"As most Americans are aware by now, the Kremlin undertook a series of actions to interfere in our presidential election in 2016. The sum of these aggressive measures – some overt and some covert – were designed to sow confusion, aggravate political polarization, stir racial tensions, discredit the American democratic system, weaken the U.S. relationship with its allies and hurt Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate. These type of activities – called “active measures” in the Russian foreign policy playbook – are nothing new."

- John Sipher, former CIA Senior Intelligence Service

I mean what the fuck

https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/russian-active-measures-2016-election-hack

is this article just paid programming meant to muddy the waters of history?

"We do know, however, that countering similar attacks in the future will be made more difficult by the failure to hold Russia to account, and by Trump administration attacks on the media and national security institutions. Weakening our defenses does not seem a wise course of action."

fuck this man

https://www.vox.com/2017/1/19/14327496/womens-march-largest-gathering-disability-community

I already know wammez are disabled

Didn't they ban white women though?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/24984/watch-your-back-soldier-100000-member-force-helped-hank-berrien

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ibtimes.co.uk/wetherspoons-customer-disgusted-by-offensive-anti-muslim-poster-pub-1516639 I don’t see how it’s offensive to Muslims as it is common sense. If you don’t like living in a country so much then leave, simple. That also applies to everyone.

kek

"More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration."

\o/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42443253

http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2013/05/03/21/farage.jpg

https://www.thebalance.com/auto-industry-bailout-gm-ford-chrysler-3305670

`The U.S. government bailout of the auto industry lasted from January 2009 to December 2013. The Big Three automakers approached Congress in November 2008. They warned that, without the bailout, GM and Chrysler faced bankruptcy and the loss of one million jobs. Ford didn't need the funds, since it had already cut costs. But it **asked to be included so it wouldn't suffer by competing with subsidized companies**.`

51 billion bucks worth of shares bought by the government

Sold at a ten billion dollar loss

💯

`If there had been no bailout, Ford, Toyota and Honda would have picked up market share. That would have increased U.S. factories and jobs once the recession was over. The loss of GM would be like the loss of Pan Am, TWA and other companies that had a strong American heritage but lost their competitiveness. It would have perhaps tugged on the heartstrings of America, but not really hurt the economy. As a result, the auto industry bailout was not critical to the U.S. economy, like the rescue of AIG or the banking system. `

https://www.dailywire.com/news/25001/shapiro-uses-rosie-encounter-ask-twitter-about-its-daily-wire

lol

`@Rosie, all victims deserve to be believed. `

Lol

https://twitter.com/Rosie/status/944283197935968258

"According to FBI documents, he posted and liked pro-ISIS and pro-terrorism content on Facebook.", I mean, how stupid can you be

"A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said the decision to limit the number of employees saved hundreds of thousands of tax dollars. She said the larger number of employees who attended the meeting in past years were an example of the Obama administration's “addiction to spending.”"

"Typically, USGS researchers who wish to travel for a conference must apply via an online database. If the conference will cost more than $100,000, USGS officials then submit the requests to the Interior Department for approval."

what the _actual_ fuck

$100000 per _person_?!

that can't be right, I think that sentence is just badly written

Nope that sounds right

well then good job trump

You would not have just one person going

So imagine it is a 10 day conference

Flight

Hotel

Per diem

Rental car

These things add up super quick

yes, I hadn't considered that it might be a long running conference

NAW

IMAGINE MY SHOCK

I'm absolutely certain that sending 450 representatives is money out the window, and frankly that 199 is more than enough as well

I agree

of course

harro folk und dan

They just would have to look at who is priority to travel

People act like video conferences dont exist

I cant do muh job because i cant go hurr durrr

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2017/aug/30/expensive-academic-conferences-give-us-old-ideas-and-no-new-faces

".. meeting of the American Association of Geographers, the world’s largest geography conference, was in the Sheraton Boston, a four-star venue. "

That is the exact point

They plan these things at the best places

And because it is within the hotel and per diem rate it is non taxable income

indeed

wow

and they probably get paid as well for normal work hours?

Yuppp

Depends on policy

But most government workers yes

And paid for travel

Every hour you travel is billable

I remember reading some article before the summer that summarized extensive research that suggested that all office meetings or conferences were exclusively a drain on the bottom line

department/all hands meetings, not team meetings probably

it would be exceptionally difficult to quantify this kind of conference though

If it is off site

It would be extremely expensive

no, I mean that most regular meetings as well are useless

apparently, from what I can remember, the main thing that happens at a meeting is that 1 or 2 people talk or pay attention, and the rest just sit there silently and nod

yeap

I don't know what's the point of meetings other than wasting time and feeling important

I have been to productive meetings

If it is to sync a calender or coordination can be pretty important

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

MY NET NEUTRALITY

"Schools have limited resources. Now ISPs can force them to spend more of those resources to get the same connectivity they used to have by law. And schools most in need of better IT infrastructure and resources will be the hardest hit."

