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Use your words, not a Youtuber's

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1642295152604594177

Lol

Kiryu or bust

This site would be fucking unusable if the mods were an inch less skewed against these freaks.

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1641863327415410691

This is where old people get their information from

cjsdowg posted...

Graham wasn't always like this. He was honestly a good Republican.

Do you have any evidence for this?

Why would he want to give it to Elon Musk?

Delirious_Beard posted...

a lot of owners, sure, but there's no way in hell a team like Oakland, Tampa or Cleveland can run 200M+ payrolls year after year

They'd make every dollar back and more in increased revenue.

https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1641819478462984194

Solid_Sonic posted...

Is this one of those things where this happens a lot but you never actually hear about it until a major disaster happens (East Palestine) and then every incident afterwards makes the news and suddenly it looks like a crisis?

Yes, this too.

Rail companies have been cutting costs on everything and pushing for fewer operators per train. This is the result.

I am acquaintances with a woman who met her boyfriend on Runescape

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-with-attempted-illegal-importation-of-synthetic-opioids/

The executive director of the San Jose Police Officers' Association (SJPOA) has been charged with attempting to illegally import synthetic opioids into the U.S. for mass distribution, according to federal authorities.

A press release said a federal criminal complaint has been filed charging 64-year-old San Jose resident Joanne Marian Segovia with attempting to "illegally import a controlled substance in connection with a scheme to bring synthetic opioids into the country and distribute them throughout the United States." The criminal complaint was filed by United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Tatum King on March 27, and unsealed Thurday.

According to the complaint, Segovia is the Executive Director of the SJPOA. The complaint "alleges that Segovia used her personal and office computers to order thousands of opioid and other pills to her home and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States."

The complaint alleges that between October 2015 and January of this year, Segovia had at least 61 shipments mailed to her home. Countries of origin included Hong Kong, Hungary, India, and Singapore. The manifests for these shipments declared the contents of the packages with labels like "Wedding Party Favors," "Gift Makeup," or "Chocolate and Sweets." However, between July 2019 and last January, officials intercepted and opened five of these shipments and found that they contained thousands of pills of controlled substances, including the synthetic opioids Tramadol and Tapentadol, which are similar to fentanyl. The complaint stated certain packages were valued at thousands of dollars' worth of drugs.

The complaint also alleged that Segovia communicated using encrypted WhatsApp messages to plan the logistics for receiving and sending pill shipments and used her office at the San Jose Police Officers' Association to distribute controlled substances and even used the SJPOA's UPS account for a shipment . According to the complaint, Segovia continued to order controlled substances even after being interviewed by federal investigators last month. Just over two weeks ago on March 13, federal agents seized a parcel in Kentucky containing valeryl fentanyl addressed to Segovia. The package allegedly originated from China on March 10, 2023 and declared its contents as a "clock."

Segovia is charged with attempt to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl and faces a maximum statutory sentence of 20 years if convicted. In addition, the court may order a convicted defendant to serve at least 3 years of supervised release and to pay a fine of up to $250,000.

"You're online too much" - guy who made a new GameFAQs account in March 2023

Razor posted...

Nebraska a fascist Nazi hellhole?

Man you really are a sheltered Midwesterner.

"They don't want drag queens reading to kids , this is basically fucking Auschwitz!!!!" Hahahha

Hey what happened to your last account?

ForsakenHermit posted...

Providing a high minimum salary is good, what's not good is how the union has blocked salary caps for the benefit of big market teams.

Salary caps are about keeping labor costs down, not parity. One of the biggest spending teams in baseball at the moment is the San Diego Padres, hardly a big market team. Every owner can afford to spend like they do; they chose not to.

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1641259735910346752

You must be thrilled, eggcorn

Japanties posted...

I'm curious what an example of a healthy conservative city is then.

The largest city (by population) with a Republican mayor is Jacksonville, FL. But Jacksonville is a bit misleading because it's a city the size of a county; it's the second largest city by area in the US. Next on the list is Fort Worth, TX.

But you can't judge a city's politics by the mayor alone.

There are some outlier incidents, obviously, but mainly this is a map of population.

Better in some ways (broader societal acceptance of racial/sexual minorities - in the west at least), worse in others (we are hardly even slowing down the climate crisis)

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Pepys_Monster posted...

If it's not your family, and they aren't breaking the law, don't worry about what they do.

Worse than breaking the law: they're making the law.

Tbh it seems more like Nuts N Bolts was ahead of its time

The US is not the only country that had to deal with car-centric infrastructure:
https://www.distilled.earth/p/how-the-netherlands-built-a-biking

Read closer

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1641103775782805504

The snack of kings

Keep reading

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/landlord-tenant-officer-shot-philadelphia-sharswood-girard-court-apartments-20230329.html

A Philadelphia deputy landlord tenant officer shot a woman in the head while trying to enforce an eviction on Wednesday morning, police said.

