He took a fucking helicopter trip to Putin's palace. Literally. How is there anybody who can't see the writing on the wall? This man is beyond compromised.
Come on my dude. They are probably just friends and ol’ Vlad was just giving him a belated or early birthday gift over a lovely brunch of blinis and caviar.
And if anyone is wondering why there’s no “end sarcasm” indicator, it’s because the sarcasm should be so fucking obvious that no one currently alive on this planet with access to the internet should be able to misunderstand it.
I do find it rather odd how we Millennials and Gen X had little trouble understanding sarcasm on the internet, overall, but over the last couple of years there's suddenly this huge push that we need to use '/s' to make it extra super obvious. Does Gen Z not use sarcasm?
Hmm, it never occured to me it could be a generational thing. It was a thing on reddit, but there was also a lot of pushback and ultimately good sarcastic comments tended to survive. It feels much worse here, which I attributed to demographics.
Lots of neurodivergent people learn and enjoy sarcasm. But it does stay a little hard to recognize, yes. Adding the '/s' kind of ruins the joke, though.
Oh. I love and enjoy sarcasm. I do not pick up on it well in text because you are all strangers so the nuance for me is cloudy if that makes sense. I also browse /all and uh im generally really stoned. Lol
It seems the Russians won the war after all, as I look around at all of these clearly compromised people running our country, or trying to run the country. Half our political system is ensuring they do this without any criticism whatsoever.
The idiots have all but won. Idiocracy is becoming a reality, and I say that with no humor or jest whatsoever.
They go hand in hand with a lot of plastic packaging. Either way, it’d be nice to go after companies like DuPont, Bayer, 3M, and Honeywell as well as the oil companies that provide them the raw materials anyway.
Doubt it. He couldn’t do it in his first term why the fuck would he suddenly be able to make it happen the second term? He’s a pile of shit but he wouldn’t ever make it happen.
Because she is the candidate of the largest party representing policies you “support” like universal healthcare. You could have spent the last 4 years helping build the party, or another party, or making your own party but instead did nothing.
So despite the fact that I don’t even have the energy to walk more than half an hour, you expect me to go canvassing? Do you want to put me in a wheelchair and push me around?
No of course not, but you do comment a lot on lemmy. I’ll keep on talking to people in person we need an online presence as well, I’m trying to post in support of Jill on lemmy and reddit
Oh well then, that certainly does help both this person and america in general. Glad we cleared that up and justified your incredibly inflexible approach to telling a disabled person to “get off their lazy ass”. You’re expressing democracy, got it.
Hilarious. Every liberal uses the same logic: “I wish there was another option but we have to vote blue!” without putting any effort into supporting another party. The dude literally comments thousands of times.
Love how you try to act like I knew they were disabled when I told them that, pathetic from you.
Love how you equate commenting numbers with ability to do anything, and the reframing of my “pathetic” comment about being inflexible in your arguments once you were made aware of their disabilities as me saying you should have known from the start.
inflexible in your arguments once you were made aware of their disabilities
Not true at all, I said we need an online presence and already welcome many disabled people in our ballot efforts through calls and online outreach.
It is pathetic you tried to paint my comment as ableist when no one was aware of the poster’s situation and my statement is true. Liberals do need to get off their ass, but instead complain and vote for Dems.
Jill “sitting-between-Putin-and-convicted-felon-and-unregistered-foreign-agent-Michael-Flynn” Stein who collected millions for a recount and then just kept it?
I agree, and strongly believe that the most helpful way forward in this respect would be to implement ranked choice voting, which is just about as out-of-reach to most Americans as a viable third-party candidate is today.
Maybe the next try at democracy will be the one that sticks.
You absolutely can. By voting for someone who has no chance of winning. It’s purely a thing to make you feel good about yourself. And no one will know either. You could claim you voted for Cornel West but actually vote for Trump and no one will be able to say you were lying.
I’m never going to get what I want, so I vote pragmatically. And stopping the guy who literally says he’s going to be a dictator seems like a pretty fucking important thing to do.
