The second the police union has to start footing the bill, you'll suddenly see a whole lot of cops being fired and accountability for behavior materialize out of the ether
Fat chance. What's more likely is that you'll see new laws pop up making it illegal to sue the police. These dirtbags aren't giving up their control.
The entire stock market is based off investor's feelings so why shouldn't that also apply to the rest of the economy when market performance is a primary data point when measuring how the economy is doing?
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....
I'm not so sure about that after the last 8-9 years of political discourse in the US. You assume bringing light to them means people will see how ridiculous they are, but in reality they just bring the conspiracy into the forefront, where people then take sides and dig their heels in.
Trump getting a ton of coverage as the laughing stock candidate leading up to the 2016 election gave him the edge he needed to win while the rest of us thought the coverage would lead to a landslide victory for his opponent.
This guy's full of it claiming that the only complainers are people who don't watch the movies. I've seen all these movies as I have a kid and a lot of them are "meh". Frozen was an original property and it blew up big. Same with Moana, Inside Out, Encanto, Big Hero 6, Wreck it Ralph, Brave, etc.
Furthermore they're ignoring the rest of the Disney catalog and rehashed sequels outside of animated films "of the last 5 years." What about all the terrible live-action remakes? What about all the Star Wars and Marvel sequels? Those have all done terrible as well.
Marijuana would not be decriminalized or legalized, but such a move would be a grand step forward after decades of the federal government’s war on drugs and ease legal business surrounding the drug.
Far chance that the pharmaceutical industry moves in here as there's no way to patent a plant and for the most part, transactions all have to he handled in cash. I can't really see Bayer selling ounces of weed for $40 cash like everyone else and it's not as if they'll be able to do anything better than the players here who have been doing it for decades.
I'd put them on the same level of victimhood as followers of people like Charles Manson. They probably wouldn't have done what they did without his influence but they're still culpable for the damage they've caused.
It highlights the age gap between her and Trump by using her father's age as a reference point. People are joking about how it sounds like they're saying the age gap between her father and Trump has changed over time as if they age at different rates.
I dunno, the person I replied to originally seems to be losing their mind over this even though it makes sense even if a bit clunky and if everyone knows what they're trying to say then is it really that bad? Conveying meaning is the entire point of language and it seems to have done the job.
The problem is that $10-$15k Chinese EVs aren't competition as the Chinese government is paying the company directly for them to be that cheap. That's in comparison to a country where the best companies get is a $7500 credit toward their purchase. I would absolutely support Chinese EVs in the US if they weren't trying to undercut everyone with unsustainable subsidies just to put everyone else out of business.
Certainly but this can also be viewed as helping ease the transition for automakers since they've also implemented stricter efficiency rules upon them at the same time.
If we assume China is subsidizing $15k per car to allow them to sell for $10k, that $12B in US subsidies equates to about a single quarter worth of sales for just BYD alone, or 800k cars. There is no way we can match those subsidies for the rest of the players in the American market as around 13.5 million new cars are sold in the US each year.
I've done the same with Netflix for years and previously had the 4 streams 4k plan up until they implemented their bullshit password sharing rules. Now I have the $6.99 plan and only keep it because my MIL babysits for us and likes to watch all the K dramas on there.
Electronics too (like LEDs, microcontrollers, and sensors not phones and TVs). Often brands have a store on both Ali and Amazon but Ali is cheaper with longer shipping times of basically a week to a week and a half.
The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.
This is super obvious in pharmaceutical commercials as they all follow the same formula of upbeat music, people either enjoying nature or a party with friends, and lots of smiling as the voice-over tells you about the anal leakage and heart failure side effects.
Marijuana is its own special category, but club drugs (which for some reason include date rape drugs), inhalants and steroids are all in a "miscellaneous" category together?...
I agree too. Just the classifications alone seem close enough, and GHB is absolutely a 'club' drug that also happens to be a date rape drug. Back in my heyday, I knew several people that would use it recreationally when we'd go out to an EDM show (or in the hours after we got back to the crash pad to keep the party going).
