Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
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The hurricane “machine” is climate change.
Cooler ocean temperatures slow hurricane development.
As temps rise, more hurricanes grow.
The Gulf of Mexico is a major location for warming water.
The people who bear responsibility are fossil fuel co’s + the politicians they buy.
4:32 PM · Oct 9, 2024
Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX
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Hi there, @AOC. 👋
You seem to like science. So, I figured I would give ya an education about this topic. 📚
I took the liberty to plot the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) for June-August (JJA) for the period 1900 to 2023. The base period used for this analysis is 1991-2020 and JJA was used because that is what the SSTs are to work with in the GoM going into North Atlantic peak hurricane season (August-October) and SSTs are slow to change due to water's high heat capacity.  I'll drop the link to the KNMI Climate Explorer for you to reproduce this chart at your own will. Give that a lil' click-sy and knock yourself out.  https://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi (the bounding box I used was 20-30°N, 80-100°W) The diamonds overlain represent instances when a major hurricane (i.e., a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained wind speeds of ≥111 mph according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale) formed in the GoM. Some years have more than major hurricane in the Gulf, so they're represented by one dot.
A total of 75 hurricanes have either formed or tracked through the GoM since 1900.[1] Of those 75, 40 (53.3%) formed with SSTAs 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 the 1991-2020 mean. That's more than half of the subset.
- [1] 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒, 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑦 (1957) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑙𝑚𝑎 (1966) 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒.
What we can conclude from this analysis is that the formation of major hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico is not contingent on warming SSTs. The Gulf gets warm enough every year to sustain a major hurricane, even of category four or five status. So, higher SSTs aren't going to add much additional effect, especially if you consider the fact tropical cyclone kinematics require far more environmental parameters to be favorable in order for a major hurricane to form (e.g., pre-existing disturbance, low deep-layer [200-850 hPa] vertical wind shear and no dry air / Saharan dust).
You are oversimplifying a very complex issue that you have little understanding about.
But also, how bad off are you that this is what you are saying to campaign volunteers? Are you really saying they don't want to vote for women? //
Really, just so offensive and insulting to black men. Sounds like they're already trying to blame black men for losing as opposed to Kamala just being a lousy candidate. //
Corey Brooks “RoofTopPastor” @CoreyBBrooks
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Voting for someone solely based on the color of their skin is a shallow approach that undermines the value of true leadership and character. Judging a candidate on their principles, vision, and ability to lead, rather than relying on racial identity should be the deciding factor.
Katie Rogers @katierogers
Wow. Obama’s message to Black men in PA tonight, per pooler @EricaLG
“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that.”
7:33 PM · Oct 10, 2024. //
WestTexasBirdDog
3 hours ago
Who is denigrating black folks? Here's a short list...
Who is saying Blacks can't get an ID that no other race has a problem getting?
Who is saying math is racist?
Who is saying reading is racist?
Who is saying testing is racist?
Who is saying criminal laws are racist?
Who is saying bail is racist?
Who is saying you ain't Black if you don't vote like you are told.
Lots of denigrating going on, but is ain't from who Obama wants you to think it is. //
Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil
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Reporter:
What did Prime Minister Netanyahu tell you about his plans related to retaliation
Biden: He's coming over to help with the storm
3:05 PM · Oct 10, 2024
Ironically, he's sort of right. Netanyahu is dealing with the "storm" that Obama/Biden/Harris created in the Middle East by continuing to prop up the mullahs. //
Greg Price @greg_price11
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Biden tells Trump to "get a life, man" and "help these people" who were victims of the hurricanes.
Pres. Trump visited NC and GA and raised millions of dollars for the victims even though he is not the one currently in charge of the government.
2:21 PM · Oct 10, 2024 //
He scolded the media for not holding up the narrative enough, saying the public would hold Trump accountable. He also said that, "You, the press, should hold him accountable because you know the truth," pointing his finger at them in an accusatory manner.
"Do you plan to speak with former President Trump at all?" a reporter asked.
"No!" Biden retorted, as he went out the door.
