In a controversial bid to expose supposed bias in a top journal, a US climate expert shocked fellow scientists by revealing he tailored a wildfire study to emphasize global warming.
He is being propped up by Saudi investors, which are aligned with Russians on more fronts than one.
Don't think for a second that his wealth is connected to the success of his businesses, never was. It's always been connected to his investors. His investors own him. His investors are the Saudis.
Musk is America's new 9/11, just, in slow and prolonged motion. Same money, same people behind it.
Liberty Safes is the manufacturer of gun safes. They have a pretty big market share overall. Unforunately, some random guy had a federal warrant and the FBI came knocking. Liberty cooperated with the feds, giving them a backdoor code so they could get into the guy’s safe. Naturally, rightoids are seeing red and are trying to...
with Liberty Safe Inc getting into trouble if they didn’t comply.
Only if the warrant included Liberty Safe themselves. Which it most certainly did not.
There is no legal obligation they have to cooperate with law enforcement in investigations they aren't subjects of. That's true of every company in America. Every person in America too, for that matter.
I don't disagree with them for doing so, nor do I disagree with you in that they would've gotten that safe open anyway. But don't conflate a business being willing to bend over for law enforcement as an obligation. It rarely ever is. Lots of MAGA morons here doing exactly that too, saying the government overstepped. They didn't. They just asked, Liberty complied willingly. If you've got a problem here, it's with that company.
See the Apple case for all the nitty gritty in that. Apple doesn't cooperate with Law Enforcement.
"contraband" being just "things" made only contraband by virtue of being illegal. Just like certain kinds of speech, such as conspiracy to commit crimes.
So tbf, they're still the exact same thing.
Edit, @theragu40 it isn't pedantic. Law enforcement is about enforcing laws, not preventing violence. That the two things coincide every now and again means nothing. Words matter.
Pedantry is being picky about words when the definitions are irrelevant. When communication was successful despite the wrong word used and someone wants to correct the word anyway, that's a pedant. Here, the difference between violent illegal and just illegal are pretty much irrelevant as far as what the law says.
Uh you can get every one of those details from inference in their PR response. No speculation required. Just read like an informed adult.
They were asked to open the safe by law enforcement because they had a warrant for the safe. Not targeting the company itself. The company won't be mentioned in the warrant. But they have very likely done this many many times prior - they said as much and I'm sure law enforcement types have a great working relationship with gun safe manufacturers for very obvious reasons. We're talking like four companies that hold 99% of the market. That's an easy assumption.
It's the cognitive dissonance between pro-police and anti-authority that a very certain political bloc is dealing with in this "news" that makes it "news" at all.
And that reality makes the comments very very telling. Lotta folks wearing masks here.
The company willingly complied with a law enforcement request, that's literally all that happened. Happens all the time. It's only news when they don't comply -that's abnormal- or when it's being made a political issue by people who insist they're above politics. See some in this thread.
Tech bros aren't typically progressives any more than green party candidates are Democrats. Tech bros are typically libertarian. They try to align with the left since it markets better but that's always been an obvious, transparent lie. Progressives and tech bros aren't friends.
I’m surprised the FBI wouldn’t have a master key for each manufacturer.
AT&T anyone?
For the uninformed. If you think that a safe manufacturer providing a master key directly to law enforcement would be "a step too far" I invite you to click the link below.
Security is mostly theater. So Privacy is mostly theater.
"working in tech" is a very different thing than "working among vc startups". Tech bros is a perjorative that refers to the latter. I've worked as a software developer for nearing on two decades, but I've stayed far far from the vc startup world. They are two wholly different things.
So unless you think of yourself as "a tech bro" (which if you do, that's weird, because it is a perjorative), then yeah. You understand exactly, based on your experience. I bet you don't work among the vc startup crew that dominates mainstream tech news. Most of us don't.
Am I supposed to be upset? I'm not. Grow up dude you're not that cool.
You're not a tech bro. You're not a venture capitalist. You're a sys admin. That's not a tech bro, and depending on your industry it might not really even be the tech industry. Shit, frozen burrito companies need sys admins. They're not the tech industry.
Your know your history is public yeah? You sit and play video games all day. Fifteen pages of video game commentary, and not high level stuff either. Just basic "I play these aren't they fun" commentary. Believe me, you're not special or unique, you're an open book that can be read from twenty feet away.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure I can say with confidence you're not some venture capitalist speaking for other venture capitalists, kiddo. Dream on. Those guys wouldn't sit at the same table with you.
The Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. routinely uses fake social media accounts to collect information about people, according to over 3,000 pages of document. The internal records include guidance for agency personnel and emails — but there is little or no evidence of adequate rules to protect Americans’ privacy...
