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04:23 < aestetix> https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/
04:23 < PigBot> House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents - The Intercept (at theintercept.com) https://tinyurl.com/2pfghn64
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06:54 <@Mirage> Article caught my eye "55-pound rabid beaver attacks young girl at Georgia lake before her father kills animal"
06:55 <@Mirage> Best part of the story, imo: 'There were no signs of baby beavers in the area, that the attacking beaver may have been trying to defend, authorities said. They classified the animal as "just an otherwise angry beaver."'
07:12 < Evilpig> new what we do in the shadows is out
07:16 <@Dolemite> mr0ning, be0tches and h0ez!
07:31 <@Mirage> Anyone else discover this show?  I just found it on Prime a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it.  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5957766/
07:31 < PigBot> Loudermilk (TV Series 2017–2020) - IMDb (at www.imdb.com) https://tinyurl.com/2pe5w9z3
07:32 <@Dolemite> haven't heard of it
07:35 < Evilpig> i like the folks in it.  worth a shot
07:37 <@Mirage> I initially put it on during 'dinner' one evening before my cousin had to be in his required online AA meeting and we got hooked.  I was just watching it when everyone was available to watch it together, but the wife kept going w/o us.
07:38 < Evilpig> what a bitch.  lol
08:51 <@Dolemite> So we've gone from every time that ORNLIT forces a patch/reboot on my laptop it screw up my Global Protect to now it screwing up my audio settings in Teams.
08:51  * Dolemite glares at TeamsPig
08:51 < Evilpig> huzzah! 
08:52 < Evilpig> and from now on, it isn't teams.  it's sharepoint with a user collaboration interface
08:52 < Evilpig> i'm viewing all microsoft products as extensions of sharepoint with bulkier interfaces bolted on
09:03 < aestetix> Did any of you read that news article?
09:08 <@Mirage> Which?
09:08 < aestetix> https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/
09:08 < PigBot> House Republicans Accidentally Released a Trove of Damning Covid Documents - The Intercept (at theintercept.com) https://tinyurl.com/2pfghn64
09:08 < aestetix> It's a pretty big deal
09:08 < aestetix> It turns out that not only was it a lab leak, but that politicians knew about it, and they actively tried to cover it up
09:09 < aestetix> The source is a bunch of leaked emails and slack discussions
09:09 < aestetix> There are email threads where they are trying to figure out a way to make it look like it was from nature so they don't piss off China
09:14 <@Mirage> GIven most of what I read so far and comparing it w/ most Trumper mindsets, I don't really think it was an accident that they released the stuff as it reenforces the conspiratorial narrative of 'china lab created' and 'coverup [by the left]', even though republicans were in power at the time.
09:15 <@Mirage> It's not like it really matters... what is anyone going to do even if it were proven to have been intentionally lab created?  
09:15 < Evilpig> just looking at the surface of that a leak of emails and slack chat of speculation?  hardly damning
09:17 < Evilpig> god help us should someone ever look over the logs from here and cherry pick crap where we've speculated on wether or not aestetix is actually pregant with Trump's latest progeny 
09:17 <@Mirage> Besides, how many 'scientific reports' do you thinkk are spun say one thing when the full data and/or belief of the creators is contrary to the 'findings' supporting whomever paid for said report ot be created
09:18 < Evilpig> clearly there is no other truth to that, he was seen talking about tRump and was trying to hide the affair
09:22 <@Mirage> Didn't link it, but I watched an opinion piece video a few days ago predicting that we won't have to worry about Trump being indicted or becoming president again "because he's and old, avid golfer, living in FL where it's not uncommon for old, avid golfers to fall over dead on the course."
09:22 <@Mirage> er, convicted, not indicted
09:23 < Evilpig> I can see that, I can also see that as the start of a JFK level conspiracy
09:23 < Evilpig> trump didn't die on the golf course from a heart attack, he was poisoned/shot/grassy gnoll
09:26 <@Mirage> Explosive Golf Ball!
09:27 < Evilpig> fuckin' coyote
09:27 <@Mirage> Gator
09:27 < Evilpig> or do we blame acme for selling it to him?
09:42 <@Mirage> Thinking we should have kept the last 3-4 dozen eggs we gave away.  We've got 4 of our chickens that have become 'broody', which means they won't lay any eggs for the next 3-4 weeks and on top of that production normally decreases when it's hot anyway.   Only gotten 1 egg per day since it hit 100.  At this rate we may be having to buy eggs in a week or so.
09:48 < aestetix> Mirage: I don't think it was intentionally leaked
09:48 < aestetix> I think there was a fuckup, and they were trying to cover their asses so they didn't get blamed
09:49 < aestetix> And also, at this point I don't trust any scientific reports about COVID
09:49 <@Mirage> It is pretty suspect given the fact that the meat of it supports a lot of their rhetoric
09:49 < aestetix> But I do trust leaked emails and messages, especially if the politicians get subpoenaed to testify about them
09:51 <@Mirage> Yeah, because nothing could ever possibly be leaked on purpose for political reasons
09:51 < aestetix> I mean, I don't really care who did what, but those messages look legit
09:52 < aestetix> And I'd like to see some people in jail over this stuff
09:54 <@Mirage> I'd more believe it was an accidental leak by the GOP if it were concerning the fact that all evidence was showing a natural source vs a lab source but that the scientist were being pressured to write a report stating it was lab created but were unable to find anything to support that position.
11:20 < Evilpig> aestetix: I still wouldn't call that a leak.  that looks more like an attempt to continue the narrative that it was a man made virus that got out of a lab accident despite no proof ever having come forward for that theory
11:20 < Evilpig> I think calling it a leak is giving that theory legitimacy
11:21 < aestetix> I mean
11:21 < aestetix> This information got out because they didn't redact the PDF correctly
11:21 < aestetix> Do you think they planted that, hoping someone would figure out it wasn't redacted right?
11:21 < aestetix> Because IMHO that's giving the government way too much credit
11:24 <@Mirage> I think you underestimate the scheming of politicians
11:41 < aestetix> I think you overestimate how capable they are :)
11:41 < aestetix> https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/14zhjiy/climate_activists_in_germany_vs_drivers/
11:41 < PigBot> Climate activists in Germany vs drivers : ActualPublicFreakouts (at old.reddit.com) https://tinyurl.com/2q84ngr2
13:19 <@Dolemite> Ugh.   Perl and it's fucking arrays.
13:19 <@Dolemite> Blessed this and blessed that my ass
13:40 <@Dolemite> Mirage: You're decent with Perl, right?
13:42 <@Mirage> Been a while since I've had to do anything w/ it.
13:42 <@Dolemite> Well you may look at it and go, "Duh, if you knew Perl you'd know you can't do X"
13:42 <@Dolemite> I sent you a gist in dm
13:43 < Evilpig> jim was just complaining about shifting json into perl arrays
13:57 <@Dolemite> Well, time to head to swim meet.   Last one for me of the season.
13:58 <@Dolemite> Pamela has swim meet taxi duty next week
16:45 < dasunt> Well, fucked up this install, which means I get to reinstall 2 machines.
16:45 < dasunt> Partitioning:  How does it fucking work?
16:46 < dasunt> Apparently, I can not enter partition sizes consistently.
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