2023-02-19
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Horseshit
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Before Ohio derailment, train operator lobbied against safety rules
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In a First, a Woman Issues a Thunderstorm Watch, Officials Say - The New York Times
The National Weather Service has issued thunderstorm and tornado watches for decades, but one had never been sent by a woman, until Wednesday.
celebrity gossip
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult
Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation
Media / ShowBiz / Advertising
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City-Builder PC Game Taken Off Steam After Fan Goes Rogue
In a post made by the game’s developers, Slovakian studio 3Division, it’s claimed that a player, “once a respected member of our community”, has gone rogue and begun attacking the game’s online presence, trying to get everything from trailers to the game’s website taken down.
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Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it – Terence Eden’s Blog
TechSuck
- Jaccard Similarity and Minhashing: Odd Sketches
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Those data points explain 100% of the actions taken so far. To the Biden White House, these people are MAGA extremists who should just die anyway. To the bureaucrats everywhere, they are a down-at-the-heels, blue-collar, and overwhelmingly White town that just doesn’t matter and isn’t worth the effort of helping.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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FBI records deepen mystery of dig for Civil War-era gold
Armed with a warrant, a team of FBI agents came in March 2018 to dig up the hillside. Parada was mostly kept away from the dig site while the FBI did its work. He suspects the agency conducted a clandestine, overnight dig between the first and second days of the court-authorized excavation, found the gold, and spirited it away. Residents have previously told of hearing a backhoe and jackhammer overnight — when the dig was supposed to have been paused — and seeing a convoy of FBI vehicles, including large armored trucks. The FBI has denied it conducted an overnight dig.
- quotes "9 tons" and thats ~$500mil upper bound optimistic estimates of value.