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July 25, 2024

Progressive Lawmaker Shares Memo for Democrats Debunking 'Misinformation' on Kamala's Border Role – RedState
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Bobby Burack @burackbobby_
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Wow.

A Democrat lawmaker confirmed to FOX that Dems have received a piece of paper with talking points/lies about how to discuss Kamala Harris' role at the Southern border.

They are already using the exact lines.

https://outkick.com/analysis/democrat-lawmakers-receive-talking-points-how-talk-about-kamala-harris-role-border
1:18 PM · Jul 25, 2024. //

Mollie @MZHemingway
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The propaganda press working so hard to erase the fact that Kamala Harris was put in charge of the border shows not only what a vulnerability her role in the border is but also what a huge vulnerability her general incompetence is.
10:05 AM · Jul 24, 2024

A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee | Ars Technica
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ColdWetDog Ars Legatus Legionis
14y
12,021
Subscriptor++

Epimetheus_Secundus said:
Genetically there are three speeds to processing/eliminating caffeine from the body

Fast - body clears it in 45 minutes. These people can drink coffee before bed
Med - body clears it in 4 hours. Don't have coffee after dinner. Most people are this - call it "normal"
Slow - body clears it in 14-16 hours. Don't even bother

I got the slow gene, so I just don't bother.

My heartfelt condolences. But there is good news. While caffeine metabolism is about 80% genetic, the target enzymes are the cytochrome p450 system in the liver. So even if you have poor natural clearance, you can increase the p450 system by taking up cigarette smoking. o_O

Secret Service Was Obviously The Next Vehicle Of The Deep State
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Was the assassination attempt a failure because Trump survived? Or was it a failure because he was shot in the first place? //

The FBI and the Department of Justice failed to take Trump down through the Russia hoax. Then the intelligence state failed to bring Trump down through impeachment with a hoax on aid to Ukraine. Then congressional Democrats failed to keep Trump down with another hoax surrounding the capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. As the DOJ’s lawfare campaign to imprison Trump with a series of charges brought by prosecutors of the incumbent regime began to derail this summer, the Secret Service naturally became the agency of last resort through which Trump’s opponents could finally execute their “insurance policy” against another Trump presidency.

Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, might not have deliberately coordinated with deep state security to pull the trigger on the Republican presidential nominee. But the string of security lapses in the former president’s detail clearly left the door open for any number of the crazies who wish to carry out an assassination, including even a deranged 20-year-old, to succeed just once.

On Wednesday, the FBI confirmed Crooks had been able to fly a reconnaissance drone just roughly 200 yards from the rally fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, only hours before the event. The news had already been leaked to The Wall Street Journal, which reported a programmed flight path “suggests Crooks flew the drone more than once as he researched and scoped out the event site.”

Several law enforcement officials were apparently stationed inside the building from which Crooks was able to fire off eight gunshots in under six seconds, injuring two rallygoers and killing one. According to the disgraced ex-Secret Service director, however, the rooftop from which the gunman fired was left vacant because it was “sloped.” A former roofer explained in a column for The Federalist why Cheatle’s “‘Sloped’ Roof Excuse Is Total Nonsense.” //

The courageous commitment of front-line agents to take a bullet for the former president was on clear display at this month’s rally, but the leadership within the upper echelons of the federal security agency obviously carries no such mandate. The Secret Service director who finally stepped down was also an appointee of First Lady Jill Biden’s, whose own detail was apparently beefed up while Trump’s team was stripped down. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied the Trump campaign’s requests for additional security “time and again,” and yet Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas still hasn’t joined Cheatle in resigning.

On Tuesday, the Secret Service requested Trump forgo any more outdoor campaign rallies right after Republicans wrapped up one of the most successful conventions to propel the party into the fall election. //

Even if Trump’s assassination attempt wasn’t a government plot to kill an ex-president, it’s obvious to Americans that the Secret Service was yet another hostile agency prone to the corrupt impulses of far-left ideologues in the capital who grandstand on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. If the Secret Service had been weaponized to block Trump’s triumphant return to the Oval Office, the events might look very similar to those of the last two weeks.

