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3 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Your regular reminder that "taking the 5th" is interpreted according to your bias. It's valid when it's your side, but proof of the other side's guilt.
Congress should be investigating 1/6, because the invasion fo the capitol during presidential confirmation is a Big F***ing Deal. But at the same time, congress is partisan. Anything a Trump supporter says can and will be aggressively used against them. They should stay silent.
Of course, the simplest solution is to give him a pardon/immunity, in which case, he wouldn't be able to take the fifth.
I should probably cite examples from the other direction, such as this Obama official. It wasn't "extraordinary" then, and it's not now.
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

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4 Dec
"Hawaii" is trending because of blizzard warnings. People find this surprising.

Fact check: Hawaii has blizzard/winter-storm warnings almost every winter, because it's mountain peaks are 13k feet high and the snow line is 9k feet high.
Last winter:
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2018 Hawaii winter storm warning
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2 Dec
In the previous thread, I asked a technical question about NFTs. Quickly got spam responses trying to grab my cryptocurrency private-key to steal all my coins. ImageImage
It all looks up-and-up, but of course, at the bottom of the form is where you lose your coins: the 12 words are essentially the "password" that controls your wallet and what hackers want to steal your coins. Image
And then this simple thread gets more bots trying to do scams: Image
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2 Dec
"The gun went off by itself" is the same as "I got pregnant from a toilet seat".

The inexperienced have poor trigger discipline (they put their fingers on the trigger) and wave the run around as they talk, gesturing with their hands.
nytimes.com/2021/12/01/mov…
By the way, the reason experienced gun people are so uptight isn't because they are virtual signaling ("look at me, I'm so virtuous about safety"), but because they've made many mistakes or watched others make mistakes.
Sometimes it's a negligent discharge which scares the s***t out of everyone nearby. Other times it's people shouting at your for pointing the gun at them or putting your finger on the trigger instead of to the side.
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1 Dec
Meh.

It's a list of corporate execs, academics, and celebrities. It's not a list of front-line techies.

It's not a list of techies who write the reports, but managers 5 layers above them who take credit for the reports.
Except for maybe a couple of examples, you don't want these people on an advisory committee. Instead, you want a committee of techies nominated by these people, vouching for deep technical knowledge and current first-hand, front-line experience.
CEOs and corporate officers are the worst. Their job is to promote the interests of their companies. They rightly see their position on such a board as yet another way to promote their corporate interests. This isn't evil, it's just that it's their sole job.
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23 Nov
In case you haven't been paying attention to the Mike Lindell saga (i.e. in case you are sane), he's been promising for the last month that he'd present a case before the Supreme Court today challenging the election.

He didn't, of course.
thedailybeast.com/mypillow-ceo-m…
It's not just that the continues to not show any evidence the 2020 election was hacked or stolen, but also that there's no provision in the constitution for challenging a year-old election.
Brining a case to the Supreme Court challenging the 2020 election is like promising to bring a case to the World Court challenging that election. It's a nonsensical phrase that doesn't have any meaning. Or Space Court, which surely must over ride the World Court.
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22 Nov
TV and movies warp are brains. I don't think we recognize how much it does this.

For example, the TSA actually doesn't catch most guns that go through the system. How can they possibly miss a gun???

On TV or movies, such an event would always be shown to look obvious, like this Image
In reality, the gun is going to be at an angle, and mixed with other pieces of metal in a bag. As a TSA screener, after 100,000 bags go by contain various bits of metal, is this going to look obviously gun? Image
In the fictional world, when we are shown a gun, we are shown in such a way that we can easily recognize it. A TV or movie wouldn't deliberately try to hide from us that a gun is on screen when it's key to the plot
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