Flutterby™! From 2016-11-01 to 2016-11-30

Hey @LGUSAMobile, looks like my v10, replaced at the end of July, has gone eternal boot. like the first one did. WTF?

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This is a little too perfectly October surprise-y, especially as the "we saw traffic from Donald Trump to the Russian Alfa Bank" story falls apart, but...

Mother Jones: A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump

Meanwhile, in other tab dumps:

Flipboard: Google just disclosed a major Windows flaw:

Today, Google’s Threat Analysis group disclosed a critical vulnerability in Windows in a public post on the company’s security blog. The bug itself is very specific — allowing attackers to escape from security sandboxes through a flaw in the win32k system — but it’s serious enough to be categorized as critical, and according to Google, it’s being actively exploited. As a result, Google went public just 10 days after reporting the bug to Microsoft, before a patch could be coded and deployed. The result is that, while Google has already deployed a fix to protect Chrome users, Windows itself is still vulnerable — and now, everybody knows it.

And:

San Francisco finds giving the homeless supportive housing costs less than doing nothing.

In a new report analyzing the effort, it’s clear that the initial cost of housing this population and addressing their medical, mental, and other challenges is high. The service and housing costs for 1,818 homeless people jumped to $61.7 million in the fiscal year spanning 2010 and 2011, when they entered supportive housing, from $19.4 million in the 2007–2008 period, before they had gotten into the program.

But that price tag dropped to $36.4 million by fiscal year 2014–2015. What’s more, that last figure is 9 percent less than what the city spent in 2009–2010 on homeless services alone, the last year before the city spent money on the supportive housing program. That means it ended up paying less on supportive housing and services once the homeless were fully transitioned into the program than it did before they were in housing, with the costs dropping every year they spent housed.

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The problem with 2 factor authentication is that when your @LGUSAMobile phone bricks itself, it's hard to sign in to Google to get a Pixel.

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New study doesn't show men are wimps about contraception side-effects, but the low vasectomy rate might.

320 men enrolled and 266 completed enough of the study to produce data on how well the product worked. The good news is that the drug combination was very successful and almost 96% of men has suppressed sperm. There were 4 pregnancies for a pregnancy rate of 1.57/100 users. The Pearl Index was calculated as 2.18 pregnancies per 100 person years (basically 100 people use the method and 2.18 get pregnant over that year). The Pearl Index is 1.5-2 for the birth control pill. Other good news is that more than 75% of men said they were satisfied with the method and would use it again.

The study was halted because of an independent review board, not because of the participants.

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Spreading this widely: I'm currently down a cell phone, so if you're texting or calling and not getting an answer, try another method.

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My desktop machine has 32G of RAM. I use it mostly for SSHing into remote servers and using Slack. It's kinda tight on memory.

Java. Where "byte" is signed, so "b == 0xfe" is always false, but "(b & 0xff) == 0xfe" can be true.

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I know some of you are running carrier grade stuff. Mirai Strikeback - an iRule to kill IoT Bot Processes from your F5. Crash the devices running the DDOS infections, automagically.

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How Kinky Sex Might Make You More Creative: Research suggests that BDSM can help people achieve altered states of consciousness.

From The Science of BDSM Research Team.

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How Macedonia became a global hub for pro-Trump misinformation:

The young Macedonians who run these sites say they don’t care about Donald Trump. They are responding to straightforward economic incentives: As Facebook regularly reveals in earnings reports, a US Facebook user is worth about four times a user outside the US. The fraction-of-a-penny-per-click of US display advertising — a declining market for American publishers — goes a long way in Veles. Several teens and young men who run these sites told BuzzFeed News that they learned the best way to generate traffic is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook — and the best way to generate shares on Facebook is to publish sensationalist and often false content that caters to Trump supporters.

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Why I'm really more concerned about the negative consequences of campaign finance law than about money in politics: Jay Faison’s Expensive, Maddening Quest to Save the Planet (And the GOP): A donor trying to shift Republicans' stance on climate learns just how little $175 million can buy.

