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  • Meanwhile in California...

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  • Nonverts

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    JollyJ
    No atheists in a foxhole.
  • B-21

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    JollyJ
    @kluurs said in B-21: B52s can't be around forever. It's amazing to think how long that plane has been flying. I wonder what the over/under is on that plane still in service at the century mark. Nothing else we have can do what a B-52 can do.
  • Squeezing by...

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    HoraceH
    Reminds me of Bear Grylls doing a Man vs Wild segment.
  • Lil' Tucker

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    HoraceH
    Pupulism
  • Speaking of AI games….

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    George KG
    @jon-nyc said in Speaking of AI games….: Chat GPT I was going to explore this, but upon opening an account, they want my phone number. AI account needs my phone number...what could possibly go wrong?
  • Ticket to ride but he don’t care

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    jon-nycJ
    @bachophile You oughta think twice. You oughta do right by me.
  • Moving day

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    Doctor PhibesD
    It's always hard to know what to say with these situations - but I hope both Rainman and Klaus see better days, and soon.
  • Minority Leader welcomes Minority Leader

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    HoraceH
    @Doctor-Phibes said in Minority Leader welcomes Minority Leader: @Horace said in Minority Leader welcomes Minority Leader: @Doctor-Phibes said in Minority Leader welcomes Minority Leader: @Copper said in Minority Leader welcomes Minority Leader: The difference was that Ms. Clinton's rants about were taken as truth, no questions asked. Not by me they weren't. Trump won the election in 2016. He lost in 2020. I'm happy to acknowledge this. I acknowledge that too. You don't seem happy to acknowledge it. I was really happy when that fat orange douchebag lost. I laughed like a drain. I know, it's a bit unseemly. Still, it was funny. I’m easily three times as happy as you are to acknowledge it.
  • Count the Presidents in attendance

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    LuFins DadL
    Still, I saw more presidents at a poker game, once…
  • Speaking of decolonization

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    Doctor PhibesD
    @taiwan_girl said in Speaking of decolonization: It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising. (I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race? It's F3 - and they still run it, although it's been cancelled of late due to Covid. Both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher won the race before becoming big stars in F1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_Grand_Prix
  • Gee, what could go wrong?

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    B
    No so related, but this year I got a letter from the bone marrow registry saying basically I was off their list as a donor because I’m too old. Like after 20 yrs & no phone calls from them I was booted. I feel old & rejected.
  • Speaking of decolonization

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    LuFins DadL
    @George-K said in Speaking of decolonization: Best Copycat Thread Ever. I thought it was rather shitty, myself…
  • Ron White Quote for Horace (Maybe)

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    JollyJ
    An oldie but a goodie.
  • Fleeing Armed Robber Kills His Pursuing Victim, No Murder Charge

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    JollyJ
    @George-K said in Fleeing Armed Robber Kills His Pursuing Victim, No Murder Charge: @Axtremus said in Fleeing Armed Robber Kills His Pursuing Victim, No Murder Charge: What would the logic be if we replace "clerk" with "police"? Presumably, the fleeing robber was not a threat to anyone's life. Unless I missed it, he was, after all, fleeing, and not shooting at anyone. No threat to life means use of deadly force is not justified. Hell, in Chicago, the police would even be allowed to chase him. By the law, not justified. Does not meet the "imminent danger" threshold. OTOH, shooting thieves is fine by me. And for killing a guy who was chasing the thief, I'd still like to hang the thief.
  • Wow, it’s like they all want to say it

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    HoraceH
    The thing about opportunism is that it’s so deeply baked into human psychology that it takes some insight and intentional effort to even realize you’re employing it. But since the opportunism is by definition personally beneficial, the motivation to make that effort is not there. The motivation would have to come from a desire to be a legitimately principled human being. But there really isn’t any social profit in that.
  • IRS Random Audits on former FBI Director and Deputy Director

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    George KG
    It was random. Audits of two top former FBI officials who became political foes of former President Trump were not the result of any misconduct on the part of the IRS, according to a report released this week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The TIGTA report found that the audit selection process in 2017 and 2019, which were the years that former FBI chief James Comey and his deputy Andrew McCabe received especially intense National Research Program (NRP) audits from the IRS, was random and carried out correctly. “Our assessment of the original sample selection process concluded that the IRS randomly selected TYs [tax years] 2017 and 2019 tax returns for NRP audits,” the TIGTA report found. TIGTA said that IRS computer programs “categorized returns in the correct strata” and “correctly selected tax returns for audit.” The IRS “did not include malicious code that would force the selection of taxpayers for an NRP audit.” Democratic lawmakers who had suspected that the audits received by Comey and McCabe were political retribution for not backing off the investigation into former President Trump’s political ties with Russia expressed satisfaction with the inspector general’s report. “The credibility and integrity of the IRS are foundational to the success of our tax administration, and this report alleviates some concerns,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) said in a statement to The Hill. Neal has requested a deeper probe into Trump’s use of the IRS, writing in a Nov. 14 letter to acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell that he was “very concerned about the Internal Revenue Service’s … selection of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James B. Comey and Acting FBI Director Andrew G. McCabe for in-depth National Research Program audits.” Neal said he wanted the IRS to “provide a report on whether each of these individuals has been selected for an examination, audit, or other compliance initiative at any time from 2017-2022.” While TIGTA’s report found no foul play had taken place at the IRS in the selection process for NRP audits, it did not completely exonerate the agency and called attention to ways the IRS could have improved its sampling methods. Specifically, it found that identification numbers for taxpayers being considered for audits were not properly documented during the sampling process, risking the possibility that specific people could have been included in the final sample who probably should have been thrown out. “You can’t rule out definitively the possibility that somebody came in and decided to keep Comey and McCabe, assuming they were already in the original sample. Maybe somebody decided to keep them in when they cut down the size of the sample,” Eric Toder, former head of tax policy economists at the Treasury Department, said in an interview with The Hill. “But I am 99.99 percent sure that there was no foul play here,” Toder added. The TIGTA report also called out an error in IRS computer code dating back to 2010 that “assigned random numbers to returns in a manner that differed from the requirements in the NRP sampling plan.” “As a result, the population of tax returns selected for TYs 2017 and 2019 were not all the same returns that would have been selected if the program assigned random numbers as originally intended,” the TIGTA report said. “Because of the programming error, for most tax returns, the assignment of the random number erroneously restarted back at an earlier location in the random number file rather than continuing with the next number assignment,” the report found. IRS officials said they were pleased with the inspector general’s findings.
  • Noticing a change in your Twitter ads?

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    CopperC
    I started looking at it a little since the sale.
  • New employee introductions

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  • So if it wasn't Ukraine, it would have been Japan?

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @Renauda said in So if it wasn't Ukraine, it would have been Japan?: @Aqua-Letifer Then according to Putin’s logic, Russia is obliged to return the islands to Japan. Good luck with that, Poots!