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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

So really you're just on admin leave or a PIP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In my city, it is almost impossible to find a 3 BR apartment, let alone one without exorbitant condo fees. At that point, a 3 or 4 BR house is not much more and you own the land as well.

The problem is developers can make more building studios, 1, and 2 BRs, but anything beyond 2 BR the marginal return is lower. So if you have two kids, you're probably going to want at least 3 BRs, which is so prohibitively expensive due to a supply shortage, the best option is to buy a house.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not every criminal case. There's strict liability crimes, the most well-known being statutory rape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No updates in several years so it's stuck in 2020. May be good, may have vulnerabilities as a result.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The pretty obvious difference here is Russia has nukes and we have no idea what will set Putin off into using them. Palestine does not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not in cold blood. That refers to a degree of murder. Murder is any intentional killing of a person by another person. Homicide is any killing of a person by another regardless of intent (broader). Manslaughter is usually unintentional, but can also refer to the killing of another with a lesser intent (like the intent wasn't to kill specifically, but cause harm or something).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, but high COL blue states aren't the only ones out there. If it costs twice as much to live in Tennessee as it does in Idaho, the Tennessee legislature (being largely Republican) will probably do fuck all about increasing the minimum wage. In fact they haven't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem with having a universal minimum wage is the minimum is usually pegged to the state with the lowest COI, and there are usually assholes in government in higher COI states who will not require their state to set the minimum any higher. So you end up with people still struggling to survive because the minimum wage is too low and their state doesn't have any delta. Pegging the minimum wage to regional COI makes way more sense given the vast differences in COI between urban and rural parts of states.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

He never said he wasn't going to. A media outlet reported on rumors he'd only committed to one term and everyone took that as gospel. Turns out he sort of maybe signaled it one interview with Slate as a maybe, he never said he'd only do one term.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Completely ignoring that, just his role on Elf alone has had a huge impact on kids for generations now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Well you have to deep fry it first.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that's correct. 538 was always a polling aggregator, but people treated it like 60% chance means "for sure." I think what we're now seeing is we don't actually have much good polling data due to extremism, and therefore sites like 538 aren't as valuable.

I distinctly remember Silver refused to make a prediction on who would win in 2016 because he insisted that Trump's 33% odds according to 538 meant there was a very real chance of a Trump victory. But everyone came out an blamed Silver for calling it wrong.

I don't actually like the guy, I think his analysis and political savvy is pretty weak and he comes off as incredibly arrogant. But he literally just runs a weighted data aggregator. So if the data is bad, his results will be bad too.

 

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that as Israeli leaders seemed to approach a decision on a Rafah incursion, “we began to carefully review proposed transfers of particular weapons to Israel that might be used in Rafah” beginning in April.

“As a result of that review, we have paused one shipment of weapons last week. It consists of 1,800 2,000lb bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs,” the official said, according to Reuters. The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse reported similar comments from a senior US official.

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UN Security Council passes resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza, as US shifts position by abstaining from vote

 

Five members of the SAS have been arrested by British military police on suspicion of allegedly committing war crimes while on operations in Syria.

The Ministry of Defence said it would not comment directly on the investigation but defence sources indicated that reports of the arrests, which had been circulating in military circles for some time, were accurate.

An MoD spokesperson said: “We hold our personnel to the highest standards and any allegations of wrongdoing are taken seriously. Where appropriate, any criminal allegations are referred to the service police for investigation.”

Details around the arrests remain limited but the SAS has been actively deployed in Syria for the past decade, engaged in the fight against Islamic State and supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces.

It is not certain that any of the arrests will result in a prosecution, and war crimes convictions of British soldiers are exceptionally rare. But the arrests come at a time when the activities of the SAS in Afghanistan are separately coming under scrutiny in a public inquiry examining claims that 80 Afghans were summarily killed by the unit.

Based in Hereford, the elite force typically operates in absolute secrecy and is ready to conduct risky missions behind the lines and in locations where the UK does not formally acknowledge a military presence.

Government ministers and officials decline to comment on its activities, even off the record, a practice introduced from the 1980s. Its most senior officer, the director of special forces, is only accountable to the defence secretary and the prime minister.

 

Alabama’s attorney general on Monday said that an explosive device had been detonated outside his offices over the weekend in the state’s capital city of Montgomery.

“Thankfully, no staff or personnel were injured by the explosion. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency will be leading the investigation, and we are urging anyone with information to contact them immediately,” the attorney general, Steve Marshall, said in a statement.

The explosion occurred early on Saturday morning.

 

Social media company Reddit filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after a yearslong run-up. The company plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RDDT.”

Reddit said it had $804 million in annual sales for 2023, up 20% from the $666.7 million it brought in the previous year, according to the filing.

The company said it has incurred net losses since its inception. It reported a net loss of $90.8 million for the year ended Dec. 31, 2023, compared to a net loss of $158.6 million the year prior.

Its market debut, expected in March, will mark the first major tech initial public offering of the year. It’s the first social media IPO since Pinterest went public in 2019.

Reddit first filed a confidential draft of its public offering prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2021.

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