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These are awesome. From Hutson & Harris, Attorneys and Counselors in Central Texas comes a series of songs about what to do and not do in various legal situations. Selections include Pot Brownies, Please Shut Up!, Miranda, and Don't Eat The Weed (live in front of a NORML meeting), and Don't Call Us With Medical Malpractice Cases (on Texas "tort reform").

Via MeFi.

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Really, can the KGB, the FBI, the KKK and North Korean *all* be wrong? http://www.reuters.com/article...rthkorea-usa-trump-idUSKCN0YN35S

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Just because it needs a little reiterating: Violet Blue: The truth about Trump's secret server and Russia. Short version: The Trump organization used a marketing server from a company called Cendyn. Alfa Bank has an email scanner that attempts a reverse connection to verify that the email sending is real. Some Alfa Bank customer probably stayed at a Trump hotel.

The real story is how the media fell for the other "s00p3r s3kr1t masked communications" narrative.

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if @VW would simply give us a buck for every mailer telling us about the diesel settlement we've already signed up for, we'd be happier.

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Interesting: Bear SSL: Smaller SSL/TLS

Cherry frame with EL panel backlight, highlighting slice of agate stone.

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More reason to be wary of rewards card programs: Kings County WA using Safeway to find owners of unlicensed pets http://komonews.com/news/local...-store-data-to-target-pet-owners

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Saved off so that I can refer back to it when someone brings up Docker in work conversations: Docker in Production: A History of Failure

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Just got my warranty replacement phone. So glad to have not had a cell phone for the past week: Election robocalls are out of control.

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So this is the sort of newspeak word replacement we get when the enemy goes from "the Russians" to "the Jews" http://www.ew.com/article/2016...-nell-hughes-mazel-tov-cocktails

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So while y'all are watching election results, I'm gonna go square dancing. Nobody die of alcohol poisoning, m'kay?

Well. That went as I'd feared, but not predicted. I expect that Middle America is well and truly fucked, we're going to be fighting for Griswold v. Connecticut, let alone Roe v. Wade, that drone strikes and foreign policy will make the United States even more hated on the international front, and we'll get dragged into some more ugly wars, but politics is about compromise, so some links for the morning":

• Lessig: Election Day: Only Josh Silver won
• A little look at the demographics of the new America: RT Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn:

We think Clinton is an overwhelming favorite to win the popular vote

• Orange freakin' County voted for Hillary Clinton: Yes California Independence Campaign.
• A Vermont view: The Logic of Secession: Three Tines to a Trident.
• RT @wikileaks: "Clinton's Pied Piper Strategy (use media contacts to promote Trump) has backfired spectacularly. PDF of our leak: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1120:

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Following the nominations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to be the presidential candidate nominees of their respective parties, I repeatedly said that there were discussions on issues that I couldn't have until after the election.

I did not expect to write this post from this perspective. I expected that I'd be writing this with Hillary Clinton elected as United States President. Yes, that adds a couple more issues to this list, but had Hillary Clinton been nominated, we would...

Still be fighting against huge encroachments on the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Amendments to to the Constitution.

Still be trying to fix a foreign policy which has continued to kill hundreds of thousands of innocents and bystanders and generate more enemies than friends.

Still be trying to untangle our national infrastructure policy from a racist mess that has encouraged the economics that have led to our rural middle class being so angry.

Still be working on the proliferation of extrajudicial executions, whether those are at the international level or the local level.

Still be trying to fix healthcare.

And at a local level, my favored candidate lost by less than 200 votes. Charlene and I are talking right now about "is there more issues education we could do?" If there's one thing this election has done, it's to solidly re-entrench my feeling that we need better issues education (and I include myself learning more in that). So let's roll up our sleeves and carry on.

