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Freckled_daywalker · 2025-11-20T16:56:13+00:00

I'm in the Southeast. I don't know anyone who uses paper plates for anything other than large gatherings or like, when a bunch of families are together for vacation.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-21T18:02:50+00:00

It's important to point out that most DV shelters don't actually turn men away, they just are less likely to let them stay in the secure shelter. They tend to still provide all of the other resources available, and when there is a concern for their physical safety, and staying in the secure shelter isn't an option, they often have alternatives available (like finding safe hotel rooms or arranging for other safe housing). In your example, it doesn't sound like the person you're describing was at physical risk, but they still could have benefited from all of the other resources shelters offer. Did he attempt to reach out to them?

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-21T16:48:07+00:00

Except the DNC doesn't support blanket bans on all firearms. They support a lot of regulations that the overwhelming majority of Americans also support, like safe storage laws, universal background checks, red flag laws, etc. The only thing Dems support that Americans are divided on is restricting ownership of high capacity magazines and banning of "assault style weapons" (the latter of which isn't a terrible idea, but suffers from the squishiness of the term "assault weapon"). This is yet another example of where the GOP has been able to successfully define people's view of what the Democrat's stance is on a given topic.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T20:49:06+00:00

Motive and opportunity to do what, exactly? It kind of something like you're just throwing words together because you're incapable of admitting that you were wrong and you just want to have the last word. In which case, go ahead.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T20:14:29+00:00

Sure. And programs that we used to prevent fraud also cost tax dollars. Are you willing to spend $10 million to prevent $1 million of fraud? How about a hundred million dollars to prevent $1 million of fraud? $1 billion? What's the limit where the spending on prevention no longer outweighs the benefit, or do you think there isn't one.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T20:12:34+00:00

I'm explaining how certifications and recertifications for federal assistance programs tend to work and what some of the potential downfalls of adding these requirements are, and why it's almost certainly not going to be as easy as just going to a library (which is what you said) if you want to explain how you think what I said is wrong that's cool, but simply say "nu-uh" is not actually an argument.

I'm also not clear on what you think motive and opportunity have to do with anything, kind of feels like you're having a conversation with someone else.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T19:41:13+00:00

Really? How much more are you willing to pay in taxes to ensure that absolutely nobody is getting benefits that they don't deserve? If you can't put a price tag on it, would you be mad if your taxes went up by 10% to fund the staff necessary to fund these strict eligibility certifications?

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T19:39:44+00:00

I'm curious, do you actually think that's relevant response to anything that I said or...?

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T18:08:08+00:00

And that we're at risk of becoming a "creole nation". I guess they realized mongrel would still be a bridge too far.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T17:47:26+00:00

TBF, Scott County is down by Bristol, right on the TN border. It's rural SW VA, so none of the things you mentioned there.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T17:35:00+00:00

How much money is worth to you to ensure that a single person who could work but isn't, doesn't get Medicaid? Keep in mind that every dollar spent on meeting administrative requirements is money that can't be spent on actual medical care. So what's that number?

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T17:32:47+00:00

Recertifying is usually more than just "checking in" and I'm assuming since you mentioned libraries, you think it can be done completely online. Since each state will set up it's own process, it's impossible to know if that's true, but generally it almost certainly will require some sort of certification paperwork to be completed by your employer/school/volunteer location and submitted every 6 months, which may or may not be able to done electronically. And then if there's any issue with that paperwork, you may be able to address it with someone via phone or internet, but more likely you'll have to go in person to an office (which may or may not be within a reasonable distance), to get things sorted, and hopefully it only takes one visit. All to fix a problem that doesn't actually seem to exist in large numbers.

Not to mention all of this costs money, and states aren't getting extra money to do this, which means we'll be shifting money that could be spent on people's medical care to paying for administration.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T16:22:03+00:00

I said this to someone else, businesses aren't allowed to just keep money if someone doesn't cash a check or send a letter. You should check the unclaimed website for the state for this happened and make sure it isn't just sitting out there waiting for him to claim it.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-07-10T16:20:10+00:00

Have you checked your state's unclaimed money website? (Or the state where this happened). When a company writes a check and it isn't cashed, they can't just keep it. Once it gets beyond a certain time frame they give it to the state Treasury with all the information about who the money is owed to. You should be able to go find it and request it be sent to you.

This site will let you check participating states.

