spaghettiwestern

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[–] spaghettiwestern 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

How about a bot that types slowly, so it can have time to consider what it's going to say? Or perhaps a web page with an "Analyzing issue" status bar that takes several minutes to complete, because computers just do better if they're given time to work on a problem?

[–] spaghettiwestern 21 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Another example of Republican principles. Corporations are protected by laws but not bound by them, while the average citizen is bound by laws but not protected by them.

[–] spaghettiwestern 4 points 4 hours ago

Unfortunately it wasn't most of us.

[–] spaghettiwestern 41 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

"We're always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience."

LOL!

[–] spaghettiwestern 27 points 17 hours ago

Don't be fooled by where Missouri appears to be on the map, it's part of the deep south.

[–] spaghettiwestern 62 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Billionaire Disaster Capitalism - billionaires create their own disasters and then profit immensely off of them

[–] spaghettiwestern 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does spotx add any functionality, or is it just another way to control Spotify?

[–] spaghettiwestern 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You mean the GOP and their supporters?

[–] spaghettiwestern 1 points 2 days ago

The librarians I've talked to simply don't know how any of this works. I've been told 3 times (the 3rd one today) that epub version of books are not available. Today it was a "trained computer aid that offers technology assistance" saying the epub format I download just last week is not available from the library.

[–] spaghettiwestern 2 points 2 days ago

Is the author or anyone referenced involved in Barron's care?

[–] spaghettiwestern 76 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

Part of the GOP plan. First fuck up government so completely it doesn't work, then scream that government doesn't work and should be defunded and shut down.

[–] spaghettiwestern 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Define cheap. 11" Dell 3140's in like new condition with Intel N200 processors, 8GB RAM, wifi, SSD and a decent keyboard have been coming up on Ebay and Woot every few weeks for $170 or so. Debian 12 detects all hardware immediately on installation.

 
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Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father's panicked voice: The brakes don't work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car's brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

 

Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father's panicked voice: The brakes don't work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car's brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

 

Two months after UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was killed, UnitedHealth Group has hired a defamation law firm to take on social media posts that it claims are untrue and reckless, according to Bloomberg Law.

 

We are where we are today because Garland failed spectacularly to act swiftly to hold Trump accountable for his illegal efforts to stay in power four years ago for inciting the violent Capitol insurrection that resulted in deaths, injuries, destruction of property and devastation to our democracy. By turning a blind eye to those crimes for as long as he could, Garland paved the way for the election of a disgraced felon who should not have been on the 2024 ballot. Thanks to Garland, Trump is storming back to the White House vowing revenge.

 

The man who was convicted in the 2022 attack on the husband of House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday following his state trial.

DePape's early morning break-in at the Pelosi home almost exactly two years ago on October 28, 2022 -- just days before the 2022 midterm elections -- sent shockwaves through the United States and was attributed to the predictable effects of increasingly demonizing political rhetoric.

The attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi was captured on police bodycam video after officers responded to his 911 call and found him struggling with DePape, who then bludgeoned Pelosi with a hammer.

The life sentence on state charges is on top of the 30-year sentence DePape received for his federal conviction.

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"Now that I'm inside your house, I own your house right now," the deputy says in the video.

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2024/09/07/riverside-sheriff-investigating-incident-depicted-in-viral-video/75122042007/

 

Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

 

Cuba’s government has spent the last days attempting to get the island’s national grid functioning after repeated island-wide blackouts. Without power, sleep becomes difficult in the heat, food spoils and the water supply fails.

Parts of Cuba’s communist system still function: the municipality sent Maria food. “We are three families here,” she said. “I live alone, the lady who lives next to me [does] also, and there are two children, the children’s mother, her aunt and an elderly man.”

A week after the blackout, the island has returned to the status quo ante with regular power cuts of up to 20 hours a day. But the crisis has left a deep, melancholy dread about the future.

 

Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election.

That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain who explained in an interview with Newsweek that the former president's only path to get out from under the federal cases he now faces is to beat Vice President Kamala Harris in less than two weeks and then push the Department of Justice to drop the cases filed against him.

As Germain stated, the multiple federal cases Trump is facing are solid and his only path to victory may be having them shut down.

Newsweek source: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-legal-cases-georgia-washington-florida-new-york-stormy-daniels-chutkan-cannon-1974406

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