They were upgrading the infrastructure around authentication. I believe that one and only (thus far) time was when authentication.win was turned on.
If such a thing happened again, for any reason, you would try with an incorrect password and it would fail - as it should.
Biden is the Chinese assault. He's literally everything Xi could want. This one makes no sense to me.
WoW wasn't a reference. There was a static character exchange filter applied to chat within the same area, the idea being you could see the opposite faction was talking but your char couldn't understand the language so it looked like gibberish. However, it turned out you could easily "reverse" the filter and talk cross-faction if you knew which letter swapped to which - you typed in gibberish instead, the other side saw normal text.
For Horde players, it was quickly figured out that K mapped to L and E mapped to O seen by Alliance. So Horde would commonly talk normally and then use "KEK" when they wanted the Alliance players to know they were being laughed at. This was then used quite broadly as a synonym for LOL.
Far more than just a Starcraft reference, this was deliberate, and had a purpose which was translating LOL into a form the enemy could read.
And just to drive home the contrast, this would be a shitty turnout for Trump.
Public ridicule and heckling is surprisingly effective.
China: not in our backyard.
Trump was right, US should buy Greenland.
Primary them. Should not be all that challenging, especially Cheney (WTF is she thinking).
Nothing to see here, Biden just beat Obama's total in Philly alone! WHAT A CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE!
Chuck Schumer compared it directly to Pearl Harbor. On the Senate floor after they reconvened. "Another day that will live in infamy" - no joke.
The raw distance is immaterial above a certain point if you've hit terminal velocity by the time you would encounter the ground. I'm not sure what that is, and it may vary by elevation. Anyway, it depends how and what you hit and if there's any way to break your fall on the way - trees, shrubbery, so on.
"when it got violent", hmm - meaning after protestors were allowed in by Capitol police who moved aside barricades, who were chilling within arms' reach, visors up, taking selfies with the protestors?
Perhaps after those same protestors committed almost no damage to the building or its historical contents, respected velvet ropes, and left peacefully when asked? Also all on video.
Or do you mean when an unarmed 4-tour veteran got shot in the neck by someone for starting to climb through a window which she did not break, with Capitol police standing immediately behind her?
She's 34 today. She can run for president in 2024. Her speech about the fraud on the House floor regarding Arizona was great. She is self-consistent in her policies and her reactions to these events.
I don't know who else will be running in 2024, but I would vote for this woman to be POTUS.
The way I see it is: the enemy has zero morals and is much more organized. Right now, we should not play into their hands. Never be predictable. They expect this abuse and horrifying show of censorship to provoke us into a hot rage resulting in in-person protests and demonstrations etc. Anything along those lines plays directly into their hands.
Instead, focus on building secure communications with your family, friends, and community. Get everyone on Signal, Element, Briar, and Gab (Parler is probably going to die because they don't have an exit strategy to get off AWS, so it's low priority) and OFF of FB, Twatter, Pinterest, Instagram, WhatsApp (gotta share your details with FB now!), etc. Communication is crucial so we can organize; we have to be at least as organized as ANTIFA but we have to be able to communicate. That won't happen overnight, and it's our best play right now. We're so far behind here, that it'd take at least through 1/20 to try to bridge the gap.
They actually fucked up the "never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake" principle by doing this great purge off of the sites they control. Using these sites was always spyware and a mistake (for everyone, but trebly so for us). Pushing everyone to alternatives massively harms their intel, and immediately puts us in better position.
Certainly rings true. The firework thing was used in Kenosha and absolutely sounds like ANTIFA. Now through 1/20 is a time to actively watch/observe while preparing at home for any eventuality and make yourself heard via means like phone, fax, and mail. Nurse the cold rage, save and archive facts for future reference.
Remember Twitter banned Trump for the phrase "American Patriots." People are being fired for simply having been observed at what was, objectively, a peaceful protest. You could lose your job or get a brick to the back of your head by being seen in public with a MAGA hat, and the news would celebrate this because your assailant was "preventing domestic terrorism."
Who is John Galt?
He used carefully chosen wording I was getting skeptical about. "We will have our day in Congress" was his chosen phrase. When people in Washington speak you have to figure out how to interpret it the worst possible way, and I started suspecting he would backstab by doing nothing or claiming no authority. He has.
If BLM taught us anything it's that apparently violence does get results. Sadly this also tracks historically to the MLK era. We forgot, or wanted to believe we were better than that.
Maybe we are. They aren't.
SAVE and ARCHIVE THIS
Just over 2 months late on this one, bud. But it provides more fuel for the fire that is decertification - their process was ILLEGAL, the counts are ILLEGAL.
What's difficult here is verifying which ballots were printed incorrectly and thus require invalidation. Because tossing the state means you need to have receipts that ZERO ballots were lawfully printed.
If some random red county in NoCal used a different printer, and did it right, their results must carry. And sorting that out in the largest State is not trivial.
These fuckers can do the right thing when it comes to this incident, but can't do the right thing when it comes to virtually the most clear-cut case of self defense use of force EVER?!
Yes all CA ballots are illegal as they lack the necessary hard required paragraph. This actually isn't super new news. Like many other things the response seems to be "so what are you going to do about it?"
Wiping CA's electoral votes off the table would actually be justified, but on such a technicality it's a difficult one to stomach. Which is why I believe we're focused on actual fraud and malfeasance in the swing states.
Trump won. Any other purported outcome is treason. I'm with you about exhausting legal options but those end tomorrow.
We've been exceedingly patient with the system. The system has one last chance to demonstrate it hasn't completely failed.
This is why Pence didn't want the court case. He already has the power; asking the court to confirm it only had potential downsides.
It arguably does if we amnesty 11+ million illegal invaders. At the order of an illegitimate "President".