When you are poor, getting money from the government comes with many rules and restrictions. When you are a poor company, getting money from the government comes with zero rules and restrictions.
Texas got the PR for having funded therapy for their prisoners without actually having to help people. The for-profit prison got to make a ton of extra money for their c suite staff and it’s totally fine because they said so.
The truth is that this overexposure on the internet hasn’t caused much more harm than before social media. Most people, not all, but a majority have zero bad intentions. So sharing details about yourself to a mass audience is screaming in the void. Nobody cared about your life before it was on the internet, nobody cares now. Social media companies selling your data is for a shitty reason but not an unethical one. They just want to sell you stuff and they are salesmen that know everything about you.
On the other side, people who want to do bad things can and will regardless of details about someone on the internet. Stranger danger is a fallacy and the person who can/might victimize you is someone you already know. Sure, maybe it saves time, but it doesn’t really change victimization. People can stalk someone in real life, can steal their mail, can social engineer the people around their victim, it’s just a bit easier when a lot of it can be done by befriending someone on social media.
Who represents the “real” conservatives/Republicans? It would seem any state with Republican control is aiming for similar anti-immigration policies. If everyone is doing it, then it becomes the standard. If nobody from the party can speak out against it, it becomes the standard. When the conservative majority Supreme Court instills conservative policy despite public opposition, it becomes the standard.
How would shipping immigrants across state borders unannounced ever be a way to help people? And it has been many buses, are we forgetting the last few years of Florida sending people to progressive states? It might be publicity stunts, but hundreds of people getting shipped around the country based on false information and left sitting out to dry only says “conservatives think immigrants are less than human and can be shipped around like cattle”
I’m not going to search it out as I don’t want to screw up my YT algo. But there are educational/instructional videos that show everything right on YouTube. Seriously. These type of videos are probably on PornHub or whatever as well.
One guy shows both shaving and nair removal of butthole hairs. And he shows you his butthole and the entire process in vivid HD detail. Make sure you use the proper nair, there are varieties specified for “bikini area”
The top community is happy for your future smooth butthole.
Staying as far away from Meta has been my goal since leaving Facebook 8 years ago. I really like this instance, it meets all of my needs for my Reddit replacement.
I don’t see a reason to federate with a corporation unless they were able to deliver something I’m not currently getting and their corporate support would greatly improve performance/sustainability for this instance. But based on previous experience, a company entering a space usually makes it worse.
A big reason I use credit cards for payments is the protection I get when things go wrong. Charge up my card and I can dispute, charge up my bank account and I’m out that money until the bank resolves the issue.
I really wish the US would do something about the dying mall spaces. In the failing commercial real estate market they are just being left to rot away.
Turn them into small communities. Build housing within or above the mall space, develop the space into a walkable city of sorts. One of the things preventing comfortable walkable neighborhoods in my area is the 6 months of winter. Creating that with the indoor mall, similar to the intent of the mall, would really make them useful.
That or just waste 100,000 sq ft of covered and climate controlled space while the housing market continues to skyrocket. Every new apartment being build around me, and seemingly everywhere, are that 5 on 1 design. Retail spaces on the first floor, apartments above. A dying mall lends itself to that style of living with an opportunity to create a really large and vibrant indoor park space.
Sure sure, AOC taking a selfie like the average person her age is so weird. Let’s not focus on MTG or Bobert or Matt “I sex traffick minors” Gaetz.
I only really run a server of TV Shows and movies. I use Jellyfin, just personal preference. It’s only really effective for use on the home network, but my smart TVs all have my own personal streaming service.
Apollo really held on for dear life. Worked until sometime this afternoon.
I tried Reddit on the browser but it just doesn’t work like I want it to on my phone. There are many people who don’t know a different version of Reddit than their terrible app and site. It will continue but not with me.
It’s so weird how AI can evoke the feeling of an inanimate object without getting any specific detail. You see a wire, some port looking things, maybe a Blu-ray drive, but none of it is a complete piece and it all washes together. Doesn’t feel as creepy as evoking the feeling of hands.
According to the FBI, around 51% of murders in 2021 were solved. So this is just a bit lower than the federal numbers. The number doesn’t shock me, I think solving a murder is very hard and technology can only offer so much more info. Proving murder beyond a doubt is also very difficult, like OJ. We all know he killed his ex wife and her boyfriend, but prosecutors couldn’t prove he did it within the court context. An “unsolved” murder that has a solution.