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Janoose , in Trump boasts at Alabama fundraiser that he needs ‘one more indictment to close out this election’
@Janoose@kbin.social avatar

Oh, so he’s definitely getting indicted in Georgia.

ME5SENGER_24 , in Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it

There are some bizarre and pointless laws in this country.

GiddyGap ,

And some people will go to extraordinary lengths to defend them.

morphballganon ,

The way I heard it, if the only people pumping gas were employees, the company didn’t have to pay as much liability insurance.

karlthemailman ,

Then why make it a law? Gas stations would all choose to have full service only if it was cheaper.

SCB ,

It’s a law specifically so that these jobs exist. It has nothing to do with liability insurance. Rather, one guy was able to lower his prices by having people pump their own gas and other gas stations didn’t like that

Reingold decided to offer the consumer a choice by opening up a 24-pump gas station on Route 17 in Hackensack. He offered gas at 18.9 cents a gallon. The only requirement was that drivers pump it themselves. They didn’t mind. They lined up for blocks.

"The other gas station operators didn’t like the competition. Someone tried shooting up Reingold’s station. But he installed bulletproof glass, so the retailers looked for a softer target - the Statehouse. The Gasoline Retailers Association prevailed upon its pals in the Legislature to push through a bill banning self-serve gas. The pretext was safety, but the Hackensack fire chief had already told all who would listen that Rein- gold’s operation was perfectly safe.

nj.com/…/the_real_reason_self-service_gas_was_ban…

minorsecond ,

Man, fuck lobbies representing business. What a load of shit.

grayman ,

That kind of sounded like a scene from The Jerk.

Wallybinbaz ,

Great news, you’re the eighth customer today. You’ve won a free oven mitt!

Thisisforfun ,

Was probably reasonable when they were enacted - before your grandparents met.

andrew ,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn’t mean that we too can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.

moitoi ,

You never went to Switzerland where the only noise you’re allowed to do after 10 pm is pooping.

Buddahriffic ,

Now I’m curious about the situation that lead to that to that exception being added and if there was a death involved where someone held it in until morning when they should have just gone right away.

moitoi ,

The legend says that you aren’t allowed to flush the toilet after 10 pm. Actually, people must avoid making noise after 10pm by law. It’s not here for fun.

Switzerland has a reporting culture. People will report you to the police and/or your landlord if you’re making too much noise after 10pm. Also, Sundays and holidays are by law a day of rest.

_number8_ , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post
kameecoding , in Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."

Sillicon Valley reinvents Company Scrip.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip#Lumber_compan…

chalupapocalypse ,

Wow, and here I thought deep rock galactic just made up a word

That’s shady af

thelastknowngod , in Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it

They always let me pump my own gas when riding a motorcycle in NJ. My mom would be clueless if they dropped that law though.

Central_Incisor , in Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.

Looks in the refrigerator. Look an incandescent bulb! Oven? Incandescent! Flashlight? Incandescent! Bathroom? Incandescent (halogen). Old lamp new bulb? High efficiency incandescent! Oh and then there are all of the exemptions to the higher (not high) efficiency standards like the one for bulbs with a left handed thread.

Incandescent lights were never banned, the efficiency standards were raised for a set of commonly used household lights and that was it.

Deceptichum , in To fix the labor shortage, economists point to women - and better child care
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

To fix the labour shortage, I point to wages.

Avg ,

This even makes sense in context of the article, my wife doesn’t work because it makes no sense to go to work and dump all the money she’d make into child care.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Work evenings. My wife did that when our kids were really young.

gramathy , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

Trump never having been jailed for contempt is baffling

VanillaGorilla ,

I think you misspelled infuriating.

supercheesecake ,
@supercheesecake@aussie.zone avatar

Different rules for the rich and powerful.

What baffles me is his supporters all rage against stuff like this but don’t recognise their orange idol sits at the top of the pile.

KevonLooney ,

They’re not against it in principle. They want to be the one doing it. It’s others winning they object to.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

They’re not against it in principle

Exactly, they have no principles just wins and losses against the other side where everything is a zero sum game

Argongas , in NYPD officers detain online influencer after giveaway devolves into chaos

I really hope "influencer" is a temporal addition to our society, dies soon, and is remembered in the future as a particularly ridiculous aspect of the early 21st century.

doot ,

like flash mobs

elbarto777 ,

Like pokemons.

