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Nimrod
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Must-read post. California is a hell for functional, productive, pro-social people where every arm of the state is allied to prop up losers and parasites.
The fastest way to cut rents for everybody, including the poor, is to make it so that people who don’t pay rent are evicted. The fastest way to send costs through to roof is to protect people determined to leech off of everyone else.
Real Estate Lawyer@SinaiLawFirm
Do you want to know why rent is so expensive in LA? Why the application process takes so long? Why landlords want so much info from you? Here is a recent story: A family was referred to me for their eviction case. They were heading to a jury trial in one month and didn't have a lawyer, yet. They did all the paperwork and filing themselves, in-house to save on legal fees. And surprisingly, they did a great job. They filed the paperwork with LAHD. Gave proper notice to the tenants. I reviewed their paperwork and it was better quality than 90% of other eviction lawyers. I didn't see any viable way to dismiss the case on a technicality. As long as they were properly represented in trial, the family was going to win the eviction. They did everything by the book. Followed all the local rules. Gave all the necessary notices. The family told me the judge ordered the parties to mediate at the first court appearance. The family attended the mediation in court without a lawyer. The tenant was provided a lawyer by the city, for free. At the mediation the lawyer for the tenants offered this settlement: 1. 4 months to vacate the property 2. Cash to leave, paid upfront 3. Waiver of all owed rent 4. Sealed record They rejected the offer, of course. Why would they accept this? The family then asked me a great question. "What is our best case scenario with you in trial?" Based on my review, I gave them my most realistic estimate of the best case scenario in trial: 1. Both parties announce ready at the next trial date (1 month away) and trial takes 3 days. We win the trial. 2. Sheriff locks out the tenant 75 days after the trial. 3. about 110 days to possession. 4. Gave them an estimate cost for fees/prep time. 5. No viable collection of back rent, tenants had no assets. Obviously, this was the best case scenario. It could be worse. Trial can be delayed. While I was confident we are going to win, juries are unpredictable. This is where we had a surreal moment of collective clarity. The settlement offer they rejected is basically their best case scenario if they win the trial. This was not a coincidence. The attorney for the tenants asked for pretty much the same amount I quoted them for my fees. The lawyer for the tenants knew the family had to hire a lawyer for a jury trial. The lawyer knows it takes the sheriff 2-3 months to lockout after a judgment. The lawyer knows it's hard (and expensive) to collect against tenants with no assets. State and local government created a system in which cases take forever to litigate, eviction laws are extremely complex and technical, easy to dismiss cases, only one side has to pay a lawyer, and worst of all, possession enforcement takes 60-90 days instead of 5. And it's all getting worse. The leverage for the tenants is systemic. It's by design. Why would the tenants make any other offer? The landlords are left with no real options but a shitty settlement. There are no real choice. Even when you do everything right, you still lose. Tenants don't pay rent during evictions. They had no viable way to win the trial. There were no habitability issues. The landlords posted all the notices. Never raised the rent. Didn't retaliate. The landlords did everything right. And the tenants still win. The mother looked at me and asked "our base case in trial is the same as the shitty settlement offer? Are you telling me we should have taken the offer we rejected?" I didn't know how to respond.
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THIS IS INSANE
Two men, who both pleaded guilty to R*PING a 15yo boy and making child p*rn, received DIFFERENT sentences from two different judges.
Eric Bergstrom was sentenced to 30-50 years by Judge Derek Vaughn.
Judge Rich McGowan then took over the case and sentenced co-defendant Bradley Perry to ONLY 3 YEARS for the SAME CRIME.
When Judge McGowan was questioned on his decision, he stated, "I am the law."
How is this justice???
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@JoaquinCastrotx Here is a reminder: ILLEGALS do not belong at airports. ILLEGALS do not belong at polling stations. ILLEGALS do not belong undermining our rights and hurting our communities.
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We cannot normalize ICE inserting itself into our daily lives.
Here is a reminder: ICE agents do not belong at airports. ICE agents do not belong at polling stations. ICE agents do not belong undermining our rights and hurting our communities.
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Kid Rock makes music for people who’ll never lose their jobs to AI because AI can’t get under a car and saw out a catalytic converter.
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OK I'll bite: what's so wrong with having foreign medical students???? What if their application and interview are so fucking good they are better than the rest of the applicants???? We want the best, why is it hard to believe that THEY are the best for that program??????????
Mary Talley Bowden MD@MaryBowdenMD
Over 1500 medical students applied for anesthesiology residency at Harvard. 5 of the 18 coveted spots (28%) were filled by foreign medical students.
