Nobody who’s looking for good coverage of anything should be reading / watching CNN anyway. The last 10-odd years have proven that all the major privately owned US networks are just total slop.

Capital.

links to 11 year old thread for tangentially related Windows Vista problem, locks current thread

I just don’t see that.

If somebody doesn’t have an idea of what they’re talking about (allegedly) then it would be far more productive to explain it than to keep arguing about it without actually solving anything.

Plenty of developers also use GitHub for software distribution for end users, so that’s where the problems lie. I’m not saying GitHub should change their UI to match something the site wasn’t made for, but it’s still an issue for people who choose to use it that way.

this title is giving me a migraine

That’s because they were led by the rich landowners.

Maybe I should target him for ‘improperly applied hair dye’

edit: It’s worth noting that I did not vote for what’s below because, after recently moving, my residency is still in another county in my state. I still voted, but not for the vote I’m about to talk about.

There’s a vote in my town for a new jail. It’s very hotly contentious. The current jail is pretty much universally recognized as crumbling and out of date and overfilled with inmates so I don’t think many people argue about that kind of thing. There was an expose posted in the local newspaper a year ago with photos of the thing. Most rooms had upwards of 6 - 12 people in them, and the former “games room” of the jail was now a living space for 30 inmates. There’s pictures of black mold and crusty toilets and shit like that. The elevator also doesn’t work, period. Proponents of the jail are pro new infrastructure of course. People anti jail are split up into like 3 camps that seem to spread throughout party lines. Some are anti jail tax (there are even signs saying the 10th of a percent sales tax increase will lead to “financial ruin.”), some are anti this specific jail saying it’s the wrong location etc., I think the rest are anti literally all jails in particular. What I find interesting is a lot of the anti jail tax people seem to be progressive teens which is really odd to me. They canvas support a lot in the local university. I always thought the anti tax folks were the libertarians. I know taxes suck but I think the pragmatic way of looking at it is that it’s really the only good way we have of getting things done in the society we currently live in, especially when it comes to infrastructure.

What I will say is that the “say no to the jail” people are very in your face about it. Lots of botting on the local subreddit, lots of downvote spamming there too. Very toxic from my experience, although I think the toxic ones are more the anti tax people than anybody else. I have yet to see very many pro jail people who are very active about it. Just lots of passive support for that. It’ll be interesting to see what the results will be but I think that a lot of people will be mad in the end.

I only just moved here so I don’t think my opinion has a lot of weight, but data shows that the city boomed in the past few decades in terms of population. IIRC it doubled in the last 20 years alone despite almost 100 of history. So I’ve been personally looking at it as a “now or never” type of deal.

People have definitely mentioned that we should be incarcerating less, and I think I agree with that. However, knowing how long politics take, I do worry for the folks who will be stuck in there until we can pass measures to free up space in the current jail. The mold problems and straight up broken elevator though? I think that requires a bit more work.****

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It’s not news. It’s from 2009. The data on their returns recently did come out but the deal is already 14 years old. Stop treating it like news. They didn’t “just” do this. Chicagos news media exploded about this in 2009 when it happened and this is more of a political analysis about the situation.

And yes everybody is projecting except you.

Why not, exactly? If you don’t like or trust the content that one format of media provides then you are more than welcome to report it to the staff of the community, but the fact that one is a visual media and another is reading doesn’t make it unfit for a community about politics, especially when the topic LITERALLY IS politics.

To me this just reads like insecurity. You want politics to be more “mature” than news which is why you don’t watch youtube videos.

Old people dying reminds me of other old people that died too.

I was there when the electoral votes came in. He won against Zachary Taylor.

Holy shit. I know it’s expected of police in america to engage in police brutality but this is on another level. Taking people to a warehouse and assaulting them? What the fuck? The image in the article deeply unnerved me. It reminded me of the things you hear the CIA does in foreign countries…

Thanks for the correction about ethanol, I’m not big into alcohol so I didn’t know what to write lol

Leaded gasoline has a really crazy story. People have known that lead is highly toxic since the mid 1800s, and when tetraethyl lead was invented by Thomas midgley Jr in the 1910s, pretty much everybody at GM knew how toxic it was. Dozens of workers died from exposure, and Thomas himself was sick with lead poisoning when it was unveiled to the public. GM even went as far as naming it “ethyl” to avoid public backlash.

The reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s was because health officials in the 20s thought that exposure to drivers was so low that it wouldn’t reach toxic levels until decades down the line. Like, the 1970s. This wasn’t reviewed until the mid 70s and by that point the consequences were disastrous.There were some studies between the 20s and 70s, but most didn’t gain much traction. Many adults and children had increased levels of lead in their blood and lead has contaminated the groundwater and polluted the air. For instance, there is NO safe level of lead in blood, and Herbert needleman in the early 70s found some American schoolchildren had as much as 14 micrograms per deciliter This is the reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s in most countries. One could say we’re still recovering from that in some ways.

And the worst part? They could have used ethanol, an organic substance that’s a major additive in alcoholic beverages. It also prevents engine knocking and is highly flammable, but otherwise not even close to as toxic as TEL was. You still woudlnt want to breathe it in, but it probably wouldn’t have polluted our air and ground so much. GM refused to use ethanol though because it couldn’t be patented (being naturally produced?) and it wouldn’t be very profitable to use it to prevent knocking. TEL was far more profitable.

So you want them to be bought out… more?

capitalism is the best system

guy who made lots of money under capitalism expresses that capitalism is the best system