FWIW, I only get a captcha when I'm using a VPN, which sucks. I go straight to the article if I turn off my VPN.

It would be cool to see the trap community active again! Well, if you have time for it lol Posting regularly can be difficult sometimes.

Last time a republican presidential candidate won California was Bush Sr. in 1988.

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Your statement is now null and void due to clerical error. Your data are going to be shared with the world, whether anyone wants it or not. Thank you.

They announced the CSAM charges last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-army-charges-private-travis-king-with-desertion-over-dash-into-north-korea-2023-10-20/

King was accused of soliciting a Snapchat user in July 2023 to "knowingly and willingly produce child pornography." He was also accused of possession of child pornography.

He was also charged with insubordination for leaving his base after curfew and drinking alcohol in violation of Army regulations.

Anita Baker is the R&B singer lol

Come on, you're so close!

Glad she was okay, damn. That story made me remember Stacy from Wayne's World

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You might want to find out so you can work with whatever your diagnosis may be. It may be something as simple as changing the way you think, it could be more. But whatever you're doing now doesn't seem to be working.

My personal experience after finally getting help was that some of what I was going through was more of my own choosing as opposed to whatever my diagnosis was. Some work on the way I thought about things helped much more than expected. I still have real issues, but less than I had before.

Go talk to a professional first, figure out what's going on.

Oh, if the answer to your post question is no, it's not normal, what would you do?

He stopped being such an ass around 2018 or so. Wound up issuing an apology and changed his ways. He's been fairly levelheaded since. Nice to see people are able to change.

but this stat is also missing germany and uk for no reason so its weird to begin with, who knows really

OP should have posted the original source, but there's another comment with the actual Eurostat graph and it's for the EU. It says Germany had no data available and UK is left out because it is not in the EU.

They say it is cheaper than what they expected. The article states they expected $70K and its a bit cheaper than that. There's nothing incorrect about that.

No kidding. My statement was made in the context of the article, where he's spewing BS and pointing it out that it is BS.

Here, I'll expand more f9r your benefit.

let them do and say whatever they want ..

Without arguments or counterpoint, or pointing out how fing dumb the statements/actions/whatever are.

And at no time did anyone in this thread condone violence to silence them. Where did you get that from?

How does ignoring him help? He's still going to run, he's still going to spew his bullshit. Without criticism, his party could have gained more seats/positions. With the media, more people are able to see how stupid he is. The ones that voted for reform were going to vote that way anyhow. It is worth it to discuss stuff to keep others from being swayed their way.

Ignoring stuff doesn't automatically make things go away. Ignoring stuff isn't going to change the minds of people who would consider voting for people like him.

If you still disagree with me, thats cool. I don't really care because at least you arent supporting him or his shit platform.

Better than ignoring it. Notice Farage's party didn't win any notable positions in the last election? Yeah, its because of media coverage and people discussing politics. Just because you want to ignore everything and feel useless doesn't mean everyone should.

Sure, let's ignore them and let them do and say whatever they want. Yeah, great idea.

Let's ignore them so no one else can learn how stupid he and other people like him are. Yeah, great idea.

Let's just ignore anything we don't like and live in some bubble where we don't see things we don't like. Yeah, great idea.

Ignoring stupid people doesn't stop stupid people from doing and saying stupid shit. Pointing out stupid shit is important.

The discipline was remarkable. First, they at least cooked the liver first. None of that barbaric raw stuff. Second, they limited themselves to livers. No bitter gall bladders. Reduced the risk of prion diseases by avoiding the brain. That's outstanding discipline!

"west side of the east midlands"

(I'm not from the UK) It makes sense to me. The Midlands is the middle part of England. It was later divided into the West and East Midlands, so you can live in the west side of East Midlands, as well as live in the east side of West Midlands. I think Derby or Leicester would count as "west side of East Midlands".

