mozz

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

If you got the 2% micro growth, you're actually not in the starvation wages bracket. If you're in the 13% growth bracket and you're upset that it's not more (which, I get), you gotta talk to the people who set up the 7% inflation in 2021 and 2022 that ate up all your wage gains from Biden's policies the last few years - not blame the people who got you 32% higher wages that then got eaten up by the Covid inflation.

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 198 points 1 year ago (24 children)

100% the same

Dude I've never been so happy to be wrong as fuck

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Penny Arcade had a character that was a DivX player they bought, that grew arms and legs and started walking around the apartment fucking things up and insulting the other characters.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Cum Bibulus mendaciter locutus est, situlam stercoris suilli in caput eius effuderunt.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 1 year ago

A year subscription to WaPo costs I think like $125, which is 35c per day. You’re saving 9 cents now. And most I think are significantly cheaper than that.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 1 year ago

It’s worse than that, with both users - they are literally making up nonsense so they can posture as the one who is pro-Palestinian to the point of getting hostile with someone else who is also pro-Palestinian. If they were criticizing my imperfect solution that would at least make some kind of sense.

With Linkerbaan I feel like I have a strong understanding of why they are doing it. With Ensign_Crab I am totally lost as to why. I genuinely have no kind of ill will towards them in any way and they’re convinced that I am some kind of vicious pro-Israel enemy, in a way that is totally confusing to me.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's because you keep answering people being upset at the actions of a genocidal apartheid regime and its supporters by downplaying it and trying to spin it as acceptable or even good.

This is the exact opposite of what I generally am doing, including right now in this thread. Like I say, I have no idea what’s in your head when you create this imaginary conflict. Good luck though. I hope your issue gets better over time.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It sounds to me like the Nashville city government (mayor and prosecutor and part of the city council) sort of decriminalized it on their own unofficially, even with it being still illegal by state law. Which is… kind of fine. It’s messy but whatever if it keeps people out of jail I’m fine with it. I mean that’s what the states did already that got us to this point.

My whole point was just that having the DA lead the process isn’t the normal way to do it, and that’s not how it happened even in Nashville, and attacking Kamala Harris for this wide variety of half-truthful bullshit including that it’s all her fault that California still had some level of criminalization when she was DA and that makes her automatically a bad person, is IMO a variety of half truthful bullshit.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Pay your journalists or get used to being the product sold to whatever propagandist wants you this year

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Nashville had already decriminalized weed as of 2016. I only find one other case (Houston) where it was a prosecutor making a policy decision not to prosecute weed, ahead of the rest of the government. Honestly, just read the rest of the article you cited -- it matters that a lot of the rest of the city government was on board for it, but it still left a little bit of a confusing way to go about it even after decriminalization, which the chief of police among some other people pointed out, along with the idea that yes weed should be legal so maybe it's a good thing.

Left unsaid in among all of that is that selective enforcement by police and prosecutors in almost every case works out, in practice even up to the modern day, to be racist selective enforcement. Honestly it's better for the legislature just to make it legal. I'm not trying to throw cold water on any prosecutor who wants to take the initiative to do a good thing if they can make sure it'll work out right, but generally, the prosecutorial portion of the government isn't where you want to be making your creative departures from the law the way the legislators wrote it down.

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