The tactic also violates Facebook’s user policy, which requires people to use their real names, as the platform has told law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions.
What a meaningless and ridiculous thing to highlight. This article feels like a joke, honestly. Y'all ever heard of Snowden? Or the US PATRIOT Act?
Shit, just look at the funding page. These people aren't your friends.
Finding the similarities paints a picture. I see something in common among those companies and I alluded to it already: These are all major too-big-to-fail companies that want to be able to apply their rules (their ToS) as if it were actual law, even to the government itself. That's how they operate and that's how they talk. That's what I was highlighting originally, their complaint that the government wouldn't listen to their ToS as if it were law.
The "Justice" in "Brennan Center for Justice" refers to the concept of justice for corporations, not people.
On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...
Good moment to point out that "white" is an ever-changing target that constantly moves as needed by the white people in power. Remember "one drop" was their rule. There's no such thing as "white".
Fun fact that demonstrates the point: depending on your locale you may already be seeing this happen, but Latinos are about twenty years away from being considered defacto "white people". And it's not accidental. It's a coordinated effort to get hold of a rising voting bloc that's historically very conservative.
If you live in California you might already recognize the difference between Norteno and Sureno (speaking colloquially, not referring to the gangs using those words as their names). If you've been paying attention to folks like Enrique Tarrio, Raphael Ted Cruz, and George "This is My Name This Month" Santos, you'd see it happening elsewhere too.
Latinos who don't embrace their Latino culture while they're here in America are being indoctrinated the same way they did the Irish and Italians before them. Remember neither of those groups were "white" when they first arrived in America either. The inner circle already accepted them as White People, they're just working on their adherents now. Ask yourself why so many second generation Mexican-American immigrants are hesitant to call themselves Mexican. Nope, they'll use Latino though. They've internalized that word as what the white people mean by it, it's a dirty word in that context.
And this is the effect of culturally ingrained racism. We saw it with Irish, Italians, we see it with Black Americans, and we see it with Mexican Americans too. The patterns are right there and obvious.
I'm gonna point out that it is only complex to not be white. It is not complex to be white. That's a simple determination white society makes, that's all the complexity there is. That determination.
Irish people weren't white, then they were.
Italian people weren't white, then they were.
Latino people weren't white, then they were. They're getting there. See my other comment.
Jews still aren't "white". They're "Jews". Secular Jews get to be white though. "The good ones", they'll say. Hrm.
There's no group mastering over white people making them play by some ever-changing set of made up rules. That's what it is to be not white in America. Literacy tests, citizenship tests, background tests, sundown towns, don't look a white woman in the eye, mind your manners, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. Those are all things done to minorities that have never been done to white people.
"White" is not a complex thing. Full disclosure, I'm a white guy. First generation Italian American, my dad came off a boat at Ellis Island and his family had to cross America all the way to California to find people who treated them as equals. Italians, they're as complex as Germans and the Dutch. But white? White isn't complex.
Sweet Smell of Success: Simple Fragrance Method Produces Major Memory Boost When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. In fact, participants in this study by neuroscientists from the University of California, Irvine (
Had the same thought. Got sidetracked sniffing pens.
Jokes aside, any of y'all remember the scented markers for kids? Holy shit talk about grooming children for addictions. Whole classrooms of kids just sniffing chemical markers. The gas station rose vial of the kindergarten.
In an April 2023 statement submitted to the U.S. Congress to explain the budget request, FBI Director Christopher Wray cited several factors that had “significantly expanded the DNA processing requirements of the FBI.” He said the FBI collected around 90,000 samples a month — “over 10 times the historical sample...
That's a highly generalized take that doesn't hold water at all. The American government sucks but they're not operating organ farms in concentration camps targeting religions, they're not redrawing their maps to include parts of neighboring nations like Mexico and Canada, they're not funding North Korea as the DPRK launches missiles over South Korea and Japan, they don't have social credit scores, they don't systematically harass and threaten their own citizens abroad..
We can keep going if you want. And we can talk about the terrible shit America does too.
But "these two entities are both bad and therefore they do the same exact things" is fucking dumb, naive, myopic, childish, and a bunch of other pejoratives I could think of. Grow up.
Ah yes, rather than address your inconsistent arguments, call me a racist. Clever one you are, why didn't I think of that?
Jokes aside you can be mad all you like, you're still wrong. We can talk about the awful shit America does and has done, but it won't be the same as what China has done.
Again, we can talk about the terrible shit America has done and still does. I won't deny it. Yes murder is bad. Okay? That's not what you're here arguing though. You wanna try again, no sweat. I'll listen. Will you?
"Anything bad China has done, America has too" is what you said. That is not just factually wrong, it's childish and ignorant and above all lazy. You can't even be arsed to be more than nominally aware of things.