The incident took place inside the Girard Court Apartments in the citys Sharswood section shortly after 9 a.m. Lt. Jason Hendershot, of the police departments officer-involved-shooting unit, said the woman was at home with her husband in their first-floor apartment when the landlord-tenant deputy arrived in plain clothes to serve a court-ordered eviction.

A physical struggle ensued in the hallway, allegedly involving a knife, he said. The deputy discharged a weapon and struck the 35-year-old woman, who was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in critical condition.

Court records indicate the couple had sought to postpone their eviction over at least $8,000 in unpaid rent, but a judge denied their appeals last month.

Officials have not released the name of the deputy landlord tenant officer and details on the timeline leading up to the shooting remained hazy.

Despite their name, deputy landlord tenant officers are not sworn law enforcement personnel.

Unlike other jurisdictions, Philadelphia courts rely on a private attorney, appointed by municipal courts president judge and known as a landlord tenant officer, to execute evictions. This attorney deputizes private security contractors to perform onsite lockouts in exchange for the right to collect millions in related eviction fees.

The shooting marks the first in recent memory involving one of these deputies, but the incident raises questions about oversight and training of a for-profit agent acting on behalf of the citys court system to serve writs and lockout orders brought against tenants.

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Which Joe Biden are you talking about here

WhisperWolf2005 posted...

What is some examples of this wage theft?

More than two hundred Burger King employees in San Francisco didnt get paid minimum wage or overtime, and sometimes didnt get breaks, according to a citation from the California Labor Commissioners Office. The franchisee sold or closed all the locations they owned, but still owes workers $1.9 million.

UPS workers in New York found money was being deducted from their paychecks towards a company fundraiser, but the workers hadnt given written permission to make the deduction. The affected workers received more than $1 million in a settlement between UPS and the union that represented the employees.

In August 2021, Jack in the Box workers in Sacramento, Calif. went on strike, claiming their manager manipulated their time cards and forced them to work long shifts without overtime pay. The workers estimate theyre owed $184,000 in back pay.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/wage-theft-what-to-do/

It's only Zelda if he plays a flute

NoxObscuras posted...

I live in Los Angeles and in the last 30 years, they've built over 100 miles of railway lines.

My dude that is 3 miles a year.

A lot of this topic is people saying that public transit sucks and is inconvenient now, so we shouldn't do anything to improve it. Baby brain shit.

Prismsblade posted...

No, It's really not that necessary

Only if you don't believe in climate change

MonumentValley posted...

tl;dr?

Just because I realize your time with this account is short: dozens of migrants died in a fire in a Mexican detention facility because new restrictions implemented by the Biden administration have led to a bottleneck on the southern side of the border.

You're not wrong

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Doesn't this logic also apply to bosses having the freedom to fire at will? Why should society enable them to be assholes rather than protect workers?

Do you support policies that would make it harder for employers to fire workers over trivial bullshit?

https://web.archive.org/web/20230328235006/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/mexico-border-migrants-shelters.html

A series of tough new border policies have sharply reduced the number of migrants crossing into the United States to their lowest levels since President Biden took office, but the measures have created a combustible bottleneck along Mexicos northern border, with tens of thousands of frustrated migrants languishing in overcrowded shelters from Tijuana to Reynosa.

The situation exploded on Monday when a protest at a government-run migrant detention center in Ciudad Jurez led to a fire that killed at least 40 people. But scenes of overcrowding and desperation have been unfolding in recent weeks along the length of the border as the Biden administration prepares for yet another surge in migration this spring.

Migrants have been waiting in anticipation of a major policy shift, expected in May, when the United States plans to lift a pandemic-era health policy that has allowed U.S. border authorities to swiftly expel many unauthorized migrants crossing the border from Mexico.

Separate new entry restrictions that have already taken effect require most migrants hoping to win U.S. asylum to apply for an appointment at a port of entry. Problems with the new mobile app have left thousands trying in vain for an appointment while stranded in Mexican border towns, where many have already been waiting for months.
After a record number of border apprehensions last year that reached 2.4 million, encounters this year have dipped to about 128,000 a month.

What we have in Tijuana and other Mexican border cities is a bottleneck, said Enrique Lucero, director of the migration services office for the city of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. Thousands of migrants are waiting for the opportunity to enter the U.S., and more keep arriving.

The citys 30 shelters can accommodate 5,600 people; as many as 15,000 migrants are currently in the city, he said.
The number of people who are able to access the United States is a couple hundred a day, he said, but we have thousands here. Shelters are at full capacity.

Even before Mondays fire, frustration had boiled over earlier this month in Jurez, when hundreds of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, tried to storm their way across the international bridges to reach El Paso, only to clash with U.S. authorities.

