Rule 1 part b.

They had a failed attempt to pressure congress which generates 600 dollar checks. Then 1400 was later added to that to “complete” the promise, so while 2600 is better than 2000, it wasn’t scummy except to the extent that the Republicans in congress immediately turned on the American people once it was politically advantageous not to deliver.

100% isn’t my standard, but I think saying “elect my guys and get money” when the intention is to actually do it when he has power to (and he did) rather than Trump saying it when he absolutely can do it right now with full control of all branches of government. In other words, “do this so we want to help you.” Vs “do this so we can help you” very different.

The source for the claim of booksales in the original article are the same sources who can’t be trusted in mine, so it’s a fair bet that influence peddling at the very least played a part. NYT wheels and deals off popular people who are authors, always has.

I’ve told users to junk everything to our proofpoint vendor, it’s not worth getting struck with a clever unsubscribe link. I think it would be a good cybersecurity test email to see how many people click it, I’d wager it’s more effective than some of the piss poor phishing attempts we get, and we’re pretty heavily targeted.

Gmail has an auto unsub feature, as do a lot of providers now. It effectively does the unsub for you if it complies to standards and then blocks the email and reports it to can-spam if it continues.

It’s a pretty commonly utilized tactic that’s especially employed by grifters who want to lend credence to the grift and political operatives who want to… lend credence to their grift. Occasionally though by people who want to gain notoriety in a field they’re new in, keep up a streak of success if they’re not sure about the book’s quality, or do a book tour and have something to sell the talkshows. In all cases it’s employed by people with more money than talent.

A source among many about NYT influence peddling: https://londondaily.com/evtepe-new-york-times-bestseller-list-exposed-fake-editorial-manipulation-not-sales-based-rankings

This other source is more specific to what the other commenter was referring to though: https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/politicians-political-groups-buying-bulk-books-reports-2f81ef

I don’t think you read your own article. Joe was already picked and he was referring to the runoffs. The actual situation was that Trump was promising the checks and then when he lost the Republicans blocked the funds for it as punishment for not electing him again. Biden supporting them and needed a majority to overcome the block. The first part of the checks was released under Trump still in December, but no more disbursement was being allowed by congress.

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Your suposition is that the power of the purse still applies here. Trump has operated the executive as a collective slush fund, many times using horrible arguments that fail in court and then proceeding anyways. Also he’s allocated money from military coup projects like Venezuala to funds not under congressional control illegally.

Bernies plan is to first expand Medicare to all ages. Going off Trump’s logic this would be done by directing CMS by executive order to adjust the rates, the treasury department to allocate the necessary trust fund expenditures, the IRS to apply the necessary taxes, and the justice department to aggressively target every single possible violation in the private health insurance industry. Bernie’s actual plan is to use the bully pulpit as intended to pressure congress to act in accordance with those changes ahead of time, completely different. That’s because Trump moves to erode government into the pockets of the rich and Bernie seeks to build it stronger to benefit everyone. Executive overreach expansion has only been applied to benefit the rich effectively where everywhere else it had failed.

Paying money doesn’t mean you get to harass other students who also paid money… Maybe that’s your first lesson.

Usually typos are the result of multiple people having their own template form that only gets sent to their initializing accounts. It’s not an unforgivable one though if it gets the point across (it does). They probably don’t get many replies on that one since not agreeing to T9 is reason for removal from most roles including publicly funded college students.

This is the nature of a defederated website. There are multiple hosts who all act independently, but have decided to source from each other. Upvotes come in from instances you aren’t on who refuse deletions or process them on a delay.

This means that Lemmy is very difficult to pull information back from, if it’s even possible at all. There are no doubt instances that are almost solely functioning as archives as well that may not even make themselves known except through requests to maybe only one ither instance. It’s great for anticensorship, but not great if you say something goofy you didn’t mean and are now getting downvotes from the instances that don’t believe in edits or whatever it may be.

Deletions not be honored is also pretty common generally, because there are accounts who create posts and then delete their accounts. On reddit it’s throwaway accounts, but on lemmy.world at least it destroys the posts permanently and then all of the engagement is locked under the nonexistent post which will be purged.

I think the best balance is instances allow deletions by admins/mods/the user, but do not allow deletions for account purging by the user. I don’t know how many flags there are in the data transmissions between instances to know the origin of the action or what button the user clicked.

They’re pretty clean so long as it’s indoors and ideally not in a bathroom. There’s a massive difference of a new paper towel and a reused towel. I wear contacts and it doesn’t take much to notice residue on my hands/eyelid area.

Many churches and especially political action committees based on Christianity function as death cults. I’d say they definitionally don’t care at all about earth or the people on it. Not wanting people to go to hell stands in juxtaposition to their desire to themselves be raptured.

It also begs the question of why we allow people who yearn for the end times to be the preferred leaders of what used to be the most powerful nation, but a little out of scope for a dumb church sign.

They’re mostly German. Not sure whether to interpret that as zionist = nazis and we’ve got a nazism problem, zionist =/= nazi and we’ve got a liberalism problem, both, or the scratch a liberal and a nazi bleeds thing is real in more cases than I thought.

Schools < city < state < nation < a foreign nation.

Just as our forefathers intended. /s

This nation needs re-education camps.

Uh, no. Generics are fine though. It’s no longer difficult to make these for cheap

“Hitler condemns pograms.”

I’d highly recommend channel 5 news on YouTube’s series on Palestine for an actual look at whether it’s a “handful” of people causing issues.

You’re obviously going to have doubts about the validity of your feelings under a roof with that much ignorance. People can be dismissive for many reasons, but I think language can sometimes be important. If you don’t exude confidence it tends to be treated as affirmation of your views not mattering.

If you state plainly that you’re upset, you’d like some of their time, advice, and attention, and you still receive this type of response, it’s reasonable to write them off and lean on friends instead. Highly recommend therapy.

Yes. VPN still uses your data, more of it in fact because encrypted secure tunnel files are generally larger than the original data and also cached data on the ISP network are no longer called, so more goes to the greater internet.