Damn, OP, what a fail of a link.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-union-apple-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-2024-07-27/

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/27/apple-reaches-agreement-with-unionized-maryland-apple-store-workers

Some 85 employees of the first unionized Apple Store in Towson, Maryland will vote on the first union-negotiated agreement with Apple to improve working conditions on August 6th, 2024.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers' Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (IAM-CORE) negotiated the tentative agreement between the retail workers and Apple.

The new agreement, which would be good for three years, includes better work-life balance on scheduling and pay raises. Both areas had been a complaint amongst the workers at the Towson Store.

Other improvements include rules on transparency, a severance clause, and limits on contracted employees. All current benefits are preserved, and there is an agreement to bargain over any future additions, the union said in a statement.

"We're extremely proud to be the first union to take on this fight for Apple workers," said IAM Eastern Territory General Vice President David Sullivan. "The true partnership between the IAM, IAM CORE and Apple workers has led us to this historic moment."

The workers at the Towson Apple Store voted to join the union in June of 2022. The 85 workers, the union and Apple began negotiating a formal agreement in May of 2023. After a year of what the union called stalling tactics by the store's management, workers voted to authorize a strike sanction against the company in June 2024.

There are only a handful of Apple retail stores that have unionized staff. The staff at the store in Reston, Virginia documented Apple management's stalling tactics in a secret video taken during negotiations.

The US National Labor Relations Board has twice ruled that Apple has broken the law with regards to labor relations. The NLRB found Apple guilty of denying unionized stores the same benefits it gave non-unionized stores, and also conducted illegal interrogations of union staff at its World Trade Center store in New York City.

No worries. I hope you get your community rolling. Best wishes!

Sorry about that. Try this:

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If you use Lemmy in a browser, there's a edit icon on the right, just under the community name. See the cursor in the attached image:

If you use an app, I can't help. I don't mod from apps so I don't know where the edit icons are.

Boneless wings are typically breast meat, like tenders and nuggets, cut into shapes that resemble wings.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/4316/what-are-boneless-wings.html

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It was at least $18B. She doesn't play.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-secures-18-billion-california-commitment

Sorry for the second reply, I just want to add some more info to my other comment.

We also provide temporary shared housing ourselves. We master lease complexes to house those who are difficult or impossible to house on their own. We work with other teams and agencies to obtain housing vouchers through permanent supportive housing initiatives. Once we can connect them, they move out, and we move a new person in.

Here's a tiny bit of financial insight to our spending.

For our agency ran, master leased, shared houses, we pay around $1600/mo per unit. (A unit here is one private bedroom with private bath. The rest of the house is shared. Average of 25 units per property, all fully furnished that we also pay for) We cover all utilities - gas, water, sewer, wifi, electric - which varies from $2K - $5K+/mo. Some complexes we also provide food which costs us ~$3K/mo per property. In addition to those costs, we are responsible for all general repairs. Not counting repairs, we're paying around $46K/mo per master lease. Including repairs puts us at or over $50K.

(For some perspective, $46K is more than what one of our base level case managers make in a year.)

We also work with property owners that provide shared housing that they manage. They're willing to ignore a ton of things as long as we pay them, it's temporary, and the clients don't completely ruin the properties. For those clients, we pay up to $1500/mo plus security deposit and utilities. We also provide up to $1800 in furniture and basic necessities upon move in.

We also have clients in their own apartments that we pay for. These clients are typically the most probable for program success, meaning they have stability and regular income or are close to obtaining a voucher and have support services. We pay security deposit, up to $2400 monthly rent, a $1500 incentive fee, utility deposits plus 6 or more months of utilities, moving assistance, plus a furniture allowance. That's usually around $10K per client move in, plus monthly assistance until a voucher is obtained or the client can demonstrate full independence and the ability to cover the rent themselves.

The above data are for our program only. We have around 450 clients at any given time that we are paying something for. It gets really really expensive. Even more so you add in the other programs our agency has.

Sorry for the late reply, sleep and all. Just woke up so I may ramble a bit.

tl;dr: Housing first is hard because not everyone is ready or wants housing and it's more people than everyone thinks. Also, having a roof over head doesn't always help if supportive services aren't available. So you're right about the access to services.

