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Tyranthraxus posted...

I'm gonna need some more explanation than this because the in () / (as***a) sounds exactly the same as the in

From what it sounds like in Duolingo, I've understood to be pronounced almost like a hissing snake while is what I understood as shi. Kinda like how is fu, but you don't let your teeth touch your lips

Deegs posted...

Asked this in another thread but I'm confused what Net Neutrality even gets us at this point. I'm very aware of the horror stories of a carved up internet but we were without net neutrality for 7 years and never got anything even remotely similar. I'm not against regulation where warranted but I'm not sure this one particularly is.

https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix
-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/

Net neutrality regulations came into play because multiple US ISPs were throttling traffic to Netflix. Netflix eventually paid money to those ISPs to get them to stop throttling traffic and then passed the cost of those payments down to Netflix subscribers by increasing the subscription fee.

The state of the internet is better in 2024 than it was in 2014 in that high fiber is much more prevalent in ISP networks. However, without net neutrality regulations in place, we're just trusting ISPs to not do that again.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Is he Jedi Mind Tricking people or something? I have no fucking idea how he managed to build this kind of cult around him.

I think there eventually needs to be a large societal study about this. It makes no sense for tens of millions of people to believe what Donald Trump is selling over and over.

I've had a few jobs like that where my mental state was severely deteriorating over time. I was at one of those jobs for about 4.25 years.

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1784973164461847004

It always blows my mind that people have given up years to decades of their lives for Donald Trump

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1784940422109814789

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Eat shit, Peter Navarro

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1784733585506775239

ironman2009 posted...

ocha desu

That was one thing that confused me because the spelling in hiragana is actually o chi ya, but its just pronounced ocha

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/turkey-leg-hut-fire-in-houston-saturday-night-hfd-launches-investigation

Its a shame because this place has such delicious food. It was owned by a married couple, but they filed for divorce last year. Last month, the corporate office caught on fire. And then last night, their brick and mortar restaurant caught on fire. People are suspecting that one of the owners is setting fire to the business over and over.

Ive been doing lessons on Duolingo for about 20 days now. Im still very early on in this effort, but Im starting to be able to read hiragana without the romanization being shown. Itll probably take me quite a while before Im comfortable doing that, but progress is being made.

Ive started noticing some small things in hiragana like ha being pronounced wa, which has prompted me to Google stuff and learn about the history behind the pronunciation change. Pretty cool, imo.

https://twitter.com/realGollumTrump/status/1783993054543704528
https://twitter.com/realGollumTrump/status/1783598266094915995

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1783978231399321676

Tyranthraxus posted...

Early on one of the guys the police caught was identified at also being at BLM protests and right wing jumped on it trying to say that Jan 6 was being led by Antifa plants or something like that when he was just recording footage as an independent journalist in both places.

I think there were a couple guys like that. I believe John Sullivan's problem with respect to January 6th was that he was trying to claim he was just recording footage as a journalist, but he was gleefully involving himself in the mayhem as well.

Tyranthraxus posted...

This was the same guy who also kicked up hornets nests at BLM protests right?

I'm not sure, I hadn't heard anything about that

https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1783949628850725197

LOL, I remember this guy doing an interview where he tried to act like he was innocent.

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1783949180337102900

So Jenna Ellis has officially been served. Is she gonna be smiling in her mug shot this time?

Oh, also... Arizona indicted 18 individuals in their state's fake elector investigation.

• Rudy Giuliani (Also indicted in the Georgia RICO trial)
• Jenna Ellis (Also indicted in the Georgia RICO trial)
• John Eastman (Also indicted in the Georgia RICO trial)
• Mark Meadows (Also indicted in the Georgia RICO trial)
• Boris Epshteyn (Trump lawyer)
• Christina Bobb (Trump lawyer, landed herself in legal jeopardy when she signed the document that claimed Trump gave all the classified documents back to NARA)
• Mark Roman (Also indicted in the Georgia RICO trial)
• Kelli Ward (Former chair of the Arizona Republican Party)
• Tyler Bowyer (Executive with Turning Point USA and a Committeeman for the RNC)
• Nancy Cottle (Chaired the Arizona Trump electors)
• Jake Hoffman (Arizona state senator)
• Anthony Kern (Arizona state senator)
• Jim Lamon (Former U.S. Senate candidate)
• Robert Montgomery (Former chair of the Cochise County Republican Committee)
• Samuel Moorhead (Former leader of the Gila County Republican Party)
• Loraine Pellegrino (Secretary of the Arizona Trump electors)
• Greg Safsten (Former executive director of the Arizona Republican Party)
• Michael Ward (Kelli Ward's husband and GOP activist)

Donald Trump is unindicted co-conspirator #1 in the indictment. Also, Kenneth Chesebro was recently singing his ass off in multiple states to avoid more criminal charges.