Ping-Pong Paddle Sign Rashida Tlaib Brought to Netanyahu Speech Sparks Hilarious Memes – RedState
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CSPAN @cspan
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Rashida Tlaib holds 'War Criminal' sign as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress.

2:41 PM · Jul 24, 2024 //

The Left only destroys
7 hours ago
Actually, that sign is accurate. Rashida Taliban is a genocidal war criminal - or at least wants to be one.

RedinOR The Left only destroys
7 hours ago
Precisely. It wasn't a protest thing, she was self-identifying.

In Defense of Abstract Art | Poets
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I don’t get it. As far as I can tell, there just isn’t any meaning.

What if you brought along the need for such existential gleaning?

But even I could make that. I think a toddler could’ve made it just as well.

What if some great stories are ones that anyone - everyone - can tell?

So put it on a fridge, perhaps - but not in a museum with an entrance fee.

What if some deep beauties are worth some change to see?

Keep preaching, Socrates; I think I just prefer artists with clearer vision.

What if instead of a statement, the abstract exists as an artist's question?

Sounds clever. But you still haven’t justified to me the admission toll.

What if, though you don't see it, there’s value perceived by some other soul?

Fine, I'll bite; What’s the point? What magic, depth-granting lens do I lack?

There it is, a glimpse of the true art - starting to ask some questions back!

Just tell me what it is you see; what message, meaning, artistic solidarity?

How to Pass Arguments to a Bash Shell Script
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In the third part of the Bash Beginner Series, you'll learn to pass arguments to a bash shell script. You'll also learn about special bash shell variables.

New Damaging Info on Security at Trump Butler Rally, Plus More on Possible Political Position of Shooter – RedState
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The Secret Service reportedly didn't have drones of their own flying over the site -- the only drone reported so far was from the shooter, Thomas Crooks. As we previously reported, the Trump detail had had requests for more resources turned down, and there were reports that resources were delegated to Jill Biden's dinner instead of the much larger rally, as well as that Jill Biden had 12 post-standers as opposed to Trump being given three. That was insane given the potential threats against Trump and the size of the rally.

Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge
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NEW:

“According to one whistleblower, the night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally.”

Via @HawleyMO
2:37 PM · Jul 25, 2024

Survey: Likely Voters Believe Cheating Will Taint The 2024 Election
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Sixty-two percent of likely voters are concerned that the 2024 election will be marred by cheating, a new survey finds.

Secret Service Threatens Trump: Stop Your Rallies, Or Else
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The Secret Service is ‘encouraging’ the Trump campaign to halt the large-scale events his supporters have grown accustomed to. //

The Secret Service did not return an email from The Federalist requesting comment. So it’s not clear whether the agency has made the same requests of Vice President Kamala Harris, ... //

Sean Davis @seanmdav
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This is a direct threat from the regime to Trump: if he doesn’t stop trying to win, they’ll make sure the next attacker doesn’t miss. We all know what they’re doing.
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8:40 PM · Jul 23, 2024 //

The Post devoted several column inches to what a burden Trump’s outdoor rallies have been for an agency that glaringly failed its mission to protect him. The Post’s narrative is anything but subtle: Trump — and his penchant for massive campaign rallies — is to blame for his near-assassination.

“The rallies have long been viewed as onerous by the Secret Service because they include complicated outdoor venues with thousands — if not tens of thousands — of people,” the Post’s Josh Dawsey writes. “Most other former presidents rarely appear in public, and when they do, they usually appear in settings such as conferences and restaurants with fewer people. Trump requires a much larger security footprint than other past presidents because he holds so many large events.”

But Trump isn’t merely a former president showing up to a haughty cocktail party with D.C. elites. He’s the GOP’s candidate for president, whether the Post and their Democrat pals like it or not.

