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Nearly two years after James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the avowed neo-Nazi and convicted murderer was sentenced to life in prison Friday for 29 federal hate crimes.

Fields, 22, whose vehicular attack killed one woman and injured 35 other people, pleaded guilty to the 29 counts in April in a deal with prosecutors, who agreed to drop an additional charge that carries a possible death sentence. In a separate case stemming from the deadly incident, Fields was convicted of first-degree murder and other crimes in December by a Virginia jury that voted for a life term plus 419 years in state prison.

James A. Fields Jr., avowed neo-Nazi in Charlottesville car attack, sentenced to life in prison

(I like how it's posted in the Public Safety department)

An allegation that President Trump raped a journalist in the 1990s was too much for a Trump-loving editor at the New York Post, it was reported Monday.

Col Allan — a former Post editor-in-chief and top Rupert Murdoch lieutenant who has returned to the paper in an effort to make it even more friendly to the president — ordered stories about E. Jean Carroll’s rape claim scrubbed from the Post’s website, CNN said.

The Post published a staff-written story about the alleged attack on its website after Carroll’s allegation emerged on Friday in New York magazine.

People who clicked on search engine links pointing to the Post’s story landed at an error page with the message: “DID YOU GET LOST?”

New York Post deletes story about rape allegation against Trump at behest of Trump-loving editor: report

[Update 24 June 2019 0855 US/Eastern]
The issue (at least for me and several other users) appears to have been resolved. There is a front page story addressing this. That would probably be a better place to post info and discuss.
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I am currently (since ~0640 US/Eastern) unable to access https://soylentnews.org via Spectrum internet.

However, the site is *not* down (I am writing in my journal as this is happening).

This likely means some sort of outage on Spectrum's (formerly Time Warner Cable) network or some intermediate network between Spectrum and Linode.

I am able to access the site via Megapath/GTT without issue.

I'm guessing that I won't get an answer until the outage I've inferred is fixed, but is anyone else having similar issues?

especially for the bootleggers and their clients, they're getting away with murder. But for dumb luck and statistics, it's not really a story.

Pretty sad, the weak reaction to this man.

Says more than the actual action, or the man.

Did anybody watch the admin's shtick? You're not gonna ask me to post a Twitter link, are you? Besides, it could be a deep fake... You know the routine, can't trust anything.

But to tell the truth, I found the utter insanity and incompetence absolutely incredible. Very close to true idiocracy.... If the video is for real.

Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home, sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home, sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye

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Bonus Track: Her Majesty
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she doesn't have a lot to say
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
But she changes from day to day
I wanna tell her that I love her a lot but I gotta get a belly full of wine
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm gonna make her mine
Oh yeah
Someday I'm gonna make her mine

get off me... get out of my flat

get off my fucking laptop

You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.

Never heard of it, but I'm still in favor of that same-sex marriage deal.
Then it's settled.
We'll legalize gay money-- I mean, uh, gay marriage.

Let's have Refugee Chic...

Und Der Migrant

Damn! Are we gassing and incinerating 2000 people every hour down there?

On Tue 18 Jun 2019, FaceBook will launch a cryptographic currency which is presumably called SuckerCoin, erm, ZuckerCoin. I don't have any cryptographic currency due to the concerns about energy consumption and the lack of security but I would like to draw your attention to the most famous quote from a totally fictional character in the film: The Social Network, erm, a statement from Facebook's majority shareholder, Mark Zuckerberg:-

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks

How long will it take for this anti-social asshat to be imprisoned? We know that Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy shit. However, I would like to know to what extent Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy shit. Mark Zuckerberg's business associates portray him as collecting money for services not rendered (ConnectU) while simultaneously outsourcing work on a competing platform and not paying for the work (TheFacebook). Given the strategic national importance of Facebook, I remain broadly surprised that US courts decided against Mark Zuckerberg. However, just to the underscore the extent to which Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy shit, between the settlement and the payout of a fixed number of shares to the Winklevoss Twins, Facebook (majority shareholder: Mark Zuckerberg) instigated a 4:1 share split. However, this is only the fifth most pressing concern.

When soliciting one billion messages per day, it is not acceptable to state that 99.9% of the messages are acceptable because that leaves one million messages per day that aren't. (Although, it is mildly comical that Facebook remains indeterminate about breasts after more than a decade of setting such rules.) However, the 99.9% ratio is beyond credibility. Hate speech on Twitter is measured at 2.5% of all messages and on Gab it is 4.5%. Yet we are expected to believe that messages across all categories are significantly more saintly on Facebook. However, this is only the fourth most pressing concern.

Among the problematic content is terrorist propaganda. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act allows this to be freely published or not in a manner which maximizes shareholder value but this only applies within the US. Given that Kim Dotcom was arrested in New Zealand breaking US law then, surely, Mark Zuckerberg should be arrested in the US for daily, ongoing breaches of New Zealand law to present? Or perhaps this is supporting evidence for UID6957's assertion that we have "might is right" rather than "rule of law". However, this is only the third most pressing concern.

Unfortunately, Facebook's ongoing publication of material statements of relevance to the SEC is extremely spotty. It is extremely unfortunate that four years of Mark Zuckerberg's messages we accidentally lost prior to Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to US Congress. However, when the messages of the founder and majority shareholder cannot be recovered, it demonstates that there is no favor at Facebook. It is particularly unfortunate that a promise from Mark Zuckerberg to always keep Facebook (majority shareholder: Mark Zuckerberg) and Instagram (majority shareholder: Mark Zuckerberg) separate was among the lost messages. However, this is only the second most pressing concern.

My most pressing concern is Mark Zuckerberg's sporting prowess. Mark Zuckerberg is extremely keen fencer and was captain of his school's team. Indeed, we've all seen the videos of his numerous decisive wins in fencing competitions. He also discusses his loves of martial arts frequently. Talk of escape chutes and armed guards pretending (badly) to be programmers or any other matter which makes one think "chickenshit" are the calculated works of detractors and sore losers. Perhaps it is a misguided attempt by lackeys at Facebook to make Mark Zuckerberg seem like a common man of the people rather than a decisive leader with ambition to be President of the United States. As part of this campaign, repeated attempts have been made to suppress Mark Zuckerberg's application to Harvard University which includes:-

Every Tuesday evening, the bell over the Academy Building rings out and invites students on campus to convene at the Love Gymnasium. Each Tuesday, I answer that invitation and go to fence with my peers. Amidst a hectic week of work, fencing has always proven to be the perfect medium; for it is both social and sport, mental and athletic, and controlled yet sometimes undisciplined. Whether I am competing against a rival in a USFA tournament or just clashing foils, or sometimes sabres, with a friend, I rarely find myself doing anything more enjoyable than fencing a good bout.

Of course, only detractors would note that in the college admissions scandal, in which numerous parties have pled guilty to lying about extra-curricular achievements (most prominently in sport) that prosecutions are led by Harvard graduate lawyers and that there is a distinct disinterest towards prosecuting Harvard alumni. This underscores the unparalleled integrity found at Harvard University. Mark Zuckerberg's friendly rival and Harvard law drop-out, Bill Gates, will readily attest to such impeccable character.

Anyhow, I hope that Mark Zuckerberg is imprisoned for a very long time and that any attempt to run a criminal enterprise from jail is treated accordingly.