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by kolanos 4y ago
Stopped listening around the time he and John C. Dvorak parted ways. Laporte started taking TWiT a bit too seriously.
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37% of American adults have passports. [0] [0]: https://today.yougov.com/topics/travel/articles-reports/2021...
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Didn't ElonJet offer to shut down for a Model 3?
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> That’s the thing, the same could be said of any random piece of media ever made, but I have neither the time nor the interest in going through all of it. Then I am not sure what you are hoping to achieve with this kind of commentary. W
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Maybe listen and draw your own conclusions? In this episode he uses fringe sources like the American Bankers Association. He does cover conspiracies, but some conspiracies are actually true. This appears to be one of them. His channel was r
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by kolanos 4y ago
Sadly this appears to be true. Apparently the largest 12 U.S. banks (Citi, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Chase, etc.) are pushing for CBDC and most of the ~4.7k other commercial banks oppose it. Guess who is winning? [0] [0]: https:/&
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For anyone learning about CBDCs for the first time, here's a podcast that goes in depth about them. [0] [0]: https://www.corbettreport.com/cbdc/
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> Things like libel/slander. Threats. Blackmail. Libel and slander are civil matters in the United States.
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> Should I be able to make a FOIA request for all of your personal data on all of your devices? If the government is in possession of that data and that data was used as a part of an investigation into a crime: yes. In fact, it is law. E
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I thought he was describing a gray sky? Are there televisions that display blue static?
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The FBI has an annual budget of $9.7-billion. How much more do you think they need to use tools they already have to scrub a hard drive image of sensitive information and send the rest to this FOIA requester on a thumb drive? FOIA allows th
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by kolanos 4y ago
> As far as I can tell the facts of the matter are that a federal judge with his own agenda attempted to force the FBI to give over all of Seth Rich's personal data and gave them 14 days to comply. The Freedom of Information Act (FO
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by kolanos 4y ago
Actually as someone who has filed FOIA requests, the default response is the public records I requested within the statutory time period.
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Are you implying that this court case and FOIA request don't exist? Or that the FBI did not request 66 years to release documents? It's fine if you don't find Epoch Times to be reputable, just curious what alleged facts you a
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by kolanos 4y ago
What if you were murdered under suspicious circumstances and the powers that be were covering it up? (Not saying that is what is happening here, just a hypothetical.)
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There are FOIA statutes that require federal, state and local governments to release documents and other data in the public interest in a reasonable amount of time. In this case, the statute gives the FBI 14 days. Limiting the release of do
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It was his DNC laptop and governments have some discretion in FOIA requests.
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> Maybe. Just maybe. If the system did not produce ignorant citizens, there would be no need to police disinformation systems those citizens engage in. > I do not understand the naivety that comes with this particular view. Frightenin
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> I'm all for accessibility, but let us decide when to implement it. Which usually means never.
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Want a screenless iPhone? 1. Triple press the side button if you have Face ID or the home button if not. This will turn on VoiceOver. 2. Tap the screen three times with three fingers to enable screen curtain. This will disable your screen w
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That appears to be scope to public officials?
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IntelliJ is an accessibility disaster on Mac OS. If JetBrains can fix that, I may actually use their products.
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by kolanos 4y ago
For a note taking app, Notion's accessibility is hilariously bad.
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For reference, Belgium is roughly the size of Maryland, which is the 42nd largest U.S. state (out of 50). The U.S. is big and is mostly empty.
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3h 52m and counting
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Pressuring a foreign leader to investigate potential corruption is not the same as pressuring a foreign leader to fire a prosecutor who is investigating corruption of which your family is directly involved.
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It is literally the same story with drastically different results for the participants given their relative actions. The abuse of whataboutism has rendered it nonsense.
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> It’s definitely unsavory, but absolutely nothing compared to the conflicts of interest under Trump, ironically even in Ukraine. Remember the withheld US money used to blackmail for political dirt? Trump was asking the Ukrainian Preside
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There's a "favorite" link you can use above to bookmark.
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Most employers subsidize, in part or in whole, employee health insurance as a part of their benefits. Private health insurance is very expensive. [0] [0]: https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/resources/individual-and-fa...

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