Gerrymandering is not actually illegal. SCOTUS has said only gerrymandering that specifically disenfranchises based on race is illegal due to specific laws passed to protect against that exact thing. Otherwise, it’s fair game. And much more recently, they even relaxed the racial protections, because they’re fucking corrupt.
I dont want any of it. Gerrymandering is bullshit no matter who does it. I’m begrudgingly okay with California doing it to rebalance the scales after Texas’ open voter suppression, but I would much rather it be illegal for everyone, always, everywhere.
Proper response: “Who you calling ‘piggy’, fat ass?”
Got hogs on the mind lately, Trump? Call him. I know Bill is thinking of you, too. Dreams can’t happen without the initiative to make them happen.
Wouldn’t surprise me if, after the inevitable bailout, it comes out that OpenAI actually helped China out behind the scenes to fuel the arms race. Why wouldn’t they? The competition, patticularly losing the competition, is to their direct benefit when their end goal is a federal bailout. The more competition, the bigger the ballot they can justify. They can extend themselves further, they can entrench themselves deeper into more companies, and when these inevitable collapse begins, they can take more government money, lest the Chinese “win”.
Frankly, the moment it became apparent that their intent was to use the American tax pay as the backstop to their private deals, let alone when they actually fucking said as much out loud for everyone to hear, the company should have been done. Period. It should have had all assets frozen and all deals legally voided immediately. It should have been dissolved as an entity entirely, and all of its executives should have been charged with tax fraud and likely other charges. That goes for the executives at these other companies making deals for multiple times their current revenue, which still leaves them net negative in the first place, on the unfounded promise of unprecedented future revenue streams. And that is top of dozens of other companies getting similar deals. They have to have known that the intent was to use the federal government to stopgap the deals, making them directly complicit in this fraud. Charge them too.
Herc and Megara went through college with me, moved back into my mom’s with me, through a couple apartments and into my first home before they finally split in half in the dishwasher.
9, but we had some saucers with 8, I think.
She’ll never have my vote for any number of reasons, but to see anyone as deep in the maga cult as her demonstrate any amount of growth… even if she falls back into old patterns at some point… it says something hopeful about steering this ship away from our current course if even she can gain the self awareness and humility to regret participating in these vitriolic forms of politics. Maybe, then, our parents and neighbors can see enough of the light to realize what this is bringing about, where we’re headed, and have the humility to admit that they need to stop and to do better. It’s only the smallest glimmer of hope, but it’s more than my increasingly cynical ass has had in a minute. Keep working on yourself Marge, but glad to see the baby steps being taken.
That and the “without the Bible, how do you know what’s right or wrong” crowd. They have become so externally reliant on direction that they dont even have an independent sense of morality anymore. Also, they must think, in turn, that that non-Christian cultures and people are inherently amoral or immoral. The irony.
Some people just genuinely don’t have those kinds of dark impulses and actually are repulsed to take such actions even in a simulated environment. But I’ll grant you, non-destructive, safe outlets for those impulses and frustrations is, indeed, healthier than the alternative.
Ah yeah, those eggs would be moist. They didn’t have cinnamon and vanilla in them, did they? 😝
Also, I’ve never air fried sausage links before. I can see how that would probably get the whole sausage cooked through before much browning on the casing happens that way. When pan-searing, the casing gets much darker from direct contact with the pan, and it taken longer for that heat to conduct in the meat in the middle. I usually sear them and get them nice and brown, tossing them around to get even browning all over, and pull them at the first sign that casing is about to split.
Personally I’d brown the sausage a bit more and get a softer scramble on the eggs, bit it looks good. Well done
Had to do a double take and zoom in to see that they were just painted. I was confused and concerned for a second there.
And it’s required. I genuinely have neither. Am I not welcome to apply?
home is nominal tax. Second home is double that. Third is quadruple. That’d fix housing and rent prices overnight.
I dont think that would fix rents necessarily unless the taxes were particularly prohibitively. They’d just be incentivized and have an excuse to raise taxes more, seems like.
