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  • Judge rejects unsealing Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts

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  • And because even if it did get released, it would only have info used to get an indictment of Maxwell. Damaging info on clients and associates would not be included.

  • He gets it

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  • It's not that Kivas needed killing, it's that data values life and would not kill to free himself, but will kill Kivas to prevent him from murdering others. Once Kivas was in custody Data had no interest in harming him.

    So, the lesson would be that it is not virtuous to stand by and do nothing while some rich asshole is killing people for his own petty reasons, and that the logical course of action if no alternative exists is to shoot the fucker.

  • Texas becomes seventh state to ban lab-grown meat: The new law establishes civil and criminal penalties for selling the product.

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  • “Texans have a God-given right to know what’s on their plate...

    If this was about knowing you would have been passing labeling laws.

    ...and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab.

    You don't need a law to stop people who already don't want to do something. This isn't for millions of Texans it's for a few rich assholes who want to shut down competition.

    It’s plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.”

    If we're talking about the kind of cowboys that get a corrupt government to back them up as they crush their rivals and bleed the people dry, then sure.

  • Are there any examples of a religion giving scientific knowledge that could not have been known to people at the time?

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  • If God is talking to bronze age goat herders, what kind of knowledge is going to be useful to them? What will they manage to pass down to future generations without mangling it horribly? If they were to be given information about scientific concepts so advanced that only God (or aliens or time travelers) could have given it to them, they wouldn't have the foundation of knowledge to grasp it, the vocabulary to explain it, or the technical means to exploit it. Anything they can actually understand and act on is necessarily going to be something that is not beyond their means, and therefore we are right back where we started with stuff they could have figured out on their own.

    Suppose God did explain something far beyond human understanding, and they wrote it down as best they could. Even if it wasn't completely incomprehensible to the guy writing it down, it's still going to be totally lost on future generations if it isn't anchored in a more comprehensive understanding of how things work. Without context, it will lose all meaning and will be reinterpreted by later scholars who will try and find a meaning that they can understand. It would become a part of mythology and folklore, and would be unrecognizable by the time science catches up to the original ideas. You might have people point out similarities, but they'd probably be taken as seriously as the ancient aliens guys.

  • Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against Florida Congressman Cory Mills

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  • She broke up with him this February when she learned he had a second girlfriend from national news reports—the second girlfriend had reported Mills to police for allegedly assaulting her at their Washington, D.C. condo...

    He was supposed to be arrested on domestic violence charges, but Trump's acting US attorney for DC Ed Martin refused to allow it. This woman should be afraid because the psycho she was dating could make good on his threats and easily get away with it.

  • "Stay here. Stay here as long as you can. For the love of God, cherish it. You have to cherish it."

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  • Billy Madison. Said to a third grader who said he can't wait to be in high school like Billy, who is pretending that he is enjoying high school when it's actually horrible.

  • Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

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  • Logically, this combined with their insistence that they can revoke legal status means that no one's citizenship is guaranteed. Everyone born in the US is descended from people who weren't citizens. And those who went through a process to become citizens can apparently have that yanked away if the current administration get its way.

    If I were the next president and had to try and undo the damage these fascists are inflicting, I'd start by deporting the bastards behind this shit in all three branches of government, starting with the the Supreme Court. Maybe just drop them all off in Antarctica.

  • Trump Announces Plan to 'Put the Farmers in Charge' of Migrant Farmworkers

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  • Let's set aside the horrific implications for a moment. And let's ignore the part about deporting American citizens as a form of collective punishment.

    Just reading this in the most charitable way possible, he's saying that we could let businesses sponsor the migrant workers and in doing so allow them to stay. What a clever idea, why haven't we tried that before? Oh wait, we have, they're called work visas. Too bad half your party opposes them (while the other half wants to use them as a form of indentured servitude). Not that it even matters that much when you are deporting people who are here legally anyway.

    Doesn't matter what promises Trump makes (even if he had actually meant them), when ICE has an absurdly high quota to meet and free reign to deport people without due process, no paperwork will be able to keep immigrants safe. They will just continue to go for the easiest targets

  • RFK's proposal to let bird flu spread through poultry

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  • Because they aren't just doing nothing, they are actively interfering.

  • Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with Gen Z

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  • What's wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?

  • Musk says SpaceX will retire Dragon spacecraft amid bitter Trump dispute

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  • While on ketamine.

  • Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats

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  • The article cites a strategist who argues that bringing attention to immigration only helps Trump because immigration is his strongest issue. The unstated assumption is that sentiment on any given issue is basically static and unchanging, that you can't change minds you can only change topics.

  • Trump Adviser Admits Republican Tax Bill Makes Huge Cuts to Medicaid

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  • So, you need to be working a job that pays like shit and doesn't provide healthcare, thus subsidizing the shittiest employers.

    Or you need to prove you are disabled. Which of course probably requires supporting medical evidence. Which would require access to healthcare.

