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He has back problems and won't fly - "I sat down in 2005".
This is the deep learning industry growing around his lab.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Five convictions and counting.

Pleas, not convictions. Pleas that have nothing whatsoever to do with Russian hacking or collusion with Trump. This has been pointed out to you before, so by continuing to use this talking point you're like a 90's dittohead who just. can't. stop. blaming Clinton for Ruby Ridge, right after it's been pointed out to him that happened before the '92 election, when Bush was still president and Clinton was still governor of Arkansas - far away from Idaho.

A guilty plea is the same as a conviction.

Laughable. Before a conviction, defense attorney's can challenge jury selection, call their own witnesses, present their own evidence or challenge the prosectuion's, before making their case to a jury - none of which applies to a plea deal. Which the government obtains in most federal cases because if you don't take the plea deal, you are threatened with a draconian sentence. Which is why people who are later found to be completely innocent plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit.

The Mueller investigation started in the last week of May, 2017. Are you rounding 14 months up to "2 years"?

FBI witch hunt/psyop didn't start with Mueller.

If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be granted to you.

Only after you've gone into bankruptcy, as you could have "afforded" one beforehand. Unless the government seizes your assets under the claim that they were gained as the result of crime - they've done that before, too. And no public defender is going to have the same resources as the DOJ.

Even if you're a treasonous piece of shit.

Common man, you can stop hating on Hillary, she lost the election almost two years ago, move on. Because that's what this is - a gigantic case of Swiftboating, to project Hillary's Russia problems onto her campaign opponent, on an infinity greater scale than the original Swiftboaters who projected Bush's cowardice onto John Kerry.

The Presidential election wasn't "razor thin". Trump beat Clinton 304 to 227. That's about a 14% margin in the voting, not a landslide, but hardly close.

You let us know when you have something related to the collusion or election hacking we hear so much about.

Memory problems? Or did your attempts to forget Helsinki merely work too well?

That must be why Tesla is asking suppliers to refund payments made over the last two years, something GM and Chrysler have done while trying (unsuccessfully) to avoid bankruptcy.

Yep, Google let me down — and I didn't read it carefully enough myself, thank you.

This other, more recent link, does confirm my point: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... nationwide. And I do remember reading something like that much earlier — about 10 years ago — but can't find it now. It is certainly not a new problem...

That's a remarkable bit of denial, an excellent exemplar of why I have decreasing faith that this will end well. There is plenty of evidence that the Russians were involved in all sorts of various hacking and active measures and whatnot, but if you simply refuse to believe that evidence, then you can just deny everything and believe whatever you want to believe or whatever you are told to believe. That is one of the end goals of the concerted campaign of propaganda that the Russians been running since the Soviet era: true information no longer matters anymore and the ability to assess facts and adjust beliefs in response to facts is utterly withered.

To the particular point, the prior indictments against the Russian nationals are far more detailed than standard indictments, they are so called "speaking indictments." The most recent one this month against the GRU hackers detailed the particular methods they used and quite a bit of the timing of the attacks. And it sounds like western intelligence had high end source in the Russian government that Trump was told about prior to the inauguration confirming that the top levels of the Russian government, including Putin, were orchestrating the attacks. But again, if you can simply deny that information out of hand, and call it "fake news", then what point is there in providing any more information? What will be believed short of reality providing a swift kick to the groin?

Emphasising good behaviour in the most difficult to manage

When fines are issued, it is no longer mere "emphasizing", but forcing.

Nor are we talking of "good behavior", but rather of obedience. Manually separating trash, which will be mixed back together, is not "good behavior" — it is a patently stupid one. Only an authoritarian — like yourself — would insist on forcing a known stupidity for the sake of obedience...

What do you suggest

I suggest, the government stops pretending to be a parent, who knows better, and stops punishing people for failing to separate, what will be mixed back together anyway.

then they fix their problem and you get to spend your tax dollars

Oh, wow, a genuine concern for tax dollars. Very simple: when (if!) you fix the problem, then you can start issuing fines again.

