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  • literally useless

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  • God damnit I still remember this, and I'm in my late 40's

    Scruff, McGruff, Chicago Illinois, 60652

  • San Diego’s highest paid city employees? Cops racking up overtime and earning over $400,000

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  • This is what I was looking for. My last duty assignment in the USAF was working physical security at a NATO facility in Va. Part of the agreement with NATO was that no one was allowed to carry weapons. When we had off base functions with the higher ups, we had to hire local PD since they were armed. I got to talking with one and he said they make a shit ton of money on this type of stuff.

  • Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny

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  • It's going to be 2 and 3.

    First 3. Then 2 because yokels will complain that "them walmarts is stealin my money!"

    I do have a funny story about someone determined to get his .01 cent.

    USAF. We were leaving after a month long TDY (not a deployment, but you do go to a different place, stands for Temporary Duty Assignment) to England. The crew and us maintenance guys all stayed at the same hotel off base. We spent this month meeting with them in the morning in front of the fire place, and usually finding out the mission got canceled for the day. We were all ready to go home.

    The head maintenance guy was a penny pincher. He had like 8 kids, so he kind of had to. This is a guy that went around base picking fruit off the trees. He left Saudi with a large bag of free MREs. We all joked that that was the only way he could eat at home because no one else wanted to eat them.

    Anyway, we're leaving finally. We're all on the bus. Air crew and maintenance. Maintenance usually has to show up about 45 mins prior so we can inspect and get everything ready. So this was going to be a quick turn and out. We stopped by the base gas station to pick up snacks for the flight home. Everyone but the head maintenance guy is back on the bus. 5 mins. 10 mins. 15 mins. The pilot finally had enough. "WTF is taking him so long?"

    He goes in and comes back out almost right away with the guy in tow. Why was he in there so long? He was arguing with the cashier over his change....1 penny. The pilot went in, found out what the hold up was, and told him, "I'll give you the damned penny. lets go!" while dragging his ass out.

  • House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts in Trump's big bill

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  • I'm a disabled vet. I'm unemployable. SSDI is the only thing that makes things breathable for us. The only real way I have to make any money on the side is by painting DnD minis, dice towers, or maybe Gunpla commissions. It's so difficult to do much in a day that it takes me quite some time to paint just a couple minis. Months on a gundam. I just don't have the stamina to do much in a day. Fatigue is killing me. I've got a few painted, but I haven't had the energy to put them up anywhere yet. I have just as many to paint still.

    Body wide small fiber neuropathy, a central nervous system issue and colon removal really tanked me. Winter (Wa state) and fronts rolling through, even in summer, tank me even more. I think the change in air pressure is what does it.

    A cut in medicare means that I also now have copays. I have tons of doc appointments still. No one can tell me what the root of the issue is, or at least prove it as it's very likely chemical exposures. All funding that would have led to a "here it is" was shuttered. Regular blood tests due to colon removal. Regular tests due to the fucked up nervous system, which is still progressing 20 years after the last exposure and 18 after it started.

    My wife is a PARA, but we're in a low income area and PARAs don't make shit. From my excel math, we can make it by with no SSDI. However, we'll have absolutely no extra money. No money to replace clothes. No money for home repairs. No money for vehicle repairs. Before you say it, we do need them. Taking public transit is incredibly painful, and shitty at best. Plus I have no energy to do that. I can barely do the appointments I have, even driving myself the only 20 mins, avg, to the various doc appointments.

    I feel like such a waste already. I love math. I love engineering. I love turning a wrench. I love cooking. I can barely do any of it. These assholes seem to think we're all grifting and "welfare" queens. Sad thing is, there are many more vets in my position. Yet many don't seem to realize that the GOP hates us. They'll keep voting for it. Voting for that shotgun to the foot and pleading for more like a gimp gagging daddy for more.

  • ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.

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  • I think it's more that most people don't want to see views that don't align with their own or challenge their current ones. There are those of us who are naturally curious. Who want to know how things work, why things are, what the latest real information is. That does require that research and digging. It can get exhausting if you don't enjoy that. If it isn't for you, then you just don't want things to clash with what you "know" now. Others will also not want to admit they were wrong. They'll push back and look for places that agree with them.

  • The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education

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  • This part is both mind blowing and hilarious. Not too long ago they were screeching that "they are trying to make everything sharia law!"

    Then they do this, with absolutely no sense of irony. The dumb runs so deep that its turning to magma.

  • Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees

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  • We'll see what happens with the new yes men in place. However, there was a DoD wide email that went out when he first started snatching people (though some didn't get it for some reason). It stated:

    Think long and hard before assisting other agencies outside the DoD. If your actions are deemed to be against your oath, you could be investigated and actions taken against you. Remember, you serve the constitution of the United States. Not the president.

