Re the hypothetical sale of Tiktok, I read in the news that the govt of China has imposed a requirement that the sale cannot include Tiktok's algorithm for which posts to show you.
Which implies that China thinks something about that algorithm affects some national interest. And I totally cannot wrap my brain around the idea that the Tiktok algorithm is up there with the nuclear secrets.
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"Condemns?" I think they meant "praises."
The Guardian:
Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist
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Always like learning about stuff I never heard of before -- and I never before heard of the sentencing option "unconditional discharge."
Sounds like a sweet deal, certainly better than all that fines and jail time, so I'm wondering if any of our legal defense experts here could comment on why they haven't been requesting this for all their clients.
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AP:
"President-elect Donald Trump remains on track to be sentenced this week in his hush money case after a judge on Monday denied his request to halt proceedings while he appeals a ruling that upheld the historic verdict."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-sentencing-e20933f9418bd378925e5f9e75f28485
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Amazon owns Goodreads?! I was not informed.
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OK, this is disturbing.
"Poll: 41% of Young Adults Consider the Killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO acceptable"
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Dec18-8.html
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@FediTree pleez show me my tree
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Let's have a bit of Dickens:
"Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure."
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Having a glass of the eggnog I mixed up early November and put in the fridge to mellow. Christmas has begun.
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To clarify, Carter, Clinton, Bush I, and Trump all issued pardons to relatives. I'm not seeing what the big news is in Biden doing this.
Edit: although this has appeared in a number of sources I would consider credible, it has now appeared in other credible sources that it is not true that Carter and George HW Bush pardoned a relative.
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I feel like I'm missing something. Given the substantial history of US Presidents issuing pardons to relatives -- including Trump giving a pardon to his son-in-law's father -- why is the media going along with a narrative that Biden's pardon for his son is some kind of shocking departure from previous policy?
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I have a friend who grew up on a farm, so he's my go-to for agricultural information. It occurred to me to wonder, how do US farms manage a huge production of turkeys to be consumed at Thanksgiving. He said, that is not how it goes -- all the turkeys eaten at Thanksgiving are a drop in the vast ocean of US turkey production.
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I found this via a link from E-V.com, and the summary there is also well worth reading.
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Nov25-3.html
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This should be read by everybody who wants to oppose a Trump dictatorship. Seriously. Everybody.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/23/trump-autocrat-elections-00191281
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You've heard this story already, but E-V.com's note on the subject is worth reading.
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Nov22-7.html
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I think this makes a pretty important point.
W. Bunch, Inquirer:
"Transgender wars are a test of whether our humanity can trump focus-group politics"
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/transgender-rights-2024-election-democrats-20241121.html?int_promo=newsletter
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I've heard of schadenfreude, but Is there such a thing as schadenschaden?
E-V.com has a piece about Muslim leaders in Michigan who are surprised that Trump is picking appointees who seem unlikely to help the Palestinians. For example, the new ambassador to Israel is Mike Huckabee, who once said "There's really no such thing as a Palestinian."
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Nov18-4.html
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And what was the intent of this meme in the first place? To give us a nice feeling of validation for voting for Harris. To tell us something we wanted to hear.
Is that worth aiming an unfair insult at a gigantic number of our allies?
Thank you, I'm done venting now.
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Let's not lose sight of two facts: 1) something like 60-70% of voters don't have college degrees, and 2) the noted correlation does not change the fact that an immense number of voters for Harris did not have college degrees.
So this meme is not just insulting, it's insulting to a huge block of our allies.
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Venting: Saw a meme today with a scatterplot of states, plotting % for Trump vs % of voters with college degrees, showing a definite negative correlation. Printed on the graph was a comment that Trump is winning with the ignorant voters.
That correlation is an objective fact, fine, but characterizing people w/o a degree as ignorant is just prejudice and an uncalled for insult.
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