Part of “less crime in the sticks” is a population effect. The rate of violent crime in New York City is 494/100,000 people. The rate of violent crime in the whole state of Alabama, from its stickiest sticks to the 225,000-resident Huntsville metropolis, is 404/100,000, which isn’t that different, in my book.
People love celebrity gossip and the victims are mostly nameless.
More than that, though: I think we all feel bad for those nameless victims, and all the numberless, nameless victims of not-famous abusers. I think the public is so frustrated at the apparent inability to hold anyone accountable, that they will latch on to any glimmer of potential accountability. I mean, To Catch A Predator ran for 3 seasons just trolling random dudes on the internet.
Second not using local.com If OP doesn’t want a real domain, use an unresolvable TLD, like “private” (so, pihole.private, audiobookshelf.private), but a real domain will just work better, will let them use real TLS certs, and prevent problems from apps bypassing system DNS. Even if it’s not as pretty or memorable as the hijacked domain name.
She thinks she’s next in line. Don’t look for reason or reality in narcissists’ behavior.
The likelihood that all cancers express a common surface marker that is never expressed by any non-cancerous cell seems pretty low. Not a cancer biologist, but there’s all kind of different genetic paths to cancer - why would they all cause some specific molecule to be expressed and why would no other cell ever use it?
If you earn $50-200k, they you’re in the 22-24% federal tax bracket, but probably pay 15-20% Federal income tax. Plus 7.65% payroll tax (also federal). Plus 5-10% state tax. Some cities have an income tax. But yeah: 25-35% total tax burden is pretty common for middle income people.
It’s a Rupert Murdoch company.
Your ‘reward’ is less than the transaction fee they charge the vendors. You use your cards a lot, they make a lot of transaction fees. As long as you never miss a payment, you won’t get the interest fee, but miss or be late with just one, any they will charge you interest on the full balance, every month, until you have a $0 statement. That’s fantastic for them, but they’re perfectly profitable on just your transactions.
Think of it as a profitability index rather than a diligence index, and it will make more sense.
I’ve spent my entire career so far working with bosses that tell me I’m family, but treat me like dirt and discard me at the very first sign of an economic downturn.
They say ‘family’ hoping you’ll think Ward & June Cleaver, but there’s a lot of families out there I want nothing to do with. Come in drunk & beat the shit out of the partner. Lose the rent money on DraftKings. Little hanky-panky with the kid. When the boss wants to be family, that’s what you should think about.
That Trump is a bad person. It started with “Russia, Russia, Russia,” then criticism of his Perfect Phone Call with Zelensky, the Stolen Election, all the Fake Trials, and now Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. All lies meant to tarnish the world’s Favorite President.
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In the US, the ACA limits insurance company expenses and profits to a fraction of their actual, delivered care. They get paid more for providing more care, and it doesn’t matter whether that “care” actually reaches or benefits a patient. They’re fine with fraud, as long as it doesn’t grow so fast that they outspend their revenues. Gotta ride the wave of costs rising fast enough to justify next year’s raise, but slow enough to hold on to this year’s bonus.
These guys claim that as much as 20% of private insurance payments are fraudulent.
My experience is that a lot of people are completely closed to factual argument. It’s like their brains shut down as soon as you introduce a number. They’re not necessarily stupid people, just intimidated or untrained in information, and I find it very difficult to communicate with someone who puts equal weight in some pundit saying, “US healthcare is the best in the world” and an OECD chart that shows US life expectancy is 5 years shorter than “peer” nations.
Yeah, I feel like their “close friends” in 1990 were probably just the guys at the Lodge or the bowling league. I’m not sure those relationships are any deeper than the parasocial relationships we form online. Just a bunch of guys with nothing else to do on Wednesday nights, so they just go down to some social club and roleplay.
If they’re going to profit off insider knowledge, especially off a 15 minute head start on futures trading, they’re going to realize those gains in very short term. In this case, probably within 20 minutes, certainly within an hour. They won’t even get the discounted CGQD tax rate on them.
I was looking at the URL, misread traumabooks.itch.io, and thought, ‘what a perfect source for that book, I want to see their whole catalog.’ Supremely disappointed.
The last time I remember hearing about FEMA camps, it was back when Obama’s Jade Helm operation was going to take over Texas. Or maybe it was part of a Deus Ex plot.
15% of the population are under 12 and almost 5% are over 80.
ed: actually, it seems like “85%” is just bullshit. Probably closer to 95% Wondering if this might not be a decade+ old chart.
The real goal of fake news: there is no reality, only this moment’s convenient story.
She was asking for it
It’s not like they’re good for anything but babies
Spare the rod, spoil the child