It’s honestly impressive how they keep making this WC so much worse with every passing day.

It’s not discrimination against white people, you obtuse asshole. It’s having 4 majority white districts vs 2 majority non-white districts (67%-33%) in a state with a 55%-45% ratio.

Oh No! I’m used to have 99% power over politics and will now only have 98% power! Whatever will I do??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Zampolli

First two paragraphs have the Trump connection and the ICE deporting his wife thing. The last 3 paragraphs covers his Epstein connection and the trafficking of his teen wife.

The story is even wilder when you take a look at who the Trump envoy to Italy is.

He’s the one who introduced Melania to Trump. He’s heavily implicated in the Epstein files. He had Epstein traffic a 17 year old girl to be his wife…

HE CALLED ICE TO DEPORT HIS OWN WIFE (the same one who was trafficked by Epstein and the mother of his children).

Republican member of committee: “It’s very unlikely this is a coincidence. This is a grave national security threat.”

Democrat member of same committee: “We’re holding the investigation, but this is very likely a coincidence.”

Daughter of one of the dead: “From what I know of my dad, there’s no train of logic to follow that would implicate him in this potential federal investigation,”

I don’t get why she felt the need to leave Trump’s Cabinet. Was she not abusing her power enough to maintain standards?

White nationalism? Check.

Billionaires should be allowed to do what they want? Check.

War for war’s sake? Check.

Class warfare? Check.

Class warfare (again)? Check.

The only thing I agree with is the bit about politicians sending normal folks to war while not sending themselves or their kids.

I got a new one for you: until I was in my late 20s I thought the song was Caribou Queen instead of Caribbean Queen.

The locals love them and have turned them into a tourist industry. I still think they need to be eradicated.

This just tells you how little people know about taxes. Most people’s taxes have gone down due to Trump. Mine have gone down significantly. Trump voters don’t care. Many people voted for him purely to pay less on taxes. I know many people who don’t care about abortion or trans people or gay marriage or immigration or health care or anything else being batted around by politicians. They voted for Trump because they would have a slightly lower tax bill. That is the only thing they cared about. They didn’t care that brown people would be hurt, only that they made more money. These same people now have rising costs directly due to Trump that offset those tax gains, so they again think taxes are too high. They are not thinking, “we shouldn’t spend a billion per day Iran.”

Am I happy to be paying less? Kind of. I’d rather pay more and have that be used to give health care to people who can’t afford it, but this government would only use it to fund another half trillion in defense spending. So I’ll take my lower taxes to pay shit off so I can move to Europe sooner.

Let’s see… this shows the ratio of money spent on gas to your income levels. That means a higher ratio is more painful when gas prices spike and less painful with a lower ratio.

9 of the top 10 states for highest/worst ratio are Republican Trumpland. 9 out of the top 10 states for lowest/best ratio are Democrat majority states (with Pennsylvania being swing).

Republicans are really playing some 4D chess by allowing Trump to start a war nobody wants that causes huge gas price spikes when it hurts their base the most… months before an election where their jobs are on the line.

There is no difference. That death sentence for rap lyrics is absolute bullshit. Killing a man because he sang a song about hurting or killing is wrong. They are both wrong. Yeah, she’s a stupid bitch who deserves to go to jail, but changing a sentence because a person who is no longer in a position of power says stupid things is wrong.

I mean, I kinda agree with this decision. It is punishing her for what she might say in the future before she says it… so even regardless of freedom of speech, it is getting into pre-crime stuff.

At the same time, I feel like trying to subvert democracy should carry a lengthy sentence.

Look, I’m a huge hater of SpaceX (their people are arrogant, obnoxious assholes, even outside of Musk) and a huge hater of Musk, but there is a very big difference in the philosophies of each company to explain the difference in exploding rockets.

The rockets that explode for SpaceX are their experimental ones, where they are pushing the edge and trying new things each time. They can afford to explode because they are a private company funded by a dude with 500 billion dollars. Their philosophy is to build, test, fail, assess failure, build, test, fail, assess failure, build, test, succeed. Once they figure it out, they succeed a lot. The last time a production rocket of theirs failed was over 10 years ago.

Rocketlab is working on VC funding that is literally an order of magnitude smaller. They can’t afford to test and fail. Their philosophy is to design, analyze, bench test, redesign, re-analyze, full test, succeed. It’s a completely different way to do business that requires a lower up-front investment but longer time for return on investment.

Leadership in my company FINALLY ditched the tie a few years ago, and it is wonderful. I love the look of ties and love picking out cool ties to wear, but I hate the actual feel of wearing a tie. I have a wider neck, so shirts that fit my body are too narrow around the neck to close; and having the tie around my neck all day feels like I’m suffocating. It also adds to sweat around the collar, making me need more laundering of the shirts. I held out for a year or so on the tie, since I really feel they look more professional and polished (important for a joker like me to look more professional so people take me seriously). Then I went into a meeting with 3 VPs, a senior VP, and a smattering of GMs… and I was the only one wearing a tie. I said eff that afterward.

Oh, come on. You’re just being pedantic. Fingerprints are allowed as evidence in probably every court in the world, as long as they have been reviewed by an expert. Yes, technically it is the expert’s testimony that is the evidence, but that is the case with most “evidence.” Prosecutors don’t just show the jurors a medical chart and tell them to interpret that evidence. They have a doctor give testimony on why that medical chart means X, Y, and Z.

(https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4008377/)

8% false negative and 0.1% false positive… so 92% accurate in that study. Just slightly better than your “half the time.”

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/05/nist-study-measures-performance-accuracy-contactless-fingerprinting-tech

Computers can achieve 60% accuracy with contact-less scanning and 99.5% with contact scanning. A phone app can get 95% accuracy. Again, somewhat better than your “half the time.”

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/history-and-legacy-latent-fingerprint-black-box-study

7.5% false negative and 0.1% false positive.

https://www.uclalawreview.org/reliable-application-of-fingerprint-evidence/

FBI study showed 99.7% accuracy, and Miami Police study showed 95% accuracy.

Partial prints are much less accurate than full prints, but to say that fingerprint analysis is so inaccurate that it isn’t allowed in many courts is disingenuous. Expert testimony on fingerprint analysis is allowed in every court, which is what a normal person would mean when they say fingerprints are allowed as evidence.

I searched and couldn’t find any information about fingerprints not being admissible in any courts. I’ve found a lot of stories about how they aren’t 100% accurate (closer to 95-99 percent), but not one story about how fingerprints were not admissible.

Where are these “many courts” that don’t accept fingerprints?

“Why did the Americans attack us?”

I’ll refer you to the image of Peter Griffin next to a color coded piece of paper.

Congrats on the dumbest thing I’ve read today, and I’ve read quotes from Trump today!

“Based on where you are born, you can’t be a good person.” That’s literally what you are saying.

You: “Being Chinese and a good driver is contradictory.”

You: “Being African and a smart student is contradictory.”