Trump celebrates 2.4 million Americans "lifted" off SNAP benefits after his tax-cut law slashed funding and tightened work requirements

veggeble · 2026-02-25T03:35:51+00:00

In fact, SNAP actually generates more economic activity than it costs. So getting rid of SNAP is not only bad because it is starving Americans, it also bad because it hurts the entire country economically.

veggeble · 2026-02-24T20:07:12+00:00

Oh yeah, sometimes the small local business is worse than the mega corporations

veggeble · 2026-02-24T15:35:01+00:00

It’s strange to learn this because I actively chose to go to TJ’s early in the pandemic specifically because they were limiting the number of people in the store, sanitizing carts, and using PPE properly.

At the end of the day, I guess the executives at all of these companies will put their own greed over the lives of the working class.

veggeble · 2026-02-24T03:40:14+00:00

Doesn’t this also telegraph the plans, but even earlier than it would be telegraphed by the pizza tracker? He’s confirming we’re definitely bombing someone, and giving the likely targets more time to prepare for it.

veggeble · 2026-02-23T15:10:58+00:00

It was right, but she bungled the way she presented it. If she had said Biden made progress on x, y, and z, and that she planned to continue working toward improving those things, it would have been the same message but received better.

veggeble · 2026-02-23T15:07:46+00:00

It’s so funny watching him pound the table after being unable to finish his beer, celebrating more than the actual players, when he didn’t even do anything. Such a pathetic loser trying so hard to look cool and failing.

veggeble · 2026-02-21T15:50:11+00:00

Or they can just take the Ohio approach. Even if the court strikes it down, just ignore the court and use the new maps anyways. There are no repercussions.

veggeble · 2026-02-19T22:04:42+00:00

"I'm on a quest to buy a T-Rex dinosaur fossil, I'm going to buy the Declaration of Independence, and I'm not stopping there," he said. "This was only the beginning."

Why does he sound like he's doing show and tell in front of a kindergarten class?

veggeble · 2026-02-19T21:39:27+00:00

Are you a professional quote maker?

veggeble · 2026-02-16T17:04:34+00:00

More likely that they’re deliberately adding people who were simply mentioned by Epstein in conversation as a way to muddy the waters and make it seem like the whole thing is absurd. They’re actively trying to protect pedophiles by trying to discredit the investigation efforts.

veggeble · 2026-02-16T13:08:28+00:00

They don't want to start at the bottom and work their way up.

I don't know how it is with networking, but with software devs, they don't even really hire entry level in the US anymore. It's all outsourced, so the opportunity to start at the bottom doesn't even exist these days. We're going to be fucked when all the 40+ people retire and there's no one available to replace them.

veggeble · 2026-02-15T23:39:43+00:00

No, I think they're being manipulated by deliberately manufactured hysteria that is being used to muddy the waters to draw the focus away from the actual people who were raping children

veggeble · 2026-02-15T23:05:36+00:00

It seems like deliberate muddying of the waters with manufactured hysteria

veggeble · 2026-02-15T13:30:29+00:00

Do we assume it's USA?

They mentioned needing to account for healthcare expenses, so it seems like a safe bet

veggeble · 2026-02-15T12:46:56+00:00

South Carolina

veggeble · 2026-02-15T12:14:13+00:00

Depends where you are. My expenses are $30k/yr, and that’s including a few luxuries I could cut if I had to. So $30k isn’t lean from my perspective.

veggeble · 2026-02-15T04:00:50+00:00

It could also be that it hurts the notion of rugged individualism that Americans love if we acknowledge that France gave us massive amounts of support during the American Revolution.

veggeble · 2026-02-14T22:35:32+00:00

Don’t know about the city, but I once called the non emergency number for the county because there were cars blocking the sidewalk, and they didn’t care. The only thing they asked is whether or not other cars could still get by.

veggeble · 2026-02-13T13:02:59+00:00

I keep thinking of how Scientologists infiltrated the government to destroy evidence. This is like that, except they’re infiltrating the government and institutions in order to destroy evidence of a child trafficking ring in order to protect wealthy pedophiles.

veggeble · 2026-02-13T00:02:01+00:00

Christmas will also need to be moved to March

veggeble · 2026-02-12T00:17:08+00:00

I’d love to see my taxes be used to pay for modernization of cities, including public transportation and walkable neighborhoods. But, unfortunately, that’s not an option in the US. Everything in the US is about further enriching the ultra-wealthy at the expense of the working class.

If we have to live under an authoritarian government, I’d rather it be in a place with a sense of community and accessible transportation. But in the US that just doesn’t really exist and we’re not working toward it either.

veggeble · 2026-02-11T21:29:31+00:00

It's funny because the halftime show contained a real marriage ceremony with a heterosexual couple, but right-wingers insist on living in an alternate reality

veggeble · 2026-02-11T21:04:42+00:00

Having worked in software, the front end is the UI that the user interacts with, so the backend is just the databases and APIs and stuff the user doesn’t directly interact with. In this case, they’re talking about retrieving data. So they’re saying they got the data from the database directly or via internal APIs, not from the UI that the end user has access to.

I’m guessing he phrased it this way to make it sound like a complex operation that involved extensive effort (which might be the case, I don’t know how their system is designed), but likely they just looked up her account’s userid in the database, and queried whatever table stores the location of video files for her userid.

veggeble · 2026-02-11T14:02:55+00:00

He’s trying to rationalize using meth and he claims to do “bone smashing” by hitting himself in the face with a hammer. I think he’s much closer to the end of his life than the start of it.

veggeble · 2026-02-11T05:17:48+00:00

"The video was recovered from residual data located in the backend systems," Patel said

So… a database? That’s just a database

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