I'm not sure what the new one is but the one that ended recently kept owners from evicting non-paying tenants. I expect this one will be similar.
This is the type of crap you hear from the commie crowd who think taxation and landlords are stealing from people instead of an agreement to exchange services for money. If the government breaks the agreement and takes away the rights of the land owner then you're creating a recipe for problems. At a minimum you're talking about owners doing things like paying people to leave. Or in a worse case scenario damaging the property to get tenants out. There's nothing stopping owners from breaking windows in the middle of winter then refusing to fix the damage for the squatter. The contract between them is already invalid due to government over reach.
The eviction/foreclosure freeze is something that really gets to me. I almost owned rental properties and I know people who do. People are squatting on these rentals now and the owners can't afford to own a house someone lives in for free.
I keep getting told the market is hot right now. But I just don't understand how. It has to be a bubble due to the low interest rates. You have a lot of people who bought investment homes and the people living in them aren't paying. Not being able to evict the squatters is going to do as much damage as shutting peoples jobs down.
They're going to close up to 200 stores. It looks like they're restructuring like most places with physical stores. In my area BB&B was running promotions and was packing people in this year. I thought they were doing good until I read your comment and looked it up.
I'm not sure about where everyone else lives but in rural Ohio there are state schools dedicated to giving single mom's a free education so they can become a nurse. I dealt with it way too much when in college and will spare anyone reading this my rants.
It's no surprise that a class of people who have kids they can't afford and use all the social services they can get their hands on, have no concept of how to act responsibly. I could say a lot about this but I'll keep it at: if you're working in a industry that shut down society to "flatten the curve" and you're coming up with dance choreography you never learned any tact or are too stupid to understand the situation. In the latter case it's really bad that these people are "the front line".
Is it referring to the auth portal? That's one of the things problems I noticed after some recent site updates. Maybe you need to allow the auth domain? I believe the domain is https://authentication.win but someone who runs the site would know better.
I was still being taught peak oil in the late 80s / early 90s. We were told that oil would be gone by the year 2000. That argument went away real quick as the 90's got going.
The ozone thing was bizarre. There was a huge focus on CFC's for a few years in elementary school then it just went away. Aerosol bottles used to have CFC health info on them kind of like cigarettes do now.
The first one was pretty one sided. The beginning is the utopia of women being bothered by a war raging outside and a pilot ending up on their island. It eventually leads to "men bad" and "men violent" but don't worry. The super powered fetish woman will save everyone.
The sex work argument is so strange. Sex is a normal thing for a healthy adult. If the only skill you have is sex then that shows how worthless you are.
Take a look at porn stars. They make great money while young and most lose work once in there early 20s. Those people are so lazy, lack any real skills, and tend to be into heavy drug use. The remainder of their live is a down hill slope. That's not a life to promote to kids
The only way you could start talking about a viable UBI, and this is a big IF, is if you took all the money from all the current welfare systems. That includes welfare, wic, all the child programs that give out free stuff to single moms, meals on wheels type programs, etc, and combine all of those existing handouts into a single fund. If managed correctly the drop in overhead by giving everyone a check vs giving only specific people a check means a lower cost of management. But even then it doesn't guarantee enough funds to make it worthwhile to everyone. It would be a nice little extra check for those who work and useless for those who don't without another source of income.
If you try telling this to someone who believes in the welfare system then it won't work. How could you take money away from poor people that need it? The idea of fixing our current system of hand outs before you even attempt a concept like UBI falls on deaf ears.
One more thought to add to UBI. The precursor is a post scarcity society. There needs to be enough resources to go around for everyone and be maintainable through the future. We don't have that now. So at some point UBI would lead to a choke on available resources.
I suggest tubi and roku for free (ad based) old stuff. They cycle through content monthly but there is some odd ball stuff from 80s and 90s before everything started being woke.
Probably the best recommendation I can give is Adam West Batman. I believe it's still on Roku. That show was amazingly fun. Fun like Police Squad fun. Can't find anything like that nowadays.
edit: try the way back machine for radio serials if you really wanna go back. X minus 1, dragnet, and all sorts of good stuff in there. Great to listen to while working on projects too
Prairie home companion is another radio show to check out too. A bit newer but good quality.
I'm in Ohio and Lee's Famous Recipe is popular. I've seen them in KY too. I always thought they were a national chain but maybe not.
