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I got about here ....

It would be a double disaster if someone who came to America as a refugee ended up engaging in a terrorist act.

... and had this face

 

That's the progressivism that'll win over those Fox viewers

 

I looked at the list of things "debunking" the "smears" that was posted and almost all of them are "Yeah, that's true" or "Bernie did it too!"

 

This video is certainly something.

 

Biden's speech writer is getting dunked on and its hilarious

 

I think a candidate's stance on impeachment is one of those issues I'm not willing to budge on either. Seems pretty damn cut and dry to me.

 

Equifax data breach: Pick free credit monitoring

The public response to the settlement has been overwhelming, and we’re delighted that millions of people have visited ftc.gov/Equifax and gone on to the settlement website’s claims form.

But there’s a downside to this unexpected number of claims. First, though, the good: all 147 million people can ask for and get free credit monitoring. There’s also the option for people who certify that they already have credit monitoring to claim up to $125 instead. But the pot of money that pays for that part of the settlement is $31 million. A large number of claims for cash instead of credit monitoring means only one thing: each person who takes the money option will wind up only getting a small amount of money. Nowhere near the $125 they could have gotten if there hadn’t been such an enormous number of claims filed.

Heer:

Consumers could never be fully compensated for the impact of this breach, but announcing this as a settlement of over $575 million with $300 million going towards credit monitoring services is misleading at best. Equifax also did not have to admit culpability, and the CEO responsible retired with a compensation package with a minimum $18 million value — more than half this $31 million pot that could be split between 147 million affected consumers.

This settlement is infuriating and insulting.

 

Nothing feels good anymore.

 

Oh boy, the Libertarian husband of a college friend just posted on FB: "I'll be keeping an eye on Tulsi Gabbard."

 

When you've got Mike Cernovich and your friendly Facebook libertarian on your side. Can't lose.

 

SEC filings: MacKenzie Bezos is now the second largest Amazon shareholder, holding 19.7M shares, or a ~4% stake worth ~$37B, in the company

MacKenzie’s 4% holding is worth $37 billion, enough to place her 23rd on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people. The value of her stake has fallen by $1 billion since April, when the settlement was first disclosed. Bezos, 55, the founder and chief executive officer of the world’s largest online retailer and web-services company, retains a 12% stake worth $109 billion and remains the world’s wealthiest person.

 

Didn’t expect to see such a staunch defense of tulsi Gabbard. I think the fact that she’s a homophobe is pretty good grounds to say “she’s not fit to be in public office.”

 

Her anti-intervension seems stance is very libertarian.

 

Hmm, what is going on over at r/Tulsi he asks himself ...



... oh.

 

A Wikipedia for Generation Z

If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain’s squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up, only one website will give you the answers: Famous Birthdays.

Despite its name, the site contains more than just birthdays—it’s more like a constantly updated, highly detailed map of who matters to the teen internet, featuring a mix of biographical information, photos, videos, rankings, and detailed statistics on every social-media star you could think of. And to teenagers, it’s a bible. “They have everything you want to know about everyone who is important,” says Grace, a 14-year-old in St. Louis.

Charles Porch, the head of global creative partnerships at Instagram, says that Famous Birthdays is like the younger generation’s Tiger Beat. “You might know about Famous Birthdays if you’re a parent,” Porch says. “But you definitely know about it if you’re a kid, and you definitely know about it if you’re a creator. Is it adult mainstream yet? No, but that doesn’t matter.” The site has 20 million unique visitors a month—more than a million more than Entertainment Weekly, and four times as many as Teen Vogue.

I have never felt more out of touch in my life.

 

Meet the US’s spy system of the future — it’s Sentient

 

totally normal

 

What would happen if they did, he said “stop” and they boo’d him? I genuinely wonder.

 

that e-mail is so gross but I can't quite put it into words why