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@BowTiedYukon Getting drunk is a great bonding activity, the social benefits greatly outweigh the physical negatives in my personal experience. Though I do it very infrequently.
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Your children should never see you drunk
BowTiedCrow@BowTiedCrow
My dad never once had a sip of alcohol around me until I was in my late teens. I’m not sure if he mentally decided to never drink or be drunk around his son, but I truly think that was one of the best gifts he could have given me.
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Folks asking why don't we have this in the USA. RACISM YOU IDIOTS. IT'S FUCKING RACISM. can't have Black and Brown kids eating free/healthy, cuz our government want them so desperate & hungry that they turn to drugs and crimes, so they can then be put into the prison systems.
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
The secret behind Japan’s perfect school lunches
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Time to start chewmaxxing
Chewing each bite 40 times vs 15 reduced calorie intake by ~12% for a meal
It also lowered ghrelin and increased GLP-1 and CCK, hormones linked to satiety.
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@RolandGunnTN Rufo went to Georgetown and has a gaping hole in his resume after graduating.
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I lost what respect I had for Rufo after he gave the cushy “reporter” job at the “conservative” think tank to a literal atheist porn star who voted for Biden. This was after he turned down two of my friends for fellowships because they were too Dixie coded.
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@ASBaird the fact that mormons think that Black people exist because god got mad and burned people, thus making them Black, is mind boggling to me
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The fact that Mormons believe you can use a kitchen for reheating or serving food but not for cooking or preparing food is mind boggling to me.
Jared Shult@jared_shult
The fact that Mormons believe Jesus came to America is still mind boggling to me
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We adopted our son from India at 2.5 and had a 15 hour flight home.
He cried for almost the entire flight.
I did everything imaginable to calm and comfort him -- to no avail.
There were points of the flight that we were both crying.
The frustrated looks from other passangers didn't help, and all I needed in that moment was some kindness.
They make really great noise cancelling headphones these days, and I wish our culture was more supportive of families and children.
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
Is there anything worse than a crying baby on a plane? I wish parents would control their children. It’s so disruptive. I refuse to believe a baby cries for 10 hours. At some point this is just bad parenting, right?
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@TrevorSheatz Nothing like a broken in pair of shoes, usually I like to break mine in myself.
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My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin.
She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc.
We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!).
We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine.
She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8).
We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this.
Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47).
Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior.
A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands.
"God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31)
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)
Tom Buck (Five Point Buck)@TomBuck
If someone argues that a former promiscuous woman is "damaged goods" and questions whether a Christian young man should marry her, remember Rahab. She was a Canaanite prostitute but became a mother in the lineage of Jesus. God redeemed her, cleansed her, and Salmon married her.
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Is there anything worse than a crying baby on a plane?
I wish parents would control their children. It’s so disruptive. I refuse to believe a baby cries for 10 hours. At some point this is just bad parenting, right?
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@Haypro252602 @ZChris13 Good point, maybe she should have woke me up to shoot it instead :)
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@MashTunTimmy @ZChris13 Does being eaten alive sound better than starving to death?
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I’m afraid most people don’t know that “programming” isn’t just computer-stuff. It’s actually really hard. It takes a lot of intelligence to do well. If AI can take programmer jobs, they’re going to be able to take a lot of other jobs as well.
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@Yung_Spengler Just say it was ZOG, everyone knows it at this point.
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US military planners DID game out an Iran War for decades. But there were no good outcomes; that’s why it was never tried. (See Millennium Challenge: Gen Van Riper beat the US in a pre-drone era)
This war wasn’t launched by generals, but by Trump & a small cabal that had his ear
Strxwmxn@strxwmxn
The US and Israel have each run countless simulations gaming out every single scenario, every option, and every potential reaction to every option. The idea that the Allied Powers would be caught flat-footed because the war is longer than 20 days is — to borrow a term from game theory — fucking retarded.
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There is a devastating scandal brewing in Wales... a teenage boy is among 21 people being tested for HIV and hepatitis after unsterilised surgical tools and equipment were used on patients at an NHS hospital.
The boy was only told about the error three weeks after a procedure at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.
Hospital bosses knew about the mistake days after it happened, but the family weren't informed until a whistleblower dressed in medical scrubs and a surgical mask delivered a letter to the family home urging them to get in touch.
The 15-year-old now faces six months of tests for HIV and hepatitis until he is given the all-clear.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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