PriorityMotif

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The police have access to warrantless tracking information on you through private companies in the form of license plate readers. Is a slow boil, but we'll get there soon enough.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Poor steve1989

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's better to have a bunch of mediocre workers that get along than one really good worker that is toxic and makes everyone's life more difficult. Your dad kind of sucks.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Gun stores are the final decider on who is and isn't buying guns. There should be more training for them, but also more liability attached as well. They know the people who are making straw purchases and they ignore it because they want sales.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Before chrome became massively popular, Firefox was very popular. ie was still the most used browser back then

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's a much deeper rabbit hole that I can't fully explain and I'm someone who went without menal health treatment for most of my life and I should have been treated in my childhood and wasn't. Up until recently there was a stigma attached to mental illness. Probably because you until the 80s you could get thrown into an assilym and given a labotomy or worse. Lately mental healthcare has become something of a fad. And everybody is trying to see doctors. Mental health physicians are few and far between. Even with health insurance it can be difficult to find one. Some places have appointments booked solid for six months or more. It is expensive. It's roughly $200 (before insurance) to see a psychiatrist for ten minutes just to get a prescription refilled. The deductible you pay with insurance varies, but can still be over $50 or more. You can go to a private practice doctor, but they likely don't deal with insurance. Prescriptions are generally pretty cheap, even without insurance, it depends on which pharmacy you go to. Going to a regular doctor for mental healthcare is generally a bad idea because they don't understand how to diagnose people properly. Giving someone with bipolar disorder an SSRI is like throwing gas on the fire.

Local jails are full of people with undiagnosed and untreated mental health disorders. It would be much cheaper to just give people free healthcare, but there's a lot of mean spirited people in the u.s. also due to mental health issues, no doubt.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like they could use a boom lift and work around them if they wanted to. I'm sure there's a way to cover the panels with plywood to where they wouldn't get damaged. Much cheaper and easier than removing and replacing.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why did they have to remove the panels in order to fumigate? If the company couldn't work around them then they should have found a different company.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (8 children)

They're going to scapegoat people with mental illness and start taking their rights away more and more. Then they'll start using that to target people they don't like. Take certain prescriptions? Now you're on the "dangerous person's list" now "dangerous people" can't hold certain jobs or public office. Been put on a "mental health" hold by the police ever? Same thing. Then the police can just use their "discretion" to put anyone they don't like on a mental health hold. LGBT? That means you're "mentally unhealthy" don't believe in God? Believe it or not "mental health problems" not Republican? Only a psycho believes in dirty socialism. Brown skin? (Insert racist stuff about inferior brain power) Now, of course we can't allow the "mentally unhealthy people" to procreate! So we'll have to sterilize them. Of course they can't be trusted, so we'll need to supervise them at all times! Work is good for mental health so we can give them "jobs" at the "mental health" camps!

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All of your local business people either are or have just not paid taxes on income. If it's a cash business or they accept cash, there's a high likelihood that they just put that in their pocket.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Some kid just shit down the slide in the play place.

 

NORMAL — Rivian Automotive is investigating the cause of a fire that damaged vehicles in a parking lot at its campus on the community's west side.

The company's manufacturing plant was unaffected, said Kelli Felker, corporate communications senior manager.

"We are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged a number of vehicles in a parking lot at our Normal plant late Saturday night," Felker said in a statement shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday. "The plant itself is unaffected. At this time, we are not aware of any injuries."

A video circulating on social media late Saturday showed concentrated, bright orange flames in the lot outside the plant.

The Normal Fire Department confirmed that it responded to a fire at the Rivian campus, but could not immediately provide more information.

Emergency vehicles were still at the scene as of 12:20 a.m.

Rivian employs more than 8,000 workers at its manufacturing operations in Normal, where all of the company's electric pickup trucks, SUVs and commercial delivery vans are produced.

 
 
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