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So this new VW/Audi cheat is basically just that it screws you on gas mileage if you turn the wheel? http://jalopnik.com/america-fi...-cheated-on-emissions-1788630969

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I have been called out on my RTs which suggest that we need more encryption under Trump. Yes: We need more encryption period. No matter who

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Overheard: "I'm so glad I left the United States for San Francisco"

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A cabbie in San Francisco reports: Wrong sex club, right sex club.

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RT ‏@retrocrush:

If everyone masturbates at the same time, we just might come together as a nation.

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Well lookie here: VW knows about more bad shit than they're telling us:

For the avoidance of doubt, I expressly understand and acknowledge that I may hereafter discover claims presently unknown or unsuspected, or facts in addition to or different from those that I now know or believe to be true, related to the 2.0-liter TDI Matter, the Action and/or the Individual Release herein. Nevertheless, it my intention in executing this Individual Release to fully, finally, irrevocably, and forever release, waive, discharge, relinquish, settle, and acquit all such matters, and all claims relating thereto which exist, hereafter may exist, or might have existed (whether or not previously or currently asserted in any action or proceeding) with respect to the 2.0-liter TDI Matter in accordance with the terms of the Class Action Agreement. This includes, without limitation, any claims I have or may have with respect to the 2.0-liter TDI Matter under the Trade Regulation Rule Concerning the Preservation of Consumers’ Claims and Defenses 16 C.F.R. §433.2 (the “Holder Rule”).

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It's a day when there is much updating of my contacts list because everyone's going Signal. You should too. https://whispersystems.org/

Well worth a read: Washington Post: I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump.

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The laptop is gaining stickers

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The protests in Portland and Oakland and such are roughly what was promised if the election had gone the other way, but with fewer guns.

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More evidence that sharrows are worse than doing nothing at all: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies: 16-5232 Relative (In)Effectiveness of Bicycle Sharrows on Ridership and Safety Outcomes Nick Ferenchak, Wesley Marshall.

Summarized by Momentum Magazine, Via Strongtowns.

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Big ol' Huey over the Petaluma Veteran's Day parade

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Thanks to veterans in chalk on the sidewalk

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Because I'm gonna want to refer back to it: Donald Trump in 2014 predicting social unrest:

You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster, then we'll have riots to go back when we used to be when we were great.

Anti-Trump protests form at UCLA, UC Irvine, Oakland after election results.

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Why the line at the post office is so long...

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Agreed on price of $250. Receive cashier's check for $2000. Obvious where this is going. People suck.

RT Frederick Wagner ‏@doctaphred:

"3/3 developers are self-taught. 1/3 of them also happen to have a CS degree." - Hacker News, via @limedaring 👏👍💯 #PyConCA2016

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RT Chris O'Connor ‏@ChristopOConnor:

A riot/property damage has never fixed anything. Except for the Boston Tea Party. Or the Bastille. Or Stonewall. Or the Berlin Wall. Etc.

When after hours of trying to get the CNC to cut the part right, you realize that it would have been faster to build a jig & do it by hand.

Every year I wonder what's traditionally Italian about a color specification system, and then I read more closely.

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Petaluma makes The WaPo over those assholes waving the flag of a hostile nation at the Veteran's Day parade http://www.washingtonpost.com/...-california-veterans-day-parade/

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Saving this MeFi thread about stunning places to see in California off for road trip planning: http://ask.metafilter.com/302491/Stunning-places-in-California

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RT Kip Manley‏ @kiplet:

Sweet Christ, a primal scream IS the neutral, objective voice now.

T.Rob Wyatt on Facebook:

When trump appoints his leadership team he's not getting our best. He's getting people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, will be good people based on statistical likelihood alone, but so far no.

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Had this Leonard Cohen earworm, it turned into "First we'll take Manhattan, then we'll take Marin", and downhill from there...

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Trump prospective Supreme Court nominee William Pryor has some feelings on (gay) rights:

“This Court has never recognized a fundamental right to engage in sexual activity outside of monogamous heterosexual marriage, let alone to engage in homosexual sodomy,” he wrote. “Such a right would be antithetical to the ‘traditional relation of the family’ that is ‘as old and as fundamental as our entire civilization.”

