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Harik posted:loving lol if you think this im going to inherit my dads collection of dragonriders of pern novels + factory sealed copies of the second matrix movie
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Apr 1, 2023 23:33
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Vox Nihili posted:I think the lovely healthcare and childhood obesity also contribute here. But car accidents and violence have gotta be huge factors. It's extremely difficult to die of obesity related disease before 40. On the other hand, Big Pun managed it. These are deaths of violence and despair. Cars, drugs, and guns.
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Apr 1, 2023 23:34
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FlapYoJacks posted:A reminder: When the NYPD threw a hissy fit and told everyone they wouldn't patrol and arrest people unless specifically called, the crime rate plummeted and they immediately had to backtrack their position because it proved cops are worthless lmfao. The crime rate drops if no one is arrested. That is how it works yes.
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Apr 1, 2023 23:35
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Smythe posted:very long truncated tweets should have some indicator that there is more article behind the embed. BTW. elong ill take my finders fee. thnx they do but it's the elipsis that you see people end normal tweets with all the time so it's not obvious that it means they shat out a medium post on a SMS relay.
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Apr 1, 2023 23:35
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Mr Hootington posted:The crime rate drops if no one is arrested. That is how it works yes. it was the crime reports that fell since the police stopped antagonizing communities and exacerbating situations https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html
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Apr 1, 2023 23:43
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webcams for christ posted:just stated as a plain fact. a natural inevitability loving ponzi scheme.
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Apr 1, 2023 23:47
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Oglethorpe posted:it was the crime reports that fell since the police stopped antagonizing communities and exacerbating situations It's this. Turns out, when police aren't intentionally escalating situations, the crime rate drops.
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Apr 1, 2023 23:50
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Salvor_Hardin posted:There is a phrase that stuck in my mind from Consider the Lobster: "As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing" that's one of my favorite DFW's essays, and his cruise ship one. also the full quote is better: quote:To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. i don't mind helping out tourists here around SF or wino tourists in my old sonoma home, and i hope they have a good time but also i get annoyed with them blocking sidewalks with 3 bags of luggage on their phone or driving exceptionally badly blindly following gps and braking every 3 seconds or congesting some local roads. on the other hand some things just get too much when it "hidden gems" become pinstagrambook popular and just swamped destroying it like pt reyes or muir woods. reservation systems that hard limit tourism is a good thing since it can keep things at a manageble level gently caress all cruise shippers tho and also airbnb should be destroyed Xaris has issued a correction as of 00:00 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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Apr 1, 2023 23:52
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Xaris posted:and also airbnb should be destroyed Ceterum (autem) censeo Airbnbinem esse delendam.
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Apr 2, 2023 00:18
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Harik posted:loving lol if you think this People inherit stuff all the time actually Llay off the doomerism, it’s bad for your health
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Apr 2, 2023 00:20
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lol i missed this https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-dj-layoffs-menlo-park-mark-zuckerberg-2023-3quote:Meta has brought in a DJ to play music in its Menlo Park campus cafe, an employee told The Information.
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Apr 2, 2023 00:21
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I've long accepted that all I'm going to get is what I take from my parents while they're alive.
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Apr 2, 2023 00:22
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lil poopendorfer posted:People inherit stuff all the time actually "I don't know anything about how the world works so anyone who tells me otherwise is just a stupid doomer" what are you even doing here my parents both worked for IBM back when pensions were still a thing and i'm getting nothing because healthcare ate all of it and what pennies are left is going to medicare clawback. so go gently caress yourself.
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Apr 2, 2023 00:29
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Xaris posted:lol i missed this https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-dj-layoffs-menlo-park-mark-zuckerberg-2023-3 of course the main problem isn't because our product is total poo poo Palladium has issued a correction as of 00:35 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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Apr 2, 2023 00:29
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:well a kindergardner died at my kids school early this year and they never announced why (probably covid but the parents didnt want to admit it) Could have been gun violence. Kindergartner at the school my wife taught at got killed when someone tried to kill his dad and missed Re: medicaid, my understanding is the state checks up on it once a month, is that true? It's kind of comical how bad the checking is for other things - take IBR where it can take a year for the feds to start billing you on your income. Or Obamacare, where you project next year's income low because that's how you save 10 grand in deductible, then decide to work more, and a year and a half later settle up at tax time and use IRA contributions to offset premium subsidies. You can even find the IRA with the tax refund! But medicaid, no, gently caress you, constant checking in on. If someone misses a shift the end of one month and makes it up the beginning of the next , gently caress them (again, my understanding)
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Apr 2, 2023 00:49
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webcams for christ posted:just stated as a plain fact. a natural inevitability ahh nice of them to time the demise of social security with the coming climate collapse
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Apr 2, 2023 00:54
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Strange how a country whose gdp has been constantly increasing and whose corporations are posting record profits and who mints its own currency somehow is having all these problems keeping its basic welfare programs solvent
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Apr 2, 2023 00:57
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gently caress DOUBLE POSTED
StratGoatCom has issued a correction as of 01:22 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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Apr 2, 2023 01:00
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Combined with this:  It's clear Americans still think the US budget is 20% NASA, 30% foreign aid, 60% aid to NYC and LA (but I repeat myself), and 10% military.
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Apr 2, 2023 01:08
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eXXon posted:Combined with this: What are the real proportions?