Hold Trump accountable for what? //
Eric Trump @EricTrump
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Honored to have 275 incredible linemen from FPL at @TrumpDoral as they get ready to respond to the aftermath of Hurricane #Milton! You are amazing and the Trump Family, and entire state of Florida, appreciates you! Enjoy the rooms - they are the best in Florida! Be safe! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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For the love of God, would someone just ask him if he is happy he stole the 2020 election already?
I want to hear him admit it before he croaks.
kamief pinkunicorns
3 hours ago
He did admit it. Before it happened. Bragged about it, but.......................He miss spoke or some crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0
Specifically, Judge John Bush said that judges should discern the original understanding of free speech in “linguistical meaning” and “evidence of how Americans ordered their lives” in the 1790s.
The Second Amendment case to which the authors referred was New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the Supreme Court ruled that, among other considerations, gun control laws must be consistent with the “historical” standard of restrictions on firearms.
The primary argument the authors made is that relying solely, or mostly, on historical interpretations of the law to define the scope of free speech is problematic. They contend that taking such an approach could lead to inconsistent, regressive, and ultimately tyrannical rulings that would roll back protections on speech.
“If rules from the 1790s were enforced today, citizens could be jailed for criticizing politicians, public figures could freely use defamation law to punish critics, and schoolchildren would have few if any free speech rights,” the authors stated.
The authors also noted court cases that expanded the right to free speech, specifically a 1943 case where a court “held that the government could not compel students to salute the flag because ‘no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion.’”
They also brought up a 1971 case that “held that the government could not ban vulgar or offensive speech.”
Yet, in the 17th and 19th centuries, the government had no problem with restricting speech in a way that seems foreign to us today:
Historically, the wrong kind of speech could land you in jail. Laws criminalizing blasphemy, government criticism, tepid sexual content, and other speech viewed to be bad or harmful were commonplace at the country’s founding.
Another historical example the authors offer is the prohibition of abolitionist speech in Southern states, showing how restrictions on speech were used to uphold oppressive institutions such as slavery. //
any court decision should be made through the lens of liberty, seeking to ensure the state does not infringe on any of our rights without an exceedingly good reason. The Framers sought to create a system of governance that would make it difficult for the state to impose laws or policies that make it more intrusive in our lives. The goal was to cultivate a society free from oppressive and unnecessary restrictions imposed with the threat of government violence.
The north star for any court should be liberty, regardless of whether it is in line with historical precedent. Otherwise, those seeking to violate our rights will find it far easier to do so.
When the government is this big, this overbearing, this out of control, the opportunities for graft likewise grow out of control too - and the attraction to people who are seeking that kind of graft grows out of control along with it.
That's where you get the federal government sending almost $400k to a Chinese company for one magic bus and that same company shoveling campaign contributions to the politicians who made the funding happen.
One hand washes the other. //
Chelan Jim
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Electric buses are having issues. An article from Government Technology (govtech.com) on March 2024:
The director of the New York Association for Pupil Transportation said 20 out of 100 electric school buses are down on any given day, due to problems with the buses or with their charging devices.
The article goes on to say:
Traditional diesel buses, for instance, have a failure rate of 1 or 2 percent, meaning that out of a fleet of 100 buses, one or two would be down for repairs on a given day, said David Christopher, executive director
And the electric buses cost about $100,000 more per bus.
REPORTER: Is the increase in tornados [caused by] global warming?
DESANTIS: I think you can back and find tornadoes for all of human history, for sure, and especially, you know, Florida, how does this storm rate in the history of storms? I think it hit with a barometric pressure of (looks at the man behind him), what was it? About 950 millibars when it hit?
Which, I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been 27 hurricanes that have had lower, the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is. I think there have been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure on landfall than Milton did, and of those, 17 occurred, I think, prior to 1960, and the most powerful hurricane on record since the 1850s in the State of Florida occurred in the 1930s, the Labor Day hurricane. Barometric pressure 892 millibars.
It totally wiped out the Keys. We've never seen anything like it, and that remains head and shoulders above any powerful hurricane in the State of Florida. The most deadly hurricane we've ever had was in 1928, the Okichobi hurricane. Killed over 4,000 people. Fortunately, we aren't going to have anything close to that on this hurricane, but even ones like Ian, it wasn't anything close to that. Yeah, I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it's something. There's nothing new under the sun. This is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history, and it's something that we'll continue to deal with.
