I agree that "a" billion isn't even gonna start to cover it.

Will it even EVER be controlled down to Panama again?

It will take many years.

I looked at the dude's post history and it pretty evident that he's neither

Y'all some reactionary biatches up in on here

Suozzi NY-03 Apologized, regrets vote

Henry Cuellar TX-28 pardoned for bribery by trump

Don Davis NC-01 no primary, no challenger

Laura Gillen NY-04 primary challengers https://www.govtrack.us/... https://ballotpedia.org/Nicholas_Sciretta

Jared Golden ME-02 not running for re-election

Vincente Gonzalez TX-34 primary challengers https://www.govtrack.us/... https://ballotpedia.org/Etienne_Rosas

Sorry this is bad paste from my spreadsheet, and doesn't include the links.

But only two of these even have primary challengers.

Seventy comments and not one soul has defended Perl....

Merrick Fucking Garland was a poor choice in the first place, a sop to 'the other side' and he performed exactly as expected.

Bernie Sanders would have won against Trump all three races, if we just had to have an old white guy.

Biden was earnest, but he did not, and does not have the balls required in these modern times

Can we come back from this?

What a joke. Biden himself had the opportunity and the authority to start that process, and his entire administration farted around for three full years.

Does an invasion/attack by one NATO member trigger an Article 5 response against that country by the remainder of NATO?

I am sure that this scenario has been imagined before (ahem Greece v. Turkey)

I was not aware that mainland China had designated shitting streets.

Huh

Yea it's bullshit. They want to build the whole thing as 'voluntary" which will last only until it's in place and then some manufactured satanic-panik will make it "mandatory"

This is a ploy to build the system now and flip the switch later.

Yes absolutely Alder (the "security volunteer") was wrong and wholly responsible for his actions.

He fired his weapon and killed a person. He is responsible for that action.

What is this saying?

That people have a total lifetine throughput of 300-500k?

What does that tell us?

I do virtually all of my spending on credit card, and pay the full balance every month. So..... No shit, throughput is high. But revolving credit is zero, in my case. Other people will carry a balance, but so what?

A more useful metric might be average credit card debt balance, or average interest paid per month or per year.

Either this graphic is very atupid, or I am.

Enlighten me please.

Mike Johnson won't call the House in until after the 2 Dec special election in TN-07 Aftyn Behn is running against a maga candidate for a vacant seat

If she loses the election, then this cancels Grijalva's vote and then it will be 'safe' for the Pedo Protection Party to bring the House back.

When she wins..... Who knows.

The House will stay out until then, which is a major contributing factor to why the GOP was so desperate to peel off the ten Dork Dems on the Losers List above. They can NOT accept anything that would send the CR back to the House because the House is not available until 3 Dec.

Send Behn some dollars if you can, many small donations can have a great impact. She accepts no corp pac or iapac money

https://www.aftynforcongress.com/

Also, she has a substack for posting about issues

https://aftynbehnfortn.substack.com/

Much later edit: Dunno why I had any faith in Schumer to stay the course. Of course they caved.

Both Biden and RBG trashed their legacies by failing to step aside

Buy an older pixel and install Graphene

Keep it off/in a faraday bag at all times, never turn it on at home. Go to elsewhere to set it up.

If they REALLY want you, you will get got.

But there's no reason to make it easy.

Erika Kirk, surely

Hey benign and honorable govt!

Please tell the website "kill-your-govt .net" that I am old enough to join the revolution!!!

Kthxbai

edit: if this was pasted in both directions AND we trust that there is no identifying information in either 'secret' message, might work. Normies will not like the ctrl-c/ctrl-v workflow though.

I thought, at first, that this was particularly retarded satire, but...

No, just .ml things

Genuinely funny

Nice.

Old televisions used vacuum tubes in their circuitry in a similar role to transistors in (more) modern electronics.

These were literally little glass bulbs with bits inside that heated up, glowed and did magical things with electrons. They had some number of pins on the bottom and plugged into the television board similar to CPU sockets (but with only 5ish pins in a circle)

These tubes were not particularly long-lived and were fragile physical devices. When they were "on the fritz" it was literally often possible to smack them back into place/alignment/operation. Hence the trope of a TV with a bad picture, slapping it around and voila it works again. This was a literal thing that really happened and works, at least until the internals of whatever tube were too far out of alignment.

At this point, rather than call an expensive repairman (always a man in those days), you could take your suspected bad tube to the grocery store, where there might be a machine that resembles a 1980s arcade cabinet, which has a bunch of various common vacuum-tube sockets on it. Dad will plug the 'bad' tube into the (in)correct socket and the machine will pronounce that tube to be GOOD or BAD with some version of accuracy.

With that information, dad can select a new identical or similar tube from the rack that's under the testing board, inside the cabinet.

Maybe it will work, maybe not.

Lots of specific tubes were replaceable with more generic versions that "will work" and there was a lot of effort to consolidate the vast number of tube variants, so another important tool was the equivalency chart-- look up your old tube in a book of tiny print/tables and see what generic part number might work to 'fix' the TV

Without having to call the repairman to your house, which was also very much a real thing.

And your link just requested a piefed.social login for me

Do piefed instances not allow read-only access to non-logged in users?

https://anarchist.nexus/...

No.

There is no search warrant for the contents of your mind.

Of course "rubber hose decrypt" is always an option, but we're not quite there yet.