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“Democrats are trying to scare women into thinking Republicans don’t want abortion legal under any circumstances.”

• Sean Hannity

I think the GOP did that themselves last year in regards to the 10 year old girl who had to cross state lines into Indiana to get an abortion.

Uh violating First Amendment rights? The parade organizers are a private entity not the government. It's too bad a representative in state legislature doesn't understand the Constitution.

Also

Basabe responded, writing, “You have no right to exclude me, not as an individual nor as an elected official, nor may you attempt to set me up again with a bogus ‘public safety claim.’ I have always attended this parade peacefully.”

So he's saying the security/safety claim is bullshit.

He also accused organizers of allowing “extremist” protesters “to agitate the crowds and incite violence against me for political purposes” during last year’s parade.

Now he's saying it isn't.

I thought the GOP was all about private entities refusing service to whoever they want and in a bigger sense less regulation from the 'nanny' government. I guess that only applies when they are being 'discriminated' against.

Man jokes about "good sex" being key to his 47 year marriage.

Conservatives: Rage while putting a thrice married rapist on a pedestal of morality supposedly "chosen by God" and what-not.

The restaurant owner arguments are all super weak as usual.

"Menu prices will rise!"

No shit, but everyone was already paying the prices but now you can't just surprise patrons with the increase.

"There will be pullback. People will lose jobs and hours!"

Doubtful but even if true, that means that they knew they were lying to customers and clawing extra charges that they wouldn't know about already.

"'They' are thinking restaurants will absorb the costs"

Not exactly but they will have to compete with pricing as it should be.

They're just trying to get away with playing the same game Telcos have gotten away with for far too many decades.

she has accused the Satanic Temple of making filings that “are only meant to evoke strong emotions and incite others.”

Uh yeah, it isn't a secret or anything.

What's next? Is she going to say "I don't think they actually believe in Baphomet either!"

That's Magic Earth Navigation & Maps and the results are that app's fault.

You can tell from both the app icon and it's the exact same Burger King logo it uses (Google Maps uses a different one).

Paranoid extremists get together and become paranoid that everyone else in the group are feds trying to trap them. Trip starts with group praying for guidance and immediately get lost.

This could have been an article in The Onion.

SEO ruined the Internet because it made SEO essential to be seen in relevant search results above other less relevant search results. In other words, less relevant search results can often be seen on the first page along with more relevant search results, or even sometimes instead of relevant search results on the first 2 pages of any reputable search engine.

Also, Internet Reputation companies have proven that SEO and fake content can be used as a weapon to push relevant search results so far down nobody sees them anymore.

Finally, how many times have you searched for something just to come across some random webpage with just a bunch of word salad that happens to somehow be relevant. An easy example of this are phone numbers. You search for a phone number that called you and chances are you won't see much relevant data. Just a mix of "robocaller" reporting websites -- usually with no information and random websites with just a bunch of phone numbers in sequential order with no relevant data whatsoever. Even if it's a business' actual phone number.

I remember many years ago, the AF was charging airmen when some were splitting their tongues. The least they could do is charge these local PD with felonies. Obviously isn't going to happen.

What is crazy is the woman he was video chatting with said he heard a knock, asked who was there. No answer. Then a louder knock a couple of minutes later which is when he got his gun and they burst in. It sounds like it was unannounced.

I hope we get the video for this but Florida is trying to kill all of its open information policies, so we may never get to see it.

I really hope the cops are charged and convicted on at least manslaughter. Florida is pro-gun but also pro-cop. If the video shows them as being unannounced, I could see people actually being concerned because it could happen to any gunowner at that point, racial bias aside.

I know shitpost and all that but this isn't actually true, as in it can't be verified. It was one small mention in a book (Threshold Resistance) by A&W owner Mr. Taubman. He basically said he wanted to know why his same priced 1/3 burgers weren't outselling competing 1/4 pounders...from a competitor...that I'm sure you can guess. So, he hired a marketing firm who put together a little focus group in the 80s. Some of those focus group members supposedly didn't know that 1/3 lb. is bigger than 1/4 lb. burgers.