    Oh, and even if you have an obvious disability, we're gonna make it as hard as possible to apply for disability benefits.

    Justified by the idea that somehow having access to a doctor enables people to sit on the couch and play video games all day.

    Just admit that you (at best) don't care if poor people suffer and die as long as it benefits you and your donors in some small way.

  • Trump belittles Canada before Carney meeting: 'We don’t need ANYTHING they have'

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  • Just wait, before you know it Russia will be our biggest trading partner, with their chief export being all the shit we were buying from China but now with a cut lining Putin’s pocket.

  • Trump belittles Canada before Carney meeting: 'We don’t need ANYTHING they have'

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  • As disgusting as it is, he's a lot more likely to make progress with some narrowly constructed flattery than with overt criticism no matter how well deserved.

    Trump is a narcissistic manbaby who would do damn near anything just to satisfy his own ego. It makes him particularly vulnerable to manipulation, and at the same time it makes it virtually impossible for him to take criticism without throwing a tantrum and doubling down on whatever shitty thing he's doing.

  • Name them

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  • I miss the little mob money laundering pizza place that I went to as a kid. Absolutely amazing pizza. Never the same after the feds shut down the drug trafficking ring behind it all and deported the owner.

    On the flip side, there's a local pizza place where I currently live that's fucking terrible. Some of the worst pizza I've ever had. It made me wonder how they could stay in business. Then I found out that name of the business happened to also be the name of the local mafia family.

  • The Military Entertainment Complex:

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  • Sam Raimi Spider-man spent most of his time saving people from imminent harm and stopping armed robberies. He fought the CEO of a company that developed military technology who was killing people to hang onto his position of power and wealth. He then fought a mad scientist that spent the entire movie putting innocent people in danger, attacking Spider-man and ultimately risking the deaths of millions out of an obsession and the influence his technology had over him. In the third one... he turns into a bit of a dick for a while because he's being partially controlled by an alien, and the theme for all three villains is revenge. At no point in the trilogy does he target anyone who is trying to make a political or social change, just people that are attacking him personally and/or putting innocent bystanders in harm's way.

    In the Amazing Spider-Man movies he pretty much just fights a guy who is trying to turn everyone into lizards, his own stalker who just happens to get electricity powers, and the rich brat that blames him for not giving him blood samples which he thinks will cure his disease (they won't, but the reason for the refusal is still poorly defined).

    MCU Spider-man gets recruited to fight half the avengers, which might play into this if the civil war was about a larger societal issue, but it wasn't. As far as the movie presents it, the entire issue is about the rules governing the avengers themselves and the fate of Bucky. Arguably the Captain America side is presented more favorably, but that too would go against the point the comic is making because they are the ones resisting the status quo and sticking it to the man.

    And in his actual movies, MCU spider-man fights a guy who is flooding the streets with high tech weapons just for the money, a con man that's willing to kill innocent people to make himself look like a superhero, and all those villains from the previous continuities who is actually just trying to send home.

    Maybe spider-man was a bad example. Surely the rest of the MCU must be pro-government propaganda, right?

    Iron Man 1: Rich selfish asshole has a wake up call, realizes that harm he's done by filling the world with weapons, immediately exits the arms industry and dedicates his company to developing peaceful technologies to help the world. Uses the technology he developed to intervene in conflicts where civilians are getting massacred and no one is willing to do anything about it. Defies the US military to do it. The villain is a greedy executive that tries to kill Tony to seize control of the company and continue building weapons.

    Iron Man 2: Tony is continuing his policy of protecting people in war zones, in defiance of an angry US government. The government tries to steal his suit for the military, and works with a rival company to develop drone versions which Tony destroys.

    Iron Man 3: Wouldn't you know it, another company developing military tech is run by an evil guy and is killing innocent people.

    Captain America: Literally fighting Nazis.

    Captain America 2: Fighting the Nazis that have infiltrated the US government.

    Captain America 3: Fighting to save his friend in defiance of a government that would rather kill him than bring him in peacefully.

    Thor: Shakespeare in space, plus Thor learns humility.

    Thor 2: Blowing up the universe is bad.

    Thor 3: Thor literally helps start a revolution to overthrow a dictator.

    Thor 4: The gods are assholes who should care more about people.

    The Incredible Hulk: Science man good, military guy bad. Smashy smashy.

    Ant Man: An ex con who went to jail for hacking a corrupt corporation gets recruited by a scientist who helps him take and an evil CEO of a corrupt corporation.

    Alright, I'm not listing any more, there's a million of these things, you get the idea.

  • Ex-Hegseth Aides’ Mud-Slinging Ramps Up With Cocaine Allegation

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  • Kasper will remain an adviser at the Pentagon in a special government employee role, limited to working no more than 130 days a year.

    And also consequences are for show, he's not really fired.

  • You've just gotta make it until 5

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  • Pretty sure the only way I'll get to be done with working is when I'm done with breathing.