Yep.

Give a rich man a dollar and all you’ve done societally is remove a dollar from the economy. If you instead make him give that money to his employees things change, but cause poor people actually need money and will spend it.

You give a poor person that dollar through increased minimum wage and they spend it at a business. That business now makes more money, which is passed on to its employees through the increased minimum wage, and they spend that dollar again.

And again.

And again.

That dollar you took from the rich and gave to the poor drove a lot more than a dollar’s economic activity.

OH - and it’s also taxed every time it changes hands, so it also brings in more than its initial value in tax revenue.

The problem is they have to come up with a new source of income now that it looks like Google’s payments to be the default search engine to them are illegal.

That’s like 90% of their revenue, so they’re panicking.

We’re dissecting the logic of the quote, not arguing against evolution.

I can’t see any problems with that. They certainly wouldn’t murder the cleaning staff at Mar-a-Lago for being Latino.

If Google takes money to host an ad that’s malware, they should be able to be prosecuted for it.

This is different than simply hosting community content that they can’t reasonably moderate. They’re being given money to distribute these ads, so they can afford to moderate them.

Which should be easy anyway. Ads shouldn’t be able to install third-party shit from the advertisers on user computers. Google can easily restrict what can be included on an ad package.

I’m torn. This is a bad look, but when my Mom ran for council we had the list too because we wanted to collect the signs afterwards. They’re most of the cost of a local election campaign.

Oh, they are. He’s got a pretty serious security team that doesn’t fuck around.

Force. Brain fart.

Was working on the tractor this weekend.

I’m not sure there’s an ethical way to kill a deer with torsion.

They tried to nickel and dime me on a $4000/yr product, but I’m just giving them the nickel.

I think Trump and the secret service keeps getting lucky that his assailants are idiots regarding their weapon choice. This guy was 300-500 yards away and had an AK.

An AK is a 4-5 MOA rifle at best, so even with perfect optics, a perfect shooter, no wind, and a steady position, you’re looking at a precision of 2 feet at 500 yards, and that’s ignoring that precision gets progressively worse at range.

At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 round has gone subsonic, lost 80% of its muzzle energy, and dropped 30 feet.

Anything under 1000 ft/lbs of torque force isn’t considered powerful enough to ethically hunt a whitetail deer. At 500 yards, a 7.62x39 has less than a third of that energy. It’s enough to be lethal, but not consistently.

And all that is the starting point for the first shot. It gets worse firing semi-auto.

I will give ESRI credit for their online stuff. It’s expensive, but it’s also pretty great. We’re actually thinking about getting an online subscription but no software licenses.

I didn’t discover it this uear, but I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.

Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

Anyway, I’ve gotten pretty good with QGIS, and we’re sticking with it. It does everything I need it to do, and I can still pull stuff from most REST servers.

If they were shoved in the mailbox without postage it’s definitely illegal.

If you have reason to believe someone is in mortal danger, your response shouldn’t be to mail a letter giving them 30 days to respond.

You send police to the scene where they secure the potential suspect and make sure there’s nothing going on.

I have a mini cargo van as my everyday car that can move quite a bit of cargo, but I also bottom out if I go on a road that’s too bumpy.

The family truck has the clearance to go off the pavement.

Interestingly, the most dangerous thing to have around children is a pool.

Drowning is the number 1 cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the US and still asking the leading causes of death all through childhood. Most of those deaths are in pools.

8 percent of houses have pools, whereas 40 percent have guns.

I wouldn’t say they bring no value.

But they aren’t a uniquely creative team that can’t be replaced either.

You do know these aren’t game developers that quit, right? They’re a publisher.

Watch Bernie if you want to see Black do a different take. His character is quirky, but there’s a lot of depth to him as well.

I do wish we got to see Black use a little more of his range because he can deliver a nuanced comedic character too.

I really, really liked his performance in Bernie. He was silly, but there was also a simultaneous depression, fear, and darkness in his performance.