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TheGoldenEel posted...

who is advertising during this shit

Liberty Mutual

Asking for a friend

A lot of people sounding like anti-maskers ITT

I feel very lucky in this; I never lost my sense of taste. My sense of smell has never been all that great to begin with, lol

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1546956748942082049

MaxEffingBemis posted...

how long is it? i need something to tide me over until xc3 comes out

https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=93954

(Somehow I'd gotten it in my head that it was a 40 hour game; I'm probably actually close to finishing)

It's fun!

Cool

There's a gym above my office that does lessons, might check it out one of these days.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/9/AAWHm8AADcbp.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/8/4/AAWHm8AADcbk.jpg

https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/local/london-breed-blasts-election-measure-as-socialist-power-grab

San Francisco Mayor London Breed says a potential ballot measure to move citywide elections to presidential years is a democratic socialist power grab, and the proposal's author is pushing back.

Breed, a Democrat, characterized Supervisor Dean Preston's proposal to hold the next mayor, sheriff, district attorney, city attorney elections and treasurer in 2024 and every four years after that rather than in 2023 as Preston and a "group of democratic socialists" deciding "they want to have more control and power of being able to get their people elected."

Preston, the board's first democratic socialist supervisor in decades, introduced his measure in May, citing turnout disparities especially among poorer voters and communities of color between off-year and presidential elections as a reason for the change. He told KCBS Radio in an email that Breed is "the only official" in San Francisco to oppose the measure since then.

"I don't think that's the right way to do things," Breed told KCBS Radio's Patti Reising and Kris Ankarlo when asked about the proposal on Monday afternoon. "No members of the public have had any say in how we shape this policy and what it all means."
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote on Prestons proposal on Tuesday. A similar measure reached the ballot in 2008, failing to pass after 55% voted against it.

More than 86% of San Franciscans voted in the 2020 presidential election and nearly 75% voted in the midterm election two years prior, during which Californians voted for statewide offices and a U.S. Senate seat.

In the 2019 citywide election in between, 41.6% of registered San Francisco voters cast ballots. A higher percentage of San Franciscans (46.2%) cast ballots in last months consolidated election, which included the statewide primary and the successful recall of former District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

Common Cause, a voting advocacy group, published a report last year showing that 54 California cities switching from odd-year to even-year elections last decade increased voter turnout, on average, from 25.5% to 75.8%.

"That's why voting rights groups across the state agree: getting rid of odd year elections means more people participate in electing their local officials, especially lower-income voters and communities of color," Preston said in an emailed statement to KCBS Radio. "San Francisco is behind when it comes to this civil rights issue, and its hard to understand why the Mayor wouldn't want more people to participate in local democracy."

Supervisors Connie Chan, Rafael Mandelman and Aaron Peskin all voted last week to advance the measure from the rules committee, which was open to public comment.

The full board will vote on the proposal during Tuesday's 2 p.m. meeting. Participants can provide comments in person, over the phone or online by following these instructions. According to the meeting agenda, the supervisors will not hear additional public comment prior to voting on whether the measure should reach the ballot.

Breed told Reising and Ankarlo that she thought putting the measure "on the ballot without any process or public input" would be "the wrong thing to do for the people of San Francisco." In a letter to Peskin last month, Breed said similar measures in Los Angeles and San Jose followed "thorough, independent and objective accounting of possible solutions" in committee meetings and public hearings.

Life is so much happier when you don't know any youtubers' opinions

Smashingpmkns posted...

Got brain for the first time
Call it Intro2Logic

Incredible

Tag, I'll contribute tomorrow after I sleep

There are countries where it is less easy. Having such a punitive justice system and a nightmare healthcare system and a godforsaken welfare system are choices unique to the US.

https://twitter.com/BillShaikin/status/1546598101439303680

kirbyy posted...

I don't get the ranking, how is barfing on the number 2 spot but above sneezing and coughing. Barfing is awful.

He says it's because you feel so much better afterwards

https://twitter.com/murderxbryan/status/1546559825554833410

Very bad ranking, imo!

https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2022-07-11/dodger-stadium-concession-workers-threaten-to-strike-all-star-game

Solidarity

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Merrick Garland is afraid to prosecute

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The RNC couldn't stop him before

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Who, exactly, is going to stop him?

They've already said they're working on a sequel to Like a Dragon, I assume if the timline is similar to their recent output it'll get a formal announcement next spring for a fall release

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1546487926711693312

You're supposed to put "asking for a friend" on these

Sonic 3D Blast is a good one

In fairness to Texas, they aren't used to it getting hot in the summer.

Yes. Got covid last week and it sucked

Gotta say, not filled with confidence about the direction in which things are headed

Dios bless

SnakePaws posted...

Trump was probably closest thing to democracy we've had in a long time.

Wild to say this about a guy who did not receive the most votes

I think you're conflating two groups of people.

