Jesus, Flowbee is way more expensive than I remembered!

https://www.flowbee.com/

When I was first made a mod 2 years ago I banned a troll for bad behavior.

Since then they have created HUNDREDS of Lemmy accounts specifically attacking me.

We had to come up with new rules and bots to deal with their fragile psyche.

Wow, someone else maths!

From another thread:

So far, there has been $200B collected in tariffs as of September. Some estimates are saying $300B by end of year.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/tariff-revenue-soars-fy-2025-amid-legal-uncertainty

The current estimated US population is 340 million.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

Take off 10% for “the wealthy”, that leaves 306,000,000.

I can’t imagine Trump giving $2,000 to kids, so knock off anyone under 18, that’s another 73 million off the list.

https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/1096,2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

So round about 233,000,000 people getting $2,000 checks?

$466 billion. Oops. Hey Donnie, you’re short somewhere between $166 and $266 billion.

So how much COULD people get?

$200B / 233M = $858.37
$300B / 233M = $1,287.55

Not awful, until you realize that’s how much these taxes soaked you for in the first place. 😉

I dropped Tmobile when I was on a business trip and they sent me an update that bricked my phone and refused responsibility.

With no support for anyone + street lined with redhats yelling at you. But only redhats.

It was hilarious when it responded to a joke video taking it seriously based only on the subject line.

2025 elections said what? 🤔

Yup. Portland has a similar tax. Single earners making more than $125,000 or households making more than $250,000.

There’s a time and place for everything and it’s called ‘College’.

“households earning at least $300,000”

Should have a carve out for single earners more than $150,000.

Considering he was polling in the 30s and 40s before the election, breaking 50% is a miracle, especially with 3 candidates.

It’s a little bit more than that… In multiple jurisdictions Republicans have passed laws prohibiting counting mail in ballots until after election day.

This is barring them from being counted after election day.

So, really, they just don’t want mail in ballots counted, full stop.

Frankenstein (the book) is all over the place. Haven’t seen the new movie yet so I don’t know what settings they use there.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/setting/

A lot of it depends on context. You’re not really told where the city in the Matrix is located, but based on the skyscrapers and freeways in part 2 it feels really LA-ish. Filmed in Sydney. But of course “The Matrix” has no physical location so it doesn’t matter.

That’s true, but Pelosi aint THAT old. 😉

I’ve mentioned this before, if you declare them a terrorist org, then you can go after their imaginary funders. In this case, George Soros.

From the article:

“As noted above, the administration is looking for ways to pursue liberal groups that fund its opponents. A Sept. 22 memorandum to several U.S. attorney’s offices from a top Justice Department official reportedly instructed prosecutors to pursue investigations against George Soros’s Open Society Foundations—and mentioned, as a possible charge, material support for terrorism. To do so under 2339A, as discussed above, would require proof that, at a minimum, the defendant knew the support would be used for criminal acts. By contrast, to do so under 2339B would require no such proof: only that the defendant knew the aid was going to a foreign terrorist organization.”

Proof bots don’t actually watch videos.

Again, your headline stated that they banned prayer in “federal facilities”, implying all federal facilities, which was not true.

They banned it in this one, specific, facility as prayer was being used as a form of protest.

Oh yeah, that’s a fancy prep step, I’d need a better bread slicer too!