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LostForest posted...

you're delusional if you think "The state should've been spending the last 2 decades overhauling its infrastructure to prepare for a once in a lifetime freak occurrence" is some really easy solution that different politicians would've put into play.

There was a big winter storm in 2011; El Paso took action in response, the rest of the state did not
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/el-paso-electric-winter-storm-2021/?
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/texas-power-outage-causes-2011

Now, your broader point that blue states are also unprepared for the damages of climate change is true, but specifically in Texas there is a better alternative that can be pointed to.

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Giblet_Enjoyer posted...

If it's any consolation, the majority of them are getting what they voted for

Not in Houston.

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Fam_Fam posted...

I ask, why is it his responsibility to be there, or what is it that him staying accomplishes practically, and there isn't really an answer.

Did you miss post 21?

The Republican belief is that charity, not government, should be relied upon in times of need, but he's not willing to provide or assist in the former, either.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1362561285347446785?s=19

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Fam_Fam posted...

wtf is he supposed to do?

Well, for contrast, here's what the guy he beat two years ago did
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2021/02/18/is-ted-cruz-in-cancun-beto-orourke-texas-weather-twitter/6797522002/

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https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/1362547805634625549


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https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1362509981346635781


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Nice. Off days rock

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Depends on how hard you and your coworkers push for the raise

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Listen, there's a lot of important stuff, such as traveling to Cancun, that the Senate has to get through first.

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Semi-related, Microsoft just announced a few BC games getting improved FPS modes for Series S/X
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287001/microsoft-xbox-series-x-s-fps-boost-feature-games


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https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1362114014478819328?s=19

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BilalPowell posted...

This is why we need a death penalty

What the fuck is wrong with you, dude

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0 gets wilder.

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lilORANG posted...

Lol, this dude is done bc dems actually hold their own accountable.

Like Ralph Northam!

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Sibelius 2 and Prokofiev 5 are up there for me as well. Saint-Saens' Organ symphony and Mahler 6 as well.

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Zero_Destroyer posted...

Hope he's recalled

NY does not have a recall process

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Bananana posted...

Sibelius 2, Prokofiev 5

Excellent choices

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This Andrew Cuomo guy seems like some sort of terrible asshole

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I would choose a different key for that one

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Bump

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What's your favorite symphony?

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Anybody play the demo yet?

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https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/02/portland-police-guard-dumpster-face-off-with-residents-trying-to-get-discarded-food-from-fred-meyer.html

Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.

Workers at the Hollywood West Fred Meyer threw away thousands of perishable items because the store, like many others, had lost power in an outage brought on by the regions winter storm.

Images on social media showed mountains of packaged meat, cheese and juice, as well as whole turkeys and racks of ribs that had been tossed into two large dumpsters near the store.

A few people gathered about 2:30 p.m. at the store, 3030 N.E. Weidler St., in hopes of salvaging the food.

But within a few hours, people seeking food from the dumpsters began to report police officers showing up to guard the dumpsters and prevent people from taking the items.

Morgan Mckniff, a prominent activist and outspoken Portland police critic who lives in the neighborhood, said employees were guarding the dumpsters when they showed up to get some of the discarded food. Mckniff began to film the employees and reported staff members threatened to call the police on them for doing so.

The store manager called police shortly thereafter, Mckniff said, and Mckniff began livestreaming the interaction on Instagram.

After that, other people started showing up and asking them, Why are you guys guarding a dumpster? Mckniff said.

Mckniff said about 15 people eventually gathered in an attempt to collect food.

At that point, Mckniff said, a dozen officers arrived at the scene. One officer wasnt wearing a mask and refused to put one on until a supervisor arrived and brought him one, according to Mckniff.

On Wednesday, Portland police said officers were sent to the scene after employees said they felt the situation was escalating and feared there may be a physical confrontation, a police spokesman said in a statement.
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The run-in also came as the region reeled from a winter storm that brought on widespread power outages that left many people unable to salvage perishable items in their refrigerators.

The people who were there werent there for selfish reasons they were there to get food to distribute to hungry people around the city, Simonis said. There are mutual aid groups that have been helping feed people at warming centers, because the city doesnt have enough resources to feed them.

Multnomah County kept emergency severe weather shelters open Monday, taking to social media to ask for volunteers to keep the doors open an additional night. More than 300,000 people and businesses lost power over the weekend, with nearly all of the areas hotels filling up as people tried to escape the cold.

Mckniff said many of the people police threatened with arrest and turned away are regular customers of the store.

I live in this neighborhood. This neighborhood doesnt have power, Mckniff said. And Fred Meyer is telling people in this immediate community who shop here that they cant have these things theyre throwing away. Cheese, pickles, yogurt things that are intentionally cultured and cured.

Simonis said its hard to rationalize the actions by police and the store.

None of this makes sense to me except through the lens of severely ingrained policing and a culture of disrespect for human dignity, they said.

They noted parallels between the Fred Meyer incident and Portland protests.

Simonis, for their part, is one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit that alleges local, state and federal officers violated the rights of people with disabilities through aggressive police responses to the protests.

