Megan, can we please have an Awesome Blossom, extra awesome

Reminds me of when kids would steal letters off of the signage board in highschool for presidents day so that it read “Penis Day - No School”

If anything, its making a great argument for scaling it up to the state level. Why should virtually all red states have a say in the federal government by this same logic? They take far more than they pay into the federal system and their existence is subsidized by blue states.

The average person who reads this article and thinks it has merit would probably lose their voice in federal government if the concept was applied at the state level

That makes sense. Based on the numbers there they average 1%-3% of their employees on SNAP in any given state. They legitimately arent paying people SNAP wages as many seem to believe

It doesnt make sense as an innuendo even if it sounds like one. On a technical basis a person normally has 7-8 holes in them depending on physiology. Even if you simplify that to the ones normally considered sexual (not to kink shame the nostril lovers), thats three holes, not two.

So it really makes no sense as a sexual innuendo. Either way the guy is obviously insane

Tbh the vast majority of people that work at walmart are probably paid above SNAP qualifying wages, unless someone has kids and their spouse doesnt work or is severely underpaid. When I worked for walmart stocking shelves they were paying $18.75 in that market. Daytime people made like $17.25 without the overnight differential. That is well over the limit to get SNAP for a single person. Plus they do offer pretty good benefits, and gave accrued PTO. And a humane break system that is standardized even in states where they dont have to offer it. I realize they dont pay as much in other markets, but they are generally above the average starting wage in any given area.

Most smaller companies I ever worked for were significantly shittier in how they treated/paid workers than Walmart is. Walmart is honestly too soul crushing of a place to work; without them offering half decent shit to work there literally nobody would

By that logic theres no way to stop parents from buying their kid alcohol either, however we still have laws against it… kid gets caught drinking underage, then parent gets in trouble. Its not a novel idea of enforcement

Same as how Trump is probably not actually worth $5B and its inflated, considering he acts like a broke ass bitch that cant even afford a McChicken sandwich

The subpoena, which was posted on X by archive.today on October 30, was sent by the FBI to Tucows, a popular Canadian domain registrar. It demands that Tucows give the FBI the “customer or subscriber name, address of service, and billing address” and other information about the “customer behind archive.today.”

“THE INFORMATION SOUGHT THROUGH THIS SUBPOENA RELATES TO A FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED BY THE FBI,” the subpoena says. “YOUR COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO FURNISH THIS INFORMATION. YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO DISCLOSE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS SUBPOENA INDEFINITELY AS ANY SUCH DISCLOSURE COULD INTERFERE WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.”

Gotta love how the FBI is stupid enough to think that it has jurisdiction over a Canadian company

“The ‘intellectual backbone of the conservative movement’ is only as strong as the values it defends,” McConnell tweeted.

Gotta give Mitch cred for this astute observation about his party that is simultaneously defending pedophiles and fucking up the economy

Usually I think of their lack of ethics as being due to a lack of intellectual backbone, so its interesting to see the egg come before the chicken for once

Even though imaginary government lines on maps have existed for several hundred years now, it has only been considered a crime to cross them for about 100 years.

The hard border, border control, etc didnt exist until after 1900. Before that, people in northern Mexico and the southern US just went about their business in both countries as needed, and it was a significantly more functional region of the world.

They rally against the cartels as the reason for needing a more and more extreme hard border, but the hard border is what fucked up the entire region in the first place, thereby creating the conditions for the cartels to thrive

Is had never occurred before, at least in an election without a true landslide candidate, that one side won every flipped county. Normally some counties always change in both directions, but in 2024 it was the first time ever in a close election that every single county that flipped went to the republicans, while the dems flipped zero. Mathematically that is beyond extremely unlikely to occur in any close election, as there are well over 3,000 counties and similar statistical areas. Yet allegedly it did in 2024

It definitely is, otherwise they could just mandate phone makers institute and effective blocking system in all phones, and then legally enforce that the program be activated on phones bought for minors. They would never have to know any private information, as the phone companies and parents could be held responsible for implementing the system. Plus forcing the companies to develop it themselves prevents fear of having some kind of government controlled blocker that could be abused

This could also not be a serial killer thing at all, and moreso be that the nurse was drugging patients to put them out. Which is still terrible, but not the same thing as intending to kill people even if some people died by malpractice of drugging them.

I would think if a nurse really wanted to be a serial killer and was a sole on-duty nurse there are probably slicker ways to have done so than using painkillers and sedatives that would turn up on an autopsy. Not to mention painkillers and sedatives arent really a surefire way to intentionally kill anybody, even if they can. But giving them in doses that are sure to stop someones breathing would also make them show up upon investigation quite clearly.

Sounds like this person was not a serial killer and was just drugging people to knock them out, which isnt necessarily intentionally lethal even if it can also kill. Realistically, as a palliative care nurse (even with him drugging people) some of them probably died more generally whether he happened to have drugged them or not. When dealing with people already dying I imagine it would be harder to concretely say he killed them without having massively overdosed them

Either way though, its certainly malpractice and people certainly died. So the verdict seems fair. He knew he was rolling the dice with their lives even if not trying to kill them

“Loses” is putting it very politely

Mamdani and AOC are genuinely successful. Kat is going to get smoked in the ninth district election in March, and its unlikely to even be close. No one should really be expecting otherwise.

Im not saying she isnt a great candidate and a strong community organizer, but she is by no means expected to do well in that race. If something else happens that would be great, but remaining realistic is important

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