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Ivanka Trump uses private email for White House business
Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence.
White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner.
Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction.
New York Parents Are Turning to Reiki Healers for Their Kids
4 Gallon Kimchi Ferment
4 green cabbages
4 lbs carrots
2 bunches of green onions (about 10-11 oz total)
1 lb radishes
Sauce contains:
8 tbsp soy sauce
8 tbsp sugar
1 cup canned crushed pineapple
12 tbsp ginger paste
3 heads garlic
2 onions
1/2 cup red pepper flakes
Some MSG
I'll put in some store bought kimchi to use as a starter.
1 cabbage makes about a gallon, so I'm using a 5 gallon food grade bucket. I bought these silicone grommets. Drilled a 9/16" hole in the bucket lid, popped it in. Airlock fits great. I'll put some vodka in it to ward off bugs (they probably won't get in, but could drown in the airlock).
How's it hangin?
It's an old cliché, right? And, you don't talk about it in mixed company, or polite company, amirite? It's just something we all live with. Ehhhh - keep reading, maybe you'll learn something, as I did. Dude has done the research for us, and compares 8 different brands of men's underwear, highlighting their strengths, and shortcomings.
https://snarkynomad.com/the-best-mens-underwear-for-every-guy-out-there/
The best men’s underwear for every guy out there
December 12, 2016 - by SnarkyNomad
Welcome, friends and loved ones, to what is going to be the most detailed discussion I have ever produced. And that’s saying something.I’ve written about men’s underwear before, specifically regarding how incredibly difficult it is finding something that works. So many designs out there are total garbage that most guys don’t bother sifting through the selection to find something good, and end up just living with whatever’s cheap, because the fancy ones don’t work either. Add to this the fact that underwear is incredibly polarizing, with some people liking a loose boxer fit, while others prefer a boxer brief, along with all kinds of other preferences that are more divisive than a heated political debate. And I think I finally know why.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen––but mostly gentlemen––I think I’ve actually figured out why some people like one design instead of another, and I also think I can articulate this problem without resorting to obscene diagrams. It’s all going to start making perfect sense, and by the end of all this, I think you’ll be able to find something that’ll work for you, without having to spend $30 on something that fits horribly and gets thrown in the garbage by the end of the day.
So go ahead and get comfortable, because this is going to be as thorough as a nuclear submarine technical manual.
How men’s underwear discussions tend to miss the point
I will begin by saying that everything you’ve been told about men’s underwear is wrong.Everyone talks about “support,” claiming that one pair of underwear has good “support,” while another does not. But this doesn’t make any sense. “Support” is what happens when you’re lifted up from underneath. But what good is that?
The constant readjustment problem that plagues every guy all day long has nothing to do with a lack of “support.” It has to do with a lack of containment. Walking around for a while will dislodge whatever you intend to hold in place up front, and it’ll start migrating into various positions and start chafing against the leg and ruin your whole day. This is why underwear with good “support” isn’t going to do you any good.
As I say, he did all the research, and he notes within his blog that these brands start at about $5.00 per pair, and get very pricey from there. I don't suppose that many of us can justify a $50 pair of undies - I know that I can't. I started with the lowest price available, and experimented.
https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/men/innerwear-and-socks/boxers-and-boxer-briefs
People, you won't believe it until you try it. Some of those higher priced garments could possibly be better, but I don't know how. The ONLY thing that I don't really like, is the fabric. I've spent a lifetime wearing 100% cotton, in the thickness and texture found in Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, and other common brands. Very thin, smooth, moisture wicking cotton - certainly not silk, but it does have some silky qualities. My initial impression of the fabric was, "These are kind of effeminate, aren't they?" But - I've gotten used to them.
Blurb here about that cotton: https://authenticity50.com/pages/supima-cotton
WHAT IS SUPIMA COTTON?
"Extra-long staple Supima cotton is the crème de la crème in the cotton world" -GEAR PATROLThere’s a reason the American-grown Supima® cotton we use costs more than 2x the price of regular cotton, and it shows in the product. It's finer and more expensive than Egyptian Cotton and traditional Pima cotton. Its extra-long staples allows us to spin an extremely fine yet durable single-ply thread, which results in a softer, more breathable, and longer lasting bed sheet.
EXTRA-LONG STAPLE
In fact, Supima® is 35% longer than regular cotton, which makes the fiber 45% stronger and considerably softer. Supima® accounts for less than 3% of the cotton grown in the United States, and comes fully certified by the Supima® association.
Imagine that - high tech underwear, that doesn't even plug into a computer!! All you need is a connection to milennia old Pima Indian cultivated cotton!
