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  • We'll let POTUS know later

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    jon-nycJ
    @Copper said in We'll let POTUS know later: There is absolutely no way to measure that. Poll question about trust in a vaccine, 8/28-9/20. It’s posted in another thread.
  • Number Three

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    CopperC
    @Doctor-Phibes said in Number Three: I don't know why anybody cares. If you don't like the fact that Obama's written a book, there's an easy solution - don't buy it. I tried reading Bush's book. It was shit, but nobody complained about him writing it. People actually buy his paintings, for crying out loud. He's an ex president. It doesn't matter what he does. Nobody complained?
  • The Million Mega March

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    JollyJ
    @Aqua-Letifer said in The Million Mega March: Guy in DC had his tires slashed downtown today. He had Trump stuff on his truck. Reliable Dem voters.
  • Horace, you ok?

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    JollyJ
    Glad to hear things are better. Hang in there, brother....
  • Not just whistling Dixie...

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    jon-nycJ
    You’d be fine in Durham. Even with your man bun and tea. But leave the pussy hat in MD.
  • He's right.

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    AxtremusA
    @taiwan_girl said in He's right.: ... the republican party of five years ago is probably different than the republican party of today. Was President Trump responsible for that? Probably yes. Yes, and yes. This is a nice illustration for both: Link to video
  • And you think *you've* had a bad day?

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    George KG
    How was my day? https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/the_new_coffee_room/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=51645&p=751502&hilit=first+number+aneurysm#p751502
  • Black Klansman

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  • 300

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    JollyJ
    The best part of you ran down your mama's leg, didn't it? If you want the time frame, google it. It's mentioned in more than one article. Now, the fact remains there were that many lawsuits filed. Many with the same provisions that were defeated in HR 1.
  • Free Money!

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    JollyJ
    I want to see WEP eliminated!
  • cnn for sale

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    This has been a long time in the works. ATT has no interest in a rhetorical spewing machine but wanted the profits from an election year. I wonder if Zucker can be an effective salesman as he fantasizes a political career. I’m sure mayor of NYC would be his wet dream. Very interesting how all media is now scrambling for their next act now. I also wonder how much Trump will resemble “Succession”. Must see HBO TV.
  • Get used to it...

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    Well said but mostly because it usually takes someone too many pages to say what he said in a couple of paragraphs. It’s taken our country 40 years to get to where it is today on smoking and there isn’t an equally loud opposing side. Progressives should take note and reflect on this when things mysteriously don’t work out.
  • Susan to Chuck

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  • Mock Twitter

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    JollyJ
    Public square.
  • 5G speed

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    @Loki said in 5G speed: When I used to get 70 on my wifi it felt very fast. Anything above that was imperceptible. Yeah I know there are all kinds of thinks possible at faster speeds but how does the average person win today at higher speeds than let’s say 70? Good point. I remember reading an article about wasted speed. My experience is similar to yours, but at a lower threshold. Anything above 40 is not, for me, noticeable. Unless I'm downloading that hi-def German pr()n, which, well...
  • Puzzle time - the forth corner

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    The official solution came out today: SOLUTION: The first thing to do here is think of the initial square as a cell of the plane grid, e.g., the points (0,0), (0,1), (1,0) and (1,1) on the X-Y plane. Then the pegs will always be on grid points. Grid points, however, have four possible parities: each coordinate can be even or odd. When a peg jumps, its parity is preserved; its X-coordinate goes up or down by an even number, and likewise its Y-coordinate. The points of the unit cell above have all four parities, so the corner that starts without a peg can never be occupied.
  • Decisive

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    Note the date and the twitter warning. Mockers have short memories.
  • One of Trump's law firms quits

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    @jon-nyc said in One of Trump's law firms quits: You have to go over $8,000 in order for the first penny to go to the actual “recount account”. Large donors over 8k still see a split above that amount. But he’s fleecing his base outright. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fundraising-insigh/donations-under-8k-to-trump-election-defense-instead-go-to-president-rnc-idUSKBN27R309 I wonder why the media would leave out some of the fine print. “Notwithstanding this allocation formula, a contributor may designate a contribution for a specific participant or participants“. Hahahaha.
  • The Most Pathological Liar in Politics

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  • 8 out of 9

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    JollyJ
    Clark County election officials accepted my signature on eight ballot return envelopes during the general election. It’s more evidence that signature verification is a flawed security measure. For months, election officials have told Nevadans not to worry about ballots piling up in apartment trash cans or sent to wrong addresses. “Discarded mail ballots cannot just be picked up and voted by anyone,” a fact sheet from the secretary of state’s office says. “All mail ballots must be signed on the ballot return envelope. This signature is used to authenticate the voter and confirm that it was actually the voter and not another person who returned the mail ballot.” I wanted to test that claim by simulating what might happen if someone returned ballots that didn’t belong to him or her. Plenty of people had this opportunity. Billy Geurin, a 10-year Las Vegas resident, found five loose ballots in his apartment mailroom. A reader emailed me a picture of a pile of mail on the side of the road, which included loose ballots. There are numerous pictures of similar examples on social media. Nine people participated in this test. I wrote their names in cursive using my normal handwriting. They then copied my version of their name onto their ballot envelope. This two-step process was necessary to ensure no laws were broken. On Monday, I asked Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria about this scenario. If ballots signed by someone else “came through, we would still have the signature match to rely on for identity,” he said. Asked if he was confident the safeguard would identify those ballots, he said, “I’m confident that the process has been working throughout this process.” He was wrong. Eight of the nine ballots went through. In other words, signature verification had an 89 percent failure rate in catching mismatched signatures. This could explain how a ballot “signed” by Rosemarie Hartle, who died in 2017, made it through signature verification, as reported by 8 News Now. It could explain how Jill Stokke, a longtime Las Vegas resident, was told the signature on her ballot matched, even though she said she never received it. County officials aren’t working proactively to determine whether unscrupulous actors abused this vulnerability in a widespread fashion. Gloria’s office doesn’t “have an investigatory team.” He said his office catches fraudulent votes “when they’re reported to us.” So if a criminal doesn’t admit he committed voter fraud, Clark County is unlikely to find out about it. Willful ignorance isn’t an election security strategy. Leave aside the presidential race. Fewer than 200 votes separate the leading candidates in Senate District 5. In 2018, state Sen. Keith Pickard won his race by 24 votes. Even small amounts of fraud can swing results. It’s unclear how much voter fraud took place in Nevada. But it’s clear signature verification isn’t the fail-safe security check elections officials made it out to be.