Everyone keeps forgetting about Lee's. Lee's is better than KFC hands down. Can't speak much for Popeye's as it's not around my area.
I think it has something to do with the really simple good/bad analogies and the fact that magic was a popular story telling element at the time. Harry Potter being so many books meant the publisher and producers could drag out both formats for as much money as possible.
Since then attempts to make the extended HP universe grow have failed . It seems to have lost its steam and will only get worse as the left eats its own and calls the writer a TERF.
We used to have a saying in Ohio that it was "The heart of it all". I'd love to see a big sign while entering Texas that says "The balls of America" with a big picture of Ted Cruz and his beard laughing. Maybe some writing in the Zodiac handwriting for good measure.
If you're going to buy a Roku buy the higher end model for just under $100. It comes with an Ethernet port and better hardware/controller. The one pictured and the cheap TV's will lag when using it. This is especially true after it's a year+ old and gets new updates.
Thank you for the response.
I don't want to be a doomer but my argument is one of consolidation and greed. Since the mid 00's we've seen a handful of major corps take over and keep little companies from growing and competing. Sites like FB, Google, Apple, etc also use their auth systems with 3rd party websites so their reach is beyond their own web sites. I won't even get into the buying of competing businesses, or some of the things that came out recently with the FB/Twitter hearings recently.
We've also seen FB, paypal, mastercard, apple, and google deplatform people at the same time. It started with Alex Jones and has gotten steadily worse as the "fact checkers" have shown up to keep users in line.
Net Neutrality has always existed. You weren't aware of it till 2015.
The rules the FCC implemented made everything more expensive. Net Neutrality has always existed and did not raise the cost of anything.
What are you talking about? I'm against what Ajit did. Why would I be shilling for him?
I live far away from family and have had some quiet holidays over the years. Instead of eating leftovers look around at restaurants to see if they're hosting any good events. There are some real gems out there serving up holiday food. It's worth it to get out of the house.
For those of you who don't live in that area of the country PA has strict alcohol control. You can only buy it from state licensed locations that have crappy hours. This isn't much of a step forward from what their current laws are.
I assume most of the country is like Ohio. You can buy alcohol anywhere from 6am - 2am. Every gas station/drive through/grocery store sells it.
I have a toddler who got a viral infection this past week. It resulted in her breaking out in hives over most of her body. Our pediatrician refused to have us in the office because, and I quote, "She is sick". So they did a virtual visit and charged me full price to talk to us for 5 minutes and tell us everything we were doing was correct. Then he told us to get her a covid test.... A baby, with the flu and hives, no assistance whatsoever except a suggestion to take a covid test...
Over the weekend we had to go to the emergency room. The solution was to give her steroids. But you know... The baby needs a covid test for the itchy hives and fever....
From the 2nd article:
Transportation dropped dramatically in price. It made no sense for us to own cars anymore, because we could call a driverless vehicle or a flying car for longer journeys within minutes.
For those of you who aren't that old in the late 80's/90's I was told that we would have flying cars and no more oil by the year 2000. Granted, we have some potential for quad copter cars, but there's no way we're having a driverless car w/unlimited free everything in some commie utopia. This article reads like some bad fan fiction where everyone gets to have it all without the hard work.
Note: The peak oil thing is really interesting for any young pedes who don't know about the goal post moving for environmental crisis over the decades. It went from cooling -> peak oil -> warming -> climate change/carbon stuff pretty quickly.
Carly's failures are much deeper than that. She ran a scheme where they double dipped on contracts. So if you have 1yr left on a support contract a rep would give you discounts to renew early. Both the original contract and new one both stayed on the books inflating HPs value.
I used to use hp servers... Her time in charge seriously screwed HP up.
Thank you for the hard work you've put into this. I'm really glad to see this become a movement about getting involved.
I want to point out a problem I've run into and I expect many others have. I'm trying to get involved in my local politics and I don't know where to start. I'm in a rural area so I can look at websites for State/County/City to find information. But there's a lot to some of this. For example local cities will have Boards of Education, Chamber of Commerce, etc, that you can get involved in. Is there a way we can put together a knowledge base on how to get involved? And make it easier to find the areas where our skills apply?
Right now my goal is just to learn and figure out how everything works. I can grow from there. But I'm not sure where to start and it can feel overwhelming.