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Apr 2, 2023 01:47
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webcams for christ posted:just stated as a plain fact. a natural inevitability this being near side by side with SVB depositors "100% MADE WHOLE" is funny as hell
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Apr 2, 2023 01:50
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mycomancy posted:What are the real proportions? the #1 is healthcare so it means healthcare needs to get cut and not ginormous medical landlordism behind it
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Apr 2, 2023 01:50
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Homeless Friend posted:this being near side by side with SVB depositors "100% MADE WHOLE" is funny as hell lol gdi
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Apr 2, 2023 02:14
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mastershakeman posted:
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Apr 2, 2023 02:17
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Medicaid requirements are set by each state, and each state has its own schedule for verification & re-upping. Hence some states getting people off the rolls last year when biden refused to renew the emergency order.
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Apr 2, 2023 02:21
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mycomancy posted:What are the real proportions? NASA about 0.5% Foreign aid about 0.7% (most of which is probably spent within the USA) Military about 15% lol
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Apr 2, 2023 02:30
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Twerk from Home posted:I noticed this, sausage biscuit used to be the mcdouble of the morning and now they're like $2.50 or some poo poo. that's weird, the sausage biscuit here is the only remaining cheap breakfast item at $1.19. a single hash brown is fuckin $2.49
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Apr 2, 2023 02:32
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i am harry posted:once a year So when you say you expect to make 5k next year when signing up for Obamacare and it tosses you to the state site, they then check your employment records when they get around to it (presumably the same ones they use for unemployment?) and say ok, looks like this projects out, and that's that? Edit oh there's 50 variations. Great
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Apr 2, 2023 02:40
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Homeless Friend posted:this being near side by side with SVB depositors "100% MADE WHOLE" is funny as hell there's unlimited cash in the federal reserve to cover any bet no matter how large and reckless but that cash must not he used to materially benefit the public, that would be financially unsound and irresponsible
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Apr 2, 2023 03:15
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"the federal reserve is just one large money printer"
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Apr 2, 2023 03:17
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Mr Hootington posted:The crime rate drops if no one is arrested. That is how it works yes. that's pretty plainly not how it works though. arrests and crimes are correlated but not directly related. crimes exist without arrests, and people can be arrested even if they haven't committed a crime. you actually would expect the crime rate to increase if no one is ever arrested, an inverse relationship, since arresting people and punishing them with fines or a loss of freedom is imagined to be the deterrent to crime. in reality though that's not how it works either. the police are incapable of preventing or solving crimes and are just a murderous gang of thugs that extorts every municipal district in the nation. when the police don't exist crime also decreases because the police are causing huge numbers of crimes to occur.
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Apr 2, 2023 03:22
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Twerk from Home posted:It's extremely difficult to die of obesity related disease before 40. On the other hand, Big Pun managed it. They're all deaths of poverty (cars excluded somewhat). Obesity falls under that too since it's rather hard to treat when your most cost-effective source of food isn't healthy at all. It's all just the American ideal of prosperity gospel: you're poor because you don't worship god hard enough so you must suffer
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Apr 2, 2023 03:31
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Mr Hootington posted:The crime rate drops if no one is arrested. That is how it works yes. you're joking right. right?
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Apr 2, 2023 03:33
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The police will be defunded when some politician deems it more economical to replace them with a security firm they're coincidentally on the executive board of.
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Apr 2, 2023 03:35
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super sweet best pal posted:The police will be defunded when some politician deems it more economical to replace them with the all-volunteer sturmabteilung
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Apr 2, 2023 03:40
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Justin Tyme posted:Strange how a country whose gdp has been constantly increasing and whose corporations are posting record profits and who mints its own currency somehow is having all these problems keeping its basic welfare programs solvent This is so succinct, it's exactly how I'm going to phrase this rhetorical to every dumbass I get in an argument with on Nextdoor going forward Edit: Griz posted:that's weird, the sausage biscuit here is the only remaining cheap breakfast item at $1.19. a single hash brown is fuckin $2.49 Yo what is up with this, I was at the grocery store and saw that a bag of potato chips are like $7. Potatoes are one of the primo dirt cheap carbs of this country after corn. To my recollection, they are not expensive. Did something happen to potatoes? Are we in a potato famine? SlimGoodbody has issued a correction as of 04:37 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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Apr 2, 2023 04:26
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Blackhawk posted:NASA about 0.5% That's only if you include non-discretionary spending which, at least for social security & Medicare, you probably shouldn't since it's basically a nationalized pension scheme. Military is a little less than half of the discretionary spending.
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Apr 2, 2023 04:32
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SlimGoodbody posted:Yo what is up with this, I was at the grocery store and saw that a bag of potato chips are like $7. Potatoes are one of the primo dirt cheap carbs of this country after corn. To my recollection, they are not expensive. Did something happen to potatoes? Are we in a potato famine? harvest was down last year due to drought and way down in europe iirc. fertilizer prices keep going up at the same time so cherish those sub-10 dollar bags of chips while you can.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:07
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SlimGoodbody posted:Yo what is up with this, I was at the grocery store and saw that a bag of potato chips are like $7. Potatoes are one of the primo dirt cheap carbs of this country after corn. To my recollection, they are not expensive. Did something happen to potatoes? Are we in a potato famine? something is fucky with supply chain, walmart had packs of hash brown patties just like the mcdonalds ones for like $3.29 for 10 but now those have been out of stock for months. before that they were out of tater tots for months but now those are back and the patties are gone. there's always shitloads of frozen fries though.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:24
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Wow, drat. The potato is the cornerstone of the American treat regime. If we somehow botch our supply of corn syrup, all bets are off in this country.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:30
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