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Are palindromes for people who like to end at the beginning?

Or for people who like to begin at the end?

Or for people who like to start in the middle?

Or for people who do only half the work and say they are done?

Florida charter boat captain accused of drinking, doing drugs, firing gun, threatening passengers

A Florida charter boat captain is accused of drinking heavily, doing drugs and threatening to shoot his passengers and throw them overboard before firing his gun several times from the top deck of the boat.

[...] All of the passengers and Kissell reported that Bailey drank several beers in the beginning of the trip, according to an arrest report. When Lopeparo asked his nephew, Rialmo Jr., to grab him a beer from the top deck where Bailey was, the captain told him he couldn't have it, but the teen thought he was kidding and grabbed the beer anyway.

At that point, "the captain bumped shoulders with the young man and grabbed him around the neck and clasped on to the young man’s chain and ripped it off," Giuffre told police. An argument ensued, but the captain retreated back to the upper deck to keep drinking. At this point, he was drinking Captain Morgan rum, smoking a joint and using cocaine, the passengers reported.

Later, the inebriated captain told Giuffre Jr., "It would be nothing to pop a bullet in each one of us and dump our bodies overboard," Giuffre Jr. wrote in his statement to police. "He also stated he has his buddies at the dock for us when we get back. He then proceeded to say he wanted to help to kill n------," Giuffre Jr. wrote. The police report said Giuffre Jr. and his fellow passengers were white.

All of the passengers reported that shortly after threatening them, Bailey fired between four and eight gunshots from the upper deck. At that point, the elder Giuffre said, Bailey was "drinking rum from the bottle" and "scaring the crap out of all of us."

Every year around this time, my wife, her sister, and her mom go on a little vacation to BC. They take my daughter so it's one of the only times per year where I have the house to myself.

It's been a while since Jasmine broke up with me, so I thought id see if I could like up a first date. I enabled my Tinder and my Bumble and my Coffee Meets Bagel to see what was out there.

I got 3 likes according to Tinder, but ended up not matching with anyone. Bumble gave me about 10 likes but no one I was interested in. And CMB gave me 2 likes, one which seemed OK.

I didn't feel particularly motivated/desperate, so I've deactivated my profiles again. Maybe I'll try again later in the summer or in the fall. Too much going on in the summer.

My wife and daughter have been away since Thursday and they come back today. I miss them so much and I can't wait to see them tonight. It's nice to have a house that is quiet and doesn't spontaneously generate messes, but it's too lonely without them around. I miss the pitter-patter of my daughter running through the house and her little hugs.

They will arrive early enough for a late dinner, so I'm on dinner duty tonight. When they were away, I ate: Pizza, Eggs Bennie, Pizza, a Korean burger with fries and leftover Pizza (with some chips and ice cream mixed in). If my wife didn't make me good food, I'd probably have already had a heart attack...

Last Thursday I saw Jasmine again. We met up for dinner and a beer. It was really nice to see her. I missed her a lot. It was nice to get an update on her life. She is doing well and things seem to be going well with the person that she is dating. I hope things work out well for her.

In work-related news, there was a major project that I would have played a key role in that has been cancelled. So now I basically don't have anything to do at work. I think my job is still pretty safe, but I need something to do. I'm tempted to write a book to fill the time.

I've been tossing around the idea of writing a book about my opening of my marriage. There aren't many books on the subject and I know that when I was going through the initial stages, I loved reading about other people's experiences and struggles opening up. I have all my previous journal entries documenting everything which would make the book much easier.

I don't know if the book would be any good though. I never had any struggles between my wife and I during my dating -- most of the struggles I had were with myself. My wife hasn't dated, so the book would be completely one sided...

That being said, I think I do have a story arc. Talk of opening up --> opening up --> struggles dating --> meeting and dating Jasmine --> getting dumped but feeling better about myself.

So, for those that have been following my story, is it interesting enough to be a book? If you were considering opening your relationship, would having my story help at all?

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 4.7 GHz CPU Leaked, World’s First 16 Core Gaming Chip

It has the full 72 MB of cache.

I'll guess $700 for the price.

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT ‘7nm Navi’ Graphics Card Final Specifications Leak Out – Features 2560 Cores, 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM and Up To 1905 MHz Clock Speeds

Apparently people want more than 8 GB of VRAM for 4K gaming.

Skip as many gens as you can!

Spotted at Computex: Triple Monitor Mobile Systems are Back

More innovation than a MacBook.

AMD says “we need to start to talk about our ray tracing strategy”

AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, told the press at Computex that the company will discuss ray tracing in mainstream graphics in 10 days (via PCWorld). So we can expect to hear more from AMD’s Next Horizon gaming event on June 10.

