Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Only the AfD can save Germany
Naomi Seibt @SeibtNaomi
🚨🇩🇪CHANCELLOR FRONTRUNNER SLAMS MUSK & MILEI❗️
The presumptive next chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) is horrified by the idea that Germany should follow Elon Musk’s and Javier Milei’s example.
He staunchly rejects a pro-freedom approach and refuses any discussion with the AfD.
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TGDavis
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Being for a secure border, sound money, and the preservation of Western civilization, does not make you a right winger, it makes you normal.
Nancy Mace
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It’s not the number of pages that matter - it’s what’s in those pages.
This CR had the same level of spending today as it did yesterday, but the debt ceiling was suspended, meaning there was no limit on the debt. I don’t trust Congress or the government to spend responsibly… Show more
6:50 PM · Dec 19, 2024
The Democrats are trying to play this ridiculous game of attacking Elon Musk for objecting to the pork-filled continuing resolution that was initially put forth this week. They all were up in arms, asking who is he to weigh in?
The answer was a simple one: an American citizen — a citizen that the Democratic politicians are supposed to be serving. But imagine they all were chastising him because he wasn't an "elected" official, as though he couldn't offer his opinion. That was a sign of what they think of all of us in general, they don't think they work for us, they think they rule over us and don't have to respond. But Musk proved them wrong, and they were mad. //
They wanted to anger Trump by calling Musk the "shadow president," as Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) did when she asked, "Who's the president now?" about the situation. That's pretty desperate and just shows how empty they are.
That's when CNN commentator Scott Jennings skewered them with an extremely important point.
Jennings turned that around on Jayapal as he spoke with Erin Burnett. "She [Jayapal] let the mask slip right at the end when she said, 'Who is the president right now...I mean, who is the President-elect?' She asked the right question first — who is the president right now?" //
Catturd ™ @catturd2
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No one voted for Kamala in the primary and you didn't have a problem with that.
Nina Turner @ninaturner
No one voted for Elon Musk.
1:10 PM · Dec 19, 2024
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A big, big part of this was Fani's failure to take a cross-appeal, as well as her prior failure to even preserve a proper record in the trial court for later use on appeal. This underscores what I've been saying for months about how Fani is not a very good lawyer, among her many other shortcomings, such as lack of judgment, etc.
Nevertheless, this is a very good outcome, and further ensures we have heard the last of this sham proceeding, as far as its impact on President Trump is concerned. But I'm sure Fani will continue to waste taxpayer money (as well as costing all the defendants more attorneys fees) by dragging this matter up to the Georgia Supreme Court, just to try to cover her eponymous anatomical part.
I hope all the defendants sue her and Nathan Wade for all they're worth when this is over.
"Do you often like the tweets you don't agree with?" Kennedy asked.
"Those were not my words," Keys insisted.
"You can't make this cat walk backwards," Kennedy finally declared. //
Kennedy cuts through the palaver and gets down to the nitty gritty again in pointing out the difference between what witnesses say and what they do. He's not shy about holding their feet to the fire and exposing hypocrisy, and it's a great thing to see. //
Michael Piz
a day ago
My favorite Kennedy quote is "Kale tastes like I'd rather be fat.". //
Dennis
a day ago
Kennedy is the Mark Twain of today. One could literally write a book of quotes, funny and epic exchanges that man has had in the past decade alone
Hakeem Jeffries
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Dec 18, 2024
@RepJeffries
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House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government.
And hurt the working class Americans they claim to support.
You break the bipartisan agreement, you own the consequences that follow.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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You seem to think the public is dumb.
They are not.
4:51 PM · Dec 18, 2024 //
Elon Musk @elonmusk
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The voice of the people was heard.
This was a good day for America.
Chad Pergram @ChadPergram
GOP KY Rep Barr on CR: The phone was ringing off the hook today. And you know why? Because they were reading the tweets, the X from musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, and they were telling me that they were, that they were listening to them.. this shows the influence that president,…
5:12 PM · Dec 18, 2024
I'm asking congressional Republicans to read this slowly because it might confuse them, but they have a majority. That means they can now pass a clean CR. If Democrats then vote it down, angry that they didn't get their pork-filled 1,500-page monstrosity, then they will be the ones shutting the government down. Jeffries would be forced to eat his own words about hurting "everyday Americans."