Hafele–Keating experiment - Wikipedia
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The Hafele–Keating experiment was a test of the theory of relativity. In 1971,[1] Joseph C. Hafele, a physicist, and Richard E. Keating, an astronomer, took four caesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world, first eastward, then westward, and compared the clocks in motion to stationary clocks at the United States Naval Observatory. When reunited, the three sets of clocks were found to disagree with one another, and their differences were consistent with the predictions of special and general relativity. //

Hafele, an assistant professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, was preparing notes for a physics lecture when he did a back-of-the-envelope calculation showing that an atomic clock aboard a commercial airliner should have sufficient precision to detect the predicted relativistic effects.[11] He spent a year in fruitless attempts to get funding for such an experiment, until he was approached after a talk on the topic by Keating, an astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory who worked with atomic clocks.[11]

Hafele and Keating obtained $8000 in funding from the Office of Naval Research[12] for one of the most inexpensive tests ever conducted of general relativity. Of this amount, $7600 was spent on the eight round-the-world plane tickets,[13] including two seats on each flight for "Mr. Clock." They flew eastward around the world, ran the clocks side by side for a week, and then flew westward. The crew of each flight helped by supplying the navigational data needed for the comparison with theory. In addition to the scientific papers published in Science,[5][6] there were several accounts published in the popular press and other publications. //

Presently both gravitational and velocity effects are routinely incorporated, for example, into the calculations used for the Global Positioning System.

It's Sad, but Benjamin Netanyahu Understands America Better Than Some Americans Do – RedState
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My dear friends — Democrats and Republicans — despite these times of upheaval, I am hopeful about the future. I am hopeful about Israel because my people, the Jewish people, emerged from the depths of hell, from dispossession and genocide, and against all odds, we restored our sovereignty in our ancient homeland. We built a powerful and vibrant democracy — a democracy that pushes the boundaries of innovation for the betterment of all humanity.

I am hopeful about America because I'm hopeful about Americans. I know how much the people of this country have sacrificed to defend freedom. America will continue to be a force for light and good in a dark and dangerous world. For free peoples everywhere, America remains the beacon of liberty its extraordinary founders envisioned back in 1776.

Working together, I am confident that our two nations will vanquish the tyrants and terrorists who threaten us both. //

anon-89ic
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Part of the problem is that to some extent Trump understands Israel more than Bibi does. It's one of the reasons that our relationship with Israel is so important. it is partnership and an important one, the kind we used to have with what is now Saudi Britain.

[SOLVED] Windows Defender Not Turning on in Windows 11/10/8/7 - MiniTool
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Is your Windows Defender not turning on? Are you looking for full solutions to get rid of this issue? This post will show you how to repair Windows Defender in Windows 11/10/8/7 so your PC can be protected from viruses.

Media’s Soviet-Style Airbrushing of Kamala Harris’ Problematic History
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After episodes of Axios and GovTrack retroactively changing their reporting, we are in uncharted territory where we are in Soviet style rewriting of history, not just media bias.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/axios-vs-axios-new-article-claims-kamala-harris-was-never-bidens-border-czar-2021-article-says-otherwise/

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/election-interference-govtrack-deletes-its-page-on-kamala-as-most-liberal-of-all-u-s-senators/

there’s a joke that I saw on Twitter today, which was that in the Soviet Union, the future was always written, but it’s the past that kept changing. And what they were talking about is Stalin and other Soviet leaders had a habit of changing history. And they would do it in many ways. And one of the ways they would do it as featured in this image. //

Axios wrote an article today saying that’s not true. She was never called the Border Czar. And then people found from 2021 articles in Axios calling her the Border Czar because she doesn’t want to now take responsibility for the border problems.

So Axios just reinvented it, wrote an addition saying, oh, we were wrong back then. We used it improperly.

No, they didn’t. They used it in context at the time because that’s what she was called. And just like the Soviets go back and airbrush people and rewrite things, that’s what Axios did today. //

GovTrack had rated her in 2019 as the most liberal senator in the Senate. That means to the left of Bernie Sanders. That’s a problem for Kamala Harris, and that is something that Republicans are hitting her on.

