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On average, out of 88 claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum.

Why would you use 88 as a denominator?
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If you truly believed the press were the enemy of the people, this is the sort of action you'd kinda have to take
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Let's not.
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At a certain point, things like this stop being coincidences.
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Man, even by the standards of hideous trolling bullshit in a desperate attempt to garner attention, Milo's thing here has not aged well.
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https://kotaku.com/sources-google-is-planning-a-game-platform-that-could-1827217387

Over the past few months, the wildest rumors in video game industry circles havent involved the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Two. The most interesting chatter has centered on a tech company thats been quietly making moves to tackle video games in a big way: Google, the conglomerate that operates our email, our internet browsers, and much more.

We havent heard many specifics about Googles video game plans, but what we have heard is that its a three-pronged approach: 1) Some sort of streaming platform, 2) some sort of hardware, and 3) an attempt to bring game developers under the Google umbrella, whether through aggressive recruiting or even major acquisitions. Thats the word from five people who have either been briefed on Googles plans or heard about them secondhand.

Google has been exploring video game initiatives for most of the decade. In 2014, the company was reportedly poised to acquire Twitch before Amazon swooped in. Rumors percolated for years that Google was also attempting to launch an Android-based console, similar to Amazons Fire TV, but that didnt happen. In 2016, the Google-incubated studio Niantic scored one of the biggest gaming successes of the last decade with Pokmon Go, but it had spun out into an independent company the year before. And Google has a long history of hiring game developers for projects that never quite materialize.

In recent months, however, the chatter about Google has gotten louder. At the Game Developers Conference in March of this year, Google representatives met with several big video game companies to gauge interest in its streaming platform, which is code-named Yeti, sources said. (The existence of Googles Yeti was first reported by the website The Information earlier this year.) Google also took meetings at E3 in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, those sources said, and from what weve heard, the company is looking not just to woo game developers to the Yeti service but to buy development studios entirely. (Google did not respond to a request for comment.)

So what is this streaming platform, exactly? Like Nvidias GeForce Now, the Google service would offload the work of rendering graphics to beefy computers elsewhere, allowing even the cheapest PCs to play high-end games. The biggest advantage of streaming, as opposed to physical discs or downloads, is that it removes hardware barriers for games. Games like Call of Duty can reach a significantly bigger audience if players dont need an expensive graphics card or console to play them. As one person familiar with Yeti described it: Imagine playing The Witcher 3 within a tab on Google Chrome.

Sounds too good to be true, doesnt it? Or sounds too much like the promise of other streaming platforms like OnLive, which failed because of lag and video compression that reduced quality? Many of the rumors weve heard need to be presented with some skepticism until we actually see them in action. One pie-in-the-sky idea Ive heard floated, for example, is heavy integration between Yeti and the Google-owned YouTube. Imagine youre playing a game and you run into a tricky boss or dont know how to solve a puzzle. Instead of opening up your laptop or checking your phone for a guide, you could press a button to activate an overlay on your screen that cues up a YouTube walkthrough of the game youre playing.

Whispers have been quieter about Googles hardware, whatever that may look like, but the rumors weve heard suggest that it will link up with the streaming service in some way. Were not sure whether Google is looking to compete with the technical specs of the next PlayStation and Xbox or whether this Google console will be cheaper and low-end, relying on the streaming service to pull weight.

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A lot of these outlandish bills come from Ohio because they have term limits on their state legislators. This is the sort of shit they do to get attention from donors to fund their campaigns for higher office.
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Remember, he legally can't block you.
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Inspired to make this topic by The Crew 2, which I love. The map is ungodly huge, and just cruising around taking screenshots is really relaxing and enjoyable. But reaction from fans and critics has been much more mixed, and a lot of people are pointing out how there just isn't a whole lot to do in this big world at launch. Ubisoft has set out a "road map" for post-launch content, but right now I totally get why other players feel it won't keep their attention.

Honestly, one feature (which was in the DLC for the first game and has been teased as a possibility here) would make this a 10/10 game for me. But I can't really argue with the people who are pissed that this game doesn't have PVP at launch
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They weren't playing each other, so penalties logistically were not a possiblity.
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Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2022
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Darkman124 posted...

trend remains towards a full removal of the filibuster next time the dems take congress.

Chuck Schumer says otherwise

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/schumer-is-secretly-sabotaging-the-next-democratic-president.html
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darkjedilink posted...

Antifar posted...

Say what you will about Nixon, his actions didn't precipitate a civil war or depression

Like Obama's?

Do you think
- we've had a Civil War or depression since Obama took office, or will have one in the near future as the result of his actions?
- that I like Obama?
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SageHarpuia posted...