Argongas ,

At least flash mobs bring a group of people together in real life to do something together in community. Far more value than influencer.

harbo , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

He can’t stop digging

Ilikepornaddict ,

He keeps digging, yet somehow he’s still outside the hole. I know the prosecutor wants to make sure they get everything right, but this man is embarrassing the entire country, and making a joke of it’s institutions.

MostlyBirds ,
@MostlyBirds@lemmy.world avatar

Our institutions have been a joke for almost 250 years.

ImFresh3x , (edited )

I am 100% convinced that he thinks pushing the envelope as far as possible thought out this will stall the process, cause conflict, and make the court look like it has a vendetta against him. He’s going to do this most with NY, DC, and GA case, and not as much in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida case because his entire argument in those other cases is that the courts themselves are trying to silence him. And who knows. It might work. It’s worked for him well in the past.

His only way out of this is to stall, stall, stall, and win the election by making himself look like the victim to his core supporters and few dumb fuck centrists in swing states.

And it’s working. You’ll be seeing influential people who were critical of trump come out and say “I hate trump but it’s obvious he’s being attacked simply because they hate him.” These people will be paid millions by his campaign. People like Joe Rogan etc. will “gradually” become full on trump supporters with the narrative they they still don’t like trump but hate what the DOJ is doing more and paint trump as a future political prisoner.

The only way out of this is a huge effort to get people to vote. They’re counting on apathy and muddy waters.

TheWoozy ,

Doubling down, bluffing, and rat-fucking has always worked for for him in the past. He can’t change now.

wheres_my_pinata , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

Wouldn’t that be considered witness tampering or something like that?

sci ,

Possibly, but it depends on how the judge interprets it.

kent_eh ,

How is this statement open to any other interpretation than as a direct threat.

sci ,

idk, i’m not a lawyer

Warfarin ,

When you want to be a victim that badly you see threats in everything

LEDZeppelin ,

Add it to the list. Neither he nor his voters care about that stuff

Caradoc879 ,

When he said he could shoot a man in cold blood in the middle of times Square, he wasn’t kidding. He’s literally raped children for God’s sake.

unconsciousvoidling ,

As often as he projects… i’m kind of wondering if he’s had people murdered… like the time he accused Joe Scarborough of murdering his intern… i remember thinking holy shit… start searching trump properties for buried bodies… i mean shit he buried his ex wife on a golf course.

Igloojoe ,

I mean he wouldnt do it himself. He’d hire a hitman. Which then he’d short the hitman on paying him. Its the trump way to never pay the ending fees on a contract. I dont think he himself has had a direct hand with murder. But I 100% believe he’s a child rapist. He talked fondly of jeffrey epstein, and went to his parties, and commented himself on the young girls at the parties.

Captainvaqina ,

Just ask “Katie Johnson” the pseudonym of the little girl who was raped by trump and epstein when she was just 13 years old.

havokdj ,

Look, I dislike him as well, but do you have any proof for that last statement? I have yet to see or hear of anything like that.

AFKBRBChocolate ,

They’re talking about Katie Johnson on this list. It was strongly rumored at the time that she dropped it because she and her family got death threats.

havokdj ,

Some of the things in her story don’t really add up, particularly the bit about it being in Epstein’s apartment, and “identifying him” on TV years later on television. Accusations like this that wind up being false are extremely, EXTREMELY common.

Also, the chances of her knowing Epstein off hand but not Trump especially in 1994 are incredibly low. Epstein was a nobody in 1994, no chance were those two friends at the time.

Not saying it didn’t happen, but why would trump be hanging out in Epstein’s raggedy ass apartment to begin with?

JesusFistus ,

Epstein was not a nobody in 1994, why are you claiming so? It makes it look like you’re grasping at straws to defend Trump

havokdj ,

defend trump

Lol. Lmao. Was that an attempt at comedy? Not about to get into this conversation. If you think I’m defending trump then there has to be some kind of barrier between us. I’m not defending trump, I’m attacking the accusations against him that were thrown by people who only wanted to get Hillary in office.

You realize he’s being investigated right now, nothing like this has come out and no charges related to this have been pressed since the investigations began.

