I saw a post about someone who made sliders (mini hamburgers) and everyone they’d served them to so far liked them. I wish we had more posts like that one. The problem with Lemmy is there is not enough active niche communities for peoples interests. This is one thing Reddit does much better due to the scale of the user base.

It feels like a brief respite every time I stumble on a post like that.

No. 18 USC 924 also covers non violent offenses but the punishments for those are less.

Their rate of inflation iis decreasing but they still experience inflation rather than deflation. INFLATION IS COMPOUNDING even if the rate of increase of inflation is slightly lower there is still a lot of inflation.

If you owe $100 and inflation is stuck at 200% per year after one year you’ll owe $300, after two years $900, three years $2,700.

Now if you owe $100 and inflation starts at 200% per year then drops to 190% for year 2, and then falls again to 180% for year three you’re looking at this: year 1 $300, year 2 $870, year 3 $2,436.

It’s better to owe someone $2,436 than it is to owe them $2,700. But owing someone $2,436 sucks a lot more than owing them $100.

I don’t know how this couldn’t be clear to anyone who understands the concept of inflation.

https://youtu.be/T8-85cZRI9o

https://youtu.be/BHw4NStQsT8

Because inflation is compounding in nature just like interest is. The longer you have a high inflation rate the worse the situation gets.

Only if you believe there is no direct connection between the devaluation of people’s savings paired with increased costs of goods and poverty.

Hyper inflation in itself leads to poverty.

It’s not a good thing. No one here is arguing that poverty is good. It’s that their current choice is ‘still pretty high inflation w/ high poverty’ is preferable to ‘holy shit that’s their monthly inflation w/ high poverty’.

Low poverty is no longer in Argentina’s deck for the foreseeable near future. Inflation will rob the working class people of any thing they are given or earn.

Because inflation rate is decreasing. It’s still triple digits but it’s going down.

Imagine a wildfire spreading rapidly. Remedial action is taken and then it continues to spread but notably slower. Obviously there’s more to do but it is still good news for a place where that is in short supply.

What do you think DNA is? The thing outside a criminals’s gloves? IRL isn’t CSI Miami. Go swap a NYC sidewalk and see what you get. That’d be a needle in a haystack.

Remember, they only have to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

This is like saying remember marathon runners only need to run 26.2 miles.

It’s not having our “head [in our] asses” it’s a decent respect for the freestanding system of laws. Social media vilianizing or martyrizing people alleged of cromes isn’t beneficial for true justice.

ITT, people out themselves as never having been in CT or talked to anyone in CT (D or R).

No one is going to sue over this. A CT Republican is differentiated from a CT Democrat by tie color.

You don’t have to serialize firearms you make* for your own personal use. You also don’t need to register them either*. In fact there’s restrictions on the federal government’s ability to keep a registry of guns. 18 USC 926(a)(3). From a policy perspective it’d just be creating another possession based crime that’s almost impossible to enforce. Because you could just pop a “1” on the side and claim that you sent in your registration paperwork but the government screwed up.

*True for title 1 firearms (most handguns, shotguns, and rifles) not certain other classes like those that machineguns or silencers fall into.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/how-does-person-register-firearm-or-remove-name-firearms-registration

Did he give a sperm sample or something at the crime seen? What DNA?

And public defenders though they are as skilled as any attorney are very much overworked in many places. Private counsel can offer more attention to the details of a case and spend time researching potentially novel theories to defend their client.

Not till he’s proven guilty in a court of law it isn’t.

Honestly not sure when. It’s kinda an infamous one, it essentially says you can never introduce hearsay as evidence in a federal court because hearsay is unreliable… unless you fall into one of the 23 exceptions. Or you meet one of the two exceptions in FRE 807.

Tbf a lot make good sense and are just about government written records and making sure you don’t need to find some government official who retired 10 years ago.

Https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_803#

803 the exception to the rule barring hearsay which swallows the rule nearly whole.

Free speech is a principle (like free trade) in addition to a fundamental right enumerated in the 1A enforceable against the government. People are making policy arguments when they discuss it in the context of private entities deplatforming advocating for private implementation of the principle into business practices.

The thing is that they’ve got teeth. E.g. redistricting, along with the plurality of powers granted to the countless offices across the nation that they hold.

Q: Should (insert political party here) disenfranchise voters for the benefit of (insert political party here)'s political ends?

A: No.

If you have no principles you have nothing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor_General_of_the_United_States

For anyone who thinks this is significant or controversial.

Don’t hate it.

A blockchain being essentially a public ledger.

It’s a good concept that will doubtlessly have several if not many practical uses. I think any hatred it gets is just because like every new thing hucksters try and brand it as the cure to all ills to make a buck.

YSK call your house rep. They’re more likely to answer. Also call your state reps first. Most issues are handled on a state level, not federal, and state house reps tend to be the most accessible.