Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called coverage of one reported kidnapping a “hoax” in a post Tuesday on X and said: “ICE does not employ bounty hunters to make arrests.”
I’ll take that as official confirmation that ICE is, in fact, employing bounty hunters to make arrests.
O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, today, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
This is just a distraction so that people don’t talk about the spending bill. Move along.
I hate to be a downer, but…
Building, running and maintaining a website isn’t free. Building, running and maintaining a popular website is fucking expensive. Somebody’s got to pay those bills.
As the saying goes, if it’s free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product. Corollary, if it’s not free, you still might be the product.
Furthermore, these days I would assume that 99.9% of profiles on a “free” dating site are scammers, or bots, or scammer bots, many of which are probably run by the people running the website.
And to double down on the downerism, subscription based dating sites/apps are financially motivated to keep you paying for as long as possible. They are not motivated to help you find a match, cancel your subscription, and live happily ever after.
In an attempt to not be a total downer jerk, my suggestion would be to find local meetup groups that interest you (even if just barely) and start going to those consistently.
That’s how I met my spouse almost 14 years ago. We were both on the dating apps but not finding each other. Eventually we met through a meetup group that I ran, and after months of casually chatting occasionally at group meetings, sparks spontaneously started flying. 🤷
The research concludes that policymakers need to better explain the purposes of environmental legislation in culturally sensitive ways
I am so sick of the willfully ignorant expecting society to repeatedly bend over backwards to slowly drag them out of the dark ages without hurting their feelings. Fuck!
The community is more highly affected by poverty,
Durable reusable utensils are wayyyy cheaper in the long run than disposable. So, bullshit. Poverty has absolutely nothing to do with this.
and families are often large, making affordable disposable kitchenware useful in easing the heavy burden of housework.
Wut? With that many people you can very efficiently distribute the work load and get things done a lot faster than one person living alone can do the equivalent amount of housework. So, again, utter bullshit.
This just sounds like self-righteous laziness.
The democratic primary was ranked choice. The general election is still the old broken system.
Ok, nevermind. I guess we’ll just do nothing. 🙄
Even fucking goldfish remember what he’s done.
He wants to flood the FPTP ballot with progressive and centrist candidates so that those votes are spread so thin, the single conservative candidate is a shoe in with a landslide 3% of the votes.
I don’t suppose anyone here has a link to a high(ish) resolution version of it? Asking for a friend.
I mean, yay, but…
an estimated 80% of ballots counted.
That’s just the first round, right? Does he not understand how RCV works? Unless his team already knows who everyone’s second and third choices are, it’s not remotely over yet. What am I missing?
On the whole, I agree. Usually wouldn’t consider them.
However, a few years ago I bought a rather expensive item (several thousand dollars) and I was ready to just pay for it outright, but one of the payment options was 0% financing though one of these pay later companies with payments spread out over 4 years. So, I did that a put the money in a safe investment.
So I essentially got two discounts on the purchase. 1) the growth in the investment means I’m less out of pocket on the purchase, and 2) due to inflation, the dollars I’m using now to make payments are technically worth less than they were three years ago.
There’s been a few times in my life that I’ve been able to take advantage of 0% financing for large purchases and I’ve never regretted it. But, for the strategy to work, you have to A) be willing and able to just buy the thing outright, without financing (the financing can’t be a factor in your decision), and B) have the self control to not touch the invested money to make some other impulse buy.
ETA, another thing to watch out for is smoke and mirrors, where they claim 0% financing, but they’ve really just raised the price to cover what they would have made in interest charges, and then have a “discount for cash” type offer where you pay less if you don’t finance. Usually better to not finance in those scenarios.
I had the same question. It’s buried in the next paragraph.
In this case, however, it appears the Tesla was able to drive along the tracks for a while before getting stuck.
“There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe
the Jewish stateany Palestinian has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn.
Fixed it for you, Sam.
Oh, darn! If only we’d thought of that sooner! Hold my beer for a moment while I go push the “enact a form of ranked-choice or instant-runnoff” button, that’s just been sitting there this whole time. Why didn’t you suggest that sooner? It would have saved everyone so much trouble.
An 8-year-old girl who loved dancing in a red dress at her dentist’s office. A 28-year-old national equestrian champion. A poet one week away from her 24th birthday. A graphic designer who worked at National Geographic. Grandparents in their 80s.
All are among the civilians killed during Israeli airstrikes on Iran.
Israel started this. My sympathies to the girl and her family, but Fuck Israel.
And if he will ask people to pay to use it, they will, rightfully so, switch to a different instance.
Ok? What on earth would be the motivation to let these people keep spending your money instead of letting them go spend someone else’s?
ETA: Especially if their reason for leaving is that you had the audacity to ask them to pitch in for the cost of the resources that they’re using. Oh, the humanity.
Waggle your finger at the Nazis a little harder, Chuckles. Maybe this time they’ll stop.