In Florida they hold special elections to replace congressmen, so expect Gaetz and Waltz to both be replaced by Republicans 4/1.
Not sure on Stefanik... each state is different...
Yeah, that's special election territory as well, in a super red district:
An Italian singer did a song that's what American rock sounds like to people who don't speak English:
Going the other way, I imagine this is what it was like for non-English speakers discovering Elvis for the first time:
The Country
Billy Collins
I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice
might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.
Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe
behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,
the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—
now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,
lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?
I can't speak for Reddit, but on Lemmy, admins keep track of "unresolved reports" and failing to resolve reports on a community you moderate is grounds for removal.
In terms of scale, from the person at the top making xxx times the person at the bottom, they've likely always been around.
"Robber Baron" is the ye olde term.
Google tells me John D. Rockefeller peaked at around $1.4 billion in 1937. 1.5% of US GDP.
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47167
The average wage in 1937 was $890 a year.
https://time.com/archive/6760420/personnel-above-average/
So Rockefeller, at his death, had amassed as much wealth as 1,573,034 average people would earn in a year.
In order to hit 1.5% of current US GDP (27.36 trillion), Bezos or Musk would have to hit 410.4 billion. That's how wealthy Rockefeller was.
1.2 Musks. 2 Bezoses.
In my experience it's:
Person 1: "End the problem!"
Me: "It's not that simple, here's how to end the problem."
Person 1: "I'm not reading that! END THE PROBLEM!"
Seems like a good opportunity to confirm her and then feed her absolutely nothing but misinformation.
She's too stupid to know the difference...
Problem: Confiscating guns from an armed population.
I see I'm not the only one. LOL.
Only 3 games this year and Microsoft Solitaire is #1 with a bullet.
Then Starfield, then Little Kitty Big City.
Will be interesting to see my Playstation and Steam stats.
Not really... in the current House it's 220 R, 212 D, with 3 vacancies. 1 resignation (R) and 2 deaths (D).
In the new House it will be 220 to 215.
So pretty much the same as it is now.
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Probably a tie between Tremors 1/2, Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo Banzai.
Best or worst doesn't enter into it, it's simply policy. People might not LIKE that it's the policy, more likely they never read the policy in the first place.
Depending on the streaming service, a $99 Roku box might be worth the investment.
I enjoyed the first episode, but when I saw how long each one was, I never finished it. I should go back one of these days.
Some good news for Portland's thriving LGBTQ+ community: Thank you all for your continued support! We are beyond thrilled to share that under new ownership, ou
Hipster Santa will head to Washington Square mall in Tigard this week.
The theater closed on Dec. 1.
Trying out this new cocoa powder. It has 4x the fat compared to Hershey's. 2g per tablespoon compared to 0.5g.
Trying it in my favorite application:
Chocolate Orange Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
- Float 2 pounds of cream cheese in warm water for 15 minutes.
- Mix with 1 1/2 cups of sugar until smooth.
- Add 3/4 cup cocoa, 2 tablespoons vanilla, 2 teaspoons orange extract, 1/4 cup Grand Marnier, and 5 eggs. Mix until smooth.
- Add an ENTIRE BAG of MINIATURE chocolate chips. IMPORTANT - full size chips won't melt all the way and leaves a weird texture.
- Take a 9" springform pan, spray it with cooking spray, and coat the inside with another 1/4 cup of cocoa powder.
Pour the batter in the pan and bake at 200° F for EIGHT DAMN HOURS.
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Cool to room temp, 2+ hours.
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Flip upside down onto a plate, remove the pan and refrigerate as long as you can stand it. ;) Colder the better.
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Flip right side up onto another plate, garnish with candied orange slices, and serve.
When I first met Evan B Harris he was fizzing with talent and kindness. So I was shocked to hear he had become homeless and out of control. What happened to him is a story playing out in cities across America
Seems like they are over complicating it...
"Evan’s younger brother had experienced some serious mental health issues and he was awaiting news of a diagnosis."
