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12:01 AM

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@Wipqozn We only have one chatroom on Cooking. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I don't know how to do that!

@Jolenealaska Oh my!

It's hidden away behind the "room" button in the top right corner.

Ah yes. I have done that. Jeez, years ago.

@Mazura We may never see them, grand jury evidence is secret. That's alright, we don't need to see them. The people who can put him in jail need to see them! The New York Times has shown us quite a bit, though.

Mazura

Be a shame if someone leaked them....

Meatpacking: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

tragic indeed

Memor-X

12:32 AM

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Mazura

12:46 AM

Not sure how a rabid hamster is supposed to make me want to buy meat.

Memor-X

@Mazura i think the ad was trying to sell premade meat meals

"too busy to prepare dinner because your pet hamster has been possessed by the devil and is trying to kill everyone? then why not fix up this quick and simple pre-made dish"

Mazura

I didn't know workers comp indemnified the corporation. What a CF.... At least there isn't some idiot stealing the spotlight from actual issues anymore.

When did the narrative go sideways and we stopped all being angry at corporations and instead at each other?

I liked it better when 'Big Brother' kept people who believe in stupid crap from participating.

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10:48 AM

@Mazura I'd rather they not leak if that means the case doesn't get jeopardized

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1:10 PM

@Mazura I'd star that if we did that in here.

U.S. life expectancy plummeted in 2020 and the drop was particularly steep for Black Americans, with life spans declining by 2.7 years. And Black and Latino Americans are not getting equal access to vaccines.

1:30 PM

COVID-19 to Add as Many as 150 Million Extreme Poor by 2021

Feb 18 at 19:26, by user 85795

2:25 PM

> The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year, with the total rising to as many as 150 million by 2021, depending on the severity of the economic contraction. Extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1.90 a day, is likely to affect between 9.1% and 9.4% of the world’s population in 2020, according to the biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report.

> This would represent a regression to the rate of 9.2% in 2017. Had the pandemic not convulsed the globe, the poverty rate was expected to drop to 7.9% in 2020.

Don't worry, though, B ezos is richer than ever

yup

on the topic of Princeton graduates, they recently had their first coloured valedictorian

in 274 years

3:12 PM

$187B

3:26 PM

US dollars, of course

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BradC

6:13 PM

The Supreme Court is about to hear two cases that could destroy what remains of the Voting Rights Act

6:25 PM

@BradC Solution? A new voting rights act

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7:56 PM

Tiger Woods injured in crash, jaws of life were used to rescue him https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tiger-woods-injured-in-vehicle-crash-officers-used-jaws-of-life-to-rescue-him.html

> These two DNC cases concern two Arizona laws that make it more difficult to vote. The first requires voting officials to discard in their entirety ballots cast in the wrong precinct, rather than just not counting votes for local candidates who the voter should not have been able to vote for. The second prohibits many forms of “ballot collection,” where a voter gives their absentee ballot to someone else and that person delivers that ballot to the election office.

> The most important question in the DNC cases isn’t whether these two particular Arizona laws will be upheld or stuck down, but whether the Court will announce a legal rule that guts one of America’s most important civil rights laws. And there is reason to fear that it will. The Supreme Court doesn’t just have a 6-3 Republican majority; it’s a majority that includes several justices who’ve shown a great deal of hostility toward voting rights generally and the Voting Rights Act in particular.

So in other words, voting rights are about to get destroyed.

> Reagan did so over the strident opposition of a young Justice Department lawyer named John Roberts. Roberts wrote more than two dozens memos opposing the 1982 voting rights law, one of which claimed it was “not only constitutionally suspect, but also contrary to the most fundamental tenants [sic] of the legislative process on which the laws of this country are based.”

> Four decades later, Roberts isn’t simply the Chief Justice of the United States, he is the most moderate member of a six justice conservative majority — and his Court has already taken two significant bites out of the Vot…

yeah, voting rights are just going to be destroyed

@Wipqozn Anything the US can do about that? I very much doubt a constitutional amendment is going to be feasible

@Nzall I mean I'm assuming no

democrats could pass whatever, then it just gets to the supreme court and they go "minorities shouldn't be allowed to vote", and bam, it gets shut down

and I assume an amendment requires a super majority, which will never happen in the senate

Unionhawk

8:26 PM

First new migrant facility for children opens under Biden

8:48 PM

I get why people have concerns, and I won't presuppose that bad things won't happen again, but given that it's not an ICE facility I'm also not clear what the preferred approach is to unaccompanied minors other than to house them until you figure out who can take care of them

Like you can't give kids a $20 and say "Hope you figure out where your aunt lives"

This is obviously a problem wholly created by the immigration system being horrible to begin with, of course, but the backlog of problems caused by that seems pretty long too

Not to imply Biden is doing enough, I'm just not sure what people thought the quick fix to this specific issue was

@TimStone there generally are no quick fixes for fundamentally broken systems

Unionhawk

That's true I'm at least glad an architect of the system is on the case though

Yeah, obviously that's a problem, I'm just confused by the quotes saying that relocating these kids for social distancing reasons is somehow a broken promise like there was some alternative given that they were already unaccompanied

Unionhawk

My favorite is the people taking the part about how this was originally some company housing for temp workers or whatever and just pretending that we don't have a picture of what is essentially a mobile home with bars on the windows

although maybe exxon had those installed already who knows

I mean, 50/50

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10:08 PM

CNN : Senator used hearing to push ridiculous conspiracy theory.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/PqUg52HgGo8/index.html

You only get 1 guess as to which political party they're a part of

No charges against officers involved in Daniel Prude's death apnews.com/article/…

I only needed 1 guess to know who it was

BradC

10:31 PM

Covid-19 Live Updates: Studies Examine Variant Surging in California, and the News Isn’t Good

(link is to the ongoing NYT "Covid updates" thread, so might not be stable)

> In one of the new studies, researchers found that the variant has spread rapidly in a San Francisco neighborhood in the past couple of months. The other report confirmed that the variant has surged across the state, and revealed that it produces twice as many viral particles inside a person’s body as other variants do. That study also hinted that the variant may be better than others at evading the immune system — and vaccines.