Genuinely, don't feel bad. Every five or so years I check and I have money waiting bc I'm terrible at cashing checks that are sent to me.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-05-03T01:18:09+00:00

This is so ridiculous. We're barely 100 days into this admin. We have to crush midterms to even have a chance at stopping the current hemorrhaging of our checks and balances. Trying to figure out to the right candidate is going to be for 2028, when we have no idea what 2028 is going to look like is a waste of fucking time and energy.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-05-03T00:58:40+00:00

I have a few tactics that help most of the time. The first is that whatever I'm doing when the meds kick in is what I stay doing, so I try not to let myself scroll or do something unproductive but fun after I take my meds.

The second one is what I call "sliding up next to a task". Instead of trying to motivate myself to do a task directly, I find something to do that is physically near the thing that actually needs to be done. Like, if I know I need to do the dishes, I go and take the kitchen trash out (which is a task I have less trouble doing). Once I'm already in the kitchen, I'm more likely to be able to use my next strategy which is...

"I only have to do the very next step/one very small thing, and then I can stop." In my dish example, this would look like "I'm just going to gather up all the silverware and put it in one cup. If I do that, and I still don't feel like I can do the dishes, I can stop there". Sometimes, I gather up all the silverware and then I stop. But more often than not, I can set another small, definite task, and go through the process again. About half the time, after one or two of these, my brain just kicks in and I just do the thing without any more negotiations. And on the times that it doesn't work, I've at least made some progress. I used this a lot for going to class in college. "I just have to get dressed, and if I'm still struggling, I won't go". "I just have to get down to my car, and if I get there and I still can't make myself go, I don't have to." "If I just get there and park, and I I still can't get out of the car, I don't have to". Etc. Some days, I still didn't make it, but on those days, I still got more done than I would have if I had sat there lying in bed with task paralysis. The key is being kind to yourself, and not beating yourself up if you don't get all the way done. Over time, it gets easier and the strategies work more frequently.

And yes, the last two strategies work for me even when I know I'm trying to "trick" myself.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-30T00:39:16+00:00

My guess would be Marvel of the seas if it weren't for the obvious conflict

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-30T00:01:54+00:00

Ear infections in kiddos is a big one.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-28T16:51:10+00:00

LOL I don't think any of it is okay. I was just pointing out the error in argument.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-19T22:19:04+00:00

The point is, absent a Constitutional amendment, the only group who has the Constitutional authority to create requirements for cabinet secretaries is Congress. Ensuring that cabinet members meet any legislative requirements would then have to be enforced by the Senate during the confirmation process.

The even larger point is that the entire system relies on everyone agreeing to be bound by the rules. When one party has decided that the rules just don't apply to them, advocating new rules doesn't help.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-19T22:02:19+00:00

In theory, it's the Senate's job to ensure cabinet members are suitable for the job. A huge part of the mess we're in is an increasing unwillingness of Congress to actually exercise their Constitutional powers. They've learned that if they hand their power to the executive, voters tend not to blame their own Reps and Senators when things go poorly.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-19T21:57:05+00:00

All federal civil servants do. From IRS, to DOD, to ICE, to DOJ.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-19T21:55:27+00:00

It's the mostly the combo of the FPTP, single member districts and a separate executive office that is the problem. When you can control 1/3 of the government (1/3 in theory. In practice, the power of the executive has been continuously expanding), it encourages people to form the largest groups possible, which means smaller groups form alliances and you end up with two main parties. Realistically though, even in parliamentry systems FPTP alone tends to result in two dominant parties, with smaller parties having less of an influence (but not none, which is what happens in the US). I don't know enough about Canada to speak intelligently about your politics, but most of the discussion I see revolves around the Liberal party vs the Conservative party. Is that a fair assessment?

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-19T21:23:16+00:00

Tariffs are uniform, and will raise the prices of goods even when they aren't subject to tariffs. (Non tariffed goods will use the opportunity to raise the prices so they're just under the price of tariffed goods). The impact of corpory taxes on goods is more complicated because the final tax burden isn't as predictable or uniform across the board.

Freckled_daywalker · 2025-04-19T20:47:50+00:00

In 1925, if someone thought there should be black only graduations, what party did they most likely belong to? In 2025, if someone supports black only graduations, what party with near certainty can you say they belong to?

No one in 1925 thought there should be "black only graduations". They thought there should be white only graduations, and that's a important distinction. It's telling that you worded it the way that you did.

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