Glad that most cities realize how dumb it was. Re: recruitment. Salaries for the police are actually pretty good. Not sure if it is enough to make someone want to become one. It is certainly a very tough job, and has not gotten any easier.

@Jolly said in A YT video griping about YT: How does that compare to X and Redditt? An order of magnitude bigger (X was about $3BB, Reddit $800MM).

And as for ID, the deadline for having Real ID Compliant documents for travel is May 2025. I say waive the charges and make them free.

We could use that. We have wild fires in fucking Brooklyn for gods sake.

@Horace said in Whither the Democrat Party post-Biden/Harris?: I liked the part about the guy who voted for Obama nine times. Maybe he lived in his district when he was a state and US senator? (have not listened to the interview yet)

Harris was the deciding vote of the Inflation Reduction Act, one of the bigger budget busters in recent memory. How's that for independence?

Our thing is air cleaners. Each ONE of ours is intended for a whole home. We have 8 of them in the house - set at high. Our house background noise level feels like we're in a B17 flying over France. Of course, that is in addition to the air cleaner on the furnace.

George is on fire tonight.

Heh: https://x.com/dlippman/status/1855683168407601444 Let's watch Schumer lock him up.

So far, rank choice voting is one of those ideas that sound good on paper and suck in the real world. Word is that Alaska will be chucking theirs pretty soon...

Does that mean conservatives need to have larger families?

@George-K said in Bad Doc: If you're smart enough to finish medical school, a residency, become a cardiology fellow, you should be smart enough to never say that, or at least get a different account. I don't think I've ever posted anything political on FB. I've found that young people (40 and under) can be incredibly stupid about texts and social media postings. Perhaps it's because they grew up with the internet. Perhaps it's because they are socially retarded. Perhaps it's because they have extended adolescence.

@George-K said in The Harris Biography: @taiwan_girl one of the comments she made is that she thinks Harris is suffering from "Imposter syndrome." I'm not sure Dhillon's description matches the "official" description. She describes it as a sort of "Peter Principle" type of thing: You've risen fast and high, and now you're confronted with the reality of it and don't know what to do. Hence the word-salads, etc that were not apparent in her early career. She was obviously nervous in the debate, at least at the start.

@George-K said in Spa Day: Wow....and I thought Boris was expensive. https://www.birdbreeders.com/bird/214115/green-wing-macaw (though I am surprised that shipping seems pretty cheap)

@LuFins-Dad so you're telling me that the million dollars she paid Oprah wasn't worth it? No wonder Beyonce didn't sing - Harris couldn't afford it.

No surprise from me.

So how would the religious discrimination work?