My cats are like that except instead of an automated litter box they're curious about, it's me in the bathroom. If I don't close and latch the door all the way, they'll push the door open and barge their way in.
Wrong, cause gerrymandering won’t work because we don’t have enough states to gerrymander. I respect the intentions behind it but it is a bad strategy.
And why wouldn't we at least cancel out as much of the Republican gerrymander as possible? I think I found the Republican.
Anyone who has a problem with trans people should be assumed to be a pedophile. No one without some serious skeletons in their closet is that concerned about other people's lives and bodies.
Frankly, I'm tired of leaders responding to bomb threats. No one who actually intends on bombing something sends a bomb threat. Giving in to a bomb threat is an act of cowardice. And it gives the terrorists exactly what they want. Unless you actually have some intelligence about a bomb threat being real, they should be ignored in all cases.
And no, before anyone says it, I give zero credence to the spineless attitude of "well, better safe than sorry!" I'm sorry. But letting bomb threats disrupt gatherings is not a neutral act. It is surrendering to terrorism and giving terrorists exactly what they want. It's corporations and organizers covering their asses, nothing more.
The correct way to respond to a bomb threat is to refer it to police and completely ignore it. Today it's just way too easy to send anonymous communications for us to treat every bomb threat seriously. And really, no one that actually intends to bomb something sends a warning in advance.
My dad sometimes uses that word, and he's in his sixties. But then again, he and my mom had six kids and had kids in potty training for a long cumulative amount of time. The word just stuck I guess.
Section 8 stops at the same point on two independent pages. Is it possible they're both referencing the same source file? Maybe. But why would this ever get truncated? This isn't some dynamic page that will have to buffer blocks of text of unknown length. It just doesn't pass the smell test that the site suddenly can't display correctly a block of text that hasn't changed at all in over 200 years. And the sections that are deleted just happen to be those areas that Trump hates the most.
Regardless, we should screaming about this from the mountaintops. If there is one website on the federal government that you do not want to have displayed incorrectly, it's the fucking Constitution.
What possible 'technical problem' could do this? It's not like the whole page has just gone offline. Specific sections of text are missing. And this is text that should never need updating.
Stop framing it as you might help others that take advantage of the system and frame it as helping yourself and those who might need it legitimately.
Exactly. You know what I see when I see someone who "just doesn't want to work?" I see someone likely struggling with depression or other mental health issues. And I'm not so prideful that I believe I'm immune to those mental health struggles. I'm certainly not immune from them. None of us are. And if I fall into such a dark place in the future, I don't want to risk dying or bankruptcy just because I'm struggling with my mental health. If someone thinks they can't fall into such a dark place, they're a fool.
Honestly, one of the most patriotic things someone could do right now would be to sign up for ICE and then deliberately be the most incompetent work-to-rule ICE agent they possibly can. Be a net negative to ICE's operations.
The problem with this is that every market is going to have a certain number of empty homes in it in any given time. Properties are bought and sold, vacated and re-rented, and often in this process they sit vacant for a few months. Properties need to be cleaned or renovated. It doesn't matter how egalitarian the home ownership distribution is. It doesn't matter if you're talking socialized housing. Any housing market will have some large number of vacant units at any given time.
My point is that it's incredibly foolish to just look at the raw numbers of "vacant" homes. Most of those "vacant" homes are only temporarily vacant as part of the churn of the real estate market.
The truth is home construction dropped off a cliff after 2008. The real causes of the housing crisis are due to:
A general shortage of home construction.
Consolidation and mergers among home construction companies.
General wealth/income inequality encouraging resources to go to small numbers of lavish homes for the wealthy instead of large numbers of modest homes for the working class.
Vacant units are not a significant cause of the high cost of housing. Are units sometimes kept empty because of financial reasons or to avoid the rent dropping in certain saturated markets? Yes. But that behavior cannot be maintained long term. In practice, there isn't some vast supply of vacant housing, in places where people want to live, that can just be handed over to the homeless.
In practice, your plan would just result in abandoned dead towns in rural Kansas being turned into fenceless concentration camps for the formerly homeless.
In some cases, arson is morally perfectly justifiable.