Then the war is against those who profit most from inflicting climate change.
As with pretty much any human caused problem in human history, you need only follow the money.
Thatâs the core problem, the perpetrators of climate change have become effectively untouchable, leaving us nibbling around the edges so as not to inconvenience our owners.
No amount of peasants sorting recycling or putting up private solar panels will even begin to address this cataclysm. The enemies are big oil, big manufacturing, and big livestock. Unless we magically become willing to slap the profiteers/significant shareholders of those industries back down to Earth, sharply reduce them without concern for their continued profits as we should, and change our lifestyles to adapt to less ridiculous levels of consumption, weâre all fucked.
We are all just fucked. The proven unsustainable, unending Capitalistic growth/metastasis needs to stop for the sake of civilization, and our civilization has proven we would literally rather burn then reign our capitalists in and say ânoâ to their insatiable, sociopathic greed. After all, they are our glorious, benevolent job creators.
How do we convince millions of true believer capitalism worshipping peasants whoâve been propagandized since birth to labor and consume as their sacred duty that what our species needs to do is abandon the idea of growing the footprint and consumption of our species without end and seek homeostasis/equilibrium with this world instead?
His lawyers are almost undoubtedly requiring retainer fees to cover everything. Thereâs no way theyâd be stupid enough to work on contingency or expect to collect payment after the fact. Heâs probably having to write them new checks for every single week that they continue working on his case, and I can guarantee that theyâre getting the bank to verify those checks before they actually accept them.
Was gonna say, Iâve never had an issue booking a hotel in NYC as long as I plan ahead, and rates are generally reasonable as long as you, again, plan ahead. Obviously youâre going to pay more at the height of tourist season, weekends, whenever events are happening, etc. Itâs been this way for pretty much forever. But if you book your stay a few months out, you tend to get better deals.
I live in a ski town that has a massive Airbnb problem, and the city is finally green lighting the building of more hotels. Itâs everywhere. And while there is an expectation that holiday weekends and much of the winter is busy, it doesnât help having morons going apeshit until 3am on a Tuesday when I have work the next day and our sheriffs can be pretty useless.
Where Iâm at, cabin rentals were a thing long before Airbnb. People had their vacation cabins, and theyâd rent them out through a local agency. It was fine for decades, and most people used them to supplement their vacation property. It wasnât until Airbnb that people were actively scooping up as many properties as possible to rent them out exclusively and completely thrash the local housing market. And I know weâre not alone in this, ski/tourist towns all over the world are having this problem.
Looks like Florida chose to be the wicked son for Passover.
You should also âblunt his teethâ (speak harshly to him13) and say to him:
âIt is because of this that I would fulfill His commandments, such as this Passover offering, matzah and maror14that Gâd acted for me when I left Egypt (Exodus 13:8)âfor me, but not for him. If he [the wicked child] had been there, he would not have been redeemed.â
I thought it was mostly proven myth that any slaves or Israelites were building shit in Egypt. Also thereâs zero record of any sort of Exodus or anything to corroborate the story of Moses
Yes, it might be a book of bullshit, but itâs a bullshit book we read every year and sing songs from about how we were foreigners and slaves and should be nice to foreigners and slaves. The fact that thereâs even a part about âwhat if I question how trial and tribulation Iâve never known affects me?â And youâre supposed to essentially say, âbitch! God wouldnât have saved you cuz youâre too much of a bitch!â
Eta: hell, thereâs even a part where weâre like, âGod killed the Egyptian oppressors, letâs dance and sing!â And then God, who could only speak to Moses, spoke to everyone all like, âlook you ungrateful fucks! I may have made the Egyptians with my left hand while getting over a cold, but theyâre my creations nonetheless! Quit celebrating and pour one out for your fallen homies.â Then we get rid of 10 drops of wine to resemble 10 drops of blood for the 10 plagues and how horrible it was that God made the Pharoh say no and then punished all the poor people for it.
On a yearly basis, multiple times per year, our parents dress us up and misinterpret the importance of all these holidays that are supposed to teach us empathy, apology, forgiveness, and patience. But fuck all that, right? Being a Jew is about⊠Checks notes âŠBanning books about actual slavery?
Usually you think of the extermination aspect, but yes there was some. But my point was that responding to me saying another book containing slavery with a historical event was kind of unusual. Thereâs been books written on it for sure by itâs mostly unrelated.
That is wild! I watched the videos in the linked article, and Iâm shocked how easy it is to steal vehicles!
I guess what I see in the movies/shows if hot wiring and the time that takes isnât the norm nowadays.
