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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:If I'm reading that map correctly, thats like a quake happening in Montreal and still feeling it in Washington D.C. There was an earthquake a few years ago in the DC area that people in NY found about on the internet before the shaking started.
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That's the one. It wasn't an alert system, just regular shitposting that was moving faster than the earthquake.
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facialimpediment posted:A follow-up to some days ago - the DEA is finally confirming that they're doing their part of The Weed Review These folks follow orders from Biden, right? So this response means the administration is not making marijuana scheduling a priority? Tell these people to get on board or find a new job, this isn't difficult. https://www.dea.gov/about/dea-leadership e: Had not heard of Milgram before. The 10 year gap in her resume on her official page? She was helping design pretrial detention advisory tools that later turned out to be extremely racist, then spent some time defending white collar criminals. Then she got appointed to head of DEA. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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That honestly seems like hand-waving. Descheduling marijuana is extremely popular, and legally is there anything preventing Biden from forcing the changes through or ordering the people running DEA to do so under threat of dismissal? If the senate wants to prevent an appointment based on keeping weed illegal, let them at it during an election year. e: Same goes for courts. Undoing federal legalization should be great for their popular legitimacy.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:With the caveat that I know that an individual president really has little sway over the short-term direction of the economy, I think a lot of people look at those numbers and think "well, that sure as poo poo doesn't apply to me." My annual pay increase didn't keep pace with inflation or the CPI and my wife and I are effectively priced out of buying a new home right now thanks to interest rates, and we are solidly in what would be the middle-class professional bracket. It's not like prices on consumer goods that went up during and after the acute phase of the pandemic are coming down, either. There's been a lot of op-eds about the "vibecession" and such (mostly with a not-so-subtle tinge of "why don't the proles realize how good they really have it?") but people are going to vote based on how they perceive their own financial circumstances, and the only place they're going to direct that toward is the incumbent president. Notice how no one's really trumpeting "Bidenomics" anymore? A lot of it is catch-up after a few bad years. The CPI increases for the last few years are baked into the stats, current inflation being 3.1% doesn't show that prices are up a combined 15-20% over the last few years. Raw employment numbers only got back to pre-pandemic levels in late '22/early '23. The trajectory of the economy is good, a lot of people who were suffering 3-4 years ago are doing a lot better now, but for a whole bunch of the population that is treading water or worse over the last few years that's not going to matter much as far as perception.
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All that said, even if your personal financial situation isn’t great, taking a step back and deciding that voting trump is the solution is some seriously deranged thinking. And that’s where tens of millions of americans stand today.
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Jan 5, 2024 18:42
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MonkeyFit posted:It would be nice if we could just institute higher tax brackets per house owned. And just organize them from lowest value to highest value, with the highest value homes being in the higher tax bracket. Let people own a second home with no penalty, but each additional home starts organizing your homes into tiered tax brackets. We really need a progressive wealth tax in general, limiting property taxes to real estate is a weird distinction that only hurts the middle class. Almost all non-property wealth is financial assets held in financial institutions that are straightforward to value and track (just the 1099s the IRS already has probably get us 95% of the way there). Make it confiscatory, like 10%+ after a hundred million-ish so it becomes an indirect wealth cap, and there might be a noticeable improvement in inequality over time.
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Jan 6, 2024 02:16
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Milo and POTUS posted:And the few houses that have been made have been constructed to shockingly low standards of quality. I've orbited enough former and active construction workers to know that some shady poo poo goes down at a lot of these fly by night contractors that would chill your bones if you owned one of their houses Hasn’t it always been this way? At least for a lot of manufacturing, the average level of material quality, tolerances, etc are way better than at any point in the past. But a combination of unintentional over engineering and survivorship bias from older stuff makes people think the opposite is going on.
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Right, but let's not get misty-eyed about unintentional inefficiencies. If you spent the equivalent of 1950s real dollars on construction costs to build a house today, you would get a brick shithouse.
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Jan 7, 2024 01:57
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Quackles posted:I thought that consumer goods were the area where that was really the issue. Consumer goods are way, way cheaper. Consider a phone from the 1950s - it's enough bakelite to knock out a large mammal and would probably survive most major natural disasters. But it also cost about $500 in today's money, while the feature equivalent piece of crap polypropylene phone now is like $15. You can get a new one every year for the next quarter century and still come out ahead. Or you can get a $500 smartphone that would basically be magic back then. And if you still want to spend $500 on a basic landline phone, it's probably some bespoke thing that blows the 1950s version out of the water and has parts custom machined by an artisan worker who put their name on it. There's a lot of the same thing with homes. There's more labor involved so the costs aren't as flexible, but engineered lumber especially means a lot less material and building time goes into a house today. And people prefer homes with more open space and windows and lower construction costs, so that's what happens. This especially makes sense in the commercial market, where profits are rarely measured decades out. The technology is there to make better things at the older cost, but the incentives aren't.