I vehemently hate politicians, but there are only two things worse in a political position of power than that: tyrants and businessmen.

Yes, Epstein was “not a nobody” in 1994, but he sure as shit was not famous as fuck either, especially compared to trump at the time. He didn’t have an endless amount of wealth in 1994, try 1996. The fact that her case was one of the few that were ever dismissed are also telling considering the fact that Epstein still ended up going to prison for the rest of his (rather short) life. Epstein was a filthy evil piece of shit, but that would have been the case even if he was not an acting pedophile.

Let’s shift over to the case itself because that’s the main point here, not Epstein.

Personally, I think her case was a ploy set up to attack Trump while he was running for office, and she lumped in Epstein because of his several other charges coming on throughout that time period. The fact that it conveniently came at a time where she “recognized trump” over twenty years later but knew Epstein offhand is a bit suspicious don’t you think? Wouldn’t it have been the latter? And considering the fact that Epstein had been receiving charges since 2005, why would she wait until 2016 specifically to charge Epstein (and trump along with him)? At a surface level, it really didn’t seem like this case was about Epstein so much as it was Trump.

Don’t confuse what I’m saying with defending Trump. I’m playing devil’s advocate because truthfully both parties are evil, and every election there are baseless claims thrown out like this because both are willing to say anything and everything to try and get their candidate elected, Trump included.

Rusticus ,

He’s a convicted rapist. No conjecture or hyperbole. A convicted rapist.

Ddhuud ,

Does the justice?

Madison420 ,

No, worse its witness intimidation. Essentially tampering “you should x” intimidation “I’ll do x” one effects current witnesses while the other implies they’ll go after current and potential witnesses.

starlinguk ,
@starlinguk@kbin.social avatar

That only counts when you don't have money.

someguy3 , (edited )

I thought this was directed at the judge?

Edit: Given the context it seems aimed at the witnesses.

Hangglide , in Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."

Meanwhile, at my government job, we are paying people to live in our government supplied houses because we need people on sight.

stevedidWHAT ,
@stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world avatar

Govt is a completely different beast with a different set of rules as opposed to corps however

Widowmaker_Best_Girl ,

Yeah, the pay is crap but at least we get guaranteed holidays.

stevedidWHAT ,
@stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world avatar

You could always try the banking industry

RamSwamson ,

we need people on sight

Gotta keep them in the crosshairs!

PeepinGoodArgs , in To fix the labor shortage, economists point to women - and better child care

…why does the U.S. need more workers in the first place? With real wages being largely stagnant over the last four decades, who is producing what for whom?

GiddyGap OP ,

The US, like most other developed countries, needs a constant influx of workers because the population is getting older on average. Boomers will soon be completely out of the labor market, and the smaller, younger generations will not be able to sustain the economy and society without extra hands.

MajorHavoc , (edited )

Good summary.

It’s times like this that I just want to stare at the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, and just contemplate what kind of policy changes could possibly solve our upcoming labor shortage?

If only Lady Liberty could speak, she might have some ideas. I guess I will never know.

/s

Edit: I’m also a big fan of higher wages. And I suspect US immigration levels won’t bounce back quite as high with a ploicy change, after years of racism in our news. We’re going to feel that consequence pretty strongly, I suspect.

MostlyBirds ,
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Good. Sustaining an economy that exploits and disenfranchises the majority, or even a significant minority, is indefensible.

Blamemeta ,

It’s mainly because of the infinite growth paradigm outpacing the rate of population growth. If only investors had realistic goals, we could avoid all this.

inclementimmigrant , in Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."

Next up will be these tech companies offering company script to buy things at the company store while paying that rent to the company room. You know, to help transition into the new indentured working environment.

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snausagesinablanket ,
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You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0

OkToBeTakei , in To fix the labor shortage, economists point to women - and better child care

anything but fair wages…

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

And universal healthcare.

OkToBeTakei ,

yes please!

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It’s honestly baffling to me that big business isn’t making a major push for universal healthcare so they don’t have to worry about health plans anymore.

UFODivebomb ,

Then they would lose a competitive advantage over small businesses.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Bigger the company = easier it is to have this settled. If you have this settled you can attract and retain talent that smaller companies can’t. Besides, you can just take it out of their salaries.

afraid_of_zombies ,

What do you expect economists to suggest?

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