LilB0kChoy

Well Muffin is adorable anyway!

Haha! I’m convinced pets give you that look on purpose.

Interesting. I saw the fabric and wondered.

My mom had several pet rabbits over the years and they (at least hers) would pick a single spot. I wondered if chinchillas were the same.

Do chinchillas designate a specific spot as their bathroom and consistently go there?

Isn’t it interesting in how “officer discretion” disappears in instances like these?

On a large scale I have no idea but it does for me when I’m driving.

A crosswalk at an intersection, especially an unmetered one, serves as a warning that there’s enough regular pedestrian traffic or a risk that dictated it was needed.

Helps me, personally, to be extra aware for crossers.

Paywalled.

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Agreed. At first blush it reads more like that “Find a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life” kind of sentiment.

In the 45-second video posted later that day, one girl enters the classroom holding a cellphone. “Put your hands up,” she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off. As the camera pans across the classroom, several girls dramatically fall back on a desk or the floor and lie motionless, pretending they were killed.

When another student enters and surveys the bodies on the ground in poorly feigned shock, few manage to suppress their giggles. Throughout the video, which ProPublica obtained, a line of text reads: “To be continued……”

Talk about an overreaction.

When I was a kid in the 90s I used to run around our neighborhood with other kids playing “War”. I had a realistic looking cap gun western revolver made out of pot metal, much like this one.

We never had police called on us or even got stopped by them on the rare occasion they were cruising through.

I said “very likely” because he is not a reliable source/witness.

There’s a Wikipedia page about all the false or misleading things he says.

I believe he did but I tend to follow the journalistic two-source rule for definitive statements.

Many of us are in the habit of mentally calculating it wherever we live though.

For example, my state sales tax is 6.88%, my county has a .25% tax on top of that, and then there’s a metro area tax of 1% on top of that, my city does not impose a separate tax of their own, so total sales tax in my city is 8.13%.

When shopping we’ll do the mental math (roughly) and factor that in so it might say $39.99 + tax but I know that it’ll be a little under $44 with tax.

It’s inconvenient but, like most things, we get used to it and adapt. Also, while tax varies a lot by state, most of us don’t venture too far out of our home area so tax is roughly the same all the places we regularly go.

It would be nice to have the price listed as the price you pay but it doesn’t work as well with our current system.

There’s loads (almost all ?) of public institutions which have become tools for the authoritarian regime.

Yep, there sure are. Anything to support that the OCE (a non-partisan independent board) or House Ethics Committee (a bi-partisan committee made up of 5 members of each party) is one of them?

This institution is not “working as intended” if it asks a democrat to repay an event ticket

OCE referred it to the HEC, they reviewed it and found that while AOC made full effort to abide by the gift policy there were a few things missed. They asked her to rectify it and she agreed. She also acknowledged their findings (“She accepts the ruling and will remedy the remaining amounts, as she’s done at each step in this process“). What’s not working there?

but gives a republican a free pass on insider trading.

“the committee said that it reviewed allegations referred by the Office of Congressional Conduct and “did not find evidence that he knowingly or intentionally caused his spouse to trade based on insider information.”

Any actual tangible proof or evidence they’re lying? Or maybe you have a view like the MAGAs and want to suspend due process for those you don’t like?

One person received a benefit of a few hundred dollars and the other received a benefit of possibly a few million dollars.

Do you notice how you worded this?

“One person received a benefit of a few hundred dollars”

“other received a benefit of possibly a few million dollars”. Possibly.

The committee said that it reviewed allegations referred by the Office of Congressional Conduct and “did not find evidence that he knowingly or intentionally caused his spouse to trade based on insider information.”

But the report said that the panel “did not receive full cooperation from Mrs. Kelly and was therefore unable to determine whether her stock purchase was improper.”

I think it’s very likely they engaged in insider trading, but if they have nothing to actually prove it, what are you expecting from the process?

I’ll remind you that insider trading is theft.

It sure is. Who handles financial crimes? The DoJ and the SEC, yet no investigation was opened. Probably because those organizations have been hamstrung and stacked with loyalists at positions of power? Although the case for Rep. Kelly was referred to House Ethics in 2021…

On July 23, 2021, the Office of Congressional Ethics transmitted a referral to the Committee on Ethics of the United States House of Representatives regarding Rep. Mike Kelly.

I think I’ll just report you and block you. Bye.

Maybe that’s where you should be. Personally, I don’t like misinformation but since you do I’m guessing your values would align nicely with c/conservative.

Why? There’s plenty of actual fascism going on that misinformation and fear mongering about this specific situation isn’t needed.

If only we could determine when the OCE refferred the case to the House Ethics Committee…

On June 23, 2022, the Office of Congressional Ethics transmitted a referral to the Committee on Ethics of the United States House of Representatives regarding Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

That’s about what I thought.

Anything, beyond your supposition, to support something different in this specific instance?

Thank you for sharing! I love this so much and am jealous of the setup!

It’s probably rented out for events like air shows, maybe film and tv use too.

Odd non sequitur but, yes, he very likely does.

In case you’re confused though, that is also not fascism, it’s paedophilia.