REPORTER: In your history, sir, how many storms form as rapidly as they have between Helena and Milton.
DESANTIS: I think most people remember 2004 where it seemed like we had them every other week in 2004. Then there's also time period. From 2006-16, we had no hurricanes at all in Florida. There's also been times where we had a lot. In the 1940s, we were hit a lot. Now, more recently, we've had a spate for more. That's just kind of the nature of it, but this really does, it has a lot of similarities to 2004 in terms of the season.
His new film “Line in the Sand,” however, may go down as his biggest achievement yet, as it is a powerful, moving look at the border crisis, the human trafficking that goes with it, and the moral rot at the center. /)
I asked him what surprised him most while making this film, and he said it was the endless grift:
All the people that are on the take, all the people that were making money off of this. All the people that were not willing to do the right thing because they wanted to benefit. I don't know if that was surprising—but it was shocking to hear what people were saying.
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Perhaps the most interesting thing he revealed, however, is just how much money is involved in perpetuating the problem and how many people on both sides of the boundary are benefitting from it—even as it endangers our country and causes misery for untold thousands (millions?).
Although O’Keefe didn’t get especially political in the film, the reality that he deftly portrays is one of a humanitarian disaster in large part caused by the corrupt Biden-Harris regime, aided and abetted by NGOs and others profiting from pain.
ince early September, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have been combating a month-long campaign of hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks. Cloudflare’s defenses mitigated over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 terabits per second (Tbps). The largest attack peaked 3.8 Tbps — the largest ever disclosed publicly by any organization. Detection and mitigation was fully autonomous. The graphs below represent two separate attack events that targeted the same Cloudflare customer and were mitigated autonomously.
This is not journalism. It's naked activism backed by an insane DEI apparatus that seeks to control the flow of information. The fact that CBS News even has a "Race and Culture Department" that is pre-vetting interview questions is an incredible breach of journalistic ethics. Yet, it's Dokoupil who is being accused of violating editorial standards.
Naturally, not a single mainstream press "media report" such as CNN's Brian Stelter has mentioned any of these scandals. Between this and the editing falsehoods by "60 Minutes," where a completely unrelated answer was cut and pasted to a question Harris flubbed, CBS News should not be considered a "news" network. At the very least, Republican politicians need to blackball them.
In late August, Mark Memmott, the senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, sent an email to all CBS News employees reminding them to “be careful with some terms when we talk or write about the news” from Israel and Gaza. One of the words on Memmott’s list of terms was Jerusalem.
Of Jerusalem, Memmott wrote: “Do not refer to it as being in Israel.”
He continued, in a note sent to thousands of journalists at the network: “Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel’s capital. But its status is disputed. The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its ‘eternal and undivided’ capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem—occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war—as the capital of a future state.”
Jerusalem’s status is indeed contested. For instance, the United States’ embassy in Israel is in Jerusalem, and the Jordanian Islamic Waqf has custody of its holy sites. But acknowledging the competing claims on different parts of the city, or declining to refer to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, are one thing. Denying that it is in Israel at all is quite another.
In which country is the Israeli Knesset, the home of the Israeli prime minister and the home of the Israeli president, located? The answer to that question is self-evident. Except, it seems, at CBS. In the rest of the United States, the answer is clear: Since 1995, when Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, the government has recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Bill Whitaker actually did a good job of asking some probing questions, and Kamala gave some ridiculous answers, including one incredible word salad about Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They released a clip on it early, but then when they did the whole interview on Monday, the answer had changed and been edited. //
anon-tf71 an hour ago
Can we sue CBS for election interference?
polyjunkie anon-tf71 an hour ago edited
Well, in New York, they would have to make some errors in their tax returns by deducting the expenses associated with the interview as a business expense instead of a contribution in kind to the Harris campaign. They would then be misdemeanor “bookkeeping errors”. Then, after the statute of limitations expires, the DA can declare that the statute was extended for a year for “reasons”, and then add them all together, declare them to now be felonies because “election interference”, and try CBS. So, yes. I would say sure, try them for election interference.