"his mother was a schizophrenic and a heroin addict who often paid for her drug habit with sex. They were homeless, moving constantly. Often she would head off for days at a time, leaving Evan with friends or relatives, or sometimes on his own, without food. When he was 11, she took her own life"
"Evan’s father began to suffer with mental health issues. By the time the pandemic arrived, he was in full crisis, using drugs and worried enough about Covid that he had locked himself inside his house. For a week, Evan stayed with him, and they shuttled back and forth to hospital as his father experienced mounting phobias and suicidal thoughts, but refused treatment. At the end of that week, his father took his own life."
Dude literally had the deck stacked against him.
"The real problem came when Evan inherited his share of his father’s estate – $170,000. He used some of the money to rent an apartment. “But I had extreme schizophrenia and I just filled it with trash because I was so out of my mind,” he says. “I was seeing faces dripping down the walls, I couldn’t even be in there.”"
And this, kids, is why the "Housing First" model won't work. Mental Health and addiction treatment have to come first THEN housing.
There's a mineral so rare that only one specimen of it has ever been found in the entire world.
"It's called kyawthuite (cha-too-ite), a tiny, tawny-hued grain weighing just a third of a gram (1.61 carats). On first glance, you might mistaken it for amber or topaz; but the unassuming mineral speck has value beyond measure."
From Nov. 29 through Dec. 31, at least two officers will patrol on foot, an effort to engage with community members in a positive way.
"Since March 2022, there’s been a 63% drop in the number of reported stolen vehicles in Portland, police said in a statement Saturday evening. In that same time frame, there have been 53 coordinated law enforcement missions that recovered 474 stolen cars, arrested 564 people, recovered 84 illegal guns."
A New York judge indefinitely postponed President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his criminal hush money case.
Well, that's the end, guys!
The two federal cases are being shut down, Jack Smith is retiring, and there's no way the Georgia case goes forward if a literal conviction is paused.
America was nice while it lasted!
A major storm was sweeping across the northwest U.S., battering the region with strong winds and rain and causing widespread power outages.
"The Portland Clinic has had a location downtown for 104 years, but the block outside its doors has become the city's latest open-air fentanyl market."
The city auditor's office says Gonzalez repeatedly failed to return donations that exceeded Portland’s contribution limits in a timely manner.
The agency has been cracking down on vehicles with missing license plates, unpaid registration fees and that are parked illegally.
The HISTORY Channel Finland - HISTORY is Alive
There is an island in the North Atlantic...
I've been following this story since I was a kid, so are the two brothers out digging for treasure.
Story goes, in 1795, some kids saw a mysterious light on a nearby island in Nova Scotia. They took a boat out and found a pulley hanging from a tree branch over an odd depression in the ground.
Like any ingenous kids, they went "Yay! Pirate treasure!" and started digging.
10 feet down, they hit a floor of oak logs. They pulled those out and kept digging. They found another floor every 10 feet until they hit 90 feet, which had a mysterious carved stone on it.
After that, their hole flooded and people have been digging for treasure ever since. To a point where the island has been so thoroughly dug up, the location of the original "money pit" has been lost for decades.
The History Channel show has been trying for 12 seasons now. Lots of myths and legends about it.
The mysterious "90 foot stone" has been lost, no rubbings or photographs were made. A transcription and translation popped up, but it doesn't seem to be older than the 1940s.
In the 1960s, several people died during the excavation, the show is fond of repeating the "curse" that 6 people have died, and a 7th must die before the treasure can be recovered. There is no reference to that curse prior to the 1960s or 1970s.
I get it, it's FUNNY. Everybody hates a Nazi, punch a Nazi day, etc. etc. etc.
But here's the thing:
Doxing goes against lemmy.world terms of sevice and it DOES NOT MATTER if the person you are trying to dox is a Nazi or not.
https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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A substantial share of Portland residents who voted in last week’s election left their preference for mayor or City Council entirely blank.