You sound brainwashed, i presume that by “candidate that will definitely lose” you mean someone that isn’t strictly part of the red and blue party. In this case not supporting any of these and voting for someone else could indeed save lives.
No. That is not how elections have ever worked. It has never been that every candidate has an equal chance of winning. Not in ancient Athens and not today in the U.S.
Isn’t it legal now? Did the US government nullify any Boeing contracts because of the first murder? Any of the Boeing heads and their government stooges in prison?
“Actually, that’s not complete reporting, Olivia. I have a source that tells me it’s the Wrong Every Time Floor Action Response Team – WETFART. The #WETFART team is a loud and slippery crew. Beware.”
Why would they? They know they have the nearly 30% support it takes to overwhelm a society and, crucially, they know roughly 30% are complacent enough to allow their takeover and whatever atrocities they think are required to ‘fix’ society.
Remember that when fascism threatened to overwhelm us in the 1930s, only about 30% of society were onboard with it; 30% were actively against it, and roughly 30% were in denial, didn’t want to talk about it, or were just hoping it would go away somehow if they just ignored it.
The firm asked over 4,000 people, from baby boomers to Gen Zers, about the categories they intend to splurge on this year. Groceries ranked highest for millennials and Gen Zers, outpacing restaurants, bars, travel, beauty and personal care, apparel, and fitness.
Yeah I mean, we can’t afford any of those listed, we just have enough to EAT, crazy right? And it’s not even that we spend more on those, it’s just that everything has become so expensive
The typical American household would need to spend $445 more a month to purchase the same goods and services as a year ago
This is really doing my head in. Democrats keep touting how good the economy is, and while the IRA and infrastructure bill were definitely good, the lived experience of your average voter isn’t that they’re doing so much better. Inflation has gone back to normal levels, but that doesn’t mean that prices went back to how they were, it just means prices aren’t going up as much as before.
New sandwich place opened up down my block. Everyone by me was praising it. Went in last weekend, 3 sandwiches and 2 drinks. A bit over $50 dollars. Yeah not going that again. Only two years ago that would have been half the price.
Yep, going out for brunch or whatever else we used to do just a few years ago has become ridiculously expensive. And no, my wage hasn’t gone up enough to compensate for that.
I mean, the economy has been doing great if you look at a purely wall-street perspective. The problem is, that doesn’t translate into shit for the average person. Corporate/stock profits != individual financial health.
Objectively the health of the US economy is pretty great now. All the B2B indicators are green, Velocity of Money finally bounced back, etc.
Unfortunately, the health of the economy is divorced from the health of the US laborer… but for those that own business, they are pleased.
(I always thought how funny it would be if they all took the republican advice of “pull up your boot straps and start a small business”. The labor force would evaporate, and it would all be small independent contractors that will take you to small claims if they need to…)
The average economy is going great, but that number is heavily skewed by a small number of big earners. The median economy, what reflects the income of most households, went down.
If your goal is rehabilitation, driving people insane with sleep deprivation isn’t going to help.
Secondly, think about how irritated and pissy you are when you don’t get enough sleep. Now imagine that in an entire prison population. You’re asking for trouble.
Why would a for profit prison system want to rehabilite anyone?
If the prison population dips below a certain point, they don’t get as much money, it’s literally in most contracts for prison services that the prison must maintain a certain number of prisoners.
The easiest way to keep them full, is to add charges for people already in prison. You do that by making their lives hell and putting them in situations where even a rational person would become stressed and prone to violence.
Even if they get out, they’ll be back.
Tldr:
The American prison system is designed for the opposite of rehabilitation.
It’s designed to maximize profits, and that means maximizes prisoners.
its market cap is entirely fraudulent.. not only did the company lose money last year, it only brought in $4 million in revenues.. this wild IPO valuation is indicative of fraud of some kind.. probably plain old money laundering..
Yep. Not that Reddit is worth as much as it opened for, but it’s worth more than Truth Social for sure, but somehow they opened to a higher value at about the same time. There’s no reasonable way that happened legitimately.
