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  • TIL Bobby Dunbar was kidnapped, and returned to his parents... decades later DNA testing proved he was a different child

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  • TAL did a different episode along a similar line where two babies were accidentally switched around in the hospital nursery, so they were raised by the wrong families.

  • Follow your dreams

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  • Do snow crabs live to be 35?

  • US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey

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  • Each one of those bullet points is potentially a way for Comey to get his whole case thrown out. In addition to that, Comey has 4 other motions to dismiss pending right now, and they're pretty good arguments. At this point, Comey has so many different ways to win, that it is really hard to imagine that he won't win on one of them. (In which case he still has an entire trial to defend himself on).

    The issue where there's no case law is a pretty narrow one, I think: The grand jury voted to approve the words of the charges (except that the charge numbers were different), but not the specific piece of paper that the words ended up typed out on. Is that important for the formal charging process or not? Either way this gets decided, it won't effect very many people, because any competent prosecutor will just re-run the new piece of paper past the jury to make sure. And it may not get decided at all if Comey's case is dismissed on any of the other reasons.

    EDIT: If it's not true. If it turns out that the grand jury no-billed all three counts, then we'd be looking at a forged indictment. And that would be a serious crime.

  • US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey

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  • I encourage everyone to read the opinion, at least the fact findings. Because it is absolutely unhinged and insane. There are 11 separate findings of fact as to why Comey needs to see the grand jury materials. Here are some summaries:

    • Nearly all of the presented evidence relies on search warrants from the Arctic Haze investigation (2019-2020). In the USA, search warrants specify the specific types of evidence to be seized, and the crimes they are searching for. These warrants were for some personal hard drives and email accounts of James Comey's personal friend and attorney, Dan Richman.
    • The warrants themselves said that the government was to go through the full forensic extractions and pick out data that was relevant to the investigation into classified data mishandling. The rest of the search data was to be thrown out. This was not done.
    • The warrants said that attorney-client privilege data was to be separated out and thrown out. The first part was done, but not for the Comey-Richman privileged material, and in any case, the full extractions were retained, illegally.
    • The warrants were to look for evidence of classified data mishandling, not evidence of lying to Congress. You can't just take the data from one warrant and use it on another case. You need to get a new warrant for the new case, which wasn't done. What happened here turns the warrants into "general warrants," which King George III was infamous for using.
    • The FBI agent (Agent 2) for this case was directed to review raw Cellebrite cell phone extractions, which were not supposed to be retained. While reading this stuff, he noticed that some emails between Comey and Richman appeared to be attorney client privilege material.
    • Agent 2 passed some information from the Cellebrite to Agent 3 in a memo. Despite being tainted, Agent 3 went ahead and testified to the grand jury anyway.
    • Halligan told the grand jury that Comey would be required to testify at trial to clarify things. This is absolutely wrong. Comey has the right to "take the fifth" and not testify at trial, and no adverse inference can be drawn if he chooses not to testify.
    • Halligan suggested to the jury that her burden of proof at trial would something less than "beyond a reasonable doubt." This is also a wrong instruction on the law.
    • Halligan told the jury that she would have better evidence to present by trial time, and they could consider that promise when deciding whether to indict. This is wrong. The grand jury must make its decision based only on the evidence presented to it.
    • And finally, the big kicker. There is a reasonable basis to think that the 2-count indictment that this prosecution is based on...the actual charging document...was never actually presented to the grand jury for an up-or-down vote. Instead, we think that the grand jury voted on the 3-count bill, rejecting count 1, and finding probable cause on counts 2 and 3. Then Halligan wrote a new indictment, renumbering 2 and 3 as counts 1 and 2, and got the foreperson to sign that, without holding another vote. This is, in the words of Judge Fitzpatrick, "unknown legal territory." There's no case law on this exact kind of screw-up.

  • The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now

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  • Trump's Team Is Scrambling to Scare GOP to Defect on Epstein Files Release

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  • The discharge petition is just discharging a resolution that amends the Epstein stuff as a rider onto a regular bill.

    So even if everything passes the House, the Epstein provision still has to complete the rest of the Schoolhouse Rock process:

    • Pass in the Senate
    • Survive conference committee
    • Re-pass both chambers
    • Trump veto
    • Veto override on 2/3 votes in both chambers

  • Drug dealer freed by Trump back in prison on charges of attacking nurse and groping nanny

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  • Yeah. That's only like 3 tractor trailers (assuming they're not just running overweight too)

  • Drug dealer freed by Trump back in prison on charges of attacking nurse and groping nanny

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  • As many times as you want, at least until the auto-pen breaks.

  • Senator Who Caved on Shutdown Says “Standing Up to Trump Didn’t Work”

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  • I'm pretty sure some of their flights out of DCA were moderately delayed. It was horrific!

  • Aeroplane

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  • I'm pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.

    On airplanes that don't do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.

    (This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)

  • Aeroplane

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  • Some more practical tips.

    • if the autopilot is engaged, you can't physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
    • That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It's got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
    • if the plane tells you there's a "stall, stall" you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
    • the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it's set up.
    • most important: the switch for the "fasten seatbelt" sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the "no smoking" sign).

  • Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault

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  • Video evidence contradicted this narrative and showed a fully intact sandwich on the ground, still wrapped.

    If the sub ain't split, you must acquit!

  • Police report describes Republican Nancy Mace berating airport police and TSA agents

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  • Federal employees will get back pay if that provision is in a bill that Congress will eventually pass. It's not a guarantee, as you stated.

  • Sandwich thrown by protester 'exploded' and left mustard stain on border agent, court hears

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  • Update: court adjourned for today with no verdict. Jury deliberations will resume tomorrow.

  • Sandwich thrown by protester 'exploded' and left mustard stain on border agent, court hears

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  • The video clearly showed an intact, wrapped sandwich on the ground after the incident. Nothing "exploded." The cop lied on the stand (surprise, surprise), and he got called out on it by the defense.

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  • Monty Python is technically a proper name, but they went with the snake, because they wanted a last name that "sounded slippery."

    "Monty" may or may not be a reference to Field Marshal Montgomery, from world wars 1 and 2.

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  • The programming language is named after the comedy troupe, not the snake.

  • Quark in tears

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  • I would expect the price or relative value of gold to latinum to collapse once asteroid mining becomes viable.

  • Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately'

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  • It is likely that any tests will be conducted in enclosed underground silos in Nevada. The site to do that has been maintained at some amount of readiness since the last test in 1992.