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@lemmy.world

Mamertine 126 points 3 years ago

Do you all think it'll come before or after he explains his Obamacare alternative?

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Mamertine 126 points 3 years ago

My search results keep wanting me to go to Reddit. I'm trying to avoid it, but it keeps calling.

I'm not scrolling there like I did before the "Spez killed the 3rd party app migration". I miss the level of engagement and ease of finding communities. Lemmy is decent, but the post volume is lacking. If I scroll new now, and again 12 hours later, there's not much new stuff before I see the stuff from last time.

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Mamertine 114 points 3 years ago

The writers of constitution of the United States were advocates of the "Rule of Law".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

For those not in the know, it's a legal philosophy saying that the laws should apply equality to everyone. The constitution writers disliked that the King was above the law. They wanted no one to be above the law.

Now we get to see if the Supreme Court still believes in the rule of law.

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Mamertine 90 points 3 years ago

You're in a Walmart.

They claim to be cheaper so they can have that drabby distopian look.

In the good parts of town, they look nicer. In the poor parts of town they're legit worse than that.

Fwiw, I'll pay the extra dollar per shopping cart for the superior look of a target. Target is generally cleaner and crisper looking. As always there are exceptions to that rule.

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Mamertine 83 points 3 years ago

You'd still owe that debt. Unless you go to prison for live than the debt's statute length. Generally 7 years.

Also some jurisdictions make you pay for the privilege of going to prison.

Ymmv, choose your state of jurisdiction very carefully.

Also crypto is a bubble IMO.

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Mamertine 75 points 2 years ago

I love that there's just an endless supply of Escalades exiting the freeway.

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Mamertine 67 points 3 years ago

Most boomers spent the 60s beating the shit out of Civil Rights protestors and spitting on children because their schools were desegregated.

I think that's just a Southern thing. Living in the North, my grandparents never discussed beating the shit out of civil rights protesters. Nor did they spout overtly racist things.

They were prejudice, but it was more of a I've never seen anyone with that color skin and it's different so I'm uncomfortable.

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Mamertine 62 points 3 years ago

They're putting themselves into an awkward position to have to accept that a fetus is a person and thus eligible to receive tax deductions, use the car pool lane, etc.

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Mamertine 57 points 3 years ago

I'll summarize it for other people to save them a click:

A few CEOs of companies you've never heard of agree with some other guy you've never heard of.

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Mamertine 52 points 3 years ago

An online petition demanding that the sculptors cease and desist

Can we get a petition going for the sculptors to continue?

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Mamertine 51 points 3 years ago

In their defense, they stare at a screen all day looking for contraband. The human brain can only do a task like that well for maybe 15 minutes before zoning out.

I know people who worked in manufacturing. There was a quality control position where a worker had to look at glass going by them on a assembly line looking for defects. They studied how long a person could reliability do that before they started missing defects. It was only about 10 minutes.

I think if that story every time I go to the airport, or when the TSA get trashed for missing half of the weapons they're supposed to be searching for.

AI should be used to assist roles like that.

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Mamertine 47 points 2 years ago

I'm literally not buying a Tesla because he's a douchbag.

When I see a Tesla on the road I assume they are a Musk fan boy. There's no prestige in that brand. There are a lot of us that assume that.

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Mamertine 46 points 2 years ago

That's messed up.

How is it, I've never heard of this until now?

That's super terrible business tactics.

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Mamertine 46 points 3 years ago

Being informed and not getting into arguments aren't related.

Don't argue with people. If they want to disagree with facts, walk away.

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Mamertine 43 points 2 years ago

Yes, and I'll counter that argument by suggesting we ban having sex with children regardless of if the molester is related.

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Mamertine 43 points 2 years ago

Jokes aside.

Felony by definition means it's punishable by at least one year in prison.

So specifically, why are we incarcerating consenting adults for having sex?

From a moral point, don't do that. From a legal point, stay out of the bedroom.

I'll also add context of this is a very Western belief. Natives of America prevented inbreeding by not marrying within the clan. Your first cousins could be in a different clan and therefore open for marriage.

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Mamertine 42 points 3 years ago

Salt makes things taste better.

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Mamertine 42 points 2 years ago

Doesn't the prison get paid for every person incarcerated?

No, it's a jail. Jail is part of the county. In most states, the sheriff runs it and the budget is part of the sheriff's budget. When they need money, that go to the county and ask for more. A jail is where people who just got arrested are detained. They are held there until bail is posted or their trial is complete. Frequently minor sentences for misdemeanors (under 1 year) are served in jail, though larger counties usually have a separate place for post trial misdemeanor sentences to be served.

Prison is ran by the state or federal government. It houses people convicted of felonies who are sentenced to do time in a prison (almost always a sentence over 1 year).

There's a lot of similarities and people often confuse them.

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Mamertine 41 points 3 years ago

Loophole of the "payment not received on time fee" of $40.

Obligatory - Join a credit union. They're non profit financial institutions that offer the same service as a bank. As a non profit, their fees and rates are much better.

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Mamertine 41 points 3 years ago

Precisely.

They don't care what the users make. They care that user interaction numbers are back up.

Spez is the scapegoat. The ownership of Reddit knows what they're doing and spez is simply the idiot willing to (poorly) do what he's told.

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