American assistance to the government of the Republic of Viet Name to repel the war of aggression waged by the brutal communist regime in the North and their puppets in the South was completely justified. The vile Viet Cong were heartless murderers oppressing the people using terrorism and mass murder as a deliberate strategy.

Just the tip of the ice berg:
Mass graves discovered in Hue
The Viet Cong Committed Atrocities, Too (Dak Son)

After the lying, murderous communist hegemons of the North violated the peace treaty, invaded and conquered the South, tens or hundreds of thousands of people fled the vicious treatment of the North.

Viet Nam, like China, is prospering today largely because they are moving away from Marxist economics.

Iraq is far better off without Saddam in power. Saddam's dead enders and Jihadis are responsible for the vast majority of people killed in Iraq.

Your understanding of both recent events and history is terribly distorted.

Amen! Be polite and courteous to everybody. It pays in the long run.

It certainly does. Oh, wait.

Crimea actually, part of Russia proper until 1954, 60-80% Russian-speaking (depending on who's counting), annexed after a (granted,questionable) referendum after successful US-sponsored coup in Ukraine. Sounds much less villainous after you know some facts. Also a great loss of resources that were supposed to be made available to US interests after the successful coup. Oops.

There was no "coup" unless you rely on Russian sources. It was the majority of Ukrainians who VOTED to join the EU. Russia views the EU as the gateway to NATO and of course Putin would have none of that, so he decided to invade the east and annex Crimea with soldiers without insigna, all the while putting up smokescreens denying any involvement. All of which is obviously illegal under international law.

Support for a Russian-allied tyrant is different from US supporting its Allied Tyrants (say the House of Saud) by how many levels of Hell exactly? Oh, I see, the same action's evil depends of who is doing it! Also known as Hypocrisy. And no, "whataboutism" is an Orwellian NewSpeak term, a logical fallacy in itself designed to deflect from exposing actions Hypocritical. Don't even bother.

The Syrians were protesting on the streets for more freedoms and democracy as part of the Arab spring. Assad decided not to chat and gun them down instead. You can bet your ass the US or any Western country would never be able or willing to uphold support for a regime that guns down their own citizens. Putin has no problem with that, obviously.

You should read stuff by Seymour Hersh (one of those old school war journalists no longer popular for their knack of telling inconvenient truths - oh, hey this sounds familiar!) and his on-site investigations of the Great Chlorine Fabrication. There are many others. For further reference check out a girl named Nayirah and incubator babies but then again it will probably bounce off your uncritical self-smug world-view like a water off a duck.

International inspectors have performed their investigations and it is clear that the Syrian regime bears responsibility for the chemical attacks. But you might prefer to believe Putin and Assad's version, since they are clearly more trustworthy than any international organization.

Hang them now! How dare they have a preference! Wait, isn't this exactly what US is doing? Wasn't Obama actually co-campaigning in Britain against Brexit even...

Voicing support for one party or the other is one thing. A foreign state actor providing material support and finances to a party and agenda of a foreign nation is another thing altogether.

The ongoing murders of opposition figures and journalists in Russia

Having been fed a steady diet of bullshit of such high purity you probably also think that Putin is not having popularity ratings in 80% range

Putin's rating haven't been in the 80's for a while now. Not that it matters. Of course a strong leader in a police state where the media is controlled by the government will have high ratings. How high do you think Hitler's rating where?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
The list goes on...
Business as usual in Putin's Russia.

However, governments do not work like that,

See what Trump said when he was told a country is not a golf course.

At one point, Mr. Trump even compared his renovation of Trump Turnberry to how he is hoping to overhaul the United States. When a reporter pointed out — correctly — that a country is hardly a golf course, Mr. Trump replied: “No it’s not, but you’ll be amazed how similar it is. It’s a place that has to be fixed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

God help us if he fixes the US like he "fixed" Turnberry, which has been losing money ever since he bought it.

You do realize that the Obama administration used drones about 10 times as much as Bush did, right? No side of the political isle gives a damn about how this tech gets used. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...

You have (thus far) written nine posts claiming "NOTHING TO SEE FOLKS" but have provided zero actual data or citiations, just your personal assurances. Can you provide a link to any source that supports your assertion here?

