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I am sorry are there no republicans there that will flip their vote for money? Like somebody on the right must need a quick Million in “investments”….
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Obstruction pays better I guess
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they have deeper pockets and the same ideologies. da coal coffers be crazy, more money from someone who aligns with your beliefs = win/win.
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If ever there was a wedge issues Pete could use to knock Kamala out the paint come 24 or 28.
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Sorry, but I fine the Pete vs. Kamala discourse just weird.
Like we gotta speculate about the 2028 Democratic primary already.
Like we gotta speculate about the 2028 Democratic primary already.
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It’s going to be the rock vs Joe rogan. Mark my words.
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This country is really out of options….
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You’re right. It’s just I might be in the minority but I like Pete more now than I did in 2019. I was projecting…. and praying.Sorry, but I fine the Pete vs. Kamala discourse just weird.
Like we gotta speculate about the 2028 Democratic primary already.
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no one talking about these Jan 6 texts? ish is wild
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I'm just here to see it play out at this point
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By definition regulations cant keep up with technological advancements. The time to ring this alarm was legitimately 3 decades ago.
Insight: Deepfake anyone? AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase
"Do you want to see yourself acting in a movie or on TV?" said the description for one app on online stores, offering users the chance to create AI-generated synthetic media, also known as deepfakes.www.reuters.com
We need more legislators from the internet age in Congress, or we will not like what technology has in store for us, from deepfake apps to unmanned militaries.
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Once upon a time, we had this little office in Congress
Office of Technology Assessment - Wikipedia
Government can be proactive if given the necessary tools. This office fulfilled that function for emerging tech, just like the CBO analyses the impact of budget proposals before they are voted on.
Just take a look at the list of reports the OTA was producing in 1995, the last year it was funded:
We would have had a much better response to the changes of the last two and half decades if Gingrich hadn't decided to kill the agency and let private industry decide how to organize our society around technological innovations.
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When you look for a mail-order bride for her passport...
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Mark Meadows really ****ed himself over.
He tried to partially comply with the subpoena, in a way that clearly negates his stated reason for refusing to comply, and then still got held in contempt.
So he turned over all kinds of texts etc. that look really bad, rope in other people, all resulting in zero benefit to himself.
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What about any texts he probably deleted? Those can be recovered right? Gotta be some pretty damning stuff on record.
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Add this to the decision to rubber stamp drilling permits in federal lands, the expansion of the remain in Mexico policy, and the refusal to expand the Supreme Court.
I'm very dissatisfied with the ways in which the Biden WH chooses to apply its executive power. He isn't not walking the walk that needs to walked, but he is hiding behind the dysfunctionality of Congress and the radicalization of the GOP to maintain the status quo and sell it to us as a reasonable option.
That's not gonna be enough to maintain control of the institutions (let alone save them), and I suspect centrist Democrat leaders know and accept this.
I suppose it's more important to stick to one's ideological guns that to accept that our version of capitalism just isn't sustainable.
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If they were dumb enough to use their cell phones (we know they are) then all of that can be recovered.
Clearing/deleting messages on your devices doesn't mean the data is permanently deleted, it's just filed differently.
