Lurker > Antifar

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I was just wrapping up work. Probably didn't notice what was going on til 3 or so

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You'd just see one spring up specifically catering to anti-vaxxers.

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Yes, on the basis of the "public transportation" systems he has sold to multiple cities now

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16-BITTER posted...

Now, is that good?

yes

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Just got hired at a job that, in both the listing and interview, stressed how much down time there is where I'll be free to browse the internet.

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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1416155203154366466


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I don't really care about this discussion, but I am going to leave this here
https://twitter.com/jason1749/status/1416078735879643137

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https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016710927/illinois-is-the-first-state-to-tell-police-they-cant-lie-to-minors-in-interrogat?

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The American (conservative) catholic antipathy towards Pope Francis has been weird to me

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GMAK2442 posted...

Water and relax. Don't walk on it. Wait.

Well I have work tonight, so

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Fluttershy posted...

are you that anfair guy?

That's me

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Banged it on my bed frame this morning and it hasn't felt right since. I can feel a click when I walk.

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https://twitter.com/jareddiamond/status/1415791897478565894?s=19

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Choco posted...

also holy shit i hate basketball. what a dumb sport

Wait, why?

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Living here in Jersey, fighting villains from afar...

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A lot of them, especially the poorest, aren't getting it
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/cash-kids-child-tax-credit-biden/619439/

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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/563265-black-caucus-chair-arrested-at-capitol-during-voting-rights-protest

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NYC spends more on enforcing fare evasion than they lose from fare evasion.

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Just going to leave this here
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-trump-j20-protesters-face-60-years-jail-926827

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The boss fights are a lot of fun!

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Forza Horizon 4
Baba is You
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-administration-weakens-some-proposed-safety-rules-public-housing-alarming-n1273860

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has backed away from new health and safety requirements for public housing that would require fire extinguishers, a minimum number of electrical outlets and other measures intended to protect residents from serious and potentially life-threatening hazards, according to the latest draft of the new standards.

Housing industry groups had urged HUD to ease some of these requirements, saying they would be too burdensome for landlords alarming some tenant advocates who were caught off guard by the recent changes.

It was surprising because we thought they were moving in a positive direction in a lot of ways. So it was disappointing that there was a retrenchment, said Michael Kane, executive director of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants, an advocacy group. The stronger version is important for people's health and safety.

The standards are part of a sweeping, yearslong overhaul that aims to strengthen HUDs inspection system for federally subsidized housing, including traditional public housing, Section 8 rentals and homes for older people with low incomes.

Under the new inspection system, which is still under development, the agency has significantly expanded the number of severe hazards that landlords must fix quickly, put more emphasis on the condition of residential units than building exteriors and added a slew of new safety and health requirements that tenant advocates have broadly supported. Since last year, however, HUD has also eliminated or relaxed some stricter proposed inspection standards in a number of key areas, according to NBC News analysis of the draft proposals.

Originally, HUD proposed requiring at least one fire extinguisher per floor, according to the first draft of the standards released in July 2020, calling it a life-threatening issue. The agency has since eliminated the requirement and will only consider fire extinguishers to be missing if there is evidence of prior installation, such as a bracket on the wall, according to the latest draft of the standards, released in April.

HUD similarly removed a proposed requirement for a minimum number of working electrical outlets in bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms that was included in the initial draft. A minimum outlet standard is required by many cities and states as part of their building codes to reduce the risk of electrical fires from overloaded outlets, and to minimize the use of extension cords.

The agency also loosened requirements for fans and windows in bathrooms critical to preventing mold and ground fault circuit interrupters for outlets near water, which are proven to reduce the risk of electrocution but are not always required by local authorities in older housing. HUDs proposed rules now allow for alternate means of dehumidification for bathrooms and outlet protection methods that include, but are not limited to GFCI protection. (Its not clear what other protection methods the HUD rule refers to.)

HUD denied weakening protections for residents and said providing safe and sanitary housing is a top priority for the Biden administration.

The initial draft standard for fire extinguishers had been misinterpreted, so HUD clarified it in the following version, the agency said. Other standards were modified after officials determined that the originally proposed changes would require additional rule-making to be implemented. The agency stressed that the new system is still under development.

HUD will continue to make updates to the standards as necessary before their final publication, Ashley Sheriff, an acting deputy assistant secretary for HUD's Real Estate Assessment Center, said in a statement. She added the agency would be guided by input from thousands of demonstration inspections as well as substantial additional dialogue with residents, property owners and agents, public housing agencies and other stakeholders.

But as they currently stand, some of HUDs proposed requirements fall short of the minimum standards for residential housing set by the International Code Council and the National Fire Protection Association, which develop public safety codes that many state and local governments have adopted.