IMO I feel like the Shipping Ports need to step up their game as far as inspections and stop the cars BEFORE theyâve been shipped to other countries. I would hope that the car insurance companies would be willing to help the cost of this increased inspections, considering they have to pay the value of the stolen vehicles to the ownersâŠ
Port authorities do need to do that, but first the feds have to give them more money and raise staffing levels ⊠cause right now there is not enough people or funding to do the job right.
The physical key and a keyfob is like manual vs automatic. It doesnât fully prevent your car from being stolen, but it does make it harder to steal said car.
I love to blame how terrible software and ux is in cars as theyre very unreliable, but yes, a lot of this is a port problem
For non-UK readers: UK councils have limited revenue-raising powers compared to local government in other countries, and rely on 3 sources of income:
Central government grants
Council tax (on residential properties)
Business rates (on commercial properties)
This amounts to c. 7% of the total UK tax base, versus c. 32% collected locally in Germany or 50% collected locally in Canada.
Central government grants were cut by 40% in real terms between 09/10 and 19/20 from ÂŁ46.5bn to ÂŁ28.0bn.
Council tax has gone up 30% over the same period, but it canât go up more than 2% annually without passing a referendum (unlikely). Some councils in dire straits have recently been allowed to raise it 5%.
Local authorities have been underfunded for over a decade. Other UK councils which have already declared bankruptcy, either through running out of money, or through losing vast amounts of money in risky schemes attempting to replace missing central funding:
Equal pay is something women have had to fight for.
In this case,
the court found hundreds of mostly female employees working in roles such as teaching assistants, cleaners and catering staff missed out on bonuses which were given to staff in traditionally male-dominated roles such as refuse collectors and street cleaners.
Women in the UK only gained the right to equal pay in 1970.
I donât think thatâs a bad thing that they get equal pay, theyâre blaming it on that when it sounds like the poster I was speaking to said it was corruption, risky schemes and decades of underfunding by stealing it for other things that was the problem.
You can only starve a government body of funding â making it muddle along depleting its reserves and selling off assets â for so long until a final bill tips it over the edge, so Iâd argue that if it wasnât this bill it would be another bill.
Other councils took risky approaches to replace money cut under Austerity:
Woking said that against its available core funding of ÂŁ16m in the 2023-24 financial year, the council faced a deficit of ÂŁ1.2bn.
Racked up to finance the building and acquisition of a vast empire of commercial assets, its investments included a complex of sky-high towers â standing as the tallest buildings outside a big city in England â including a four-star Hilton hotel, public plazas, parking facilities and shops.
Many councils piled into property and other commercial enterprises to raise money to fill gaping holes in their budgets and to undertake regeneration projects after sharp cuts to central government funding introduced under the Conservativesâ austerity drive.
Well, it sounds like if they hadn't violated the law by deciding that women didn't deserve equal pay, and hadn't underpaid what seems to be a lotof women for a long period of time (seriously, almost a billion dollars in claims they have to pay out?!), then it seems like they wouldn't be having this problem.
I'm not saying that underfunding government isn't an overall issue, but it really seems like the immediate issue is that they decided to systemically underpay people for an extended period of time. And that's on them.
Waiting for Trump to be all âWhen we retake whatâs rightfully ours, Iâll make sure those who were wrongly imprisoned by Crooked Joe Biden are exonerated as the patriots they are!â
Heâll do it, but heâll charge them a few mill to get a pardon, then theyâll start a pateron/GoFundMe/Kickstarter to fleece their rubes for more money, and then theyâll split the cash.
If Trump was literate, he could write a masterclass on getting fucking morons to send you money.
At least 521 U.S. towns and cities with populations of 1,000 to 200,000 disbanded policing between 1972 and 2017, according to a peer-reviewed 2022 paper by Rice University Professor of Economics Richard T. Boylan.
In the past two years, at least 12 small towns have dissolved their departments.
That works out to an average of 11 per year. I havenât needed to think about numbers in a long time. Did I fuck that up? Cause if not, this sounds like a lot of panic over losing fewer police departments than the norm.
I donât know civil case law well, but I have to think a jury being handed a summary judgement of fact to purely determine damages⊠canât be good.
They already found him guilty in the 2022 defamation case. The 2019 case is for the same thing (at a different time, he did it more than once) so the judgement effectively covers both cases. Heâs already been found guilty, now itâs just time to determine damages. Again.
And if he keeps repeating the same lies, theyâll keep charging him. Now itâs just a game of âwill he stfu or go broke first?â My chips are on âbrokeâ.
Itâs a milder strain, but thatâs no relief for the immunocompromised and elderly. Itâs all over airports with people coughing, and will tear through schools now.
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