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5·1 year agoTo be fair to the journalist(s), it could be a budgetary issue. It’s a small town, and their 98-year-old mother was living with them.
Was.
The stress of the search killed her.
Meyer also blames the home raid for stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her death on Saturday. Joan Meyer was the newspaper’s co-owner.
Oh… Fun Fact. I’m from KCMO where the Chief served for 24 years. Look up our gun violence rate (maybe you can’t, I tried, and it looks like news agencies just stopped counting due to the frequency - the last one was just on Saturday) and our homicide rate.
And Missouri just voted to mandate that KCMO gives KCPD 25% of our municipal budget… While not even having full control of the force. Nothing like Civil War relics fucking us over in the 21st century.
KCPD has only solved 32 murders this year (as of June 28). As we’re on pace for to make a new record for annual homicides
And, of course, Missouri has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation. And the State bans the city from passing firearm regulation.
So… yeah, 24 years of service to a PD that is known to be corrupt. And misogynistic. And Racist. Very Racist.
4·1 year agoInteresting bootlicker take amidst a content creator strike in Hollywood. Granted YouTube isn’t under those Unions, but the power dynamics are quite similar (#YouTubeUnion)
Sponsors don’t give a shit about creators, they are just an annoying necessity for the content creator.
Why give a shit about a sponsor who doesn’t give a shit about the YouTuber you enjoy?
1·1 year agoI was about to say something similar.
I have an Apple Watch Series 7. Average battery life is ~30 hours. Less if it runs on LTE instead of Bluetooth.
That watch is more expensive than the Galaxy Watch 4. At launch and second hand.
Now you can get a good/mint condition used Galaxy Watch 4 Classic 46mm LTE for around ~$150 on Swappa. The same tier Apple Watch Series 7 on Swappa goes for ~$225 on Swappa.
And the Apple Watch doesn’t even have blood pressure like the Watch 4 does. Granted, you have to do some sideloading to get it working in the States until FDA clears it, but the hardware is still there.
Price will be the deciding factor between this and a Motorola Edge Plus 2013 for me.
OnePlus is ticking all the right boxes for me to invest in my first foldable. If they land the price (ideally the $1,399.99 or less that the Pixel Fold was rumored to be), it’s a guaranteed buy for me.
From what I’ve read, OnePlus updates are slower than Samsung but faster than Motorola.
I agree about wanting the phone.
While the earlier renders were considerably sleeker, I’m fine with the added bulkiness look considering that they went with Samsung screens last minute, and it looks like it will have either a Time-of-Flight (ToF) and/or a LiDAR sensor in the camera.
22·1 year agoGod forbid someone aggregates links to a link aggregation platform.
Oh, whatever shall we do?
1 in 30 American children were homeless as of 2013.
The report was released in November 2014 by the National Center on Family Homelessness at American Institutes for Research. Between 2012 and 2013, the rate of homelessness among children rose by 8% nationally. “That means that 1 in 30 American children—2.5 million—were homeless in 2013,” Dr. Bassuk, founder and former president of The National Center on Family Homelessness, said. “These are historically high rates.
Those were 2013 numbers. Pandemic numbers eclipsed those.
The United States:
“First world” nation or “shit hole” country?
We have everything we need to be the former.
Our (GOP) politicians religiously ensure that we remain the latter.
42·1 year agoSame here and same phone. My 12PM has been starting to slow down increasingly for about the last 6 months, but my battery capacity has stayed steady at 89% throughout that time.
I’m torn between getting a Galaxy S23 Ultra when they get deeply discounted, a Motorola Edge Plus 2023, or a OnePlus open. I would have considered the Motorola RAZR Plus 2023 if it had the same SOC as the Edge Plus 2023.
The Galaxy Fold/Flip 5s seem to be barely iteratively better than last gen, so those are a pass until Samsung decides how it wants to handle competition from Google and OPPO.
The Pixel 7 Pro QC issues and the Tensor 3 still being based on Exynos while the Tensor 2 is slower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 have made me decide against the Pixel 8 Pro and the Pixel Fold.
I think I’m going to pick up a cheap Galaxy Watch 4 Classic to replace my Apple Watch until the Galaxy Watch 6 comes down in price in 2024 or hopefully the Pixel Watch 2 can compete.
Isn’t that half of the point of a social link aggregation and discussion platform?
Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company.
You can’t separate the country from the pandemic, as I have previously proven.