I didn't read the whole thing, so I can comment on specific content like 'weed being a gateway' drug, but that's been disproven time and time again and this type of propaganda is common from schools and the government as they're bound by archaic laws to portray drugs in such a way.
I'd argue that if there is any gateway effect, it's solely related to the propaganda taught to the public that falls apart once you've actually tried some of them.
I don't think there's anything inherent about the drugs themselves that would drive you to try anything stronger. It's more that the misinformation makes people think "if they lied to me about this, what else were they lying about?" after trying something like weed and realizing it doesn't turn you into a psychopath or make you want to jump out of a window.
I honestly never tried it simply because the connotations with it being the "date rape" drug (and also because I was already enjoying myself with other stuff).
I saw the Mona Lisa set earlier today and it was getting absolutely wrecked in the comments. I don't know what Lego has been doing lately but I don't like it at all.
I also have and love both those sets, but they have been pumping out a not insignificant number of stinkers lately, and it only seems to be getting worse.
Interesting problem here. So I self host jellyfin, happy to share my (owned) movies with my family. Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing....
Separate library was my thought as well. I'm also hesitant to put any requested movies on my server that are along the same vein, but if it's not too many, it really doesn't matter at the end or the day. It's just some crappy movies in a sea of other movies.
It's an IP issue. Nobody wants to be the one responsible for leaking someone's proprietary design or PII just to make a little bit of cash from selling used drives. My work has 55 gallon drums with a slot on top to dispose of hard drives for this same reason.
I doubt it would lead to anything legally. A similar thing happened with Sarah Palin and Gabby Giffords. Palin's campaign sent out fliers with crosshairs over certain districts held by Democrats that Republicans wanted to win. One of these was targeted at Gabby Gifford's district and shortly after, someone shot her in the head. Nothing happened to Palin over it.
We'll see what happens. I don't think the ban has anything to do with Chinese propaganda and everything to do with the US government wanting a backdoor to read everyone's private communications. Maybe they'll force this into a FISA court under the guise of "national security" in order to get a win after a secret trial.
It also puts everyone on a level platform. A doctor that has been practicing for 20 years speaking about medical issues is placed right next to Joe Bob that keeps getting fired from every gas station in town, who also has his own thoughts on medical issues.
Driving in Japan with the wheel on the right side. The first time I did that last year I drove on the wrong side of the road about 5 times and got a shock every time when I saw all the ghost drivers just to quickly realize that it's me who is driving the wrong way. This year it only happened one time, so my brain seems to adapt...
It won't work as they use more than this to tie your accounts to you. I was permabanned for the same thing and tried multiple IPs. Mine was for mentioning piracy in /r/movies and then accidently commenting there on another account that was still subbed weeks later.
Not to mention ethanol (what the previous person kept referring to as "gasoline") is far less efficient, can only be used in high quantities on certain types of engines, and creates excessive smog during warmer months.
Don't forget that every acre of corn grown for ethanol is one less acre of food grown and when you increase from 10% ethanol to 100%, you're going to need 10x the amount of land to grow these crops all so we can pay top dollar at the pump to live in smog filled cities and get 10MPG in our vehicles.
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
Plus they gotta pay the hundreds of overtime hours "worked" by each cop every month. These guys are so dedicated that they work 26 hours a day, 8 days per week.
There is definitely a case for having a separate device for something a smartphone can do, if it can do it better, e.g a camera.
Frankly things have gone full circle and the list of "external devices that can do it better" seems to get larger and larger each release. Pretty much all phones excel at these days is scrolling through social media and keeping us entertained on the toilet.
If you have to rely on the appeal to emotion fallacy to do the heavy lifting for your argument, I suppose you're correct that there's nothing left to discuss.
Personally, I learned long ago not to close my hand in a door after the first attempt. I suppose there's a reason why some people need safety warnings not to use their toaster in the bathtub, and we should all live by those standards.
Your entire argument is an appeal to emotion as if logic should be ignored in this situation simply because "safety" when in reality someone would need to close their body part in a door four times in a row before they were even remotely at risk of being injured.
