Roberts, who was facing up to 17 years in prison, sexually assaulted the underage victim at her home in July 2024. They were drinking alcohol at a pool party. Roberts was mayor of DeRidder, Louisiana, at the time, a position she had held since 2018.
Can’t help thinking that if this were a man, the penalty would be higher.
Short term investors who know it’s a fraud and will get out leaving others holding the bag.
Fucking morons who will be left holding the bag.
Macs are my daily driver and have been for decades. You’ll have to fight me to take mine.
I use Linux for VMs and NUCs and servers. Less than I did a decade ago, but that’s only because I have less energy to put into random projects as I get older. Gone are the late-night hackathons until 4am. I support mostly Windows at work.
There’s always a 10% chance one of the kitties is eating the flowers in the kitchen. The evidence remains after. More rarely, she’ll jump down and run away when caught in the act. She’s even done it in front of us when we were watching TV and she thought we wouldn’t notice.
Someone even completely knocked over a vase and spilled whatever everywhere last month. She swears it wasn’t her. Must have been a burglar.
EFF is the only org where I’d throw away any job to join them.
Or, is … sarcasm
You’re quick. Fuck everyone in my mother’s generation who won’t step aside and let younger people hold office, buy houses (she lives alone in a three bedroom house), or start careers (a former CEO came out of retirement and accepted a low-level position part-time where my partner works just so he’d have “something to do” ten hours per week). They are suppressing everyone under them.
Ted Cruz can’t because he has only culture war and lies. Ron Wyden has real experience drafting laws and policy (Section 230). Wyden needed a republican turd to join up for a bi-partisan bill. He found a sucker who put his name on it (for all the wrong reasons, but right-wing dipshits don’t look into anything, so it still works). Sometimes, you take what you can get to advance your cause.
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward
Ron Wyden Wants To Know Why The DEA Still Has On-Demand Access To Trillions Of Phone Records
Ted Cruz Proudly Pledges To Kill Last Ditch Funding Effort For Popular Low-Income Broadband Program
Ted Cruz Roasted for Pretending Paris Climate Accord Is Only for Parisians (Mother fucker went to Princeton. I know that doesn’t mean he’s intelligent, you can buy your way in, but he sure as shit understood why this was a lie. It shows his contempt for his supporters (deserved, earned, they are stupid as a rock). Which is why this happened:)
Ted Cruz Responds to Photo of Him Leaving Texas Before Winter Storm
Critics may chastise me for pulling all my pro-Wyden links from a single source (TechDirt). You can find the same info on his policies pretty much anywhere. I just like TechDirt’s tone in calling things what they are. Any other serious (as in, not right-wing propaganda) reporters will agree on the facts of what he’s done, but they are often coy / timid about calling out those acting in bad faith.
You know what you need to get a bill through? Bi-partisanship. We had it for the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Not that it did all that much in the long run, but at least it passed. You think we’re gonna pass laws to (attempt to) hold this admin accountable without a repub putting their name on it? Fat chance. Use one of the dumb idiots to launder your message for their audience. Again, they’re too stupid / thoughtless / disinterested to actually look into anything. It’s a win.
Stupid people don’t investigate the meaning of /s.
The best part is when they listen to their constituents. Wait… they don’t?! I’m shocked!
Also, as Trump said, nobody cares about the Epstein files. It’s a hoax!
She must be just as much of the people as pelosi, right?
/s
The thing is… RATM was always raging against the machine of trying to help people. Not that Dems are trying to be helpful. They want the status quo. But stupid fucking right-wingers can’t intuit what it means to say that, “Some of that workforces are the same that burn crosses.” They only hear, “Fuck you, I won’t do what you’re telling me.”
It’s like thinking Vader is the hero for throwing the emperor down the shaft. No, the Jedi was the hero. They’re basically illiterate.
Edit: Literacy has more to do with comprehension of a sentence than sounding out words, though we’re pretty terrible at teaching that.
Only because the hype has lasted longer than expected. Now that IPOs have been filed, the AI companies (Anthropic, OpenAI) released statements about slowing down to protect us. They’re setting the stage for lower growth. But I think you should invest every penny you have into “SpaceXMegaTwitterSuperCarAI”.
You know what, you’re right. There are classes of people who can’t control their outcomes (skin color, sexual orientation, gender identity), and then there are those who can’t control what decade they were born. That’s exactly the same thing.
Boomers can’t help stealing from their offspring because they were born at a time where that was wired-in. There’s nothing they can do to improve their behavior. I’m so glad you corrected me for being a fucking bigot. All this time that I thought I was criticizing greed and power has actually been a misguided adventure into bigotry.
Do boomers who are white hold most of the wealth? Doesn’t matter! They were born in a time when you couldn’t control that. What the fuck. What a shit response. Defend people who lord over you or pretend to fight back as you lord over us. You’re exposed. Shut up. Go away.
Which is why we should weed out the people who don’t believe in science. They harm everyone around them with ivermectin bullshit. We’re not contentious on the value of vaccines.
My father almost died of polio as a child. His autopsy / cause of death was recently upgraded to say something about a side effect of polio that occurred later in life. I’d never heard of it until about a week ago when my brother told me. We’ll see similar for covid decades from now.
Exactly.
In the case of my mother: the first time, I couldn’t understand why she was snowed by this obvious liar. The second time, I didn’t care as much because he’s obviously going to prison. The third time is when I said, “Fuck you.” She has no access to my life anymore. Family members are to keep secret that I’ll be in town to visit. She is never to know anything about me ever again. She voted to harm people that I love. Fuck her.
And I have no problem with that. I sort of found out who they were by accident cause they had a trend of good stories getting posted here and at some point I auditioned their podcast where they mention that.
That’s sorta the point of their strategy. Steve Bannon used the term “flood the zone with shit.” The idea is to throw so much insane / upsetting news at us that we can’t focus on any one thing.
I will take this opportunity to recommend a podcast ep about him from the QAA podcast:
https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-43-scott-adams
I hope I found the right ep. The ep number is so low that it makes me wonder if the one I wanted was a later ep? Too many total to go through and verify.)
And Behind the Bastards:
He became pretty unhinged later in life. He put some bizarre content into the world.
Ron Wyden co-authored Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in 1996, which protects internet platforms from being held liable for user-generated content. It’s a big reason that the internet exploded in popularity. We may need to revisit and increase regulation since seeing what social media became, but he’s had a pretty great track record.
Is it ghosts? I’m gonna pick ghosts.