I have friends who are teachers, and the education policies in place even here in California are absolutely asinine. They are required to have extensive documentation to fail a student, in that kids who did fuckall that year are promoted to the next grade anyway. There are kids entering highschool are struggling with reading comprehension and basic arithmetic, nevermind have behavioral issues galore and just a general sense of apathy. Admin tend to side with insane parents instead of teachers in the classroom, exacerbating the behavior problems. It's all bad news bears.

I'd have to wonder if storing a corked bottle of whiskey at an angle to keep the cork wet like with wine keeps it intact.

Fun fact: whenever I'm in a 7-Eleven, I use whatever area code is for that area and then Jenny's number, and it always brings up an account for their rewards program and saves me some money. Thanks, Jenny!

Why under $100?

Even better, you work for one of the wealthiest corporations in the world with virtually unlimited resources at your disposal, and you still get your asses handed to you by a handful of people with laptops.

Here's a (not so) funny anecdote: I went to Italy years ago and got McDonald's equivalent of a double quarter pounder with cheese for shits and giggles. Dollar for euro, the price was about the same, if not a little cheaper, in Italy. Now couple that with the fact that Italians have access to healthcare, are paid a living wage, and have ample vacation pay.

These companies could pay their workers properly and provide benefits if they wanted to, they have the money. They don't because fuck you

Encrypted DNS, widely known as DNS over HTTPS, protects DNS traffic by encrypting it.

Ya don't say.

I still think municipalities share a significant amount of blame here. They definitely could have at least limited vacation rental saturation, and didn't do anything.

I live in a ski town, and have been to city hall meetings on this issue. The overwhelming amount of attendees at these are vacation homeowners or their representatives, and the prevailing attitude is, "fuck the locals, our profit is at stake here." A number of owners have changed their primary residence to our town just to have more say that local long term renters. These meetings are held at 2pm, when locals are working. It's about as fucked as it can get. And when we've had a sympathetic council person, they're immediately recalled or replaced the following election cycle. It's a shitshow.

During COVID, when the Airbnb boom really took off, we had a 25% resident attrition rate. That's no typo; twenty five percent of our valley's residents had to leave town because they were priced out (about 5000 in a population of 20,000) because either rents skyrocketed, or the owners of their homes sold out from beneath them. These days, much of our local labor force commutes at least an hour into town. It has gotten a little better, and some have been able to moved back, but the damage is done.

Even for prospective buyers, like my wife and I, prices are outrageous. Our current home, which is valued around $600k, would have been $200k pre COVID. And this is solely because of Airbnb assholes.

So that means that I can engage in a a little tax evasion, as a treat, right?

On a serious note, from the article:

the law makes it a very serious crime, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, for a federal official to accept a bribe

Can we start actually enforcing this please?

It's almost as if different groups of people have been fighting over the same smidge of land for a really long time.

Especially considering the lowest price model is $1050 before tax

It's a cylinder

Just a friendly reminder, your local library likely has a movie and video game section, it's worth having a look

Obligatory: make sure your deep fryer turkey is fully thawed before dunking it. If you're pulling it out of the freezer at the time of this writing, you're gonna start a fire. Happy turkey day!

And then he posts a greentext on 4chan.

I don't understand how he lives with himself.

Industries promote this, especially the publicly traded ones, whether they realize it or not (I'm sure they do). It looks worse on a corporate balance sheet and subsequent earnings quarterly earnings report to pay someone 20% more than to hire someone at a new pay scale. It's absolutely insane that we've gotten ourselves to this point as a society, but here we are.

That's honestly pretty pathetic. Even a 5% tax on their $13 trillion (per the article) would yield $650 billion, and that doesn't even come close to the annual proportion the average person pays. It's time we stop treating the rich a special sunflowers and make them pay their fair share like the rest of us, and close the loopholes that allow them to exploit us.

Edit: should've said taxing income not wealth, these numbers don't really apply

This is happening worldwide. It has very little to do with urban planning and more with lax homeownership restrictions that allows the wealthy and corporations to scoop up housing supply for profit.

As much as I hate this schmuck, the proposed law isn't bad on the surface. I'd be furious if I had to work past retirement to keep supporting an ex wife whom I divorced decades prior. Like I get the intent of alimony, but to me it seems quite a bit outdated when most working households have both adults having their own careers. And if a couple divorces, why should the breadwinner have to pay to maintain the other's lifestyle instead of a stipend until the other gets on their feet. I'd be raging if I was busting my ass to keep making money, and her insta feed is nothing but her going shopping and having spa days on my dime.

