I somehow don’t think we’ll find a site that breaks down every purchase the government has made, let alone one that specifically detects and highlights corruption.
So I guess the official budgets are the best I can do to helpfully answer the question. Sorry.
Sure, but that quote calls it a “virus” but the headline says “fungus”.
Just did a quick search, “interactive chart of us state and federal budgets”.
Found this government site for federal budgets: https://www.cbo.gov/interactives
For instance, here’s a page with charts for the 2023 federal budget: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727
I would hope similar sites exist for most, if not all, of the states.
That, or she should be named “Mary” instead, I guess.
Debt strike!
Debt strike!
Debt strike!
Golly! Three whole data points?! Now we are cooking with gas!
/s
You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.
Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it’s 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.
Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.
EDIT:
Also, that’s only a difference of 7%, so it’s not even that drastic.
EDIT2:
Also also, what does any of this have to do with your post being removed? What was the post? Did the mod/admin give you a reason for removal?
The previous conviction was overturned on a procedural issue, like a mistrial. He wasn’t pardoned or found not guilty, so it isn’t double jeopardy. It’s just a “redo” to make sure another jury would still convict without the procedural issue.
the [worst] Democrat [is] better than the best Republican
That’s generally true, but not in the hypothetical. I’d honestly vote for Mitt Romney before I’d vote for hypothetical Democrat-Ticket Trump.
It’s called “Whattaboutism” and it’s straight from Russia’s playbook.
See, we all thought that.
Turns out the problem wasn’t that they committed genocide. It’s that the genocide was directed at the Jewish people.
And as Netanyahu would have you believe, if you’re against Israel, you’re against the Jewish people. So that makes you a Nazi.
Flawless logic, clearly.
/s
At this point I can only understand it if I know who’s saying it.
That is the most frustrating thing about discussion these days. Everyone using the same words but speaking an entirely different language.
When you don’t agree on the definitions of words anymore, or you don’t hold yourself to using them in good faith, then you take discussion off the table. You’re no longer debating; now you are just arguing. It’s one step away from violence.
Karma is just debt for morality.
The Brood War remaster was actually pretty good, too. It was the last Blizzard product I bought.
If you think growing up in a conservative household guarantees a kid becomes conservative, you didn’t grow up in a conservative household.
Billionaires now control 1 out of every 25 dollars of American wealth.
1/25=4%
According to Google, there are 735 billionaires in the US, and the US population is 336,269,260. That makes Billionaires about 0.000002% of the population.
And they control 4% of the wealth. (And that’s probably not counting money they have hidden and sheltered.)
For reference, 4% of the population would be 13,450,770.
So 735 people have as much wealth as would be held by about 13.5 million people, if all wealth was distributed evenly. So each billionaire would be worth about 18,000 people.
But, it’s even worse in our current distribution:
Due to this influx to the very top, these 800 individuals now collectively control 1.5 times more wealth than the entire bottom 50 percent of American households, who share $3.7 trillion between 65 million households.
And, since money is free speech, that means these 735 billionaires have 1.5 times the voice of 65 million people, the majority of Americans, combined.
We’ve gone full oligarchy.
I’m with the above commenter. I’ve worked at many companies of various sizes, from small local shops up to international corporations, including at least one contractor for the US military.
Every one of them had rules and policies and training on security, to varying degrees. But at every one of them, I’d find some vulnerability, or instance where someone was neglecting security. Each time, I’d bring it to the attention of someone in management. Each time (with one company as exception), those warnings would be “heard” and “passed up the chain”, and then nothing would happen. Only one company in 20 years of work actually fixed a security issue I found. And no company I’ve ever worked for was leak proof.
In my experience, until it threatens to cost a company much more money in losses than it would cost to fix the problem, but said problem will not get fixed. That’s profit motive. And often it seems they’d rather roll the dice until a loss occurs, and then (maybe) fix the issue.
I don’t know much about advertising, but paying nearly $900 for just under 700 clicks seems like a bad return on investment to me. But I guess that depends on what you’re advertising, how much it costs, and how many of those clicks actually resulted in purchases.
Shit, I’d do that job for minimum wage, if only to see Musk fired.