I guess they didn’t learn their lesson from when thousands of prisoners were abandoned in their cells during Katrina.
Did the authorities responsible for that go to prison themselves?
If not, then the Florida prison officials apparently did learn from it.
It absolutely infuriates me that having high ethical standards makes me a sucker.
Frankly, at this point the only thing stopping me from saying "fuck it" and starting to blatantly lie and cheat to get ahead isn't even that it's "wrong," but that I'm just too damn stubborn to be a "reasonable man"!
Not "always." I believe the Tea Party was a genuine grass-roots movement for at least a few weeks or months at the very beginning, before the Koch-suckers co-opted it. Frankly, it had a lot in common with Occupy Wall Street and I was holding out hope for a while that the two movements would merge.
That doesn't change the fact that it can still get a lot worse.
We need to bring back the Bull Moose Party (at the local level, not the Russian-backed spoiler effect garbage like the Green Party is debasing itself at).
Switching to Free Software is kind of like planting a tree: the best time was years ago (because you'd be over the learning curve). The second-best time is now.
I get what you're saying, but I also can't fault a political campaign for defaulting to the most "basic-bitch" MMO they can find for this sort of stunt. A VP who's opinionated enough about Blizzard v. BNETD to eschew WoW is, frankly, too much to hope for.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered!
Paid proprietary software will too; the likes of Adobe and VMWare prove that.
Pro tip: the checkbox at the top of the column only selects the first page worth (100 messages). You have to click that and then also click the "select all N messages?" link that appears.
The check out is the part where the actual sales transaction occurs. It really is materially different from those other services you mentioned.
Also,
I don't really care since the part I like, getting finished at the store, happens faster.
That was true until they realized they could enshittify by closing all the regular check-outs and force everyone into it. Now it's just as slow as full-service used to be.
It’s not /supposed/ to favor red states. However the formula for counting number of electors relies on the number of representatives in the house. That is fixed at 435 by law. To fix the electoral college, we’d have to remove that cap and it would work the way the founders intended.
We'd also have to end the popular vote and have all the states go back to having Electors appointed by the state legislatures. That's what the founders really intended: something more akin to how prime ministers are chosen within a parliamentary system, but with added Federalism by delegating it to the states rather than Congress.
That whole Federalism part of it, which comes from the initial concept of the US being a confederation of sovereign States (kinda like the EU is now) rather than the single sovereign entity it's mostly become, really was designed to balance power between large-population states and small ones at least a little bit, though. As such, I can't entirely agree with your first sentence.
But what other consequences might there be? I would do that (I'm in a swing state), but I worry the people I name would end up spammed to within an inch of their lives or harassed or something. (And on top of that, I wouldn't put it past Musk to find some excuse to renege on the deal.)
Sure they shouldn’t be let off the hook (they probably will be, have been though)
You're not wrong, but they're gonna have to ditch their iPhone for an Android first, LOL
Because we weren't talking about signing up actual Trump supporters; we were talking about gaming the system by signing up fake ones.
This is just yet another "fuck you" to the Chagossians, for whom it could have been the next best thing to reparations if they were given control of it.
People forget that the proximate cause of the lead contamination in Flint wasn't the pipes themselves (which had been in use, relatively safely, for decades), but instead that locals in charge of the water system got forcibly replaced with an emergency manager appointed by the (Republican) governor, who ordered the system to be switched from sourcing water from Detroit (Lake Huron) to the Flint River to save money and failed to treat it with the usual corrosion-control additives that Detroit had been using.
To blame the pipes is to let the Republicans off the hook for their miserliness, incompetence and systemic racism.
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-you-need-know
https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2016/01/epa_official_says_he_was.html
Okay but what you need to understand is that the EPA's allowable level of lead for municipal water supplies is 15 parts per billion (PPB) (which is very low), and the standard doesn't change based on what materials were used for the pipes. Getting below that threshold is not only achievable but expected even with lead pipes, if you treat the water properly. Flint's problem was that it didn't, because the Governor kicked out the people who knew what the fuck they were doing!
As for your 20/20 hindsight, it's just that: hindsight. A lot of these pipes date back to the early 1900s or earlier, when not only had plastic not yet been invented, even copper pipe barely existed because they hadn't figured out how to efficiently manufacture it water-tight yet (source). That means the alternatives to lead pipes were really shitty, such as terracotta or wood, and even if they did manage to use early copper pipes or some other metal, guess what: the joints would all be soldered with lead anyway. Moreover, this was also back when they were so ignorant about the cumulative effects of exposure to lead that they still thought it was a good idea to put it in things like gasoline and paint, so why would they have concerned themselves with the relatively small risk from using it in plumbing?