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Jan 7, 2024 04:52
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shame on an IGA posted:how much have how many past iterations of this thread poo poo on EMALS cause it's a lot There are a lot of legitimate gripes with EMALS, but this rant is more like someone complaining about the F-22 because it's not more F-18s and they were really cool in Top Gun. At an event where he's asking people to put him in charge of the military.
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Jan 7, 2024 23:50
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/Jacquel48206879/status/1744059369715634247 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows 1010 years ago. Checkmate, libs.
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A.o.D. posted:This is really loving helpful but.. and I'm probably way off base here, should I be getting a Taliban vibe from this, be cause that's kind of what's happening in my head. Judaism is not an evangelical religion, so most of the fundamentalist craziness is internally facing. Until things like you know, this whole situation. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 00:59
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Arrath posted:How the hell is that kind of thing allowed to go on? Wouldn't have thought the most well funded police force would appreciate civilians nosing in on their game. Why do cops keep gently escorting white supremacists while violently cracking down on anyone protesting racism or inequality?
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Jan 10, 2024 14:59
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CBJSprague24 posted:Trump won't be on the Nevada primary ballot because his team forgot to file paperwork. Election interference! Zamujasa posted:Nevada's a clusterfuck anyway; aren't they still doing a mixture of primary/caucus, with one being the state-sanctioned one and the other being the state party being dipshits? Yeah, the primary is just for show and the caucuses award republican delegates. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 23:07
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For the lawyers in here, is it normal to not bother capitalizing when communicating with courts/judges? I can't imagine sending an external professional e-mail that looked like this. 
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Jan 11, 2024 09:20
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facialimpediment posted:It's part of the "he never lost" thing and likely a demand from Donnie himself. It's not just in the legal filings, basically anyone at all on the conservative side will refer to him as "President Trump". If I remember right, he really, really, really hates the "former" thing and will get mad at anyone who says/writes it. Technically, "President" is one of those titles that stick around after the office. "President Carter", "President Bush", "President Clinton" are also all appropriate. With Trump there's obviously a subtext though, especially when they use "Joe Biden" in the next sentence all the time. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jan 11, 2024 17:43
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MrMojok posted:Absolutely serious post here, and I ask this because I feel like I can’t trust the stories put out by either side. Remember all that “employee shortage” bullshit as American employees realized they had the leverage to make some demands about wages and working conditions but our glorious job creators cried to the media about their margins? It turns out that a white hot labor market attracts people from outside the country too, and when the last few decades of US foreign policy have systematically undermined stability in Central America, an influx of immigrants willing to take the risk of undocumented migration or claiming asylum is the natural conclusion. As always, the only way to do anything about this is to address the root cause - meaningfully penalize the people fraudulently hiring people. This would of course crash profits in agriculture, construction, and a few other sectors, and maybe even bankrupt or imprison some business owners, so everyone quietly pretends it isn’t an option. And the raging racism on the right means that normalizing the level of migration that we need for ongoing growth is also off the table. The only option left is getting angry at the most vulnerable people around for trying to feed their families, and upending their lives in every way possible.
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  I would still rather do the AK drive. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Alaska also requires entering another country! AK still wins if we skip Canada.  I don't think you can drive 1,000 miles point to point in any other state.
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If those tolls incentivize people to take transport over driving, that's a good thing.
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Soul Dentist posted:Yeah man don't you realize taking a country drive isn't good policy?! ....it's really not. Everything from making the car to drilling and refining the gas to building the road are things that have negative externalities that people should pay for especially when it's a leisure activity. A country drive is a luxury and should be priced as one.
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That's a more interesting question than it comes off as. There's probably a trail of case law in Japan and Hawaii and other places about who owns new land out of the ocean - is it the adjacent property owner? the state? how do you handle easements if it's the latter? e: quote:“Rather than allowing only a few of the many lava victims the windfall of lava extensions, this court believes that equity and sound public policy demand that such land inure to the benefit of all the people of Hawaii, in whose behalf the government acts as trustee.” AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Yeah we're pretty all agreed on the ACAB part, but going on a rampage with a bobcat - even if it is slow and goofy - is still assault with a deadly weapon. Like were in austin powers level territory of the classic 'stop or i'll shoot' But it being slow is an important point here. It's better that this guy is boxed in with half a dozen police SUVs/APCs that he can destroy until the gas runs out than him getting shot for a menty b.
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Cugel the Clever posted:I don't understand what you're responding to in that post. They weren't asserting that everyone ending up alive at the end of the day was in any way a bad thing, just that it would be naive to argue that there was no circumstance in which an attack with a Bobcat wouldn't entirely warrant lethal force. There are circumstances where an attack with a stuffed animal warrants lethal force. But it should still be the last option on the list, especially when there’s no imminent need to make an immediate decision.
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As much as you don't want to hand it to Graham and he did almost immediately reverse himself, he was right https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608 Americans have more than enough information about Trump. If we STILL elect him in 2024, we deserve whatever lovely outcomes come about.
