Warren Terra

Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:48 UTC

30 kbps! Welcome to, what, 1990?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:47 UTC

Sure, the impact will be limited because the Republicans have been pushing farcical impeachments specifically to make "impeachment" less meaningful. Still, this is her job. She is not neglecting it.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:46 UTC

Obviously it won't result in Thomas's removal. It won't even get out of the House; I suspect the committee will try not to act on it. But, nonetheless: 1) It's literally her job to push the impeachment of those who are worthy of impeachment. 2) If it makes the news and informs people, that's good.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 04:04 UTC

The degree to which the DSA has proven themselves dedicated to destroying the opportunity they found in their hands a decade or so ago is truly amazing.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:37 UTC

I refuse to believe the LSO members genuinely thought "Glock" means "Glockenspiel"

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

It's my understanding the reason in 1944 was that Wallace was smeared as a commie.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:19 UTC

Whatever else one wants to say, I can't see how there's even a hint of anything disqualifying, any reason that would justify such an extraordinary move.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:07 UTC

(reasons that are NEVER SPECIFIED)

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:59 UTC

The majority of alcohol is consumed by alcoholics drinking dozens of drinks a week. The whole 90/10 rule, 90 percent of alcohol (by volume) is consumed by 10 percent of people. The commodity-beer makers, the ones who sell cheap in bulk, make their money off of addicts.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

At last we have discovered what it takes to get the national media to notice the vice president is traveling the country giving speeches.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:54 UTC

For any load that's not massively bulky, so most things short of actual furniture, surely the whole point of a truck bed, as opposed to a trunk or back seat, is that you can hose it down afterwards? Although I would be worried hosing down a Cybertruck bed.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:52 UTC

Find me one anti-abortion activist who has actually read Roe v Wade and understands the rules around late-term abortion.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Delta was during Biden. I live in a civilized place; between masks and vaccines, Delta killed almost no-one here. But it was vicious in eg Florida.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:38 UTC

Painful story involving Alice Munro.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:24 UTC

Bernie surely knows that a Dem party that panics is likely to run to the right.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:20 UTC

She literally is campaigning. Also: any campaigning she does will inevitably be spun as a sign of ambitious disloyalty.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

Start with the very large percentage that think *they* should be the nominee and it looks more plausible. All kidding aside, anyone who "wants a different nominee" is just wasting everyone's time. It's mid-July, they don't get to want "a different nominee". They have to name the nominee they want.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:52 UTC

The trick is to write a prompt that doesn't get *you* in trouble. Maybe ask how it can rid you of a turbulent senator?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:44 UTC

Gotta be a prompt one could give them that would cause them, in their reply, to violate the TOS.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:42 UTC

Canadian Perfidy.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

There is *no* way a Republican platform opposes Sex Robots. They know who their base is.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:37 UTC

Whoops, I meant 0.01-0.02%.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:36 UTC

Just *how* big was this study that had the statistical power to say it detected a 0.1%-0.2% change for people consuming 1-2 drinks per week?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

"Rescission" affected mostly individual policies, not employer-based (they'd be cancelling the entire contract with that employer), but was INCREDIBLY frequent for individual policies - I remember seeing 5% per year. If an individual policyholder needed expensive care, their insurance could vanish.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:31 UTC

Also, not mentioned in the thread: "rescission". Prior to the ACA ending the practice, an insurer could just use "rescission" to cancel any policy that became inconvenient - for example, if the policyholder was using too much care, making too many claims.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:23 UTC

Apparently it's a half-time (or so) job. I assume it's legal, just very bad.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:58 UTC

1) Cops are shit 2) Cops have always been shit, and have never lacked for power 3) Cops have almost nothing to do with federal law, or federal politics

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:55 UTC

The Dems are better on labor than they were a decade or so ago, and even then they were probably better on the whole than they were in the 80s. I have been disappointed in Biden on immigration. But it's not as uniformly bad as some might suggest. The big problem is typical Dem spinelessness.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:53 UTC

The Democrats have never been good on cops or surveillance (no national politicians have), and haven't moved right on cops since the 1994 crime bill, nor worse on surveillance since early in the "War On Terror". And there are outliers in the party pushing left on both.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

Ah yes, the inevitable Mikie Sherrill bandwagon.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:25 UTC

I got baited by a "Democrats only ever move right" poster and their friends earlier, I really should just realize those people are usually either idiots or deliberate shitposting Republican plants.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

I mean, sure. I have family in the general area, that were planning to do one (I think events prevented it, I'm not sure). But Clarence Thomas doesn't take package tours anyone can book via the website.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:03 UTC

It seems fairly inconceivable that a trip to St. Petersburg (or anyplace comparable) wouldn't involve at least one lavish dinner featuring local dignitaries?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:31 UTC

A lot of this is about "neoliberalism", which has a lot of meanings but I'm using the Charlie Peters definition: spending government money to provide market incentives pursuing liberal goals, rather than using centralized programs for the purpose. People often forget the "liberal goals" part.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:28 UTC

There are areas where it's arguably true, areas where it's a matter of viewpoint, and areas where it's just flatly untrue. It also depends a lot on where you set your starting point: for the last twenty-odd years - since Bill Clinton - the Dems haven't moved right on much of anything.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:22 UTC

I was working very late most nights, had a leisurely dinner listening to Morning Edition and went to bed maybe 7 Eastern time. Woke up in a very different world.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

It's even worse in context; per a Radley Balko post the lead-in was him fantasizing about executing drug dealers to crush fentanyl overdoses. Bloodthirsty nonsense.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:27 UTC

Fancy, but you seem to be one short.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:16 UTC

also, when he burbles about "our once-revered airports" this is what he means: a gauzy reminiscence of an imaginary 1960s Miami.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

Yup, that was it. Sigh.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

The way these narratives keep popping up, no matter whether they have any basis in reality, convinces me Trump is going to pick a black dude for veep. Tim Scott has been preparing to be a GOP Veep nominee ever since he lucked into an easy senate seat, but there are other possibilities. Ben Carson?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

On the one hand he's arming himself to hold off a small army, on the other hand he's been convinced he needs to fill his basement with enough supplies for a small army.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

"Okay, first you have to play your character for fifty years of being a midwestern accountant or something, and then when you think it's over the real action can start"

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

Yup, I was going to mention that.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

The best "clever" scenario I can think of is to announce terrible medical news about Jill, not Joe, and say he wants to spend the time with her. But still probably not going to fly with voters, even if a scheme like that could be pulled off at all.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:02 UTC

It was mildly interesting to watch Dean Phillips evolve over the course of the campaign from what you describe - a boring normie Dem there for the chance to get experience and in case a meteorite struck Biden - who got progressively more deranged by listening to the cranks that did show up for him.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

Obviously a more serious participant in public life, lots of professional experience in a relevant field, but not eligible for the office.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:12 UTC

God knows what stupid idea he was garbling; I wouldn't bet against it being the idea he and his fans sometimes have that more police brutality and a LOT of killing dealers (maybe by rapid execution but also possibly by death squad or drone strike) would end fentanyl overdoses.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:09 UTC

Even after he lost the trifecta, several times Congressional leaders met with him to present a bipartisan package they'd agreed on and thought could sail through Congress, they'd walk out of the White House with it all settled, then within 24 hours Trump would change his mind and torpedo it.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

I'm not very interested in playing "name Harris's veep" but while Clooney seems a grand fellow I'm not sure he should enter politics as vice president.

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