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At what point will you stop optimizing for the number of dead children? Why not keep them in a padded room with some electrical impulses to stimulate their muscles as needed, while feeding them a perfect blend of nutrients for exact caloric intake.

Edit: lol this doesn't even break the site rules... it's a legitimate question. Fuck you dang.

I think you and I agree, but it's an interesting question.

Neglect laws in the US are incredibly vague.

Driving a vehicle for some unnecessary reason like to take a child to a water park for fun could be construed as abuse/neglect, as it unnecessarily exposes the child to danger.

Our neglect, and child reporting laws, badly need overhauled because common sense it totally removed. People have been arrested for as little as letting the kid walk or be at the park independently. Things need reworded to make it clear it isn't neglectful unless the child is facing certain and imminent serious injury or death, or something along those lines.

Do you offer them a ride? Everyone is out to criticize parents at all time, usually while doing fuck all to help.

Arrest gives them legal authority to search the person of the accused and find evidence of other crime. Perhaps they will find something that leads to a felony and authorization to hold. For instance, you probably wouldn't want to release someone who was heavily intoxicated in public while in possession of a deadly weapon.

To be clear, I'm not saying I'm thrilled about prosecuting people for many of the crimes for which the contraband would constitute, but the advantages of arresting the perp even if they'll immediately be released is obvious.

It's nice San Francisco has such compassion for violent criminals and mentally ill homeless that their dreams can truly flourish there. Perhaps there is merit to the idea that stabbers need their own utopia too. Not many places you can get high on smack, shit on the public side walk, stab a CEO, and then walk around with impunity to live your dream again the next day.

My attitude changed a lot more once I had a kid. I was never a big tax fan, but once you have a kid and realize

1) You pay the daycare

2) You pay the birth

3) You pay the food

4) You pay the healthcare

....

basically the list goes on, and all along society tells you to get fucked. Society isn't there unless maybe you let your kid walk alone to the park so they can have the slightest shred of confidence and then they arrest you for "neglect." It's not "we're a society we'll work together" -- no its "on your own you dumb fucker, by the way dont abort or you'll be in jail for murder." As soon as you raise the kid, suddenly society says "Look we need to take 30% of the kids stuff, including for retirement of everyone else" no matter that society straight up told you to get fucked for the costs of raising the child up to become someone who can pay the taxes.

It's that way with everything in the US. We pour money straight into Israel and get nothing in return. Blow up brown kids with drones only to have the world hate us.

Taxes are theft. I'd rather live with McScrooge evilCo that requires a toll every time I enter the road than this fucking dystopia where my tax money goes to blowing up innocent people around the world and the world's highest prison rate.

Your thesis is the taxes aren't worse, it's that you think the poors are too dumb to go to freetaxusa or something where basically all they have to do is copy and paste the data from their W2?

99.9% of people won't do anything so long as the tele and McDonalds is available.

People eligible for EITC rarely are handling stacks of 1099 and business transactions.

We're talking about single mom with a couple part time jobs with a W-2 territory.

The idea their taxes should have mistakes more than average seems a bit far-fetched to me.

That said maybe it is cheaper and easier just to eliminate the EITC/taxes/filing for people earning under X. It seems like a waste to even bother with people making under 20 or 30 grand.

Coffee machines usually don't phone home and the good La Marzocco machines are worth as much as a new car. It's quite a liquid market. Furthermore parting them out is highly profitable as the replacement parts from the dealer operates almost like a mob, with some brands requiring replacement parts to be ordered or replaced through certified repairmen.

That threshold has not always been there. Used to be 20k, but they had to lower it to catch the billionaires.

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/irs-delays-...

If the bill was a message, so was the response. "Fuck you, we'd rather not be hindered by such promises."

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RE: below [due to timeout]

>The original bill already passed.

  factcheck:  false.  Original bill passed almost 12 hours later on the same day[0] [1].  The (above) amendment was voted on in the early morning, with the unamended increase passing in the afternoon.

>Congress has more important things to do.

  factcheck:  false.  All 100 senators voted on the floor for a full vote on the amendment.  None found they had something more important to do that would cause them not to cast a vote.

>The executive has stated its position.

  factcheck: True.  Either congress ignored the position, or they followed the privately endorsed position rather than the publicly endorsed one.

  [0] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm

  [1] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00296.htm

Right now the node operators worldwide even to this day are running tornado cash on their EVM, including validating transactions to sanctioned contract addresses.

Didn't the legislature try to introduce a bill to prevent using the new agents/funding against lower earners, and it flopped? So it turns out all along no one actually wants to keep anyone accountable to such "promises."

