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Tulsi's trip was preapproved a month in advance by the House Ethics committee.

She was assigned to and serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, determining policy that directly impacts the entire world. Visiting other countries on fact-finding missions falls cleanly within the jurisdiction of her responsibilities to her constituents and to our country.

Seeking to understand all sides in the Syrian conflict, Tulsi met with Assad's opposition, displaced families and Gov officials from several countries. She did not plan to meet with Assad, but when invited took the chance to search for a peaceful solution. https://medium.com/@TulsiGabbard/the-syrian-people-desperate...

Tulsi was heroic for calling out the plan to arm al-Qaeda to overthrow the gov of Syria and heroic for meeting with Assad at the risk of political backlash, in the name of peace.

Algorithm defense is a new Twinkie defense.

On the first debate where so many candidates are buying google ads, for Google to have not planned for a spike in advertising and blaming it on the algorithm is just inexcusable.

Either Google is very incompetent and the person in charge needs to be fired, or there is something else going on. Either incompetence or intentional their action did impact Tulsi Gabbard's post-debate moment and her fundraising ability and google is liable in election interference.

Personally I think the poster is stupid as f@#&, leaving her apt to complete strangers and then blaming her loss on someone else. What did she expect? B&B's usually have someone onsite to prevent things like this from happening. The person to blame here is the poster and of course the tweakers, not Airbnb.

Regularly divisible 16 years ago

has anyone considered that all numbers where the sum of digits are divisible by 3, the whole number is divisible by 3?

A US soldier stationed in Iraq called HP Support when his copier stopped working and HP Support told him that he had to PAY for their advice to fix the unit. This is his response. Enjoy!

lol "FT.com articles are only available to registered users and subscribers." but the short paragraph can be read via view source or w/o js

The dollar tumbled against most major currencies on Thursday, prompting warnings that the weakness of the world’s reserve currency could destabilise the global economy and push other countries into retaliatory devaluations to underwrite their exports. Increasing expectations the Federal Reserve will pump more money into the US economy next month under a policy known as quantitative easing sent the dollar to new lows against the Chinese renminbi, Swiss franc and Australian dollar. It dropped to a 15-year low against the yen and an eight-month low against the euro.