The same thing applies to all the emotional pleas about "disaster relief."
Again, make Democrats own this. If they want to make disaster relief a marker, then pass a standalone bill and make them vote it down. What excuse would they have to do so after they proclaimed how vital it is? And if Democrats do scuttle it, then Republicans can go to the podium and place the blame where it belongs.
It's so simple, and I'm at a loss as to why that wasn't the plan in the first place. If Republicans can't grow a backbone and play hardball now, especially when the opportunity is being handed to them on a silver platter, then when can they? Democrats have no leverage, and it's long past time they are made to understand what losing actually entails. It means not getting all your priorities passed because you scream "crisis" every few months after refusing to govern in a normal fashion.
Republicans need to put their differences aside and come together to do the smart thing. Pass a clean CR and force the hand of Democrat leadership.
Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy
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Shorter = better. This bill is only 116 pages, instead of 1,500+ pages. Took a LOT less time to read. Glad to see the following garbage from yesterday’s bill removed in the current version:
- Congressional pay raise/health benefits
- 17 miscellaneous commerce bills
- Random new… Show more
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Yesterday’s bill vs today’s bill 😂
4:52 PM · Dec 19, 2024
Based on Kingthings Petrock - this is a display font and needs to be used at least an inch high to see any detail. Happy Christmas!
Does “Pix or it didn’t happen” apply to traveling to the edge of space on a balloon-lofted solar observatory? Yes, it absolutely does.
The breathtaking views on this page come courtesy of IRIS-2, a compact imaging package that creators [Ramón García], [Miguel Angel Gomez], [David Mayo], and [Aitor Conde] recently decided to release as open source hardware. It rode to the edge of space aboard Sunrise III, a balloon-borne solar observatory designed to study solar magnetic fields and atmospheric plasma flows.
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United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assassination in early December caused me to think about why Americans are so frustrated with insurance companies. As the owner of an independent pharmacy in Duarte, California, I deal with insurance on a daily basis. I got an email one evening from a patient. I've read this email before, from countless patients before this one. I have even received a letter from the Superior Court of Minnesota, listing me as a creditor for a patient who filed for bankruptcy after cancer treatment. This particular email read:
"Could you tell me what I owe you and what I may have paid. I’m trying for some grants. I can’t even buy groceries. I’ve already missed taxes on our home. But I don’t want to keep on not paying you." //
Insurance is a catch-22. It almost seems like you're punished if you use it, but you're a fool not to have it. I would love to respond to the email above with, "Don't worry, I'll take the loss, and your husband's health is more important than money." However, per insurance requirements, legally I cannot.
During the first Trump administration, Democrats accused Republicans of abusing the Senate process in order to confirm nominees. //
The House just passed the JUDGES Act, which would create the first new positions on the U.S. District Court since 2003. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., allowed the Senate to pass it on Aug. 1, when he thought Kamala Harris would win the White House. Now that Donald Trump has won, and the House has passed the bill, President Joe Biden says he will veto it to prevent Trump from having more vacancies to fill.
Democrats controlled the Senate side of the process during Biden’s term and ran a highly partisan operation — with tactics they once criticized Republicans for using — to steer the judiciary sharply to the left.
Biden will appoint a total of 235 judges to the four courts with life-tenured judges: 187 to the U.S. District Court, 45 to the U.S. Court of Appeals, two to the U.S. Court of International Trade, and one to the U.S. Supreme Court. He will exceed President Donald Trump’s first-term total by one and take the second spot on the list of most single-term appointments in American history. Only President Jimmy Carter, after Congress created 152 new judicial positions in 1978, appointed more.
Biden’s total is even more impressive because the confirmation process is more cumbersome than ever. //
While Democrats created a new process in 2017 in order to routinely challenge Trump’s nominees, a determined Republican leadership in the Judiciary Committee and full Senate kept the confirmation process trains running. Democrats have done the same for the past four years. Today, according to the Federal Judicial Center, appeals court judges in active service are evenly split between Republican and Democrat appointees, while 60 percent of active district court judges were named by Democrats.
