Fuck, I don’t know anymore
They have a stronger version than the US because lawyers can argue for it to the jury. In the US they aren’t allowed to do it, and most states have model jury instructions that tell them they are not allowed to ignore the law because they think it unjust.
I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.
I hate this argument. How does buying something incentivize more of it to be made when there is a substitute(dirty energy)?
It’s like saying you’re going to incentivize people to eat healthier by destroying vegetable crops
That was Chicago.
I think we’ll see more of this stuff. It’s just too tempting for politicians. They can fill a budget hole, lower property taxes, etc, and make it some future administrations problem. Especially if they structure it with a gradual increase in prices.
It’s like taxing people 50 years in the future but getting to spend the money now.
I think it was the regular political corruption that exists everywhere in the US, lobbying, campaign donations and the revolving door. Texas is definitely winning the race to sell off all the public goods, but this kind of thing happens all over. Chicago sold off the rights to the parking spaces on public streets in a similar kind of deal.
Texas is the champ at letting private industry profit from government.
They built a toll road with $1Billion in public money, using a private equity firm to build it which resulted in large profits, and hazardous work conditions. Then they sold 50 years of toll rights to a different private equity firm for $600mil, with no limit to how much could be charged. When tolls predictably skyrocketed, they had to buy those rights back for $1.7 billion after the firm had collected tolls for 5 years.
Gave my friends some phone calls and told them I love them cause they are my friends. It was weird cause one of them thought i was gonna do something bad, and it made me realize that maybe I should ease into something like that next time.
That’s wonderful. I need to do more of that with my family
At my volunteering gig, I got into an argument with this boomer who was constantly trying to boss me around and act like I had some ulterior motive for volunteering. She wasn’t anyone’s boss, but she’s been volunteering there for ages, so she has this attitude that she’s above me. Still, I should have just let it go. They didn’t text me to give me a schedule, so I guess that’s over.
I was mainly doing the volunteer work to kind of practice for working again, since I’ve been out of the workforce a long time. I’m kind of thinking that I should just enjoy the free time I have left before I have to rejoin the grind of wage labor.
I’m making good progress on running. I’ve run almost 60 miles so far this month, and broke my personal record for a 10k by a fair amount. I’m going to take it a little easier next week because I definitely overtrained.
Thanks for the support, I appreciate it
I’m training for a 10k race and it’s going pretty well. I’m running farther and faster than I’ve ever done. I probably won’t actually compete in the race since it’s $60, but I’m going to run the route and try to hit my goal time.
On other fronts I’m not doing as well. I’ve got to go back to work sometime late this year after 15 years out of the workforce. I’ve been trying to simulate what’ll be like by volunteering, but I’m having trouble getting along with people. I feel like quitting because it’s making me more anxious.
I’m just going to try to stay positive and not worry about it.
Could you add me to the list?
I’m back on nicotine, too.
I quit smoking a year or two ago by switching to vaping and gradually reduced the nicotine dose to zero. I fell off the alcohol wagon for a few days and bought one of those disposable vapes. I haven’t drank since, but I’ve been wasting a small fortune on those vapes.
I keep telling myself I’m going to quit again, but I’ve got a lot going on right now. I’m looking for work for the first time in 12 years and recently quit smoking weed. I’m afraid of changing too many things at once and having a major relapse and ending up on harder drugs again. Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Wishing you luck comrade!
Any fitgirl repack of a switch game comes with a fully configured version of yuzu. You could download one of those(Google fitgirl repacks, it’s the first site), and remove the system files.
Or go here:
https://github.com/PrincessAkira/road-to-yuzu-without-switch
These posts always make me question myself because I’ve basically never worn deodorant or antiperspirant.
I’ve had jobs where you can’t be stinky(sales,office jobs, at a hospital), and nobody has ever said anything. I’ve lived with partners for 16 years, none have ever complained about my smell(besides times when anyone would smell, like after a long run on a hot day).
I’m guessing I just have lucky personal body chemistry, but I’m sure there will be some people telling themselves I’m just smelly and don’t know it.
I use PIA because it was the cheapest on their 3.3 year plan, and it has a good node geographically close to me with port forwarding. I only use it for torrenting, so I don’t care if it’s a CIA Honeypot or whatever.
You usually need to grab most reality shows on the day they air because nobody seeds them after a few days. I recommend using some kind of rss feed setup, either through sonarr or with your torrent app.
Showrss.info is pretty good for beginners. It allows you to make a customized rss feed that has the shows you want in the formats you prefer. I checked and they have house hunters. This won’t help with back episodes, but at least you can start accumulating the new ones
I think the only way it will work is if you connect via Bluetooth(if the echo dot can do that). Casting basically just sends a URL to the device and it fetches the audio feed itself. Since xmanager isn’t on the echo, it can’t block the ads.
I have the same issue when playing through my Google Home’s. I tried looking for a domain to block through my router, but I couldn’t find one that wouldn’t also block the music.
That’s exactly what the shopkeepers privilege is, an immunity to false arrest claims when they have suspicion you’ve stolen something.
The two cases I found, the judges decided that refusing to show the receipt was enough to provide that suspicion
The customer sued the store civilly for false arrest after security held them.
If you called a cop they would say, “it’s a civil issue” because cops don’t do shit when businesses do crime to consumers.
Everyone should talk to their relatives, especially elderly relatives about scams. The most important points are:
That they should never trust that the person calling is who they say they are, they can always hang up, look up the number and call the company/police/whoever directly. Also talk about how scammers create a false sense of urgency. Lastly, talk about the ways scammers collect their money, by having you send venmo/Apple pay/Zelle, gift cards or crypto atms, nobody legitimate requires that kind of payment.
It’s a hard thing to talk about without making them feel like you’re calling them dumb or gullible. The way I broached it with my mom was to tell her about someone smart I knew that got tricked by one of those tech support scams.
Nothing guarantees you won’t get tricked into a scam, but you can make it harder