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Scwurtle 6 points ago +6 / -0

"Water suppliers warned officials that the costs of complying would hit low-income customers especially hard."

California can't do this, it's racist!

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Scwurtle 2 points ago +2 / -0

The current state of "journalism":

Article Title - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

Article Subtitle - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

First line of article, quoting Snowden's Tweet - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

Snowden's Tweet - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

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Scwurtle 5 points ago +5 / -0

The current state of "journalism":

Article Title - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

Article Subtitle - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

First line of article, quoting Snowden's Tweet - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

Snowden's Tweet - "The NSA is taking over the internet"

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Scwurtle 3 points ago +3 / -0

So you saying, that Mario Nawfal is saying, that Alex Jones is saying, that Axios is saying, that Iran is launching shit at Israel? (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

=)

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Scwurtle 7 points ago +7 / -0

I've always read SHOWERS as in "storms, or falling water"... but just now made the connection that it could also be SHOW-ers... as in, "watch this, you're about to see some shit."

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Scwurtle 1 point ago +1 / -0

Lots of good advice here and on Patriots.win. My suggestion (from a listener perspective, not a creator perspective) is to run multiple platforms in parallel. I have followed a number of content creators on FB / YouTube / Twitter(X) that had their "basic" (non-offensive) stuff on those platforms, and encouraged listeners to join them on Locals / Patreon / Substack for the rest. I like that approach because it gives listeners the option to get an idea of what the content is about before committing to a paid subscription.

Best of luck to you, it sounds like you're offering something that people are interested in and I hope that you can generate some income from your efforts!

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Scwurtle 11 points ago +11 / -0

Lol, the payment will display the name IRS TREAS(ON) 310. (I know, treasury... let me have my fun!).

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Scwurtle 2 points ago +3 / -1

If there is a level of trust between the two of you, you could just make a contract. I did this with two friends back in 2018, I had some alt coins that they wanted to gamble on so I juat wrote up a sinple agreement between us. They gave me cash, and in return they "owned" x amount of whatever coin they were interested in.

In 2020 they were both in hard times and asked about the value, it had gone down slightly from their buy in, but I just refunded them and took the loss on my books.

This is obviously not the safest option, but it is an option.

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Scwurtle 1 point ago +1 / -0

The White House Military Office maintains a ceremonial guard unit that stations four Marines at the White House. Additionally, Marines are tasked with transporting the President to and from the White House on Marine 1.

But that's just during "normal times"... since we live in Clown World, this next blurb about the Marines may hold some relevant information:

"Embassy duty is a crucial aspect of the Marine Corps' mission with a long tradition; the Corps is currently tasked to train and maintain a cadre of guards to cover 181 embassies and consulates worldwide with the ability to augment assigned forces as necessary."

Technically, the White House in the District of Columbia. If a foreign power were to pull off an insurrection and occupy that area, the Marine presence wouldn't be considered a "domestic" police force.

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Scwurtle 7 points ago +7 / -0

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 prohibits the president from using the military as a domestic police force.

The military protects the Constitution, not the president. The Secret Service requests local and state Police help for all presidential visits. There were plenty of articles whining about the cost of Trump's visits during his term, and calls for him to reimburse the cities that he visited.

EDIT - interestingly enough, the Dept. of Homeland Security (under Trump) created a budget for reimbursing these costs. Years 2018 - 2020 each saw a budget of $41 Million (again, Trump's years) then starting in 2021 (begin Biden's term) the support drops to $3 Million. Very curious.

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Scwurtle 5 points ago +5 / -0

The moon isn't getting farther away from the sun. The earth is turning away from the lined up sun and moon. That's why there is a path of totality. The sun and moon stay lined up in relation to the earth for much longer than any one place experiences totality.

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Scwurtle 1 point ago +1 / -0

Excellent reference to the Allegory of the Cave!

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Scwurtle 8 points ago +8 / -0

You are correct. 17 year broods emerged in 2019, 2020, 2021, and now 2024. There are different broods of cicadas, 12 on a 17 year emergence cycle and 4 on a 13 year emergence cycle. For 12 of every 17 years, there will be a 17 year cicada brood emergence. The broods arriving this year both emerged at the same time in 1803. The 17 year brood, Brood XIII, is the Northern Illinois Brood (brown on the map linked below). The other is the Great Southern Brood (Brood XIX) shown in blue. Brood XIX is the geographically largest group. It also just happens to nearly coincide with the eclipse, and the eclipse path goes right through the area of emergence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Periodical_Cicada_Broods_of_the_United_States.png

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Scwurtle 1 point ago +1 / -0

Seriously. Gov gives insider info to bank, bank gives kickbacks to gov, gov catches bank breaking rules, bank gives more money to gov.

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Scwurtle 6 points ago +6 / -0

Don't forget about the recently changed DNC rules:

tl;dr - 242 unelected members of the Democratic National Committee have the power to choose the Democratic candidate for President if the nominee selected at the convention is unable to continue.

From ABCNews: "Only if Biden left the race after the convention, when he is expected to receive his party's nomination, would the DNC then inherit the power to choose his replacement.

Chairman Jamie Harrison would confer with Democratic leadership in Congress and the Democratic Governors Association and would then take the decision to the DNC, according to the party's call to convention.

The 483 members of the DNC -- who comprise the chairs and vice chairs of each state Democratic Party committee as well as members elected from all 56 states and territories, plus Democrats overseas -- would vote on a new nominee.

There are no rules governing who that person has to be; the nomination would not, for instance, just go to the former nominee's running mate or the person who won the second-most delegates in the primaries. They just need to get a majority of party members to vote for them."

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Scwurtle 1 point ago +1 / -0

Lol, seriously. "Yeah, that theory sounds bat shit crazy, I give it a 50% chance of being true."

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Scwurtle 2 points ago +2 / -0

He just confirmed it with a comment under his post.

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