This alleged "fact" is not found in any of the reporting on this that I have seen such as original New York Magazine story, updates by Motherboard, The Verified Voting watchdog project, etc.

You wouldn't be, y'know, just making stuff up now, would you?

Maybe not DIY diamonds, but laboratory-made synthetic diamonds are now being sold in regular jewelry stores for 30-40% less than natural diamonds. Read more here; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Let's be honest, they were annihilated BY the Spanish. The Spanish get a bit too much "forgiveness" or is it just plain forgetfulness, of their history of destruction across the Americas these days. The Spanish owned slaves (African and natives), pretty much created the Atlantic slave trade, they pillaged whole societies for gold and silver to fund a religious war in Europe, they defined the very term "Love Christ or we'll cut you".

One of the most hilarious cases of modern historical blindness are the groups in California that demand we return California to Mexico. Because we "stole" it from them. As if it just fell into their possession and wasn't stolen itself. Then there's the groups of African Mexicans descended from Mexico's slaves who didn't get officially recognized until 2016, even though they routinely would get deported because Mexicans didn't believe they existed.

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Your concession that the two situations are not similar happened here:
""Yep.""

They had actionable evidence on day one in the watergate investigation. Two years into this shit you have not ONE incident of Russian collusion with Americans to bias the election. Nothing.

As it stands there is literally ZERO evidence of collusion between not only the Trump Administration but ANY AMERICAN and the Russians regarding election fraud.

And to make matters even dumber, the Russian interference in the election amounted to some Facebook ads which only a blithering idiot would think were relevant in the fucking unending blizzard of propaganda that bombards voters during an election.

What was in any of those facebook ads that swayed anyone?

Keep in mind, the argument is that it changed votes. Examine the literal facebook memes... they were more memes than ads... name one of those memes that actually changed a vote or was even remotely unique?

Here is a New York Times article where they link a bunch of them:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

Do you HONESTLY think that did anything? Because there is no way that someone that was going to vote for hillary or bernie looked at those fucking things and then said "I have decided to change my vote". They're shit posting at best.

You think a 2 year FBI investigation is worth sustaining over some facebook shit posting. That isn't a question. That is an obvious fact. Feel shame.

I went through them all. They were ignorable because there was a shit load of obviously not russian inspired memes saying the exact same thing that were dramatically more common.

And let us also not forget that the REAL scandal was that Hillary perverted the the DNC against Bernie.

SHE EVEN WROTE A FUCKING BOOK ABOUT IT:
https://www.amazon.com/Hacks-I...

This woman was head of the DNC during the end of the presidential election. She details in there what went wrong.

1. Obama f'ed up the Democratic party by focusing on his own political machine to the exclusion of the party leaving it starved of resources and organization.

2. DWS who was head of the DNC was a best incompetent and possibly corrupt and also ran up a lot of debt leaving the DNC in debt to the tune of 20ish million dollars going INTO the presidential election. Going into that election the Republicans had a cash surplus and the Democrats after 8 years in power were 20 million in debt going into the election. Rather than blaming boogiemen for your failure maybe clean your own house?

3. Hillary bailed the DNC out on condition that she would control it PRIOR to winning nomination from her party. Which meant that the primary was a farce.

It goes on and on and on. And no, it isn't controversial... there is empirical evidence for pretty much all of that. Unlike the Russian collusion circus which has no empirical evidence of Russian collusion.

And all you chuckleheads want to talk about is Russian collusion of when there is more evidence of Obama colluding with the Russians. Or did you forget this:
https://youtu.be/keXx0zxTarE?t...

Imagine if you had a video clip of Trump saying that? You would cream your degenerate pants.

But here's the thing. Everything you're doing is predicated on the assumption that people are dumb enough to not follow along. And sure, there are a lot of stupid people for you to prey upon. But you've painted yourself into a corner. Your economic policy. Your political tactics. Your reliance on heavy handed false morality.

You have no credibility, no integrity, and there's no possibly of extending you even common courtesy in this environment so absurdly egregious is this behavior. This political faction you've married yourself to is out of control. And carrying their water in the face of overwhelming evidence is only making it worse.

You're running out of floor, machacho.