G.Skill and ZADAK Double Height 32 GB DRAM Modules
In The Lab: Double Capacity 2x32GB DDR4 from G.Skill and ZADAK
One of the interesting things to come out of the news in recent weeks is the march to double capacity memory. In today’s market, memory modules for consumer grade computers have a maximum of 16GB per module. This is unbuffered memory, and the standard for home computers and laptops. However recently there have been two major announcements causing that number to double from 16GB to 32GB: Samsung has developed double capacity ICs to drive up to 32GB per module with the same number of chips, but also a couple of DRAM vendors have found a way to put two times as many ICs on a 16GB module to make it up to 32GB. Both G.Skill and ZADAK fall into that latter category, and now we have both of these kits in the lab for review.
Related: HP Footnote Leads Intel to Confirm Support for 128 GB of DRAM for 9th-Generation Processors
Damn it, don't fucking make me stick up for Gab!
This is the dumbest, stupidest, most counterproductive, most self-destructive goddamn thing they could possibly have done. If I didn't already trust the government about as far as I can throw my bathtub--which is cemented to the floor--I would not have believed anyone in that position could possibly be that stupid.
Seriously, this is "Dealing With Nutbar Extremists 101" level shit here. When a group of people have utterly divorced themselves from reality and built an entire narrative around being oppressed and discriminated against, don't actually do anything to oppress or discriminate against them! Jesus!
What this idiot has done will be written down in history books, if indeed there are any historians left to write them and any literate people left to read them, as the pivotal, galvanizing moment for the United States' 21st century anti-Civil-Rights movement. This is going to kickstart a dark, twisted, blasphemous, zombified parody of all the 60s and 70s rallies that brought real, positive change to the nation. It's all gonna go to hell.
And why? Because some self-aggrandizing empty suit, some shortsighted, amoral political hack, decided to wipe his ass on the Constitution and do exactly what the fuck the kind of people who flock to Gab would do in the first place: advocate for lawbreaking violence (yes, this is a type of violence, it's a clear intimidation attempt) because "muh ideological purity!"
I don't think most people understand why this is so dangerous. The *least* bad part about this is that they've now turbocharged the aforementioned narrative. They have, in a word, turned Gab into martyrs. More dangerous is the precedent being set here; there is no reason that, say 10 years down the road when it's all gone to shit and we have Gab-denizens in charge, they can't and won't refer to this to shut down speech *they* don't like. Never, ever give yourself any powers or leeway you couldn't stand being used against you when the tables turn, as they always, always do. Especially not when your use of them is "this is dirty but I have to do it for great justice" and the opposition's use of them will be accompanied by nothing more self-reflective than a long string of maniacal, gleeful cackling.
But worst of all, this has undermined the legitimacy of government attempts to stifle actual violence and hate movements. From now on, any attempt to put a lid on any of it, all the way up to outright calls for genocide, is going to be viewed as suspicious, in any context, no matter who does it, and no matter what it is they're opposing. This asshole in Pennsylvania has played right into the lunatics' hands, and there is not a desk big enough to slam my face into that can express how utterly disgusted I am.
Let us not mince words: this is an intimidation attempt, a deliberate ploy to create a chilling effect, a fishing expedition in the worst way, and yes, very likely a Constitutional violation.
It's also--have I said this enough yet?--fucking stupid. What you do with toxic, asocial idiots like, well, like the kind of people who need a place like Gab, is...you let them go. You let them concentrate there, out of the way of civilized society, and you close the lid. Like a roach motel; Nazis check in, they don't check out, but because they want to stay in the motel. The correct course of action is to use the place as the internet's septic tank for white nationalists, and of course monitor it veeeeery very closely. Contain it, as you would any other plague virus, and make no mistake, what Gab is peddling is a memetic plague.
Hell, if I were this guy, I would have half a dozen agents make fake accounts there, blend in, and exfiltrate as much information as possible out of that place, the more ridiculous the better. And plaster it all over, too, using the advantage of exposure available to a government entity. Remember that guy, name I forget, who was fucking his mother in law or something? That kind of thing. Spread it around like cream cheese on the world's best bagels and make sure everyone gets a bite.
And of course, watch the place like a hawk and intercept anyone planning to, for example, shoot up a synagogue or something. Good grief, the best argument for these neo-Nazi pukes not having the brains Madokami gave a tree stump is that they willingly congregate on the open internet and openly discuss plans to harm or kill other people! THAT is something the government has both legal and moral authority to go after! This could have been like shooting particularly ugly, stupid, morally repulsive fish in a barrel!
