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HubertManne

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I am very typical earthling. I like earth food and earth drink and earth sports and earth media. Im all about earth things because I am so typical and earthling. so typical as to be very boring and not worth investigating or looking into because I am definately from earth.

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One thing I am glad about is the press used to tippie toe around calling out lying with him and at least that seems to not so much be the case anymore.

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doctors further said that once the results where back on the charts it showed a beneficial effect.

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Molech's still in the biz? Man its been awhile since I sacrificed ala molech.

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Remember if your in one of these states that sterilization is your best defense.

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wow. just wow. with the earlier articles I assumed what would actually pass would eliminate the crazy but:

During its state convention this past weekend, the Republican Party of Texas approved a platform that lays out a Christian nationalist vision for the state, which would be maintained through an anti-democratic elections process that would create a permanent, one-party system.

Party platforms are meant to give voters an impression of what that organization’s principles and goals are. While not binding, they provide a basic idea of the policies a party will pursue should its members win control of government in an upcoming election.

The 50-page platform from the Republican Party of Texas suggests that the party will seek to instill a number of far right policies, including:

Restricting in-person voting to just three days prior to an election day;
Adopting a so-called “parents’ rights” view of schooling, which would forbid any schools from teaching about “sexual choice or identity…in any grade whatsoever” and passing a law “even more comprehensive than the Florida [Don’t Say Gay] law,” effectively stamping out LGBTQ students’ right to feel safe in schools;
Restricting even further the right to obtain an abortion, and banning methods of birth control that the far right considers “abortifacients,” such as Plan B (“the morning after” pill);
And mandating that the state legislature and the state Board of Education “require instruction on the Bible” in all public schools throughout Texas.

The party platform also calls for vast changes to how statewide officials are elected, urging for the creation of a system that would be an extreme version of the federal Electoral College by giving equal voting weight to each county, regardless of population size.

In the proposal, candidates for statewide office would have to win a majority of counties in the state, rather than a direct majority of voters, to win the position they’re seeking. Per the platform:

The State Legislature shall cause to be enacted a State Constitutional Amendment to add the additional criteria for election to a statewide office to include the majority vote of the counties with each individual county being assigned one vote allocated to the popular majority vote winner of each individual county.

Democrats have not won a statewide office position in Texas for decades, but the proposal would almost guarantee that they could never win a position ever again.

The last presidential election provides an example of how extreme this plan would be. Former President Donald Trump won the state against President Joe Biden by a margin of 52 percent to 46 percent, respectively. But under the Texas GOP’s proposed changes, Trump would have won 91 percent of the total counties compared to Biden’s 9 percent.

Even if a Democratic candidate has a majority of voters supporting them — likely through obtaining large margins of victories in highly populated counties — they still wouldn’t win the election. In Dallas County, for example, where Biden won with 598,576 votes compared to Trump’s 307,076, the outcome would be canceled out under the GOP’s proposal by the outcome in Loving County, a sparsely populated jurisdiction where Trump won 60 votes total compared to Biden’s nine votes from people living there.

In short, the Republican Party would likely become the only party in the state under this scheme, although far right third parties could potentially do well under it, too.

On his Substack, historian Kevin Kruse described the proposal as a “throwback to the decidedly undemocratic systems that southern states had before the civil rights era.” Indeed, several states, Kruse noted, had similar voting systems in place that Republicans in Texas are now proposing to bring back; such systems served as a means to prevent Black voters from obtaining any real representation in the state legislature during the Jim Crow era.

Those systems were invalidated by a series of Supreme Court rulings that created the standard of “one person, one vote” in state elections. If Texas tries to reimplement the plan, however, it will likely return to the Court, which has taken a decidedly right-wing turn over the past two decades, and may give reconsideration to those past precedents.

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Exactly. He should be doing something about student loan debt. Like blanket forgiving it and if they stop him in the courts then he should turn around and use the judgements to identify more narrow actions he should take. He should get rid of the bs of companies calling all their employees exempt and not paying overtime. Or do something about non compete clauses in contracts. Or fight the roe vs wade and get an over the counter birth control pill available. At least get passed a large budget bill that prioritizes encouraging energy efficiency and green energy. Maybe getting our aging infrstructure more healthy while your at it. How about do something about all these bs fees companies charge. Or hey given jan 6th how about revising the law to make it clear the vice president can't just choose the presidential electors. Maybe incentivize important production capacity for the country like microchips. Cancers been around for awhile. How bout putting more effort toward eliminating that. Or jeesh at least make the airlines not blow you off if they cancel a flight. I mean common. Show us something with the one term youve gotten. Anything at all. Something we can measure against trumps accomplishments in the term he got.

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I have said it before but I am blown away by what he has accomplished in one term with such an adversarial setup. I loved obama but he pretty much flushed his first term down the toilet trying to work with the rebulicans. Granted joe had that as a lesson learned by that time. There are to many lessons in recent history to ignore. How much better position would we be environment wise if the president after carter had not symbolically taken down the solar panels and had a deregulation emphasis and then put in gore whose main platform was global warming instead of bush jr. Then we have had 45 years of tax cuts (any time its been raised its by an insignificant amounts next to the cuts) and it has not been a good thing. As a matter of fact from my experience the time following tax increases have tended to be better right up to about when they cut them again.

