@dipodomysdeserti said in Texas Has Cured Covid:

@ttyymmnn Question, can cities and counties not enact their own mandates in Texas? In Arizona we never had a state mandate, it was always on a city and county basis.

I believe the answer is yes. My brother is in SA and he mentioned that Austin is a bit different. Adler (Austin's mayor) has been making his own rules all along.

I legitimately don't care what Texas does here. I hope it all goes well. No matter what happens, it serves as a good case study (either for more or less caution). The problem is that no matter what the data says, people are going to be political about it.

@dogisbadob Cut the woman a little break, we have to let her have at least one upside to being married to that talking snot rocket.

@glemon This is really the problem - we're not going to refuse it since we have to pay for it eventually anyways whether we take it or not.

Go to bed it’s late.

@glemon The median income in this country is about $36,000 a year which is equal to about $16.82 an hour. That's not a lot of money by any stretch. So is it aspirational? I would think not. It seems like an amount of money that would be just enough by which to scrape by, at least in my city which has a median income of $62,000.

@forsweden He definitely isn't making nice with the Euro zone or US. He's on the fence of being crazy or hardliner.

@nickhasanexocet
That sq ft idea might require a lot of overhead to verify, and be subject to a lot of cheating/lying. However, it still might be more efficient than the current system. I'll definitely agree with you that the tax scheme needs simplification and reform. Hoarding needs to be strongly discouraged by effectively making it either painfully expensive, or impossible.

FIRE buys many laws and regulations - there's a reason why the housing industry has a bit of direct and indirect governmental support, and interest is a tax deduction, uniquely American ideas - and through it is a massive segment of the economy. It could be as aided as oil and defense/praetorian sector activity. I suspect along with life expectancy rising, working age has risen because private sector pensions have vanished, cost of living has ballooned while wages have not, and healthcare concerns when even medicare will still cost hundreds per month. It'll take massive medical system and social security changes to encourage earlier retirement, I suspect many simply can't afford it even at age 70. Of course we'll still have citizens deluxe public sector workers hanging em up at 55 with subsidized pensions and bennies, can't touch those.

The PNW real estate market is almost as bad as CA (and in some areas bid up by Californians who import the problems they claim to be fleeing, but that's another story) - a shortage of material in the starter home/affordable segment, and flippers who are often aided by family largesse snap up much of it before traditional buyers, decreasing supply and inflating prices even more. Today it takes little work to sell a house, and slapping on new cosmetics isn't rocket science. But maybe if I forget the tale about a very mobile egalitarian economy, it makes sense. As always, it takes money to make money. However, I can't embrace sacrificing scarce housing stock so bootstrapping daddy's kid flippers/short term landlords or rental corporations can profit while legit consumers are priced out. The group helped most is probably the lucky generations who bought in when it was more attainable and sometimes now have winning lottery tickets. I got mine, etc.

@facw said in Two Conspiracy Theories::

@civicwagonengineer I don't think I've had bills after they were due, but I have had doctor's appointment notifications arrive after the appointment. And for Christmas only one of the five things I sent via USPS arrived within two weeks of the 25th. Two never arrived, though and in one case the replacement item was also weeks late.

Very uneven. That's where my conspiracy theory sprang from.

@fintail Vancouver, Wa

@exage03040

Should go the other way...

A...waiting vaccination.

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@highlander not with that much damage though. Anyone with half a brain would stop to at least survey the damage before continuing. f5074240-6d1e-464b-873c-a527020c3f42-image.png

@krustywantout
Unfortunately some people have never had to experience it and when they are faced with it they genuinely don't know what to do.
There are a great number of services out there but if you don't know about them, but even then some have such a criteria that she wouldn't of been eligible and simply turned away rather than told where to go.
For some it's genuine shame and feel defeated by life and once you get that fog of anxiety, disillusion, despair, depression, etc... it's really hard to see through even stuff that's right in front of your face.
Just like any form of depression, you can shout, point, shake, etc... the person to show there is help, but it's just so hard for them to see.
I'm not saying to do it for them, but sometimes in the first instance, you have to, just to ease that fog, show them that there is help, advise them once they've had that initial bit of calm.

@fintail said in Tell me I'm wrong pt.2:

Might be the most only time he's ever defended his wife though.

FTFY! 😉

@krustywantout As someone who is responsible for fostering diversity and inclusion at my workplace, that shit takes work and it sounds like Smith is trying. Calling it a racially hostile environment towards white people is more than a bit rich. She's martyring herself because she just doesn't like those D&I efforts.

@nickhasanexocet TBF there are open schools here, but districts are allowed to decide for themselves whether to open or not. Everything else has been open since the summer.

@forsweden The skateboard firefighters are totally mocking them

@sovande Agreed, pretty much the way I've always done things. More often than not I left the company to join a different entity either for money or a more desirable job. One of the reasons I'll work longer than I'd prefer is the simple fact we chose to make our kid's education a priority and paid 100%, so they graduated with no debt.

There's an official petition to exclude airsoft from the bill now. My hopes are still not high though.

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3201

@dogisbadob said in La Chapa is Arrested at Dulles:

@dipodomysdeserti said in La Chapa is Arrested at Dulles:

@rusty-vandura I’d rather see more pharma reps and CEOs behind bars for creating our opioid epidemic. People using meth and cocaine know exactly what they’re doing, and a good deal of heroin users probably got hooked from prescriptions. Marijuana? We’re still arresting people for that?

The only difference between El Chapo and Big Pharma is a ticker symbol 🤔

$SNLOA, 123.45, +2.15, ^1% 😈

Hotter wives, too, apparently.

@davesaddiction It says a lot when one would rather vote for a corrupt embodiment of the seven deadly sins ally of fascists than you. Then again, buttery males and calling things what they are don't help, not to mention real ethical issues.

If 2016 showed us anything, it might be that the differences are still a little stronger than some cynics (myself included) might have thought, even if some bullshit continues no matter who is in office.

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@cobrajoe Well, I’m glad that you’ve seemed to learn some new things from our discussion.

I’d encourage you to research the topic of sustainability in regards to ecology. Might open up your eyes a bit more on what human actions are beneficial for our survival, and those that are not.

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Meanwhile, here comes Cyrus Vance Jr.

@highlander said in Trump Space Shuttle:

@rusty-vandura What amazes me is how many people are walking around with a black sharpie.

I always carry a sharpie with me. Very useful! I don't spend much time vandalizing things with it though.