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Romney believes that if he folds like Chamberlain, that Republicans can control Trump. Chamberlain was wrong, and so is Romney.

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Lies? Then you paid back all the money 'loaned' to you, Mr Thomas? You should show receipts and demand everyone apologize.

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I would add his previous habit of eating a lot of tuna. Mercury poisoning was likely why "mad as a hatter" came to be. Hatters would brighten their pins and needles with dips in quicksilver, to see them better. Holding some pins in the mouth caused ingestion in small amounts that slowly poison. It isn't a far reach for a person to see their neurologic symptoms of mercury poisoning to be from another mercury source, like the mercury in one particular vaccine.

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Our legal system has 4 tiers of justice. If you are poor, a person of color or of another lowly respected group, you are too many times presumed guilty.

If you are working class to middle class, and can afford a decent lawyer, you get a middling level of justice. The better that you are able to differentiate yourself from the poor, and appear to look innocent, the better your outcome.

When you enter actual wealth, you can afford to put off trials, get counsel that can enact intensive clogging of the justice system. Prosecutors will be using inordinate resources to try a case and will plea bargain to ridiculous levels to be able to function for the rest of their duties. There is some justice in that what is spent on lawyers will meet or exceed the fines that they may have received otherwise.

The highest tier can always take their money elsewhere. They can purchase citizenship to other countries, including those without extradition, and are nations to themselves. The last two levels are either somewhat above the law, or completely exempt from the rule of law.

What is new is that members of a political party are seen as exempt from law, and that a ruler is exempt from law for life.

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I spent a few nights in a straw bale home, wanting to experience what they were like. They are incredibly quiet. Each bale is 1.5 ft of soundproofing/insulation. The loudest part of the house was the clock ticking. The house was heated by appliances such as the refrigerator and water heater. A local monastery built several to rent out for people wanting a tranquil contemplation.

The Garden of Eden was based on The Galápagos Islands.

I’m kidding here, but the similarities are odd. The weather is always between 70F and 85F all year round. The biggest threat to you on the island are apples. You shouldn’t eat the apples that grow on the island; the small green ones are poisonous. Oh, and it isn’t easy to immigrate there. It’s a place where only few...

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Arthur Dent?

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What are the costs to grow another cohort of fish? What is the time value of setting the program back for the number of years that it will take to get back to normal, and that is assuming that we can?

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A study that sticks in my mind is that negative comments outweigh positive comments in how they are felt by the receivers. What is perceived as balanced is a ratio of one negative comment to five positive comments.
Do downvotes have the same weight as comments? IDK, but I without the feedback of comments, there isn't much to base anything on.
I get attacked in droves if I comment about anything Russian. We clearly do not see events through the same lens.

US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports ( www.reuters.com )

Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...

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Navalny was in Russian custody, and his health was Russia's responsibility.
Putin still has blood on his hands for all the deaths in Ukraine.

Trump supporters gather outside courthouse and ask: Who among us hasn’t paid for sex? ( www.independent.co.uk )

Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder...

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Melania pays and pays and pays…

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She is married to Donald. Every day of her life, she pays.

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Too long. Loser or inmate # are appropriate.

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Nope. Cotton in the wet and cold are miserable to wear. I avoid denim jeans, too.

Reddit stock is falling back to Earth because the short-sellers have arrived ( qz.com )

Some 7% of Reddit’s free share float (or more) has been sold short so far, according to an estimate from the analytics company Ortex cited by Reuters. That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could...

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Hearing that Reddit is subject to a lawsuit over a mass shooting and the toxic crazy that some of its subs were allowed!? Reality was going to hit. The unpaid volunteers had their mod tools dismantled, and were effectively driven out. This short was only a matter of waiting for the right time.

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It would have to be “Love me, love my sister”, or it would never work.

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It’s a good thing that I am not a judge. Threaten my family and your ass would be in jail until the threat is gone, or I am.

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Rules that would poison the right to a fair trial, or stifle free speech would give Trump a reason to appeal, and win that appeal. The judges have their hands tied. I am sure that each judge and prosecutor saw it coming, but acted anyway.

Judge Aileen Cannon sits in stark exception.

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I had the same dilemma.

What worked for me was to buy an old, refurbished, commercial HP laser printer, without the subscription “features”. I paid $75 and have saved that much in ink costs, just this year.

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He had it coming, and he fell on my knife nine times.

IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states ( arstechnica.com )

“Direct File provides a free, secure option for taxpayers with simple tax situations in 12 states to file their taxes directly with the IRS,” the Treasury Department said. “Direct File is easy to use, with no hidden junk fees, and works as well on a smartphone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer. Direct...

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Silly MedPiggy, Tax breaks are for Billionaires.

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data ( www.theverge.com )

Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.

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I wonder what other uses there are to sell data that is not for advertising? My second thought goes to what is in place to stop a middleman from saying that they would not sell information for advertising purposes, but selling the data for “quality control of data acquisition” purposes. If you are getting a service for free, you are the product.

Trump may have defamed E. Jean Carroll again, one day after posting a $91.6 million bond for last case ( www.cnbc.com )

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday stood by his 2019 statement that writer E. Jean Carroll made a “totally false accusation” against him, despite similar claims resulting in him losing a defamation case in January....

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I want to thank Putin for funding E. Jean Carroll’s charities for helping abused women, and I am looking forward to more, even larger donations. Ukraine could use some aid, also, since Putin is feeling so charitable.

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Nokia Tells Reddit It Infringes Some Patents in Lead-Up to IPO

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Hive mind?

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No Nvidia for me.

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The contrast of one of the greatest SOTU speeches in history to an utterly creepy call to gather a nut-fringe group to take over the Republican tent is a two piece diorama of what we are today. We are the UNITED States.
I hope everyone spends some time thinking of what that means.

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