FaytlessHearts posted...

Imagine thinking Trump or Biden gives a fuck about you.

You don't have to think that to think one is better than the other.

bump

I live in NY, and it's freeing to vote knowing it will not have any influence on the outcome. Otherwise I'd have to vote for Joe Biden or some other creep.

Giving an alternate a bye to the semifinal doesn't quite seem cool, imo

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-mother-needed-welfare-instead-the-state-used-welfare-funds-to-take-her-son

Last year, on a monthly basis, Arizona denied an average of 3,709 out of 4,277 applications from poor families seeking cash assistance. Just 6% of all families in poverty here get such help, compared with a national rate of 23%.

A big part of the reason is that Arizona spends only 13% of its welfare funding on welfare itself, and none on child care or pre-K. Meanwhile, it diverts 61% of the dollars to the states child protective services system, which amounts to more than $150 million repurposed in this way every year, a ProPublica review of budget documents shows.

In other words, welfare in Arizona largely goes not to helping poor parents financially but rather to the states Department of Child Safety an agency that investigates many of these same parents, and that sometimes takes their kids away for reasons arising from the poverty that they were seeking help with in the first place.

Arizona is an outlier in this regard. The average proportion of welfare funding spent on child protective services in other states is 8%.
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ProPublica has been examining welfare this year marks the 25th anniversary of the welfare reform law signed by then-President Bill Clinton in states across the Southwest, where sweeping demographic change has meant a higher cost of living and with it, the need for a better safety net.

The issue has become especially relevant this month as Congress debates the future of cash assistance for low-income families, now in the form of President Joe Bidens proposed child tax credit. Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin seem on the cusp of killing it, at least in its current iteration in part by repeatedly citing the supposed success of the Clinton approach.

What the 1996 law did was hand welfare to the states, giving them a block grant of federal money intended for direct aid to the poor that can now be used in almost any way, as long as it falls under one of four extremely broad purposes for the cash. The logic was to turn states into laboratories for fighting poverty, each with its own ideas for administering what is called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF.

There has been a radical transformation of our cash assistance program in this country thats gotten very little attention, said Mark Courtney, a social work professor at the University of Chicago and an expert on the interaction between welfare and child welfare. Funding from TANF is used very differently depending on geography and thus has become a massive experiment on low-income families from which weve learned very little, he said.

All it has shown, Courtney said, is that states have learned how to use this aid money toward their own preoccupations.

At least 10 states dip into the welfare piggy bank to fund anti-abortion clinics, according to the research and advocacy organization Equity Forward; others dole it out to Christian summer camps or programs claiming to help compulsive gamblers. In Mississippi, more than a million dollars meant for public assistance went to former NFL quarterback Brett Favre for speaking engagements tangentially related to poverty that he didnt show up to, according to reporting by Mississippi Today. (Favre later said he didnt know the money originated from TANF and repaid most of the funds.)

In Arizona, the biggest winner has been the states massive, troubled child protective services system.

Each year, Arizona redirects upward of $30 million of its welfare funding to the salaries and expenses of DCS caseworkers, many of whom are tasked with investigating parents like Bermudez, which alone is over $8 million more than the state spends on welfare itself. And thats in addition to $120 million in welfare money that goes to foster parents (who already get paid via other federal funding, unlike birth parents), adoption services, group homes and various other DCS programs.

In turn, Arizonas child welfare agency has become a national outlier in its probing of some of the same low-income families who could have benefited from cash assistance.

One recent study found that as many as 3 in 5 Black children in Phoenix will be subjected to an investigation by DCS by the time they turn 18, and that kids of all races here are 17.5 times more likely than those in New York City to be separated from their parents forever. Other research has shown that poor children in this city are taken from their homes at more than quadruple the rate of other large metropolitan areas like Chicago and Houston.

If the outcome that youre judging all this by is getting parents off welfare caseloads, then taking their children and placing them with another family is actually a win, said Courtney, the University of Chicago professor.

Asking for a friend

https://twitter.com/EricCortellessa/status/1546153371026989056
lol

Take it from me: you've always been able to criticize Democrats here. Just sometimes Covxy will get weird at you

https://news.yahoo.com/2-men-hospitalized-explosion-gwyneth-170049836.html

Kyrgios big mad

The more people deny it, the funnier it gets

Crazyman93 posted...

EDIT: Oh,it's a joke. Well they got me. I cite Poe's Law.

"Actually it's the other side's fault I don't recognize the mediterranean"

Error1355 posted...

Fuck I need to really play through Hitman. I bought all 3 fuckin games yet never even got to the Hitman 2 missions. @_@

Buddy,

https://twitter.com/IOInteractive/status/1545294687220768769

Can I get a hell yeah?

Galactic McBrain here

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I guarantee that the person who wrote this has a Jon Stewart shrine. Possibly more than one.

The person who wrote this worked for Dick Cheney