Rich people, mostly, didn't get rich by being stupid and uninformed. They see the writing on the wall, the car crash you can't look away from. They see the collapse coming soon, they're extracting as much as they can from the plebs and "going home".

What is a homophone...

A company being privately-held or publicly traded has no bearing on whether or not an organization is privately run or publicly ran. Publicly ran things are the government. Privately ran things are, literally, anything else.

So Twitter, as a private hosting platform, is the sole arbiter of what remains on its platform. Everyone using it signs, and must abide by, the same terms of service. This is a fact.

Angus King abides by the same TOS as Eric Brakley. According to the story King's team, not even King himself, reported Eric's account for a possible doctored video.

Posting doctored videos like what was alleged is against Twitter policy and TOS. This is also a fact.

So King's team, not King himself, reported the video. This act of reporting does nothing. This is not a magic genie lamp granting wishes, it's not a gun to some poor IT worker's head. It's not a threat, a bribe, a cajole, an extortion, or anything at all like that. It's literally a "Hey, sup?". It is now Twitter's job to investigate the matter and hold it to their totally legal, enforceable, and reasonable TOS. If Twitter decides it needs to be removed, or an account banned, it will decide that and make it happen.

So once again, where's the scandal when someone's team decides to, what they feel is, reasonably report something that possibly goes against a voluntary TOS to a private company? Where are they involved in the process of a private company making a decision to remove it and acting upon it? What's the difference between a politician using a feature as intended and a private citizen doing so, with the same results?

In your own words, what do you think the scandal is here? What do you think Angus King is guilty of?

Wait, wait, wait. Do you mean someone used the built-in reporting function as intended? The horror! How will democracy ever survive this vicious attack on it's very foundations.

That's a fantastic fucking movie too.

If I could combine Rec with Quarentine's ending, that would be the perfect movie. That firefighter punching the zombie in the face chef's kiss

The VA isn't going to fill out a Community Care consult for Boston. The criteria for those are distance, time, or availability. Right now they're most likely filling it out due to time. Unfortunately, most places are going to be booked out until late Spring or early Summer. Sources, I work for the VA now, my wife just left a job at MMP Joint Replacement, and we have friends still working for Spectrum.

My advice, stick with the VA.

Nah, too cold.

Bird Cops

Hey, shit happens. A chemical engineer discovered kevlar while trying to make a better tire for DuPont. Sometimes the greatest advances are just a big oopsie.

I know reading comprehension is hard. It's from the husbands of two of my coworkers. Like I said, one works at the ER at Goodall, and the other is a cop in Wells. I'd like to think they're slightly better sources then Twitter, but that's just me.

I'm not rampantly doing shit buddy. I'm reporting what I've heard from people actually on scene. General confusion isn't misinformation, for fuck's sake.