That movie had some surprisingly funny scenes. I didn’t expect a whole lot going in, but it did exceed those expectations.

First lady not named in suit in which investors allege Meteora executives created coin they knew would plummet

Everyone knew it would plummet, except apparently the few suckers who bought into it. This is like going to a water park and suing because you got wet.

The article wasn’t specific about how the settlement amount was decided upon, but it’s a class action lawsuit, so the more class members there are, the less each one receives. The people who were actually doing these bogus interviews are, therefore, getting less than they would have as a result of the shareholders getting ‘bailed out’.

Maybe that was factored into the amount and they’re getting the same amount they would have, but if not, it’s bullshit and IMO should all be going to the people who went to the interviews.

Qualified individuals in the class-action lawsuit will be eligible for the settlement fund once fees, expenses, and taxes are considered. Shareholders who held stock between Feb. 24, 2021, and June 9, 2022 will also be eligible.

Fuck off. Shareholders should not be benefiting from this settlement, what the hell.

Alternately, he’s now mysteriously a Crypto 800 Millionaire, and Trump’s ballroom is now estimated to cost 500 million instead of 300 million…

The government has basically been held together by a system of social norms and gentleman’s agreements which Trump doesn’t give two shits about. The one, singular potential good thing that might come out of this presidency is if all of these loopholes get closed as a result.

I can’t verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.

Are we looking at the same image? DO I NEED TO GET A RULER?

However, the comment was talking about arrows…

Then the distance must be almost zero, as it exhibits no drop over that range.

Yep, meanwhile on Lemmy we have people who don’t seem to understand what’s going on posting shit like “You all need to fight back! I thought you had guns to protect against situations like this!” The restraint people are showing by not doing that is frankly unbelievable.

This shit is just a powder keg waiting to go off. All it’s going to take is one person to decide they’ve had enough of this in a situation like this and just floor it and run those assholes over and the whole country is going to explode. It’s just a matter of time.

Seems like the sort of loophole that, once identified, would be pretty easy to close if the legislators actually desired to do so.

What’s your solution for folks who need short-term housing (for example someone relocating for work for a year, or someone going to college who doesn’t want to stay in dorms)?

In my magical Christmasland hypothetical scenario, it would be something like $10 ^ [number of qualifying properties] per year, for each property.

Mom and pop have a vacation home, or a property on the market? $10 / year. No problem. Got 5 vacant homes? That’ll be an extra $500,000 per year. Get a tenant or sell.

Would need some sort of limit such that the tax ceased when homelessness reached, say, 0.01% of the population or less, because right now there’s about 26 vacant homes in the US per homeless person; the point is to reduce homelessness, not to bankrupt everyone, of course.

Solution: A tax on residential property that isn’t someone’s primary residence for more than half of the year, that scales up exponentially with the number of such properties the owner owns, regardless of whether the owner is an individual or a corporation.

Take the money this generates and put it towards helping the homeless and low-income families.

Make it cheaper to put someone - anyone - in a home (even for free) than to keep it unoccupied.

Spyware cum!

Taken completely at face value, this actually sounds great. However, the tariffs will ensure that the price of drugs not manufactured in the US skyrocket, so whatever benefit might have been gained is probably gone as a result.

Also, Trump is involved, so I’m inherently distrusting of it. I’m sure someone is making a lot of money off of this, it’s just a question of who. It’s certainly not being done purely to benefit families who need medication.

I was legitimately expecting a followup with Cartman doing his Kirk act getting shot in the neck, but alas.

I understand the need to use the ‘alleged’ language, but serious question: Why is it necessary to say ‘alleged attack’? The fact that there was an attack isn’t in question, only who committed it.