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Admiral_Metroid posted...

TC also said 10-15 years ago and then they went way past that

15 years ago people were boycotting companies for having gay spokespeople, or interracial couples in their ads.
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Admiral_Metroid posted...

Thats exactly what TC is talking about.

We are talking about the people NOW so why even bring up the past?

TC said "devolving," which is suggests things were better in the past. People are telling him that's not true.
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Pretend her tweets are covid and don't spread them.
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Really thought that was gonna be a spider.
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You extremely do not have to pledge fealty to Joe Biden in July.
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IQ is a bullshit metric, which is why Trump clings so tightly to it.
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Nobody running this beat seems to have a good response to the fact that there haven't been notable spikes linked to the protests that began a month ago.

Wear a mask, and stick to outdoor events.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

I remember someone saying that there was video of him using it on The Apprentice, but we've never seen it.

Right, this was a big thing in the build-up to the 2016 election. Supposedly Mark Burnett (producer of The Apprentice) refused to release the footage, if it existed.
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The ball in that case would serve as the offside line; the player without the ball would have to stay behind it until the pass was made in order to remain onside.

This is why you never see offside calls on a corner kick.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/unemployment-relief-jayapal-coronavirus/
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Monolith1676 posted...

That is not what Gavin Newsom thinks

Gavin Newsom sucks!
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andel posted...

nixon wasn't openly the bitch of an enemy nation. nixon didn't shill for a foreign enemy when they took out hits on our soldiers which makes him less scummy than fat donald

Nixon sabotaged peace talks in Vietnam in order to win the 68 election.
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I think this idea that people are uniquely sensitive now is untrue. Are this era more sensitive than the one scandalized by men and women sharing a bed on TV? What you're seeing is different people's sensitivities being taken into account for the first time.
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Cops are not the solution to people not wearing masks.
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A decent subset of the gaming audience gets motion sickness trying to play it.
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DDirtyDastard posted...

This is why I support there being a test to vote.

Buddy, this country has done that. It's not remembered fondly.
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Bio1590 posted...

I'm sure it's just a coincidence this was done now and is in no way meant to be a distraction from the news about Trump knowing about Russia placing hits on American troops and doing nothing about it.

I don't think Trump is some sort of distraction mastermind. Sometimes a shitpost is just a shitpost.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Whats the source on that statement? I can't find it.

It's a White House Press release/statement. It's also cited in this article

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-villages-protest-white-power-141941308.html
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Shablagoo posted...

I never have understood that dont tread on me flag. Why use a snake?

The snake was a symbol of unity for the American colonies at the time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%2C_or_Die?wprov=sfla1
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Having a vivid flashback to this
https://m.jpost.com/US-Elections/Was-Trumps-Star-of-David-a-Sheriffs-star-459475
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Update

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1277264068085190656
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Update

https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/1277259165853941767
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We all saw the photo of the pool in Missouri around Memorial Day; did that become a Hotspot?
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Listen, if you live in a swing state, by all means vote Biden in November. But until then, make him work for it. Use what little leverage you have to pressure him into being better. That's leverage you won't have after he's in office.
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Announcing ahead of time that a candidate doesn't have to do anything to win your vote is a good way to ensure they won't do anything to win your vote. You don't have to disempower yourself like that.
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ChrisTaka posted...

I'm gonna invent: Walking three times

Buddy you better get a patent on that now before someone steals your idea
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https://twitter.com/thejewishdream/status/1277246822482935809
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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Its crazy how bad COVID ruined the entire world

Unemployment is like 5 percent in Germany right now. Don't say "the entire world" when you mean America.
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https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1277204969561755649
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Look up the Keating Five and tell me again that John McCain has intrgrity
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-american-monuments-memorials-statues-combating-recent-criminal-violence/

It is the policy of the United States, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to withhold Federal support from State and local law enforcement agencies that have failed to protect public monuments, memorials, and statues from destruction or vandalism. Unwillingness to enforce State and local laws in the face of attacks on our history, whether because of sympathy for the extremists behind this violence or some other improper reason, casts doubt on the management of these law enforcement agencies. These law enforcement agencies are not appropriate candidates for limited Federal funds that support State and local police.

You heard the man.
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I don't think you can draw that conclusion regarding the protests from this study of Orange County. This Orange County
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/06/08/nichole-quick-resigns-orange-county-coronavirus/
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I've already voted twice.
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https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1276981842026082307
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Mark_DeRosa posted...

