Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.

What do you replace them with? Coins have been tried and rejected by consumers a few times now.

I carry around PowerPoint presentations that contain huge loops of satellite data. I love my 1TB USB stick.

They currently live in the US. So, whether they properly answered your prompt seems to depend on your definition of “your country”.

And the statewide margin was still a 14 point margin. Too much to overcome with 12 stolen ballots.

You’re right, it is. In 2020 not a single race in Mesa County was competitive. Likewise, none of the state-wide races were competitive enough to have their results changed even if everyone in Mesa County voted the same way.

You’re probably right but I don’t really get it. Mesa County is so red that Trump won by 28 points in 2020. What was this person trying to achieve? For that matter, what was Tina Peters was trying to achieve? I just don’t understand how either of them could have made a difference when, in 2020, Trump won by over 25K votes out of a total of 91K votes cast and 107K registered voters.

Well, that’s kind of what a cease and desist is. It says, in a formal but mostly polite way, “stop doing that or we’ll become less nice”.

In my area, Walgreens always seems empty, their prices are super high, and their pharmacists seem ready to quit.

I’m sure their mismanagement of the medical practices they’re snapping up isn’t helping them much either. I’m pissed at them for buying up one of the largest local medical providers and completely fucking them up. We used to be able to get in to see a doctor in a reasonable amount of time for long-term issues and could generally get an appointment day-of or the day after for acute issues. Now, when you call to get an acute appointment they say that nothing is available for MONTHS. I called to be seen for a sinus infection in February and was told nothing was available until July.

We switched providers and are much happier with the service, but we miss our old doctors…

About a year ago I asked the grandmother who recently passed away whether she would want euthanasia. Despite being a devout Christian who firmly believed that suicide is a sin, she said “Yes, absolutely”. She said that she didn’t consider it to be suicide at that point. She felt that she had lived her full life, given what she could to the world, and was now only detracting from the world by burdening others.

Personally, I don’t belive that she was detracting from the world, even in her state, but she was obviously miserable. Also, maybe her adult children who were taking care of her would have seen it differently since caring for her really put restrictions on their lives.

I had two grandmother’s who made it to 95. One passed earlier this year. The other is still doing great, though starting to slow down.

The one who passed essentially spent the last several years wishing it was over. Mentally she was still there but her body was failing her. She could barely see or hear. She also had no balance. Essentially, she was a prisoner in her body. She repeatedly told people that she wished it was over.

My other grandmother is still doing as well as can be expected, both cognitively and physically. She is still active doing huge crafting projects and winning competitions. Even so, she has made it very clear that she is ready to go whenever it’s her time. All of her friends are gone. She has outlived every family member her generation as well as one of her children. She spends most of her time at home doing the same things day after day. Friends and family visit sometimes but not often enough. She can’t travel anymore so she has to wait for others to come to her.

Based on my two grandmothers’ experiences, I honestly think old age should be considered to be a terminal disease where we offer “compassionate care” as a dignified option.

“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission” was coined by Admiral Grace Hopper for use in a very different context. It is intended to mean that, when dealing with a beaurocracy like the military, it is often easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.

She certainly wouldn’t have intended for it to be used in the context of theft.

After watching the sentencing, she has been sent to county jail for now. Her lawyer motioned to have her released on bond while they appeal, but the judge denied that. They are going to appeal, who knows what will happen there,but she is in county jail right this moment.

If nothing changes, and I understood sentencing correctly, she will remain in county jail for six months then get transferred to federal prison for the remainder of her sentence.

No one is shocked by this. The conservative politicians knew what the outcome would be and the people who voted for them aren’t hearing about this inside their echo chambers.

I expect that, if more conservative voters actually heard about women actually dying from these bans, some of the more moderate ones would switch sides on the issue. They’re not hearing about it, though. I brought it up with an anti-abortion family member and they hadn’t heard anything about the deaths attributable to abortion bans.

Actually, an example of this just popped up. This article states that Trump admitted to stiffing his employees by not paying overtime. If you listen to the video at the bottom, though, he said that he hates paying overtime and would “get different people in”.

He didn’t require people to work, then fail to pay them overtime. He would send the workers home and bring in a new shift.

I wouldn’t call that stiffing his employees. I wouldn’t even call that controversial. This article twists Trump’s words to make up a story about him rather than focus on the very real threat that he poses. It dilutes the negative press against him and makes it look like the left are liars, just out to get Trump.

This kind of journalism needs to die. Trump is an awful human being and says plenty of awful stuff. We don’t need to bend the truth or like abiut him. We just need to report the actual shitty stiff he says.

I don’t have anything at my fingertips. I thought I had some comments on articles that bothered me in that way, but maybe I never finished those comments. I had problems with lemmy not letting me post with my von turned on…

I’ve had several times recently where I felt that an article was making a mountain of a mole hill to make Trump look worse. I wrote, but apparently didn’t post, comments saying, effectively, "Trump makes himself look bad enough without exaggerating or lying. Tell the truth about what he says and he looks like a fascist maniac. Exaggerate and you make people wonder if you’re always stretching the truth.

Normally when I see a headline like this it is taking Trump out of context or giving a very uncharitable take on what he said. Every once in a while, though, what he said is truly as ad as the headline makes it sound. This is one of those times.

He is literally calling for either The Purge or Kristallnacht! This man is calling for mass murder as a way to solve crime.

Why do they say “could” at this point? The operative word here is “will”. Using “could” downplay the severity of this and, even if only slightly, lowers the likelihood that people who are in danger will evacuate. Using “could” is irresponsible at this point.

Can you recommend some models to try?

How about we steer toward better data privacy in general? Cars are collecting way too much data about us? So is everything else! We need sweeping legislation to claw back our privacy. We need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to privacy.

It’s pretty amazing to me that a company hasanagednto become so reviled that Walmart is the better and more ethical option.