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He tried to have someone's life violently taken away. He should have rotted in there.

Do you believe any elements of the investigations or prosecution of Ross involved lies or attempts to frame him by agents?

The typical sentence for attempted murder-for-hire in the U.S. isn't a double life sentence plus 40 years without the possibility of parole.

What about if we instead of building more levels on top of this already falling building we build a new one a few blocks over. With blackjack, hookers, and free* and humane health care.

* not really free of course, but you pay less on average than you do today and you do it on your taxes instead of to some profit chasing private company -- and most importantly those who don't pay today will have equal access to it as well.


In Mexico that's the US, so maybe the poster is from Spain.

The doubling of the letters (e.g., "EE." for "Estados" and "UU." for "Unidos") follows a convention in Spanish where plural abbreviations are indicated by duplicating the letters. The correct form would be "EE. UU." This practice aligns with historical Latin abbreviations (e.g., "SS." for "Sancti" (plural) or "S." for "Sanctus" (singular)).


¡Correct!. I would not be able to explain it better.


It's almost like profits shouldn't be part of the equation when we are talking about humans lives and health.

Noone should enrich themselves on others not getting the health care they need, and those who do it today are morally bankrupt -- and society should fight back.


26? I was thinking schizophrenia as soon as I heard the age. The weirdness of the situation, unclear motive, and how it seems very out of character all scream onset of some kind of mental illness yes.


First post and it turned into a US politics discussion. Great.

What do you think will fix it?


Politics is everywhere any affects every facet of your life. The idea of being apolitical, non-political, or politically neutral are a myth.


The whole topic is political.

What do you think the fix is? Because the only 'solution' seems to be adding more and more taxes to the average Joe whilst endless e-waste/junk gets shipped over from China via AliExpress/Temu day to day.


What odds do you want to give that this person doesn't really see it as a problem anyway?


We keep getting told the average Joe is to blame for eating meat and taking flights whilst large corporations/industry laugh at us. Make it make sense.


Temu doesn't ship items across the world for fun. They do it because the average Joe pays them to do it.

The meat industry doesn't hold excessive amounts of cattle for fun. They do it because the average Joe pays them to do it.

These industries don't just happen to exist. They exist because the average Joe wants them to exist.

If the average Joe stopped buying meat, stopped shopping on Temu and stopped buying palm oil, these industries would cease to exist within days.

But the average Joes wants them to exist. The average Joe decides, every single day, over and over again, that he wants these industires to destroy the climate.

Oh but it's just so convenient and cheap to shop on Temu.


Like measurable in our lifetime? The average distance to the moon will be 3.8 meters further away in a hundred years. That's insignificant as far as tides goes.

Despite what another commenter says, the moon will not leave earths captive field. It will recede until it gets tidally locked with earth, and both the tide cycles and the moons recension will halt. That is, if there still is water in a few billion years and it hasn't been replaced with Brawndo


Is the moon not already tidally locked? The same hemisphere of it always faces the earth. Is there a different kind of tidal locking or orbital resonance it will settle into?


It goes on until an Earth's day is as long as a month. Both will face each other in a fixed way. But it takes many billions of years and the Sun will burn both to a cinder much before that.


At least for the next 13 days, when gma will learn about null pointers


You may not know this, but the word Gypsy is considered an insult by the people you reference to. It's like the N-word for black people. The preferred name is Romani.


I see this mentioned a lot, but how large would you actually rack up the bills in today's dollars?


When I was in college, someone discovered that you could call 1-900 phone sex lines from the pay phones for the cost of a local call and the college would be billed for the phone charges since the phone was in their name. People were racking up thousands of dollars in charges until the school started placing "observers" near the phones to nab whoever was calling them.

Made "examples" of a few unfortunate students until they could fix the problem internally.



I checked a bad/oops/“no more computer” month from my early 90’s youth and it would be about $250 today (1 month).


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