Saprophyte

Saprophyte, 15 days ago

www.secretservice.gov/investigations

Counterfeiting of United States currency, bonds, checks, and other financial obligations and securities. Distributing or passing of counterfeited, forged, or altered U.S. currency and other financial obligations and securities. Criminals sometimes use online forums to sell bulk counterfeited U.S. or foreign currency.

Saprophyte, 14 days ago

Yes.

wusa9.com/…/65-80249298-e0cb-4c31-b8b4-7f18105607…

Our experts confirm Washington secretly rotated his slaves out of the state, sometimes just sending them over the river to New Jersey, so they couldn’t claim their freedom.

“He actually instructs his secretary to do it in a way that will deceive them, meaning the slaves and the public,” MacLeod said. “So, he doesn’t want his actions to become common knowledge because he knows that there are so many abolitionists in the city that it could become a PR disaster for him.”

In 1793, Washington signs the Fugitive Slave Act into law, which helps slaveholders recapture enslaved people who have escaped.

Saprophyte, 1 month ago

True story, Tiktok has never been available in mainland China.

apnews.com/…/tiktok-bytedance-ban-china-india-376…

Saprophyte, 1 month ago

FISA authorizes a specific court to authorize warrants, the FISC, however the article looks directly at the NSAs role who is not affiliated with or charged by FISC, but through warrants and direction of the FBI. The FBI is not very scary since people normally associate them with protection of national interests, so instead the article only mentions who the tasking authority and holder of the warrant actually is. The article uses key terms specifically to get a reaction from a small subset as click bait without even providing accurate information about the topic. It’s lazy and uninformative.

Saprophyte, 3 months ago

But he pays people who weren’t going to cut down their trees to not cut down their trees so he can have a carbon neutral jet!

(The above sentence is an example of sarcasm.)

Saprophyte, 4 months ago

The Daily had a great podcast on this. Overturning Chevron shouldn’t be on the table, but due to mismanagement of one agency and way over reaching because they were out of money and wanted to expand other programs is the real cause behind this. It only takes one bad apple to spoil the batch. William Bright, one of the men in the lawsuit, ended up having a regulation enforced differently on him that forced him to pay outrageous fees to take an inspector on his fishing boat that he agrees is important oversight, but never had to pay for previously. He filed a complaint and the Koch brothers jumped on this case to fund attorneys to destroy Chevron deference.

Whatever idiot in the National Marine Fisheries Service decided to start charging for this program that’s required and has never been charged to the individuals being inspected previously needs to be crucified for this. Killing Chevron deference will have so many far reaching consequences that have been providing safety regulations for the past 40 years are going to go away. It’s now going to be up to Congress, who are nowhere near experts on any of these operations or industries, to come up with specific laws that have to be enforced. These idiots don’t do their job already, and the expectation that they’re suddenly going to do it well is insane.

pca.st/…/ec42952c-851c-4273-a7e2-29b0ca304b75

Saprophyte, 4 months ago

NSA is a common focus for conspiracy theorists because much of their work is secret, they can’t just come out and say “we don’t do that” or “we do that” because explaining capabilities helps people avoid those technologies to avoid targeting. Specifically, their mission is foreign intelligence, they can only support domestic warrants on individuals through the FBI using a court system called FISA here in the US. However, because of their ability to purchase metadata about phone calls in bulk so they can gather information about foreign communications, Americans assume it’s so they can spy on other Americans. That’s the mission of the FBI though… Which people are fine with for some reason.

Meanwhile, FBI does whatever they want in broad daylight while people are busy being paranoid about what the NSA or CIA might be doing in the shadows. Conspiracies just need a grain of truth, and while everyone is looking over one shoulder paranoid about nothing, law enforcement on all levels from city to county to state to federal are all standing right there looking over the other shoulder and no one seems to mind.

Saprophyte, 4 months ago

It has one of every vowel.

Saprophyte, 5 months ago

I think if you’re a right winger who smokes weed, that makes you a libertarian, not a liberal.

Saprophyte, 5 months ago

You know there’s a big difference between a liberal and libertarian, right?

Libertarian - an advocate or supporter of a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market and the private lives of citizens.

Liberal - a supporter of policies that are socially progressive and promote social welfare.

Saprophyte, 5 months ago

Oh, thank you so much. I don’t follow the whole Joe Rogan thing so I wasn’t familiar with him claiming to be a liberal. I thought he stuck to the conservative/libertarian thing and wasn’t trying to convince people he was something else. Thanks! TIL

Saprophyte, 5 months ago

There’s an article, but the tldr is… In 1906, 51 years after the losers lost, the daughters of the confederacy wanted to remind Black people where their place was.

Saprophyte, 5 months ago

There are no noise-cancelling headphones to stop the U.S. Navy’s 235-decibel pressure waves of unbearable pinging and metallic shrieking. At 200 Db, the vibrations can rupture your lungs, and above 210 Db, the lethal noise can bore straight through your brain until it hemorrhages that delicate tissue. If you’re not deaf after this devastating sonar blast, you’re dead.

www.huffpost.com/…/killing-with-sound_b_2744864

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

Wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. My wife recently bought the kids the original to play in the car while on road trips, so hearing it in the background while the kids laugh at it was a good refresher before watching this last night.

It’s nostalgia, plain and simple. The throwbacks to the original characters, like Roxanne and Monique were fun with a few sensible chuckle level of jokes, but overall it’s not something that would even be remotely fun if it wasn’t for the nostalgic bit that reminds you of the original.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

Nice try, I’m not downloading your app.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

youtu.be/QZkSRlIs9o0?si=l7jYk8g92oIS4t3b

The evil part is having laws like this and then filling in their water sources with concrete.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

Idiocracy was funnier when it wasn’t a documentary.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

apnews.com/…/supreme-court-ethics-code-conflicts-…

The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice

Nothing. They did absolutely nothing. No new rules and they can just not follow them if they want. Toothless and pointless pandering.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

The Supreme Court has adopted its first code of ethics - one.npr.org/i/1212836705:1212836706

This article does a pretty good job of going over the important parts of Article 2 of the US judicial code and talks about how Congress could regulate the Supreme Court as it does all other Federal courts. It would just take appointing an inspector general to enforce article 2 that already exist for lower courts.

The regulation would still maintain an independent decisional authority in the same vein is how they regulate the number of justices currently on the Supreme Court. The regulation itself would have nothing to do with the way that the justices reach their decisions, but would only cover their conduct outside of the court. The law is already in place, Congress just hasn’t put the mechanism in place to enforce it.

That being said, they can’t even pass resolutions in order to stop the time change which has near unanimous support across the population and all our other branches of government. It’s my firm belief that the opposite of pro is con, so the opposite of progress must be…

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

Obligatory :

Thank you for servicing me, Marine.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

“To condemn Hamas is a good thing,” said Elrabieey, a native of Egypt and a visiting scholar in Tulane’s Middle East and North African Studies program. “But at the same time, if you didn’t condemn Israel for committing war crimes, this is a double standard.”

At least one person there has a good grasp.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

Would sucking your own dick be more like getting your dick sucked or more like sucking on some dude’s dick?

Going to chalk this one up as a possible blessing in disguise with little (no) testing or research on my own.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

It’s cancel culture when it happens to them. When they do it, it’s called boycotting.

Saprophyte, 6 months ago

“I’m confident I’ll be able to support the Republican nominee, especially if it’s me.” - Pence

“Surely this will never bite me in the ass.” - Also Pence probably

foxnews.com/…/pence-says-sign-gop-pledge-make-deb…

Saprophyte, 7 months ago

My apologies, I mixed up the hospital for the church. You’re correct.