Dems think denying people service based on religious grounds is wrong, but then laughed when it happened to Sarah Sanders

She was not denied service on religious grounds.
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Say what you will about Nixon, his actions didn't precipitate a civil war or depression
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He's already been here, my dude
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There's a good chance the court would still have 8 members if Clinton had won
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Something being expected doesn't mean it's good.
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Balrog0 posted...

I dont think that the judiciary is partisan the way that the executive and legislative branches are

Why don't you?
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He's a dope
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The Founders never prepared for this possibility.
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darkjedilink posted...

Except you have repeatedly state that certain sexualities can be discriminated against - namely straight people, because they are not a 'protected class.'

They are, though; the law talks about race and orientation, it doesn't distinguish between individual ones.
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kelemvor posted...

If not, most employees definitely have 401(k)s.

They do not, at least not with any money in them

In total, only 14% of companies had 401(k) plans for their employees in 2012, according to a January 2017 report from two U.S. Census Bureau researchers who reviewed all W-2 tax forms in the U.S., and those are mostly larger companies. Of those, only about a third of workers are contributing to those plans.

Put another way only about 54 million American workers put money into a 401(k) plan in 2015, according to the Investment Company Institute, while 150 million were employed in that year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ice-spokesman-james-schwab-opens-up-about-resignation-trump-administration/

In his first television interview, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson James Schwab has opened up about why he abruptly resigned in March. But his interview with CBS News' Jamie Yuccas on Wednesday was unexpectedly interrupted by agents identifying themselves as agents from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office.

Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to "spin" information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland's mayor.

Back in February in the month leading up to Schwab's resignation, tensions in the San Francisco Bay area were running high over a series of raids carried out by federal agents with ICE. With the guidance of his superiors in Washington D.C., it fell to Schwab to communicate with journalists about those raids. The day before the operations took place, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned the community about the operation -- a surprise to Schwab.

"She was putting your officers' lives, potentially, in danger?" Yuccas asked Schwab. "Correct," he replied.

"We ended up arresting 232, which is 16 percent higher than our highest estimates. So internally, that was considered a success.But what they publicly said was that she let people go," Schwab said. According to him, that was not true.

He helped craft a statement to the media saying, "Some of them were able to elude us thanks to the mayor's irresponsible decision." He was comfortable with that statement, he said, because it included the words "some of."

"This is a spin statement. This is what every public affairs officer does," Schwab said.

A week later, Attorney General Jeff Sessions' language was noticeably different. He said "ICE failed to make 800 arrests" because of the mayor's statement. Sessions' words didn't sit well with Schwab.

"Completely false...that made me extremely uncomfortable," Schwab said.

When reporters asked him to clarify the discrepancy, Schwab said he was instructed by his superiors in Washington to simply refer to the original statement he drafted without disputing Sessions' version of events.

"After they failed to correct it it's a flat-out lie. They know it's a lie. It was just shocking to me that no one wanted to fix that," Schwab said.

Troubled by what he saw as public deception, Schwab turned in his resignation.

"I could not fathom staying at an organization that was OK with lying to the American public. I hate that."
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During the interview at his home, some three months after he quit, Yuccas and Schwab were interrupted by a surprise visit from men who said they were agents from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office. He was "completely shocked" to see them.

"They just said that they wanted to talk to me about the leak with the Oakland mayor," Schwab said of his conversation with the agents.

"Did you ever contact the Oakland mayor's office?" Yuccas asked.

"No. I've never met her before. I never contacted Libby Schaaf," Schwab said. "Never. I would never tell her. I would never tell anyone...They were very serious. He was very stern with me, and it was concerning."

Schwab said it was "absolutely" an intimidation technique.

"Why, three months later, are we doing this?" Schwab said. "This is intimidation. And this is why people won't come out and speak against the government."

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It's weird that he harps on this on a morning when the news cycle is very much not about Russia
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Aren't they all MS-13 members and gangbangers?
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Sunhawk posted...

After the group stages, don't things speed up a lot? I assume it's just 4 quarter-finals, 2 semi-finals, a 1 final (obviously 1 final). Maybe a special match, to decide who comes 3rd and 4th.

Teams need rest in between those games

R16 is Saturday-Tuesday
QFs are Friday-Saturday
Semis are Tuesday-Wednesday
Final is Sunday
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https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/what-did-corporate-america-do-tax-break-buy-record-amounts-n886621

The Republican tax reform package that was supposed to raise wages and spur hiring has instead funded a record stock buyback and dividend spree, benefiting investors and company executives over workers.

President Donald Trump signed the bill in December last year, saying the corporate tax cut would make it favorable for companies to bring back into the U.S. cash stashed in foreign operations.

"More than 70 percent of this [tax cut] will be returned to workers," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a January press conference after the bill came into effect.

However, companies have instead used the extra cash to spend billions of dollars buying back their own stock, boosting the value of shares held by investors. Buybacks reduce the number of shares on the market, immediately increasing the value of the shares that investors already hold.

