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The disgraceful fact check that wasn't.

As a subscriber to the Post I was extremely dismayed to see this story from Glenn Kessler purporting to be a fact check regarding an incident mentioned by President Biden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/09/one-source-story-about-10-year-old-an-abortion-goes-viral/

Mr. Kessler's article brings up serious questions of journalistic ethics, partisan corruption of the Post's editorial stance and basic moral decency. Since Mr. Kessler was unable to verify the truth of an event that turned out to actually have happened it suggests at a minimum that he is incompetent at the job he has assigned himself; discovering and verifying the facts of the matter he chose to write about. Given the volatile nature of the topic; the implicit partisan thrust of the column cannot be overlooked; and it is disgusting. Framing an opinion as a fact check, as a factual debunking of an incident of tragic sexual abuse is a gross misuse of the platform the Post has chosen to give

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#!/usr/bin/env python                                                                          

import subprocess
import json
import os

inv = subprocess.getoutput('ansible-inventory --list')
h = json.loads(inv)

hosts = h['_meta']['hostvars']

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import boto3

session = boto3.Session(profile_name='the_profile')
s3 = session.client('s3')
url = s3.generate_presigned_url(
    ClientMethod='get_object',
    Params={ 'Bucket':'bucket_name', 'Key':'object_name'},
    ExpiresIn=604800) # 7 days

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laprice=# select now() + '887835m'::interval;
          ?column?
-----------------------------
 2017-12-18 07:49:14.3668-08
(1 row)

laprice=# select 24 * 60;
 ?column?
----------
     1440

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for chunk in $( find . -type f -name "*.txt" ); do wc $chunk;echo $chunk; echo "---";done
       6      26     205 ./assets/dramatis.txt
./assets/dramatis.txt
---
      93     893    5108 ./assets/nerve_slaves_of_the_sky_lords.txt
./assets/nerve_slaves_of_the_sky_lords.txt
---
      91     828    4901 ./chapters/chapter_1.txt
./chapters/chapter_1.txt
---

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#summary: A contract to sell a regular update of a small (max 8kb) piece of information for n periods to an audience of at most m subscribers.

#requirements:

• The publisher must deliver the updates to receive payment.
• The information must be encrypted in transit.
• It must not be possible for a non-subscriber to access the information.
• Contracts must be transferable after creation.
• Subscribers must be able to transfer their interest in the update stream; an act which must prevent the seller from accessing the updates once the contract has been sold.
• All of the subscribers must be able to access their updates simultaneously.

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# Generated by iptables-save
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [5452:537465]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [6729:868771]
-A INPUT -s 202.0.0.0/8 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
-A INPUT -s 0.0.0.0/4 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
-A INPUT -s 16.0.0.0/6 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
-A INPUT -s 20.0.0.0/7 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
-A INPUT -s 22.0.0.0/8 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j DROP

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alter table test add column tsv tsvector;
update test set tsv = to_tsvector('english',tune::text);
create index test_tsv_ts_idx on test using gin(tsv);
-- note that this is a full text index on the full json object not a selection of keys.

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package main

import (
	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
	"database/sql"
)
import "os"
import "log"

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