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I think JohnP is saying that building hardware and software that could be updated remotely over a radio signal seems very advanced for the 1970s. I don't know anything about communications and surveillance satellites but perhaps they were doing similar things back then? It's obviously not ideal if a...

The justsecurity.org piece linked above mentions Prosecutors in Michigan and Nevada have decided not to seek indictments of anyone at the national level and instead focused only on false electors in their states. Obviously that simplifies the cases and perhaps keeps it manageable rather than a spraw...

tfg is unindicted coconspirator 1 in the indictment. Always the bridesmaid. Well, not always. In an alternate reality… … Trump being told by an aide "sir, you are coconspirator number three": his face darkens to a deeper orange as he screams "I am coconspirator number one , always nu...

notice how the "radical left" is conducting "lawfare" whenever a RW site is losing 💸💸💰 Whereas right-wingers creating multiple delusional fact-free suits about wholly imaginary vote-rigging are "protecting the integrity of the electoral process." Not lawfare at all, no...

My freeform summary of judge's reply in the image in the tweet:

this will not do, you disappoint me, try again, and bring cookies for opposing counsel and the court

bill_g wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:59 am I saw this the other day. He is such a lazy buffoon. We should deport him just for being stupid.

Have some respect and consideration for that other country, The Rest Of The World. Your guy, your problem.

Yeah, but it's not disrespectful to mispronounce (differently pronounce?) ordinary words. Names, it can be.

I suppose we should be flattered that in their pea sized brains the only people they believe who could shred their pile of horse manure passing as evidence they have created over 15 years is a well funded organization of Obots with unlimited resources. :confuzzled: But despite those resources, incr...

NASA's JPL has excellent news: NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth Doesn't it put crappy customer service for washing machines, laptops, etc. into perspective? Voyager 1 is nearasdammit 50 years old - half a century - and it's 24 billion kilometres from Earth, so signals ta...

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:09 am I am stunned that either a) he doesn't know what NAMBLA is, or b) he does thought that was worth the cash.

I couldn't remember what NAMBLA meant, one could fit any number of words to that acronym, but I think I would have found ten seconds or so to look it up if it was thrown at me.

Yukky people.

I wonder how legal that would be in other countries? I suspect many administrations would move quite quickly to close any loopholes that made this idiotic machine legit.

Oooo!!! Butterdezillion!

I had forgotten about that nutter! And my memory has completely erased any trace of her role in the victory of birtherism – perhaps Obots wiped my mind somehow, some fancy schancy machine from the Soros skunk works in Zurich?

My summary of Popok's main ooints from his video: Pecker is the first prosecution witness. He is a "road map" witness, being walked through the case as per the opening statement. Pecker is a willing witness, holding nothing back. Pecker described how his National Enquirer bought the Stormy...

:snippity: So much for eyewitness testimony. Or crack investigative work. There are too many cops who think a crime is solved if they manage to arrest and preferably convict someone, while forgetting that it's the actual perpetrator they should find and deal with. While it should never happen, it's...

It's not really about the eblidense in these arguments, is it? The birther or conspiracy theorist standpoint is that their wacko conjectures must be disproved to their satisfaction . Not disproved according to rational criteria, not according to expert consensus, not according to reality even, but d...

Yeah, the Rooskies and the country that had the swastika during WW2 were such good buds back then. From 1939 to 1941 they were… Partition of Poland The Baltic States USSR war supplies to Germany Etc Just dictators carving up the world till one turns on the other Call me cynical (optional) but I fel...

:fingerwag: Y'all aren't taking this seriously with your jests. Rondeau's legal experts, along with Mike Zullo's crack investigators, are poised to prevent Barack Obama from ever becoming president. All they need to complete their project is a working time machine (a small Tardis will suffice) and a...

Perhaps you folk overestimate how important news is to many people? As children we don't follow events outside our family and closer friends and life goes on. That didn't need to change when one grows older, goes to college, gets a job: as long as the job brings in some money and the stores have clo...

Thine cabbage shalt not wilt ;) :biggrin: :fingerwag: AAAAAGGHHHH!!! I'm surrounded by illiterates! :fingerwag: :biggrin: Thy , not thine ! "Thy" and "thine" behave like "a" and "an" still do: the extra "-n" is inserted if the following word has an ...

Also on F&F, the always vile Pete Hegseth pronounced the judge's name as merkahn, hard emphasis on the K. You would think a producer would be in his earpiece correcting him and apologize, but no... Ignorance is often excusable, but that is just racist lib-baiting. Given the amount of Spanish sp...

That's sad, although Dennett lived into his 80s, so not exactly cut short. I'm no great fan of philosophers, but Daniel Dennett, like John Searle, recognized that philosophers quibbling about definitions of abstract concepts was not the sort of activity that would endear them to the grittier folk in...

Idiot question from more peaceful shores: I get shotguns and rifles* for hunting, and I get handguns for (imagined) personal protection, but why are people buying these expensive assault** weapons? I don't ask that facetiously, I'm genuinely curious about their motivations, and what they actually do...

Yeah, we don't skip. We have dumpsters. Gracias jefe. I've seen enough dumpsters in movies to be aware of their integral nature to so many plots (live or dead people or McGuffin objects hidden, falen into, lost or found in or behind them), but I think the term is technically proprietary, isn't it? ...

I too was curious about the Neville Chamberlain comparison, and felt that was unfair on him. I do not recall any historian treating Chamberlain as a liar, a traitor or a fool. MTG is all of those. My recollection of historians' attitude was more of Chamberlain being gullible or naively optimistic in...

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:07 am It would be irresponsible not to speculate that she bribed the investigators to throw the case against her..

No. That would imply a degree of competence in planning and executing a winning strategy. Not plausible!