If Flint were a sunbelt city built mostly after 1950, then sure, using lead for the pipes would've been inexcusable. But Flint was already in decline by then, so most of it is older than that!
They decided to repair the sidewalks last year, just out of nowhere, and tacked the amount on to your property tax as a special assessment if you didn’t make arrangements of your own to have someone come out and fix it when they wanted it fixed by.
I'd like to highlight for a moment just how fucking outrageous and unacceptable this actually is. The sidewalks are part of the street. It is ass-backwards to be treating pedestrians as second-class compared to drivers!
And like, I know sidewalks are sort of a gray area
Absolutely fucking not. They are 1000000000000000% just as much the responsibility of the government as the rest of the street is. You should be fucking pissed that the city is shirking its responsibility for them and saddling you with it instead!
After this, I don't know what more proof anyone could possibly need that Xitter is purely a right-wing propaganda platform exactly equivalent to the likes of Truth [sic] Social. Anyone who continues to use Xitter supports this behavior. Continued use of accounts like @POTUS or @KamalaHarris or these is effectively an endorsement of equating Donald Trump with America. It has to stop! The platform has to be fully abandoned by every single person, organization, or government entity that isn't fascist; there is no choice now.
"Perpetual licenses" are what used to be called "normal sales." Every "licensing" scheme except perpetual ones are scams!
Now pipe it through lolcat
I can easily imagine it. I've still got boxes full of software on floppy disks and CD-ROMs that I "perpetually licensed" (a.k.a. bought), so don't try to bullshit me that it isn't possible!
Unfortunately, at least from videos I've seen of the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Fukushima tsunami, tsunamis don't really "break" like good surfing waves and instead seem to act more like a large swell that keeps going instead of ebbing.
(A mega-tsunami from a comet impact might be so large it would act differently, though.)
Why is that, again?
Oh yeah: it's because Trump tried to have his first VP killed for not backing his coup attempt.
I guess it’s that time of day to come to grips that the USA is ok with this.
Absolutely fucking not!
It is literally a matter of life and death that we not only stay mad about this, but get a Hell of a lot madder than we already are!
Never mind talking about it; I'm furious that the treasonous coup leader wasn't at the end of a rope three years ago.
Not sure why the article understates the problem: the state election board is controlled by MAGA fascist election skeptics too, which is how this new rule happened in the first place.
As much of a disaster as the situation in rural counties like Spalding, Troup and Ware already is, that's small potatoes compared to the very real possibility that the state will find excuses to throw out votes from large Metro Atlanta counties, even if those county election boards don't themselves engage in sabotage.
Frankly, I hope Biden and Schiff are deliberately downplaying the problem to assuage the public and encourage voting, because if they genuinely believe what they say then they don't fully grasp the magnitude of MAGA's attack on the elections system.
In reality, the best you could optimistically say is that the voting itself will be mostly free and fair, aside from all the voter suppression, voter intimidation, and tactics like allocating too few voting booths to increase wait times and then criminalizing handing out water to people waiting in line. The rest of the election process -- the counting and certification of the votes -- is unlikely to be free and fair at all in places like Georgia and Arizona, and that's even before we get into all of Trump's bullshit lawsuits challenging the results and trying to get a SCOTUS coronation.
Report verifiable facts, without opinion.
That is fundamentally impossible, because journalists at least have to use opinion to choose which facts are important to report. Consider these two articles, for example:
Targeting Atlanta, of all places, for that shit is doubly stupid. Atlanta is famously known as "the city too busy to hate" precisely because of the way the black political/cultural/civil rights movement leaders of the city allied themselves with the white business leaders of the city. As such, it isn't run nearly as "liberally" (in the pejorative sense) as the right-wing white terrorists seem to think.
In reality, Georgia is such a fucked-up state because of the shit that happens in the Gold Dome imposed by rural white conservative politicians over the objections of ones from Metro Atlanta (white and black alike).
I am relieved to report that my Georgia voter registration has not been mysteriously canceled at the last minute.
The games I bought (not licensed) on Steam are also products (not services). Anybody who claims otherwise is either a self-serving liar or a fucking moron.
Why would someone own 8 vehicles?
Because he's a car enthusiast with a problem.
(Source: I own six.)
Lego vehicles from the toy store will outlast this shitshow.
To be fair, those would outlast Toyotas, too.
It'll be "allowed and supported" when e.g. you can download F-Droid from the Play Store instead of having to side-load it.
I hope the American public has the will to make it ugly for them, if necessary.
Only fascists are allowed to blatantly violate campaign finance laws with impunity. If anybody else tries it, they immediately get mega-fucked by the fascist-stacked courts.