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FlyingSquid , in Trump's Project 2025 is now being searched in Google more than Taylor Swift and the NFL
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Taylor Swift is joining the NFL?

Freefall ,

HANGONAMINUITE! Why is woman’s football not a national thing‽

tate , in Sacramento high school biology final includes racist questions, targets students

I mean, if we wanted our best and brightest (and most compassionate) to teach, we would pay them the best salary they could get with their degrees.

Note to good teachers out there (I’m a teacher too): I’m not saying there aren’t any! I’m just saying that those doing the hiring can’t afford to be terribly picky.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Teacher pay is supposed to be near the best in the nation in California too. But we still don’t pay teachers enough and this is the result we get.

Test_Tickles ,

Best pay sounds great until you combine it with the highest cost of living.

LibertyLizard ,

But is that normalized for cost of living? Highest in the nation might still be near subsistence level in one of the highest COL states.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not enough regardless.

themeatbridge ,

An education system that requires martyrs as teachers is not a sustainable plan.

tate ,

preach!

tal , in Milk, eggs and now bullets for sale in handful of US grocery stores with ammo vending machines
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

I’d be easy to vend, I guess. It’s shelf-stable, don’t have to control the temperature of the machine, doesn’t go stale (well, within a reasonable period of time).

But…does it make sense for the buyer?

If you’re going to own a firearm, you should probably practice with it. If you practice with it, you’re probably going to use more than a few rounds in the course of that practice. If you’re going to use more than a few rounds, doesn’t it make more sense to buy in bulk rather than getting a few rounds from a vending machine?

I mean, it seems like getting mini bags of flour or something. It’s not that one can’t do it, but I just don’t understand the use case.

I don’t know. Maybe someone carries their firearm with them (addressing the issue of needing to have the firearm to use the ammo) and then spur of the moment decides to go shooting at a private range (my limited experience has been that public shooting ranges tend to sell supplies at the range if you need something)?

Vending machines work really well when you want something in a small quantity that you’re going to use immediately, and don’t mind paying a premium for it. Especially if you didn’t know that you’d need it in advance or it needs to be refrigerated or something. A cold soda or a bag of peanuts at a trailhead or something, okay, I get that.

But I don’t see how well that works for ammo. Like, it just doesn’t seem to fit all that well with the characteristics of the things that I can think of that do sell well in vending machines.

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

How much rounds you shoot really depends on what kind of shooting you do and what cartridge your intended on using.

It looks like it sells in normal boxes so I can see someone getting use out of buying a few boxes from it. That said, the fiscally responsible thing to do is buy online in bulk. Ammoseek.com lets you cross compare prices from different retailers.

Sir_Kevin , in Las Vegas eyes record of fifth consecutive day over 115 degrees as heat wave continues to scorch US

Shit’s happening even faster than I expected. I’m hoping to be able to migrate before the masses wake up and do the same.

stoly ,

I figure Scandinavia or New Zealand are where to head.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

With how things are going, Antartica will pretty soon feel tropical

Sir_Kevin ,

Assuming it’s still there.

And009 ,

As was before the ice age

RagingRobot ,

I’m sure they have enough room for all of us and are super excited to welcome us lol

stoly ,

lol

get ready to be the next generation of starving refugees hated by their host country.

Yay

And009 ,

New Zealand might be at risk from all that water surrounding it

stoly ,

It’s pretty mountainous but you’re probably right.

LustyArgonianMana ,
@LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world avatar

Also, earthquake activity is going to amp up due to climate change as well, so may not be very safe there

msage ,

We will have to ban everything with ‘faster than expected’ for this decade, as there will be a lot of it.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Migrate? I don’t think anywhere will be safe…unless you mean just escaping the local high temps in the US Southwest.

LordKitsuna ,

Northern Canada is still almost entirely empty and cold. So give it a bit and it will be the only spot with summers under 80°

FlyingSquid , in Judge signals he’s likely to dismiss Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/efa5e783-9dd7-41f5-99ab-fbc67e6418d0.png

Guess Rudy wishes he won that presidential primary now.

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

“In debt over your head?” “Creditors hounding you for your hard-earned money you stole fair and square?”

“Have we the solution for you! Just run for president. Once elected, any past crimes cannot be held against you. And, any future crimes while president, don’t count!”

“Only 48 monthly payments of $33,333.33USD”

“Act now! Before it’s too late!”

Exusia ,
@Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

What’s the significance of the 1.5 million number, if any?

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Presidents make $400k/year for 4 years.

disguy_ovahea ,

It’s amazing anyone can be loyal to Trump, knowing how he treats his supporters once he doesn’t need them anymore.

cm0002 , in The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men

Damnit, why didn’t I think of that :c

casmael , (edited ) in The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men

Every time the bar looks so low there’s no way anybody is getting underneath it, whaddayaknow wouldyoujustlookatthat one of these fuckheads has done it again. Muthafuckin hotwheels ass lookin muthafucka. Sliding under the bar like that.

takeda , in Milk, eggs and now bullets for sale in handful of US grocery stores with ammo vending machines

Grocery stores? Seriously? I would understand shooting range etc.

Crazy.

SlakrHakr , in Milk, eggs and now bullets for sale in handful of US grocery stores with ammo vending machines

But you have to go to a liquor store to purchase wine…

TheRealKuni ,

Depends on the state. You can get liquor in grocery stores in Michigan.