To clarify, housing first does work in L.A. Just not to the extent that could be considered successful overall. Successful housing first depends a lot on the client. Those motivated to improve their situation tend to do well. Other successful clients are usually able to obtain some kind of steady income, such as disability or retirement. Almost all have some kind of support system outside of our services. We've housed tons of those clients, especially during and just after the pandemic.

Also, the one area where I do highly push for housing first and more housing units is with unhoused families. Those families cannot be split up, shouldn't be split up, and rightfully refuse to be split up. Unfortunately, the vast majority of new homeless housing projects are geared towards single individuals, and families will not work in those units. There are some new developments geared toward families but unfortunately there are too many unhoused families for them to make a big difference.

To the difficulties with housing first. The bulk of the remaining unhoused populations are those that are considered difficult and/or impossible to house independently. It's a larger number than people realize. The reasons vary, but the main ones are severe mental health issues and/or substance use issues.

Severe mental health issues prevent a lot of our clients from performing basic life skills so they need more supervision and assistance than is available. There is a severe lack of mental/physical health treatment options to assist these persons. Obviously we can't force people to get help, so we have to try and deal with them in whatever state they happen to be in. But they can't be permanently housed until they have some kind of stability or permanent support.

One common problem is a mental health issue mixed with violence and anger management issues.There are many who tear apart units like twisters in the Midwest due to whatever ails them. Theres been violent threats, physical violence, and other similar activities. There are some that have no desire to care for anything so once they're housed, the unit becomes a biohazard. I'm not joking. We use a biohazard cleaning company quite often. These clients tend to keep being shuffled around until they can find assistance to help with stability. Unfortunately, being shuffled around doesn't help with stability, so it's hard to get stuff done and they destroy units along the way. Due to anger, violence, and/or destruction, these clients tend to burn bridges we've built with landlords. So that keeps others from using those units. We also spend a lot more money than necessary in damage mitigation than we can really afford.

To move on to the substance use issues, many of that population refuse housing assistance for a variety of reasons related to drug use. These clients we literally can't house. Again, we are unable to force people in to housing or treatment. Unfortunately, the numbers of that population keep growing and growing thanks to excessive drug use of all kinds. We assist them, but not with housing until they ask.

There's a growing population that won't be rented to due to past evictions, credit history, criminal history (including sex offenders), etc. Until laws change, those clients won't be housed in their own unit.

There is another growing population that refuses to be housed for whatever reason. They range from what some would call lazy (there's usually deeper issues to a person than "they're just lazy") to people with deeply held beliefs against participating in modern society, such as "sovcits". We still assist them, just not with housing until they ask.

There are others that have their own reasons, but in the end, most fall into the mental health and/or substance use issues.

(I kind of cut a few things short due to length. Feel free to ask for clarification.)

Also. landlords will only take so much from our clients. If one of our clients causes so many problems that we have to relocate them to avoid eviction, it tends to burn connections to those units.

Not all landlords we work with are scum, but those that are scum are super scummy. Almost every housing program has caps on rental assistance per month and every housing voucher we can connect a client to also has a cap. Landlords that do not want our clients will price units just above the caps so they're inaccessible. Yes, a small part of the reason there are high rents in L.A. is to keep extremely low income/low income individuals out of units. (Example: generally, housing vouchers pay up to $2400/mo for a single individuals. Landlords are aware of this and will market their units at $2500. The housing authority typically will not pay over the cap, so those units are inaccessible. We have watched this happen over and over again over the last 4 years since vouchers became widespread.) Landlords that suck, really really suck.

For some transparency: We pay security deposit up to 2months rent, monthly rent (depending on the client's situation) and up to $1500 as a landlord incentive. The landlord also has access to 24 hour assistance, a direct line to case managers and supervisors, damage mitigation funds, and a few other "perks". We still have a really hard time finding landlords that will work with us. This is usually due to the general stigma against unhoused populations.

There's more I can say about housing first, but this is a long rambling comment already sorry.

