@LukeGromen @Northernpundit1 The letter is highly likely regardless, even though impeachment without having the votes in the senate is stupid (as Pelosi knew, but she couldn't hold it back).
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@Northernpundit1 The issue is he needs to do all that in 2-3 weeks or else Hormuz closure drives an economic crisis that spurs a blue wave and him spending his last 2 yrs fending off impeachment
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“Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.”
-NYT just now
First MSM admission I’ve seen of this fact
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@miawilson1990 @RepRaskin DJT controls it for life, even after leaving office.
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Who exactly controls the Peace Committee? What are its sources of funding? Is there any conflict of interest between the waiver of fees and the parties responsible for submitting or approving them? If there have indeed been violations, the evidence must be made public and a clear timeline for accountability established.
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Donald Trump got the Director of the US Patent and Trade Office to apply for trademarks for the Board of Peace—something it does for no other entity and which is not allowed under federal law. Then he waived the fee for registration. Now he’ll decide whether to grant the application he submitted! No one knows what this Board of Peace is or where the billions of dollars gathered from corrupt foreign states will go. We're exposing this devious scheme.
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@Vibutler_ Obviously you do otherwise it wouldnt be “sad”
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The federal constitution only requires that states “have a republican form of government” what exactly that means is largely up for interpretation. The fact that 49 states have decided on near carbon copy bicameralism is sad
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@adamscochran The immunity ruling does not apply to this conduct, which occurred while out of office.
He can't be prosecuted right now because:
1. DoJ policy against prosecuting a sitting president
2. His corrupt DoJ would not prosecute him anyway
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And SCOTUS dumb ruling on presidential immunity now shields him whilst in office.
The previously unreleased volumes of Smith’s report show overwhelmingly that Trump stole classified documents, sold them for profit, and risked American lives.
He’s a traitor!
House Judiciary Dems@HouseJudiciary
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Damning new documents from Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation, obtained by @RepRaskin and Judiciary Democrats, reveal: - Trump stole classified documents to advance his "business interests" - Trump showed a classified map to unnamed passengers on a private plane - Trump stole documents so sensitive only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them - Prosecutors warned that some of the materials posed an "aggravated potential harm to national security"
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@mlipman13 @MattBruenig @lydiadepillis In the sense of a literal contract with the customer, which can be an actual asset, of course the employee can't take it with them. But that the employer has some asset-like right to prevent the customer from even being offered a competing product seems bad.
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Thanks. That is a good example because my intuition is that an advertiser could and should consider both. The radio station isn’t really harmed if the advertiser also buys ads from the podcaster.
I stand by my earlier statement though. I didn’t say the company owns the employee or the customer. I was saying the business relationship is an asset on the balance sheet of the company not a personal asset of the employee they should be allowed to leave with
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Two striking studies out this week show how noncompete agreements suppress wages.
1. A NBER paper shows that employed workers today are half as likely to receive better outside offers, likely due to rising employer concentration and noncompetes: nber.org/system/files/w…
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@ryan_landay There's kind of a circularity here. Shutting down BART would massively increase road congestion (the number of people who commute on BART to cross the Bay each day exceeds the capacity of the Bay Bridge), and the resulting congestion pricing revenue could probably fund BART.
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BART is so expensive that it’s barely worth taking instead of Uber/Lyft/Waymo. It’s also notorious for being used for criminals to get around. Perhaps instead of raising taxes to pay for it, the system should be replaced by remote work, Waymos, and highway congestion pricing.
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Yes. There's a difference between:
1. AI is human-level at everything we have great training data on and can easily verify success / failure on. [But can't learn in the real world, needs enormous data, can't generalize beyond training set, etc..]
&
2. AI can figure out novel problems like humans can, on as little data.
We have 1 or something fairly close to it. It's incredible. It's valuable. It's changing the world. We still haven't absorbed what we have. It's not AGI.
We don't yet have 2. That's AGI, or at least much closer to it.
François Chollet@fchollet
Human-level general intelligence is achieved when an AI system can approach a new task and figure it out, without human intervention, *with the same learning efficiency as humans*. If every new task requires human intervention, it's not general. If every new task requires brute-forcing, it's not human-level.
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@JeremiahDJohns Except Flynn was prosecuted under Trump.
You can literally tell your supporters to sue for something you did, even in the same term, then settle.
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A fun corruption hack is to have your supporters sue the govt for something done under Biden, then immediately give them a huge settlement since you control the Justice Department.
Perfectly 'legal' and can be done an unlimited amount of times. Money printer for loyal goons.
Zoe Tillman@ZoeTillman
NEW: DOJ has reached a financial settlement with Michael Flynn, the conservative activist and former Trump adviser who sought millions for what he alleged was a politically motivated prosecution. No $ details in court notice today, more to come buff.ly/ccz6Hj3 Prev: buff.ly/sWZrlKV
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@StatisticUrban @sethharpesq You drive past one on I-15 las vegas to LA
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To the immiserated proles of the Epstein Empire, this doesn't even look real. In the United States, "advanced" technology is a bumbling Waymo that won't get out of the way, or the Unit 8200 app that scans your face at the airport.
Volcaholic 🌋@volcaholic1
China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures. That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.
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@Jayseki @StatisticUrban @EatsHorseATT @sethharpesq The molten salt was removed from the design to save money. There's another US plant in Nevada that did use molten salt. The concept is pointless now, given that it is less efficient and costlier to maintain than regular panels and batteries.
