What do you think gambling does to a person? They use the same mechanics.
SolacefromSilence
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SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto News@lemmy.world•'Alligator Alcatraz' Already Ballooning Over $600 Million, Leaked Document Shows58·5 days agoWatch who’s getting the contracts and who they’re bribing. That’s the grift, the cruelty is just a garnish for them.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How can I start getting familiar with the plants, trees and animals around where I live?5·6 days agoPerhaps this goes without saying, but are you taking time to explore wild or green areas around where you live?
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto News@lemmy.world•‘No warning at all’: Texas flood survivors question safety planning and officials’ response47·7 days agoAlso actively took funding from existing systems that would warn of weather problems.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto News@lemmy.world•'World's largest' time capsule opened in Nebraska 50 years later2·8 days agoIs the link wrong?
Thank you, just to pile on to share the direct link.
https://www.aidaamer.com/?itemId=c7s6obglfrjh2iruhz1l854iwlixvw
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•20% of american buyers are spending over $1000 a month on car loans. 22.4% of new loans were 84 months or longer. It means someone who buys a car today will be paying it off until July of 2032381·9 days agoThe big beautiful bill added an item to allow new cars bought in 2025/26/27/28 to have the interest deducted from your gross income.
This won’t save people much, but it’s just going to reinforce the trend. I expect car prices to go up because of this.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto Gardening@lemmy.world•Is it too late to plant raspberry bushes as a novice gardener?4·9 days agoJust go for it, try to water them during any dry/hot spells. If you can’t commit, then wait until early fall.
The downside is that only canes which leaf this year will bear fruit next year.
For a second I thought, “wow, they’re actually convicting them?”, well done
Time is a flat circle, as they say…
“[B]ut I see nothing in this renewal of the game of ‘Robin’s alive’ but a general demoralization of the nation, a filching from industry it’s honest earnings, wherewith to build up palaces, and raise gambling stock for swindlers and shavers, who are to close too their career of piracies by fraudulent bankruptcies. my dependance for a remedy however, is in the wisdom which grows with time and suffering. whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.” - Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819[1] References
^ PTJ:RS, 13:571-72. Polygraph copy at the Library of Congress. Transcription available at Founders Online.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto Uplifting News@lemmy.world•Deadly car crashes are way down in New York City this year. Data published on Wednesday shows 87 people were killed, down from 128 deaths the same period last year.221·10 days agoIt would have been nice if the article mentioned the congestion pricing and therefore traffic drop that went into affect this year.
I guess it’s up to the reader to compare.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto News@lemmy.world•Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy10·12 days agoYou see, the corporate shithead will just share a gratuity with a few justices of choice. That’s how this court has been running for years.
Nice cooking and since no one’s mentioned yet, good choice on the buns too
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto Politics@sh.itjust.works•Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses23·14 days agoThe Supreme Court ruled that they don’t even need to send them to the prior country that they came from. So likely indefinite detention and trafficking paid for by the U.S. government until the headlines cease
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto politics @lemmy.world•Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I'm His Uncle.141·16 days agoBoth sides, amiright?!
SolacefromSilence@fedia.ioto privacy@lemmy.ca•Danish citizens to ‘own their own faces’ to prevent deepfakes5·16 days agoThis reads like a legit version of SovCit theory
I understand that baby boxes are no longer allowed in the U.S. but I see a reference to a different product causing issues.
In my mind, they were just looking for an excuse not to support a new family, the U.S. is backwards that way
https://www.jognn.org/article/S0884-2175(23)00277-0/fulltext