I was very clear about this already, so that you want to keep arguing tells me you're not reading my replies at all or they won't matter anyway, you'll just pound your fists and stomp your feet. Fine. Do that. It's alright. Won't help you, won't get you any closer to a better world, but you'll feel better for a half second. Neat yeah?
Starfield is here, and after dozens of hours floating in space our reviewer Chris Livingston liked it—but didn't love it. "Starfield is Bethesda's biggest RPG ever, and it shares even more DNA with Skyrim and Fallout 4 than I expected—but it ultimately falls far short of the greatness of both of those games," he wrote in his...
Just finished a FO4 play through and started a NV play recently. NV really is a world of difference apart from other Bethesda RPGs. The world feels more fluid and real. You enter an empty building and find nothing worth taking ... That's pretty real compared to FO4 where a first mission puts you in a power armor and gives you a mini gun. "Just happened to be one on the roof, weird."
The opioid overdose antidote Narcan will be available over the counter in the coming days, a move that’s hoped to increase access to the lifesaving medication amid the country’s worsening opioid epidemic....
Nah. I still disagree. "Casual racism against Chinese people" has been a mainstay of America since the railroads were built. Probably before.
I mean Bugs Bunny comes to mind, what more casually racist and beloved character is there?
Those guys were all using coded language for decades. Many white kids pick up on that language and adopted it. All while Trump was donating to the Clintons and well before too.
The danger in attributing this all to Trump is that Trump is going to die one day, fascism in America won't die with him.
Scientist shocks peers by 'tailoring' climate study (phys.org)
In a controversial bid to expose supposed bias in a top journal, a US climate expert shocked fellow scientists by revealing he tailored a wildfire study to emphasize global warming.
Star Citizen reaches $600 million raised but the game future is really worrying (gamerkick.com)
Cloud Imperium has been working on Star Citizen since 2011, which has already raised more than $600 million. When will its final version be released?
Elon Musk says he withheld Starlink over Crimea to avoid escalation (www.bbc.com)
A senior Ukrainian official says this enabled Russian attacks and accuses him of "committing evil".
Gun safe manufacturer cooperates with FBI, chuds big mad (twitter.com)
Liberty Safes is the manufacturer of gun safes. They have a pretty big market share overall. Unforunately, some random guy had a federal warrant and the FBI came knocking. Liberty cooperated with the feds, giving them a backdoor code so they could get into the guy’s safe. Naturally, rightoids are seeing red and are trying to...
Documents Reveal Widespread Use of Fake Social Media Accounts by U.S. Department of Homeland Security (www.brennancenter.org)
The Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. routinely uses fake social media accounts to collect information about people, according to over 3,000 pages of document. The internal records include guidance for agency personnel and emails — but there is little or no evidence of adequate rules to protect Americans’ privacy...
[News] State Republicans Try to Remove NC Supreme Court Justice for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias (slate.com)
On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...
A Whiff of Genius: Simple Fragrance Method Boosts Cognitive Capacity by 226% (scitechdaily.com)
Sweet Smell of Success: Simple Fragrance Method Produces Major Memory Boost When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. In fact, participants in this study by neuroscientists from the University of California, Irvine (
U.S., FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting (theintercept.com)
In an April 2023 statement submitted to the U.S. Congress to explain the budget request, FBI Director Christopher Wray cited several factors that had “significantly expanded the DNA processing requirements of the FBI.” He said the FBI collected around 90,000 samples a month — “over 10 times the historical sample...
Steam Deck alternative Lenovo Legion GO is real, coming October (www.destructoid.com)
A Halloween launch to boot.
Critics are mostly positive on Starfield, but not unanimous: From 10/10s to 'cold, lifeless, and uninspired' (www.pcgamer.com)
Starfield is here, and after dozens of hours floating in space our reviewer Chris Livingston liked it—but didn't love it. "Starfield is Bethesda's biggest RPG ever, and it shares even more DNA with Skyrim and Fallout 4 than I expected—but it ultimately falls far short of the greatness of both of those games," he wrote in his...
X faces millions in fees over unpaid severance for former Twitter employees (mashable.com)
X currently faces 2,200 arbitration cases from ex-employees.
Opioid overdose antidote Narcan will be widely available over the counter next week (www.nbcnews.com)
The opioid overdose antidote Narcan will be available over the counter in the coming days, a move that’s hoped to increase access to the lifesaving medication amid the country’s worsening opioid epidemic....
Imagine Dragons Releases Official Starfield Song Called Children of the Sky - IGN (www.ign.com)
Imagine Dragons has released its official Starfield song, called Children of the Sky (a Starfield song)....
Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House (www.theguardian.com)
Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’