Keep in mind that there's no evidence or any firm mentioned and the bias surrounding the author that is writing a book about his experiences including a failed venture.

All we know is it is one man's anecdote and it has been used for 39 years so far to make fun of Americans for supposedly not understanding fractions.

I imagine an argument in my head like this:
Comcast: 10G doesn't confuse customers. Obviously we are saying they can buy up to 10 Gbps on our network.

Somebody: Do you call your 1 Gbps plans Xfinity 1G?

Comcast: No

Somebody: Why not call it that instead of Xfinity Gigabit?

Comcast: Because customers might think cell plans at 5G are bett....oohhhhh you almost got us!

I know it didn't go like that but it would have been a good laugh.

Judge: Adela Kowalski-Garza
Prosecutor: Rene Garza
Principal: Myrta Garza

“[Garza] has a lot of people to back her up. She has people in high places. So I guess she can basically do whatever she wants and she receives no consequences for it.

Hmmm.

many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history

Through diplomacy and compromise I'd imagine.

Rage bait not in the article (since it's just talking about the two paramedic's sentence):

Context of the arrest:

911 call because McClain was wearing a ski mask and flailing arms, though caller noted he didn't think McClain was armed nor anyone in immediate danger.
McClain wore a ski mask due to a blood circulation issue that caused him to easily feel chilly.
Friends believe he was 'flailing his arms' because he was probably dancing to music.
McClain was near his house.

The arrest of McClain:

Officers slammed McClain into a wall when they apprehended him
Officers claimed to hear another shout "He is going for your gun!"
Later accounts had differed as to which officer's gun he was going for (they didn't match between each other).
A body cam supposedly knocked off during the struggle was picked back up but dropped again with someone saying "leave it there"
Another officer can be heard telling another to move his camera, which the family's attorney believed was to try to support their claim that he was going for a gun and so it couldn't catch the interaction and show he did not go for a gun.
For 15 minutes, 3 officers held down 5'4" 140 lbs. McClain as he apologized, vomited, apologized for vomiting and said that he couldn't breath right.
Officer Woodyard applied a carotid control hold which cuts off blood flow to the brain to render McClain unconscious.
One officer threatened that he would have his police dog bite him as he already lay handcuffed and pinned.
An officer tells newly arrived officers that McClain was "acting crazy" and was "definitely on something" and that he attacked them using "incredible, crazy strength"

The death of McClain:

Paramedics injected McClain with 500 mg of ketamine to sedate him though the local protocols only called for 320 - 350 mg for someone McClain's weight.
The injection caused him to stop breathing and was brain dead.
Photos were discovered of officers posing inappropriately and reenacting the carotid control hold taken at the site that he was detained and assaulted.

The coroner

Aurora PD met with the county coroner prior to the coroner making his final decision on cause of death.
Aurora PD investigators were present for the autopsy itself.
The coroner's decision on cause of death was "undetermined"
The coroner opined that his death could have been caused by McClain's own physical assertion comibed with a supposed narrow coronary artery or if he had an asthma attack or choked on his own vomit.
The coroner opined that it wasn't clear if the officer's actions contributed to any of it and that McClain was given a "therapeutic level" of ketamine.
A later coroner report obtained through a lawsuit listed the cause of death now as "complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint" though officially remains "undetermined" due to that being the reason on the initial report.

The protest organizers:
Protest organizers were charged by AuroraPD ranging from inciting riot to kidnapping.
One organizer, Northam, was arrested with the aid of SWAT and an armored vehicle.
Roberts was arrested while jogging.
Others were arrested at home or at work.
Charges for everyone was eventually dismissed or dropped.

The officers:
After the photo was discovered, one officer resigned and the other three were fired.
Roesenblatt, was fired because he responded "ha ha" to the photos in a text message.
Roedema was found guilty of negligent homicide and assault.
Roesenblatt was acquitted of all charges.
Woodyard was acquitted of all charges and returned to working as a police officer for Aurora PD in November of 2023 and will be receiving $212,546.04 in backpay (backpay from September 2021 until he was reinstated).

