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Jaymann wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:39 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:02 am How hard is reality going to hit Trump supporters after Biden takes the oath and becomes president?
I keep thinking this is a joke, but then I thought Trump running for the presidency was a joke and look what happened there.

They will just refuse to accept it and keep hounding Biden until he dies. It will make birtherism seem like a college prank.

Lawmakers are cramming multiple controversial copyright provisions into a must-pass spending bill at the eleventh hour, stirring up pushback from tech companies and civil liberties activists who say they're skirting proper procedure in order to create a system that's vulnerable to abuse.

A story on Protocol reveals the U.S. is considering passing a law that will make streaming copyrighted material illegal. Word is this is a proviso being shoehorned into a "must pass" spending bill. This does not mention games, but according to Kotaku this will impact Twitch streamers, if not game streaming.

GOP Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) on Thursday blocked legislation to establish a National Museum of the American Latino and American Women's History Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution.

The Smithsonian Institution operates more than a dozen museums and galleries, but none are dedicated to the contributions and history of Latino Americans and women.

The legislation had bipartisan support, and Lee's objections were immediately criticized by senators on both sides of the aisle. Lee: "I understand what my colleagues are trying to do and I respect what they're trying to do. ... But the last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups," Lee said from the Senate floor.

Dec. 13 marks my turning 100 years young. I’ve learned much over that time, but looking back, I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen. Everything else is details.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:17 pm WaPo: The 10 most important things I’ve learned about trust over my 100 years, by George P. Shultz

Dec. 13 marks my turning 100 years young. I’ve learned much over that time, but looking back, I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen. Everything else is details.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 17, 2020 12:43 pm So during a time when we are generally isolated FB is losing active "subscribers" for the first time.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/247 ... worldwide/

I wonder how much of that is Parler, how much is competition from other social media, and how much is people who walked away from the propaganda barrage of disinformation spread. I know it was last for me.

malchior wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:06 pm And while we are at it - some normal business. Fuck ICE. Dismantle it.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:30 pm Is it good,bad or inconsequential for an indigenous language to disappear?

Jaymann wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:45 am When did starving change into food insecurity?

But what about hunger? How does it differ from food insecurity? Even if we have never experienced uncertainty about where our next meal is coming from, we all understand hunger — it’s how we feel when we need to eat. The USDA used to track the rate of hunger, which it defines as an individual-level condition that may be caused by food insecurity. It did not track food insecurity, which is “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” [3] In 2006, after an expert panel commissioned by the USDA recommended the change, the agency changed its language and stopped using the word hunger altogether. The panel said the agency’s surveys didn’t precisely assess individual hunger, and suggested that measuring the extent and impact of household-level food insecurity would be more accurate. However, many people who work on food and hunger issues saw the language change as a way to gloss over a serious ongoing problem with clinical, less-evocative language, narrowing the definition of who is in need and where solutions lie, after many years of expanding these categories to help more people and communities.

Explosion in Nashville that damaged dozens of buildings is believed to be an intentional act

Three people were transported to hospitals from the scene, but none were in critical condition, according to Nashville Fire spokesman Joseph Pleasant.

Defiant wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 1:34 pm

Explosion in Nashville that damaged dozens of buildings is believed to be an intentional act

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/25/us/nashv ... index.html

Three people were transported to hospitals from the scene, but none were in critical condition, according to Nashville Fire spokesman Joseph Pleasant.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 4:35 pm Not sure what if so. The left seems pretty anti violent. Its the right you worry about. But TN and Nashville is pro right and led by an idiot. So not sure what the motivation would be. Though yes it did seem more targeted at police and that is a left thing. There was a call about an active shooter to draw them in when they spotted the untagged rv and called bomb squad. Probably remote det.

Max Peck wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:23 pm Yeah, as I postulated in the other thread, it feels to me like a test run to see how well the bomb would perform, rather than an attack on a specific target or to cause casualties. It could be that the affect on the ATT building itself, rather than what it housed, could have been part of the test, if that is what it was.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:38 pm I think somebody is making crazies in this country. There weren't that many before Trump.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:46 pm Some TN GOP homes are being raided by the Feds today. Not sure why.

https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/43146333/u ... uthorities