{"id":31913,"date":"2018-03-25T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31913"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:04:28","slug":"open-thread-3-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/25\/open-thread-3-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 3\/25\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWWendy should be here in less than a half hour to de-stink the TomCat and help with chores, so I’ll have to finish after she leaves.\u00a0 In the meantime, I’m hurrying.<\/span><\/p>\n

WWWendy just left.\u00a0 I fed her BBQ ribs.\u00a0 They were messy, but \"Smile!<\/span><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 3:09 (average 5:02).\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

From The Verge<\/a>: <\/span>Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have been spooked by the recent Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal<\/a>, prompting them to download all the data<\/a> that Facebook stores on their account. The results have been alarming for some.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh wow my deleted Facebook Zip file contains info on every single phone cellphone call and text I made for about a year,\u201d says \u200fTwitter user Mat Johnson<\/a>. Another, Dylan McKay<\/a>, says \u201csomehow it has my entire call history with my partner\u2019s mum.\u201d Others have found a similar pattern<\/a> where it appears close contacts, like family members, are the only ones tracked in Facebook\u2019s call records.<\/p>\n

With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. UNPLUG<\/strong>!! RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From Nation of Change<\/a>: <\/span>According to a new study, the large accumulation of ocean trash in the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has rapidly grown to twice the size of Texas<\/strong>. Composed of garbage, abandoned fishing gear, and nearly 80,000 metric tons of plastic, the floating isle of trash has expanded up to 16 times larger than expected. [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Let’s relocate the entire Republican Party there. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/span>President Donald Trump announced Friday that he\u2019s sticking to his ban on transgender people in the military, even though the Pentagon showed little enthusiasm for the proposal.<\/p>\n

In a memo released Friday night, the White House said that transgender individuals are \u201cdisqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.\u201d The full ban was set to officially take effect<\/a> Friday, though a pair of federal courts in December<\/a> ordered the U.S. military to allow the recruitment of transgender citizens into the armed forces despite Trump\u2019s declaration.<\/p>\n

\u201cTransgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria \u2015 individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery \u2015 are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances,\u201d the memo says.<\/p>\n

They should be allowed to serve. It would be different if they had imaginary bone spurs. RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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WWWendy should be here in less than a half hour to de-stink the TomCat and help with chores, so I’ll have to finish after she leaves.\u00a0 In the meantime, I’m hurrying. WWWendy just left.\u00a0 I fed her BBQ ribs.\u00a0 They were messy, but ! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me 3:09 (average 5:02).\u00a0 To do […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}