The paramedics:
As mentioned in the article, two paramedics were convicted of negligent homicide.

Obviously not as extreme but certainly much more common are those charged with assaulting a police officer who hurts themselves beating the shit out of a cuffed person lying on the ground.

One example is the case of Tyrone Carnegay where an off-duty cop working security though Tyrone stole a tomato, only to beat the shit out of him and finding the receipt. Then he charged him with assaulting a police officer and obstruction. Maybe he sprained his wrist as he hit Tyrone's knees with a baton while yelling get on the ground without giving him a chance to comply. He also lied and said Tyrone went after his weapon which the camera shows that he did not.

As I recall, even though he was charged with assaulting the police officer and obstructing a police, once Tyrone sued them, the police department was like "Whoa, whoa, he wasn't a police officer at the time while wearing his uniform but he was working for Walmart." in a case of being Schrodinger's cop. Some justice was eventually served in this case, though it still falls very short in my opinion, but there are many that never made headlines and had much public support. I'm pretty sure if the camera wasn't there and if he stole the singular tomato, he would have gotten much more than the 5 years former officer King got. I also bet if it wasn't for the DOJ getting involved King would have done probation, if anything.

I hope this doesn't count as qualified immunity.

She stopped him from changing a tire because he was 'suspicious'. She deserves prison for assault, battery, wrongful arrest (there's no RAS, regardless of what she found after) and a hate crime.

Since he doesn't mention it in his 'fantastic' reporting, OpenSSH 9.6 was released Monday that will patch this attack. Also, since he doesn't mention it, if on the Internet, the MITM would have to be installed at both end points (client side and server side) to be effective without the patch.

In short, his argument in court is that the lack of evidence is evidence of criminal intent.

Trump's lawyers: Banks should have done their own due diligence for his properties themselves. We even put a disclaimer to not trust us!

Also Trump's lawyers: Failed doing due diligence on Trump's properties in court.

I wonder if their slides had a disclaimer to not trust their evidence.

And the crazy part is that it sounds like Google didn't have backups of this data after the account was deleted. The only reason they were able to restore the data was because UniSuper had a backup on another provider.

This should make anyone really think hard about the situation before using Google's cloud. Sure, it is good practice and frankly refreshing to hear that a company actually backed up away from their primary cloud infrastructure but I'm surprised Google themselves do not keep backups for awhile after an account is deleted.

The problem historically isn't that streaming services are paying for fast lanes but that they have to pay not to be throttled below normal traffic. In other words, they have to pay more to be treated like other traffic.

Even crazier is remember that there are actual peering agreements between folks like cogentco, Level 3, comcast, Hurricane Electric, AT&T, etc. What comcast did that caused the spotlight was to bypass their peering agreement with Level 3 and went direct to their end customer (netflix) and told them they'd specifically throttle them if they didn't pay a premium which also undermined Level3's peering agreement with Comcast.

Peering agreements are basically like "I'll route your traffic, if you route my traffic" and that's how the Internet works.

More rage bait:

• built it on land belonging to the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribe
• tribal land and the tribe created a Cannabis Control Commission
• However, the sheriff's office was informed by members of the tribe that they were not authorized to conduct the raid on their land. In turn, members of the sheriff's office said the tribal members "didn't know what they were talking about," the lawsuit said.
• during the raid and officers confiscated $300,000 from the tribe's safe.
• McCormick's "family home 'mysteriously' caught fire, after the sheriff's office ordered power and water to his property to be turned off, resulting in the home "being completely burned down," along with much of his personal belongings.

How about adding speed limit without a destination, showing house/building numbers around you, traffic overlay without a destination, allow voice response to if reported hazards/speed traps/whatever is still there, better lane assistance, turn or which side the destination is on preview on the turn before so you know which lane to be in? Maybe a Recents list that doesn't seem like it's just a shuffle of a few random locations you've been to maybe once in the last 6 months?

Maybe some of that has been added somewhat recently?

Remember when Tucker Carlson's text messages were released and he called his fans 'especially dumb....cousin fuckers'? Remember when they still revered him anyway?

