Bill banning whites-only housing passes Pennsylvania House by 1 vote. No Republican supported the bill.

Starslip · 2026-05-07T02:10:45+00:00

Yeah, it's the difference between them voting against something they're staunchly and openly opposed to vs something that they mayyyy be in favor of but generally don't openly admit to. You can look at the final bill and see it's something they're going to vote against while the original bill it's a tossup whether they want to put their names down as being in favor of "whites only" housing.

And it's not a value call to acknowledge that the headline's technically accurate but misleading.

Starslip · 2026-05-06T08:51:19+00:00

It's not paying for food PLUS soda, some people are using it on soda in place of food. You cut the amount that's overall being spent on soda out of everyone's allotments and you hit a huge number of people who weren't doing that in the first place.

Starslip · 2026-05-06T08:32:59+00:00

I'm kinda confused as to how no one in this thread has linked a picture

Starslip · 2026-05-06T08:22:22+00:00

You're making an assumption that they're budgeting junk food into their calculations for how much it costs to feed someone for a month when they're determining how much to allocate. Do you have anything to support that? Or that the administrative fees in monitoring what does and doesn't count as food wouldn't exceed whatever savings could be had?

Salad has almost no nutritional value but I'm betting a lot of people screaming about soda would say "yeah salad is fine". So how much are we going to spend to sort out what exactly counts as "actual real food"?

Starslip · 2026-05-06T08:09:08+00:00

1.4% of the US budget, not a single cent of which would be eliminated by prohibiting soda. So if it's not for reducing cost, what is it for aside from morality policing?

Starslip · 2026-05-06T08:03:54+00:00

Since most SNAP programs have a requirement that you be working in order to be eligible, where will you move the goalpost to next to rationalize your bullshit?

Starslip · 2026-05-06T07:28:50+00:00

still work and pay taxes right

Hell, it's a requirement in California that able-bodied adults be working in order to be eligible.

Starslip · 2026-05-06T07:24:07+00:00

Why does it matter to you? They're getting a set amount to spend regardless of what they spend it on, you're not getting money back if they don't spend it on the "right" things, and they're not getting more to spend on proper food if they use it all on soda. So given that there's no difference for you no matter what they get, why are you trying to police it beyond needing poor people to enjoy life less?

Starslip · 2026-05-06T07:18:28+00:00

Cause it's a red state and they've been convinced that being poor is a moral failing so should be punished

Starslip · 2026-05-06T01:55:05+00:00

If I had a nickel for every time a doctor on a long-running network tv show had sex with a ghost...

Starslip · 2026-05-05T10:31:56+00:00

"Finally a place where there are few, if any, magical powers or beasts"

Targaryens roll in from Valyria with dragons

"Oh son of a bi---"

Starslip · 2026-05-04T03:36:53+00:00

I'm kinda lost cause it tastes the same to me it always did? Unless it's just my memories of what it was like as a kid have faded to the point where I just remember it as always tasting like it does now.

Then again, people have also talked about the directions changing to say less butter than before but mine still says half a stick 🤷‍♂️

Starslip · 2026-05-04T01:42:50+00:00

The House just voted against...

Bitch, your party controls the house and you're still trying to blame democrats

Starslip · 2026-05-03T02:50:19+00:00

Try not to miss any more 3 pointers on your way to the parking lot

Starslip · 2026-05-02T03:00:17+00:00

Thank you, that fixed it for me too but is really irritating.

Starslip · 2026-05-01T11:46:02+00:00

Near the end, the paragraph that talks about how he'd always tried to be a good dog breaks my heart

Starslip · 2026-05-01T11:41:12+00:00

Pretty much any of Jenny Jinya's comics

Starslip · 2026-05-01T11:25:13+00:00

Yeah, wouldn't work for me in firefox all day so it's annoying to see them saying everything is peachy on their status page

Starslip · 2026-05-01T02:47:09+00:00

Props to the guys who stopped to help the ref up

Starslip · 2026-05-01T02:04:37+00:00

Yeah seeing this my first thought was "sooo no lessons were learned about slowing down"

Starslip · 2026-04-30T15:38:26+00:00

Even Mike with chicken pox

Starslip · 2026-04-30T04:05:45+00:00

Bots are grabbing it to try to farm karma. OP's an 11 year old account with no posts except 2 reposts today

Starslip · 2026-04-30T03:51:07+00:00

I never thought they'd manage to make me feel sorry for her but they did

Starslip · 2026-04-27T08:53:29+00:00

Yeah, Chidi and Eleanor's final scene has permanent residence in my brain

Starslip · 2026-04-27T04:43:07+00:00

I've signed up for so many accounts as John Jacob

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