Where I am I'd say nearly half of the Teslas I see parked have an anti-Elon sticker. It makes zero sense to me. When I have felt embarrassed about my car, I was poor and couldn't afford anything else. That isn't the case here, if these people actually feel embarrassed they could just get a new car.
You shelled out tens of thousands of dollars for a new Tesla, but you expect me to take you seriously because you also spent five bucks on an anti-Elon bumper sticker? You see how that's worse, right?
This is really alarming. Ecuador's adoption of El Salvador-style militarized prisons has led to a massive spike in violence and prisoner mortality.
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This isn't just a small handful of people; fully ONE IN FIVE Montana prisoners will be held in private prisons Mississippi operated by CoreCivic. In a normal country this would be immediately recognized as cruel and unusual punishment.
Prison offices love bragging about seizing contraband drugs, which is hilarious because in almost all cases the drugs were smuggled in by their own staff.
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California did the same thing in the aftermath of Brown v. Plata to quickly reduce in-state facility populations and it was disastrous. You lose all reasonable oversight, family visitation usually becomes impossible, and the prisons are often particularly awful.
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"These fancams are the work of what I call the the Center for Surveilling Unwitting Players via Guerrilla Investigative Reporting by Lesbians, aka SUPGIRL, for which a member requires no training. The only requirement is the ability to see in gay."
Cats (2019) could have broken even if Universal Pictures released the butthole cut on BluRay, they just chose not to. Does this suggest that large entertainment firms serve a deeper purpose for capitalism than simple profit-seeking? In this essay I will
Which is why I am talking about the HP data you linked, which shows that robbery has fallen quite a bit over time (it makes no claims about gang-related robberies specifically). But more importantly, you still have not backed up your claim about comparisons with traffic fatalities.
You're right, I checked and your original argument was "you’re more likely to be robbed by a gang than hit by a car." But the data you linked doesn't show that. It doesn't even differentiate "gang" related robberies. But it does show that robbery rates have also fallen over the past 15 years.
Also the source you're linking shows that the rate for Detroit (the city you're talking about) is significantly lower than Highland Park (an enclave). But more importantly, bundled crime rates primarily represent overall crime. Your source shows that murder is plummeting in HP.
Not sure why you seem upset about being asked for a data source you referenced from someone interested in learning more, but this source doesn't seem to make traffic data comparisons, which is what is actually relevant here.
Source?
Yeah, the Vatican rules are assuredly far more complicated than the U.S. constitution. But I guess the Pope once ran multiple Papal States, so who knows.
I'm definitely not suggesting that it would be a good idea for anyone! Just curious about what the law says.
That makes sense! It seems like such a funny edge case because of how Vatican citizenship works.
Interesting! Yes I agree that it would be politically disastrous for all involved even if it was just lower clergy. It just seemed like a rare case where it was possible to be the formal head of state for two sovereign states simultaneously.
I'm not an economic psychologist, but I am positive that the results of any experiment in the field will be altered if it is conducted in Scrooge McDuck's money vault.
Potentially a stupid question but is there any constitutional reason preventing an American-born Pope from running for president?
Quoted source is from Paul Krugman, who is far smarter than most of the commentators I am complaining about, but who nonetheless doesn't consider wealth inequality in his post this morning. Maybe he'll get around to it in the followup post, we'll see.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damne...
And that’s a puzzle. Obviously, I’m no defender either of Trump’s policies or of his lies. But while the U.S. economy isn’t nearly as good as he claims, it’s objectively not bad enough to justify the worst consumer sentiment in history — worse than during the stagflation at the end of the 1970s, worse than in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Newspapers have spilled so much ink asking why consumer sentiment is so low when the economy is "objectively not bad enough to justify" such a sour mood, as though watching dipshits like Elon Musk & Sam Altman become richer than God over the past decade might not be a major psychological factor.
Way to go man, you somehow made it even weirder and more unsettling.
PLEASE someone who is free on Friday go to this opera about peregrines in Fruitvale and send your review to @oaklandreviewofbooks.org : www.rhythmix.org/events/fligh...
An 18-year-old USC student was struck in the eye by a less-than-lethal round while documenting a protest outside a federal detention center in Los Angeles.
Bernie is technically still an independent despite caucusing with other dems, but otherwise yes. I don't think there has been a single Jewish Republican in the Senate since Arlen Specter switched parties in 2009.
Good point!
If he can't hold the ranks together on this anymore, I'm not sure if he'll even want the job as much. He's explicitly said it's among his main priorities as minority leader.
When journalists write "police shooting" or "officer-involved shooting" it could mean basically anything! Maybe a cop shot someone. Maybe someone shot a cop. Maybe a cop shot another cop. Maybe nobody got shot at all!
After reading this headline you may be surprised to learn that, in the incident in which Young was falsely accused, zero police officers were actually shot.
www.timesunion.com/state/articl...
New desktop wallpaper acquired, thank you.