Bomb cyclone - devs affected
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You're being lazy because you might find out you're wrong. https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/[^]
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Dave KreskowiakNot being lazy at all. I still find it hysterical that New York needs disaster assistance with a snow storm. The fed has grown so large and dominate that it's become ridiculous. But that wasn't the point of my original post.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Well, most of us call it winter and a bad storm. If you are the weather media, it becomes a "bomb cyclone", super hyped to drive up viewers, etc. And, what I find utterly absurd and sadly hilarious, the governor of New York has called the President to ask for a disaster declaration for federal funds. New York, you are welcome said the developer in Georgia. How a northern state has the hubris to declare a disaster from a snow storm baffles me.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Maybe the problem is it's the wrong kind of snow?
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Yep, taxes are theft. Give me freedom or give me roads! And now I'm done.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
And yet I expect you still use and give thanks for the infrastructure (roads, power lines, dams, water supply, hospitals, police and military etc) that those "stolen" taxes pay for?
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And yet I expect you still use and give thanks for the infrastructure (roads, power lines, dams, water supply, hospitals, police and military etc) that those "stolen" taxes pay for?
You missed the sarcasm
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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absolutely not - but that is the LOCAL level. For a state to go the the feds for other state' s money - yeah, it's a problem. Suppose my state doesn't fund properly because I know I can go for disaster relief? Stay in context.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
And has never been more out of context....
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You missed the sarcasm
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Apologies. Yup, it sailed right over my head. Although on closer reading I think it was irony, not sarcasm, but as that sailed over my head too, I'm not going to argue the point!
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When people have to qualify history with extra adjectives I generally tune out. History is history. When people start claiming they have the one legitimate take it usually means they're running a con. Thomas Jefferson raped one of his slaves over the course of years. Claimed he was in love with her. They were sociopaths.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Different times. Condemning people for actions that were acceptable in their time but not now is a dangerous road to go down. If you allow that to become a norm you lay yourself wide open to the same treatment in your future....
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When people have to qualify history with extra adjectives I generally tune out. History is history. When people start claiming they have the one legitimate take it usually means they're running a con. Thomas Jefferson raped one of his slaves over the course of years. Claimed he was in love with her. They were sociopaths.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Different times. Condemning people for actions that were acceptable in their time but not now is a dangerous road to go down. If you allow that to become a norm you lay yourself wide open to the same treatment in your future....
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California and Illinois are financial (and political) messes. There is no denying that. Neither is on course to correct their issues but… Do yourself a favor and Google for a list of US states whose citizens pay more in federal taxes than their states receive back from the feds. California and Illinois have been in the top 5 for decades and decades. In other words… other states routinely have been taking their money for 40+ years. Think of this as simple payback.
If states all received back what they pay in federal taxes the federal taxes would just be local taxes by another route. There's a clue in the name "United" States of America. "United" means inter alia helping each other, otherwise you may as well have 50 small countries each paying their own way, in global terms some moderately important, many insignificant.
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Different times. Condemning people for actions that were acceptable in their time but not now is a dangerous road to go down. If you allow that to become a norm you lay yourself wide open to the same treatment in your future....
Well, I'm happy to judged on my merits and my flaws. Anyone that can look at another human being as subhuman is deeply messed up. I don't care what time period. Furthermore, these men had access to the same explicit frameworks of morality that I use. Jefferson even studied it explicitly. They all agonized and rationalized what they did with respect to slavery. In other words *they* knew it was wrong, and *they* did it anyway. Frankly, I'm not here for the knee jerk reverence of long dead monsters.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Different times. Condemning people for actions that were acceptable in their time but not now is a dangerous road to go down. If you allow that to become a norm you lay yourself wide open to the same treatment in your future....
Oh gosh, what am I doing? I said I wouldn't respond on this thread. I'm a bit sleepy right now, and forgetting myself (again). I'm out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Not being lazy at all. I still find it hysterical that New York needs disaster assistance with a snow storm. The fed has grown so large and dominate that it's become ridiculous. But that wasn't the point of my original post.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
By that logic, I hope you find it ridiculous that the southern states need help with hurricanes.
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Dave Kreskowiak -
If states all received back what they pay in federal taxes the federal taxes would just be local taxes by another route. There's a clue in the name "United" States of America. "United" means inter alia helping each other, otherwise you may as well have 50 small countries each paying their own way, in global terms some moderately important, many insignificant.
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If states all received back what they pay in federal taxes the federal taxes would just be local taxes by another route. There's a clue in the name "United" States of America. "United" means inter alia helping each other, otherwise you may as well have 50 small countries each paying their own way, in global terms some moderately important, many insignificant.
