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aramis87

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  • Trump, Vance and Allies Hurl Insults at Women as Race Ends

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  • OP, thank you for the unlocked article.

    For anyone who doesn't want to click on the link (the New York Times tech workers are on strike), here is an archive link.

  • The Terrifying Group About to Stage a Pro-Trump Comeback

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  • It's why Trump switched his hat to Proud Boy colors.

  • Tucker Carlson warns Elon Musk "will be destroyed" if Kamala Harris wins

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  • "I mean, Elon Musk joked to me, and he has, I think, many times, that he's going to go to prison if Trump loses," Carlson said.

    Elon, what have you been up to?! No wonder you're so fired up for Trump to win. Does this have anything to do with all those phone calls to Putin these past couple years? The ones that started around the time the Putin invaded Ukraine and you got put on the hook to buy Twitter?

  • Tucker Carlson warns Elon Musk "will be destroyed" if Kamala Harris wins

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  • A) That's false.

    B) Even if it was true, I fail to see the downside.

  • Should I get financial help from an emotionally and physically abusive family member?

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  • Can we break this situation down a bit?

    Re: income: You're earning just a little too much for government aid: if you got government aid, would that aid offset the loss of income? Like, if you were earning $100 less a month but got $400 in assistance, I'd say it was worth it. Take a look at the numbers. If it's worth it, talk with your boss and see if you can get either your hours or your pay cut slightly enough to qualify for government assistance.

    Re: the taxes: in my experience, every government process (including tax collection) has an appeal process. You say your agent is relentless and merciless; get in touch with their supervisor, figure out the appeal process. Unless this is a private company, there should be a way to put this on hold; the issue is finding it. It's a slow season right now; it might be worth it to contact a tax attorney and ask for some free advice.

    Re: expenses: Check with your county social services office. A lot of places have programs to possibly help with utilities, like the HEAT program. Unfortunately, some states are significantly more generous with support than others, but it may be worthwhile. Also look into local charities that may be able to help with some kind of expense. Even if it's not the expense you were looking for help with, any kind of expense-savings is good.

    Re: mental health services: check your local universities and colleges to see if any of them offer advanced degrees (Master's/PhD) in psychotherapy, psychology, sociology, social work, or related fields. For those that do, check if they have a community counseling program (they may or may not). If they do, contact them and see if they'll accept you as a patient; they might, they might not, or they could put you on a waiting list. They'll also often have sliding scale payments for therapy, like $10 or $15 a session. Yes, it'll be another expense, but it'll be helpful documentation for your disability claim.

    If you can't find anything locally, try farther away; most places started allowing online sessions during the pandemic, and some of them still allow it.

  • Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

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  • I can't help but think he's saying this now as an attempt to distract from the stories of "Musk has been talking to Putin since the spring when they were both faced with problems: Musk being forced to buy Xitter and Putin unable to steal Ukraine. Odd how Musk has been becoming more rabidly pro-Russian-interests, isn't it?

  • Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

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  • The main issue I have with full self driving is that it'll probably never actually be full self driving; there'll always be use cases where people have to take over - ice, snow, slightly flooded roads, sand, whatever. And humans will have to take over under conditions when it's extremely helpful for them to have had extensive driving experience under a range of conditions - experience they'll no longer have because the car's been driving them everywhere.

    Yes, I know we're not supposed to drive in some of these conditions, and yet sometimes we have to, even if it's just to get to a safer place.

  • Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive

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  • The best use cases I can think of for full self-driving are the elderly, the visually impaired, the drunk, the disabled, and the easily distracted.

  • A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found.

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  • I took Amtrak across the country once. The freight trains are supposed to give priority to the passenger trains so they leave and arrive (mostly) on time, but (outside the NEC) they mostly don't bother and they've never been held to those requirements. Once again, prioritizing "stuff" over people.

  • Elon Musk Denied in Effort to Move Case to Federal Court

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  • Fuckwad didn't even bother to show up to court when he was told to be there.

  • Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’

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  • As they desperately try to close the show before knucklehead alienates any more women ...

  • Miami-Dade ballots found on side of road in Cutler Bay, worker fired

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  • It's funny how all these "errors" seem to occur in blue areas, isn't it?

  • ‘Fundamentally saddened’: Washington Post readers on failure to endorse Harris

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  • The thing is, there's no downside to it for Bezos. If Harris wins, she'll operate as normal. If tfg wins and Bezos was against him, he knows he'll get screwed over by the government somehow - an antitrust or monopoly investigation, something.

    But he's telling fascists ahead of time that he's okay with whatever tfg wants to do, just don't hurt him. And that's how fascists win.

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  • Well, there's no downside to it for him, is there? If trump wins, he gets all sorts of goodies; and he knows that Harris will continue to try to be fair, so he won't suffer if she wins.

  • Redding landlord fired after allegedly committing voter, mail fraud in Reddit posts

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  • Charles Pierce is a 70-year-old former landlord of the Manzanita Manor Apartments in Redding. Pierce says he was fired from his role after his reddit posts came to light.

    I'm assuming he's the property manager (you can't fire a landlord). Some places give the property manager an apartment to live in, so he may have also lost his place to live. And at 70 years old, he's not going to have an easy time finding another job.

  • More ‘lifelong Republican’ former Trump aides denounce ex-president in letter

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  • Funny how none of them have spoken up until now. It's all well and good until they get what they want, and good for a bit after, but then suddenly things are going a bit too far? This is how all extremism works, by the little helping pushes of someone who wants just a little bit more - and then expects things to stop there, not realizing there's always someone else why wants something just a little bit beyond them - and someone else a little behind them.

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    I'm exhausted. I'll be so glad when the election is over. The constant state of tension, where everything is couched in absolutist "do or die" terms. I can't wait for this election to be over.

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  • When he was president, I remember waking up every morning with a very real feeling of existential dread - what bullshit had he decided during drug- and tv-fueled insanity in the middle of the night? I hate the election season as well, but this may be the last good times we have.

    Also, their plans and infrastructure remain in place, regardless of if he loses. This is going to be every election from now on, until one day we stop having meaningful elections.

  • How do you battle depression by your own?

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  • There's an AA saying that the opposite of addiction is community; I find the same thing is often true of depression.

  • TIL the woman who played Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch is a queerphobic Trump fan.

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  • Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady

    ..... Ri-ight. I'm sure that this proposed show, with six grown-up Brady kids, six Brady spouses, and a decent number of Next Gen Bradys will have plenty of time for yet another character .... I'm sure that wouldn't be a token position at all ...

    Actually, while I was writing this, I had a thought and I went back and re-read her comment:

    "One of Jan’s children was going to be trans, and one of the Bradys was going to have a Black spouse. [...] Let’s make this Black spouse somebody who has a really close relationship with another Brady, and that’s how this Brady met them."

    It's interesting, isn't it? She mentions Jan specifically, and "another Brady" who could have a black spouse, but she's pretty coy ("this Brady") about who was originally going to have the black spouse. Who wants to bet it was her?