As long as the media keeps telling them he’s not. 35%+ of the population has been very successfully brainwashed by right-wing news designed specifically in the aftermath of Watergate to gaslight the public into believing whatever agenda they want.

Nixon was going to be allowed to get away scot free until the media started actually educating the public, who then demanded their politicians do something about it. Fox News was created in the wake of that with the goal of preventing that from happening again.

And with first past the poll voting, the system is designed to inevitably allow a minority to rule. When it was created, only a handful could vote, and being kept up to date on political and economic events was essentially a requirement of their place in the country. Wealthy white land owners were already basicallt required to stay up to date on current events and politics, and the effects of various changes. The voting systems were designed with an educated electorate like that in mind. Those systems have been hijacked as voting rights have expanded and an educated and up-to-date electorate is no longer an fundamental feature of who could vote.

I mean that’s obvious. Otherwise you’re just paying $45 to ignore the security checkpoint if you’re guaranteed to get through with payment.

One could argue surveillance and tracking is about security. They’d be wrong. But they could argue that.

Russia has been pretty reliable for ISS transit ever since they launched the first module for it back in 1998. Despite political bluster, they’ve followed through when needed. Including after we unilaterally decided to decommission to Shuttle with no replacement, leaving Soyuz as the only crew transit option available at all.

Give it time. Its a slow recipe, but I trust the French to follow through if its a protest.

To be fair… that’s just Mamdani’s… it’s a lot less for the regular council members. Not sure how exactly it’s structured since Mamdani’s increase would definitely be more than 16%.

A proposal filed this week by Councilwoman Nantasha Williams, a Queens Democrat, would boost council members’ annual pay by 16% from $148,500 to $172,500, the New York Post reported.
If approved, the proposed pay hike would also apply to the new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and borough presidents. It would raise Mamdani’s pay to nearly $350,000 from the current $258,000 with benefits.

It looks to me a bit more like establishment Dems trying to lay a trap for a Democratic Socialist taking office. He approves it and seemingly immediately does the opposite of part of his election platform, improving affordability for average New Yorkers. Or he doesn’t and there’s immediate friction with basically every member of the council board that he needs to actually accomplish anything.

I’m sure they think so. Its not just an increase for Mamdani, it is for all of City Council. Their last pay increase was 2016 according to the article.

This of course is not a vacuum though, and I’m sure the rest of New York’s average workers have gotten the hard end of a stick for the last decade as well.

Most people don’t know extensions exist. Because they don’t care and have never been shown.

Pissing someone off is a strong motivator for them to start searching though.

Marijuana isn’t a truth serum.

In the lawsuit, Garza claimed he met with Bally in November 2024 to discuss his salary. During the meeting, which Garza allegedly recorded, Bally described Campbell’s as “highly process(ed) food” and said it was for “poor people.”

Garza claimed in the lawsuit that Bally made racist remarks about Indian workers, whom he called “idiots.” Garza said Bally also told him that he often went to work high after consuming marijuana edibles.

I really badly want to know how a conversation about a raise turned into whatever the fuck was going on there. Just how did that get so far off topic that he decided to spill his secrets? Shouldn’t Garza be in charge of interrogations somewhere?

You said there was no reason. There is a reason. You didn’t ask for a good reason. It’s also by absolutely no means unique to Tesla, despite how it is portrayed in articles like this.

Tesla isn’t the first manufacturer to use frameless windows by any means. Audi, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Mini, and Subaru just to name a few, have all used them in various “luxury” or higher end models over the years. It’s perceived as luxury vehicle design, so it gets used quite a bit.

The handle not physically manipulating a latch also isn’t unique. Corvette’s have done this for years. Many recent vehicles from Lexus, Audi, Ferrari, Fiat, Lincoln, and Dodge again to name a few also use them, regardless of the flush exterior handle design. The handle design itself isn’t the issue with these deaths, it’s the electrical system failing. The flush handles causes issues with things like ice build-up, not being unable to open the door after a crash.

Articles like this always point to these issues, and act like they’re unique to Tesla, but they’re not. It’s the same as it’s always been, Tesla headlines get clicks, which drives interaction and sharing exactly like here, which all lead to increased advertising revenue.

Uneducated nearly everyone is a feature for them.

Troll farms have a pretty large and lucrative business based in countries that traditionally don’t do much about web-based fraud. It’s the same groups that sell fake subscribers.

It’s amazing how Twitter keeps managing to fuck these things up. They seem to have no concept of testing anymore.

Musk keeps trying to play propaganda minister and pushing nazi shit, but never checks things before implementing them. At times it seems like the only explanation is that he actually believes the lies about how “it’s all the Democrats”. Then he has to panic and run things back when that inevitably turns out to be projection and it exposes Republican bullshit and foreign interference.

I totally forgot about the Guardians game. I don’t think I ever finished it. Got lost in the hustle and bustle of life.

Gonna have to go back through that.

Do you think he personally signs the checks?

Of course not. Just like he doesn’t personally handle the payments for his businesses that don’t pay contractors. I guarantee it was his decision to actively not pay them though.

I don’t know why you keep wanting to talk about snap

Because it’s a recent example of the Trump administration actively choosing not to make payments that are owed, and are even normally handled automatically.

Not sure how you’re missing the relevance to whether they are not making other owed payments related to similar events.

It’s always been that way. The ones ones that ever claimed differently were those people. Because they couldn’t comprehend the thought that they didn’t earn and deserve what they were actually handed.

What are you going off of?

You mean about Trump not paying people?

Because that’s well documented for decades, across his businesses, even as recently as the East Wing demolition.

Or do you mean about the money already being available and Trump choosing not to distribute it?

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past

Not 100% sure, but they should have received all their back pay including OT.

Maybe they will, maybe they won’t.

SNAP benefit money was already approved by Congress specifically during government shutdowns because of those issues in the past. The money was already allocated. Trump chose to have the administration not process that.

Well of course course. With the shutdown, the people that fix mistakes like that weren’t working. All as designed.