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Wooki , in Biden-Harris Administration Announces $15.5 Billion to Support a Strong and Just Transition to Electric Vehicles, Retooling Existing Plants, and Rehiring Existing Workers
Lojcs , in Texas Supreme Court allows ban on gender-affirming care for most minors to take effect Friday

Exceptions are provided for intersex patients and for some minors who were already receiving gender-affirming care before June 1, although those minors would be forced to “wean off” any drugs prescribed as part of a treatment plan.

So, there are no exceptions

Laughbone ,

Wow so they’ll castrate an intersex person then take away their hormones, that’s fucked up.

Zron ,

The cruelty is the point

TheDoozer ,

I’m confused at the wording in that sentence. Do they mean there are exceptions for intersex patients and there are also exception for some minors already receiving gender-affirming care (and would have to wean off), or is it saying there are exceptions for intersex and minors already receiving care, but both would have to be weaned off?

If it’s the former, it sounds like intersex people are the only exception, but if it’s the latter it seems like there are none.

LostMyRedditLogin ,

I’m reading it as the minors and not the intersex patients will be weaned off treatment because the sentence specifically mentions again minors.

Colorcodedresistor , in 4-Year-Old Fatally Shot By Woman Who Was Teaching Her 'Firearm Safety,' Authorities Say

Do not begrudge getting older…so few get the opportunity.

4 year old wiped off this world because a 25 year old woman shot her in an attempt to intimidate and scare her. there was no firearms safety class being taught; if my mother wanted to “show me something” it was always to rub my nose in the proverbial piss of some mistake i had made in her eyes. That is what i see here for this “gun class”

loulis , in New York police will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend, spurring privacy concerns

News on Monday: NYPD to prosecute those who shot down drones Wich were in their backyards.

Clent , in Employers added 187,000 jobs in August, unemployment jumps to 3.8%

“Employment rate jumped sharply”

Apparently a 0.2% increase is all it takes to be sharp.

Fuck the media.

DigitalTraveler42 , in This Texas town has about 250 people. It has 50 sworn police officers.

So the town basically hired a gang of thugs to be their police while they extort travelers in their jurisdiction, sounds like a 70’s or later action movie/show like Dukes of Hazzard, Billy Jack, or Rambo.

Hopefully the main character shows up and kicks all of their asses and we all get a happy ending. (Meanwhile in reality they will just keep getting away with it because of the way Texas is ran and qualified immunity)

Chickenstalker , in Russia moon probe crash likely left 33-foot-wide crater on the lunar surface, NASA images show

Let’s call it Comrade Putin’s Hole (33 ft wide).

snooggums ,
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I was gonna suggest Comrade Crater but yours is better.

captain_oni , in 'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills

He doesn’t pay his own lawyers, why would he pay someone else’s?

ohlaph , in California elementary school evacuated over bomb threat after rightwing harassment

I believe the term is “domestic terrorists”.

Clent , in Microplastics could reach every organ including the brain, study finds

Damn. Carlin was right.

CluckN ,

He seemed to lean left imo.

Clent ,

I assume this a play on words.

He was apolitical but a realist. As we know reality has a left leaning bias.

derpo ,

Damn that’s such a good pun, I didn’t notice at first

SulaymanF , in Attorney alleges client brutally beaten in Baton Rouge Police Department ‘torture warehouse’

There’s been a bunch of these places coming to light recently. Cops seem to think it’s fine to beat people as long as it doesn’t show up in a mugshot.

originalucifer , in Russia moon probe crash likely left 33-foot-wide crater on the lunar surface, NASA images show
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"putin's legacy"

idkwhatimdoing , in This Texas town has about 250 people. It has 50 sworn police officers.

How does a town of 250 have the funds to pay 50 police salaries?

Pons_Aelius ,

How does a town of 250 have the funds to pay 50 police salaries?

Texas Highway 155 crosses Ledbetter Bay as it passes through Coffee City

Coffee City’s budget shows the town collected more than $1 million in court fines last year. That came from more than 5,100 citations officers wrote

MTLion3 ,

So it’s literally funded by leeching. Not like most police sects aren’t, but this seems especially egregious

snooggums ,
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The leech to town ratio is very high.

SCB ,

The town’s citizens do not want to pay taxes, so they are effectively outsourcing their costs to motorists passing by.

GreenMario ,

Sounds like a wildfire should visit that town, nothing of value would be lost.

idkwhatimdoing ,

That’s still nowhere near enough for 50 cops with public level benefits. Even if every dollar of that goes towards the cops, at $20k/year each, it would hardly cover federal taxes on their income, let alone the income itself

dogslayeggs ,

Because only 12 of the 50 are full time. The rest are reserves that are used as surge for events and stuff in other cities.

DigitalTraveler42 ,

The town is probably a ticket trap or they make way too much money off of civil asset forfeiture, it all sounds shady AF.

idkwhatimdoing ,

Between insurance, pensions, salary, reimbursements, and fringe benefits, you’re looking at a minimum cost of $70k per full-time officer per year. They’d have to issue $3,500,000 in tickets to cover that alone, and even then, that leaves nothing for vehicle replacement/maintenance (which is huge on a fleet of cop cars), non-officer employee salaries (clerks etc.), rent/taxes/maintenance on the station, equipment and weapons, training programs, and so much more. No way tickets and forfeitures alone take in that much in a town of 250

DigitalTraveler42 ,

Cartel town maybe? There’s probably some pretty surprising levels of corruption going on there.

Ertebolle ,

They're not full-time:

The opportunity to wear a badge allows officers to make extra money. In the state of Texas, a commissioned reserve officer may work off-duty performing traffic control duties, commonly known as “road jobs.” Of the 50 sworn officers at the Coffee City Police Department, 38 are reserves according to state records.

idkwhatimdoing ,

Ahhh that makes more sense, but still crazy. Definitely staying out of Coffee on any road trips I take…

Son_of_dad ,

Corruption

BombOmOm , in "Shocking": More mothers are working than ever before
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Wasn’t that a huge point of the feminist revolution? To get women out of the kitchen (ie, out of their homes, away from where their children are) and into the office?

justhach ,
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The choice to do so, yes. Not the material conditions that make it absolutely necessary for both parents to work full time just to stay afloat.

BombOmOm ,
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When you double supply, the value of each unit of supply goes down. This exact situation was predicted.

orclev ,

That’s only true if demand remains constant. It’s also an incredibly cynical way to look at the labor market. This is a result of the continuing gutting of the middle class and concentration of wealth in the hands of an ever shrinking pool of the ultra wealthy. The answer to why it’s no longer possible to support yourself on the pay of the majority of jobs even working full time isn’t “too many workers”, it’s the leeches at the top taking the majority of the profits.

BombOmOm ,
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it’s the leeches at the top taking the majority of the profits

Why now though? Why didn’t this happen 50 years ago? 100 years ago? Have people suddenly become greedy and were somehow not greedy before? No, something (or somethings) have changed in the last few decades that brought this about.

orclev ,

Why now though? Why didn’t this happen 50 years ago? 100 years ago? Have people suddenly become greedy and were somehow not greedy before? No, something (or somethings) have changed in the last few decades that brought this about.

Oh, that’s super easy, Reagan happened. It just takes a while for unstable systems to reach a tipping point. Reagan put that brain fart out there, and then the GOP picked up that ball and ran with it for all they were worth. They know a good grift when they see one.

Potato_in_my_anus , in 'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills

Trump’s lawyers will argue that they did what they did without his knowledge. That’s why he’s not helping them.

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