Putting on a brave face isn't going to stop this.

It literally doesn't matter how much evidence you have that Democratic Socialism works. The people opposed to it

...control both parties. That's why the DNC ran Clinton when we wanted Sanders, it's why Crowley isn't stepping down. The Democrats, the so-called leftist/liberal party in the USA, is actually a centrist bunch of corporate whores. They do little when they control congress, but shout loudly about how bad the other side is when there is no other side.

We need an actual left-wing, liberal party here in the USA, made up of politicians who won't suck corporate cock.

"Everyone deserves some inspiration and a virtual high-five."

There's plenty of people who don't. Here's one from this morning.

Okay, that's a ridiculous example. But there's plenty of shit on Kickstarter that is there specifically to seize the cash and run away. Projects like this only increase the viability of the beg-and-dash business model.

2016 was different from 2000. In 2000, Gore won a plurality of the popular vote (but not a majority), and liberal parties (Gore + Nader) won a majority of the popular vote. The Electoral college did not reflect a majority of the popular vote in 2000.

In 2016, Clinton won a plurality (but not a majority) of the popular vote. However, Conservative parties combined won more popular votes than liberal parties combined (49.88% vs 49.13%, with the rest being cast for candidates without a party affiliation). So in 2016, the Electoral College awarded the election to the candidate whose ideology came closest to winning a majority of votes, rather than the individual who came closest to winning a majority. I didn't vote for Trump, but he was probably the correct winner in 2016.

People like to criticize the Electoral College. But IMHO the plurality-wins system they propose be used instead is nearly as bad (consider the California primaries where some candidates won one of two slots in the general election with barely 20% of the vote). We really need to switch to instant run-off voting, which is designed so that a candidate always gets a majority of votes before being declared the winner.

"Mueller could certainly use it to do, what he was appointed to do: investigate Trump, instead of accusing Russian military of attacking American interests (duh!)..."

The point is, the Russian state still denies attacking American interests (duh!)...

You're wrong about what Mueller was appointed to do. What is odd is that after all your many posts on this subject you still appear not to have grasped the basics. I looked it up, it wasn't hard:

By virtue of the authority vested in me as Acting Attorney General, including 28 U.S.C.
ÂÂ 509, 510, and 515, in order to discharge my responsibility to provide supervision and management of the Department of Justice, and to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the Russian governments efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, I hereby order as follows:
(a) Robert S. Mueller III is appointed to serve as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice.
(b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James 8. Corney in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. Â 600.4(a).

28 C.F.R. Â 600.4(a) says, in part,

The jurisdiction of a Special Counsel shall also include the authority to investigate and prosecute federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, the Special Counsel's investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses;

Shes not that bad. Republicans abused their offices and drug her through the mud for years with the fake Bengazi bullshit and all of the conspiracy theories bullshit, just like the propagandists they are.

Bengazi wasn't fake. Real people died there. I'm not blaming Clinton or the Obama administration for that, even though mistakes were made. These are dangerous places where stuff happens.

But I do blame all of them for the cover-up where they blamed it on some poor schmuck for making a YouTube video and ruined his life. They knew it was a lie but they pushed it anyway. It was a shitty thing to do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/1...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016...

This whole investigation was based on a false pretense. Backed up by ZERO evidence. The whole investigation was 100% Clinton backed opposition research against Trump.

The conservative website "The Washington Free Beacon" already admitted eight months ago that it hired (funded by a "major Republican donor", no less) the research firm that produced the infamous dossier before it ever made it into the hands of the Democrats. But I guess even Republican admissions are Fake News when they don't agree with your agenda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

since the Russian Trolls are busy citing Zerohedge and other Russian PR outlets, here's what the NY times says:

"Mr. Mueller has filed more than 100 criminal counts against 32 people and three companies. Among the people previously charged are fourteen Russians and three Trump associates who have already pleaded guilty."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

I never, EVER award positive mod points to an AC. But I modded this one +1 Informative, because it actually IS informative ..

(Posting as AC only so as not to undo prior upmods in this thread.)

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Check out my novel ...

