Ford decides to ignore the results of a public survey, on the grounds he disagrees with it cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/…

> Out of roughly 1,600 submissions to the ForTheParents.ca website obtained through a freedom of information request, roughly two dozen supported the Progressive Conservative government's decision to repeal the document and temporarily replace it with one based on the 1998 curriculum.

Sounds like he's already made up his mind on results of this survey

@Wipqozn sound like he's doing an Ajit Pai

probably not pronounced as Donald Trumpy through

lol, the helmet is one thing but the devaluing of the paintings of himself. i think lying to the IRS about the value of items just so you don't have to pay as much tax is a crime

@Memor-X lol gofundme to buy these and send them to david farenthold

@GodEmperorDune isn't liquidation selling like this done to the IRS who then sells it to make up the money?

@Memor-X i think it depends on how the dissolution happens

if you owe money to the IRS and they seize assets, thats a different thing

in this case it's not even the federal govt involved so the IRS would not have anything to do with it

There's a quote that's like "I got a good deal on these guys because they're trash lol isn't that great?"

@TimStone uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

is this new site called "news from the sea" or something?

lol, right?

Oh, Nate, buddy

That is not the takeaway at all

@TimStone close but no potato

also milquetoast both-sidesism with a pro-corportate bent describes a lot of newspapers

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@TimStone i do love it when checkmarks fight on twitter dot com

Like there's a huge disconnect in suggesting that ads should continue to pay for Tucker because the ads aren't related to Tucker's content

They are, because they fund it!

Fox wouldn't run him if he didn't make them ad money

@TimStone shhhh stop criticizing capitalism

something something the marketplace of ideas

> The journalists and politicians received abuse at similar rates, and women were targeted on both the right and the left. Women of color in the study were 34 percent more likely to be the targets of harassment than white women. Black women were targeted most of all: One in every 10 tweets sent to them was abusive or problematic, whereas for white women it was one in 15.

jfc 😕

> The study also relied on the public Twitter data available to download from the platform in March 2018. Any tweets that were deleted or flagged as abusive prior to Troll Patrol gathering them from Twitter’s firehose on that date would not have been included in the analysis. As such, the authors say, the rates of abusive tweets are likely higher.

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@TimStone uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh y tho

I don't know why is everything bad

@TimStone clean coal, amirite?

@TimStone trump already admitted it on twitter a while ago, does this matter?

I mean maybe next week when he says he wasn't that involved someone can hit him with it but idk

@TimStone he has been videotaped doing things and the next day he claims it never happened

Yeah but hitting him with the playback laptop is probably assault in the same way hitting him with the paper would be assault because he's the president but still

@TimStone letter of intent? what does that mean?

like Trump admitted he was going to build a tower in Russia, he sees nothing wrong with it which is why he's so proud of the idea of it

@Memor-X its a legal document saying that you want to do something, basically proof that trump wanted to do the thing and signed it

Yeah, it's like a precontract

@GodEmperorDune yeh so he's already admitted to that on TV and twitter

unless it says he did it for dodgy reasons, like to have secret meetings with the Russians when he becomes president, it's not something that's going to be bad for him because, as i said, he sees nothing wrong with it

@Memor-X as with most things trump does, it's not an appropriate thing to do even if it's not explicitly illegal

@GodEmperorDune yeh but with most things he doesn't own up to it until he's caught lying. he didn't in this case

when you are running for president you are not supposed to be making large overseas business deals

@Memor-X yeah he jumped to "i did it, nothing wrong with it" because there were receipts

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Why use the primary benefit of rail, high capacity vehicles, when you can not do that

@GodEmperorDune fwiw Giuliani said that he never signed it

@TimStone Rudy “it’s not a crime unless Hillary did it” Giuliani

@TimStone from the pic, this looks like the car wash thing that moves the car forward

How do these people raise so much money to reinvent the wheel, literally?

> truth isn't truth

Veteran: back in my day it took you 2 minutes 43 seconds to load your rifle and shoot a German in the head. *takes out AR15* now how many bullets i can fire with this in the same amount of time? this will be on the test

lmao

Amazing

oh my god that theory. how stupid do you have to be?

> FBI agents might have tricked the former national security adviser when they didn’t tell him lying to the FBI is a crime

like, why would anyone need to be told?

i guess they are just there to do school to prison pipeline work

apparently amazon was doing dickish things with the facebook data, too

@GodEmperorDune wasn't there something a while back how Alexa was accused of listening to people speak and then facebook suddenly shows relevant ads?

@GodEmperorDune yeah "no duty to protect" is just standard

it's been that way for decades

but don't let that being the case fool you, we need status quo policing to protect us

even though it literally, legally does not

smile

@MBraedley why use #TrumpRussia?

russia did brexit

sci-news.com/space/ultima-thule-no-moons-rings-06736.html

Mobile

Pretty cool. Historic approach

> With the probe blazing though space at some 31,500 mph (50,700 km per hour), a particle as small as a grain of rice could be lethal to the piano-sized probe.

How can they possibly be sure

Couldn't it just shatter at like any moment isn't there shit everywhere in space

Especially inside the solar system?

Seems like a big risk to have it moving so fast

@GodEmperorDune Not surprised, this ruling has been on the books forever.

Not that we didn't already know this, but now we have the document:

Police officers do not have a legal duty of care towards individual members of society.

