So, I looked up Geary’s last published budget (2024-2025 projected), which happens to include the last couple budgets for comparison (you can read it here).

For the police department, they’ve gone from a “capital outlay” budget of 47k in 2022-2023 to a proposed budget of 18k in 2024-2025 - I guess the town is sick of paying for new toys? More notably, “personal services” (which I take to be payroll for the police department) was 662k in 2022-2023, and was proposed to be 399k in 2024-2025. If the department remained the same size throughout, the average police officer went from about $165k each to about $100k each. Which may be a steep drop in money, but still gets you pretty fucking far in a place where the median home value is 64k, the median wage is 46k, and almost a quarter of the people live in official poverty.

One nice thing I’ll note is that the 2023-2024 budget had a decrease of 85k in ‘fines and forfeitures’, saving an average of $100 in penalties for the 853 residents.

Not being very immersed in pop culture, I just assume they’re dressed as someone from a show I don’t watch.

Savage faces charges of destroying or misplacing a ballot, and theft, according to online records. […] Before turning himself in on Tuesday morning, Savage said he was innocent and described the charges as “bumped up.”

Did you take it without authorization? That’s theft. Did you put it someplace it shouldn’t be? That’s misplacement.

We have you on video folding them and putting them in your pocket, and cops found them in your car; I don’t see how you expect to argue that you’re “Innocent”.

It’s funny how all these “errors” seem to occur in blue areas, isn’t it?

Good. Put all of them in prison.

Good, throw them all in jail.

I try to figure out what’s causing it, then treat. I get headaches from eyestrain (so I take addition and focus on something else), allergies (antihistamine/decongestant), sunglare (eyerest), overexertion/dehydration (drink water and take it easy), caffeine withdrawal (drink cola), etc.

The thing is, there’s no downside to it for Bezos. If Harris wins, she’ll operate as normal. If tfg wins and Bezos was against him, he knows he’ll get screwed over by the government somehow - an antitrust or monopoly investigation, something.

But he’s telling fascists ahead of time that he’s okay with whatever tfg wants to do, just don’t hurt him. And that’s how fascists win.

Good for you, Australia!

Depending on what I want to do, I used a combination of Unified Remote and LocalSend, both of which are available for Linux. With Unified Remote, I can control my PC on my home network. So if I want to copy over a URL, for example, I could open notepad and paste it remotely from my phone’s clipboard (or type it manually), or I could open a new tab on my PC’s browser and paste the URL so it’s open and ready for me the next time I’m at my PC. I can sit downstairs on the couch and check the status of a project upstairs, open and run new programs upstairs, etc.

My only two complaints are that I need to be at the PC to handle admin messages like “Are you sure you want to install this program?”, which I guess is a safety feature but it’s still annoying. And secondly, I really wish they had an easier way to toggle between left- and right-mouse-click, it gets annoying.

To send images, actual files or even folders, I use LocalSend. It does require that you click Accept on the device you’re sending to, but I can use Unified Remote to do that, and then save the files to wherever I want to (or accept the default).

This may be less streamlined than other options, but what I really like about it is that I can complete a task and then not have to think about it again. I don’t have to go back to my desktop and download or save anything, I’ve already done it, the job’s complete. The only exception is when I’ve put a new URL into my browser, but that’s generally because I wanted to look at it on my (much larger than my phone’s) desktop screen.

Anyway, it works nicely for me; I hope you find a solution that works for you!

Well, there’s no downside to it for him, is there? If trump wins, he gets all sorts of goodies; and he knows that Harris will continue to try to be fair, so he won’t suffer if she wins.

Charles Pierce is a 70-year-old former landlord of the Manzanita Manor Apartments in Redding. Pierce says he was fired from his role after his reddit posts came to light.

I’m assuming he’s the property manager (you can’t fire a landlord). Some places give the property manager an apartment to live in, so he may have also lost his place to live. And at 70 years old, he’s not going to have an easy time finding another job.

She actually does her best to make sure the folks who work for her are taken care of.

Back when the directors and actors and everyone else in Hollywood was on strike, she got her movie made. She did it by the simple expedient of getting everyone together in one roomn and asking “What do you want?” They gave her their lists, she looked the lists over and said, “Great, you got it! Let’s sign this thing and get to work!”, and they did.

When that happens, it’s usually because the sound being broadcast doesn’t match your tv’s sound setup. The easiest thing to do is to switch it to mono. You don’t get the nice stereo effects, but at least you can hear everything without being blasted out of your seat.

Bet he’s releasing this to divert attention from the fact that he’s been talking to Putin for the past couple years - you know, that time period when Putin invaded Ukraine and Musk was desperately trying to raise the money he needed for Twitter …

… I wonder how many of these people are actual sovereign citizens, and how many are hacks/bots shilling for companies preying on sovereign citizens?

Two years … so, around the time Russia invaded Ukraine, and Musk was having problems funding his Twitter purchase around the same time? Any takers on Musk laundering Russian money?

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And trump wants him to be in charge of dismantling the federal government…

Funny how none of them have spoken up until now. It’s all well and good until they get what they want, and good for a bit after, but then suddenly things are going a bit too far? This is how all extremism works, by the little helping pushes of someone who wants just a little bit more - and then expects things to stop there, not realizing there’s always someone else why wants something just a little bit beyond them - and someone else a little behind them.