Hacksaw

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[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

In Canada we have the same thing. You can every year when filling taxes tick off a box to update your voter info to save you the work. You also can register at the voting booth with ID, or proof of residence, or the statement of a registered voter in the area willing to vouch for you.

Basically zero voter fraud.

Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 26 points 18 hours ago

water.fanack.com/desalination-plants-water-weapon-gulf/

The American Israeli coalition directly and intentionally destroyed a desalination plant in Iran. Barhain's desalination plant was damaged by debris from a drone strike on another target. Those are very different statements and very different levels of destruction.

But yes, they're soft targets if the people attacking you are complete degenerates willing to commit way crimes!

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think you're potentially looking at this wrong. They might be dependent.... Or they might be in COMMUNITY with their families.

If they're in their 40's their parents are in their 60's-70's. Is it possible these adults have a relationship of give and take where they each lean on the other for different things? Maybe her dad takes care of car maintenance for the family, her mom manages medical needs and she manages other aspects of their shared lives?

Although it's certainly possible, I find it hard to believe parents of a 40 year old are somehow coerced or guilted into an unfair arrangement.

Maybe we have different life experiences in this regard...

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're such a fucking bootlicker. Stop acting like there is plausible deniability here. Everyone knows you take your hat off as a sign of respect. You take your hat off to go to church, which he supposedly does all the time. You take your hat off at the dinner table for gods sakes. You certainly as fuck take your hat off to show respects to 6 people you got killed for a war you started to cover up the fact you raped and tortured kids with your best friend at pedo snuff film Island.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bad Photoshop will always be better than good AI!

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah that's the best part. If you watch the vid, it's clear that the police did most of the damage, but the senator was right in the way "helping" trying to get the "good PR" and he caught all the blame. Absolutely beautiful turn of events!

Except for the marine.... Having your hands broken for telling the truth is brutal. No one wants to die for Israel's wars of aggression.

ACAB

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Except the whole point is that it's free and you're not selling anything anyways.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Cries in Windows 98

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

That's not the original intent. In the US, HOAs were mostly created after the end of segregation to keep black people out of white neighborhoods, an origin story that puts into context the modern of pettiness and desire to control others we see in stories like this.

In the early postwar period after World War II, many [HOAs] were defined to exclude African Americans and, in some cases, Jews, with Asians also excluded on the West Coast.

A racial covenant in a Seattle, Washington, neighborhood stated, "No part of said property hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race."

When these were found unconstitutional in 1948, they became private contacts until those became illegal in 1968, but because HOAs had to approve new members/buyers, the rules stayed in effect until the majority of a community decided to stop being racist. On top of that, in 1963 the Federal Housing Administration said they would only insure mortgages on homes with an HOA which is really what created suburban sprawl and the ghettoization of the American inner cities.

If you look at the history of HOAs it's really a long and protracted fight on all levels by racists and bigots against the Civil Rights movement.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association

TL;DR: Although conceptually HOAs are a good idea, even trending towards communalism, actually existing HOAs are, with a few exceptions, downright regressive, often criminally so.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I'm much more pessimistic here.

Generally when the media treats a group of people as rapists, such as "black men defiling our white daughters" it's usually a cover for a consensual phenomenon. You have to create violence against the men because keeping the women "safe" doesn't help, since they'll just escape and flee to their partners.

When the media treats a relationship as that of women being seduced, they're probably being raped. When you undermine women's victim narrative and blame them for their rape you make it impossible for them to get help from their partners and communities because everyone will just suspect them of being "seduced". This way you force women to take steps to avoid or hide their rape, which solves the visible problem with minimal effort, again.

Vikings certainly bathed and groomed better than Englishmen, but when I see things like this I'm immediately suspicious of the intent of the writer.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's fair. In leftist spaces we should have healthy debate. We just can't let that undermine solidarity with our more and less radical members.

 
 

I saw a convoy of about 30 cars on the highway back in October. I looked it up and found nothing. Then I see a Reddit post in /r/vexillollogy with the same flag and no useful answers.

It's so weird that people bought like 100 of these flags and there is no info on them at all!

I flipped the picture to make the flag the right way.

 

The laughable Bank of Canada report even includes the line

Why did this increase in markups not contribute significantly to inflation? We show that markup growth reached its highest level because of a contraction in firms’ costs [...] during the pandemic-related public health interventions

So when their costs go down they keep the prices the same and pocket the difference, BoC report verdict "profit growth without inflation". So what happens when costs go back up?

We observe a mild contribution of markup growth to inflation in 2021, partially explained by demand rebounding faster than costs. However, the fact that markup growth fell to zero the following year indicates that firms were likely smoothing out their price increases [...] rather than leveraging increases in market power.

So when the costs go back up, they pass 100% of the cost to the consumer and keep their new higher profit margins (no change in markup). BoC verdict "the inflation has nothing to do with profit growth". Amazing!

If industry follows this "price ratchet" mechanism profit margins can go to infinity "without causing inflation" according to BoC. Absolutely galaxy brain levels of economic genius.

They really think we're idiots.

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