I don't know much about Syria, but "Pentagon officials oppose the move" seems pretty key here:

(Even if I didn't already doubt everything the administration says or does)

@BradC how many Pentagon officials? Always ask more questions

(I don't know much about that conflict either)

Looks like a number of high-level officials:

> In a series of meetings and conference calls over the past several days, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other senior national security officials have tried to dissuade Mr. Trump from a wholesale troop withdrawal, arguing that such a significant national security policy shift would essentially cede foreign influence in Syria to Russia and Iran at a time when American policy calls for challenging both countries.

> Abandoning the American-backed Kurdish allies, Pentagon officials have argued, will hamper future efforts by the United States to gain the trust of local fighters, from Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia.

I mean of course the dang pentagon is going to be on the side of continuing imperialism lol

bc "American Policy" is the reason why

oh man

this immutable thing

@Unionhawk Eh, I think there is a difference between "while I might disagree, Mr. President, let's work together with our best and brightest to figure out the best way to accomplish your goals" vs "Holy Hell, Mr. President, you've got to fucking talk to us before you unilaterally announce things that could cause massive problems with our allies!"

and I think we're definitely in the latter

I do agree that the president is just occasionally stumbling dick-first into "this is stupid why are we here this isn't working", I also think the pentagon would be against it even if it was a more conscious decision

This is in the case where boys were recorded on tape committing sexual assault, and the school took a few days to report it to the police

Glad they arrested him

@BunsGlazing there is, but space is really big so even the small stuff is extremely far apart. so it's a combination of space being mostly empty and luck

I guess yeah the probe is tiny as well

@BunsGlazing yeah that too

@Wipqozn ummmm wtf on multiple levels

clearly the first priority in any bankruptcy is to pay off the execs

@GodEmperorDune The principal of that school has since been fired (or resigned, one of the two)... So that's something..

Buuuuut I bet the board agreed with him anyways

Can't have your private school looking bad

Whole thing is fucked.

@GodEmperorDune love 3 fail upwards

Hopefully these boys see some very serious jail time

> So far, seven students have been arrested since news of the assaults, some of which were captured on video and shared on social media, went public.

Complety fucked

@Unionhawk article says it's so people don't bounce now that bankruptcy was announced

> The judge gave the green light to Sears' proposal that it offer bonuses up to $8.4 million to 19 executives if Sears meets some financial targets during the next six months.

> Sears also received approval to earmark up to $16.9 million in retention bonuses for another group of 315 senior employees

so 334 out of 89,000 current employees are getting payouts

thesun.co.uk/news/8016958/…

Well yeah maybe don't advertise it that way

@Unionhawk ?

Good ol' dril

> Men working with the artists were kept in a 'man-pen' backstage

wtf lol

Why would you even go and subject yourself to that haha

Honestly they just should have promoted it a little more professionally

I don't think they actually turned men away

But that's not a great look

That's.... really stupid. (Talking about the men who sued)

@BradC MRA groups do a lot of this stuff

suing bars for ladies night, etc

I mean if I was forced to stay in an isolated room in the back j wouldn't be very happy

Presumably that was advertised beforehand

@BradC Ah but the President already tweeted it so it's law except for when we're not supposed to take what he tweets seriously

Just

lol

You see a lot of "CS-1" and "SOI-1" in the proceedings against these guys (confidential source and subject of investigation)

it rules

some of your friends are feds (probably same)

Good times

looooool

@TimStone uhhhh wat

> Could it be that Flynn and his lawyers included the disastrous Flynn-as-victim pitch in their brief because they came to accept the partisan din—because they forgot that federal judges don’t react like people on Twitter? That would be a very 2018 way to go to federal prison.

Ken White knows how to use 2018 as an adjective even in a magazine article, well done :)

I mean but whomst amongst us hasn't wanted to create fertile ground for new terrorists by haphazardly withdrawing without any advance notice to factions who will have to face Assad's cruelty?

@TimStone Hahaha what

"We think that there are probably better candidates out there, so we're going to make sure they can't run against him"

@TimStone So now the Republicans are suppressing their own votes?

@Yuuki Hahaha exactly

@TimStone tulsi gabbard 2020

@GodEmperorDune ughhhh

lol @ unsolicitedly sending that

:48147086 self dupe, the king of all dupes

Twitter failed to copy right, I blame technology

Sometimes I wonder if Google thinks I'm conservative due to all the Hill articles I click on thanks to @TimStone.

No, I honestly…I don't know. Sorry

No apology necessary, was just trying to sort that out. And they are right next to each other.

My brain is not working well today, that was bad 😐

You got it fixed, everything's good :)

Not trying to give you a hard time, you're doing great. :)

Only thanks to mod abuse though, appreciate you pointing it out because I was well off into the weeds there

Happy to help, and mod abuse can be a good thing at times :)

In conclusion, sponsored content is a morally tricky area to navigate. Subscription model if you can. Less corporate/national marketing please.

Indeed

loooooool

Ankylosaurs had long twisty nasal passages in order to air condition their brains

cc @Ash @GodEmperorDune I think you both like cool science and dinosaurs

In gif form

Thanks Marco helpful as always buddy

@TimStone lol #FreeMariaButina

"it was only les moonves" :eyeroll:

ah yes the solution to heavy traffic: one lane roads

Cities: Skyline Elon mod where you can only make one-way roads and also they're tunnels

@TimStone and they don't have stations so they cost money but don't do anything