And in completely Soviet style. GovTrack simply took down her page and posted a notice saying that they’ve reconsidered things. And their whole methodology that they used in 2019, not just for her, but for everybody, was now wrong. And they removed the page much like the Soviets would remove pages from the encyclopedia. //

4fun | July 24, 2024 at 9:34 pm
I think this is the Soviet joke you were looking for.

The past is rewritten so fast that you don’t know what will happen yesterday.

Introducing Restoring the Soul’s New Logo - Restoring the Soul Inc.
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Kintsugi, meaning “golden joint” or “golden repair,” is a Japanese method lacquer masters use to remake broken teaware. The lacquer seals the pieces back together, then gold powder accentuates the cracks between pieces rather than hiding them. Tea families would even keep fragments for generations, seeking a master who could put them together into something more beautiful than before. It is a challenging and meditative craft.

What we love about this practice is its emphasis on maintaining the fragmentation. Or as we like to call it in our line of work, the wounds. Kintsugi considers how something that was broken, no matter how badly, can be put together into a creation that is even stronger and more striking. //

This idea of “new creation” is also central to Restoring the Soul’s mission because it reflects Jesus’ journey on the cross and post-resurrection appearance. He chose to be a wounded human, appearing to his disciples with nail marks in his hands still showing. As Isaiah 53:5 says, “By his wounds we are healed.” His wounds created a path to restoration for us, no matter how shattered we are. Through Jesus, we are kintsugi pieces, new creations: ourselves, but even more beautiful than before.

Jesus accepts and loves us with all our flaws, imperfections, and painful experiences. He offers you an opportunity to be created anew, filled with rivers of gold — to be as valuable to yourself as you are to God.

NTP in in deep space - NTP Pool Project
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Our beloved NTP protocol appears to work in a deep space environment (as tested in a simulation with a 4 hour RTT):

https://deepspaceip.github.io/testbed/ntp.pdf

How to synchronize time between two devices on a local network using NTPD, with one device serving as both client and server on separate interfaces? - Pool Development - NTP Pool Project
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you could use IPv6 for the multicast addresses replacing 224.x.y.z with ff02::xyz or ff02::x:y:z etc.

Rather, the IPv6 multicast address for NTP is ff02::101. Likewise, the multicast IPv4 address for NTP is 224.0.1.1.

How a barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike mess in a flash • The Register
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Not long after Windows PCs and servers at the Australian limb of audit and tax advisory Grant Thornton started BSODing last Friday, senior systems engineer Rob Woltz remembered a small but important fact: When PCs boot, they consider barcode scanners no differently to keyboards.

That knowledge nugget became important as the firm tried to figure out how to respond to the mess CrowdStrike created, which at Grant Thornton Australia threw hundreds of PCs and no fewer than 100 servers into the doomloop that CrowdStrike's shoddy testing software made possible.

All of Grant Thornton's machines were encrypted with Microsoft's BitLocker tool, which meant that recovery upon restart required CrowdStrike's multi-step fix and entry of a 48-character BitLocker key. //

Woltz is pleased that his idea translated into a swift recovery, but also a little regretful he didn't think of using QR codes – they could have encoded sufficient data to automate the entire remediation process.

6 Fixes for Windows Security Not Opening on Windows 11 - Guiding Tech
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Try Basic Fixes
Uninstall any third-party antivirus program: Third-party antivirus programs can sometimes interfere with the Windows Security app and prevent it from opening on your Windows 11 PC. To avoid any conflicts, it’s best to disable or uninstall any third-party antivirus program.
Install Windows updates: Updates are crucial for any operating system and Windows is no exception. Aside from new features and security patches, these updates also carry important bug fixes. You can download and install any available updates and see if that resolves the issue.

A Complete Guide to Bash Array
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 # loop through the indices and print elements
 for position in ${!bd_bands[@]};
 do
 echo "band ${bd_bands[$position]} is at index: $position"
 done