You left out the part about sending more bombs to Israel, to replace the ones used to kill civilians, knowing full well they’d be used to kill more civilians.

I’m honestly not sure, but I think it’s a subtle joke. i.e. instead of paying her a living wage for her espionage, she got hand bags.

My grandpa, my dad and I.

Am I the only one that sees a fourth person in those pictures?

Which are all good points of discussion, but still paint a very different picture of what happened than your initial comment which made no mention of the knives or surveillance footage, instead focusing solely on supposed witnesses talking to reporters. It suggests that you’re trying to drive a specific narrative rather than find the truth.

Some context that you left out…

MPD says several officers from Columbus Ohio observed a man, armed with a knife in each hand, and was engaged in an ‘altercation’ with another man they say was unarmed.

They say officers identified themselves as police officers and made several commands for the 43-year-old to drop the knife.

Police say the man refused and charged at the unarmed man with the knives. That’s when several officers discharged their firearms, killing the 43-year-old man.

Surveillance video appears to show the shooting in the middle of Vliet St.

TMJ4 acquired the bodycam video of the Columbus officers from MPD.

Two knives were recovered from the scene, according to MPD.

In this narrow case, it’s considered proper/correct to pronounce the “x” like an “sh”, which greatly improves the tongue rolling.

Taxes

… or xitter.

I don’t think any of those people are being relocated to Texas.

It’s bureaucracy. The hearing is well before the scheduled execution, and it sounds likely that the hearing will vacate the conviction, from what I read. The court is just saying that there’s an established process for this and the lawyers just need to follow that process.

ETA: Not to say that our legal system isn’t horribly broken, because it is. Just saying that my interpretation of this case is that Marcellus is just a few dotted i’s and crossed t’s away from being a free man.

Aren’t these the same investors that recently decided that that $56 billion package was reasonable? Do they even listen to themselves?

We still don’t seem to be syncing with lemmy.world.

Thank you! I’m glad it was a relatively easy fix.

Honestly, I feel like if districts are gonna be drawn, it’d make more sense to just choose some algorithm and have a computer do it.

I’ve thought about this exactly. Here’s my idea.

Crowd source the algorithm every X years. Anybody with basic skills in map making and programming can submit a candidate algorithm. Candidates are scored by…

A) how well they evenly distribute the population across districts (eg +X points for every extra person a district has above a perfectly even distribution), and…

B) how simple the districts are (eg. +Y points for every corner each district boundary has.), which would prevent any kind of gerrymandering.

Lowest score with above example points system wins. Winner gets to have their name on any ballots used while the districts chosen by the algorithm are used. Or something. 🤷

Well then… LET’S GO BRANDON!

Edit: For those maybe missing the point, this is a call to action for Biden, now that he has the green light from SCOTUS, to do what’s necessary to rescue democracy.

Call it the final step in hijacking that meme from the MAGA cult that began with Dark Brandon.

But they’re not introducing nuance, they’re invoking FUD.

Their arguments aren’t, “RCV is way better than FPTP, and it’s great that communities are adopting it, but I happen to like this similar system even better. Let me tell you about it.” I would love to see discussions like that.

Instead, their arguments are “RCV bad. [Other system] good.”. Their arguments play right into the hands of those that want to delay/avoid change so that they can continue to manipulate elections.

For communities that do this, the goal is to…

A) Drive out the homeless so they go to other, more charitable communities, and become someone else’s problem, and then…

B) Point out the higher rate of homelessness (and higher taxes necessary to deal with it) in those other communities and say, “Look how awful those communities are!”

I’ll believe it when Ze Frank does a True Facts video on it.

That’s the very definition of letting perfect be the enemy of good. We can have really good now, or we can debate ad nauseum for decades about what would be perfect, never reach an agreement, and have done nothing.

It takes six months from “we need a new person with these skills” to “ok here’s the job posting,” ??? And if in those six months the required skills change a bit, you can’t just tweak the job posting and instead have to start over from scratch???

Your company has serious issues that are wasting everyone’s time and need to be addressed. Stop making excuses for wasting people’s time.