Here its not broken windows, its tossed away but otherwise completely fine food, Simonis said. Its not a bad situation or vandalism, its literally the exact opposite feeding hungry people. Yet they still use the same apparatus to prevent anything from being done.

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https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1362080627298881537

Gonna be hard to come back from this one


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Unless he wants to get rid of the filibuster, no he doesn't.

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Doom_Art posted...

The game began life as a DLC that they expanded into a game.

Where'd you read that?

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Mario Golf
Skyward Sword HD
New Tactical RPG from Square
Splatoon 3
Outer Wilds coming to Switch
Age of Calamity DLC
Something called Neon White that seemed neat

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ShibaToken posted...

So with Splatoon 3 being the only new game from their big IPs, it's not going to be released until 2022.

2021 is going to be hell for Nintendo stockholders.

Do you think Nintendo will release nothing between July and the end of the year?

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Outer Wilds rules

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Heavy_D_Forever posted...

If you think it's cool to talk shit about someone who died from cancer then I question how you were raised.

Is cancer the distinguishing factor here? What if say, someone died of Aids? Would it be cool to talk shit about them then?

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I've heard there are some issues unique to the PS4 version, but also it runs fine on Switch, so not sure what that could be.

It's a good game, even if I don't like it as much as V

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https://defector.com/point-counterpoint-rush-limbaugh/

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https://twitter.com/ZackMalitz/status/1362137200721190914


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It embeds all the same, dude

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LostForest posted...

Most New Yorkers don't like Cuomo

I wish this were the case, but it's just not true
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-governor-andrew-cuomo-retains-56-25-approval-rating-despite-nursing-home-controversy-poll/ar-BB1dJTCa

Granted, this poll took place before the latest set of reports on this scandal, but

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SiO4 posted...

You really don't like Cuomo don't you TC?

With all due respect, who would you prefer as Governor?

I voted for Cynthia Nixon in the primary two years ago, but frankly most Democrats would constitute an improvement here.

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

im not understanding why the media companies are against users of social media sharing links to their sites? if the users are copypasta'ing content, i get it, but linking to their sites brings visitors / page views, yeah? what am i missing here?

Most people just end up reading the headline and Facebook captures all that ad revenue


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Context
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/facebook-media-buzzfeed.php

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/cuomo-ron-kim-nursing-home/index.html

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort to contain political fallout from revelations that his administration had concealed the full extent of nursing home-related deaths during the Covid pandemic.

DeRosa is a top aide to the governor who came under fire last week after she told state lawmakers in a private virtual meeting that the state had delayed sharing with the legislature the full scope of the Covid-related death toll of New York's nursing home residents because of concerns about a potential federal investigation by the Department of Justice. (The governor's office has since released a partial transcript of the call.)
Kim, a progressive representing Queens who has been among the most vocal critics of Cuomo's handling of nursing homes during the pandemic and believes his own uncle died from a presumed case of Covid in a nursing home last year, participated in that virtual call. During the meeting, Kim said he called on the governor to apologize to family members of those who died in assisted living facilities. When the New York Post first reported on DeRosa's controversial comments, he was one of the participants quoted in the piece criticizing those remarks.

"No man has ever spoken to me like that in my entire life," Kim said of his phone call with Cuomo. "At some point he tried to humiliate me, asking: 'Are you a lawyer? I didn't think so. You're not a lawyer.' It almost felt like in retrospect he was trying to bait me and anger me and say something inappropriate. I'm glad I didn't."

Kim's wife told CNN that she had overheard parts of Kim's phone call with Cuomo last week, and described the governor as "loud" and "angry." She said she heard Cuomo say, "Who do you think you are?" as well as the words, "my wrath," and that immediately after the phone call, her husband told her: "The governor threatened to destroy my life."

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Note: the are more Joe Biden voters in Texas than any state except California and NY.

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Damn_Underscore posted...

This law sucks so much, imagine supporting Facebook but they are actually right in this situation.

In this case they've taken a stance more aggressively harmful than Google.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/facebook-will-ban-australian-users-from-sharing-or-viewing-news.html

Facebook on Wednesday announced that it will no longer allow publishers and users in Australia to share or view news articles in response to a new media law in the country.

With the new legislation, the Australian government seeks to require online platforms like Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for displaying and linking to their content.

Facebook said it has decided to restrict publishers and Australian users from sharing and viewing news content in response to the new law.

This means that Australian publishers will be restricted from posting news content on their Facebook pages. News stories from international publishers will not be viewable by Australian Facebook users. Australian users will not be able to share or view news stories on Facebook, and Facebook users worldwide will be unable to share or view news stories from Australian publishers.

Facebooks decision to ban Australian news stories from its service stands in stark contrast to Google, which announced on Wednesday that it has struck a revenue-sharing agreement with News Corp. so it can continue displaying news story links from the company on its services.

The company said it will continue to provide Australian users with accurate information from its growing list of information hubs. The company will also continue to work with the Agence France-Presse and the Australian Associated Press as part of its fact-checking program.

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ShyOx posted...

I mean conservatives arent going to give anything

theyre too busy letting people freeze in Texas while blaming wind turbines

He has the power to do this unilaterally, through the executive branch.

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https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1362089280286429192?s=20

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Kissinger still out there

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