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DnD Central / Re: The Russians are coming
While there are some indications that this report isn't genuine, to this day, it still blows my mind that more people didn't understand that Trump isn't mentally stable. Seriously, all you have to do is listen to him talk for a few minutes to realize his speech patterns are incoherent and rambling; he slurs his speech but is a non-drinker, gets easily confused, etc.

The "stolen" 2020 election conspiracy theory is often called "the big lie." I'm not convinced that he is lying. Rather, in his dementia, he fully subscribes to his delusion. Seriously, the man needs a neurologist's help.
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Browsers & Technology / Blink bases browsers and mouse scrolling
Apparently, it's a common problem that Chrome and other Blink-based can no longer scroll using the mouse wheel. This happens across  OSs. The fix people usually post is to disable smooth scrolling. That didn't work. But what did work is switching the display server from Wayland to X11.
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DnD Central / Re: MJuch of modern news here in the UK a waste of dashed time
(1) Britain and the Irish famine:
your totally being immature and not very bright. Britain did not organise a starvation in Ireland the tragedy was a purely local thing at a time when less was known. IO would also educate by informing you that the same thing happened in the north of Scotland. Neither planned by authorities in a simper time.  Mind you a lot of irish who left for your place the boosted crime and corruption across the USA.
You must mean there was plenty of food in Ireland, but it was all exported to Britain and the British government did nothing to stop this, despite the Irish starving.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
I might have to disagree a little bit about Nokia and Microsoft. On paper, Windows phones didn't seem like such a bad idea. But Google and Apple had too much of a head start.
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DnD Central / Re: The Awesomesauce of having a cow
 
Which it turn means the cowbells may be a millennium-old imposition. GPS might be a better option for cow ears. We might have to start practicing our apology speech to a proper representative of bovinity.
Indeed. That makes me feel sorry for the poor cows. Their fate as being dinner is bad enough, but imagine having to listen to that clanging everytime you take a step!


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DnD Central / Re: Everything Trump…
Stock markets up to unprecedented heights, unemployment down to decades-low rates, the economy's growth rate steadily rising; non-activist judges and justices seated, border security bolstered, trade pacts renegotiated, energy sector booming... Yup, that's destruction, all right! (And that silly idea that Congress approve treaties? How dare he propose it?  :)  Our "reputation" after Obama/Biden/Clinton/Kerry was one of appeasement and ineffectiveness; clearly, that's what many of the world's "leaders" preferred... Oh, well.
"Global politics"? You mean appeasing Iran and China and Russia? No thanks, as long as their goals include abusing the United States...and its allies.
Of course, the stock market has been largely divorced from the larger economy for decades and is prone to irrational exuberance and its opposite. Pre-Covid, the Trump economy was a myth. Average GDP growth was only up by .1%, while wage and job growth slowed. Of course, the deficit exploded. The "records" were a consequence of a long expansion and nothing the former assclown actually did. Trump's supressing scientific data about Covid, at times outright denying it, mocking mask wearing, peddling false cures (HCQ), etc left this country in ruins. Another four years of this jackassery would have left America a 3rd world country.
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DnD Central / Re: Everything Trump…
Speaking of tweeting the truth, I still can't believe Trump tweeted a Sharpie altered map to defend incorrectly saying Alabama was going to be hit worse than expected by Hurricane Dorian. Of course, the hurricane missed that state completely. What really happened was that his info about the possible paths the hurricane could take that was about four days out of date. This guy is ridiculous.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
He was chosen by the electoral college over the will of the American people, having lost the popular vote by 3,000,000. How anybody voted for him is beyond me, despite Clinton's issues. He's been showing himself to be a loon from the get-go.

Now he's trying to order US firms out of China via an insane tweet.

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The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China
The bold is mine, of course.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
 :insane:  :insane: I just saw the President of the United States look to the sky and call himself "the chosen  one."  :insane:  :insane: The constitutional process for removing a lunatic like this from office is outlined in 25th Amendment to Us Constitution. 
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DnD Central / Re: Pity about 1917...
Maybe if the Czars weren't a bunch of corrupt, incompetent inbreds taking advice from a charlatan (or just a madman?)  it wouldn't have happened.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Now we do know.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/06/news/companies/ruger-ar-556-ar-15/index.html

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The man identified by law enforcement sources as the gunman in Texas, Devin Patrick Kelley, bought the rifle from a sporting goods store in San Antonio in April 2016, a law enforcement official told CNN.
When Kelley filled out the background check paperwork at the store, he checked the box to indicate he didn't have any disqualifying criminal history, the official said.
Governor Greg Abbott said the gunman tried to get a license to carry in Texas but was denied.

So my hypothesis was incorrect, but why didn't his domestic violence charge come up in the background check?

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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
The Daily Beast   has more info on him. You mention he was discharged dishonorably, but more specifically he was court martial for assaulting his wife and child. So it's true that he couldn't own a firearm directly, but Law Center provides clues how he could have  gotten the gun anyway:

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Federal law requires federally licensed firearms dealers (but not private sellers) to initiate a background check on the purchaser prior to sale of a firearm.
Notice what's in parentheses and reiterated in the last paragraph.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Do you have a news link? I don't think I've seen anything indicating Trump's impeachment could be quite that imminent.

Edit: oh wait, you said the campaign. Still, a link would be nice. :P

I doubt it will be Trump himself, but here , it's also in the Atlantic , video from a tv station in Minnesota . We'll see what happens tomorrow. It's not confirmed that there will be arrests, but there's a good possibility.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
And the first batch charges against Trump's campaign have been filed the criminals could be taken into custody as early as Monday. I told OakdaleFTL that Trump was impeachment bait.

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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Scotland and slavery?   :sherlock:
http://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-slavery/scotland-and-slavery/

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Scots proudly played their part in the abolition of the trade. But for a time we misted over our role as perpetrators of this barbarism. Many of Scotish industries, schools and churches were founded from the profits of African slavery.

The article goes on to note that at any given time there were only 70 - 80 African slaves in Scotland at any given time, however Scots owned 32 percent of the the slaves in Jamaica in 1812. This is an impressive dubious achievement given the low population of Scotland. Further, Scots masters were among the most cruel with life expectancy on the plantations being a mere four years.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
The US has become a banana republic ruled by an imbecile that lashes out on Twitter at everyone and everything that crosses his sociopath. There's talk of the lunatic starting World War III over North Korea. The monkeybrain calls news outlets such as CNN "Fake News" but gets his misinformation from notoriously unreliable places to outright conspiracy mongering places such a Breitbart.

Both our candidates were corporates: Hillary being a corporate shill and Trump being the personification of Wall Street itself. The point being, you do think you're telling me anything I don't know already? I can be honest about my country; all I'm asking is for you to be honest about your's. Maybe you can't because you've been telling yourself lies about Britain's history your whole life.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
It's an expensive thrill: Rifle barrels don't last long under such stress.
That's true. This must have been why Paddock had to many weapons.
It will be interesting to see how the Repeal the 2nd Amendment movement goes
My guess, it's meant to stimulate conversation, a Modest Proposal.  I'm convinced anyone thinks this will happen. Interestingly Bret Stephens is actually a Republican columnist.
Did the Obama Administration approve bump stocks?

Short Answer: Yes
Correct, but notice this part of the article:

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Other legal experts stressed that it wasn’t an approval, but rather a determination that current law didn’t allow for its regulation. [/url]

Therefore, the law needs to altered to allow for the regulation of bump stocks. Perhaps they can legal for gun ranges, so people can fire an "automatic" for the thrill but keep them out of the hands of somebody like Paddock.