It's a bit of it date now but there's a list: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Seems like a little more than failure to virtue signal. His companies discriminating against non-whites was proven in court, for example.

illustrating ad hominem then? Or are you irony challenged?

Despite Zerohedge, here's what the NY times says

"Mr. Mueller has filed more than 100 criminal counts against 32 people and three companies. Among the people previously charged are fourteen Russians and three Trump associates who have already pleaded guilty."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... [nytimes.com]

since the Russian Trolls are busy citing Zerohedge and other Russian PR outlets, here's what the NY times says:

"Mr. Mueller has filed more than 100 criminal counts against 32 people and three companies. Among the people previously charged are fourteen Russians and three Trump associates who have already pleaded guilty."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

The way Raenex has framed these statements, closes the door to any reasonable discord.

I stated my case plainly and with supporting references, in response to a one-sided diatribe against the right.

Your defense of the intolerant muslim ban is to say that, yes, you are intolerant?

Your defense of mass importation of an intolerant and violent culture is... to say to not do so would be intolerant?? All this concern for LGBT and women's rights flies out the window when it comes to this issue. Strange, isn't it?

You're just making shit up.

All my statements were supported by references. Who's the one attempting reasonable discord? Certainly not you.

I don't see anything on the "left" that is attempting selective immigration by religion or origin

Oh, really?

You provide no argument to oppose the claim or defend LGBT people, but just point out that you are absolutely and certainly ostracizing at least the trans portion of those. Isn't this simply confirming your intolerance?

I made a case that the defense of LGBT issues has gone well past the point of reasonableness. You think it's "intolerance" that biological women don't want to have biological men who "identify" as women hanging around them with their genitals hanging out. Does this seem reasonable to you?

Where was BLM mentioned?

That's what has pushed the whole "police brutality" narrative for the past several years.

Are you rounding them all up under the generic "the left" again?

"The left" has indeed adopted and heavily pushed the phony Black Lies Matter narrative, which itself was founded by leftists who idolized the black nationalist, communist, and fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur.

The article you use as evidence states that there was bias found in police use of force.

A whopping 18%. Now let's talk about how blacks commit many times more violent crime than whites, which is their real problem. Less crime, less interaction with the police, less black on black crime.

If they're illegals, they can't vote.

You completely ignored the part about the US Census. Why should illegals help determine the outcome of the Congress and the Electoral College?

Furthermore, illegals technically "can't work" either, yet they do so via fraudulent means.

How does that relate to voter disenfranchisement, which you have not commented on?

I commented that minorities, who are supposedly being disenfranchised, actually have majority support for voter id laws. Disenfranchisement happens when people who are not eligible to vote do so, by usurping rights exclusively limited to citizens.

Yes, abortion is a divisive issue, but you're using it to wedge us apart here.

I'm not the one who brought it up. I was responding to somebody using it to tar the right as "intolerant" of "womens rights", while ignoring the human life being terminated. Of course it's a complicated issue, and you can make a reasoned case for either side.

I don't know how we'll ever heal this country

I don't know either. We certainly won't by harassing

This is the sad state of affairs today, where someone will post such drivel and actually believe it helps their case. The way Raenex has framed these statements, closes the door to any reasonable discord.

The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims.

Islam is the most intolerant ...

Your defense of the intolerant muslim ban is to say that, yes, you are intolerant?

... The left wants to import them in massive numbers, and will call you an "Islamophobe" and "xenophobe" if you don't.

The left this; The left that. You're just making shit up. I don't see anything on the "left" that is attempting selective immigration by religion or origin, but you are blatantly supporting the opposite of that.

They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people.

The left wants 99.9% of society to re-engineer itself to recognize the delusions of the 0.1% of transgender people.

You provide no argument to oppose the claim or defend LGBT people, but just point out that you are absolutely and certainly ostracizing at least the trans portion of those. Isn't this simply confirming your intolerance?

They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality.

Black Lies Matter was a phony narrative...

Where was BLM mentioned? Are you rounding them all up under the generic "the left" again?

... that did not stand up to scrutiny.

The article you use as evidence states that there was bias found in police use of force. You've now turned the general statement on police brutality into a racial one, and shown yourself to be racist. WTF argument are you trying to make?