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

  Statement of Purpose: To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80.000.000.000, infusion of new funds.

  Vote Result: Amendment Rejected

Yeah this reminds me of a thought experiment with Ethereum virtual machines. If someone writes and produces the code for tornado cash, publishes it on the internet as free speech but never deploys it obviously they are not at fault. So lets say they publish it and some anonymous person from Somalia publishes it to the Ethereum network and the nodes absorb the program.

When then is responsible for the tornado cash instance? The Ethereum VM node operators who have no idea they're even running it? An unknowable person from Somalia?

Well at some point it doesn't matter if it's worth it. Going from lots of money to not much is a recipe for divorce. Of course if you're divorced for any reason, the judge will impute your income at what he thinks you can make. So you'll be paying child support and alimony based on the "job is shit" high rate job and utterly fucked if you don't work it. You better be damned sure you're willing to work the "job is shit" job forever once you take it; the judge will make sure of that.

Almost 10% of 16-64 are college students.

A significant portion of the remainder 20% are stay at home mom/dad with no desire for a full time job.

The latest info I'm able to find indicates we're still close to record low pupil-teacher ratios. So teachers are working, and even meeting students in ratio basically as close as ever (post WW-II at least).

> demoralized, jaded and poorly performing employee

Ah this is a teacher bashing session to disparage the ones we currently have. Personally I highly value the efforts of our teachers and can't imagine making such a statement.

>Working for some highly bureaucratic and political organization (i.e. any given school district)

I think we're on the same page here. If you want to argue the idea of the institution of public schooling sucks, I won't disagree with you. That's why my jurisdiction has voted to allow you to use your tax money to bypass the public school district institution.

>>> "Who's gonna go teach a high school class for $50,000 a year when they can make $85 to $100,000 a year... in the trades?"

I don't have the last 10 year data, but from ~2000-2014 the pupil-teacher ratio was flat and at all time recorded lows. This works against the thesis there is a shortage relative to post WW-II history.

It appears whatever teachers is paid, the feeling they get from helping kids vs building cogs for evilCo must be enough additional incentive to keep us near record low pupil-teacher ratio.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_208.20.a...

I think my point is made. You're creating a standard that even you refuse to satisfy.

The comment you are replying to is simply bad faith white knighting. As soon as I indicated I felt violated by their comment, suddenly it was "different."

The issue is you often find yourself there even when attempting to avoid. For instance, once I got a flat tire right as I went through a few mile stretch of bad town. The locals saw I got a flat tire and was distracted, took the opportunity to put a gun to my head. The chance of that happening while you have a working vehicle is 0% and few people plan to have a vehicle failure exactly at the wrong spot.

Is that of their citizens, or their population. Because The citizens have become more equal at the expense of taxing an enormous permanent resident and migrant work force who do not get the full benefits. The US and most other countries can't hope to have such a deep reservoir of foreigners to bleed dry in the name of equality.

https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/1b57c13c04baed2bc1c218...

Wow, you sound like the people in my midwest hometown who freaked out when the Punjabis came in and bought all our gas stations.

When you look at the desperate parts of the midwest, of the ones that weren't always that way, you'll find most of the worst of the ones became that way after all the skilled / rich people left coupled with other capital flight. Not the other way around.

Giving life or effective life to non-violent actors sends a clear message to criminals that they're just as well off to violently resist arrest, as their life is forfeit anyway. Seems like a poorly thought out policy for the enforcers.

HHCA says for eligibility:

  any descendant of not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to 1778

You have to have blood of races that were on the islands before 1778. In practice a commission decides if you're the right race.

Other groups oppressed by plantation owners like the Filipinos and Samoans just get the boot and even less land available to them due to racist policies. Samoan descendants are now even worse off than native Hawiians and have to contend with racially/segregation projected rarefication of land.

Yes they give all those, right after they indicate an average of $3.2M for an arm. They give you averages first so you can see the figures posted later are some better case scenarios (well for comp anyway).

Note: not legal advice

Maybe someone with experience here can chime in, but my gut tells me those must be the worker's compensation insurance payout for the limb and the lawyer was including the surrounding lawsuit which would litigate the neglect resulting in the loss of limb.

Looks like being discriminated against in this case is roughly worth the same as having a limb cutoff according to one law firm. I don't want to be presumptuous and say that feeling discrimination on the job is better than having your arm cut off though, maybe it does feel worse.

https://www.losangelespersonalinjurylawyers.co/average-case-...

I'd argue it's a first amendment violation for the state to require an employee be fired or reprimanded for saying/writing mean words; but that's not to say there wasn't more to it than that.

The civil rights act itself is a slap in the face of the 10th amendment and should be repealed post haste.