A market cap can’t really be “fraudulent”. Stock valuation has traditional methods, but meme stocks have blown the lid off of that in many circumstances. It’s still worth that much because people are willing to pay that price.
It’s worth what people are willing to pay for it. We know how much a share is trading for, and we know how many shares are in circulation, therefore the company is worth X.
Most people don’t think it’s worth that, but most people aren’t buying stock.
That used to be the case, mostly because the EU had rules about that. Then Brexit happened and dumping of sewage prohibitions were one of the first to be tossed on the bonfire of rules. And joy was in the corprate greedy shriveled heart.
So she only needs to sue for a farly partial time of duress and psychological trauma and loss of income from being imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit.
AFAICT, Texas has relatively generous laws for recovery of damages after wrongful imprisonment. In addition to the payout ($80K/yr, prorated), you get an annuity. In some cases you can even get free tuition at a state university. Whereas in most states, you can’t sue at all.
The law is described incorrectly. They wrote (my emphasis):
The money was granted through the Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Act, a state law passed in 2016 that grants a wrongfully convicted person $50,000 for each day that person was incarcerated.
But when you click on the link you find:
the court shall award compensation as follows: (a) Fifty thousand dollars for each year from the date the plaintiff was imprisoned until the date the plaintiff was released from prison, regardless of whether the plaintiff was released from imprisonment on parole or because the maximum sentence was served. For incarceration of less than a year in prison, this amount is prorated to 1/365 of $50,000.00 for every day the plaintiff
So by Michigan law he was entitled to $50K/yr, which is less than provided by Texas law ($80K/yr + other benefits).
And of course $50K/yr over 36 years is roughly the $1.75 million he received. If it were actually per day, he would have gotten over $600 million.
You certainly didn’t make that clear. And even for a few months of wrongful incarceration (along with the years of having to spend time in court), $40,000 is pitiful. Absolutely pitiful.
“They don’t pay as much in other states” doesn’t make it any less pitiful.
Would you find that to be adequate compensation for destroying five years of your life for doing something that wasn’t illegal?
I replied to the suggestions that it doesn’t matter because she already served her time (it actually does matter), that she should sue (she can but recovery is limited), and that everything is bigger in Texas (yes it is, relatively speaking).
Note that courts never compensate innocent people who are tied up in court, even for years. Compensation is only for people who are wrongfully incarcerated. Even in Texas.
So what? That’s six years of a major life problem she did not deserve. 40k is horseshit (if she’s even successful in getting it awarded), no matter how it may compare to options in other states.
And I’ll say it - I don’t believe for one second she’d have had this over her head all this time had she been a white registered Republican.
After Mason was arrested in 2017, she lost her job at a bank. She was also sent back to federal prison for several months for being arrested while on probation for a federal crime. During that time, she almost lost her home to foreclosure.
“Although I’ve cried for seven years straight, seven nights a week … I’ve also prayed for seven years straight, seven nights a week. Prayed that I would remain a free black woman,” she said in a statement.
If they started auctioning off and selling his properties to make money, it would turn over a lot of really dark stones full of other people’s criminal activities.
He’s being protected by the club he’s in, not because they like him but because they would be in trouble if they didn’t.
More over, the precedent set here is beneficial to other wealthy individuals.
Other wealthy individuals, even those who sit on the complete opposite side of Trump politically benefit from the appeals court’s judgement. It really is just corruption all over.
Florida. The Sunshine State is Florida for those who don’t know, don’t care, or hate it when authors use nicknames for some proper nouns and actual names for other things in the same category.
It’s petty, I know, but just use the words we all know for fuck’s sake.
Edit: I’m not calling out the OP (thanks for sharing this!), these words that bother me appear in the text of the study.
Its cause they think they were the only state that was independent from the US before becoming a part of it, ya know ignoring Vermont, California, and fucking Hawaii which wasnt just independent it was a whole ass kingdom and nation state.