Supposedly the Sony PS5 custom chip will do ray tracing, but this year's Navi desktop GPUs (a hybrid of GCN and RDNA) won't. Maybe we'll get a surprise though.

See also: AMD and Samsung's GPU Licensing Deal: A New Era of Collaboration?

Giving in to their intense natural attraction, the electrons and the e-holes venture further and further towards each other from opposite sides of the P-N junction. Into the the semiconductor's forbidden zone of depletion they wander. Ignoring all inhibition to stop, their growing excitement causes the depletion zone to become smaller and smaller. Finally the depletion zone becomes so small it disappears. They are suddenly surprised and shocked by a climactic explosive rush of current. It can only be described as electric. The LED lights up brightly as current flows freely. The LED continues to glow brightly until the forward current blissfully subsides and the forward voltage drops below the threshold. The electrons stop flowing and go to sleep. The depletion zone once again grows in the P-N junction keeping them separated.

Who’s in — and out — of the first Democratic debates

Presidential hopefuls have until June 12 to cross one of two thresholds to qualify for the primary debates, and 13 of the 20 slots available are set. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is currently out, one of the foremost candidates in danger of missing the stage. His camp blasted what it called the DNC's eleventh-hour "unmasking" of "arbitrary" polling rules, but the DNC said the Bullock campaign has been aware of the criteria for months.

[...] In order to be eligible for the debates, candidates must cross one of two thresholds: earning 1 percent in three polls approved by the DNC, or receiving donations from 65,000 people, with 200 in 20 different states. Thirteen have met both thresholds and clinched their spots. But there are at least 10 credible candidates bidding for the final seven spots — a list that includes two sitting senators, three congressmen, a governor, a former governor and the mayor of New York.

Next week’s deadline is a make-or-break moment for these second-tier candidates, who risk fading into irrelevance if they aren’t among the 20 candidates onstage in Miami.

The 13 candidates who can book their tickets include the race’s top figures. Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Julián Castro are the top-polling candidates; following a random drawing, they will be split across the two nights, with five on one night and four on the other.

But also meeting both the polling and fundraising thresholds are Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee and two lesser-known figures: Marianne Williamson, best known for authoring spiritual, self-help books, and Andrew Yang, a first-time candidate who wears a baseball cap that says “MATH” on the front as he touts his proposal for a universal basic income.

After those 13 candidates, the rest of the field gets murky. According to a POLITICO analysis, an additional seven candidates have hit the polling threshold: Michael Bennet, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Kirsten Gillibrand, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan and Eric Swalwell.

#YangGang #Yang2020

2020 Democratic Party presidential debates and forums

1A - Jun 26, 2019
1B - Jun 27, 2019
2A - Jul 30, 2019
2B - Jul 31, 2019
3A - Sep 12, 2019
3B - Sep 13, 2019 (may be cancelled)

See also: DNC Denies 2020 Democrats a Climate Change Debate

Want to defeat Trump? Attack Biden

Anyone angling to be the Democratic nominee should espouse a real progressive agenda – just being “anti-Trump” isn’t enough

Biden campaign's self-inflicted error is one it can't really afford

It’s political malpractice for any modern campaign to lift words, intentionally or not, for its policy plans or website.

That’s especially true if you’re the early Democratic frontrunner. And even more true if your 1988 presidential campaign ended in a plagiarism scandal.

But that’s exactly what happened on Tuesday, when Joe Biden’s campaign rolled out its climate plan — and admitted it forgot to give proper attribution.

“Several citations, some from sources cited in other parts of the plan, were inadvertently left out of the final version of the 22-page document,” the Biden campaign told NBC’s Garrett Haake.

Biden campaign confirms he supports controversial abortion rule (Hyde Amendment)

Planned Parenthood slammed Biden’s continued support for the Hyde Amendment in a statement to NBC. “The unfair Hyde Amendment makes it so that those who have the least end up having to pay the most to access abortion, and those who are service members or live on reservations are often left with no coverage for abortion care,” Kelly Robinson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund's executive director, said. “We encourage any candidate who doesn't recognize Hyde's impact to speak to the women it hurts most — particularly on women of color and women with low incomes — to learn more about the harmful impacts of this discriminatory policy," Robinson said.

[...] Biden voted against a 1977 compromise that allowed Medicaid to fund abortions with exceptions for rape, incest or medical safety of the mother. He then voted again in 1981 to remove rape and incest exceptions when they passed.

The ex-lawmaker also voted several times to prohibit federal workers from using health insurance on abortion services, with the only exception being to save the life of the mother.

I doubt that any of the current mudslinging at Biden is going to have an effect. Instead, it will take a few heated exchanges at one of the primary debates to cause a reversal. The first ones are scheduled for June 26th and 27th.

Previously: Joe Biden's #MeToo Adventure Continues
Joe Biden Parody Website Outranks Campaign Site

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