DONRALD THUREIMP

this article is so shitty, I can't believe someone published this shit

I've never heard of that source before either

blog.yup

...

yes but it's a company blog, backed by stanford university

"Students get access to elite tutors" through this company apparently

the person who wrote that post is not one of them I hope

elite=/=Stanford

lol

I FOUND THE MOTHERLOAD

"We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance."

Deadpool and The Accountant failed the test, I knew there was a reason I liked those movies

that's retarded

btw someone should post the things I find on reddit, I've never had a reddit account, and I'm not starting now

since senpai is not here to see them

or should I submit them to TWIS in some other way?

"All told, it’s clear after this exercise that Hollywood is failing an entire gender on several fronts."

"Young girls of color have a difficult time finding movie characters who look like them. “I feel like we all deserve that,” said Lena Waithe"

holy shit if you read their criteria, it's amazing that 32 movies of 50 passed their test

"The on-set crew is 50 percent women" is the first criteria

...

Muh vagina

Fucking Traitor

fucking muzzie convert

I love how the 'tests' get more and more specific (and inane)

`A movie fails if:

A primary female character ends up dead`

wow, fuck you Landau test

How many films would fail if *that* particular aspect had the sex flipped?

`primary female character causes a plot problem for a male protagonist`

followed by

`“Vanessa causes a plot problem for Deadpool: She’s hot and he’s embarrassed about not being hot.”`

🤦 🤦 🤦

interesting thoughts reaps

Child actor turned into drug addled gay prostitute by hollywood agents and producers. http://animeright.news/zanting/verified-twitter-user-threatens-to-kill-u-s-president-donald-trump-multiple-times/#comment-327

rumor has it it is the same agent who abused corey feldman

He had a blue checkmark, so he was one of the good guys!

this idiot?

https://twitter.com/TyParkerS

Is he method acting?

Can't even spell privilege right

..perhaps he's *meth* acting..

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

Your union dues at work

thats him

"Previous estimates of the deaths in the pro-democracy protests ranged from several hundred to more than 1,000."

"Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make 'pie' and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains."

Only 10000?

That is drop in the bucket for China

We are talking about a country where rebelion regularly claimed milions of lives

yes, but this is probably one of the most publicized events in history, and we still thought the death toll was ~200-1000

so I'd say it's noteworthy that we were wrong, and that it's closer to 10000

Yes China lies

The figures about the GDP growth arent verified either

We just take them at their word

yes that's true, but their investment in the AIIB is verified, and it's a significant threat to the US

it's not a coincidence that the US refuses to sign de-escalation deals with NK, or uphold their end of older agreements, and that they're trying to attribute lots of cyber weapons to the NK regime

and that china and russia are reinforcing their borders towards NK

the US would do well to destabilize the entire sector, and stop the AIIB before they replace the federal reserve

China still doesnt have much power projection

china has tried twice to get NK and US to sign a deal that would stop the development of NK missiles and nuke tech, and NK has signed it both times, and the US has not

it's because china wants the AIIB to succeed and replace the dollar as the oil currency

@Reaps delete your coment now befoe the mods notice

while the US plans to invade NK and then move on to destabilize the region before that can happen

and don't get me wrong - I want the US dollar to remain the world currency, and the US to remain as the world police

because if the alternative is china, we're fucked

China has a lot of shit to deal with at home

Its borders are unprotected

Tensions with India could undermine them

the AIIB is already up and running, with like 50-80 member states

internal politics in china are not relevant to the long term agenda of replacing the US dollar as the oil currency

well, probably a little

Internal politics always matter

Its where societies faultlines are

"Republican lawmakers, I fear, too often view elite universities as part of the opposition. They are mistaken. If inclusive prosperity is our goal, the tax on university endowments is a step in the wrong direction."

"Senator Kennedy may be correct that most faculty members at elite universities are liberal. But so what? Most professors leave their ideology at the door when they teach the next generation of leaders."

I .. don't think this guy pays attention

oof

That would be the ideal what he describes here

I still dont know the political affiliation of my university teachers and I am graduating next year

let me guess, you don't take womens studies? :P

I let you in on something. There is no such thing here

hehehe I know

"womens studies" in your country would be a class where they teach you how to yell sexy comments to ladies in the street

"I can smell your pussy from this side of the street mmmm why don't you join me for some drinks"

lol

my friend from bosnia says there's ~150 swear words in his language, my language has like 10

"Dealing with members that undermine the rule of law is perhaps the gnarliest of the EU’s army of problems. From Italy to Hungary to Romania, governments have long thumbed their nose at principles, including respect for the rule of law, to which their membership of the club supposedly commits them. Officials in Brussels face an impossible dilemma."

I can't waaaait for poland to trigger article 50, and then hungary, and then slovakia and and and and

The most sense a EU army would be If it was a coalition of national armies

"The girls are part of a Girls Who Code Summer Immersion program that Disney hosted in and around its studios in Glendale, Calif., this year. The participants, which are mostly high school girls, take coding courses with a Disney flavor and interact with executives from the company. They also take field trips like this one into the various departments of Disney’s company including Imagineering."

