We only shoot school children and firefighters. That’s what the second amendment is for.

Not a silver bullet. This is a deep rabbit hole.

It probably won’t save money in the first year. The transition will likely offset any gains.

It likely will save money every year after that. For everyone. More users means more interest means a smoother experience for everyone, generally.

* Big cities are limited to NYC, Chicago, and Washington DC.

Similar to a volcano eruption. Almost related, but I’ll shove it in here anyway, Rasputina - Year Without a Summer

At least for the first year.

The memes were legit funny.

You have to realize the joke is your country for the memes to be less funny.

I guess that congestion pricing is working.

Try the direct link in an incognito browser.

https://lemmy.world/post/32326227

And if they’re all displayed in their own language?

What language would you sort them by?

No. It’d require them to use NATO funding to defend the rest of the world from us.

They might think so, but they’re really not. Billionaires here were much less likely to fall out of windows. We were much more based on laws than a series of buddy systems.

It was better to have a billion dollars than ten billion rubles. We’re working to change that.

They’re so terrible at it that they’ll have to learn in the next 18 months. It’s gonna get worse.

Power just blinked. Server stayed up this time! \o/

Are you a lawyer? What law are you citing?

“the First Amendment protects the right to gather information about what public officials do on public property.” Smith v. City of Cumming, 212 F. 3d 1332, 1333 (11th Cir. 2000).

Does her word override the first amendment?

There aren’t many exceptions, and what’s happening on a public street generally isn’t one of them.

I do think we have a shitton more room for Democratic Socialism. But I also think we need to sell it to the billionaires. And we should be able to sell it to a good number of them. They have a lot of the power in this country, mostly to manipulate you through media, social and otherwise.

The thing is that these polices like medicare for all, education for all, and mass transit are good for the billionaires too. When people are less desperate and have more to lose, they commit less crime. That’s pretty much the entire reason for the racial disparity in crime rates. If you want less of “those people”, all you have to do is make them middle class. That’s within the billionaire’s power with good policy and a couple decades.

I’m hoping the blowback from our literal fascism is enough to get people to understand things like this along with, you know, why laws are important. The billionaires and republicans had a brush with the way they wanted to do things and it was an absolute shitshow. Maybe some of them who were getting too high on their own supply will take some of these lessons to heart, and they’ll allow us to start making this a better place. It doesn’t take many.

And if they could have seen the future, they would have likely made the attempt. At the time, even most conservative judges weren’t big on overturning existing rulings. There was always risk, but there wasn’t as much risk as with a lot of other things that needed attention. And if we had gotten into a state where Roe was overturned, we probably had some pretty damn big issues to deal with.

They’re not complete idiots. Harris did largely run on a lot of “much the same”. But Biden was a damn good president and things were improving at a very nice rate. Of course people don’t like hearing that when they can always find things to be negative about, and their own situation likely hasn’t drastically improved.

It’s hard for people to understand that in normal times nearly every administration really has made efforts to make your lives better. Maybe not in all the ways they should (tax the fucking billionaires). But they’ve largely gotten the low hanging fruit. (Building mass transit isn’t low hanging.) It’s not that easy to just come in and fix everything, especially after half of it gets smashed every 8 years. Biden did a pretty great job of that, and if we had 16 years of Biden-like government, I bet this country would be in pretty damn great shape. This country is an aircraft carrier, not a canoe, and the only way it drastically changes direction in a short time is if someone starts blowing holes in the bottom of it.

I don’t even want to say the things I’m looking forward to from the Biden administration, because it seems like they’re watching social media for things to destroy.