They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting.

The left wants to disenfranchise American citizens by flooding the country with illegals and making it harder to reserve rights for American citizens.

If they're illegals, they can't vote. How does that relate to voter disenfranchisement, which you have not commented on? Can we assume you're ok with voter disenfranchisement?
This is also another case of "the left wants" that is entirely made up.

They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems.

Just ignore the human life that's terminated by these "womens rights".

Yes, abortion is a divisive issue, but you're using it to wedge us apart here.
If one believes a fetus has rights of its own, then "the left" does generally err on the side of the mother. However, once again, you have avoided the issue at hand, and have presented some more bullshit to distract from your actual views, which are apparently intolerant.

I don't know how we'll ever heal this country, but so many issues/positions/votes/etc are split incredibly near to 50/50 that it should scare the shit out of all citizens... it takes very little to flip the populace a few percentage points each way and create more divisiveness. We should all be interested in changing that core problem, perhaps starting with replacing first past the post?

The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims.

Islam is the most intolerant, violent, and supremacist religion on Earth. Sane people want to limit immigration, which is not a right, from this violent and supremacist culture. The left wants to import them in massive numbers, and will call you an "Islamophobe" and "xenophobe" if you don't.

They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people.

The left wants 99.9% of society to re-engineer itself to recognize the delusions of the 0.1% of transgender people. Some guy "identifies" as a woman, and he wants to hang out with biological women with his male genitalia hanging out.

They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality.

Black Lies Matter was a phony narrative that did not stand up to scrutiny. The end result has been dead cops and more dead blacks due to less policing in crime-ridden neighborhoods.

They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting.

The left wants to disenfranchise American citizens by flooding the country with illegals and making it harder to reserve rights for American citizens. That's why they put up a big stink when the US Census was going to ask about citizenship status, because they're afraid illegals won't be counted for congressional representation and the electoral college.

By the way, even the majority of minorities support voter id laws.

They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems.

Just ignore the human life that's terminated by these "womens rights".

You think the left is intolerant?

Yes, I think harassing people in public, hounding them out of their jobs, and shutting down their free speech events is massively intolerant.

When over 90% of black people and the majority of other minorities vote for the left it's because they think (correctly) that the right is actively working against them.

No, it's because they are on the Democrat welfare plantation.

Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.

For fuck's sake, "piss christ" was an actual thing, and nothing happened. Do you know what would happen if you actually performed this experiment? They would probably politely tell you to stop bothering them.

Now go post a sign that says, "It's okay to be white", and see what happens.

The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims.

Islam is the most intolerant, violent, and supremacist religion on Earth. Sane people want to limit immigration, which is not a right, from this violent and supremacist culture. The left wants to import them in massive numbers, and will call you an "Islamophobe" and "xenophobe" if you don't.

They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people.

The left wants 99.9% of society to re-engineer itself to recognize the delusions of the 0.1% of transgender people. Some guy "identifies" as a woman, and he wants to hang out with biological women with his male genitalia hanging out.

They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality.

Black Lies Matter was a phony narrative that did not stand up to scrutiny. The end result has been dead cops and more dead blacks due to less policing in crime-ridden neighborhoods.

They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting.

The left wants to disenfranchise American citizens by flooding the country with illegals and making it harder to reserve rights for American citizens. That's why they put up a big stink when the US Census was going to ask about citizenship status, because they're afraid illegals won't be counted for congressional representation and the electoral college.

By the way, even the majority of minorities support voter id laws.

They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems.

Just ignore the human life that's terminated by these "womens rights".

You think the left is intolerant?

Yes, I think harassing people in public, hounding them out of their jobs, and shutting down their free speech events is massively intolerant.

When over 90% of black people and the majority of other minorities vote for the left it's because they think (correctly) that the right is actively working against them.

No, it's because they are on the Democrat welfare plantation.

Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.

For fuck's sake, "piss christ" was an actual thing, and nothing happened. Do you know what would happen if you actually performed this experiment? They would probably politely tell you to stop bothering them.

Now go post a sign that says, "It's okay to be white", and see what happens.