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sauceje posted...

There are plenty of people in power just about everywhere in the world who decry global warming as bullshit. You may say people in charge need to take action against Brazil, but who's taking action against industries in the US/China doing just as much damage to the environment?

When you're right, you're right.

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VTBM posted...

Nothing is going to happen.

Buddy, it's already happening.

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You can of course go straight to Hyrule Castle in BotW, but they wanted to climb all towers to make it a real challenge. Here's their long Twitter thread on it, and the weird challenges created by quirks of how the hero's path mode works. https://twitter.com/everestpipkin/status/1410434846128803844/photo/1


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Well I'm glad we're finding about it 6 months later because a guy got a book deal

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Man you are having a normal one today

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Opposing marijuana legalization is 10 years out of step with the views of his party, but at least it is also very unpopular

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https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-science-environment-and-nature-6ac8ff49970e4b052489678b40e3ba82?

Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president, underscoring President Joe Bidens reluctance to more forcefully curb petroleum production in the face of industry and Republican resistance.

The Interior Department approved about 2,500 permits to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data. That includes more than 2,100 drilling approvals since Biden took office January 20.

New Mexico and Wyoming had the largest number of approvals. Montana, Colorado and Utah had hundreds each.

Biden campaigned last year on pledges to end new drilling on federal lands to rein in climate-changing emissions. His pick to oversee those lands, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, adamantly opposed drilling on federal lands while in Congress and co-sponsored the liberal Green New Deal.

But the steps taken by the administration to date on fossil fuels are more modest, including a temporary suspension on new oil and gas leases on federal lands that a judge blocked last month, blocked petroleum sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Because vast fossil fuel reserves already are under lease, those actions did nothing to slow drilling on public lands and waters that account for about a quarter of U.S. oil production.

Further complicating Bidens climate agenda is a recent rise in gasoline prices to $3 a gallon ($0.79 a liter) or more in many parts of the country. Any attempt to limit petroleum production could push gasoline prices even higher and risk souring economic recovery from the pandemic.

Hes walking the tightrope, said energy industry analyst Parker Fawcett with S&P Global Platts, noting that Keystone and ANWR came without huge political costs because they were aimed at future projects.

Those easy wins dont necessarily have huge impacts on the market today, Fawcett said. He is definitely backing off taking drastic action that would rock the market. ... What youre going to see is U.S. oil production is going to continue to rebound.

Haaland has sought to tamp down Republican concern over potential constraints on the industry. She said during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing last month that there was no plan right now for a permanent ban.

Gas and oil production will continue well into the future and we believe that is the reality of our economy and the world were living in, Haaland told Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn.
Interior officials declined further comment on permits issued under Biden.

Under former President Donald Trump, a staunch industry supporter, the Interior Department reduced the time it takes to review drilling applications from a year or more in some cases, to just a few months.
Companies rushed to lock in drilling rights before the new administration. And in December, Trumps last full month in office, agency officials approved more than 800 permits far more than any prior month during his presidency.

The pace dropped when Biden first took office, under a temporary order that elevated permit reviews to senior administration officials. Approvals have since rebounded to a level that exceeds monthly numbers seen through most of Trumps presidency.

The data obtained by AP from a government database is subject to change because of delays in transmitting data from Interior field offices to headquarters.

If the recent trends continue, the Interior Department could issue close to 6,000 permits by the end of the year. The last time so many were issued was fiscal year 2008, amid an oil boom driven by crude prices that reached an all-time high of $140 per barrel that June.
Decisions on about 4,700 drilling applications remained pending as of June 1, which means approvals are likely to continue at a heavy pace as officials work through a backlog left over from the Trump administration, said Fawcett, the industry analyst.

Environmentalists who share the administrations goals on climate have expressed growing frustration as prospects for a ban on drilling fade. They contend the administration could take executive action that would stop further permits but has caved to Republican pressure.

Every indication is they have no plans of actually fulfilling their campaign promise, said Mitch Jones, policy director for the environmental group Food & Water Watch. The result of that will be continued and increasing development of fossil fuels on public lands, which means more climate change.

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Fascinated to see where this is going

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https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/1415366001135341578?s=19

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CyricZ posted...

Odd you bring up 3K. I learned of a different 3K while playing Yakuza: Like a Dragon.

I actually just got to the part in Yakuza 3 where one of the kids doesn't want to go out with another because he's black. I was kinda shocked to have it stated so bluntly.

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The media they consume tells them masks are bad

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He was too arrrgumentative

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Morning bump

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It's on Steam, 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel



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I love Popeyes tenders. Ate entirely too many of them in college.

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What sort of discussion are you hoping to have?

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Freeing up Texas to use its oil reserves without any federal check is a recipe for climate catastrophe.

