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ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
Well said.
ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
No, there is a huge difference because Trump's death would be from the same disease he criminally downplayed.
ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
The reference to going back to the time of the Tudors when they actually did such things tilts it back to being a real call to action.
ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
There was no nuance in what Bannon said.
ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
Which is why Bannon says he would like to go back to those times.
ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
I think he was clearly calling for them to be beheaded.
ZeteticElench··on Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: recording
"Heads on a pike" is not a common expression in English.
ZeteticElench··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
Just a coincidence that Russia then proceeded to do exactly what he asked for?
ZeteticElench··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
You can't.
ZeteticElench··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
I bet more Trump voters believe QAnon is real than Biden voters.
ZeteticElench··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
"on the basis of improbable claims of collusion with Russia"

Didn't Trump actually ask Russia to hack the democrats?

ZeteticElench··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
"Why should they cooperate with a party that spent the majority of the past four years trying to impeach a legitimately elected President"

This is some very Fox Newsish spin. Trump was impeached because he commited a crime worthy of impeachment. He actually did about 10.

ZeteticElench··on David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics
" I do think his strong opinions can be a source of much bigotry."

Which is funny because his "strong opinions" usually contain much bigotry.

ZeteticElench··on What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)
Bitcoin is very good at emitting CO2.
ZeteticElench··on What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)
What if sha256 hash is broken? Then all bitcoin becomes worthless.
ZeteticElench··on I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call
I think Google has the best speech to text technology in the world right now.
ZeteticElench··on Two Paradigms of Personal Computing
There is an annoying trend of companies moving to mobile only apps, like Samsung health used to have a nice web site but they dropped it and now you can only view your data on your mobile phone or use an emulator.
ZeteticElench··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
"Didn't Biden's lawyer ask for the laptop back? "

Proof?

ZeteticElench··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
John Paul "Mac" Isaac is not even remotely trustworthy and nothing about the story is plausible.

According to a Daily Beast interview, Isaac “switched back and forth” between saying that he contacted the FBI and saying the FBI contacted him. He also claimed that the FBI asked him for help in accessing the drive, though he didn’t indicate that the drive was encrypted or protected in any way.

There’s are several huge missing pieces in this story. For example, what did Isaac say to the FBI? “Hello, someone brought in a computer, and I think it belongs to Beau Biden.” If so, why would the FBI say anything other than, “Then give it back?” Why would Beau Biden dropping off a wet laptop cause the FBI to have any interest at all?

This, then, is the “official” story from the Post and Giuliani: A mysterious stranger drops off a laptop at a shop belonging to a legally blind Trump supporter who has said disparaging things about Biden. Nine months later, the FBI asks for that computer. Then 10 months after that, Giuliani hands over to the New York Post what he says is a copy of that computer’s hard drive. In between those dates, we have nothing. Well, nothing except for more Facebook statements from Isaac, who does devote some time to saying that Trump’s impeachment is a sham, but says nothing at all about Hunter Biden’s crack-smoking video that he found on a computer left at his store. And we have a lot of statements from Giuliani during this period, many of them essentially identical to what will eventually appear in the Post story.

ZeteticElench··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
Aren't those synonyms?
ZeteticElench··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
" Democracy is not a bunch of educated elites (and most of the "respected" media is white and ivy-league educated) telling the unwashed masses what to think and how to feel."

That is exactly what the fake Hunter Biden story is though. Blatant GOP propaganda released at a strategic moment to assist the re-election of Trump.

ZeteticElench··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
But you CAN count on the New York Post to tell lies.
ZeteticElench··on Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account
" the NYPost has a narrative, with physical evidence, corrobrated by actual non-anonymous people alleging very bad things about a presidential candidate "

Which is so obviously fake it isn't even funny. I'm getting very tired of the GOP's shameless tendency of creating controversies out of nothing. This is just another Benghazi or Hillary's Emails or Migrant Caravan.

ZeteticElench··on Four features that justify a new Unix shell
PowerShell is pretty damn awesome once you get the hang of it. The way objects are passed via pipe allows for really cool things like get-foo | where {$_.bar -eq 1} and you can serialize the output of most commands with get-foo | convertto-json. I use this feature all the time. Get-ADObject | convertto-json will give you a dump of your entire AD.