"Are you denying that Germany is dependent on Russian energy?"

In general, yes.

Fact Check - Germany Imports Gas From Russia. But Is It a 'Captive'?

TL;DR: Trump was very incorrect (or lied, take your pick) about the amount of energy Germany gets from Russia. Germany does get _some_ of their energy from Russia, but it's not the majority of their energy, and despite that Germany has been far more willing to stand up to Russia and impose sanctions against than Trump is.

So, John Kerry:

https://112.international/ukra...

https://twitter.com/EnergyAtSt...

And Joe Biden:

https://uk.reuters.com/article...

Were wrong?

"The campaign pays the DNC, DNC pays Democracy partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval group, Foval Group goes and executes the shit on the ground.” -- Scott Foval

Good, the digging shouldn't stop because there's plenty to clutch our pearls about. When you can cut a check and get a political rally shut down, it's only a matter of time before geopolitical adversaries start trying it themselves.

"So the Chicago protest when they shut all that, that was us.” -- Aaron Minter, Foval Group deputy rapid response director

The nytimes article linked does not support you claim in any way whatsoever, and where did you get the texts that look like quotes?

"The campaign pays the DNC, DNC pays Democracy partners, Democracy Partners pays the Foval group, Foval Group goes and executes the shit on the ground.” -- Scott Foval

Good, the digging shouldn't stop because there's plenty to clutch our pearls about. When you can cut a check and get a political rally shut down, it's only a matter of time before geopolitical adversaries start trying it themselves.

"So the Chicago protest when they shut all that, that was us.” -- Aaron Minter, Foval Group deputy rapid response director

"Are you denying that Germany is dependent on Russian energy?"

In general, yes.

Fact Check - Germany Imports Gas From Russia. But Is It a 'Captive'?

TL;DR: Trump was very incorrect (or lied, take your pick) about the amount of energy Germany gets from Russia. Germany does get _some_ of their energy from Russia, but it's not the majority of their energy, and despite that Germany has been far more willing to stand up to Russia and impose sanctions against than Trump is.

Agreed. Remember the days when General Motors crash-tested vehicles with pigs, dogs, and other animals in them? Tech has saved thousands of animals from further suffering and death. Once they perfect fake meat, maybe animal farming can go away, too.

What really boggles my mind is the same people complaining and protesting about police misconduct one day are complaining and protesting to make sure only police have firearms the next.

Most aren't advocating for 0 guns. They are advocating for less powerful guns, and closing loopholes that allow criminals to obtain guns. Why does a person need a gun that can kill many people in a matter of seconds? And why shouldn't all gun sellers be required to check to see if a person is a criminal before they sell a weapon which for the most part is intended to cause death?

And before we use the "protecting ourselves from the government" excuse, realize that that ability ended when bombs could be dropped from the air. The police bombed a house in Philly and ended up pretty much destroying a city block in 1985. See Philadelphia MOVE bombing - New York Times. The occupants of the house they targeted were armed with guns, but they were no match for a bomb dropped by a helicopter.

After that your whole life will be much better!

That's because you perceive a problem where one doesn't exist. You're like all the "helpful" people in this essay, giving advice to a single, childless 42-year-old woman because she is enjoying life.

Not sure if they're any good or not but they're under 15 dollars and they might help you speak and look your best when you need to.

One of the reasons why I get in front of the camera and make videos every week is to learn how to speak properly. I don't need a $15 "appliance" to do that. If people think I'm making a fool out of myself, so what?

I wonder who this could be? What is the only country on earth that has a problem with the Palestinians? Yes. Israel.

"according to evidence surfaced by Israel-based cyber-security firm Check Point..."

This is kind of like Israel investigating itself over the Flotilla attacks and the Rachel Corrie murder and finding itself not guilty.

Tell us about the investments you made and the amount of credit card debt you have carried through it all?

You're the asshat who told me to wait until after 7/6 for the tariffs to go into effect before buying Funko stock. Funny thing about that. I paid $11.00/share a few weeks ago. It's now trading at $14.50/share. Maybe you need to educate yourself on how tariffs work? Paul Krugman has an article that you migh find informative.

