That many? Also, their accounts seem to always match display name and username. None of these usernames match the display name. I also know there is someone around who really hates them.

yep, that matches better.

kinda looks like something from here https://garuda-workshop.co.uk/

I miss yiffit. I loved the vibe there. I believe the cute critter is @OmegaMouse@pawb.social

… but the administration would steer it instead towards being more focused on operational weather forecasting and warning responsibilities.

Even for self serving goals and ignoring the future, don’t you need accurate climate models to accurately forecast the weather and issue warnings?

Fun bit for the west tip of Maryland, that’s a resort area so lots of people from NOVA, DC, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, etc… have vacation homes there, greatly inflating the median home price.

This is their FAQ about connectivity, I almost simply linked the page, but realized if you can’t access it, you can’t see the FAQ. https://catbox.moe/faq.php

1st the minimum wage absolutely should be raised to a livable amount, but I have some questions and comments about your numbers.

Averages are bad to use as a measure, they are heavy skewed by the top outliers, median is a much better measure.

If you are trying to recover to a target average, the minimum wage would be below the average, that’s how averages work.

I’m trying to figure out where 72k comes from. 1k for rent (Yes I can find 1 bdrm in the city I live near that price), 150 gas/electric, 50 Water/trash, 100 internet, 250 food, 400 transportation, 500 health insurance all adds up to 29k a year.

The late 50s was still under 50% car ownership, a cheep car today is still around 20k.

For your gas, you have it at $5 a gallon for today, national average according to AAA is $3.132

In general a lot of the numbers you have don’t seem to make sense.

The reason I ask is there have been a few posts recently of artists with a DNP request on their page, or on 621s DNP list already.

I feel called out.

Okay, a hard refresh and now its showing up. (ctrl + shift +r)

As a user level verification, I don’t see a checkbox for post https://pawb.social/post/22913626 I’m on the default web interface. The post was marked as NSFW originally by some developer tools trickery.

Just as a hack, when creating a new post, most of the information is passed as parameters in the URL, you can ensure the NSFW flag is set for the front end by ensuring nsfw=true is one of the parameters in the request.

Digikey is my go-to. I hope they make it through.

umm, no. I use work chats for work, and personal chats for personal. I might accidentally add the wrong colleague to a work chat, or wrong friend to a personal chat, but I’m never going to accidentally add a friend to a work chat because I don’t mix work and personal chats.

I think I want one.

authoritarianism is another word that can mean different things to different people. It can be used to mean the government enforcing any rule that isn’t liked. civil rights protection? authoritarianism. job protections? authoritarianism. minimum wage? authoritarianism. etc…

Also related is “small government”. I think people who use it mean (at least when not in control) “small federal government”, the state however should control everything about peoples lives.

I almost think its the laws they support are black and white and unchanging. If something is wrong with a law, it doesn’t matter, that’s the law. The solution to an issue isn’t to change the law, its to enforce it harder, or make it more restrictive. The “rule of law” also applies to individuals and actions. Money crimes, fraud, “the state” are not subject to the same “rule of law” because those laws “don’t make sense” and if we look above are a result of “authoritarianism”.

Is there a solution to get people to use language that can be agreed upon? who knows, but it would certainly help clear things up. I hate trying to guess what someone thinks a word means to attempt to refute their points.

I don’t know I’ve though about “rule of law” quite that way before. I’ll have to add it to my list for when it comes up. There are several other terms that mean different things to different people (I wish I remembered a specific one to demonstrate). Its one of the reasons its hard to have political discussion online. You have to determine what the words your using mean, before you can start arguing the points.

Assuming he believes his words (as opposed to using rhetoric to get what he or someone around him wants, in either case unfortunately, I think he’s serious). I think he sees anything purchased from another country as “subsidizing” that country. To him, its money the US had that Canada now has. I sometimes think he somehow thinks the US should be given things, because…??? Every transaction has to have a “winner” and a “looser” and whoever has a + on the balance sheet is the winner, it doesn’t matter what that + really means. (I can only bend my logic so far to try to figure these things out)

Disclaimer, I don’t like what is being done, I think its wrong, damaging, and questionably legal, at least the process that is currently in progress.

To add more nuance and explanation, There are only 3 branches of government, and when congress says we want a thing done, the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it? For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that. The current administration is taking that to heart and taking more of an active role, often beyond bounds set, in what is still lower level of the executive. If you were to go to an org chart of the people being fired, and departments being closed, if you went up a few levels you would get to the president. As much as NIH, or CDC, or USAID, or any others are independent, at the end of the day, they are part of the executive.

Most of what is being done has been done or tried to be done before, not necessarily at the same time.

As for your list, I’d be careful about throwing the baby out with the bath water, the NSA is involved with evaluating encryption, although there is some checkered history (DES) in this role.

The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations

Intelligence from the CIA would be useful, but their history of foreign meddling that has come back to bite is a bit hard to overlook.