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@StatisticUrban @EatsHorseATT @sethharpesq its being shut down, but even if it wasnt, is it the same? does it also use molten salt?
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@MetaPrime001 No, people are failing to understand how car insurance works. You can have a car worth $0, and you're still going to have to pay for insurance because it's covering liability, not the car.
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People are starting to realize many of these systems that supposedly benefit us, do the exact opposite
Jödes@WhoDeanie589
I pay $1200 dollars a year for insurance on a car worth $3200. I think I’m done.
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@Empty_America idk, even in pre-modern times, people we consider to be "in the trades" were relatively rare and wealthy.
Cobblers, blacksmiths, tailors, etc.
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Several of my trade mutuals have pointed out that generational office men aren't really going to be able to make that transition.
I think they are right, I was at the scrapyard today and I can't see most of you guys being about that life.
It's genetic.
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
🚨 Palantir CEO urges people to skip elite colleges, saying “unless you’re neurodivergent”, the only path left is skilled trades.
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@dandarling @bradstewart81 Normally, the way that is assessed is by hiring someone with experience doing that, or something close to that. If you want to take a flyer on someone with no experience and put them in charge of the third largest department, that's a gamble at best.
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@bradstewart81 Can he run a large government bureaucracy? That’s the question. That is what is needed here.
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Man I hate this stuff . Maybe because my dad is a retired plumber. Guys who run businesses have smarts and intellect that are invaluable.
CJ Pearson@Cjpearson
Jimmy Kimmel: "Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was plumber. That's right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now." The elitism of Hollywood summarized in one moment. 👇
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@Dr_da_Vinci @JasoMH144 @MikeLevin The proportionate numbers show that the US, Denmark, UK, Estonia, and maybe Canada do the fighting and dying. The rest, not so much. x.com/AeonCoin/statu…
aeon@AeonCoin
@Dr_da_Vinci @MikeLevin Adjusting for the size of the country (you can't expect a country with six million to send as many troops as a country with 350 million), some of them are pretty close. Notably including Denmark.
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@AeonCoin @JasoMH144 @MikeLevin True, still shows that the US does the fighting paying and dying. Time for US to leave NATO and for EU to pay for its own defense, surly they can handle weak Russia on their own.
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This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.
Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.
They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.
This was not a drill.
This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.
Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.
Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.
The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world. bbc.com/news/articles/…
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@JasoMH144 @Dr_da_Vinci @MikeLevin I don't know where the exact numbers came from, but Iraq was not a NATO operation, Afghanistan was. Iraq was a "coalition of the willing" but NATO itself did not participate.
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@Dr_da_Vinci @MikeLevin NATO combat fatalities 😂😂 you talking about the Iraq war brother?? That's where pretty much all those fatalities are from - did you find those WMDs while you were there for 10 years?? 😂🤫
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@Dr_da_Vinci @MikeLevin Adjusting for the size of the country (you can't expect a country with six million to send as many troops as a country with 350 million), some of them are pretty close. Notably including Denmark.
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I would counter and say they were never good allies, rather than say sure trump you can have sovereignty
over the land on what ever bases you want, they plotted to fight us. Rather than pay their NATO bills they are happy to let the US pay. NATO is about 1 trillion dollars behind on its 2% commitments. Rather than fight tyrannical murderous Iran they hold back and judge the war illegal
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@tylerbowyer Deliberate GOP undercount by the Trump administration who did the counting?
In reality, blue states spent money to "get out the count", and red states declined to do so.
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More than that when you account for deliberate GOP under count in 2020 and Dem over counting in blue states (illegals, vacationers, foreigners, etc)
Ann Coulter@AnnCoulter
And yet the Trump administration has not corrected the census KNOWN, ADMITTED mistakes from 2020 to draw accurate congressional districts. That would give Republicans about a dozen more seats in the House.
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@krishnanrohit @EconomPic Maybe concentrated vs diffuse interests. Current tenants like very much that their rent doesn't go up, but for everyone else, it's just a vague sort of argument about the rental market, which might or might not affect them personally ever.
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@EconomPic So a weird form of hyperbolic discounting of local optima?
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@Publius215 @Lurkingposter @LuisMorenolg Even if that were true for classified materials in general, which is debated, it's definitely not true for the Atomic Energy Act materials which can only be declassified by a specific statutorily defined process.
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@Lurkingposter @LuisMorenolg They were already declassified because they were in his posesssion. Besides, the PRA authorizes his possession.
It’s an absurd charge. That’s why it’s never been done despite every president having so-called classified documents in their presidential records
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I get tired of saying this, but if I, or any of my fellow TS/SCI cleared colleagues did 1% of this with a much lower classification-we’d be in a federal prison for espionage or even, worse. Just unbelievable.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
President Trump showed a classified map from his first term to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight and retained another record so sensitive that only six government officials had access to it, according to a prosecution memo released to Congress. wapo.st/4t5h9sS
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Gen-Z has shifted 27 points on Trump in a year. I don't believe they need to be "punished" for this, but I do believe there are abundant reasons to view them as a slightly irrational sociodemo group. Don't disregard them, but stop letting them demand we all accept their guidance.
Cameron Kasky@camkasky
Yeah, no shit big politicians are talking to Hasan Piker. More of them should be. God forbid a candidate actually work with new media, which the Right has used to dominate us. Hasan has been consistently anti-war, can the pundits on your “acceptable” news media say the same?
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