AnthonyI
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This popped up on my feed this morning and made me laugh 
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Chucktshoes
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This popped up on my feed this morning and made me laugh
Taylor Swift isn’t from TN. She’s a yankee from Pennsylvania.
AnthonyI
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Fair enough, the point of the vid still made me laugh
*Moved to TN at 10 and grew up there. Tomato/Tomoto
Chucktshoes
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To be fair, I wasn’t making a comment on the video itself. Just pointing out a particular fact. Moving to Nashville at age 14 to pursue a career in country music ain’t the same as being from The South. Not by a country mile. Hell, being born in yankee territory to Southerners because of temporary assignment like military service barely lets you slide in that gate. Tomato/rutabaga.Fair enough, the point of the vid still made me laugh
*Moved to TN at 10 and grew up there. Tomato/Tomoto
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Marsha isn't either. She is from Mississippi. That is why I'm guessing she's so dumb.
Chucktshoes
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While both of those are true facts, I can’t say they are related. I’ve known plenty of smart folks from Missippi (spell it like you say it).
I have had to correct an ohio friend more than once that Miami (and Orlando or the Keys) is not really "The South".To be fair, I wasn’t making a comment on the video itself. Just pointing out a particular fact. Moving to Nashville at age 14 to pursue a career in country music ain’t the same as being from The South. Not by a country mile. Hell, being born in yankee territory to Southerners because of temporary assignment like military service barely lets you slide in that gate. Tomato/rutabaga.
She started calling me FloridaMan after that.
file under: #win the battle lose the war
Yeah my grandmother lived in Forest, west of Meridian most of her life and I spent a lot of my summers in Biloxi and Gulfport. I went to school at the University of Alabama. The running joke when I was down there, was you know what Alabamians say, thank God for Mississippi because Alabama is usually 49th in everything and Mississippi is 50th.
AnthonyI
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I need to hook you up with my family in Atlanta..............from Italy, lived in Chicago for most of their youth, moved to Atlanta and you would have to fight them tooth and nail as to if they're "Southerners", lol.To be fair, I wasn’t making a comment on the video itself. Just pointing out a particular fact. Moving to Nashville at age 14 to pursue a career in country music ain’t the same as being from The South. Not by a country mile. Hell, being born in yankee territory to Southerners because of temporary assignment like military service barely lets you slide in that gate. Tomato/rutabaga.
It's a side bar at best for this particular video/comment is all I'm saying
Chucktshoes
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To a yankee it’s a sidebar, to a Southron it is THE hill to die on.I need to hook you up with my family in Atlanta..............from Italy, lived in Chicago for most of their youth, moved to Atlanta and you would have to fight them tooth and nail as to if they're "Southerners", lol.
It's a side bar at best for this particular video/comment is all I'm saying
*Your relatives aren’t just Yankees, they’re damn Yankees.
AnthonyI
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Don't I know it.To a yankee it’s a sidebar, to a Southron it is THE hill to die on.
*Your relatives aren’t just Yankees, they’re damn Yankees.
DownIsTheNewUp
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(Meanwhile it was 130 degrees in Death Valley this past weekend)
www.nytimes.com
www.npr.org
E.P.A. Approved Toxic Chemicals for Fracking a Decade Ago, New Files Show
The compounds can form PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The E.P.A. approvals came despite the agency’s own concerns about toxicity.
Heat Wave Killed An Estimated 1 Billion Sea Creatures, And Scientists Fear Even Worse
An estimated 1 billion sea creatures, mostly mussels, died in the heat wave last week along Vancouver's shorelines. But the marine biologist taking count worries the actual number will be much higher.
www.npr.org
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DownIsTheNewUp
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That said, Biden is proving surprising progressive in regards to workers rights:
www.npr.org
www.politico.com
Biden Moves To Restrict Noncompete Agreements, Saying They're Bad For Workers
In an executive order aimed at promoting competition, President Biden is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to ban or limit noncompete agreements that affect tens of millions of workers.
www.npr.org
Biden launches assault on monopolies
The sweeping executive order takes aim at concentrated markets in industries including agriculture, airlines, broadband and banking — and includes efforts to lower drug prices and protect privacy.
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EDD is a huge mess in California.
abc7news.com
EDD are unemployment benefits paid through a debit card. Bank of America provides the debit cards / accounts to people receiving benefits. However, Bank of America wants out of that contract after losing $200 Million in fraud last year. State lawmakers also want Bank of America ousted after how they handled the fraud. But only EDD can make the decision, and they renewed Bank of Americas contract much to Bank of Americas objection.
California residence have been complaining about their accounts being drained before debit cards even come in the mail. People filing fraud claims often found their fraud claim denied and their accounts suspended. In some cases even their person bank and credit cards accounts being suspended / closed out as well.
Stay lawmakers blame BofA for the lack of security. Such as no chips on the debit cards. Bank of America blames people for filing false fraud claims which also was happening. And people who actually suffered any form of fraud were being treated like criminals by Bank of Americas automated fraud prevention software, which state legislators believe may be illegal in how it handled some peoples accounts.