So I guess he's still allowing for monogamous heterosexual marriage so we shouldn't be too worried about Griswold v. Connecticut?

The association of Trump to Pryor appears to come from Trump suggesting that Pryor was a good replacement for Scalia back when Scalia died.

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I would expect nothing less from the Wall Street Journal, but I also wanna read the article...

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My life is objectively better than yours because I made a grilled Cambozola sandwich for lunch.

"Remember back when you used to be cynical and angry all the time?" http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11152016.shtml

On showing up: Daraksha Raja on Muslim registries and the NSEERS program:

There were many Muslim immigrants who went to register because they felt if they didn't do anything wrong, after all what could have happened. They were deported. Some were arrested. Others were thrown in prisons. Some were used for entrapments and preemptive prosecutions and the state successfully destroyed local communities.

I have seen many people share that if a Registry happened, they would show up.

I would like to clarify, this has happened, and you didn't show up. On the contrary many supported all of these efforts under the post 9/11 policies.

The article quotes Migration Policy Institute: 'Special Registration' Program.

Via this Tweet.

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Betteridge's Law applies: Does exposure to erotica reduce attraction and love for romantic partners in men? Independent replications of Kenrick, Gutierres, and Goldberg (1989) study 2 Rhonda N. Balzarini, Kiersten Dobson1, Kristi Chin, Lorne Campbell:

Kenrick, Gutierres, and Goldberg (1989; Study 2) demonstrated that men, but not women, in committed relationships exposed to erotic images of opposite-sex others reported lower ratings for their partner's sexual attractiveness (d = 0.91) and less love for their partner (d = 0.69) than men exposed to images of abstract art. This research has implications for understanding the possible effects of erotica on men in relationships, but has not been replicated. We conducted three preregistered, high-powered close replications, and meta- analyzed the effects of the original and replication studies. We did not find support for the original finding that exposure to attractive images of opposite-sex others affects males' ratings of their partners' sexual attractiveness or love for their partner.

What, you mean sociology studies might have ignored reality and simply reinforced the social mores of the time? I'm shocked.

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If you het & married in PA, divorce now for the sake of wife. Could save precious hours w/pregnancy complications http://www.legis.state.pa.us/c...015&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1948

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PLOS Biology: Current Incentives for Scientists Lead to Underpowered Studies with Erroneous Conclusions, Andrew D. Higginson, Marcus R. Munafò:

We can regard the wider incentive structures that operate across science, such as the priority given to novel findings, as an ecosystem within which scientists strive to maximise their fitness (i.e., publication record and career success). Here, we develop an optimality model that predicts the most rational research strategy, in terms of the proportion of research effort spent on seeking novel results rather than on confirmatory studies, and the amount of research effort per exploratory study. We show that, for parameter values derived from the scientific literature, researchers acting to maximise their fitness should spend most of their effort seeking novel results and conduct small studies that have only 10%–40% statistical power. As a result, half of the studies they publish will report erroneous conclusions. Current incentive structures are in conflict with maximising the scientific value of research; we suggest ways that the scientific ecosystem could be improved.

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‘I knew I was home’: a trans woman’s journey through porn.

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Because I know I'm going to want to refer back to this: RT Bill Scher:

1. Lincoln plant was never going to Mexico http://www.freep.com/story/mon...nald-trump-ford-mexico/91242406/

2. Ford told Trump this weeks ago http://www.autonews.com/articl...-over-infuriating-mexico-comment

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Octopus in the parking garage is climate change’s canary in the coal mine.

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She meant "you'll have to judge *for* yourself", but said "you'll have to judge yourself". So here I am, doing what I do best...

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"Porn site XHamster has initiated yet another brand extension delivering 10,000 bottles of branded drinking water to the residents of Flint."

