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@NewAtlantisSun
Apr 27 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
NPR just ran batshit story about boutique law firm that has realized they can sue random retail outlets in Portland for racial discrimination (ie having a modicum of loss prevention) on essentially no evidence, because they've successfully massaged the jury pool
"There used to be one or two old white guys on each jury who would always vote to acquit but they're gone now", almost a direct quote
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Apr 26
It's farcical to claim that they cannot get an injunction against wish et al to clean up their listings, or get the apps delisted. So I conclude they want this situation to continue and escalate.
Deshtwaun in Chicago does not have A Guy in Shenzhen he's siphoning monero to, afaict all this is thru commerical channels with huge identifiable chokepoints
One interesting thing about the ATF is that they generally respond to letters even if the response is uninformative, not a bad idea for a congressman who wants to make some hay to inquire about what licensing a platform for third party international d2c mg sales might require
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Nov 21, 2022
The idea that the constitution requires a state to be prevented from responding to a British invasion in 1812 or a Mexican invasion in 1845 is farcical.
You're not talking about states closing federal ports of entry, which would be unconstitutional - they're responding to an illegal infiltration by amongst other things armed foreign paramilitary forces
The contention is that a company strength formation busts across the border and? That literally happened repeatedly over a hundred years ago and absolutely no one had a problem with an armed state response.
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Oct 30, 2022
Just in time for Halloween, All Quiet is basically shot as a horror movie. It's a little bit of a shame that it leans into all the "charging into machine gun nests" tropes, which gives an inaccurate view of the real horror and pointlessness of the war.
I'm not a big FACT CHECK guy if the aesthetics pan out and the thematic elements line up, but in this case the "charging into mg nests" trope leans into the "war is pointless, man, why don't they just, like, stop" memeplex. The actual horror is you *can't* stop.
It was, relatively speaking, straightforward to take a trench with variations on "shell the hell out of it first". The problem was that it's trench 1 of 5 or so, you can't easily bring up supplies, and they can. You can trade trenches all day, but not break through.
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Oct 29, 2022
There's a temptation, bc US losses in WWII were relatively low, to diminish the impact of the war on American psyche as merely the effects of propaganda. This is not accurate.
Firstly, US overall losses were low bc US civilian areas were not targeted and US was not involved in heavy ground combat until late in the game. Where US was involved in combat (not just post Normandy but merchant marine, air force etc), losses were horrific.
Merchant marines for instance (civilian sailors responsible for military supply) lost about 4% of their total numbers over the course of the war. But that's heavily skewed, bc more served at the end, when German and Japanese navies were nonfunctional.
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Oct 10, 2022
Columbus thread time.

Columbus was not an idiot. He spent his life since the age of 14 at sea or engaged in nautical trade, and had extensive experience with navigation and cartography. He was deeply embedded in the merchant class at the time.
When you're a sea captain, you're responsible for a huge amount of capital - every voyage was essentially a fairly large funded startup. Investors do *not* entrust such money to someone prone to flights of fancy, mental instability, or unwillingness to listen to reason.
So with, essentially, a lifetime of successful startups and exits under his belt, and being recognized throughout the industry as a Maximally Competent Guy, Columbus goes to a *extremely* large investor (the Spanish monarchy), with a facially absurd pitch.
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Oct 8, 2022
Controlling women's bodies (in a sexy way)
Dear @GOP there's still time to hire me as a consultant for your political messaging
We have, if you will, seized the national thermostat. And your nips will never be harder than under Republican rule.
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