> Halifax Public Libraries CEO Åsa Kachan says there are many reasons someone may end up with overdue fines: limited access to child care; limited access to transportation; employment opportunities that are sporadic; families that don't have a regular schedule. Most often, fines were disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable in our community.
> Fines accounted for less than one percent of the library's budget.
> The effort to get Kanye West on the ballot as a third-party candidate in several states is increasingly looking like an operation run by President Trump’s allies and Republican activists that is aimed at diverting votes from Joseph R. Biden Jr.
> Deutsche Bank complied with the subpoena. Over a period of months last year, it provided Mr. Vance’s office with detailed records, including financial statements and other materials that Mr. Trump had provided to the bank as he sought loans, according to two of the people familiar with the inquiry.
> Breaking: Twitter said it will require President Trump’s campaign account to remove a post containing coronavirus misinformation, banning the account from tweeting until it does so.
(This isn't the @realdonaldtrump account, I don't think; its his campaign account, showing a video of Trump saying children are "almost immune" from covid-19)
@Wrigglenite Which means, going by the track record of satiric subreddits, it's going to go completely straight and alt-right in a few months, give or take.
@Nzall A lot of landlords are just people renting out part of their house so they can actually make ends meet. Housing prices and costs are fucked in many places.
@Nzall It's not even just slumlords. There's no shortage of shitty landlords. It's a business that's really easy for people to exploit. Usually due to a combination of lack of proper regularation and oversight, and just a general feeling of "Why even bother fighting it" from tenants.
@Unionhawk It can vary drastically even within a property company, too. I'm with Killam, who is one of the biggest property owners in Nova Scotia (maybe the biggest?), and I've had very few problems... but I'm in one of their better buildings. Folks in not quite as nice buildings seem to run into a LOT of issues.
Although that's always how it goes, though.
I pay them more money so they're less willing to fuck with me
@Unionhawk Also what kind of properties you rent factors into it.
and HOW you rent it
i.e. someone that buys up a bunch of properties and then AirBNBs them is just a shitty move in my books.
I acually just downright hate AirBNB. Hot take, I know.
I think it may have actually started out as "rent out extra space in your house", but it's just involved into "buy up a bunch of property and then AirBNB it out 24/7, thus removing housing from those that actually need it".
@Wipqozn As always with these sort of things, SV just goes "oh, this is a thing some people do for free, let's monetize it with no care about how monetizing things changes people's behavior".
Like the story I read was that AirBNB was born from some dudes couchsurfing because rent prices in California are ridiculous.
> Seeking to dissolve the NRA is the most aggressive sanction James could have sought against the not-for-profit organization, which James has jurisdiction over because it is registered in New York. James has a wide range of authorities relating to nonprofits in the state, including the authority to force organizations to cease operations or dissolve. The NRA is all but certain to contest it.
@TimStone I'm sure global warming has nothing to do with us. Nope. Not at all.
@TimStone I, for one, am shocked that this horribly corrupt organization turned out to be corrupt.
> The suit alleges that top NRA executives misused charitable funds for personal gain, awarded contracts to friends and family members, and provided contracts to former employees to ensure loyalty.
It seems like it should be possible for them to just…up and register somewhere else anyway? So I guess the named defendants are the more important focus
@TimStone Ah, Tim Mak addressed this by the way, to move the assets they'd need AG approval so they could do it only if they wanted to start from scratch
@TimStone lol at the paragraph about whether or not daily beast was given statutorily required 5 days notice or not ("The envelope was postmarked 1 day before, plantiff does not dispute this, and because it is not in dispute we can use it for a motion to dismiss. However, even if we couldn't the standard is 5 business days so even if we ignore that plaintiff still didn't do it. Also we don't even need to consider that because this fails on the merits anyway")
@Wipqozn do the factory workers not realize this means fewer of their appliances will be sold because the price has to go up, thus putting their jobs at risk?
Canada produces more than 3 times as much aluminum as the US, and most of what the US produces goes towards military and aerospace production.
Aluminum it expensive to produce due to the amount of electricity needed. There is no cheap electricity in the US, but there is in Quebec.
> When it was pointed out that he actually can’t win in 2020—that he won’t be on enough ballots to yield 270 electoral votes, and that a write-in campaign isn’t feasible—and thus was serving as a spoiler, West replied: “I’m not going to argue with you. Jesus is King.”