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Yay! I think I found the problem on the CNC mill! Loose set screw on a drive sprocket. Trying to not disassemble and rebuild it all.

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Dramatic decline in dementia seen among older adults in the US:

The percent of older US adults with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, declined from 11.6 percent in 2000 to 8.8 percent in 2012, a decrease of nearly a quarter, scientists reported on Monday.

The article is about A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012, Kenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD; Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH; Eileen M. Crimmins, PhD; et al.

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Super challenging but rewarding evening calling to the Vallejo Pioneers, Napa Boots and Belles, Diablo dancers and my beginner dancers.

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Donald Trump lost most of the American economy in this election:

The divide is economic, and it is massive. According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year.

Those counties represent about the same share of GDP as they did in 2000, so this isn't a matter of differential gains.

One of the Brookings publications the article mentions is It won’t be easy to bring back millions of manufacturing jobs

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Charging stop on the electric car road trip: annotated sign at Suisun City harbor

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Rusty the red tailed hawk at the Suisun wildlife rescue

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Charlene watching a sea lion eat a big ol' fish at Suisun City harbor

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Grateful for the two @Sema_Connect chargers we've used this trip, but wish their app were a little more polished and less buggy...

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Charger in Rio Vista was occupied, so we're waiting in Stockton for the car to charge fully before we go to Sonora. Not picturesque.

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Hanging out in downtown Sonora, with 30 miles of charge

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Attorney at Law: Justice on one side, a pruning saw on the other...

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Have to get a picture at tonight's parade of the miniature church float, complete with stationed glass windows

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Contrast the maple with the palm and all the different bric-a-brac...

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Hanging at the Sonora holiday parade

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Learning cribbage: "The object in play is to score points by pegging." and this game is very popular among submarine crew. Huh.

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I did not know that goldfish dispensers were a thing. At Delicato Family Winery recharging the car

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A great obituary of Fidel Castro, from his early days as a violent gangbanger, to revolutionary, to taking a country that, although a dictatorship, was on the level of Spain or Italy in terms of quality of living, and pretty much running it into the ground by allying with the Soviety Union

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Your reminder that Putin is playing revisionist history with Stalin's legacy Washington Post: In Putin’s Russia, it just got easier to find the perpetrators of Stalin’s purges:

The archive, culled from the records of Stalin’s security forces (the NKVD) and posted on the website of Memorial, the human rights group, for the first time names those who carried out some 700,000 executions from 1935 to 1939 during “The Great Terror.” Russian President Vladi­mir Putin has in recent years revised Stalin’s legacy, emphasizing the dictator’s role in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II and turning the Soviet Union into a world power.

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Trump Ipsum: Make placeholder text great again! Unsurprisingly, it tends to be a little repetitive and one-note.

So it didn't propose stripping citizenship, but we know where The Donald got that 1 year in prison thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Protection_Act_of_2005

Not clear: Is this some sort of "I can whup any sumbitch in the house!" sort of declaration?

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This needs more publicity: Petaluma police department deploying GPS tracked "bait" packages https://local.nixle.com/alert/5788890/?sub_id=373138

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RT Justin Miller ‏@justinjm1:

They said if America voted for Hillary, Goldman Sachs would run the government—and they were right!

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AIDS Taught Me Sex Was Deadly. A Pill Changed That. Fascinating quick look at PrEP, Truvada, and the impacts that a $18,000 a year pill that causes a 99% reduction in AIDS transmission rates, vs 70% for condoms, is having on a culture.

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South Garage Motorcycles Neboruta BMW R75/7. Wood seat, fenders and tank patches, leather wrapped handlebars. Probably completely impractical, but gorgeous.

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RT Robert Rutledge @rerutled:

When Democrats get elected, Republicans run out and buy guns. When Republicans get elected, Democrats run out and buy IUDs. https://t.co/lezfB2JRqP

Truth.

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Fascinating read on glass sex toy safety, including how you can look for annealed glass yourself.

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