According to the Congressional Budget Office, 2030 is the year when federal debt held by the public as a share of the economy will exceed the record set by World War II. read more
The quake shook several major cities, including Bogot, Cali and Medelln. At least 69 people have died, and the death toll appeared likely to rise as rescuers continued to search damaged buildings. read more
The 11-year NBA veteran said Friday on X that he was "officially declaring" for the 2027 WNBA Draft in a sarcasm-laden post that immediately drew social media condemnation. Freedom is capitalizing on the recent controversy surrounding statements made by the Indiana Fever's Sophie Cunningham. Though Cunningham has attempted to distance herself from the remarks, she told ESPN that she wanted to use her platform as a WNBA player to "protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men." read more
"An emerging critique of Democratic decision-making," the chapter states, "is there are too many people who have become generationally wealthy off politics and drive too much of the decision-making within the ecosystem. This is deeply frustrating to many... who want to try a different set of politics but keep banging their heads up against a system proven to be inflexible and self-enriching." The chapter adds that "many of the people who worked at the highest levels of the party" are "financially secure," and thus potentially insulated "from the realities many Americans were encountering in their lives." The chapter raised pointed questions that were notably absent from the draft that the party put out, both about President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s ill-fated decision to run for re-election and the sway of an operative class that had become "generationally wealthy off politics" while steering Democratic strategy." read more
A series of water main breaks across Los Angeles in recent days is raising concerns about the city's aging infrastructure and whether more failures could occur. Crews continued working to repair the massive trunk line that ruptured Thursday in West Hollywood, leaving behind a large sinkhole on Sunset Boulevard. The break is the latest in a string of water main failures that have flooded streets, damaged homes and businesses, closed roadways and disrupted water service. In Studio City, an 8-inch water main failed, flooding a street and temporarily leaving about 60 customers without water while crews completed repairs. read more
So now we are supposed to trust polls? In that case Trump definitely stole the 2016 election. Thanks to visitor for confirming it for everyone.
~ JohnnyNumbNuts
What now we're supposed to trust Milwaukee?
And How Many Early Voters Wasted Their Vote
Across Wisconsin, 39% of early voters cast their ballot before the final field was set.
law.marquette.edu
Mail in ballots really worked against Democracy in the WI election.
Milwaukee's late night ballot dump, explained
https://civicmedia.us/shows/recombobulation-area/2024/10/22/milwaukees-late-night-ballot-dump-
explained
Milwaukee every election ... something isn't right up there.
Here's another PRO flock article.
In Defense of Flock - Police cameras can help make the criminal-justice system both fairer and less punitive"if we let them.
www.theatlantic.com
Flock, Mass Surveillance, and the Collapse of Crime
Joshua Reed Eakle says that "in America we believe that liberty is more important than security." Do we? This isn't a statement I find meaningful. We clearly don't maximize liberty in every possible situation, but rather usually consider tradeoffs. Most of us would be happy for the police to detain us for a few minutes in order not to be hacked to death. And nobody says get rid of jails because, even if we are sure most people there are guilty, some innocent person is surely being locked up somewhere, and we must always choose liberty over safety. What is relevant is what kind and how much liberty and security we're talking about.
That is to say that there's no way to avoid cost-benefit analysis in situations like this. They pretend this is about larger principles, but it seems that anti-Flock advocates are going based on their own mood affiliation, which has a bias toward the status quo and against new forms of technology. We barely register large, multiyear drops in the murder rate, even though they cumulatively represent thousands of lives saved. At the same time, a couple dozen stalking cases facilitated by Flock will become national news, and while regular victims of crime are collapsed into unanimated numbers, those victimized in a novel way get the complexities of their inner emotional lives put on full display. When we're dealing with status quo problems, we express harms in terms of statistics, while moral panics are written about in the language of poetry.
www.richardhanania.com
If crime creates poverty (people stop investing in self, and community), wouldn't having 0 crime be the goal for the most liberty?
It's a flex to show Greenlanders and the world that they have no true Sovereignity or ability to Resist.
Can you get any more dramatic.. .FFS LMAO
#4 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS
They know, we know ... everyone but TwoKilometers knows.
The US Geological Survey estimates that onshore northeast Greenland (including ice-covered areas) contains around 31 billion barrels of oil-equivalent in hydrocarbons " similar to the US's entire volume of proven crude oil reserves.
theconversation.com
Someone is genuinely going to try to kill these people someday,
#2 | Posted by Zed
They already have.