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bolverk

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  1. I would've thought Bostonians would lean more toward "brah."
  2. It's like every conspiracist from the John Birchers on down to today's anti-vaxxers are running the show now.
  3. Melania, if she shows up to his birthday parade, will be all over that.
  4. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: Bring back teen moms, child marriage, and kids working in the mines. https://bsky.app/profile/alicemiranda.bsky.social/post/3lo74lsirrk2i
  5. Something also to bear in mind is that state employment commissions don't estimate job numbers for federal agencies, the railroads (I don't recall the rationale for that), or the post office (weird quasi-federal workers). Everything else, if I'm remembering correctly, is. Also, jobs are only to be counted if they are present during the week of each month that the 12th falls on. Anything that happens after that week is recorded for the following month.
  6. Yeah, he went to the one in 2017, during his first year. I seem to recall a discussion of the damage the tanks would do to DC's streets at the time. He was invited, and the US participated in that one to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the US joining the fight in WWI. They have a tradition of inviting other countries to celebrate other anniversaries and the like. For France, the tradition started back in the 1880s but really kicked off in celebration of the end of World War I. Notably, it continued after WW2 when the Nazis marched down the Champs-Elysees during their occupation of Paris.
  7. Note to self: Don't have a stroke. Your brain could turn to mush, and you might start thinking like a genocidal Trumptard.
  8. Let me add, @Wulaw Horn, your not understanding something doesn't make it a conspiracy. In fact, I'd say the majority of this country's problem is people jumping to that kind of conclusion without understanding the basics about what the fuck is actually happening and how shit works. Instead, uninformed people often seem to prefer making assumptions and acting before they even start to ask questions. Then, they end up fucking around and finding out.
  9. L a W f a R e !!!
  10. There was an interesting quote from Diego Luna in the YouTube clip posted above when he said something like, "Andor is a story of love in a time of rebellion." I suppose there's no rule about falling in love a second time during the same, so yeah, that checks out. After all, the whole thing is a state of heightened emotions.
  11. FRIDAY UPDATE: 20 new cases since Tuesday in El Paso (+6), Upshur (+5), Eastland (+2), Lubbock (+2), Dawson (+1), Ector (+1), Hardeman (+1), Hockley (+1), and Potter (+1) counties. *Bolded counties previously reported no cases. DSHS still doesn’t mention Denton or Scurry counties, which makes me wonder if other cases we haven't heard about in the media are also present but haven’t been tallied by the state yet (or they’ve been determined to be unrelated).
  12. Do you know how the job numbers are run each month? I do, because it was my job for a year right out of grad school in the late 1990s. Each state’s labor department and without federal influence (e.g., Labor Market Information division of the Texas Workforce Commission in this state) has a section devoted to: Independently calculating the number of jobs by sector in its own state, based on a sample of data from individual employers who are required to report their staff on the payroll. These calculations are done twice monthly, with the second revised estimate simply having more data, allowing for greater accuracy as the month passes. This is a "job count" by state, county, and industry, and is continuously verified by calling HR departments around the state, cleaned up, and revised with a final "benchmark" at the end of each year. Surveying households to calculate employment and unemployment estimates on whether or not people are working. This survey is then applied to Census data, estimating the number of people over the age of 16 years (working age civilian labor force) by state and county. This is a "people count" by state and county, with major revisions only conducted each decade after the decennial census. These figures come from the individual analysts at each state’s employment commission. The only federal oversight occurs during the "benchmarking process," where analysts from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics fly in and pore over the numbers with the party responsible for each dataset. For example, I personally was responsible for defending a year of my own numbers in a two-on-one meeting with federal analysts. None of this is to say that they are precise, ball-on-accurate data. Still, I can affirmatively attest that all the calculations are performed with zero federal influence and only a modicum of federal oversight.
  13. And to think that people would dare to besmirch the inherent value of your great-great-grandpa’s creation. It’s imperative that Jacksborons get their police back to protect this stony heritage.
  14. I just read this page’s posts and see that, after another week on this most critical topic, we still haven’t reached a resolution, but I have every confidence in the brain trust coming to a verdict before the trial. Keep fighting the good fight!
  15. This board's got alotta aggy who like to pretend they ain't really aggy.
  16. I've only driven through that town once but seem to recall the town having a lot of what looked like locally quarried stone all around its little downtown area, which I think is cool and maybe even worth enough that the extracted value could net you up to at least $2,500 in building materials (minus labor) for a nice backyard project, like a rock wall or terrace.
  17. It's not even as if the boat's arrival was imminent or anything. It was off the coast of Malta, between 1,000 and 1,200 miles away.
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  19. The guy Talarico is questioning is Stan Gerdes, State Representative for Bastrop, Burleson, Caldwell, Lee, and Milam counties. The guy isn't an old or really even a rural rube either. He's a 39yo Texas grad whose biography seems to indicate he's lived in and around Austin, as well as DC, for the last two decades. He didn't write this bill out of ignorance or gullibility. It's just another example of manipulative lies to throw on the pile with the intent of breeding hate, scaring old people, and destroying public education in Texas. If any of you live in that district, he and his staff need to be mocked and hassled relentlessly over this complete stupidity. I realize that Talarico's M.O. is calm and patient logic, but he missed a chance to ask that asshole if he wants his name permanently attached to such an imbecilic law that folks will still be making fun of in 100 years like we do other pointless bullshit on the books like those forbidding using feather dusters in public buildings or milking your neighbor's cow. Or maybe Talarico should take Brisket's advice and just start accusing the guy of being a sick pedo to his face for fantasizing about children using a peepee box while wearing garanimals.
  20. How, pray tell, does a paralegal at the New York County District Attorney's Office go about inadvertently listening in on a privileged conversation between a defendant and his lawyer? They need to walk us through the steps leading up to that "mishap." I also wonder how the lie about the paralegal only hearing part of the call was discovered and what actions have been taken to prevent it from happening again. Are there remedies a defense team could seek for this accidental oversight?
  21. @Iceman @bluto One complaint I've seen with valuations, at least in Travis County, is that commercial and industrial properties are often highly undervalued, which places more of a burden on residential properties to take up the slack. Intentionally or not, it could also be seen as a bit of a hidden economic development incentive for businesses. That said -- all during the last decade and leading up to Covid -- the assessed value on my home often couldn't keep pace with the rapidly rising market value. Of course, the assessed value would generally go up each year, but not nearly as fast as what the house could've easily sold for on the market. But, yeah, getting comps to assess taxable values is more of an "art than it is a science" (i.e., flexible, elastic, or bullshit, based on perspective), which makes them contestable in many cases.
  22. It seems that including future indebtedness to the US for more aid would be highly discouraged with this deal (duh!), which certainly incentivizes Ukraine to seek military hardware from elsewhere (double duh!).
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