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Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA's Office is now in doubt, multiple sources said.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@BackOnMyBS

There’s always the therapist!
J/K, the therapist might not care for that lol 😝

could you be just a little more specific? are talking toothpaste, charmin, downy, ketchup bottle, your significant other? tiny teddy bear? I’m just riffing here, in the absence of guidance.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@djidane535

Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option to add an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie

Also I'm a mastodon user, and my account there is the focus of my microblogging activity. The user there follows this account, so my posts here, show up there. The short story is, the microblog here is essentially a right pain in my ass.

At least now I know what it is.

 

How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?

I just tried posting the series of parts to my /mag, they showed up in reverse order in the microblog? WTF?

Please, if there is some advantage to this microblog thing, I'd love to know what is, and also how to make a post in my own magazine that does not feature a link.

'Threads/Microblog/People/Magazines' is where simplicity goes sideways in this webapp. It is not obvious what those things are; the couple of guides I've found don't discuss this focal point of confusion.

#kbinMeta

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@CoffeeAddict

He's facing consequences now. ~~The conspiracy trial he was trying to have moved to January just got it's schedule compressed down to 'today'~~, the hearing got immediate billing, all witnesses were heard immediately and state organized crime charges leveled instanter.

This is, "having fucked around" he has now "found out".

"Trial" is incorrect. In my excitement I conflated "trial" and "hearing". That I got it wrong before coffe though, doesn't change how fucked this guy is.

Edited accordingly.

Addendum:
There are warrants out for him and 18 accomplices. They have 3 days grace to turn themselves in. Anyone who doesn't turn themselves in by then will be subject to arrest.

They gave him enough time with socmed to finish hanging himself.

"You love to see it, especially late in the summer."

 

It didn't take long

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@Sodis

@readbeanicecream @exscape

According to my understanding, beyond the event horizon, gravity is infinite.

I am not a physicist - I'm a guy who read Prof. Hawking. Given the nature of llight vis a vis observation, inside the singularity, mass and gravity approach infinity.

Mass bends spacetime into gravity. Gravity bends light. Infinite mass > infinite gravity > stops light == singularity.

Note that things happening near the singularity are not the same as things that happen beyond the event horizon.

 

On the evening of January 24, three sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi, received a group text message from another deputy on the same shift: “Are y’all available for a mission?”

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

@explodingkitchen

My gut reaction when I first heard this story break was simply 'Giuliani'.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@exscape

@readbeanicecream

By definition, a manifold has a place where things go in, and other things come out. So yes, it does in fact logically follow. If its a manifold, then it logically follows that what goes in comes out.

You're saying we know a bunch of stuff I'm not certain we know.

My understanding is that by definition, the singularity has infinite mass and infinite gravity, so there is no way it can gain mass; because infinity + 1 = infinity. It's the very nature of infinities. You can have a number of infinities, but manipulating them arithmetically always yields infinity. 2 x infinity = infinity. 3 / infinity = infinity.

Like zero, it is more identity than number. 0 = nothing, infinity = everything.

So if you hope to have me follow your narrative, you're going to address this assertion concerning increasing the mass of black holes first.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@anon6789

Me neither guy, and I find it tragic that somehow these fucks that cultivate these attitudes are even allowed in government when really they should be in the jail.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@kjr

can't happen fast enough or cheap enough.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@kelvin0mql

It's possible to draw parallels like that ~~everywhere~~ all over the bible; and it's not because of 'omg prophesy'

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

@readbeanicecream

I'm no authority, but I love this stuff. I read Dr. Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time", and it was not problematic for me.

My takeaway is that a black hole is a sort of manifold. It would follow that if there is a way into it, and stuff going into it, the stuff must be coming out somewhere.

The question is where that stuff comes out, and in what form, and when, in it's local time frame.

I had always envisioned this hypothetical 'other side' as a white hole. It seems like, since we haven't observed any white holes, that the exits must be elsewhere.

 

Whoops! somebody got the soot on their hands this time

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@kelvin0mql

I do not question any of that. My point is, the republican party has been stirring this pot a long time, and as long as the money keeps pouring, they cant be arsed, as the brits say.

