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White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff

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I don't agree with that necessarily when people cheer to lock someone up without a cause. Like if a president came forward and pardoned say all the people who have immigrated to this country for any previous issues while filing out immigration paperwork, such as typos name changes, and so on then it isn't directly to cover for guilt, but rather to protect a group of people from harassment.

Edit then you can institute a review process and further assistance while submitting such paperwork in the future and it could mitigate witch hunts and mistreatment of people

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What happens to phone numbers that were used for spam?

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Na, iPhone stores them in Settings > Apps > Phone > Blocked contacts, android is similar. That information doesn't go to the carrier, though it will transfer if you put your new phone next to it and migrate all the data

(On android if you block someone, the texts still come to the phone, just in a folder that you have to go look for, like a filter basically)

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The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers

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I can't imagine the Netherlands would just give the screenshots to random journalists. That doesn't mean that if congress requested copies they wouldn't get them. That said I also can't imagine that the CIA wouldnt know about such happening, so if congress had anyway to investigate there is no saying you wouldn't get matching information from a leak. Hell I'd be surprised if the CIA didn't have a spy in the Netherlands security team.

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If datacerters are forced on communities, they should be forced to provide free heating/access to those communities.

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Yeah when I was diagnosing Linux based servers being built grounding was always a serious thing, but the ESD vests you'd wear were really to save someone who makes an oops from well dying really. Massive multimillion dollar racks being connected/disconnected and running liquid cooling through the racks leaves you coming close to the power sources fairly often. The best way to run the power is above and then have them snap on at the top so people aren't tripping over them, but the main issue with that is safety doesn't come before profit, so instead of having dedicated breaker boxes at eye level one uses a metal pole with a hook and reaches up to turn on/off all the breakers when moving in/out racks you are working on. Large metal pole... High voltage/amps...

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This AI aggregator leaked nearly 18 million files, including sex doll makers’ customer support chats

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Step one rotate the doll 180 degrees to unlock the orphace. Attempt to remove the release plug found in the back. Now use hand soap and water to clear the debris obstructing and causing the vacuum to occur. Please take an anti inflammatory and if the issue persists after 20 minutes consult a medical professional.

(The person working there has copy/pasted that to 50 people in the last week, haha)

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High-ranking Virginia Democrat charged in public corruption case

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Yeah I wish he would have been able to, and he should have applied more pressure but without an act of congress, he couldn't decriminalize it. He probably should have faught for it to be legalized recreationally instead of rescheduled to show it had medicinal uses)

October 6 2022 he directed the HHS to review it. (He pardoned anyone federally charged with a possession charge of Marijuana that day)

August 2023 the FDA/HHS completed the review and said it should move from schedule I to III

December 2023: expanded the pardon from just simple possession to simple possession, attempted simple possession, and use/possession of marijuana on certain federal lands.

No one was in federal prison for simple possession charges of marijuana at that time.

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‘Unseemly and unfortunate’: Trump’s name brands millions of Amazon refund checks

This was brought pertaining to a policy brought by Kahn, the person they are trying to deport. And the appeals court threw out her proposal stating they failed to prove $100 million in damages when trying to enforce the click-to-cancel policy.

So uh... $2.5 billion is 25x that from one company.. sounds like that click-to-cancel policy should start immediately.

Edit: On a side note, why the fuck should it take $100,000,000 in damages to the population for a rule that helps the people to be enforced?

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Please don't destroy Chipotle /s

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Leftists often call them liberal because many of them use the term to define one who believes in Liberalism.

"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law."

Thus anyone who is liberal believes in the right to private property. MAGA strongly believes in such. No leftist believes in such. Thus in their use, a leftist cannot be a liberal.

It's just a different usage of a term based on cultural differences.

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SSA email | Giving America's Children a Stake in the American Dream

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From what I'm guessing they are essentially merging a custodial account like Charles Schwab offers, and saying to enroll you can do so while filling your taxes. Only kids born 2025-now would get a 1 time account opening bonus kind of like when you open a checking/savings or other promotional account.

So while they are saying the accounts are opened with money already in them that would be a vast stretch of the truth. Also since there has really only been about 5,000,000 births since 2025, the other 65,000,000 accounts they are claiming would not be eligible for getting any kind of bonus.

That said this information would be coming from Chime who is partnering with them and they do not appear to be confident in it either: https://help.chime.com/account-security-00b00e5a/taxes-7d96431b/what-is-a-trump-account-66939cc7

"The $1,000 seed contribution Children born between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2028 may receive a one-time $1,000 seed contribution from the U.S. Treasury. Children born before 2025 can still have a Trump Account opened but will not receive the seed contribution.

About the seed contribution: The $1,000 is paid by the U.S. Treasury — not Chime. It is not part of your tax refund and does not go to your Chime account. It goes directly into your child's Trump Account and is expected to be issued in summer 2026."

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Farmed salmon are now being fed chicken - and it might actually be better than the status quo

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Seriously it's in the body of text in the post. Leftovers of the chickens that cannt be used for humans dogs and cats get used for the fish.

This is like people arguing against leather at this point when millions of animals are being slaughtered and their hides are being thrown into landfills because demand is so low. If they are already slaughtering the animals, use the parts. As demand for cows/chickens comes down find alternatives, but throwing away parts of a slaughtered animal is worse to me.