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lauren, to google
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Non-techies are really starting to notice the quality drop in Search results, all the AI-generated garbage videos flooding , etc.

Until recently I'd mainly hear from techies about these sorts of issues, but now it's gotten so bad that everyone is noticing.

18+ Threadbane,
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@lauren
Where's AltaVista when you really need it, eh? Used to use it before there was a Google. Worked great!

GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

1/…

Tyler McBrien:

At 2:04 p.m., the prosecution strolls back in and lays out stacks of papers, binders, and other documents on the desk.

Threadbane,
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@GottaLaff
NFL
From 12 years ago, Lewis Black's take on Trump 2012. Truly, one of the funniest (and most prescient) comedy routines ever. And it's all still true! This talk of Cohen drumming up support for Trump 2012 reminded of it.

Well worth a listen.

https://www.cc.com/video/dlpw9d/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-back-in-black-trump-2012

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

1/… Via Rupar: Trump wraps up his morning rant by attacking one of the prosecutors, Colangelo, which is a flagrant violation of his gag order

Threadbane,
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@GottaLaff
How is it that they GET all these seats in the first place? Aren't there any decent people who want to attend the trial?

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"While belief in has waned a bit nationally, 90% of Floridians still believe it’s real, according to a recent survey by Atlantic University.

Most Floridians — nearly 70% — want both the state and federal governments to do more to address climate change, the study found."

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/05/14/90-of-floridians-think-climate-change-is-real-much-higher-than-across-the-u-s/

Threadbane,
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@CelloMomOnCars
Why can't they complete the Florida Utopian dream and make it illegal to mention poverty, disease, crime, hunger and hurricanes? Why do they have to put up with bad things when all you need to do is make unhappy thoughts illegal!?

br00t4c, to random
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Tuberville Whines Prosecutors Are Causing Trump 'Mental Anguish'

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/05/tuberville-whines-trumps-courtroom-0

Threadbane,
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@br00t4c
We can only hope he's right for a change.

emptywheel, to random
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Threadbane,
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@emptywheel
Gotta wonder why Donald the Defendant hates Haberman so much.

GottaLaff, to comics
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Threadbane,
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@GottaLaff
Wife's tag line is genius.

paninid, to random
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Imagine asserting that a literal worm ate your brain to get out of paying alimony.

You might be RFK, Jr.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/08/robert-f-kennedy-jr-worm-brain

Threadbane,
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@paninid
It's almost as if one has to suffer from cognitive impairment to make it to the high echelon of Right Wing political theater. Practically all the Red state governors are psychopaths and semi-literate morons, and the criminal Defendant candidate for POTUS is literally a demented and deranged sociopath. The crazier you are, the higher you go in the GOP.

Threadbane,
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@paninid
Yes. I've said for years that the GOP began selecting for psychopaths during the 1990s. If you're not a Xian con artist, a grifter, or criminally insane you can't even get on the GOP ballot anymore. Domestic abuse and sexual assault are a bonus. Since the 1990s, any Republican member of Congress who shows the slightest trace of scientific literacy, awareness of history, respect for Constitution principles or social conscience is primaried out by people like Paul Gosar and Gym Jordan.

TexasObserver, to Texas
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“The juice they get from seeing this local victory will then spur people on towards a national approach. It’s very politically sharp.”

New from Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti: A new coalition of Christian nationalist groups is mobilizing congregations to take over #Texas school boards. https://www.texasobserver.org/christian-schoolboards-education-k12/

#education #news #politics #USpol #religion #schools #Christianity #extremism

Threadbane,
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@TexasObserver @stevanzetti
That might be better phrased as "maintain control of school boards". TX has the most horrific school system in the nation with the possible exception of Kentucky, and Xian nationalists have been in charge for thirty years or more. All that matter in TX schools are Jesus and football.

Threadbane,
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@TexasObserver @stevanzetti
I apologize for my cynical grousing today. My entire family going back to the early 1900s was from Texas, and I'm the only one not born there, so when I see more mention of the Republican/Xian takeover it just bums me out.
Yes, it's getting even worse, and with a homicidal psychopath as governor and the most corrupt AG in the nation things don't look good.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE. 1/…

Bower:

Justice Merchan starts off will the prosecution motion for contempt.

He tells Trump he's about to issue his ruling, in which he will again find Trump in contempt of court.

The last thing I want to do is put you in jail, Justice Merchan says to Trump. You are the former President of the United States and possibly the next President as well.

But "going forward," he continues, "this court will have to consider jail sanctions" if necessary.

Threadbane,
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@msbellows @tdwllms1 @GottaLaff
Why can't he be put up overnight in a hotel, so that his SS detail won't have to go into a jail to protect him? No worse than sequestering a jury is it? The OJ Simpson jury spent weeks in a motel/hotel. No smartphone, no posting.

ColesStreetPothole, to random
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  1. An ex-president's lawyer is arguing in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that presidents can assassinate U.S. citizens with full immunity.
  2. Nearly a dozen universities have called the cops on peaceful anti-war protestors, resulting in hundreds of arrests and clear instances of police brutality.
  3. Texas anti-DEI bill has led to firings of dozens of staff at public universities.

If you don't think fascism is a real threat in the United States, I don't know what to say.

Threadbane,
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@lednaBM @ColesStreetPothole
We often hear the complaint that there's no way to lock the Defendant up were he found guilty, pointing to problems about security and his SS detail. I've been saying for years now that the solution is Gitmo. Of course! It's where we've locked up terrorists since 2003. Donald should be perfectly safe there.

toussaint, to random
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US House just passed a law limiting your freedom of speech. you cant say having a country based on race/ethnicity is wrong IF you are talking about
You cant compare what israel is doing in Gaza to the Nazi's even tho they are running the place like the warsaw ghetto. The US House just outsourced the definition in our laws to an international organization called holocaust remembrance alliance, they subbed their definition for anti-semitism and put it into our law

Threadbane,
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@GreenFire @ramsey @toussaint @Npars01
Why not vote it down? If it passes, we know who the enemies of free speech are on the Democratic side and take our chances on Biden showing some common sense for a change and vetoing it.

otownKim, to random
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For those who are bitching about President Biden and saying the Gaza situation will cost him the election, WTF do you propose?! Third party has ZERO chance! Have you learned anything from 2016?!?!?! The Orange shit stain suggests that Netanayu "finish the job!". How dare anyone say they or both sides are the same. If that's your belief, unfollow me now!!!

Threadbane,
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@otownKim
Voting for anybody but Biden will accomplish the long-sought goal of the GOP to install a king, but schools stopped teaching young people history and civics 50 years ago. The old are trapped in some Republican yesteryear, when Republicans weren't quite as horrid as they are now, and have been subjected to 40 years of ever-more-intense anti-Democrat propaganda. The young only see Biden's pigheaded, sadistic support of Israel, not realizing that the Defendant would be even worse.

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