@gladine_renee@ghostatno1 1986 federal (non-farm) minimum was 1.60, after inflation thats worth ~15.60 today and closing in on 16, which would be 10x, while the current minimum is 7.25
"If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about." 🙄
➡️ 71% of Flock's alerts were false.
➡️ One driver was stopped 6 times after Flock's algorithms mistook a 9 for an 8.
Constant surveillance. Constant suspicion.
We are all now guilty until proven innocent.
The brilliant @MattOBranain was arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for using a microphone.
He doesn’t say anything in support of any proscribed organisation. He just simply speaks into a microphone for a few seconds.
This is the @metpoliceuk under @ShabanaMahmood’s rule.
So the USDA is going to spend $9 million dollars of taxpayer dollars to destroy 420,000 fruit-bearing trees and massive surplus of peaches to "maintain fruit prices" they won't donate the peaches to food banks, churches or feed the hungry, alright.
Umm no, we should thank unions.
Without unions there would be no weekends, no vacations, no sick pay, no overtime, no 8h work day, no ban on child labour.
You would work 24/7 from the age of 7.
Leisure time only exists because workers united and fought, sometimes to the DEATH!
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
The SCREEN Act, which will go for a full committee markup next Wednesday, on its own would force every single adult in the US to do ID/age verification. With that would come mass censorship & surveillance over the last bit of freedom and information we have - the internet.
A California city just rolled out drive‑by AI scanners that auto‑flag:
-Parking on dirt
-Overgrown lawns
-Unpermitted signs
-Cracked driveways
-Vehicle "violations"
-Commercial equipment
-Peeling paint, broken fences, damaged roofs
Automated obedience checks.
Not for crime... just for “noncompliance."
This is assault. Under NY law, a class D violent felony. Maximum 7 years in prison. Minimum 2. Add the fact that there’s more than one agent, gang assault. A class C violent felony. Max 15 years. Minimum 3.5.