Many of the residents we spoke with lost their homes to landslides and flooding during Hurricane Helene.
The Daily Signal asked people a simple question: “What do you want to say to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris?”
An overwhelming majority said that they are frustrated that the U.S. government is spending billions of dollars abroad instead of helping American citizens first.
Frank Butera, a business owner in Lake Lure, said, “It’s nice that you’re helping the illegal immigrants, but it’s time to help us people that paid taxes all our life.”
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He's right, of course
The importance of using the active voice cannot be emphasized enough.
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It appears my idea was stolen by you.
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I suspect about 50% of us came here to make that post. I first came across it from a list of 'fumblerules', I think collected by William Safire circa 1980, that included :
Don't use no double negatives.
Sentences should a verb.
One will never have used the future perfect in one's entire life.
Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read and figure out.
I've told you a thousand times : avoid hyperbole.
(plus quite a bit more not currently coming to mind) //
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"I have searched for a word that refers to itself."
In a logic text book I once read the word is "homologous". "Heterologous" denotes a word that does not refer to itself. Clearly, there are no other possibilities.
"Short" is a short word, and so is homologous; "long" is not a long word and so is heterologous. But what about "Heterologous" itself? If "heterologous" is heterologous then it does not refer to itself and so must be homologous. But if it is homologous then it does refer to itself and so is heterologous.
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There's a Dr Gödel here who would like to have a word with you. //
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Grammatical errors in the post itself notwithstanding (Muphry's law is axiomatic in this type of post, and likely also in this article describing it), The Reg thinks Torvalds is correct. The passive construction, which may be found in scientific papers and technical writing, can be confusing and annoying. It creates a lack of clarity that leads not only to confusion about responsibility or agency, but often hides important information about who should be doing what and when. Ideal for certain vendor manuals, then. //
The Linux supremo declared:
But what does make extra work is when some maintainers use passive voice, and then I try to actively rewrite the explanation (or, admittedly, sometimes I just decide I don't care quite enough about trying to make the messages sound the same). So I would ask maintainers to please use active voice, and preferably just imperative. //
Illustrating the point, and showing how far the Linux kernel chieftain has come from his more belligerent days, Torvalds said he'd "love it" (yep, he's a new man) if people would avoid writing their "descriptions as 'In this pull request, the Xyzzy driver error handling was fixed to avoid a NULL pointer dereference.' Instead, write it as 'This fixes a NULL pointer dereference in ..'"
The directive comes years after the great punctuation rant of 2016, where Torvalds pressed "brain-damaged shit-for-brains devs" to drop the "disgusting drug-induced crap" and use asterisks properly. He's toned it down several notches, basically.
In Android 14, Google introduced new limitations on the installation of applications targeting old versions of Android.
What’s changing
From Android 14 it is no longer possible to install any application that targets an API level below 23 - Android 6.0. Attempting to do so will trigger a security exception //
It's certainly better to ensure apps are targeting the latest API level where possible, but as long as applications target an API level of 23 (Android 6.0) or higher for Android 14, and 24 (Android 7.0) or higher in Android 15, apps will continue to be able to install without issue. //
Yes, on an Android 14 device you may connect to ADB and sideload an application with:
“Noncitizens voting in federal elections is illegal under the ‘Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996,’” Braynard said in a statement announcing the ad blitz.
“However, there are still cases of it occurring, putting noncitizens at risk of facing serious charges and of affecting the outcome of our elections,” he claims.
One such ad, posted to YouTube, begins by reminding all Americans of the importance of voting in the elections come November. But should one attempt to cast an illegal ballot, they face significant repercussions. //
The group also cites a peer-reviewed scientific study published in Electoral Studies in 2014 that found non-citizens had, in fact, voted in U.S. elections.
The study claims non-citizen voting “likely changed 2008 outcomes including Electoral College votes and the composition of Congress.”
It also reveals that “non-citizens favor Democratic candidates over Republican candidates.”
It goes to the heart of an argument long made by X CEO Elon Musk, who has repeatedly pointed out that the census counts illegal aliens, affecting the congressional makeup in blue states and incentivizing Democrats to allow open-border policies to continue unabated.