Put simply, it decreases your monthly payments but extends how long you will make those payments. So compared to a 30 year mortgage, you’ll pay something like 85% as much per month on your mortgage (15% less), but for 167% as long (20 years longer)
0.85 × 1.67 = 1.42, meaning you will end up paying 42% more for the same house in the end. That means you will just about double, give or take, the interest paid to your loaner. And the house wont be yours until 50 years is up, meaning you paid 42% more for a 20 year older house, by the time you could sell it for full equity (i.e. didnt have to pay anything to the loaner). And that is IF you even live for the full 50 year, which most people wont. The average first time home buyer now is already in their 30s, meaning they will be in their 80s by the end of their mortgage. 71-72 is average life expectancy. So instead of inheriting your home, you kids will more than likely inherit an ongoing mortgage, or lose the house to foreclosure.
The simple fact of that matter is that homes are too fucking expensive. Yes, a 50 year mortgage will drop your monthly payments by a significant margin (maybe 15ish percent) increasing affordability for the long term. However, this will only serve to prop up already inflated housing prices. The problems with that should be readily apparent.
A) if your house is twice as expensive as it should be, your payments will be twice as expensive at it should be. Thanks for the extra 15% off a month, but that still doesn’t get payments to anywhere near as affordable as it would be if housing was more available and, thus, cheaper. It would be better to forgo that 15% monthly payment decrease by extending your mortgage (and massively increasing interest), and instead see a 10% market price decrease and keep your 30 year mortgage and end up still paying less overall.
B) The biggest hurdle for any prospective home buyer is the initial hurdle, the down payment. You have to be able to pay for your current housing (be it mortgage or rent or whatever) and other necessities while also setting aside money on the order of tens of thousands to afford just the down payment on a house to even qualify for the loan. For even a modest home in my area, the lowest on market currently is asking ~175,000 for under 900 sq ft. 20% down for that would be 35k that you need to have saved before even considering buying the cheapest home in town. Extending the mortgage not only doesnt help you on this, it actually makes this hurdle worse. It makes mortgages easier to get for current home owner, in turn proping up the housing prices making it prohibitively expensive for renters and first time home buyers that dont have the equity in property to sell off to cover this down payment. And as the housing prices continue to inflate that 35k goal post just keeps moving further away every year while your money is sunk into your landlord’s pocket, who also increases rent as the market increases.
Prices needed to come down. Rents need to stop rising. And corporate real-estate investors need to be outlawed, or at least heavily regulated to prevent this absurd inflation. First time home buyers should be the first priority in real-estate and housing policies, not the last. We used to actively support them, but now we are more worried about boomers’ resale value and squeezing renters for every dime. It has to stop. Build more housing, more homes, more dense housing. Make competition for the landlords and give first time home buyers every advantage over investment buyers, particularly corporate investment buyers. Fund it with the American tax dollar and see the middle class rise back up. It’s really that easy, but they just wont do it becuase Daddy Warbucks wouldn’t like it.
I want instead of going to the insurance companies, I want the money to go into an account for people, where the people buy their own health insurance.
I… uh… what? So is he saying that people will get a cash balance from the government to use exclusively on Healthcare, kind of like HSA/FSA, and can use it to pay their private insurance premiums? Like a universal basic income but just for Healthcare? Or only some people, like those without employer insurance, are getting money? Why is this better in any way, like even playing devils advocate, I can’t come up with a good reason for it.
Weird quirk of English… why do we say “6 o’clock in the morning”, “2 o’clock in the afternoon”, and “6 o’clock in the evening”, but then we say “9 o’clock at night”? It doesnt sound right to say “at morning”, “at afternoon”, or “at evening”. You can say something happened “in the night”, but only in a non-specific way, like “she passed in the night”. But “I go to work at 11 o’clock in the night” just doesnt work.
So her argument is that the lesson of the Holocaust was NOT that racism is wrong, that religious intolerance is wrong, that the overwhelming power of the strong used on the weak is wrong, that systemic genocide and ethnic cleansing are wrong. No, the lesson of the Holocaust is that antisemitism, AND SPECIFICALLY ONLY ANTISEMITISM, is wrong. You fucking moronic children that are angry over a powerful Jewish ethnostate systematically genociding and ethnic cleansing a weaker population due to their race and religion… you’ve missed the point of your Holocoaust education! Being Jewish makes their actions right, and saying otherwise is antisemitic.
Jesus fucking Christ, lady. You have managed to amplify this stupid antisemitic argument to absurd levels by claiming Holocaust education should, in fact, lead one to support carnage and genocide. A new low. You’re a monster, congrats.