Over the past year, S&P 500 companies have given their shareholders a record $1 trillion in the form of buybacks and dividends, led by Apple, Cisco Systems, and other technology giants.

Stock repurchases hit nearly $190 billion in the first quarter for the S&P 500, according to preliminary results from S&P Dow Jones Indices. The last time that record was set was just before the Great Recession, when companies bought up almost $172 billion of buybacks.

Compounding the issue is a recent study by the Office of SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson that found that a stock buyback announcement often leads to a short-term stock price pop, which corporate insiders use to cash out their shares.

"I think its high time the SEC reexamine its outdated buybacks rules, said Rob Jackson, a commissioner at the agency.

Labor market expert Harry Holzer, a professor of public policy at Georgetown, told NBC News that he and his colleagues aren't surprised that the corporate tax cut's main beneficiaries haven't been workers.

"Productivity has been lousy in the U.S. since the dotcom boom ended, but companies have seemed to not need high productivity to have high profits, so they don't have incentive to invest in their workers or in capital," he said. "Throwing more money at them to lower corporate taxes is not something that will solve that problem."

Repatriating cash from overseas or a windfall from lower tax bills has given many companies a surge of capital to put to work," Greg McBride, chief financial analyst for Bankrate.com, told NBC News. "There is little argument that wage growth has been the most sluggish aspect of the economy recovery.

Some companies did use part of the tax cut to give their employees a one-time cash bonus, allowing them to benefit workers without raising the company's fixed costs. However, employees pay a higher tax on bonuses as supplemental income.

Average hourly pay has risen 2.7 percent in May from a year ago, but it's not as fast as the surge in corporate profits.

One solution might be to access the $2 trillion in excess reserves currently in the banking system, suggested Louis Hyman, an assistant professor at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, in an email.

"Instead of focusing on tax cuts, we should be focused on ways to get that capital invested in growth industries that employ ordinary Americans," said Hyman.

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Eh. I get that incumbents have significant advantages and all, but since FDR we've had a grand total of two presidents who were still popular and mentally competent after 8 years.
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https://twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/1012156439589212160
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Ah,
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DiegoSanchez206 posted...

Fact is, she was peacefully in the restaurant and not causing a scene. Just because of her political affiliation she got and her party got the boot.

Not because of her affiliation, but because she actively plays a role in the administration. The restaurant isn't denying service to all conservatives.
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BWLurker posted...

When both parties have equal power and have to work together, either nothing gets done or only the best of both worlds gets through.

Buddy, that's what Bush's first term looked like
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https://twitter.com/chucktodd/status/1012046900130930690
The first 15 replies to this tweet are all randos owning him entirely correctly. It's actually impressive how long you go before someone brings up Russia.
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Hop103 posted...

and instead of abolishing ICE, change the stance to reform.

Why
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#Shook

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-socialism-makes-her-enem/
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President Waldorf
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You know why they call her Ariana Grande?

Because she weighs 14 ounces
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hockeybub89 posted...

As long as he applies this policy to the entire Trump admin, then he is being fair.

He doesn't need to do that.
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Very normal
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Bad take here.
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How weird are the kinks we're talking about here?
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FrisbeeDude posted...

So when they roll back abortion and gay rights, which news publication does the profile piece on the poor disheartened Bernie or third party supporter first? You know...the real victims in all this?

Smfh

My dude, they are much too busy profiling the people who voted for this.
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Fate posted...

I think associating economic leftism with SJWs would be a mistake since only bougies like it, working class hates that culture war crap since it victimizes them.

The working class is largely black and hispanic; especially so in her district
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BWLurker2 posted...

Maeiv posted...

Democratic Senator Blumenthal said the Senate should not artificially delay the confirmation hearing

Lol

But that Trump should pick a centrist

That's fantasyland thinking
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https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1012047617466003456

look at all the civility
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Darkman124 posted...

while i agree, making it an election issue has some benefits to the GOP as well: they can present dems as obstructionists,

Obstructionism isn't a very effective rallying cry, judging from the previous 8 years.
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Darkman124 posted...

Nomadic View posted...

They may not be able to. They need 51% to disrupt.

with john mccain unable to attend and vote and the AL seat occupied by a democrat, there is a nonzero possibility they get it--if they can convince collins to vote against her party

Fat chance
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Uncle Choad posted...

Asherlee10 posted...

Any ideas who will be nominated as his replacement?

No matter what, "here's why this person is bad".

You are correct: every person Trump would pick will have a list of decisions showing them to be terrible for women, workers, and LGBT people.
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MelzezDoor posted...

Somebody got dirt on him or something..? Why now of all times?

He's a Reagan nominee; he didn't need his arm pulled to give a Republican president more power
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