I have worked with unhoused populations in L.A. for the past 7 years and have past experience managing a housing provider agency. I currently work at a housing services agency.

The idea that the communities have "substantial resources" is laughable. It seems like there's a lot of money, but there really isn't. My agency is one of the larger agencies in L.A. and we struggle. It's not even "the heads take all the money in pay". Nah, there's just not enough money.

It's definitely not as easy as "just build more housing", though I wish it were. Even "housing first" doesnt work well enough and it even backfires quite often.

Newsom's idea of moving people along doesn't work either. That's what was happening before housing first came along and it didn't help shit.

I will say that substance use issues, physical and mental health need a lot more attention and treatment options that are available to all.

If anyone wants to discuss the issues, feel free to AMA. I'm open to suggestions that'll make my job easier.

If anyone in the L.A. area wants to help, the following link has connections to jobs at a lot of services providers in L.A. county.:

https://www.lahsa.org/jobs

Edit: left out some words

Also, when it comes to money for our agency, most of our money comes from private/corporate donors, local taxes, and the Feds. The state doesn't provide as much financial assistance to our agency.

That money also has to cover transportation (ubers/whatever) to places to obtain documentation, paying for client necessities, moving vans if needed plus the moving crew, security deposits and other move-in costs, utility setups and past due bills, damage mitigation to keep clients from being evicted..I can go on and on. There's not enough money.

I can see that. When I was real little (late 70s/early 80s), the only way you were getting traditional Mexican food was either from a Mexican friend/family or at a restaurant and those were typically owned/run by Mexicans. If someone lived in a city with few to no Mexicans, it was unlikely to have a restaurant so I think people missed out in many places until Taco Bell got there.

Side note - west coast road trips when I was a kid usually consisted of diners and other American food restaurants. Very little variety at all. Once we left L.A./SoCal, Mexican and Asian food basically disappeared.

Sure they advertise it that way, but no one really believes it anymore. They've been doing that since they opened in the 60s, when Mexican food wasn't nearly as ubiquitous as it is now. They just keep on keeping on and no one really cares. At least the food is based on Mexican fare.

But eating at TB is not about "authentic". It's about taste. And price to some small extent. The TB near me (South L.A. area) has 3 Mexican spots within a block, as well as a Salvadorean place across the street. There's two street vendors who sell next to the TB on alternating nights. With all that, the TB is still busy with Latinos. Some people just like it.

“To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!”

A $10 Ubereats gift card will barely cover fees and taxes, let alone the actual item. What a clown ass gesture.

GOP supporters don't care as long as it "owns the libs". GOP can have all their benefits taken away and kick them in the head and the supporters will still find a way to blame everyone but themselves and their party.

I tried it before. It worked for me on one small game website for account creation. After that it was more or less useless on any other site. It has a weird focus thing where it'll try to solve the captcha before you can enter in login details so if by chance the extension works, you'll fail the login anyways.

It still needs work. I think if the dev can work out those issues it could be great. Until then, it's pretty much worthless.

Oh hey, it's the token GOP minority female who thinks Kamala is a DEI hire. She probably got GOP permission to do this to boost their minority and female inclusion image. What a fking tool, she is.

lol A token GOP minority female is calling Kamala a DEI hire. FFS

Quod Erat Demonstrandum - what has been demonstrated. (Or something like that..my latin sucks) Oversimplification - "I have shown proof of the statements made."

So you're basically saying "I can't be bothered to think or do anything beyond knee jerk reactions to images. I can't even take a minute to check comments or other sources to see what this image is about. I'm going to blame everyone else but me for me believing this. In the future, instead of me taking a moment to quell my knee jerk reactions, the internet should spell things out for me."

Not to be a negative ninny, but I dont think that's gonna work out. Instead, I recommend checking sources before having knee jerk reactions to things on the internet, especially images. It really makes life easier to navigate.

Add some small wires from the bench into the ground for a realistic effect.

Bonus points, and possibly jail time, for actually electrifying it.