynistic, he's disrespectful of male reporters too

I mean, we can get super detailed brain images using X-ray-based CT head scans. It should be possible to measure the overall size with a high degree of precision.

from what i've heard, Chrystia Freeland is actually a very nice person so i dunno wtf this is

(actually i know exactly what it is, curious how he doesn't like women in positions of power that disagree with him)

clearly they were saying "booo-urns"

Trump-urns, part 2.

'Separate sovereigns' will be up in front of the Supreme Court in October.

Depending on how it's ruled, it's possible that presidential pardons would also prevent state prosecution.

Well, for the same crimes at least

e.g. in Michael Cohen's case there are a lot of state charges that wouldn't directly correspond to federal charges so he'd still be screwed

👍

@TimStone dat photoshop

@GodEmperorDune takes another politics hit

Which part?

@TimStone not surprising

Erm, alright. He's just in the middle of giving an insane press conference, so I don't know what the line is meant to be :/

(based on some of his comments) I wonder if it's that or if he views it purely as an attack on him, or if it's both?

It's rather nonsensical, obviously anyone nominated would want to become a Supreme Court Justice

@TimStone clearly he sympathizes with other accused sexual assaulters and is annoyed that accusations are preventing him form doing whatever he wants

Barring anyone with a particularly checkered past I assume most other people would expect the Gorsuch treatment

yeah this entire thing has obfuscated the fact that kavanaugh likely signed off on war crimes while in the bush white house

@TimStone Ah they apparently have a "Did the Israelis do 9/11?" article so that's cool

:|

@TimStone :|

He made sure to take their reporter's question before the NY Times, heh

@TimStone apparent he ranted about the failing ny times after calling on who he thought was a ny times reporter. it was a pbs reporter.

sighs

Ugh NBC teasing breaking news

Damn you reporters and your not just injecting it directly into my veins

bruh that's not how twitter works

@GodEmperorDune tbf I guess they're airing it during the segment so it would have involved me turning it on

@TimStone this is different than the one who was like "everything they're saying about kavanaugh happened all the time in our area but i never saw him or judge personally do anything"

Trump mentioned that Democrats wouldn’t support Washington (of first President fame) if he was nominated. I agree because Washington was a military general, not a lawyer.

Incident in 1998, starting to think maybe this dude isn't on the up and up 🤔

It’s almost as if sexual assault has the highest rate of recidivism of all crimes.

@TimStone alcohol is a helluva drug

And that’s for people who are caught.

> Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday would not say whether there were any additional information she was aware of, but added, “there are certain areas that I’ve been interested in. He could be perjuring himself because of his response to my question about whether he had ever” engaged in sexual misconduct "as an adult. He could have perjured himself.”

a very real possibility is that kavanaugh did all these things but didn't consider it sexual assault or misconduct

There are arguably easier things to bring up perjury on but yeah

@TimStone also true

It seems pretty hard to dispute at this point that he had a history of aggressive drunken behaviour 🤷

It's easy to dispute anything if you just call everyone who said it a liar

> Fox News Channel's new streaming service, "Fox Nation," introduced its new tagline on Wednesday, "Opinion Done Right," per an announcement by the network

lol

@GodEmperorDune ofcause if true, makes him looks like an asshole to women on par to Trump