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CosmicTurtle

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  • Mar-a-Lago Judge: Jury Sees Top Secret Files or Trump Wins

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  • Playing a bit of devil's advocate.

    We have a tendency to over classify things in general. When I was in a TS SCIF, we would mark things S/TS because we were lazy and didn't want to go through the process to see if something was subject to disclosure.

    Assuming, with a great heaping serving of salt, that there is validity to Trump's claim, I can sort of understand putting to a jury to see if the files that Trump took were in fact classified. I can see him stealing the documents simply because it had a cover sheet and not because it was valuable. While I'm sure that he absolutely took sensitive and classified information, I'm equally sure that there is probably a take out menu or two in those boxes.

    The problem is that the run of the mill citizen isn't equipped to properly classify a document. I don't know what probative value exists in giving the documents to jurors outside of forcing the prosecution to put them in the public record.

  • Pro-Trump lawyer arrested on bench warrant in Washington, D.C.

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  • “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

  • What the flip are you looking at?

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  • Removed

    They rushed that through with the quickness too

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  • I'll give you one guess as to which company has lobbied for this bill.

  • Spider cats

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  • I'm imagining the scene from Step Brothers:

    Spider: Can you eat the ants but not my eggs?

    Frog: YUP! Can you protect me from other things that want to eat me?

    Spider: YUP! Did we just become best friends?!

    Frog: YUP!

  • Starbucks accused of violating Americans with Disabilities Act by charging extra for non-dairy

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  • That's not how the ADA works. You could say the same for wheelchair ramps, but ultimately it's on the store owner to reasonably provide accomodations to people who want to use their services. It's not on the disabled person to pick and select who will accommodate them or not. It's why businesses are required to reserve a portion of their parking lot to those with handicap placards. It shouldn't be up to each disabled person to figure out which business they can go to.

    What Starbucks is doing would be akin to Walmart charging an extra buck for you to use one of their mobility scooters or an extra $5 if you require the assistance from an employee because you can't reach something.

  • Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics

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  • Maybe I'm cynical but I just don't think any amount of facts are going to change the fact that next quarter's earnings report needs to be higher than last quarter.

  • “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

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  • This exactly. NAS+RAID gives you a backup of your local media. It can account for one of your three copies and one of your storage mediums. But you still need something off site.

    So assuming you had a copy on your computer proper, it could work. Better than no backups.

  • “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

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  • I wish there was a good way to store a backup of my media. I recently suffered a terrible hard drive issue. I lost a terabyte of media. Fortunately, the pirate ship has saved me and has me rethinking some of my backup methodologies.

    Outside of periodically backing up onto an external hard drive, I haven't been able to find a reasonably priced online backup solution that isn't going to fuck me when I have to pull data out. Egress fees are killer.

  • A quick guide to computer components

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  • The problem is that they can't control open source drivers. They could, however, release a printer that ran on proprietary closed source drivers. But they'd have to spend money on developers to maintain that code whereas right now, drivers are more or less stable and developed for free.

    What they could do is require the use of HP printer paper, with embedded RFID or watermarks that would be readable by HP printers. I'm honestly surprised they haven't gone down this road.

  • Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version

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  • Privacy: I have blinds on my windows. I control whether they are open or closed, but they aren't secure. You could break a window and look inside if you really wanted to.

    Security: my glass storm door has a lock. But privacy is only there when I close the front door.

    There is overlap between these two concepts but one does not imply the other.

  • That's just politeness, am I right?

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  • It's not fear. The guy in the picture walks around with guns because he wants to, not because he's scared. He wants to be challenged. He wants to be able to pull out his gun and shoot someone.

    These people are not "scared" as much as they want to be feared.

    They want an excuse to kill. That's it.

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  • These states:

    • Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming
    • Arizona
    • California
    • Massachusetts
    • New York
    • Washington

  • Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions

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  • At least Amazon is thinking of the shareholders.

  • The GOP can't leave MAGA — "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party"

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  • No, there is a Republican party. It's MAGA and a large number of voters who vote R regardless of name.

    So many Republican voters simply don't care.

    Source: I worked as an election poll worker. The number of people who asked me, "Who are the Republicans?" on ballots where there is no party would shock you.

  • Schiff says he hopes Intelligence Community ‘will dumb down’ briefings for Trump

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  • Unless it's a law, Trump shouldn't receive any security briefings until he's sitting in the office.

  • Oof

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  • They were. This is a romantic playlist. Very different

  • Katie Porter's star dims in failed US Senate bid, leaving the Californian facing an uncertain future

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  • Katie, I'm going to give you the same advice that Jen Barkley gave to Leslie.

    Get a better job! Don't be the kid that graduates high school and hangs out in the school parking lot. Be the woman who moves away, climbs the ladder, and confidently comes back, and has sex with their hot old English teacher just for kicks.

    We need people like you. Do not give up. If you run for President in 2028, I will volunteer!

  • Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now

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  • I tried a bunch of questions. It seems okay on giving you instructions on forming a union at Target, Starbucks....but not Amazon.