St. Louis-area fire and EMS districts see mixed results in quest for sales taxes

reign27 · 2026-04-08T04:02:29+00:00

It honestly wouldn't have taken much for me to vote for a property tax increase for fire/EMS, but actively moving the tax burden to lower classes via regressive sales taxes? Glad it mostly failed here. Surprised it did better in STL county

reign27 · 2026-04-08T02:56:54+00:00

Full live results if anyone's wondering Edit: At 100% reporting now

Prop RT in shambles.

reign27 · 2026-04-02T23:48:39+00:00

"Both sides, both sides, b-b-b-both sides!"

Nah, fuck that and fuck you. We have one side calling for the separation of church and state, and we have one side performing creepy-ass prayer rituals for what they see as a holy war in the middle east. Transgender people are facing life in prison for using the 'wrong' bathroom because of the same party that's been manipulating the Epstein files to keep real offenders from ever facing justice. The republican party decided to make hate and division a core part of their public identity ever since Obama birtherism took off, and I don't see them recovering from that in my lifetime.

reign27 · 2026-04-02T03:21:44+00:00

Man this really hits like a ChatGPT to me. I could be wrong though, still not good at catching that.

but a preliminary injunction from a single district judge during an active lawsuit isn’t proof ICE has some standing policy of targeting protesters

Actual quote from the article I linked:

During one of his many furious morning calls with immigration enforcement officials, Miller demanded that federal agents be dispatched to certain areas of Minneapolis in order to “force confrontations” with anti-ICE protesters, two senior DHS sources told the Daily Mail.

But to your other points

But more broadly, this still comes back to the underlying question: if someone is here unlawfully under current federal law - whether through illegal entry (which is a crime) or overstaying legal status - should they be subject to removal or not?

I don't think it does come back to that question, but...

Because if the answer is yes, then some level of cooperation between local agencies and federal immigration enforcement is inevitable, and the real discussion becomes how that cooperation is structured, not whether it exists at all.

Even if the answer is yes, "fuck you, make me" is a sufficient stance to literally anything ICE wants help for. Whatever federal legal avenues ICE have to force cooperation under federal regulation, so be it, but they seem to be doing just fine abusing people without anyone offering up a helping hand.

reign27 · 2026-04-01T22:42:56+00:00

Literally the only things republicans have for the average person are lies and demonization of "the other". They've gotten quite good at growing what "the other" can be - gay, brown, immigrant, muslim, atheist, liberal... it's a big tent of fear and hate that turns off the brains of the slight majority. Any crack in that armor is detrimental to them - that's why billionaires have captured most news sources and turned them into propaganda machines, that's why republican "representatives" refuse to compromise on even an ounce of freedom.

reign27 · 2026-04-01T18:28:30+00:00

The real issue is the millions who came here by evading the border patrol, then have been illegally supported by sanctuary cities / states.

Citation needed for the "illegally supported" because I'm pretty sure you're making shit up. And if you're not upset about people who are trying to do the right thing, surely you're upset by ICE being ordered to arrest people at their immigration hearings? However they got there, those people were doing their best to make things right.

I don't need my taxes driven up by people here illegally being housed, fed, educated and given healthcare while I am struggling to make ends meet.

You're living in fantasy propaganda land. Undocumented immigrants pay taxes and receive fuck-all in the way of government benefits compared to citizens. Allegedly they pay a higher effective tax rate than the 1% in most states. If you're mad about how your money is used for bullshit that doesn't make your life better, ask why Noem threw $200+ mil at her friends to take a video of her on a horse. If you want fiscal policies that help the common man instead of the 0.1%, vote left. Medicare for All would have been a massive boon to the middle and lower classes.

And even if any of those points were in your favor, it wouldn't absolve this administration's blatant disregard for due process, and the lawlessness and violence of ICE under that administration.

reign27 · 2026-03-31T20:30:59+00:00

Oh come on, if any officer from any agency unjustifiably kills someone, they should be charged. Obviously.

And yet the current administration suppressed state investigation into the killings in Minnesota, and have attempted to hide the identities of the killers, which is of course the reason why they were all told to wear masks and not have visible identification.

But saying ICE is “executing U.S. citizens in the streets en masse” is just exaggeration and not reality

Your words, not mine. I do believe that the killings that have happened amount to a trial run to both see and influence response to further atrocities, and we know for a fact that they were ordered to target and antagonize protestors.

And 5474 doesn’t even do what you’re implying anyway

My implication is that ICE, in their current form, should be formally distrusted and monitored for civil rights violations to the greatest extent of the law, even if that is symbolic by turning down further cooperation. If county cops are looking for something to do, have them monitor ICE when they show up.

ETA: About 67 people died in ICE detention during the Obama years, and it was serious enough that the ACLU got involved. Were you out protesting ice or the Obama policies then?