Trump said the other day expect a second

So that's a no.
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smoke_break posted...

I hate when developers remove shit for no reason.

It's unclear if it was intentional? On Reddit at least someone said it was only affecting some players.
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Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

Wait, you were able to see playtime before? I was always waiting for the year-end emails to find out what my most hours was in

Most games have it on the achievements page, under stats. Even before this update, there were some games that didn't track it, but now time played seems to have been stuck since last month. New games I've played since then tell me I've played 00:00
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I know it's an anal thing to care about, but this is fucking me up.
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https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1276964925127241728

Jesus Christ,
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God bless
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ForsakenHermit posted...

I like it a hell of a lot more now that I no longer have a bratty stepsister who has a birthday on July 4.

Did... Something happen to her?
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Bump
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DevsBro posted...

It's a moot point. The only difference between "nobody is allowed to make conservative political posts" and "conservatives are not allowed to make political posts" is purely semantic.

There are conservative political posts all over Twitter
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Wasn't there another twitter alternative a year or two ago that quickly became a hotbed of neo-nazism?

I believe you're thinking of Gab
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Bump
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DD Divine posted...

This is more reasonable

He needs a beard to obscure the neck cameltoe
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-join-the-pro-trump-crowd-on-the-app.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik and Nikki Haley all have something in common, other than a strong affection towards President Trump.

The three Republican politicians joined social media app Parler this week, adding their profiles to a site thats emerged as the new digital stomping ground for anti-Twitter conservatives. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas arrived earlier this month and Rep. Devin Nunes of California started in February, while Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has been a member since 2018, the year the app launched.

Its about time yall joined me on @parler_app, Paul tweeted on Wednesday. Whats taking the rest of you so long?!

To be fair, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has also been on Parler since 2018. Eric Trump, the presidents son, and his wife, Lara, joined on the same day last month. Like Twitter, the app lets users share comments, photos and news stories with their followers.

The catalyst for the latest growth surge was a story from The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, which said that the Trump administration was looking for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter over concern that more content is going to be blocked as the election campaign heats up. The Journal named Parler as a possible alternative.

Two days later, Parler was the top-ranked iPhone app in the news category, ahead of Twitter and Reddit, and 24th overall, just behind Venmo and WhatsApp, according to App Annie. User growth surged to 1.5 million from 1 million over the course of about a week, said John Matze, Parlers 27-year-old founder and CEO.

Were a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship, Matze said in an interview on Thursday, from his home in Las Vegas. If you can say it on the street of New York, you can say it on Parler.

Parler is playing into the hands of conservatives, who have become more vocal in their criticism of Twitter since the site started flagging Trumps tweets for promoting violence or abusive behavior or making false claims that could confuse voters. Trump supporters have long argued that the dominant Silicon Valley platforms have been out to censor conservative voices, even as those very same people continue to post on those sites and rack up followers by the thousands.

Rep. Jordan of Ohio told his 1.4 million Twitter followers on Friday to come over to Parler, where they dont censor or shadow ban, referring to the practice of banning users in a way thats not apparent to them. By late afternoon he had about 3,100 followers on Parler.

Twitter regularly denies treating people differently based on their political views. Liz Kelley, a Twitter spokeswoman, told CNBC in a statement that, We enforce the Twitter Rules impartially for everyone, regardless of their background or political affiliation.

When Nunes joined in February, he told his Twitter fans, which number 1.1 million, to join him on Parler if theyre tired of left wing censorship of big tech. Nunes has an infamous relationship with Twitter, after attempting to sue the company for defamation and negligence and naming as defendants two anonymous parody accounts, Devin Nunes Mom and Devin Nunes Cow.

With Devin Nunes came a whole pack of haters, said Matze. He said that parody accounts are fine and even welcome, but Parler draws a line when it comes to spammers. You cant spam peoples comment sections with unrelated content, he said.

Thats not the only no-no on Parler, which has a fairly thorough set of community guidelines. The app doesnt allow terrorist organizations or support for terrorism, the sharing of false rumors, violent language (what the site describes as fighting words) toward others, blackmail or pornography.

For verification, Parler awards a gold badge to public figures to distinguish them from parody accounts, which get a purple badge.

Matze, a computer scientist who founded the company in 2018, is grateful for the growth even if all the new verifications are creating a lot of extra work for his 30-person team.

