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Having already lost a judgment once, the agency knew not to refuse to provide the footage to NBC and so it did.

Your bio suggests that you may have some experience in media, so no part of what I've just said should be difficult to follow.

There is absolutely zero ambiguity about this. She filed a FOIA. Her FOIA was upheld by a judge, and so they gave her the footage. She announced that she had won her FOIA and would review the footage. NBC, seeing that she had won her FOIA, filed one of its own.

I would love for someone to do (even better: to have done) the work that would confirm one of my FB theories: that their decision to get rid of human editors for their old “What’s News” feed and replacing them with a popularity algorithm was instrumental to the rise of the alt-right.

Watching her try to retcon herself after being largely responsible for the Cult of the Founder is rage-inducing for those of us who were around back then and knew how full of shit she was, but for some reason she was “influential”.

BofA deez securities!

This is a better way of phrasing than the one I usually use, which is to ask, if he would have won the general, why didn’t he just run as an independent?

“So-called”?

Four weeks? In four weeks he won’t even remember that Iran exists. Zero object permanence with that one.

Alternative: a file they meant to save locally. Spoiler: it’ll be in a folder with an identical name on Azure.

What could go wrong.

Definitionally means he wouldn’t have been more popular with non-Democratic voters though. I know that makes you cry, but maybe you’ll get over it someday.

How’d he do the next time he tried to win the Presidential election? As I recall, he also didn’t win that one.

It’s also how logic works.

What could go wrong. Post through it.

Rarely zero.

Vancouver and Montreal.

Until it isn’t. And if you’re fleeing the USA, you got a lot of faith in a border Donald Trump doesn’t seem to respect.

Confused that Ant Music isn’t found on that chart, because we have been made aware of ant music for sex people and sex music for ant people.

In the 1970s my old man would drive from Vancouver BC to Bellingham WA, 2.5 hours, to get “cheap gas”. He brought the kids because then we could all bring back a carton of smokes, because the regs didn’t say only people legally allowed to smoke could declare them.

I have many friends who have left the USA for Canada. I ask them if they think Canada is far enough. They purport not to know what I mean.

No worries. Bluesky is badly organized for following threads.

In fairness, I got the taxes discussion started. My bad.

And yes, if this doesn’t make it obvious, you folks are my search engine. It’s like using AI, because I’m Almost Intelligent.

Thx. I was wondering because I dont know how to manually set the time on an iPhone and couldn’t find instructions, and assumed that was probably because I use Bing.

I forgot that about Sask. So it’s similar to how my phone learns I’ve crossed into Canada and starts charging me roaming fees for phone calls. Got it.

Holy shit yes thanks for this note. Being at the con, even being in the booth, can never be “working”. This is the exact thing for which I had to get someone out of Immigration Jail under Trump 1 as I mention in the thread.

Threadjacking my own thread: BC has just passed a law staying on permanent daylight savings time. Question: I don't spend any time in Arizona so I'm curious: does your phone automagically update when you cross the state border? As in: is it just like any other time zone change?

The first 2 are easy: you tell them you're doing that. The 3rd one is illegal entry into the USA to conduct commerce and you needed a B visa. Always was, always did.

Who says they're not making that ask for future requests, though. Once the MLAT request has been honored, it's a whole fucking process to get that reversed. I don't know enough about the underlying facts to know why this MLAT request was issued, for example.

I would make the additional observation that MLATs aren't automatic, and I would be very surprised if non-US courts continue to issue them as easily for USLE requests as they used to prior to 2025.