A few articles to put this in context (listed chronologically):
The U.S. now has the most coronavirus cases in the world - FORTUNE March 27, 2020
United States sets record for most Covid-19 deaths reported in one day - CNN January 12, 2021
A Tsunami of Disability Is Coming as a Result of ‘Long COVID’ - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN July 6, 2021
Does US really have world’s highest Covid death toll? - BBC News May 12, 2022
How long covid could change the way we think about disability - The Washington Post June 6, 2022
Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’ - The Atlantic June 15, 2022
States With the Worst COVID-19 Vaccination Rates - U.S. News December 14, 2022
As Emergency Ends, a Look at Covid’s U.S. Death Toll - The New York Times May 11, 2023
TL;DR: You might want to recalibrate your compass.
Original article from CNBC:
MEDIA BIAS FACT CHECK rates CNBC as:
Further, U.S. News & World Report has multiple Missouri state rankings, with the majority holding rankings between # 30/50 and # 39/50, with an overall ranking of # 30/50.
Missouri | #30 in Overall Ranking - U.S. News & World Report
MEDIA BIAS FACT CHECK rates U.S. News & World Report as:
However, if learning about people “jerking themselves off whenever some shitstick propaganda outlet runs an opinion piece that they agree with” is of interested to you, you may be interested in this article:
GOP’s crumbling case against Biden on crime, immigration and inflation - AXIOS July 22, 2023
Words that have proven wise to live by:
I can relate.
A number of issues, not the least of which was my birther believing unironically that Obama was the Antichrist, led me to go no contact with my family for what will be an entire decade come this December.
17·1 year agoIs that half of the point of a social link aggregation and discussion platform?
Is that half of the point of a social link aggregation and discussion platform?
For the “ThErE aRe WaYs To DiScHaRgE sTuDeNt DeBt!1!1!!” crowd:
I’ve been trying to get approved for SSDI since November 2020. I’m 36 and have an MBA with ~$156,000 in student loan debt.
I’m Autistic with PTSD, C-PTSD, Chronic Suicidal Ideation, Chronic Insomnia, Agoraphobia, Treatment-Resistant Depression, Multiple Anxiety Disorders, IBS-C, IBS-D, Fibromaylygia, Recurrent SIBO, potentially Sjögren’s Syndrome (I had a saliva gland lip biopsy yesterday), Hypoglycemia, GERD, Anal Fissures, and the diagnoses keep growing.
I haven’t been able to work since December 2019.
I received my FIFTH denial from SSA in late May (I took the first claim to the Appeals Council and started my second claim in October 2022 after the Appeals Council upheld the ALJ Denial). I’m currently trying to find a lawyer (again).
Granted, the above is anecdotal, but I have seen anecdotes like mine all over social media and IRL, especially with the pandemic and Long-COVID.
These “targeted student loan forgiveness options” are virtually impossible to receive, and you pretty much have to “spend” the equivalent of the student loan amount between lost wages and lawyer fees actually to have a chance to be eligible for them.
Student loan forgiveness needs to happen. It needs to be comprehensive and wide-ranging. It’s not only the humane thing to do, it’s the best chance of stabilizing our economy long-term (followed by climate change mediation and reversal).
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I’m just getting started, but I’ll become more active as I get used to Lemmy’s interface.
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I’m passionate about politics. I’m Autistic and you could say that politics is my special interest.
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Well, we know what not to do after years of watching the abuse by the mods of r/politics. It should be open, simple, and reputable. Ban disinformation and hate speech, filter out tabloid sources, and focus on driving healthy conversations within the community.
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It depends on your definition of “political views”. Disinformation, hate speech, and anti-science propaganda that leads to people getting killed has no place in a civil community.
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1·1 year agoIt’s over the summaries of the books.
This is from The Verge’s article:
In the OpenAI suit, the trio offers exhibits showing that when prompted, ChatGPT will summarize their books, infringing on their copyrights. Silverman’s Bedwetter is the first book shown being summarized by ChatGPT in the exhibits, while Golden’s book Ararat is also used as an example, as is Kadrey’s book Sandman Slim. The claim says the chatbot never bothered to “reproduce any of the copyright management information Plaintiffs included with their published works.”
If The Verge is correct and the lawsuit is over summaries, I don’t see how the lawsuit would have any legal standing. But, then again, this SCOTUS hasn’t really concerned itself with the legal standing requirement in lawsuits, so the lawsuit could hold but for the wrong reasons.
Under a sane legal system, the plaintiffs could only hope to get the summaries properly cited. But, we aren’t exactly under a sane legal system.
That could be from the buzzing.