FireTower @ FireTower @lemmy.world

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Na the hardware store guys are chill

They mandate trigger warnings for pictures of cheese.

Base line Lemmy has a left skew. Hexbear people are the basis for probably a quarter of conservatives talking points.

The speech: a US shell company reposting an algorithm owned by a company that is bound to the will on the closest thing the US has to a rival nation.

This is the argument of TikTok's counsel before the court

If any store decides I need to ask an employee to read the nutritional facts on the back of a can of soup I will never shop there.

The solution isn't locks it's fixing the underlying problem.

Yeah no one is fingerprinting a possession case.

Tear the page you're on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S

Without knowing which hurricane or flood victims you're asking about I can't answer as for them. But for the COVID pandemic? Yes, absolutely. The CARES Act has tons of sections that impose requirements on recipients. It's not like the federal government just gave away 2.2 trillion dollars no strings attached.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748/text

We can and should audit for any fraud or diversion of aid after the crisis

Naturally it's not like there's any point in an audit of spending before spending occurs. I was asserting that post conditional terms (like CA must return unaccounted expenditures) or requiring the preservation of records for such and audit is a reasonable condition.

Most financial aid and transactions these days is strictly digital and easy to audit because of that.

Other forms of aid like diversion of fire suppression helicopters have other simple means of establishing records that can later be audited after the end of the emergency (e.g. adding a comment on the pre flight checklist).

But if we decide 9 months from now CA has to pass an audit and they tossed their receipts it'll be impossible.

Without actual proposed conditions there can't really be an intelligent discussion on the topic. This story isn't ripe yet.

Certainly there are some reasonable conditions e.g. a report and audit on the dispersal of aid to ensure it isn't landing in a politician's pockets.

Good mod. Clearly has touched grass.

I was going to make my own comment but this hits the nail on the head. Civil discussion. They or you may be wrong but make your point and let them make theirs and may the strongest prevail.

Assert your point but don't be mean.

And if your aunt was a man, she'd be your uncle.

If I create a community and it gets 1k members I'm not a businessman.

NCVS data isn't limited to murders or just homicides. And even if reports by victims or surviving members of their families was a significant issue it'd be mooted by the fact the core value of this study isn't how much data shows in any one year but how it cross compares to other years.

Each year's data is relative to the past years data. NCVS is about as good as it gets and is probably better than the UCR for this type of data.

A) The National Crime Victimization Survey surveys victims and their surviving relatives.

B) The economy ≠ the poverty rate. But towards the point, what does you even mean. The existence of a statistic doesn't deny the reality of those victimized. It simply expresses the commonality of an occurrence.

People are living in a fantasy world perpetuated by a media that stands to gain by over reporting tragedies while being silent on any good news. Pointing out statistics may lead people to trust the unreliable sources less. But that is a good thing. And knowledge of statistics is critical in coming to policy conclusions.

A stateless society is one with a power vacuum. Some one will claim the title of leader and often it'll be someone of little virtue.

Politics aside. The court is not going to grant bail to anyone accused of first degree murder who is a flight risk. And given the current narrative seems to be that he shot a man in NYC and was found in another state. I'd say they'd consider him a flight risk.

I saw a post about someone who made sliders (mini hamburgers) and everyone they'd served them to so far liked them. I wish we had more posts like that one. The problem with Lemmy is there is not enough active niche communities for peoples interests. This is one thing Reddit does much better due to the scale of the user base.

It feels like a brief respite every time I stumble on a post like that.

No. 18 USC 924 also covers non violent offenses but the punishments for those are less.

Their rate of inflation iis decreasing but they still experience inflation rather than deflation. INFLATION IS COMPOUNDING even if the rate of increase of inflation is slightly lower there is still a lot of inflation.

If you owe $100 and inflation is stuck at 200% per year after one year you'll owe $300, after two years $900, three years $2,700.

Now if you owe $100 and inflation starts at 200% per year then drops to 190% for year 2, and then falls again to 180% for year three you're looking at this: year 1 $300, year 2 $870, year 3 $2,436.

It's better to owe someone $2,436 than it is to owe them $2,700. But owing someone $2,436 sucks a lot more than owing them $100.

I don't know how this couldn't be clear to anyone who understands the concept of inflation.

https://youtu.be/T8-85cZRI9o

https://youtu.be/BHw4NStQsT8