Yeah FOMO is a helluva drug. I'd be willing to bet that while there are plenty of users on the newplaform, people actually posting is not there yet, and with the lack of content for users to doom scroll they're hopping back to whatever app they came from. Most people don't give two shits about actually engaging with a given userbase, they just want to doom scroll content and zone out.

When you realize a significant number of our laws here are written by industry lawyers, it makes a lot more sense.

Europe and Japan all have freight trucks driving around, so I don't buy that. The fact that many states won't allow these is American truck manufacturing protectionism, nothing more. It's the same reason you can only get a 3/4 or 1 ton truck from Ford, Chevy, or Ram (chicken tax).

If you seriously think support of stopping genocide is bigoted, you really need to reevaluate you worldview and probably go outside.

They make plenty of money, they just want more money

Yeah, we know. We're very well aware.

Honestly this is the first article I've seen from a major outlet actually saying it outright instead of pretending the people and workers are the problem. Now what the fuck are we going to do about it?

"Suicide"

Probably because public transit requires people to be around other people, and they'd rather get around in their little bubble without interaction (except giving a BMW the finger).

We've only been saying this for 20 years, what's another 20?

I am so thankful the internet wasn't in our pockets when I was going through school

These people just want to be able to sell their AI art alongside other artists, because they "spent 6 hours to get only 5 images" is obviously on par with someone who has spent years honing their skills and craft the create art on a canvas or other blank medium.

Some AI art is pretty interesting, but let's not equate it being the same as someone with actual creative talent.

To me it sounds like a journalism co-op, how is this not a good model? Everyone contributes to getting it going, and then everyone gets an even slice of the pie. They keep their overhead minimal to keep costs down, and everyone has incentive to put out their best work. Sounds solid to me.

It really blows my mind that these people are so dense that they keep blowing money on there studies on why xyz generation won't waste money on stupid shit like boomers did. We have no money. Everything is way too expensive, and y'all don't pay us dick. We'd happily spend money if we had money, but it's damn near impossible to spend excess money when any of the pittance we do receive is gobbled up by bills. And not bills of excess, mind you, but purely survival bills. Our society is pretty much fucked, but no one wants to talk about that, so let's keep circle jerking about the "mysterious reason" why younger generations are not responding to traditional marketing techniques.

Insert the Skinner "am I out of touch? No, it must be the kids" meme.

They're also making a guillotine over a snoo labeled spez that the admins keep trying to erase lol

Might be more difficult than that. I'm in the hunt for a new work truck, a ram 2500. I'm specifically targeting a 2019-2020, because the 4G cellular module is easily removed, whereas in newer models it is soldered directly to a main telematics board and is pretty tricky to remove.

These companies don't want you removing these systems in their current state, as they're harvesting your data and selling it off as another revenue stream. I suspect these future monitoring systems, if removed, will brick the vehicle in one way or another.

"On the other hand, critics say that net neutrality rules are unnecessary. "Since the FCC’s 2017 decision to return the Internet to the same successful and bipartisan regulatory framework under which it thrived for decades, broadband speeds in the U.S. have increased, prices are down, competition has intensified, and record-breaking new broadband builds have brought millions of Americans across the digital divide," Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the FCC, said in a statement. "The Internet is not broken and the FCC does not need Title II to fix it. I would encourage the agency to reverse course and focus on the important issues that Congress has authorized the FCC to advance."

Lol if prices are down, why does my bill keep arbitrarily increasing? And I'm pretty sure more companies are consolidating (Spectrum acquired Charter not long ago), so competition my ass.

Edit: turns out Charter rebranded as Spectrum, my bad

Hate to break it You ya bud, but god didn't choose you. A bunch of corrupt cronies picked you to be their leader and scapegoat in an attempt to turn America into a theocratic dictatorship.

Which honestly is a bunch of horseshit, because what's it to them if you view/comment in another sub that the mods disagree with. I got banned from a number of subs for dropping into r/conservative and calling out people's shit, cause apparently acknowledging their existence a no-no. Good riddance lol

Corporations: lol no

I want to say that it's just virtue signaling, because I do believe far to many people out there would be all about it behind closed doors. But, there's also a very real possibility that AI generated porn will cross a line very quickly, and it'll be next to impossible to put that genie back in the bottle.