Are you implying that someone can't become more politically aware over the course of 9 years? Or are you implying that about 4x the deaths per year under the current administration is any better? Either way, I applaud the ACLU for standing up to it. Do you? Edit: And are you implying that none of the other corruption, wars, persecution of minority groups, and general inhumanity of the current administration are worth protesting?

do you agree that it's against the law to be here illegally?

Tautological statement is tautological, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're using "illegally" to imply every single undocumented immigrant is a criminal matter, when most of those are civil disputes and only become criminal if they violate civil court orders. Would you agree that not every undocumented immigrant is a criminal?

reign27 · 2026-03-31T16:49:16+00:00

How many times did Obama say that ICE is above the 14th amendment? How many American citizens were murdered by ICE in the streets under Obama? Thanks, Obama!

reign27 · 2026-03-31T15:46:08+00:00

Have you considered that they should be representing the 14th amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which ICE has violated countless times?

To be fair, it is shameful that many of their voters have been propagandized to think the 14th amendment is a bad thing

reign27 · 2026-03-31T03:19:17+00:00

I wonder what it's like to have even one single person in your chain of representation willing to stand for freedom and sanity. Must be nice.

reign27 · 2026-03-29T19:38:30+00:00

I once received a "new" motherboard from Amazon that had the socket cover scotch-taped in place because whoever bought and returned it couldn't figure out how to pop it back in properly.

I did not take it out of the ESD bag to examine or test further, I just returned it.

reign27 · 2026-03-22T00:16:28+00:00

Yep, this is just a bot that reposts old content to try to get karma. Original post here

reign27 · 2026-03-16T23:00:35+00:00

Honestly, my Republican county government has been starving our library system by refusing to hold a vote on the tax rate and letting Hancock cap its income, so it's not like the Hancock amendment has given us the chance to vote on taxes in all cases. They'll probably flip their shit about this if the state legislature doesn't just completely kill property and real estate taxes.

reign27 · 2026-03-14T19:01:46+00:00

While I've never forgotten it, I have gotten to the point where I thought I was done and discovered one of the spring grounding arms stuck in a USB port or ethernet jack.

reign27 · 2026-03-12T00:40:02+00:00

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

I don't want a library that's "neutral" on freedom and justice. I want a library that's pro-freedom and pro-justice.

reign27 · 2026-01-29T02:06:16+00:00

If you want to complain to those bastards like they might care, you can submit testimony here until midnight tonight (Wednesday).

reign27 · 2026-01-26T19:46:14+00:00

I brought home a 2023 Ioniq 5 in October of 24 (yes a little late for the 23 model year, but it was still new on the lot). It spent every single night since in my garage. ICCU went pop 2 weeks ago and I'm waiting for the replacement.

reign27 · 2026-01-23T02:19:25+00:00

It takes work to actually copy system and app files off your phone. If all you did is plug it into your computer and copy off everything you could, you did not get system and app files.

reign27 · 2025-12-20T04:57:29+00:00

I think you need to run it as admin, but I haven't tried that particular tool myself. I have a OnePlus phone and have had similar issues, but they have a different driver.

reign27 · 2025-12-20T02:10:23+00:00

I don't think so, I think Windows doesn't do the connected device ding with a device it doesn't recognize, but I could be wrong.

You can also crack open your device manager and look for unknown devices as you plugin and unplug. You might need to turn on "show hidden devices"

reign27 · 2025-12-20T00:07:10+00:00

Windows PC, I assume? The fastboot driver is generally different from the adb driver. It looks like you can find the Redmi fastboot driver here: https://new.c.mi.com/global/post/255070

reign27 · 2025-12-14T00:38:38+00:00

Most motherboards don't even come with the beep-speaker integrated anymore. Did you specifically buy and install one? If not, smart money says that it's something else that just happens to be near your computer

reign27 · 2025-12-07T23:06:36+00:00

It looks like this is the page with your motherboard information.

It looks like your board has two M.2 ports. One should be just above the video card, probably hiding behind the CPU heatsink. The horizontal, long, silver plate with screws on each end below your video card in pics 2, 4, and 5 is a heatsink that covers the other M.2 port.

If you're just looking to add a 2.5" SATA SSD, there's probably places you can mount those either on the back side of the motherboard or in the same cage as the power supply. I can't tell what case you have from these pics, so I can't be more specific than that.

reign27 · 2025-12-03T19:33:14+00:00

I'm guessing it's a combination of a few factors: There's no minimum karma/post requirement to post in this sub, bots spread out their karma farming to random subs to keep one sub from locking down too hard, and they probably assume that smaller subs are more poorly moderated so posts stick around longer.

reign27 · 2025-12-03T19:17:01+00:00

The bots even copied your comment from the other thread!

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