It's got to be stopped at the source. We're already at the point that guys are like this everywhere. One stands in the foyer of the Kroger just about every afternoon 3 blocks from my house.

Wearing a ball cap with a thin blue line flag, armed to the teeth, in a flag-wrapped t-shirt, glaring at anyone who walks by with a smile their face.

His body language, the sidearm he's wearing, his clothes - it all screams that if you're aren't mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, you must be a fuckin' democrat.

That is a feature of the republican party. If it isn't addressed soon, some sort of war will be the only way it gets addressed.

[–] sparseMatrix@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

There are a lot of people who would like you to think that disinformation is harmless; that if you buy into bullshit that it's your own fault; and that the 'people that matter' know the truth.

This man bought into the fire hose of shit that is continuously, endlessly spewing a mixture of exaggerations, half truths and outright lies. He took it all very seriously, and he paid with his life.

Ask yourself, do you think this man was one of the 'people who matter' to his family? It sounds like some of them agree with, and listened to him and the fire hose.

This is a fucking tragedy. This man is a casualty of the fight for democracy, and it is a damn fight when people are getting shot for it. Not because he bought into some bullshit; but because he was fed a line of shit by people he trusted. His political party.

This has got to stop, and I think that it surely will.

Let's hope it doesn't have to be at the expense of another man's life.

Another husband, father, grandfather, uncle or brother. Or worse, whole families.

 

‘He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens’

 

This is The Way.

 

This is epic AF. I thought these dope pushers were gonna get away scot free, there for a while.

 

This is what Trump looks like when a real judge and an actual patriot is on his case and not playing his game.

Her Honor is a credit and a relief to anyone truly concerned with justice.

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Still more bad news for Team ShitGibbon.

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We seriously need to start pushing back on this Divided America Trope. It is absolute propaganda.

America is more divided than ever.

Wrong. there are a lot of antisocial criminal elements in a America. Though the problems do get more aggravated, there are far fewer violent crimes, political or otherwise per capita than ever before. It is also my sense that even among people who differ in their political views, most people would pick up someone who fell without considering who they were or what sort of politics they practiced.

The American Congress is frozen by Partisanship.

At least mostly true. But it doesn't really represent a new state of affairs, at least not in the last decade or so.

We're headed for a civil war

Maybe; there certainly seems to be an element that wants one, and a revolution in government on the side. But they have proven to be a relatively tiny, if startling, sliver of the population, the military, and the police. At least, when the chips came down.

I think that this is a media narrative that feeds on itself in two ways. The first being that it is an insidious 'both sides' framing of the state of affairs. The Democratic party is not just another flavor of political party; the GOP Republicans are not just another flavor of political party.

The fact is, the Republican party can be shown to be composed of two basic types of people: those being charged with felonies, and those trying to protect or defend them from those charges, often becoming tainted with their crimes.

The Democratic party is the other half of a previously functional government (I'm being generous here) that has been left holding the bag while the other first half turns to crime, conspiracy, and the craft of procedural sabotage.

This has all been predicated on the moral tenets of a religion that they neither understand nor practice, and that has opened the door to nationalist authoritarianism and outright fascism as they have been emboldened and supported by the most most crass and self serving of the evangelical 'personality' churches out there.

The second way it feeds on itself is that by framing the question in this way, the media makes it safe to be someone who endorses what is clearly a criminal cabal run amok. After all, if the axios site all but loads a balance for you (the two sides of this 'divide'), how can it be anything other than just two different teams, with two differing perspectives? You can feel free to substitute just about any 'news' outlet, for 'axios'; because not only is axios not the only one; I don't think I've ever seen a 'news' outlet framing it any other way.

While it is true everyone is innocent until proven guilty, there is a statistical ratio, given a level field of activity, that asserts that someone is very guilty, given the large number of charges, and a lot of others are accessories before and after the fact, accomplices, and every other variation as we ride the Bell curve.

Many will be quick to claim that the playing field isn't level; but you'll notice it's always the ones without a defense in the face of a mountain of charges.

Hell no they don't have, and shouldn't anticipate a level playing field, other than in a court of law.

Being found at the scene of a murder isn't a good look, whether you're fucking guilty or not.

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