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__aCEr__ posted...

Why?

The fact that Flake voted against recognizing the Armenian Genocide probably helps his cause.

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jumi posted...

If it wasn't about race, why didn't they enslave natives? A helluva lot easier than crossing an ocean.

Natives kept dying of old world diseases.

On the subject of racism and slavery, and which came first so to speak, I've always found this Ta-Nehisi Coates piece a helpful history

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

When enslaved Africans, plundered of their bodies, plundered of their families, and plundered of their labor, were brought to the colony of Virginia in 1619, they did not initially endure the naked racism that would engulf their progeny. Some of them were freed. Some of them intermarried. Still others escaped with the white indentured servants who had suffered as they had. Some even rebelled together, allying under Nathaniel Bacon to torch Jamestown in 1676.

One hundred years later, the idea of slaves and poor whites joining forces would shock the senses, but in the early days of the English colonies, the two groups had much in common. English visitors to Virginia found that its masters abuse their servantes with intollerable oppression and hard usage. White servants were flogged, tricked into serving beyond their contracts, and traded in much the same manner as slaves.

This hard usage originated in a simple fact of the New Worldland was boundless but cheap labor was limited. As life spans increased in the colony, the Virginia planters found in the enslaved Africans an even more efficient source of cheap labor. Whereas indentured servants were still legal subjects of the English crown and thus entitled to certain protections, African slaves entered the colonies as aliens. Exempted from the protections of the crown, they became early Americas indispensable working classfit for maximum exploitation, capable of only minimal resistance.

For the next 250 years, American law worked to reduce black people to a class of untouchables and raise all white men to the level of citizens. In 1650, Virginia mandated that all persons except Negroes were to carry arms. In 1664, Maryland mandated that any Englishwoman who married a slave must live as a slave of her husbands master. In 1705, the Virginia assembly passed a law allowing for the dismemberment of unruly slavesbut forbidding masters from whipping a Christian white servant naked, without an order from a justice of the peace. In that same law, the colony mandated that all horses, cattle, and hogs, now belonging, or that hereafter shall belong to any slave be seized and sold off by the local church, the profits used to support the poor of the said parish. At that time, there would have still been people alive who could remember blacks and whites joining to burn down Jamestown only 29 years before. But at the beginning of the 18th century, two primary classes were enshrined in America.

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https://twitter.com/algalitsky/status/1415062167921983488

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TerraSeeker posted...

The legislation is there to ensure the integrity of elections.

This is what the authors of Jim Crow laws said too.

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FWIW, the article's author has said it's just groups like the DNC doing this effort, not the government itself. And they won't be reading your texts: https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/1414716378385424387
https://twitter.com/natashakorecki/status/1414711131550199808

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Oh yes, one thing the government is known very well for is relinquishing power when it's no longer needed and only using power for its stated purpose.

They already have the power to distribute info via SMS, though.

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Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.
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Charlie Kirk, the pro-Trump co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, said on Fox last week that he was embarking on a massive public relations campaign around vaccination efforts, which he compared it to an Apartheid-style open air hostage situation. (Turning Points other founder, Bill Montgomery, died last year from coronavirus-related complications.)
Turning Point Action, a 501 c(4) affiliated with TPUSA, has also sent out SMS messages urging people to sign petitions on the topic. In one message, viewed by POLITICO, Kirk contends, Biden is sending goons DOOR-TO-DOOR to make you take a Covid-19 vaccine. Sign the petition to: No medical raids in America.

In an interview with Right Side Broadcasting during the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) offered a different variety of false scare tactics, suggesting that the administration would use door-to-door vaccination efforts as a means to take your guns and your Bibles.

The White House didnt respond to Kirk or Cawthorn. But after Parson sent a tweet attacking the door-to-door approach, Zients went after the Missouri governor directly.

Organizations that are feeding misinformation and trying to mischaracterize this type of trusted-messenger work, I believe you are doing a disservice to the country and to the doctors, the faith leaders, community leaders, and others who are working to get people vaccinated, save lives, and help end this pandemic, Zients said at a news conference last week.

Psaki offered a similar type of pushback on Friday, when asked about South Carolina Gov. Henry McMasters push for the states Department of Health to prohibit door to door tactics in the States ongoing vaccination efforts."

Decide for yourself whether this constitutes censorship of text messages. "Work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation" is vague enough to cover a variety of actual actions, but the article goes into no further detail about what that work would actually entail.

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You've been a good poster. But also since my move I've been on here a lot less myself. I'm at 46 active posts.

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https://twitter.com/pkedit/status/1415065277079990282

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This bill could pass with 50 Democrats willing to get rid of the filibuster. The filibuster is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, or any laws, and historically has mainly been used to block the passage of civil rights legislation.

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