In time, the contagion would have become self-limiting, and eventually burned itself out. Mockery, slow resource starvation, and simple waning interest would have done for it, reducing Gab to the racist online equivalent of "old man yells at cloud.jpg." But no. No, they went and did this stupid shit instead. I hope the ACLU and the EFF and all the other progressive groups come out in support of Gab, and you know what? I will be standing right there with them.
The Constitution, the law of the land, the backbone of the US, what we should always aspire to even if we ain't there (and even if it's only possible to approach asymptotically) is worth more than this. It's one thing when private businesses refuse to do business with them because they find them odious; it's quite another when the government steps in. Congratulations, PA AG: you've sunk to the level of Gab's userbase, and in doing so you may have doomed us all.
Cool Vandalism
PSA: Google Becoming Crap at Finding Old SoylentNews Stories
I have used Google to look for previous SN stories for a year or two now. Mainly because there have been inconsistencies with SN's own internal search engine in the past (that may have been fixed since). I use the "site:soylentnews.org" search parameter, plus the keywords, and I have a textbox that automatically adds the "site:soylentnews.org" bit to the query.
While writing this submission:
China Still Has Trouble Staffing the World's Largest Radio Telescope
I'm pretty sure that the following story exists on site, although I don't know where it is or know the headline just yet:
China Can't Find Anyone Smart Enough to Run its Whizzbang $180M 500 Meter Radio Telescope
So I search for stuff like "china radio telescope" and "aperture spherical telescope". No dice.
I use SoylentNews internal search, looking for "Aperture Spherical Telescope", and it works.
Let's try "china radio telescope smart enough". Nope, nothing.
Let's try the exact title of the submission. Welp, there it is, finally. Except that that just before finishing this journal entry a few minutes later, it no longer works (I checked to see if it was a special character issue, and it doesn't seem to be).
This isn't the only example that I've come across, and it seems to have gotten worse in recent weeks. IIRC I had trouble looking for previous stories for an opioid-related submission. These have been popping up often enough that I may just ditch the GOOG for this purpose, especially since SN's search seems to work just fine.
AMD Event on Nov. 6th
AMD Investor Relations Announces “Next Horizon” Event for November 6th
On Election Day? Gee, what's the bad news?
Anyway, this is likely related to "7nm" Zen 2 Epyc server CPUs, which will debut well before desktop or mobile variants. They might also announce a Radeon RX 590 "12nm" Polaris GPU or talk about "7nm" Vega GPUs.
If Zen 2 Epyc has 64 cores, and Zen+/Zen 2 Threadripper has 32 cores, then Zen 2 Ryzen could have up to 16 cores.
Some jokes have to be shared!
Bear in mind, all of these guys are near my age. None of them can be less than 45 years old, and one or two may be as old as 65.
DJ1 (referencing a news story) And, he really ought to be sent to a psychologist for testing.
DJ2 And, I know a lot of people who should be tested.
DJ1 You know, a lot of radio people have been tested.
DJ3 Thats sounds a little bit like someone here may have been tested?
DJ1 Well, no I never was tested.
DJ2 Wait a minute - you say that like - there's a story there?
DJ3 Yes, tell us about you not being tested.
DJ1 Well, the school counselor was being as ass, and told me to go see this psychologist.
JD3 And? Tell us more.
DJ1 The psych guy started off being a smartass before introductions were even finished. He said "Boy, there's something WRONG with you!"
DJ2 Oh-oh - so you're saying that the shrink knew on sight that something was wrong with you?
DJ1 Well, you know, those psychology people never know what they're talking about, so I wasn't going to take any test.
DJ3 That can't be all of the story now. Go on.
DJ1 Well, that psychologist said something about restraints. But I showed him.
DJ2 What did you show him?
DJ1 He opened the broom closet to get something out of there - and I just locked him in there, and left.
Everyone laughing for several seconds, they seque into another news story.
DJ1 mumble mumble mumble.
DJ2 What was that? You didn't finish your story?
DJ1 Actually, I was just wondering if you guys think I should go back, and let him out of that closet.
DJ2 OH MY GOD!!!!.
Everyone else laughing their asses off.
Oh - the story they were seguing into?
Someone asked Mad Dog Mattis what keeps him up at night.
Mad Dog says, "Nothing. I sleep like a baby at night. Actually, it's ME that keeps other people up at night!
And, I actually found a reference for that story!
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/28/james-mad-dog-mattis-is-asked-what-keeps-him-awake-at-night-his-response-screams-merica
