RustyEarthfire

joined 2 years ago
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

bought in exchange for political capital

That's a very uncharitable assumption of his motivations.

Dropping out of an (FPTP) primary is like awkward manual runoff voting. Once you clearly aren't winning, you drop out so those votes can flow to the next preferred candidate.

People voting for Buttigieg switched to Biden because he was the most similar candidate. Of course Buttigieg would support the candidate that best matches his policy preferences -- and the preferences of voters.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We find that a 10% minimum wage hike translates into a 0.36% increase in the prices of grocery products. This magnitude is consistent with a full pass-through of cost increases into consumer prices.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of the book Beyond the Veil of Stars. People travel between worlds by putting their minds into alien species, some of which are quite foreign (e.g. a rodent with multiple bodies), and folks get pretty messed up.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 33 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Those "richest people" lists are based on publicly known wealth, which is almost exclusively public stocks. There is a lot of dark money out there.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

For more context, this is in part the result of a 2021 settlement with the state of Washington over them doing the opposite: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040968238/greyhound-warrantless-searches-lawsuit-settlement

The settlement only forces this behavior in Washington though, so good on Greyhound for deciding that it is the right policy everywhere.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is not the correct form of a syllogism. The second premise should be "Some C are A" leading to the conclusion "Some C are B". With the structure you provided, it is easy to produce invalid conclusions from true premises:

  • All planets are round
  • Some fruits are round
  • Therefore: Some fruits are planets

Whereas a correctly structured syllogism might be:

  • All coconuts are round
  • Some fruits are coconuts
  • Therefore: Some fruits are round
[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Strange things are afoot

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

7 bills have passed the Senate, one has been signed into law: Congress.gov search

(note: the filter doesn't include bills starting in the House, but there aren't any relevant ones)

Also, the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025" and "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" were "filibustered" (failed to reach cloture).

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

In the EU-wide survey conducted by Eurostat, participants were asked whether their household could afford the adequately heat the home. No fixed temperature was specified; answers are based on self-assessment.

 

Saved up all my splinters. Gonna run a lotta breaches.

Saved up all my splinters. Gonna run a lotta breaches.

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