Nut butters on bread/crackers, PBJ. Cheddar cheese in block form lasts a long time unrefrigerated, cured meats like pepperoni. Carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes all keep pretty well unrefrigerated.
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who have not missed rent in the last two years
Come the fuck on. What in the hell kind of means tested bullshit is this?
They have a stronger version than the US because lawyers can argue for it to the jury. In the US they aren't allowed to do it, and most states have model jury instructions that tell them they are not allowed to ignore the law because they think it unjust.
E-books all the way. Piracy is awesome, but the biggest reason is being able to configure the font,size,spacing and margins. It's also easier to use with one hand and I can hold even very large books up so I don't get tech neck.
Physical books are nice because they're easy to lend, though.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber(pdf) has a lot to say on the subject of pointless, low effort jobs that pay well.
I am for getting rid of cars, but it's not like new headlight technology stops that from happening.
The OEM reflector style ones are mostly fine, IMO. It's the projector style lights, and when people jam LEDs in a reflector that wasn't meant for them, that are the problem.
These are the projector lamps:
They rely on a little piece of metal covering the top half to keep the intense and evenly diffused light from blinding you, which doesn't work if you're not on flat ground.
Reflector style led lights diffuse the light unevenly, no differently than halogens, other than the color temperature.
The absolute worst are when people take led bulbs in jam them in headlight housings that are meant for halogens. The light doesn't leave the bulb in the same way affecting the diffusion pattern, plus they're more bright than intended.
The new matrix style LEDs could be a game changer. They allow some of the lights to turn off when there are oncoming cars, and darken just the areas where they are. The only downfall is the computer hardware needed, but the same hardware that tracks cars for automatic emergency braking systems can do it. If past is any guide, those systems will be mandatory in new cars at some point.
I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.
Marry-fuck-kill Chapo edition:
Marry Matt, Fuck Felix, Kill Will
I hate this argument. How does buying something incentivize more of it to be made when there is a substitute(dirty energy)?
It's like saying you're going to incentivize people to eat healthier by destroying vegetable crops
It depends on what you want to do with it. It's a useful certification to get jobs, but a lot of them are really difficult jobs with not great pay. I think it depends a lot on the area, though.
I was considering getting my CNA to get a specific social services type job working with disabled kids. I decided against it because the other CNA jobs available in my area were difficult and low paying nursing home jobs. I didn't want to do school to end up making a couple dollars more an hour than McDonald's pays.
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Republican group claims Kamala can't be President, cites Dred Scott case
(www.independent.co.uk)
New Hampshire's school funding system is the worst that exists in the US.
This image is pretty self-explanatory, but I want to add that this is not a cherry-picked example. There are other communities that could be compared that would show significantly larger disparities, but this example was chosen because they are 30 miles apart.
This disparity exists because most of the school funding comes from local property taxes. Property rich towns have plenty to spend on schools, while property poor communities must raise their tax rates. This causes businesses to leave, which lowers tax revenues, which forces them to raise tax rates even more. This also eliminates local jobs, which causes people to leave, which drives down property values, which drives down tax revenue. It's a vicious cycle that destroys communities.
One of the aspects of this that enrages me the most is that the NH constitution requires the state to fully fund an adequate education. There was a series of lawsuits starting in 1998, where the NH Supreme Court ruled that the state must fund a study to determine the costs and fund that amount. As a result, the state legislature created SWEPT, a statewide education property tax. The funds would be passed to the state, and the state would be required to divide it out based on an equalization formula. This satisfied the court, despite the fact that the amount would not satisfy the cost of an adequate education established at trial.
Just 2 years later, the legislature passed a law allowing communities to retain the SWEPT funds, as long as they spent them on education. Property rich towns reduced their local property taxes to 0% and tried to spend as much as possible even though their schools were already well funded. Despite their best efforts, equalization funds still flowed to the poor communities, they just couldn't spend it all. Then the rich towns discovered they could set a negative local property tax rate. Most of the richest towns did it, bringing their contributions to the SWEPT fund to 0.
Over the years since there have been other lawsuits, most targeted at aid for students with disabilities. Some of those resulted in some targeted funding and adequacy aid, but today the funding looks like this(SWEPT in this chart is the amount kept locally, so it's a local tax as well):
This whole situation also makes the entire NH tax system regressive, meaning poor folks a larger share of their income in taxes than the rich. There's no personal income or sales tax and the interest and dividend tax was recently eliminated:
This is a system designed to keep poor people poor. Give them a terrible education, eliminate any chance of jobs in their communities, and tax them more than everyone that has a higher income.
There is currently another lawsuit going that the state has lost, but judgement is delayed until after the next legislative cycle. Despite the fact that the state lost, and didn't even contest that they aren't properly funding an adequate education, I'm not hopeful. The current chief justice is a big proponent of private education and represented the state in a previous school funding lawsuit. They also have the roadmap of how to allow the state to continue to violate the constitution. Let them delay, pass small reforms and then undo them, forcing another 5 years of funding studies and litigation.
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I go to see my partners family a few times a year and the conversation is so awkward. Their mom does nothing but watch reruns of law and order SVU and 50's shows on TV Land, and their dad runs out of normal stuff to talk in about 20 minutes.
We can't talk about any kind of current events because the dad has incredibly reactionary takes despite claiming to be a progressive Democrat. I had a meltdown when he started talking about the Palestine student protests like they were brainwashed into supporting terrorists.
I've tried to have things to talk about to avoid getting into arguments, but they seem so bored with anything I have to say, so we end up sitting in silence for long stretches. Then when we leave they're like, "Leaving already? You just got here".