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Yeah, I remember someone complaining about the cost of homeless services in the city budget and I couldn’t even find it in the published numbers. It was lumped in with other social services and all of them dwarfed by the enormous cost of police and fire services.

So close! Instead of spending it on Walmart, in your text they should be spending it on booze and drugs. Then it’s Republican-speak at its finest ;-)

One of the South American variants of Spanish, probably Argentinian. And I say that despite not speaking any Spanish.

The language itself is a contact language and heavily influenced by centuries of cohabitation with speakers of Arabic. That simplified a lot of the Indo-European complexities away.

The phonology - the sounds - of the language are clear and predictable and sufficiently different that a non-native speaker and their accent are not too troublesome in comprehension.

The language itself is already a world language, ranking 4th in number of native speakers.

I like the suggestion of Esperanto, which I do personally speak and which has all the advantages above, except already being a world language.

Honestly, California and LA need to do better. Nobody is telling either what kind of police they should have, and it’s a disgrace that they come up with LAPD.

First they claimed everything good is Socialism, and now there is a whole generation that thinks Socialism is good.

Now they are taking any opposition and call it terrorism, what do they think is going to happen when more and more people start opposing their living conditions?

I think both with the gubmint and ChatGPT, “thinking” must be defined very very loosely :-)

The rare comment that is so good, I upvote all comments that applaud it!

You mean like when ChatGPT replied confidently that BLUEBERRY has three Rs? ;-)

“Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years—what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin

That’s how far America is straying from the Rule of Law: this guy has not been found to be illegally in the United States by a Court of Law. As a result, he is not living ILLEGALLY in the United States and is not a criminal. An Assistant Secretary to the Department of Homeland Security should know this, and would have known this in any past Administration of the United States of America.

Mine did, too - until it didn’t :-( But aside from that, it was an amazing color printer. HL- 4150CDN

Does it have WiFi though? Brother swears they didn’t remove third party toner functionality, but they definitely installed new firmware without asking.

I’ve had great experiences with Brother laser printers, until my color laser started refusing 3rd party cartridges. Someone else reported there was a firmware update that made that happen, Brother swears they didn’t do anything.

For that reason, I would not buy a connected printer, ever. The setup I have now is a dumb printer connected to my local network using an RPi Zero W as print server. I would do it this way even if the printer had WiFi connectivity.

Wall Street only cares about the current and next quarter. Everything else is a stock sale away and doesn’t matter. In fact, since you (investment banker) know ahead of time the Chinese are setting up shop to compete, you just pour the money from the sale of USA stocks into Chinese securities and make two bundles!

were they supposed to just work for you for fraction of a cost forever and don’t learn anything?

It was a rhetorical question, but they actually really believed that. Racism may have been a huge part of it: People as backwards as “China man” would never be able to come up with complicated tasks like setting up a factory on their own.

Anyone not racist saw it coming a thousand miles away. It’s weird how much bigotry there was and is in the C-suite of major corporations.

My guess is 33% don’t know that healthcare is the sticking item, and that the Democrats are trying to save the ACA subsidies. You wouldn’t know that’s the case if you watched conservative media.

Your visa has been revoked for incendiary comment! Twice for being a Hamas sympathizer!!! ;-)

The civilized world better beware that America is not just ahead of the scary times. Some of the right-wing movements in Europe, in particular are downright frightening, and close to winning elections.

I think the worst part is that Trump openly flirted with paying only the people he likes - his MAGA folks, and only the parts of government he likes. You work on wind turbine safety? No pay for you.

These coal miners didn’t read the fine print: the administration is a cheerleader for coal mining BUSINESSES, not for coal miners. Coal miners, especially sick ones, are just a sunk cost to them.

Don’t judge them too harshly. If everybody surrounding you starts talking about how Portland turned into a shithole, you’d start eventually believing it, too. I know people that live 20 km South of San Francisco, who claimed they would not come see me in town when I was visiting because it was too dangerous. They were baffled not only that I walked everywhere, but that I survived the ordeal unscathed.

Propaganda is strangely powerful. I still remember the run-up to the Iraq War, when Bush et al. were talking about weapons of mass destruction and everybody believed them. I thought to myself: if the Iranians are not concerned about Iraqi WMDs, and they are sworm enemies and right next to each other, why should anyone else be?