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shame on an IGA posted:A couple years ago she was keynote speaker at the SCDP convention banquet and showed up four hours late. Not discounting that she has her flaws, but the electorate sure does seem quick to jump on women politicians. Like Clinton was also obviously personally flawed, but the level of personal vitriol she got way surpassed any number of scumbags who happened to be men.
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Mustang posted:Whatever it is they did it made me switch to Edge and it's like Chrome but better. I thought it was just Chrome being slow. Hate to be the bearer of bad news https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-edge-chromium-1ce9507c-f09d-4de6-a706-eb52f46be90c
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M_Gargantua posted:Its 100% possible to elevate female candidates who represent their constituents who don't also have terrible politics and awful baggage. But both political parties seem to prefer cringe white dudes for some reason. But that's the thing, there are plenty of male candidates who don't represent their constituents and have terrible politics and awful baggage. And they don't get the same level of pushback, especially the personal attacks. AOC, Omar, and Tlaib are a great example, they take it on the chin in a way that a whole bunch of white dudes saying the same thing don't. Harris and Clinton are/were bad candidates but it sure does seem like there's a bunch of misogyny involved too.
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joat mon posted:No, your remedy is to sue your attorney for legal malpractice. Is it a crime to pay your attorney through PAC funds, sue them for malpractice, and direct them to settle in a way that pays you personally?
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My Spirit Otter posted:ok, not only did i not know mr bean had books, but i dont remember any teleportation or supernatural powers in the show Now that you mention it, not using Rowan Atkinson to portray an adult Bean somewhere is a huge missed opportunity.
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There's still a solid order of magnitude between deaths per passenger mile in cars and the same stat for commercial planes. Not saying Boeing gets a pass on quality control, but it would take a lot of planeloads before flying wasn't the safest option for most trips.
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I assumed the unsaid part of the haley/desantis/other non-trump campaigns was that the only real hope was that trump would do or say something so toxic as to be untouchable, get bogged down in legal issues, or just plain drop dead before the convention. He's clearly immune to the first one even after leaning into the fascist messaging, he's effectively kicking the can down the road on anything criminal, and so far his mcdonald's laden heart is holding on. But then why drop out for underperforming? Trump voters see haley as pretty toxic, and there's not really anyone else except desantis (lol vivek). Seems like there's no reason for desantis not to limp into the convention without opposing trump publicly just in case.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:lol Surprised it's that high. It probably speaks to the people around me more than anything, but the only positive sentiment I've heard from parents about their children potentially enlisting is "well, if they really have nothing else going on, it may be the least bad option. sure hope we don't start another pointless war while they're in."
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That Works posted:Concern for me is that the Haley “never Trump” voters just don’t vote instead of voting for Biden and well, are we expecting massive minority and young voter turnout for a guy who should be in a retirement home with a weak economy? You’re going to have to be more specific. But in all seriousness, every republican who stays home because they can’t pull the lever for trump is a win for the dems. There will be way fewer than haley’s numbers suggest, but even a couple percent is going to make it a blowout.
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Zamujasa posted:"build more housing" only works if you are specifically enforcing building cheap, low-income housing, because any developer is going to opt for making "luxury" homes they can sell for way more. and even if the housing sits empty, who cares? it costs you basically nothing and you can make it up in volume from people who can afford it This is overly simplistic, but I'm struggling to understand why government built and maintained housing that meets some minimum standard and rents out at some multiple of minimum wage isn't the solution here. Create a minimum affordable standard while still maintaining the private market for everyone else. Same deal, why isn't there a permanent WPA that provides a decent wage and benefits for anyone who wants to sign up? $20ish/hr for entry level manual, clerical, etc work that's always hiring. If a private company wants to hire successfully, they're going to need to create jobs that are more productive than that basic standard.
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While we’re on the topic of naked socialism, it’s such a shame that there isn’t a pipeline for people trained on nuclear subs to build and operate nationalized nuclear power plants across the country. Jobs program, lower power costs, and climate change mitigation all wrapped up in one painfully obvious policy.
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Aside from the humane option of not executing anyone not convicted of documented corruption, seems like we could have some fun by letting prisoners choose their own execution method if a doctor is reasonably sure it would be lethal. Want to sit on top of a few tons of ammonium perchlorate as it cooks off? We let them choose the last meal, so why not.
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It's been pretty well established for a while that the only meaningful asset trump has is the 5th avenue tower he sold off his inheritance to buy. Pretty much every other business venture in his lifetime (casinos, airlines, football, MLMs, education, etc, etc) has been a failure financed by mortgaging that property further, but he has had the good fortune that NYC real estate has gotten more valuable faster than he has been able to lose money. Licensing his name and doing TV shows brought in cash, but it was never sustainable revenue, and most of his golf courses are barely break-even except where he uses them to launder donations. This defamation judgment and NYC fraud case have a serious chance to tear down the whole shoddy mess.
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