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Yeah but they didn’t limit the buffer. You had to wait 15min for it to load but once it did you could watch a whole low quality video file straight through with no shuddering or stopping.

The article indicates that the bid process for the wreaths is open to other vendors and administered by a third party. Yes the relationship is a red flag but the article says that they make all required disclosures and there aren’t any indications that they’re doing anything illegal or unethical. The guy founded the charity, it looks like he believes in the cause and is willing to provide the wreaths for the lowest price.

As to your second point, I accept that you don’t value the charity’s cause. I don’t either, I don’t see dead bodies as having value beyond their usefulness for medical donation and research. I say harvest what’s useful and compost the rest. We’re in the minority though. Culturally, and emotionally for many families, graves have value and caring for graves is a way to remember the deceased individual. It’s what the charity was founded to do and, according to the article, is the primary source of the charity’s income. Having different values and priorities from the charity isn’t really applicable to what’s presented in the article.

I get that a close connection between a for-profit company and a charity is a red flag but I don’t really see an issue in this situation based on the information in the article. They don’t give same year numbers or how many wreaths are delivered so this quick math is definitely not correct but 21.5 million divided by 3 million (number of volunteers) is $7.17 per wreath. That incorrectly assumes that the charity’s payment is the same year to year but it also assumes that each volunteer will only lay one wreath and that the for-profit is only providing wreaths. The number should be a ballpark. The company gets the majority of its income from the charity but it doesn’t appear to be taking advantage of the charity. Is there more information that shows that there’s a problem with how the charity operates?

They’re still in the early stages when they go after the liberals, immigrants, gays, trans, and disabled. Don’t worry, they’ll get around to openly criminalizing racial and religious minorites. They just have to ease into the more controversial targets and tactics.

With line item vetoes we’d never pass another appropriations bill and we shouldn’t. If the president can just mark out whatever he doesn’t want in a budget and keep the rest then legislative negotiations are meaningless. Influencing the power of the purse is basically the only power that the minority party has in congress and with a line item veto the only real option they have for exercising that power is to shut it down completely.

He’s pretty much directly responsible for the atc problems. Their union went on strike during his presidency and he did mass firings and union busting. It takes years to fully train and qualify an atc and the job has an incredible amount of stress. They aren’t easy to recruit and train. We’ve had a national shortage of atc since his firings. If he had negotiated with them in good faith we wouldn’t have had a sudden shortage that we couldn’t catch up from then and their working conditions would have improved making them easier to recruit and train.

Switched a bit before it shut down. Lemme.ee felt like the best fit on lemmy for me. It was well run and the devs were mostly neutral on lemmy disputes and controversies. It was exactly what I think a general use instance should be. I’m happy on fedia. It’s run in a similar way and the devs communicate with the users well and were responsive when I had an problem. I actually like fedia a little better just because I like kbin/mbin better.

I’m a little concerned for fedia though. When I came from reddit I started with kbin.social then I went to lemm.ee now I’m on fedia. I hope the curse has run it’s course.

I like Saucony. The have wide versions, are comfortable, and hold up well. I get shoes from their Cohesion series which is one of their less expensive lines. $60-$80 on Amazon.

13. There were thirteen colonies that declared independence and became the first thirteen states. Also George Washington predicted exactly that and tried to stop the formation of political parties and normalize the appointment of political rivals to cabinet positions to prevent it. Unfortunately he wasn’t successful in either of those things.

He used to be moderated at least somewhat by concern for his legacy. I think that the abortion ruling ended that. He knows that that ruling is going to be talked about in a similar manner to Dredd Scott and that it alone would nullify anything that could be argued as a restained and responsible exercise of judicial power. When you sign on to a partisan ruling that strips fundamental rights you give up on legacy. Now that that’s not a concern anymore what he’s protecting is his position in the conservative movement. He wants to make sure he stays in a position of power when the Nazis take over.

Momma doctor Jones is an obgyn. Chubby emu is a pharmacist who is a professor in a doctorial program and biochemical researcher. Chubby emu is especially good, his videos are presentations of case studies which includes explanations of terminology and chemical processes.

Chubby emu is still making videos. I’m not familiar with medlife crisis but I’ll look them up. I can also recommend DrMike and mamma doctor Jones.

100% was privately owned. It was owned by the monarch.

Philosophical communism, most famously described by Marx, is a utopian state where government has withered from lack of need as society evolves from capitalism to socialism to communism. That of course has never existed.

What most people mean when when they say communism is a corruption of the idea that has been used by Lenin, Mao, and others to create governments that they claimed would lead to communist utopias. Even that corrupted version requires that the proletariat, the people who sell their labor, become all of the people and be empowered as equals. It requires, at least rhetorically, that the government be subservient to the people and that the people equally control the means of production. Did any of the governments that we identify as communist ever live up to that? No state has ever actually claimed to have achieved communism, (e) in fact most haven’t even claimed to have achieved socialism. The USSR considered itself to be the most socially advanced state post 1961 and called itself a developed socialist state.

Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?

E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?

Who would throw it away? Most likely the states, possibly the military, and least likely but possible, a popular movement of the people.

In the event of the collapse of the federal government the states still have their individual governments. It’d be painful everywhere and especially painful in most red states but we wouldn’t necessarily have a total political collapse.

I do agree that it’s extremely unlikely to happen.

It’s not wrong to demand accountability and action from leaders. Part of America’s problem is that we don’t do that enough.it’s been since Obama’s first election in 08 since the Democrats have had an open, untainted primary and we’ve still seen no major shakeups or changes to the leadership, just business as usual. The problem is that we’re stuck in a system with only two real choices and there’s no real solid way for the average voter to hold the leadership accountable. It’s vote for our guy or the guy who’s followers are throwing Nazi salutes wins.

We need to focus less on the presidential election and senators. We need to actually have some way of affecting government outside of election years. To my mind the first steps are state level elections and the house. We need to support third party candidates at the local and state level and we need to support things like the interstate compact that would have states cast their electorial votes for whoever wins the national popular vote. We need to focus on changing the electorial system so that proportional representation is used in the house and at the state level and make gerrymandering much more difficult. We need to change to a voting system like STAR which makes the election result better reflect the true will of the voters.

He’s better than close personal friend of Jeffery Epstein, Trump, but I prefer to wait until after the primaries to start making the comparison. Maybe we’ll get a real left wing populist candidate and the Trump backlash will be enough to push them past the establishment candidates like Newsom that the DNC is likely to favor. If we’re stuck with an establishment candidates I’d prefer Andy Beshaer. He’s a popular southern red state governor so I think he’d have a better shot than Newsom and the establishment candidates are all going to do pretty much the same thing.

I’m pretty sure that the best fight scene in cinema is the naked hotel fight in Borat.

Yes, Governor Homelesssweep is very interested in tackling the root causes of crime, drug dependency, and homelessness.

Will they be releasing the Epstein files at the same time? What if Trump repeatedly visiting Epstein Island to rape children is a cause of autism. It clearly needs investigated.