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Yeah I think the difference between this and like car farts research is people actually need some references for people who otherwise won't use common sense. Its sorta like the regular bets on psychics if they can prove their ability in a controlled setting that no one wins.

Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's...

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when you get the prompt at my work their is an option that says you don't have your phone on you and it leads to the old way of doing it.

What do people today act like is new, when it's already have been a thing or already been around? ( kbin.social )

Gamers like to make it sound like $70 is a new thing today for video games. When, I've seen adverts of games back in late 90s and early 90s that were priced $70. It's always been around so I find it ridiculous that so many of them complain that the pricing is too high when, it's been a thing....

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well they said an add so it could be something like ff10 delux that comes with the massive guide book or a figurine or such.

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I had a friend who was such a master of how much he could abuse the machines.

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Definately not me. Im cheering it.

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I don't believe they are intelligent now but I do believe we evolved as basically pattern matching machines.

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My second statement is certainly not comprehensive and rather offhand. Its just we have a ton of pattern matching behavior thats been optimized. Sometimes you may read things about it in why we see faces in everything and why we like certain sounds such that we have music and such.

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yeah its just belief thought really. Its made me think on it more and its sorta a chicken and egg thing. like the whole basic things with cells. attracted to beneficial things like food and repulsed by dangerous things. so recognition becomes important but maybe just the like dislike is the thing and not the aparatus to identify it. shrug

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One thing that got me about the movie was how much of a pattern the non patterned moving was. Might work better if they were immitating some natural pattern the worms don't care about.

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I was thinking they should have had the actors wear earpieces and have it say step at random intervals or something.

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ok see that makes more sense. so it is a pattern but the idea its specific changing patterns that don't imitate tastey food patterns.

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    Maybe your local people need to be a bit more charismatic and they to could be on the internets!

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    You should be proud. Sure the cycle of porn starts usually with the dumpster find but such mana from heaven.

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    big breasted beautiful black women or Por Qué No Los todos tres.

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    cram it.

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    yeah im pretty sure if she did what he did she could not beat them as well.

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    not really but since one billionaire has more pull than 2 million people they don't really have to.

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    who says heavens no? its hell no, hell yes, and hell maybe!

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    Neither. I want it to be honored to accept my waste and happy to serve.

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    yeah. let the guy who will send them direct win.

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    if the last time you were on was a year ago im surprised your even aware of the fedeverse.

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    I think this is out of context as this was the election where a big issue was armed political parties. Its easy to link to an article that cherry picks parts of a conversation and say. see this was said when the rest of the conversation may explain it a bit. Its only the hisotrical context which lets us know a bit more context around the issues in that election. Many people expressed issues with armed groups being able to run as a party.

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    my area does have a significant discount if you reside in the property so that is something. Not sure how common that is.

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    seems like a strange definition of europe?

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    "The new therapy involves programming the patient's peripheral blood mononuclear cells, transforming them into "seed cells" to recreate pancreatic islet tissue in an artificial environment."

    I don't see anything for the other two questions though but being patient derived would seem to fix your number 2.

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    oh yeah. well ill deport folks who deport deporters!

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    This is what sparks the franchise wars that demolition man predicted.

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    This stuff been around since like the 60's. Do people not know of this stuff?

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    Everyone is telling you to take a week off but I have never really had that option myself. I do think you should prioritize making sure you are signed up and jumping the hoops for unemployment. I would like to prioritize the job search right away but again the hoops you have to jump for benefits make it unfortunately a secondary concern. After that primary is resume and professional online prescence. That whole time sending resumes should have been secondary and now it becomes primary. I like to sorta prioritize contract positions because I can keep the search up during them for what I really want and extend my unemployment if its a bumpy ride. I find tech to littered with serial unemployment myself so if this is your first time you are either very young or very lucky.

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    Is this article supposed to be some sort of controversy. Its not like bernie and hilary this go round. He has no one even vaguely close for the nomination.

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    Piers anthonys advice for becoming a professional writer was having a spouse who works. He pretty much gives his first wife the credit for his success (she passed away, they did not get divorced)

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    yeah. on hindsite I feel sorta foolish as that term is used pretty often.

    Trump Just Sold His $10M Jet to One of His Megadonors ( www.thedailybeast.com )

    After nearly half a billion dollars in legal judgments against him this year, Donald Trump’s company opted to offload one of his private jets this month, public filings show. And the buyer is a Republican megadonor who poured nearly $250,000 into a political committee tied to Trump’s 2020 campaign....

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    I thought providing goods and services had to be tracked like cash donations.

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    thats because yees the top and haws the bottom.

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    this is what you get when you rely on nutters more and more for your base. it will be interesting to see what makes it to the final product.

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    I expect of things from cats right now that they don't do so I can see expecting more if they could talk. We can expect till we are blue in the face.

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    One of the things I find messed up about the modern world is that eating to much fish can be bad because of how much we have poisoned the planet. People point to agriculture but there is a reason civilizations tended to form near the ocean. The breadbasket has nothing on the fishing net.

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    By firing a round into his head the perp tested the boundaries of homicide.

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    oh hey. great to see a comeback from the late 90's

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