Tower

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[–] Tower@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're right, a 100% fix of the problem is not simple or easy. But there's a whole lot of low-hanging fruit that we can tackle to make huge strides.

While drugs and/or mental illness may be involved in a high percentage of the chronically homeless, the chronically homeless only account for somewhere between 1/5 and 1/3 of all homeless. So housing the other homeless would still take care of the needs of ~80% of all homeless, give or take. Get single-payer healthcare up and running to prevent more people from ending up in those situations, and change from a retributive justice system to one that cares about rehabilitation, and suddenly we've got a society that actually cares about people, and would cost less to run while we're at it.

But, with a functioning safety net, people won't feel like they have no other choice but to work a shit job for shit wages, and the oligarchs can't have that.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why is everyone fully clothed in that Oglaf strip?

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

StarCraft. Learn to type really quickly when you're coordinating a massive assault or calling for reinforcements.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

FYI: Rhinoceruses don't play games. They f*cking charge your ass.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago

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[–] Tower@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My working memory is terrible. If I don't write something down, it's likely forgotten. I've always tried to keep a pen and paper on me, to varying degrees of success. Now, instead I can "Hey Google, add x to my grocery list" and it'll add it to my shopping list in Keep, or "... Create a reminder/alarm/event for..." for reminders to empty the dishwasher in 45 minutes or remember that I just agreed to plans on Saturday.

I'm not a huge fan of Google anymore, but I still willingly use their services because the tradeoff is that beneficial to me.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Same boat. Tools like this and Gemini make managing my ADHD sooooo much easier. Having a JARVIS-esque "AI personal assistant" would make a lot of my struggles less debilitating. I'd even be willing to pay, as long as the data stayed private.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago

Open the dictionary and under the word idiot, what do you see?

A picture of me?

No! The definition of the word idiot! Which you are!

(done from memory, so likely not 100% accurate)

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] Tower@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

AKA we all know this is bullshit, but I'm going to backtrack and cover my ass just enough to not catch a perjury charge

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

That's just the poorly designed default position.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nope, it was ~~reasonably~~ randomly assigned. It's just that the odds weren't great.

So he rolled the dice on Florida, calculating his one in 26 odds of drawing the dreaded Judge Cannon were pretty good. The problem is, as they said in “The Music Man,” he didn’t know the territory. The odds were really as short as three to one against drawing Cannon.

The catch is that the Southern District of Florida is administratively divided into five divisions: Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Key West and Fort Pierce. This is supposed to be for the convenience of the parties and their lawyers, and has no other legal significance.

Cannon is the only judge sitting in Fort Pierce, which is in St. Lucie County, 68 miles north of Palm Beach and 128 miles north of Miami. But, for the purpose of assigning judges, Fort Pierce is treated as part of the neighboring Palm Beach Division. There are three federal district judges in Palm Beach, one of whom is a senior judge. What Smith did not know, or failed sufficiently to appreciate, is that the pool of judges administratively eligible to try the case was not 26 but four. (If you remove from consideration the senior judge, the eligible pool narrows to three.) The grand jury that returned the Trump indictment sat in Miami because the courthouse facilities were more accommodating than those in Palm Beach, but an administrative order deemed the investigation a Palm Beach inquiry.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4052380-how-trump-ended-up-with-judge-cannon/

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