Trump could probably be at a rally in the deep south in a factory and call them all a bunch of good-for-nothing lazy losers and they'd still vote for him. They'd probably say "He speaks his mind and doesn't care what anyone including us thinks. He's so badass!" or like I've actually heard more than a few times "He says dumb things that I don't agree with but I agree with his politics" which is ridiculous but it doesn't matter.

In my opinion Dan Goodin always reports as an alarmist and rarely gives mitigation much focus or in one case I recall, he didn't even mention the vulnerable code never made it to the release branch since they found the vulnerability during testing, until the second to last paragraph (and pretended that paragraph didn't exist in the last paragraph). I can't say in that one case, it wasn't strategic but it sure seemed that way.

For example, he failed to note that the openssh 9.6 patch was released Monday to fix this attack. It would have went perfectly in the section called "Risk assessment" or perhaps in "So what now?" mentioned that people should, I don't know, apply the patch that fixes it.

Another example where he tries scare the reading stating that "researchers found that 77 percent of SSH servers exposed to the Internet support at least one of the vulnerable encryption modes, while 57 percent of them list a vulnerable encryption mode as the preferred choice." which is fine to show how prevalent the algorithms are used but does not mention that the attack would have to be complicated and at both end points to be effective on the Internet or that the attack is defeated with a secure tunnel (IPSec or IKE for example) if still supporting the vulnerable key exchange methods.

He also seems to love to bash FOSS anything as hard as possible, in what to me, feels like a quest to prove proprietary software is more secure than FOSS. When I see his name as an author, I immediately take it with a grain of salt and look for another source of the same information.

or even basic product management.

Googe Wallet (2011) became Android Pay (2015) became Google Pay (2018) became Google Wallet (2022), except in some places. Also, except in the US (and maybe elsewhere?) where Google Pay is still around but just to send money between people.

Google Talk (2005) and Google+ Messenger (2011) sort of became Google Hangouts (2013), which was part of Google+ (2011) which became Hangouts (2013), which became both Duo (2016) and Allo (2016) but then during both Duo and Allo became Hangouts Meet (2019) and Hangouts Chat (2019) which became Google Meet (2017 -- Yes, Hangouts Meet was still around) and Google Chat (2017 -- Yes, Hangouts Chat was still around). Google Allo died in 2018 and Duo died in 2022.

Inbox (2015) became a better gmail Android app than gmail actually was. Inbox discontinued in 2019 with the advertisement that gmail integrated Inbox's features (it didn't add most of them). This spawned other 3rd party gmail handling apps to take its place.

Google Play Music (2011) podcasts split into Google Podcasts (2018) stopped having releases in 2021 and rolled up/is rolling up into YouTube Music (2015). Google Play Music became YouTube Music in 2020.

Right now there's even Android Auto and Android Automotive simultaneously to pretty much do the same thing but are not the same. Android Automotive itself exists as Android Automotive with Google Automotive Services and also as Android Automotive without Google Automotive Services.

Android Auto for Phone Screens was replaced with Google Assistant's driving mode.

There are many, many, many more crazy branding issues but I just don't feel like continuing. Google has also killed at least 54 hardware lines, 59 apps and 210 services.

You set your brush type in ASCII/ANSI characters, set your size and color and then you paint using something like PabloDraw.

Think of opening something like paint, selecting the brush tool and a color and then painting shapes. Well, they do the same but instead of a solid or gradient brush color, the do the same except the brush uses character sets that you can select.

Former Googlers have always said that the big issue with sustaining products at Google is that it is highly competitive and Google rewards new products, not sustaining current products. So, most people want to continuously join/form teams for new products leaving little resources for current products. This has been the way since Google started becoming a large company -- so decades now.

This makes sense as to why Google puts out applications that seemingly do the same thing as something else but ever so slightly different and why there are sometimes cool new products that die on the vine years later and if there was no slightly different thing available it just dies or if there is then there is a half-assed migration.