But Matze doesnt want the app to be just an echo chamber for conservative voices. Personally, he says he doesnt like either political party and he wants to see more healthy debate. Hes so intent on getting some liberals onto the platform that hes offering a $20,000 progressive bounty for an openly liberal pundit with 50,000 followers on Twitter or Facebook to start a Parler account.

The company will judge the best one, based on engagement with the community, and pay that person the reward. Matze said theres been such little response that he increased the original proposed payment from $10,000 to $20,000.

The whole company was never intended to be a pro-Trump thing, Matze said. A lot of the audience is pro-Trump. I dont care. Im not judging them either way.

Where Matze is in full agreement with the Parler audience is in his opinion of Twitter. He thinks the company is targeting conservatives with censorship.

I dont see why you need to censor the presidents tweets, he said. If you dont like what he has to say, vote him out of office. [Antifar's note: removing him from office in 7 months is not a solution for him misleading people now]

Matze expects Parler to become a more attractive site for a more diverse audience over time because he sees Twitter continuing down a path of alienating right-wing voices, and no one is going to want to stay on Twitter if the conservatives are gone. [Antifar's note: ]

But he recognizes that the political tone of his platform will probably make it hard for him to raise money from investors in Silicon Valley, which leans Democratic and is decidedly anti-Trump. Thus far, hes funded the company with angel money and said hell soon be looking to raise a first institutional round of financing.

I can only speculate that they wouldnt be interested unless theyre ideological, he said, referring to traditional venture investors.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-officials-allowed-flawed-covid-19-antibody-tests-2020-06-25/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=92064279

Federal officials failed to immediately stop the distribution of many COVID-19 antibody tests they knew were flawed, leading to inaccurate data about the spread of the virus. Congress is now investigating why the FDA did not review the tests it allowed to be distributed widely throughout the U.S. Sharyn Alfonsi's three-month investigation into the faulty tests will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, June 28 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

COVID-19 diagnostic kits were in short supply when the pandemic broke out. An alternative test to detect the presence of antibodies in blood was sold as a way to indicate who was exposed to the virus at some point and could now be immune. Such tests would help officials track the disease and determine when it might be safe to begin opening up the economy. The FDA said it would allow the antibody tests to enter the US market and would do so without a formal review. Over 200 companies hit the market with the tests.

Laredo, Texas, wound up getting thousands of antibody test kits from a Chinese company. The untested kits were then tested by the city's health director, Dr. Hector Gonzalez, who found the tests accuracy to differ wildly depending on when it was given and how long after a person was exposed to the virus. The small sample he tested was only about 20% accurate. "We had such high hopes to test we were ready to do public drive-through testing Now we couldn't. We were on hold," recalls Gonzalez.

Laredo officials reported the faulty tests to federal agents at Homeland Security and officials came to town to seize the tests and start an investigation, but the federal government did little to halt the spread of other un-proven antibody testing kits.

Dr. Alex Marson, an immunology researcher from UCSF and Gladstone Institutes, decided to test a sample of the kits when he learned a friend had tested herself with one. He was concerned there were too many tests on the market and too little information. He and Dr. Patrick Hsu, an assistant professor of bioengineering at U.C. Berkeley, conducted their own analysis with the help of 50 researchers on tests from across the globe. "We saw a range, saw that some were closer to what we hoped for and others were farther off," Marson tells Alfonsi. And he cautions even the most reliable antibody tests aren't fool-proof, because antibody levels sufficient to give immunity still aren't known.

It took 50 days for the FDA to reverse its course on antibody tests. In May, it began requiring test developers to apply for emergency authorization and submit data to show their tests worked. It was too late, says Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi. He is investigating the FDA for not regulating the antibody tests. "Fraudulent tests flooded the market. Hundreds and hundreds of tests taken by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people," says the Illinois Democrat. All companies had to do to get their tests to the U.S. market was state they were self-validated. "When you open the floodgates to virtually any product being sold by anybody, well, guess what? Shysters, scam artists, and people who are preying on unsuspecting consumers enter the fray," says Krishnamoorthi.

It took almost three months before the FDA started pulling tests off the market, but by then, many American municipalities had already used the tests to determine whether they could send essential workers like EMTs, policemen and firemen back to work. One of the more than 40 tests removed by the FDA was the one Dr. Gonzalez prevented from being used in Laredo. Suppose he hadn't tested them? "We wouldn't have a true indicator of the level of infection. The public deserves for us to give them something that's valid," he tells Alfonsi.

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