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  • Get out your popcorn

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    LuFins DadL
    Ahhh, I didn’t look at the timestamp on the tweet! The jury came back yesterday. They found him guilty. Apparently, he and the Au Pair planned to kill his wife and blame it on a total stranger that they also killed. So they created an account for his wife on some whackadoodle website, invited this guy to the house for some action, then shot him and stabbed her when he showed up…
  • The marketplace is changing

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    jon-nycJ
    said in The marketplace is changing: I cut cable in 1994. I did buy a real diamond for Mayla. I joke that it’s the smallest car I ever purchased. Agreed re stocks - 20-somethings have app-based trading accounts at a higher rate than my peers had (say) Schwab accounts. Though many probably buy more crypto than stocks. Re paper napkins young people probably have a stash from take out orders. I bet they rarely buy condiments either. Creepy. I got Facebook ads for selling diamonds after posting this.
  • The Dark or Inappropriate Humor Thread

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    jon-nycJ
    https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2018771967621669285?s=46
  • And now, the corruption.

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @jon-nyc said in And now, the corruption.: Rod Dreher (founder of the American Conservative) learns Trump is corrupt. Surely it can't be long before Hitler finally learns the truth....
  • An app I wrote using AI

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    taiwan_girlT
    We have some smart people here!!!!
  • This is just so fucking predictable

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    AxtremusA
    A couple more of those "predictable" developments ... https://newrepublic.com/post/206049/ice-agents-whine-massive-bonuses New hires at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are complaining that they haven’t yet received the massive bonuses promised to them for agreeing to brutally arrest immigrants. https://newrepublic.com/post/206029/ice-arrests-right-wing-influencer-trump-immigration-crackdown “A Brazilian influencer who openly backed President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday. // Junior Pena, whose Instagram account boasts almost half a million followers, was detained in New Jersey after missing a court hearing related to his own immigration status, ...
  • The stupidest controversy ever

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @Mik said in The stupidest controversy ever: These people need to get a job. Wasn't it the Worlds Greatest President Ever bar none who started the controversy?
  • Nancy needs some Mace

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    taiwan_girlT
    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/nancy-mace-is-not-okay.html She has faded from the spotlight pretty fast. Though I dont know personally, Probably some truth to the article. South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace used to make her staffers go on late-night booze runs, clean her house, and boost her on forums discussing the “hottest women in Congress”—and that was all before things got really bad. and Former staffers said Mace treated them like maids after she arrived in Congress in January 2021, ordering them to clean the multiple properties she was renting out on Airbnb, including her Washington townhouse. Ahead of election night in 2022, Mace instructed her staffers to spiff up her $3.9 million home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for a watch party, a former staffer with direct knowledge told New York magazine. Mace also started dispatching staffers on late-night runs for alcohol to keep parties going at her home. “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,” one former staffer told New York magazine. Members of Congress are explicitly barred from instructing their staffers to run personal errands, and they are not permitted to purchase alcohol for their boss’s personal consumption. One staffer alleged Mace’s excessive drinking and marijuana use became an issue. “She would definitely do it excessively,” the staffer said of the congresswoman’s drinking and marijuana usage. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”
  • Helicopter Crash in DC

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    89th8
    Thanks for sharing. I just recorded the Discovery Channel documentary about what happened but haven't watched it yet. I am looking forward to hearing some details and insights not already known. Living in that area for a while, I would watch the planes and helicopters daily. The routes were...well, routine. Of course in hindsight, a route that crosses the landing path for airplanes (at night) should've been treated with so much more risk appreciation than "do you see that jet out there?" and "yeah I see it" (wrong jet, most likely).
  • The IRS doesn't fuck around

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    taiwan_girlT
    Drinks are on Jon!!!!
  • Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris

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    taiwan_girlT
    Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.
  • Serving the interests of Americans vs trying to obtain power

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    AxtremusA
    Hey @mik, here's another good one! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-republicans-nationalize-elections-rcna257098 President Donald Trump on Monday said Republicans should nationalize elections and take them over from the states as he repeated his disproven claims of voter fraud. “The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least — many, 15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” Trump said during an appearance on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast.
  • The Iran Nuclear Program thread

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    MikM
    @Axtremus said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: @Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread: It worked a lot longer than we thought it would. Did that ever worry you? Classy.
  • Glad the free speech folks are in charge

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    Doctor PhibesD
    Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah about an Epstein joke I thought Trump had the greatest sense of humour of any President?
  • Tulsi a national security risk? Who would have ever guessed

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    HoraceH
    Linked the paywalled article, and cut out the juiciest bit that confirms his biases most.
  • ICE kills a US citizen in Minneapolis

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    HoraceH
    That's been well understood by many for a while now. The ICE protests are mostly higher status whites screaming at lower status minorities, trying to do their job.
  • The impact of AI on jobs

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    MikM
    Mark makes a very valid point about how AI doesn't do everything for you. GIGO. You have to know something about the subject matter and the technology involved, what questions to ask, parameters to provide to get a decent product.
  • Cincinnati chili has snowflakes too.

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @89th said in Cincinnati chili has snowflakes too.: Also, that dude in the video is probably someone who would start talking about the merits of the tour de france while I'm trying to watch a ballgame. You say that like it's a bad thing.
  • Hay Horace - got a new acronym for you

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    AxtremusA
    Capitalize the G.
  • 40 years ago today

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    89th8
    Just found out that the backup “guest teacher astronaut” to McCauliff and watched from the ground as her colleague ended up perishing in the Challenger, later was selected to be an astronaut on Columbia for a 2004 launch and in 2003 was in the chase jet meant to rendezvous with Colombia as it landed, of course it never landed. That is wild. Eventually, she went up in the Endeavor shuttle… i’d have to imagine her crew mates were not believers in bad luck.