Updates:

• The SCOTUS oral arguments for Trump's presidential immunity appeal happened on Thursday April 25th. We're now waiting for SCOTUS to make a ruling on it, but it could take until June 25th.
• Trump is currently on trial in New York for the criminal hush money / election interference case. The trial happens on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday and is expected to go for maybe another 5 to 6 weeks.
• Trump has violated the judge's gag order about 12 times so far. They had a hearing on Tuesday April 23rd to address the 1st 10 or so violations. The judge has scheduled another hearing for Thursday May 2nd to address the remaining 2. The 2nd hearing was originally on Wednesday May 1st, but it got moved. Still waiting on Judge Merchan to make a ruling about the first 10 gag order violations. NY law says it's either a max $1000 fine per violation or jail time. The prosecution asked for fines for the 1st 10, but not sure how the judge will rule.
• Trump and the NY AG have worked out a deal to accept the $175 million bond fronted by Knight Specialty Insurance in the NY civil fraud trial. We're now waiting on the appeals court to make a ruling.
• No important events in the Georgia RICO trial or the classified documents case, I don't think.
• Trump's appeal in the second E. Jean Carroll trial was denied.

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1783933457929740420

https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1783904815115870416

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1783901180612976825

I'm aiming to put in maybe about 25 years at my current job and then retire

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1783864122712404031

UnsteadyOwl posted...

Did the judge ever rule on the gag order hearing from Tuesday? There were 10 gag order violations presented at that time and now there's even more. I don't know how much clearer it needs to be that Trump will continue to violate the order until he's punished for it.

No ruling yet. If I had to guess, the judge seems to have made his primary focus to keep the trial moving along, but he may not have anticipated Trump blatantly disregarding his gag order 10+ times.

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1783594817076842858

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1783542212417950205

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1783579323313647922

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1783570452587196926

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0a3ac806.png

Yeah, looks like it still has the physical SIM card slot. Two of them, in fact.

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1783528749117366487

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

How many peaceful transfers of power have even been at risk until Trump's dumb ass became president?

Holy_Cloud105 posted...

They have 60 days to make a decision after hearing a case, IIRC. Which would make it June 25 I believe.

And then I think the remaining days prior to trial when it got put on hold was like 88 or something like that. Assuming SCOTUS rejects the argument and sends the case back to Judge Chutkan, that would put the earliest trial date at Monday September 23rd. I can't remember how long the January 6th trial was expected to last.

https://twitter.com/Brandi_Buchman/status/1783522998823064036

https://twitter.com/GaryGrumbach/status/1783517372818559129

DoJ lawyer is arguing now

Justice Jackson seems annoyed at Sauer, saying he's using circular logic that doesn't make sense

Heineken14 posted...

I hate this guys voice.

Yeah, it's like a cartoon villain where there are two separate tones of voice speaking simultaneously

Justice Jackson says we would have the opposite problem if the president wasn't chilled. The most powerful person in the world would be unrestrained if there wasn't a threat of criminal liability and it would essentially give the opportunity to turn the seat of the presidency into a crime center (paraphrasing).

Justice Jackson now countering Sauer's ridiculous interpretation of the Fitzgerald case in this regard

I'm getting the sense that the justices are bringing up absurd hypotheticals and expecting Trump's lawyer to give a sensible answer and they aren't getting any sensible answers.

When Trump was pressuring state officials on various phone calls, it was his own private lawyers on the calls and not white house lawyers. Hard to make the case that those were official acts when he was literally using private lawyers in the effort.

Justice Barrett brings up a good point. The special counsel's brief brings up the fact that Trump engaged in private acts sufficient to charge even if the court rules that some of his acts were official acts. Trump's lawyer concedes that private acts can be charged. Barrett went through some of the alleged conduct in the indictment and Trump's lawyer agreed that they were private acts.

This isn't going well for Trump. Which shouldn't be a surprise, given the absurdity of this appeal, but... The fact that we're even here at SCOTUS arguing about this bullshit is nuts, and makes me uneasy.

Justice Jackson says she understood that every president from the beginning of time has understood that there is the threat of prosecution after leaving office and conducted themselves accordingly.

Trump's lawyers have repeatedly referenced Nixon v Fitzgerald in support of their argument, which is a really ridiculous interpretation of what that case is about.

I believe this is Justice Sotomayor asking if the president would be able to have the military assassinate someone he or she deems to be corrupt. Trump's lawyer saying it depends on the context.

It's really absurd that this is even happening.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx

Better link for the SCOTUS hearing. I didn't realize a bunch of random stuff goes on outside of the supreme court building

https://twitter.com/stewartbishop/status/1783493334410862913

https://www.youtube.com/live/XrwxBesifO4?si=xaokc3BMWFtahVLm

SCOTUS oral arguments start at 10 eastern

Is Rudy Giuliani gonna have to get a public defender? He owes Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss more money than he'll be able to earn for the rest of his life.

Hyena_Of_Ice posted...

Doesn't Musk force everyone to have certain users that he likes on their twitter feed?

That might be what it is. Or I might have followed someone who commented on something he said and I clicked on it. Not sure

ClayGuida posted...

Imo don't follow or link yashar. Dudes a grifter who disappeared for over a year after a paper reported about his life being a whole grift.

Huh, so I'm actually not following him. Not sure exactly why he's on my Twitter feed, but I'll keep that in mind