They code a "Hello World" in HTML.

“I already expected the girls to be brilliant, but was surprised by how much they grew over the course of a seven-week period. To see each of them start with little-to-no knowledge of computer science, and end the program creating mobile apps, websites and VR experiences was absolutely amazing,” said Sarah Tilley, VP, Tech Talent Management and Talent Acquisition.

[citation needed]

I saw recently a video of a NGO working on 3rd world countries... teaching the kids to use 3d printers.

That kinda sounds patronising

Like... seriously? How's that a useful skill for Brazil, or some African country?

it's useful if bill gates and disney pays for sending them all to MIT

They can 3D print food

Yeah, maybe they can eat the plastic shit they printed.

“Definitely, to me coding something that you can see be carried out is very satisfying,” said Megan. “This was true both when we worked with hardware and coded our mini robots to flash lights and dance and when we made our own little LED light boards that we got to bring to Disneyland and have sync up via Bluetooth connection to their light shows. It was also the case when we worked with HTML and CSS, which I did even more through my final project, and which allowed us to see our code bring a website to life and add color and design and other extensions. For me personally, I definitely enjoyed the front end design and hardware lessons the most, and they really seemed to bring the code to life.”

that's the kind of paragraph that sounds impressive if you don't know anything about it

That kinda seems to me as basic shit you can do

a 5 year old can do it, no shit :P

Web site design isnt rocket science

Even If a lot of people screw it up

Making a robot dance and flash lights... how about make it go through a maze?

And Jesus Christ, "final project" with HTML and CSS?

I was kinda joking with the HTML Hello World.

to be honest I wasn't sure, I thought maybe you had found their github repo or something :P

I dont know how to code, so most things they can do is better than nothing I can

based on that paragraph, they can't do anything

what they've done is essentially connect some wires to LEDs and servo controllers that were presoldered to a board

and then they've edited the color of a html page

Guy, guys! I just wrote some **markdown** code. __See how__ it brings things to `life`? *Almost* as if ~~it wasn't~~ something trivial.

oh, and paired something with bluetooth

Dont worry, reality will hit these girls as hard as the truck that goes trough the christmass market

"Peretti gifted his New York staff $250 bonuses, as well as BuzzFeed beanies. Some New York staffers took to Twitter to express their devotion to their company, and by extension their boss.

But this week, as his UK employees begin the grim process of deciding which chunk of their newsroom will be eliminated, they may be feeling less than grateful for the swag."

"newsroom", "swag"

"Peretti sent an email with a single heart emoji in the subject line to the entire staff on the Saturday following the layoff announcement, thanking BuzzFeed for “being so caring and thoughtful these past few days, especially those of you who said goodbye to close colleagues and friends.”"

that motherfucker

>I asked one participant what she thought of the soldering project. She found it fun and compared it positively to an experience she had recently putting together circuit boards for satellites.

_what_

okay maybe I should have read the whole article :P

I hope buzzfeed goes to the shitter so someone can buy it and give them this logo

I mean, satellites, how old are these girls?

If I had to gues 12

also, doesn't soldering for space applications require special lead-free processes?

Might have been something like this: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/first-cubesat-built-by-an-elementary-school-deployed-into-space

Doesn't really have any soldering involved, it's all surface mounted components.

right

Maybe they solder some wires and that's it.

As fun and inspiring as it may be, there's no engineering or creativity involved in these things at all.

The presidential seal has been replaced by an eagle bearing President Trump’s signature. The eagle’s head faces right, not left, as on the seal. The 13 arrows representing the original states have disappeared. And the national motto, “E pluribus unum” — a Latin phrase that means “Out of many, one” — is gone.

Instead, both sides of the coin feature Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.”

The changes don’t stop there. In addition to his signature, Trump’s name appears three times on the coin, which is thicker than those made for past presidents. And forget the traditional subdued silver and copper: Trump’s coin, a White House aide marveled, is “very gold.”

hahaha

this is just petty

you think the article is negative towards the coin?

it sounds like a neutral description to me

No the changes are petty

fucking hell

having news posts and discussion-of-said-news posts in separate channels is so fucking ghettoooooooo

I think that, if anyone has the right to change the **presidential** coin, it's the fucking **president**.

Hmmmmm logic

Sounds fascist to me

Wake me up when he puts "TRUMP" in golden letters in front of the white house.

One can only dream

I still remember when O wanted to change the seal

..to a big O

Impressive honestly

Pretty fucking legend

that sounds like an awesome party, what the fuck is up with 21 being the legal age for alcohol anyway

let these kids drink jeez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dchpbPFh_Ok

Either 18 is the legal age for everything or not

Im sick of this inbetween shit

I find it weird that Vice is still good for sports and Vox is still good for music

And yet the rest of their respective sites are, generally speaking, complete trash

Vice used to be amazing

mm

they did interesting things

I remember how much Youtube used to push the Vice trailer, like... *five* years ago?

Did they? I honestly dont remember

mm, was all over YT at the time

drug running cartels

some random island in the middle of nowhere