evatronic

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[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's a problem there, though. The propaganda was basically various versions of "The government (when run by Democrats) is bad, don't trust the government."

If they put up a notice saying, "This domain was seized, here's the real facts!" the target of the propaganda isn't going to buy it for a hot minute.

If they put up replacement content that doesn't mention the government seizure, tha target of the propaganda is already primed to shout, "Fake news!" at anything that disputes their existing worldview.

It's best to just let those domains return like a 504 Internal Server Error and die a quiet death.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A "Library of Congress" for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.

Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Technically,

The president and vice president are chosen by the electoral college in separate votes.

Though, for some time, it's always been the winning candidate's selected running mate... there is no requirement there. The electors could pick Mittens the back flipping poodle for VP if they wanted.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

"Tiajuana? No, that's too easy. Ensenada!"

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

Thomas Jefferson never added airplane safety regulations to the Constitution ergo, it's completely unregulated. Also, Justice Alito would like to cite a man with tapestries tied to his arms as he jumped off a cliff in the 9th century saying of course it's safe.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I'd like to know.

I want to go out on my own terms. If that means I don't have to save so much for retirement... Great, I can go on expensive vacations now instead of later.

And then I can do what needs to be done without regrets.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right.

Owning one or two residential properties is fine, more is problematic.

I say "two" to handle the very common case of children putting their parents' homes in their own name because Medicare clawback rules will take the home after they die if you don't do it early enough.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

The documents were delivered by GOP congresspeople during Trump's term, over a July 4 holiday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/395719-gop-senators-visited-moscow-on-july-4/

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

The Internet says that the total cost for a degree from Johns Hopkins medical student per year is $64,665. In addition, various indirect costs like books, housing, healthcare, various fees, living expenses, and so on, bring that same estimate up to around $105,000 annually.

$1,000,000,000 invested in a stupid boring index fund at an estimated 4% return yields $40,000,000 in interest alone, or, using the above numbers, enough for 380(.95) students each year.

Based on this quick page from their own website: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/som/education-programs/md-program/our-students/class-statistics

Wherein they accept just 266 students, it could last for a very long time.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Trump can't stay out of the spotlight long. He's wholly incapable of not being the center of attention.

In other news, did you see his name in those Epstein records? Turns out he allegedly raped a few kids, so there's something fun for Republicans to ~~condone~~ ignore.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Biden could trot out as a half-rotten corpse and I'd still vote for him over a serial liar and traitor to our nation.

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Fyi: people often take out more than one loan, and leave the lowest interest federal loans for last...

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