Stephanie Ruhle, host of "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC, explained recently that Donald Trump was far more accessible as a candidate than Kamala Harris.
So approachable was he that Ruhle decided on a whim to call and ask for an interview, which he promptly declined. But still, he answered the phone. That's the point.
Even if he shot her down in typical Trump fashion.
“If I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there’s 50 people between me, and that I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody that (through) Pony Express and a pigeon, something might end up in a mailbox near them," Ruhle said in an interview with Lukas Thimm.
Yet, getting in touch with Trump was as easy as picking up her phone and dialing.
Ruhe said she "rolled the dice" and called Trump after the "crazy rally" at Madison Square Garden, "And he answered!”
The campaign to mislead the American people about Biden's ailing condition was the biggest disinformation campaign in modern presidential history. The sheer length of it combined with the breadth of those parroting it, including at the highest levels of government and in the press is unmatched. Those who participated have no credibility. They don't get to claim it was "obvious" all along when they were saying the opposite five months ago. No one should forget how far they were willing to go, up to and including putting an invalid back in the Oval Office, to remain in power.
Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.
But, according to data released Tuesday, the number of eighth, 10th, and 12th graders who collectively abstained from the use of alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine hit a new high this year. Use of illicit drugs also fell on the whole and use of non-heroin narcotics (Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet) hit an all-time low. //
The initial drop in drug use between 2020 and 2021 was among the largest ever recorded. And researchers like Miech expected the rates would bounce back, at least partially. But now, the data suggests the pandemic has started a wave of abstention that is still rippling through grade levels. //
Apophasis Seniorius Lurkius
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Apophasis said:
Maybe less IRL exposure to drugs as a consequence of more screen time?
Half right 🤷♂️
From the press release:
"[The continued declines] suggest that a delay in drug use initiation during adolescence could potentially lower substance use trajectories over a lifetime, Miech says.
Such a delay, he says, may prevent youth from associating with drug-using peer groups that encourage continued use and may forestall biological processes that contribute to the development of addiction."
Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products made of black plastic, including kitchen utensils. The study sparked a flurry of media reports a few weeks ago that urgently implored people to ditch their kitchen spatulas and spoons. Wirecutter even offered a buying guide for what to replace them with.
The correction, posted Sunday, will likely take some heat off the beleaguered utensils. The authors made a math error that put the estimated risk from kitchen utensils off by an order of magnitude. //
While being off by an order of magnitude seems like a significant error, the authors don't seem to think it changes anything. "This calculation error does not affect the overall conclusion of the paper," the correction reads. The corrected study still ends by saying that the flame retardants "significantly contaminate" the plastic products, which have "high exposure potential."
Ars has reached out to the lead author, Megan Liu, but has not received a response. Liu works for the environmental health advocacy group Toxic-Free Future, which led the study.
The study highlighted that flame retardants used in plastic electronics may, in some instances, be recycled into household items.
Backup vaultwarden (formerly known as bitwarden_rs) SQLite3/PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB database by rclone. (Docker)
Jaycuse
I recommend having a read at the wiki
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Backing-up-your-vault
I use the docker image bruceforce/bw_backup
My docker compose settings:
bw_backup:
image: bruceforce/bw_backup
container_name: bw_backup
restart: unless-stopped
init: true
depends_on:
- bitwarden
volumes:
- bitwarden-data:/data/
- backup-data:/backup_folder/
- /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
environment:
- DB_FILE=/data/db.sqlite3
- BACKUP_FILE=/backup_folder/bw_backup.sqlite3
# EVERY DAY 5am
- CRON_TIME=0 5 * * *
- TIMESTAMP=false
- UID=0
- GID=0Once I have the backup file I use borg backup al
Backing up data
By default, vaultwarden stores all of its data under a directory called data (in the same directory as the vaultwarden executable). This location can be changed by setting the DATA_FOLDER environment variable. If you run vaultwarden with SQLite (this is the most common setup), then the SQL database is just a file in the data folder. If you run with MySQL or PostgreSQL, you will have to dump that data separately --