In the Reddit AMA the Google Home team answered a few questions and only the very few softball ones. One interesting comment they made though is that because of the Nest products and generally new products, they believe it is a challenge to support the older hardware, including integrating Google and Nest hardware, so basically you get features removed to make it all work. Of course, there was the promise and supposed internal roadmap that puts these features back eventually, but we've seen that kind of promise over and over from Google and it rarely happens. They are trying to replace Assistant with their Gemini AI which you can do now but it comes with even less features (but parity is coming -- they promise!...one day!). Is that parity with current Assistant which seems to be supporting less and less and working worse?

Google is losing a lot of consumer trust in products I think and it's going to get worse for them as this trickles to the general consumer-base.

I was shadow IT for a project and asked IT to design this special unconventional thing which of course they wouldn't. So I made this little embedded linux device to take care of it. Gave them the design and steps I made and all that. They were like "nah" so I told them to give me admin on their file server and switch and I'd just do it myself. So they did (lol?).

I had to create a service account, so instead of just having the system account do it on their file server because I figured that wouldn't be OK. I asked them how do I properly get a service account approved and they passed me to Cyber who had me submit a user request. It got denied because it didn't have a signed user agreement or a Sec+ or similar cert......

So I created a word doc that said "I am not a real person and therefore cannot sign any contracts. I am just software man." and exported it to PDF and named it the same name of the agreement file name. Did the same for the cert. They approved it.

Then nobody ever created the account because IT's helpdesk couldn't figure out how to do it. I think it was more that they probably didn't have an OU structure properly set up so they wanted some architect or something to weigh in.

Anyway, I just let System do it because, well I had been waiting months at that point. The service account probably still doesn't exist in AD. They then took my admin privs away and got credit from upper management for solving this odd problem that my stuff took care of.

Eventually they needed a more robust solution and also in a few more places since it worked well but they started slamming it a bit too hard with data. They wanted to just keep giving me specific rights and then take them away when I was done but also submit paperwork every single time to them to do it.

Apparently, I burnt bridges when I said "nah" as a Reply to All when they told me that. But who cares to have a bridge to nowhere anyway? As far as I know (since I still occasionally get a technical question about it) my little guy is still chugging away today, though I've moved on since then.

The best part is when the business customers had to use an AI chatbot for support which was as helpful as the AI Adbot.

In a memo sent to employees Mozilla says it wants to bring “trustworthy AI into Firefox”. To help it do this sooner it’s merging its Pocket, content, and AI/Ml teams.

That's pretty concerning. It could go either way but I assume they are going to try to shove more sponsored content in an effort to further monetize Firefox in spite of getting hundreds of millions of dollars a year in donations. Maybe I'm just cynical about Mozilla though.

Yeah funny, right? I thought the same thing. It'd just be the older people and the younger would be more technically literate. But companies started abstracting a lot of things now and it's both the older and younger that struggle with IT literacy.

I think thin clients with VDIs will be the future and both make this stuff even more abstracted for users and also bring in the age of subscribing to workstations. At work, it'll start by just plopping stuff in your documents folder or personal folder or whatever and/or the desktop. They'll live on a network share and the VDIs will revert to snapshots to be 'fresh' every time but the users won't really know that. Their stuff will be plopped down like it is local every time and 'follow' them from VDI to VDI.

Then I think this will push to the home market and instead of spending a lot of money up front, you just get a cheap thin client, probably eventually a small little box with USB ports and mini-DP or whatever. You'll then pay for the tiers you want. Want just a workstation to check mail on and do 'web apps' type stuff? $5 with a whole 5GB of personal space or whatever. Then there'll be "productivity tiers" with pretty much the same stuff but more CPU, RAM and a small amount of vGPU allocated and you can install programs with something like 500 GB of personal space. There'll be a "pro" version with more of everything and a "gamer" version with a lot of everything probably costing something like $30/$40 a month starting out per device.

And of course eventually, you'll be getting ads to "keep the prices increases down" and then that won't matter anymore and you'll be given the option to pay for ad-free add-ons, time on the workstation and so-on. Prices will raise nearly every year. Thin clients will turn into all-in-ones and be basically tablets where you buy based on screen sizes and probably able to wireless connect more displays.

