I’ve met both US Senators from Florida a couple of years before they got in the Senate. Neither of them gave the slightest impression of being a leader, in charge of their own destiny, or even a servant of the people. They were both just performers on a publicity tour, slaves to their schedules and scripts.

Yep, we’re going to have to train mainstream media how to filter them, or just boycott all monetized channels of MSM until they figure it out for themselves.

Rubio was a US Senator from Florida, before that he was a Florida state level legislator.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/examining-rubios-home-sale/

Local News Examining Rubio’s Home Sale miami March 8, 2016 / 2:50 PM EST / CBS Miami

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This story and video was originally posted on the CBS4 website on May 18, 2010. CBS4 News was the first to investigate the 2007 sale of Marco Rubio’s home in Miami. It is now being re-posted following a series of statements and campaign ads by Donald Trump questioning the ethics of the home sale. )

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In 2007, Florida’s no fault auto insurance law was set to expire. The law known as PIP – or personal injury protection – provides $10,000 in medical coverage for anyone in an auto accident.

Both Florida Governor Charlie Crist and the Florida Senate wanted to extend PIP. The only obstacle was the Florida House and its speaker, Marco Rubio, who believed PIP was rife with fraud and abuse.

“I started to study the issue and really became convinced that there was a serious fraud industry that had been built around it, largely through a combination of clinics and lawyers,” Rubio said recently. “So I was okay with PIP being extended but only if we dealt with the fraud issues, at least some anti fraud measures.”

Yet Rubio also gave the impression that he was willing to let PIP die.

“What I did obviously want was ultimate leverage and the threat that I was willing to let PIP go away,” he recalled.

Among those who supported PIP were Florida chiropractors, including Dr. Mark Cereceda, who operates a string of pain clinics throughout South Florida. Cereceda’s business depends on seeing PIP patients.

“I see a lot of PIP patients,” Cereceda said.

In the Spring and Summer of 2007, Cereceda mounted a campaign to pressure Rubio to allow PIP to continue. Accompanied by other chiropractors, Cereceda met with Rubio in Tallahassee. Cereceda also organized marches and demonstrations in front of Rubio’s West Miami office. He even hired four planes to fly banners over Rubio’s home and office urging him to keep PIP alive.

Rubio, who described Cereceda as “an acquaintance,” said he was aware of Cereceda’s campaign and that he Cereceda “was pretty excited about that issue.”

In the midst of all this lobbying, Mark Cereceda’s mother bought a house from Rubio, paying $380,000 in an all cash deal that was finalized in April 2007. Rubio had originally purchased the house in 2003 for $175,000.

“It was just a coincidence,” Mark Cereceda said of the sale.

Mark Cereceda, who lives on the same block as the Rubio house, said he noticed a “For Sale” sign in the front yard and recommended it to his mother.

Six months after the sale of the house was complete, Rubio wrote Gov. Crist a letter asking him to call a special session of the Florida Legislature. This time Rubio said he would support PIP.

“It had nothing to do with the house,” Cereceda said.

Nothing at all, I’m sure.

Israel is a hot button topic. They’ve lined them all up and plan to press three hot buttons per day, for four years.

His advisory cabal of men behind the curtain, sure, they know exactly what they’re doing.

Hard partying 78 year old ravaged by STDs? https://www.sciencealert.com/80-of-americans-with-dementia-may-not-even-know-they-have-it

I agree. Still doesn’t hurt to bring it up on appropriate tangents.

If the receiving entity then ingests all that copyrighted material into its AI, and the AI sends it piece at a time to other receiving entities, that should be the AI infringing on everything it is copying to make its answers.

Doesn’t show on my phone or app store, I’m on Android 15 in the US.

A shorter take: x11 is old, and big, and didn’t originally consider security much at all.

Wayland is newer, therefore lacking some bells and whistles of x11 that some x11 users may still care about, but also designed with more awareness of security issues - making it more extensible and maintainable into the future.

There was a time Wayland wasn’t a great x11 replacement due to its level of development. When it will become the better choice all depends on what kind of user you are, but it seems inevitable to become the better choice for most users in the future.

I have a Pixel 7a on Google Fi service running Android 15 in the US.

I don’t see that app on my list of all apps nor when i search for it in the Play Store.

I have used both, back and forth for years.

Chrome serves me better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone)

Not just you, everyone reading.

They delivered their promise: they were at least not evil, at first.

Too late, they own my soul already. I have successfully resisted Meta, X, Microsoft, and any number of lesser daemons, but the one true G has shown me their light and I am unable to look away.

They can’t make up their minds, on most things.

Grabbing as much pussmoney as they can get away with, that’s a constant.

These giant, greedy corporations are fucking pathetic…

Boycott, whenever you can. Research your choices: https://www.goodsuniteus.com/

“How can I cause the most disruption with the least harm?”

If you haven’t voted in the past, start immediately.

First participate in the existing process fully.

There are very few young politicians, we need more.

2 years. Think positively, act positively, make it happen.

2/3 control of the House and a clear majority in the Senate. Not enough to make an impeachment stick, but more than enough to stop the madness.

I’m reasonably happy with XFCE/Xubuntu - it’s not as slick of a desktop as KDE or Gnome, and in some ways that’s a great thing.