You followed that fallacy up with an ad hominem by claiming that I must be dumb because I don't blindly support your emotional argument about safety even though you have yet to explain how this is even unsafe in a real world scenario. My second paragraph highlighted similar scenarios where exceptionally special people might injure themselves by doing something idiotic and dangerous that no average person would ever do, yet we must still be warned about.
Care to take a crack at making an argument without relying on fallacies the whole time?
A teen said a deputy threatened him as he filmed his mom's arrest. A jury awarded him $185,000. ( apnews.com )
Was the 401(k) a Mistake? How an obscure, 45-year old tax change transformed retirement and left so many Americans out in the cold. ( www.nytimes.com )
CNN's Burnett asks Biden how he is going to turn the economy around. He said he already has. ( www.cnn.com )
FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole ( arstechnica.com )
Florida deputies who fatally shot US airman burst into wrong apartment, attorney says ( apnews.com )
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday....
Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water? ( www.nbcnews.com )
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....
Disney bets on sequels and password crackdown for profit growth ( www.bbc.com )
Disney is banking on a password crackdown and spate of sequels as it pushes to make its streaming business profitable. ...
DEA leader Anne Milgram dodges questions on Biden plan to deschedule marijuana [Anna Giaritelli | May 7, 2024 | Washington Examiner] ( www.washingtonexaminer.com )
Marijuana would not be decriminalized or legalized, but such a move would be a grand step forward after decades of the federal government’s war on drugs and ease legal business surrounding the drug.
If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible?
Let me explain the question:...
Trump Posts -- Then Deletes -- Rant About Stormy Daniels Testifying ( www.rollingstone.com )
China’s booming EV companies eye U.S. competitors they see as ‘not ready’ ( www.nbcnews.com )
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause ( arstechnica.com )
As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.
The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. ( lemmy.world )
Marijuana is its own special category, but club drugs (which for some reason include date rape drugs), inhalants and steroids are all in a "miscellaneous" category together?...
Two new iconic LEGO sets announced, based on a pair of well-known European wonders
https://www.brothers-brick.com/2024/05/07/two-new-iconic-lego-sets-announced-based-on-a-pair-of-well-known-european-wonders-news/
How do you handle family requests that you disagree with?
Interesting problem here. So I self host jellyfin, happy to share my (owned) movies with my family. Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing....
Here is what 6 decommissioned servers looks like. My Jellyfin will be very happy ( lemmy.world )
6 servers were decomissioned, Iwas able to only get the disks, RAM, CPUs and Network Card....
Drake's Security Guard Seriously Injured After Shooting at Rapper's Toronto Home ( www.etonline.com )
Boy Scouts of America rebranding to more inclusive Scouting America ( www.pbs.org )
TikTok sues U.S. government, says ban violates First Amendment ( www.cnbc.com )
Sovcit's employer is confused by sovcit. ( lemmy.world )
Driving in Japan ( jemmy.jeena.net )
Driving in Japan with the wheel on the right side. The first time I did that last year I drove on the wrong side of the road about 5 times and got a shock every time when I saw all the ghost drivers just to quickly realize that it's me who is driving the wrong way. This year it only happened one time, so my brain seems to adapt...
A while ago one of my old accounts got banned from r/news for saying I wouldn't bone some celebrity. Now if I forget and comment on a front page post with any account this happens. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Samsung Rumored To Bring ‘Battery AI’ To Its Galaxy S25 Series, Boosting The Total Backup By Up To 10 Percent At The Same Performance Level ( wccftech.com )
Boeing forced to scrub first crewed Starliner launch to the space station ( www.nbcnews.com )
The launch attempt was called off roughly two hours ahead of the planned liftoff....
Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption ( www.theverge.com )
Sovcit wants her military benefits but to also become a sovcit. ( lemmy.world )
After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail ( theintercept.com )
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....
Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about ( www.xda-developers.com )
A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. ( www.businessinsider.com )