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  • During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities has exploded—from below 40,000 in January 2025 to over 73,000 today. Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for this population.

    No one gonna call out the fact that this wording asserts the people are migrants, instead of alleged migrants?

    Scummy… We know for a fact a shit tonne of these people are native US citizens being held captive by the fascists without cause, and are now also being denied their medical treatment as well.

    Literal concentration camps, CALL IT WHAT IT IS.


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    1 month ago

    This actually isnt that weird, happens all the time

    However, its less common that it impacts a common consumer product of the same type.

    But a thing to be used in making a huge project causing prices to shoot up ahead of time is very normal.

    Its just usually stuff like concrete, steel, lumber, etc that is impacted the most, but turns out RAM as a global industry wasnt ready to scale up to a sudden huge spike in demand.

    Give it a couple yesrs and it’ll level out as producers scale up to meet the new demand.




  • Naw.

    For context at this time the Jewish people were under strict roman rule and oppression, treated as second class citizens. And a lot of Jewish folks had stopped giving a fuck about respecting their own culture/religion.

    Jesus shows up to this huge, extremely sanctious, temple. It’s not just any temple, its one of THE temples for Jewish worship.

    Inside he finds that the romans+Jewish merchants have pretty much turned it into an animal pen + marketplace. It’s filthy, there’s animals shitting all over, there’s people doing business, people are being extremely disrespectful.

    So yeah Jesus goes apeshit and starts flipping tables, chasing ppl out of the temple, whipping people and animals, basically being like “all you assholes gtfo how dare you”

    It’s less about the money stuff and more about the donkeys actively shitting on the floor and ppl spitting on the temple.

    Contextually its likely people were doing stuff like pissing on the wall (no bathroom in a makeshit marketplace, what do you think would happen), graffiti’ing, spitting, throwing garbage on the floor, so on and so on.

    Now, originally, this business made sense. Specifically, pilgrims traveling a long distance needed to stop for some key stuff on arrival.

    Pilgrims needed animals and approved currency for sacrifices, which they’d do at the temple, so setting up to do that stuff right at the temple made sense.

    But what happened is a simple lil currency exchange + buy a sacrifice stall exploded to be a whole marketplace as seedier and more sus ppl moved in, and soon the original point was lost.

    It probably originally just started as one guy just exchanging coins and selling goats/chickens outside the temple as a legit business.

    As further insult/context, consider the fact that once they moved this process to be in the temple, it meant they were controlling people’s access to worship.

    Effectively it became a state of “you have to pay to pray” at the temple, and not a tithe, but more like literally having to pay a bunch of money to even get the right coins, the approved animals, etc.

    You couldn’t bring your own stuff now.

    You know how movie theaters wouldn’t let you bring in your own food, and would charge you an arm and a leg for anything? Yeah, think of it like that.






  • Whenever a racing game comes out and they put sonic in a vehicle, I wish they’d note it in the lore itself

    It’s gotta be a case of “sonic we are putting you in this car to make this race fair” which I’d find hilarious if they acknowledge it out loud.

    IE have him say something like “don’t make me get out of this car” or whatever as a threat, or, “I’d have won if I wasn’t in this hunk of junk” or etc

    The entire concept of Sonic in a car is hilarious to me, because while everyone else is going fast, he’s just like “oh my goooood why is this thing so slooooww”


  • What makes that the more likely scenario?

    Because it’s their facility

    this facility has never had this issue until the FBI showed up to commandeer their incinerator.

    Says who?

    For all we know they’ve had issues everytime they incinerate but they ignored it cuz a lil bit of smoke from 1 cat is way easier to shrug off compared to a huge amount of meth

    It’s very possible they just have been ignoring the problem because normal smoke from incineration a very small cadaver isn’t a big deal, whereas meth fumes are extremely toxic and not something you can just shrug off

    Lord knows I’ve worked with workers who have the “I’ve been doing it this way for 10 years and never had an issue, don’t be a pussy” type of attitude too

    So hard to say, without more info it’s basically just us speculating.


  • rather than the FBI for their clear incompetence?

    The article has not stated who was responsible for operation of the facility.

    It’s more likely the responsibility was on the staff to ensure the equipment at their own facility was functioning right

    This sort of error should have been covered by prior operation licensing checks, a facility with an incinerator on premises shouldn’t have negative pressure issues

    So something somehow caused a negative pressure issue.

    Usually the culprit is some kind of exhaust fan being run, or a door being left open too long

    Based on time of year and how hot out it is, I wonder if a staff member left a door propped open or something.

    Incinerator systems need positive pressure overall.

    Anyone who lives in the north and has a gas based furnace heating system knows how deadly negative air pressure can be…




  • Getting a later special meeting request with the ceo, at one company, because he wanted feedback on their interview process itself. He then offered me a different job and I had to decline cuz I already accepted another (this was a few weeks after the initial decline I gave)

    In another case they just fast tracked me and I ended up declining the job anyways (didn’t like the job)

    I’m full time employed but I still do occasiobal interviews to keep feelers out for how the market is. But I typically decline most offers cuz they’re not good enough to get me to actively quit my current job.



  • In the “right” use case, story points should just represent relative effort.

    The hours dont matter, its more about ranking how challenging a task is, in order to help the manager rank the priority of tasks.

    You should have typically 2~3 metrics:

    1. Points, which represent relative effort of the task to the other tasks you are also ranking.

    2. Value, how much value does doing this task provide, how important is it

    3. Risk, how risky is it that this might break shit though if you make these changes (IE new features typically are low risk since they just add stuff, but if you have to modify old stuff now your risk goes up)

    If you have a good integration testing system automated, Risk can be mostly removed since you can just rely on your testing framework to catch if something is gonna explode.

    Then your manager can use a formula with these values to basically rank a priority order for every ticket you now scored, in order to assess what the next thing is that is best to focus on.



  • Eh, Im not conservative but I do think this is a valid bipartisan criticism.

    If they pulled this stunt with a liberal leaning byelection Id consider it a greasy trick.

    I have no issue with putting a cap on ballot names via some kind of reasonable system (IE if you get more than x candidates, then the top y candidates can only go on the ballot based on who has the most vouches or whatever)

    That way you can avoid dozens and dozens of randos flooding the ballot to confuse people. It’s a valid hole to patch in our system that both sides should be on board with fixing in a reasonable way.