“If Dems win President, House & Senate (with enough seats to overcome filibuster),” Musk warned previously, “they’ll grant citizenship to all illegals (and) America will become a permanent one-party deep socialist state.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379414000973 //
In addition to allowing non-citizens to be counted towards congressional apportionment, the Biden-Harris administration has been actively granting citizenship to immigrants at speeds not seen in over a decade.
bk
an hour ago
"I like hurricanes - they remind me of circles on Venn diagrams."
Tolly bk
an hour ago
"...and the wheels on the short, yellow bus that used to take me to school."
CatsAliveInHim TheAmerican1
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We’re not voting for president of the senior class.
Your vote for Trump is a chess move to preserve our Republic in a world that would like nothing better than to see America disappear.
ETA my comment is directed toward the fence-sitting voter, not you.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap requests. Those backdoors have been mandated by law—CALEA—since 1994.
It’s a weird story. The first line of the article is: “A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers.” This implies that the attack wasn’t against the broadband providers directly, but against one of the intermediary companies that sit between the government CALEA requests and the broadband providers.
For years, the security community has pushed back against these backdoors, pointing out that the technical capability cannot differentiate between good guys and bad guys. And here is one more example of a backdoor access mechanism being targeted by the “wrong” eavesdroppers. //
Clive Robinson • October 8, 2024 12:34 PM
Funny in a sad way but I used CALEA as an example of a bad idea put into legislation just a short time back.
The thing that most do not realise is that the actual “back door” does not need to be present, just the hooks for it in the system.
I doubt many remember back the twenty years to the Greek Olympics, but the main cellphone provider did Vodafone did not have the CALEA software installed in it’s equipment. But because the switches had it as a paid for option the low level hooks etc were in place in them.
The CIA/NSA used “the games” as an excuse to “check security”, and in the process a backdoor was dropped onto the hooks and more than a hundred senior Greek Government individuals had their phones put under surveillance, as well as some of their families and arabic business men.
For reasons not clear but incompetence by a CIA officer was indicated the backdoor was found. As an enquiry got under way and started to home in on events a phone company employee was found dead and he was blamed. Initially claimed to be a suicide it was later found to be murder with fingers pointed at the US.
The point everyone should remember is that when designing communications systems, you must design them in a way that backdoors are not only not possible but indicative behaviour will get flagged up quickly.
Otherwise on the sensible view expressed in Claude Shannon’s pithy maxim of,
“The enemy knows the system”[1],
the enemy will try to build an illicit backdoor in if you give them any crack to exploit.
Such “defensive engineering” to stop it is not something the vast majority of software and other systems developers understand and it’s long over due as an industry that ICT “Got it’s ‘sand’ together” on the matter.
Whilst E2EE when properly done –and it’s mostly not– can protect the “message contents” it does not protect much of anything else about the communications. That is the actual traffic meta-data and meta-meta-data allows not just “Traffic Analysis” but other forms of analysis and correlation by which information can be reasoned.
[1] Actually a rewording of Dutch Prof Auguste Kerckhoffs’s 2nd principle from the early 1880’s. //
Who? • October 8, 2024 12:40 PM
NOBUS at its best.
I hope some day one of these mandated-by-law backdoors will be used to make a truly destructive attack against U.S. critical infraestructures, so they start taking cybersecurity seriously and radically change their minds with relation to government backdoors.
I am sorry for being so harsh, but weakening computer and network (well… both are the same as the old Sun Microsystems slogan said, right?) security has nothing to do with cybersecurity. A secure computer is a secure device, secure against adversaries and secure against us too. I will say more, if NSA finds a vulnerability in a software project developed outside the United States, they should communicate the vulnerability to the developers of that software project too, at least if that software is used in the United States.
No one should play in the cybersecurity field by weakening the security of computer systems, at least not if they play in the “good guys” team.
Well, take this event as a warning note. I am not able to read an article behind a paywall, so I am unsure about what this attack means, but hope it will not be too difficult to fix. And, no, the fix is not changing the backdoor to a different one. The only acceptable fix is closing the backdoor forever.