Different conversation. Was talking about the effects of GnRH on the body, it led to a conversation of the similar effects of birth control on kids. I mentioned how I didn’t like the idea of kids needing to take birth control, which then brings us to that comment.
The kids in question would have been 12, right around when puberty starts. So the “sorry you didn’t get laid in high school” sure fucking sounds like this person is saying that they think it’s normal for high schoolers to fuck 12 year olds. You can draw whatever conclusions you want from that, I’ve drawn mine.
Edit: you can look through my comments, I stand by everything I’ve said.
Ah, I see. From what limited info you’ve given here, it sounds like you blew a common saying way out of proportion, but maybe I’m missing some of the more important context.
The context is children taking puberty blockers, which means taking them at around 12 years old.
The context is exactly what I stated it as, I have blown exactly nothing out of proportion. I gave them the opportunity to explain themselves originally, they declined by not responding, so tell me exactly what conclusion should I draw?
“Oh it’s fine that this person insulted me when I’m expressing my feelings (I cannot believe I just referred to being creeped out by kids taking birth control and fucking high schoolers as feelings), they deserve the respect they didn’t give me.”
Absolutely not, if the above is what you’re suggesting you can have these hands too.
Edit: I have to add, I did just randomly find this person again. I did not go out of my way to follow their comments. I just realized that might seem possible.
Edit: I have to add, I did just randomly find this person again.
I… regardless, bringing this unrelated beef into this thread is a rude fucking thing to do to both them and us. Like i haven’t seen this level of pettiness in a good bit.
Keep it in your own thread. Isn’t that like a golden Internet rule?
kids taking birth control and fucking high schoolers
I think this is the issue. These are two separate statements and you’re conflating them.
“Someone didn’t get laid in high school” is a pretty common phrase that just means you’re lame. I think it’s a coincidence that the original topic was prepubescent puberty blockers.
The alternative is that someone just decided out of nowhere to proclaim their love for pedophilia. I think it’s far more likely that you misunderstood them.
My comment: My point is moreso that kids shouldn’t be having sex, but sure yeah. Read into it guys.
Their response: Sorry you couldn’t get laid in high school.
Really? So you really think this is out of context? When it is quite literally the context? I have a feeling I’m going to get snapped from this thread at some point so I sent you a DM.
I do, actually. I mean really, take a step back and think about it. Why would someone just casually advocate for a sexual relationship between high schoolers and 18 year olds? That’s not how conversations work. That’s not how people work.
His point was just, “actually, kids do have sex, a lot, even if you weren’t aware of it when you were a kid”.
I feel like you’re trying to turn this into a pedophilia thing. It’s such a stretch. You misunderstood, and you decided that the worst possible interpretation was the one you were gonna go with.
The original thread was about puberty blockers being blocked by NHS when prescribed to kids with gender dysphoria.
At no point did a specific age come up, but it’s assumed that puberty blockers would be most effective before puberty.
However by this point in the thread, Jax had commented that they didn’t feel comfortable with kids taking birth control, a different tangent.
I responded, in sarcastic tone (and to a reply to Jax’s post, as in, to a third party), as if surprised to learn that people should be taking birth control or receiving HPV vaccines before they start having sex (as in, not when they start having sex).
Jax responds that they just aren’t comfortable with kids having sex.
I respond with the quote above, Jax replies with:
So you’re either suggesting that 12 year olds should be fucking high schoolers, or you’re just too dumb to think about what you said. I’ll give you a few minutes.
I don’t know where that leap came from, but it followed me here a day or two later.
A lot of shitty things are done under the guise of, “It makes me feel uncomfortable”
Trans people especially, anything to do with them really, Oh I make you uncomfortable, guess we will just magically stop existing.
And for the uncomfortable people out there, most times the “stop existing” thing, comes in the form of unaliving because we aren’t cis like everyone else… that’s kinda the whole thing
I think there’s a real Red Scare style trend among zoomers with regards to pedophilia. Any time they can find the slightest pretext to link someone to pedophilia, they’ll do it and then call a mob with pitchforks.
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