Under pressure from the United States, Mexico has agreed to accept the swelling numbers of migrants turned back by American authorities, and to take other measures to help control the number crossing into the United States.
Some local officials on the U.S. side of the border said the Biden administration had created the situation by promising to end the pandemic-related expulsion policy, known as Title 42, which resulted in thousands traveling to the border, and then quickly imposing new restrictions.

Its desperation, said Ricardo Samaniego, the county judge in El Paso, which lies across the border from Ciudad Jurez. You dangle the end of Title of 42 and then you say, Nevermind, and people get stuck.

He said he had learned through his counterparts in Mexico that shelters and detention centers in Jurez were at near capacity and that they were bracing for yet another surge in the days and weeks to come with plans to lift Title 42 on May 11.

Immigrant advocates have been warning for months that the situation was becoming explosive.

The 39 lives lost last night in Ciudad Jurez are a horrifying indictment. The systems of enforcement that we have erected to patrol people who migrate are steel hands in velvet gloves, and death is part of the overhead. We are all responsible, Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute, a faith-based organization, said on Twitter.

With shelters in many border cities full, new arrivals have resorted to sleeping in dingy hotels until their money runs out, and have then ended up on the streets and in abandoned buildings. Tensions have flared, resulting in confrontations with Mexican law enforcement officers, whom migrants have accused of beating, arresting and extorting them. Powerful cartels that control illegal border passage have kidnapped and tortured migrants.
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Last month, the Homeland Security and Justice Departments went further, announcing a new rule, to take effect after Title 42 is lifted on May 11, that would presume migrants are ineligible for asylum if they entered the country unlawfully, and require them to have requested asylum from another country they had passed through before applying in the United States.

However, those who managed to reach the border would be allowed to enter if they met certain criteria and used the mobile app to schedule an appointment.
The app, intended to provide an orderly, streamlined system for processing asylum seekers, has been overburdened with massive demand and plagued with glitches as tens of thousands of migrants have attempted to use it.
At eight ports of entry across the border, 740 migrants each day received appointments last month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. At the entry point adjacent to Tijuana, 200 appointments were granted each day.

Migrants arrive at the border already in distress after their journey. They have spent all their money to get here, and their hopes are dashed when they cannot manage to get an appointment on the app, said Mr. Lucero, director of the migrant office in Tijuana.

Until the new app was rolled out, U.S. immigration lawyers were able to help especially vulnerable migrants to quickly gain entry into the United States, often escorting them across ports of entry. Now, there is no distinction made between those who are most in danger and others.

A month ago, a 4-month-old baby in need of emergency surgery died because the parents were unable to secure an appointment through the app, said Ms. Herrera of the Pro Amore Dei shelter in Tijuana. Last year, the family would have been taken across the border, and the baby would be alive now, said Ms. Herrera.

In her seven years running the shelter, she said, the situation had never been more dire.

People who have been tortured, beaten and are running for their lives are stuck here, she said. The most vulnerable people seem to wait the longest.

The subway is great. Get to read

Something that really opened my eyes on how race is socially constructed is learning in college how Brazil categorizes race and ethnicity:

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which has conducted censuses in Brazil since 1940, racially classifies the Brazilian population in five categories: Branco (White), "Pardo" (Multiracial), Preto (Black), Amarelo/Asitico (Yellow/Asian), and Indgena (Indigenous). As in international practice, individuals are asked to self identify within these categories.
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As the IBGE itself acknowledges, these categories are disputed, and most of the population dislike it and do not identify with them.: 1 Most Brazilians see "Indgena" as a cultural rather than racial term, and don't identify as such if they are part of the mainstream Brazilian culture; many Brazilians would prefer to self-describe as "morenos" (used in the sense of "tanned" or "brunettes"); some Black and parda people, more identified with the Brazilian Black movement, would prefer to self-describe as "Negro" as an inclusive category containing pardos and pretos;: 2 and if allowed to choose any classification, Brazilians will give almost 200 different answers.: 4

According to the American scholar Edward Telles, in Brazil there are three different systems related to "racial classification" along the White-Black continuum.: 8081 The first is the Census System, which distinguishes three categories: "branco" (White), "pardo", and "preto" (Black).: 81 The second is the popular system that uses many different categories, including the ambiguous term "moreno": 82 ("tanned", "brunette", or "with an olive complexion"). The third is the Black movement system that distinguishes only two categories, summing up "pardos" and "pretos" as "negros". More recently, the term "afrodescendente" has been brought into use.

It's not that genetics works any differently there, but they talk about it on wildly different terms than the ones we take for granted in the US

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Isn't that just their old logo?

Similar, but not quite
https://twitter.com/PopBase/status/1640770027950604289