EXCLUSIVE: BofA says it wants out of unemployment benefits contract as EDD renews
This means Bank of America will continue delivering unemployment benefits on EDD debit cards for up to two more years despite rampant fraud, frozen accounts and a class action lawsuit.
abc7news.com
EDD are unemployment benefits paid through a debit card. Bank of America provides the debit cards / accounts to people receiving benefits. However, Bank of America wants out of that contract after losing $200 Million in fraud last year. State lawmakers also want Bank of America ousted after how they handled the fraud. But only EDD can make the decision, and they renewed Bank of Americas contract much to Bank of Americas objection.
California residence have been complaining about their accounts being drained before debit cards even come in the mail. People filing fraud claims often found their fraud claim denied and their accounts suspended. In some cases even their person bank and credit cards accounts being suspended / closed out as well.
Stay lawmakers blame BofA for the lack of security. Such as no chips on the debit cards. Bank of America blames people for filing false fraud claims which also was happening. And people who actually suffered any form of fraud were being treated like criminals by Bank of Americas automated fraud prevention software, which state legislators believe may be illegal in how it handled some peoples accounts.
We have a lot of the same problems but we aren't on limestone--we're on river deposits and clay. Normally developers just make the ground floor (or two) into parking because if it floods, it would only flood the parking. We also know that if you get the option to take the second story apartment, you take the second story apartment. New Orleans has become a bowl from ground sinking and a large portion of the city is under sea level. My house is 14 feet above sea level and we are on high ground.
Um, I lived in Mississippi for most of my childhood and know plenty smart people from Mississippi. Most of them got the hell out, but there are still plenty of smart, good people in and from Mississippi.
I know that you are really highlighting the weather, but have you been following the EPA whistleblower stuff? It turns out that the EPA might be about as corrupt as the FDA (I'm looking at their recent approval of Biogen's alzheimer's drug).(Meanwhile it was 130 degrees in Death Valley this past weekend)
E.P.A. Approved Toxic Chemicals for Fracking a Decade Ago, New Files Show
The compounds can form PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The E.P.A. approvals came despite the agency’s own concerns about toxicity.
Heat Wave Killed An Estimated 1 Billion Sea Creatures, And Scientists Fear Even Worse
An estimated 1 billion sea creatures, mostly mussels, died in the heat wave last week along Vancouver's shorelines. But the marine biologist taking count worries the actual number will be much higher.
MANAGERS AND CAREER STAFF in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention tampered with the assessments of dozens of chemicals to make them appear safer, according to four scientists who work at the agency. The whistleblowers, whose jobs involve identifying the potential harms posed by new chemicals, provided The Intercept with detailed evidence of pressure within the agency to minimize or remove evidence of potential adverse effects of the chemicals, including neurological effects, birth defects, and cancer.
On several occasions, information about hazards was deleted from agency assessments without informing or seeking the consent of the scientists who authored them. Some of these cases led the EPA to withhold critical information from the public about potentially dangerous chemical exposures. In other cases, the removal of the hazard information or the altering of the scientists’ conclusions in reports paved the way for the use of chemicals, which otherwise would not have been allowed on the market.
Whistleblowers Expose Corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
EPA managers removed information about the risks posed by dozens of chemicals, according to whistleblowers.
theintercept.com
Oh I know that, Like I said my grandmother and grandfather lived in Forest most of their life and were some of my favorite people on the planet before they passed. Their are plenty of stupid and good people everywhere.
Texas House Democrats leave state to block Republicans from passing voting restrictions
Texas state House Democrats left the state Monday in an effort to block Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting law in the remaining 27 days of the special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott.
If the governor holds true to his promise, he's going to not pay all the texas house democrats via executive order for job abandonment.
Breaking out the popcorn
DownIsTheNewUp
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We have a lot of the same problems but we aren't on limestone--we're on river deposits and clay. Normally developers just make the ground floor (or two) into parking because if it floods, it would only flood the parking. We also know that if you get the option to take the second story apartment, you take the second story apartment. New Orleans has become a bowl from ground sinking and a large portion of the city is under sea level. My house is 14 feet above sea level and we are on high ground.
Um, I lived in Mississippi for most of my childhood and know plenty smart people from Mississippi. Most of them got the hell out, but there are still plenty of smart, good people in and from Mississippi.
I know that you are really highlighting the weather, but have you been following the EPA whistleblower stuff? It turns out that the EPA might be about as corrupt as the FDA (I'm looking at their recent approval of Biogen's alzheimer's drug).
MANAGERS AND CAREER STAFF in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention tampered with the assessments of dozens of chemicals to make them appear safer, according to four scientists who work at the agency. The whistleblowers, whose jobs involve identifying the potential harms posed by new chemicals, provided The Intercept with detailed evidence of pressure within the agency to minimize or remove evidence of potential adverse effects of the chemicals, including neurological effects, birth defects, and cancer.
On several occasions, information about hazards was deleted from agency assessments without informing or seeking the consent of the scientists who authored them. Some of these cases led the EPA to withhold critical information from the public about potentially dangerous chemical exposures. In other cases, the removal of the hazard information or the altering of the scientists’ conclusions in reports paved the way for the use of chemicals, which otherwise would not have been allowed on the market.
Whistleblowers Expose Corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office
EPA managers removed information about the risks posed by dozens of chemicals, according to whistleblowers.
Ya. I was referring to both as the problems are interlaced. Hadn't seen that Intercept article though. Thanks for the heads up.
I'm not familiar with her. On a scale from Bush to Marjorie Taylor Greene where does she land?