Yeah, that, ubuntu. Poor choice on my part.

10800 forestry workers in the us in 2024: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/farming-fishing-and-forestry/forest-and-conservation-workers.htm 53 deaths (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm) = a death rate of about .5%, 1 in 200.

826,800 police workers in the us in 2024: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detectives.htm

132 deaths (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t03.htm) = a death rate of about .02%, less than 1 in 2,000.

Edit math and spelling, but check for yourself. Still the difference in magnitude is obvious and always has been.

That's one heck of a kink.

Pedestrian lights say don't walk for part of the traffic light cycle unless the button is pressed.

Because the cycle is fixed during the day in most places.

Just remember that we could all have our social security if the top 1% paid a fractionof the taxes they used to.

stupid. half the college grads I know, a good number of vets, and none who have ever been in trouble, ever, have tattoos. you are just sick in the head. I don't have tattos, don't like them, but I don't choose my friends by it, or use it as a moral compass.

This ad can't play because I don't watch twitch.

The em drive is what you're thinking of, this is something different. That thing dropped off the radar a long time ago.

Yeah, getting away from ads after a lifetime's exposure just highlights how disruptive they are when you see them again. Especially since most have negative value to the consumer.

this actually works

Someone threw a check for vpn detection and/or for spurious blacklist of cgnat addresses after the captcha validation, and probably giggled to themselves as they did it. Been happening for several years now.

minor panic, oh, "2028".

Then, in a few years, they'll offer advertisers super premium ads. Users will be able to buy ultra premium tier subscriptions to skip those.

simple solution, tax rate goes up by margins based on the standard deviation from the last year's income mean. for income more than one standard deviation above the mean, your tax rate for that margin is the percentile rank of your income compared to the last year's incomes. something like that would be fair. then mandate certain percentages be spent on education, welfare, etc. anything left over in the budget from the last year gets split evenly among all taxpayers.

field on one side, field on the other. if I am on the interstate, the surface gets really shitty on our side because brownback and the republicans in topeka drained the highway fund to give the koch bros and fat corpo-farmers a tax break.

while alcohol is destructive, if you stop it, and excess sugar, your body will recover. later down the line maybe, but it will. 20 years without alcohol here, good luck.

dude there is some guy driving around town with a fake gold license plate and trump stickers. lucky if they lose five seats. conservatives worship heirarchy and if they didn't figure out trickle down doesn't work after the last fifty years, well, there you have it. their anger will be redirected at the "liberals".

No, we don't need this at all. businesses need to be fined out of existence for using the ssn, and lenders should do due diligence without some imaginary score.

Due process should include uniformed officers in marked cars. Honest and open.

most states have a statute that specifically shields cops against liability for instances where they don't enforce the law. this allows them to let certain people off.

however, the cyclist can still sue for injury. just the insurance co will use the cop's lack of issuing a ticket against them in court.