Technology in computing will become more abstracted and IT's specialists will shrink once again because actual tech literacy will decrease.

I think the only reason it hasn't started yet is due to Internet throughput availability but that's quickly changing.

A boring dystopia indeed.

I mean I could post the quotes of him supporting a no-exception national abortion ban and the quote of him saying that if he really paid for an abortion that there's no shame in that. But that's low hanging fruit. Instead, I'm just going for the fruit that already fell on the ground:

I’m this country boy. I’m not that smart.

• Herschel Walker

And people say, ‘Herschel, you played football.’ But I said, ‘Guys, I also was valedictorian of my class. I also was in the top 1% of my graduating class in college.

• Also Herschel Walker

So what we do is we’re going to put, from the ‘Green New Deal,’ millions or billions of dollars cleaning our good air up. So all of a sudden China and India ain’t putting nothing in there – cleaning that situation up. So all with that bad air, it’s still there. But since we don’t control the air, our good air decide to float over to China, bad air. So when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. And now we’ve got to clean that back up.

• Herschel Walker again. This isn't a joke.

He's not getting locked up. I doubt he'll even be sentenced to any time in a cell even if he's found guilty. He's not even going to get probation. He's going to completely show that the Justice system once again is not equal and fair but not for the reasons he will continue to whine about.

If it's actual ownership instead of availability, then according to GOG's own EULA, you don't own the games there either.

Finally. Intuit has been lobbying for years to keep this from happening.

Derrick Plummer, a spokesman for Intuit, said taxpayers can already file their taxes for free and there are online free-file programs available to some people. Individuals of all income levels can submit their returns for free via the mail.

A “direct-to-IRS e-file system is a solution in search of a problem, and that solution will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions of dollars,” he said. “We will continue unapologetically advocating for American taxpayers and against a direct-to-IRS e-file system because it’s a bad idea.”

And who believes that crap anyway? Intuit markets their solution due to the complicated nature of anything outside of standard deductions and figuring out if you should itemize and how to do that.

Intuit has spent $25.6 million since 2006 on lobbying, H&R Block about $9.6 million and the conservative Americans for Tax Reform roughly $3 million.

Now if the states get on board for easy filing online, it'll be great.

Kristi Noem has been licking boots hard the last few years but doubled her efforts in licking boots this past year. The other day Pine Ridge -- the Oglala Sioux Tribe (Oyate) reservation banned her from entering because of her "border invasion" remarks. her response was essentially that she thinks it is bad that they brought politics into a discussion regarding federal laws...

She also started the "Meth. We're on it." marketing campaign for $1.4 million, I guess, against the meth problem in South Dakota and kept using the hashtag. She gave a GW Bush-esque response about it.

She's very divisive and definitely not diplomatic. I guess we will see if she Laura Boeberts her way out of the graces of her constituents.

Don't worry, he'll end up still having enough funds for a legal defence after the RNC is backrupt due to it. We will find out in 5 years or so that it turns out Russia backed his funds for legal defense and some loans or something. He'll say it was due to a 'great business deal because Russia are great business people, maybe the greatest' due to like a $500 million 'business' deal to put Trump's name on a random warehouse out in the middle of Siberia.

That's just so they can treat you like crap and under pay you, so that you can't just go be a handy many somewhere else. If you lived in California it would have already been unenforceable anyway though.

A 30% cut for steam games sold on steam and a 0% cut for steam keys sold by the publisher wherever they want with the caveat that they must give steam users the same sales at around the same time. They get their games hosted on Steam's industry best CDN, a page with support for images and videos, an API with features users like, workshop API for mod hosting and delivery, and other SteamWorks API stuff for stuff like multiplayer, patch management without charging a fee for it, forum hosting to hit the highlights. Pretty much all of that drives engagement and is mostly turn-key though you do have to programmatically interact with their API when it makes sense.

Steam provides a lot of benefit for a 30% cut of what is sold on their store front and a lot more benefit for getting all of the above for a 0% cut if they sell steam keys outside of steam.