    Wa state has just passed a law stating that other state's national guard, cannot enter our borders to take any actions. I would bet that that would include military personnel stationed in state.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • Very fair point. Some are definitely further left than others. We'll take Bernie. I'm not nearly as far left as he is. I'm still left of center though. We need a uniting figure. Just as MAGA has. I think it still comes down to the DNC not fully listening to what their voters want. It's anyone's guess how the mid terms and forward will go. If the GOP is right, the impending depression will loose them majority for some time. I don't think it'll be as long as last time. Last time didn't have the crutch of social media, 24/7 "news" and a myriad of other issues we have now. We can only hope that if the DNC does get control for a bit, it'll be enough time to fix things.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • I think it's more a comparison of failed runs. Not so much on gender. The comparison runs to the DNC forcing a specific candidate that a lot just didn't want. Kamala was a bit different situation with Biden dropping, but there are still other candidates that the left voters wanted to put up instead.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • That's the thing, we're sick of the same old same very old. Walz wasn't super bad, don't get me wrong, but the democratic voter is ready for change. Long since ready. It's only the DNC that hasn't caught up. We want more left than appeasing centrists. We're tired of reaching out a hand across the isle to bring back bloody stumps.

    If you think that Hillary and Kamala lost just because they are women, then you haven't been paying attention. They lost not because they are women, they lost because that is what we were told we were getting. We all wanted rocky road ice cream, and they gave us vanilla. Then they wondered why they lost out on business. Fighting against fascism didn't seem to be enough for many. It blows monkey chunks that it had to happen when we have a fascist party taking hold, but it is hopefully a shake up that will actually get noticed.

    It isn't about color or gender, it's about where they fall on the scale of things as well as age. Stop forcing that vanilla ice cream. We want the rocky road.

  • Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support

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  • Idastan just brought back firing squads. They've already used it once iirc.

    That said, I feel like jail is a worse punishment. I don't think cops fair well in jail. I want them to be looking over their shoulder for the rest of their lives while in prison. To never get out. To look out the barred window at the world passing them by in their cement tomb.

  • Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador | Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador

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  • It may even become a self filling cycle, though I don't know if they have even thought this far ahead.

    1: Send legal Americans to Salvador prisons

    2: Said Americans attempt to return

    3: "Look at our border crisis!"

    4: Fool idiots into thinking that there is now a border crisis, even though it's previously legal Americans in every sense of the word.

    5: Blame "liberals"

    6: Rinse repeat

  • Trump is trying to deport a Purple Heart veteran. You could be next

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  • Those fucking voluntold assemblies on day shift. That's ok, we don't have jets to work on. I don't have 10 computers to fix that will be kicked off the network tomorrow if I don't patch them. Nah, we can stop this ISO inspection that is already behind. All so you can give some vapid speech and peace out before anyone else can talk to you.

  • Trump is trying to deport a Purple Heart veteran. You could be next

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  • Rogers showed up to a kid's fund run. There were all of like 15 kids there. 3 of them mine. She wouldn't talk to anyone that wasn't an officer. She wasn't even there when the race started. Kid's fund run and she couldn't even stay and see it through or even walk the thing.

  • Trump is trying to deport a Purple Heart veteran. You could be next

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  • Fellow vet: I never understood fellow service member's blind servitude to the GOP. They fuck us over ever chance they get, and we're dogs at a dog show for them only when it's convenient. When they show up at a base, it's either a completely scripted Q&A, with questions vetted weeks to months ahead of time, or they show and are guided around by the base commander and make a super quick appearance at whatever event.

    My favorite was the 1 time Cathy McMorris did a debate. She touted helping 100's of vets a month. Her opponent: "If you are really helping the vets, you wouldn't have 100's a month with issues."

  • California to negotiate trade with other countries to bypass Trump tariffs

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  • You'll need easy access to Canada. What better way than to have a close Canadian Province? - Wa state

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  • The entire town got filled with that sulfur smell a few times a day. When we first moved there, we were baffled about the smell. The locals all said; "smells like money." Even the other kids in school. I never got accustomed to it. It's a smell that will forever be stuck with me.

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  • Thankfully for that area, the plant closed last year. It wasn't profitable anymore. Unfortunately, it and logging are really the only game in that town. They took 2 direct hits from hurricanes in fairly quick succession as well. Keaton beach, Fl is only about a 45 min drive from Perry. Some potato chip company was talking about moving there, but it remains to be seen. If I were them, I wouldn't with the 2 direct hits. Too much risk.

  • Rand Paul Fears Trump Tariffs Could Mean 1930s-Style Republican Wipeout: ‘We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years’

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  • Well fuck. Maybe we can hold out until us Gen Xers are too old to vote or die off as well.

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    I just finished running a continuous (no parsing) DnD campaign with DS as DM!Other

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