So... I'm not sure who's the liar here. Maybe you're just lying to yourself.

From the looks of it the effect varies with the local climate:

But does daylight time still save energy? Not really, according to most research on the subject. Lighting has become a smaller part of overall energy consumption, and extending the use of daylight hours encourages people to use more air conditioning and heating. A 2017 analysis of 44 different papers on the subject found that, on average, the policy helped save 0.34 percent of electricity use. Places farther from the Equator (with mild summers and lower cooling demands) might save energy, but places closer to the Equator used more energy during daylight time, the researchers found.

I did find another study (PDF) from Europe though that showed that really far north like Scandinavia it didn't actually help much at all. So it looks to be a Goldilocks zone, if you can extend the number of temperate days where there's no major need for warming/cooling then you can save a bit. And if we're moving towards EVs then it'll be an even smaller fraction of total power usage. But it's still zero point something percent.

1) The normal lifespan of the batteries is 15 years, not 3-5.

2) Consumer lithium ion batteries usually aren't recycled because they're tiny things that are more trouble than they're worth. EV and grid storage battery packs most definitely are recycled. For obvious reasons, because people want the large amounts of nickel, cobalt and lithium therein back. Right now Tesla's batteries are recycled by third party contractors, although eventually they want to incorporate the recycling process directly into their Gigafactories as a feedstock.

3) They do not have any unusual level of toxicity. The cathodes are in the form of inert metal oxides. The anodes are graphite. I cannot comment on the electrolyte as I don't know which one they're using - probably boron trifluoride or lithium hexafluoride. They decompose in nature to simple fluorine compounds. High levels of exposure to these can cause fluorosis, but there's no way you're going to consume more fluoride from "leaked batteries" (as if people were just stockpiling them, see #2) vs. from water fluoridation. As for lithium itself, we should probably be consuming more, not less (and again, see #2).

The difference between the fishermen who want to protect their livelihood and those who pillage the oceans of all of its fruits is similar to the difference between the generational farmers of the Midwest and those assholes who are putting up gargantuan hog confinement operations.

You have some extreme cognitive dissonance. Those are completely different people. Believe it or not, people can operate in similar fields, and have strikingly different beliefs and values. You can mostly tell by how much damage they're willing to do to those around them.

You've got to be kidding me. Are you so disconnected from reality that you don't think the left was outraged by drone strikes under Obama?

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...
https://www.theatlantic.com/po...
http://www.newsweek.com/strike...

Well, this company did specifically break various embargoes on trading with countries like Iran.

As for why we're specifically doing business with ZTE and agreeing to import their stuff again, that might have something to do with the patents that were issued at the same time for Ivanka's products. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Because your world is based on what you know. Targeted advertising allows a better control of your world view where better is in the hands of the advertiser. As an example, think of music chart manipulation.

"Until 1991 the pop music charts were notoriously unreliable. Paying off record store employees with free albums, concert tickets and even vacations and washing machines was the standard music-business method of manipulating record sales figures. Even the Billboard magazine charts, considered the most prestigious in the business, were compiled from store managers' oral reports, which were inaccurate to begin with and easily swayed."

The same thing with targeted advertising. You only see what they want to sell, not a true range of goods or services from which to choose.

It's not a conspiracy theory when articles like this refute your study.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

That's pretty much what they do. They're retaliating against Micron because they got caught red-handed stealing their designs from UMC in Taiwan.

The irony is that China has no domestic semiconductor equipment manufacturers worth speaking of, so they'll still need to buy the equipment from American and Japanese firms like Applied Materials, LAM Research, and Tokyo Electron. Plus they're having extreme difficulty finding qualified semiconductor process engineers willing to move to China.

Plus they stole it for a fab that's still under production, so by the time they are producing chips using the stolen designs, Micron will probably already be fabbing their next design turn/feature shrink...

Imagine an illegal immigrant first has to get past boarder control

It is a popular myth that most undocumented immigrants cross the boarder illegally. Visa overstays have been the majority since 2007. Also, 60% of undocumented immigrants have been here for more than a decade. 40% came here by air. Think about this when you hear chants about building a wall.