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When people have to qualify history with extra adjectives I generally tune out. History is history. When people start claiming they have the one legitimate take it usually means they're running a con. Thomas Jefferson raped one of his slaves over the course of years. Claimed he was in love with her. They were sociopaths.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
That's an interesting Humpty Dumpty like interpretation of "sociopath". Here's a modern definition: "a person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that is acceptable to society" Whatever he was by 21C Western woke standards, by the standards of his day his behaviour wasn't considered unacceptable to that society, nor was it illegal so he wasn't a sociopath.
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When people have to qualify history with extra adjectives I generally tune out. History is history. When people start claiming they have the one legitimate take it usually means they're running a con. Thomas Jefferson raped one of his slaves over the course of years. Claimed he was in love with her. They were sociopaths.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
That's an interesting Humpty Dumpty like interpretation of "sociopath". Here's a modern definition: "a person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that is acceptable to society" Whatever he was by 21C Western woke standards, by the standards of his day his behaviour wasn't considered unacceptable to that society, nor was it illegal so he wasn't a sociopath.
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When people have to qualify history with extra adjectives I generally tune out. History is history. When people start claiming they have the one legitimate take it usually means they're running a con. Thomas Jefferson raped one of his slaves over the course of years. Claimed he was in love with her. They were sociopaths.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
That's an interesting Humpty Dumpty like interpretation of "sociopath". Here's a modern definition: "a person who is completely unable or unwilling to behave in a way that is acceptable to society" Whatever he was by 21C Western woke standards, by the standards of his day his behaviour wasn't considered unacceptable to that society, nor was it illegal so he wasn't a sociopath.
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This. I was listening to [No Agenda](http://www.noagendashow.com) yesterday, a podcast that "deconstructs the news", and they played back some sound bites where one reporter was still calling this a "bomb cyclone" right after interviewing a meteorologist who defined what was needed to declare it as such (blah-blah-atmospheric pressure, blah-blah-needs-X-millibars, and this doesn't qualify at all). IOW, he was contradicting himself and kept using the name, just because it just sounds oh-so much more horrible and attention-grabbing... [Here](https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1672007295.994\_bombcyclonedeefined.mp3), found the clip...this is the part where one says this does NOT qualify...greater discussion was part of the podcast itself (#1515, recorded on the 25th).
The BBC is currently reporting on the 'extreme' weather the UK experienced in 2022. We had a month or two without much rain in the summer and a week or so of temperatures reaching over 30°C during the daytime, and in December we had a week or maybe 10 days in which we had a light sprinkling of snow with night temperatures dipping to as low as -5°C in places. Extreme? I hardly think so! The media just love to exaggerate and never let the facts spoil a good story.
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This. I was listening to [No Agenda](http://www.noagendashow.com) yesterday, a podcast that "deconstructs the news", and they played back some sound bites where one reporter was still calling this a "bomb cyclone" right after interviewing a meteorologist who defined what was needed to declare it as such (blah-blah-atmospheric pressure, blah-blah-needs-X-millibars, and this doesn't qualify at all). IOW, he was contradicting himself and kept using the name, just because it just sounds oh-so much more horrible and attention-grabbing... [Here](https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1672007295.994\_bombcyclonedeefined.mp3), found the clip...this is the part where one says this does NOT qualify...greater discussion was part of the podcast itself (#1515, recorded on the 25th).
The BBC is currently reporting on the 'extreme' weather the UK experienced in 2022. We had a month or two without much rain in the summer and a week or so of temperatures reaching over 30°C during the daytime, and in December we had a week or maybe 10 days in which we had a light sprinkling of snow with night temperatures dipping to as low as -5°C in places. Extreme? I hardly think so! The media just love to exaggerate and never let the facts spoil a good story. The developers I know who work from home just have kept on, as you do....
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Not being lazy at all. I still find it hysterical that New York needs disaster assistance with a snow storm. The fed has grown so large and dominate that it's become ridiculous. But that wasn't the point of my original post.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
charlieg wrote:
I still find it hysterical that New York needs disaster assistance with a snow storm.
What exactly would you consider a legitimate usage for disaster relief? The following have all been impacting communities since the United States existed: Fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes. The first US federal assistance was in 1802 for a fire. The disaster relief act of 1969 says the following
extensive property loss and damage as a result of recent major disasters including,
but not limited to, hurricanes, storms, floods, and high waters and wind-driven watersSo it does not include fire. But it does include storms which would include snow (and tornadoes.) It also says "but not limited to" so presumably fires as well.