Edit: that said, highest proof allowed for sale in Michigan is 151.

conciselyverbose , in Sacramento high school biology final includes racist questions, targets students
gibmiser ,

Holy shit. Reads like the teacher fully lost it.

cybervseas ,

Wants to be in the rubber room and not have to work for the rest of his career?

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

You should see the “sleeping in class” one. He pseudo-curses in it and talks about how rude it is before going on with the question.

2484345508 ,

Fire them.

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

Wouldn’t it be wierdos, not wierdoes? My autocorrect seems to think so.

Also in the UK, where I’m from, we have standardised testing, when i was a kid the tests were all made by exam boards like AQA, OCR and EdExcel. I believe they still are.

Despite the flaws that come with that it was better than allowing an individual to come up with the test as it removed personal bias and, obviously, derogatory remarks about students in the class.

Rai ,

I have also learned that “weirdos” is hugely offensive and California, USA. Almost as bad as “goof” in parts of Canada (goof means paedo in Canada)

Mr_Dr_Oink ,

I call my son a goof when he does something silly! In the UK, it just means silly. The image in my head is of Goofy, the disney character.

Good to know if i ever go to canada.

Also, weirdo is so innocuous in the UK. It wouldn’t turn a head. But then i suppose we call people a “cunt” or a “dickhead” and it can be as friendly as saying “love you” or “you are hilarious” and as nasty as saying “die in a fire”

So i suppose i shouldn’t be surprised by the nuances found in language even if we are speaking the same language, especially when there’s an ocean of space between us.

Rai ,

Oh yeah it’s wild! Both “goof” and “weirdo” are completely innocuous where I am as well!

charles ,

I’ve lived in a handful of different provinces and have family in basically every region of Canada and I have never heard of goof being used that way. Where did you hear that?

Calling someone a goof is just another way to say they’re being silly/ ridiculous, which I’m pretty sure is the same way it’s used everywhere else.

Rai ,
CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

goof means paedo in Canada

No it doesn’t.

Rai ,

Ah, I looked it up. It’s actually prison lingo from a while back.

reddit.com/…/is_the_word_goof_a_prison_term_for_c…

Donjuanme ,

I suspect there’s nuance or personal nicknames being lost from context here. I strongly doubt a teacher (unless they want to be fired) calls students out like this without prior development of the material.

But I’m sure my take is far too rational for the knee jerk wing of my peers.

conciselyverbose ,

I don’t think there’s anything close to room for nuance here. No matter how “friendly” you think you are with your students and how much you think they like you, this is not acceptable behavior from a high school teacher.

Themadbeagle ,

Teachers can just be cruel sometimes. Some of my worst bullys in school were teachers. One of my teachers meowed like a cat at my friend in front of the whole class to mock my friend for him meowing.

betterdeadthanreddit , in Sacramento high school biology final includes racist questions, targets students

This guy needs a better outlet for his frustrations. I don’t doubt that teaching high schoolers is a special form of torture (having been a high schooler once upon a time) but test questions are not the place to vent.

I want to believe that these were questions he wrote out in a drunken stupor one night and then printed off the wrong file though doubling down on it with the projector kinda kills that idea. Dude maybe shouldn’t have been a teacher but it took him about a decade too long to figure it out.

PapaStevesy ,

He also needs to not be a racist, ablist piece of shit. This goes way beyond venting, this dude believes in ethnic cleansing and shit. I’m surprised there were no phrenology-related questions.

Donjuanme ,

You’re getting a lot of context that doesn’t seem to exist there…

PapaStevesy ,

I read the article if that’s what you mean. 🤷‍♂️

nifty , in New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

Immigration and inflation are sideshow distractions used to distract from wealth and resource hoarding. NYT editor is just doing his upper class friends a solid by framing these distractions as the main issues

jonne ,

Exactly, every mainstream outlet is owned by billionaires or giant corporations, which is why you don’t hear about wealth inequality or union busting in mainstream media.

FlyingSquid , in The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

This guy definitely found the right grift:

In 2016, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation received reports of more than US $220 million being lost by victims of relationship scams.[15] This was approximately seven times what was stolen through phishing scams and almost 100 times the reported losses from ransomware attacks.[15] According to FBI IC3 statistics, the crime has been at an alarming rise. Monetary loss in the United States rose from $211 million to $475 million from 2017 to 2019. The number of cases of reported romance scams rose from 15,372 to 19,473 in those two years.[16][17]

“The FTC estimated on average $2,500 was sent to romance scammers in 2020, more than ten times the median loss across all fraud types. Given the rampant use of social media and rise of online dating services, the opportunity for scammers to prey on individuals is only growing, explained Emma Fletcher, an analyst at the FTC. “To be able to make that connection and do it remotely is something that may not have been possible a decade ago, but it’s very much possible and socially quite common now for people to make love connections online and they’re taking advantage of that,” Fletcher said.”[18]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam#Scale

It really sucks that we’ve become a society full of extremely lonely people who are so desperate that they get conned just looking for some compassion.

FuglyDuck , in Colorado public health officials confirm new case of human plague
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

So… they finally identified Trump’s strain?

Kecessa , in Zelenskyy: Seeing children die makes me want to kill Putin

I’m surprised Putin’s villa hasn’t been destroyed yet

TheMightyCanuck ,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

I was thinking this today. One of those Cessnas with a fab 500 would do nicely.

I wonder if he has air defense or if they’ve been sent to the front as well

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