#tax dollars wasted

[ivygorgon]

#The city of Reno passes the vibe check #first pride #but what about #second pride in #reno nevada #reno nv #reno #lgbtq news #straight pride #systematic oppression #wasting tax dollars #hate wastes tax dollars #encouraging vandalism #gov: 👀 #what about the vets? #ivy is a queer vet #veterans day parade #what about first responders? #what about lgbtqia+ first responders? #this is political! #everything is political #july is disability pride month #though #reno says the hobbitses want second pride in reno #rainbow #🌈 #🏳️‍🌈 #pride month #🏳️‍🌈♿ #city of reno government

[commonsensecommentary]

Pigs at the trough. The same sad story of government waste and overspending we see every damned day. It’s so common we can’t even bother to be shocked anymore. Just sickening. And stupid. No wonder our taxes are so high and our government is so broke.

#government corruption #government spending #government waste #corruption #corrupt government #taxes #your tax dollars at work

[weirdbabs]

finding out eurovision is being hosted in liverpool this year confused the shit outta me bc i may not know much, but i KNOW england has not and most likely will not ever win in my lifetime

#so brits had to loose 125 mill on the coronation and now 12 mill on the song contest??? #that seems like an egregious waste of your tax dollars im so sorry #eurovision

[quonit37]

2 all my followerz buy reusable pads or underwear 4 periods not pads from the store. you will save so much money. If you don't have periods you know someone who does. Kill the pink tax!!!

#quo rambles #so many ppl I talk to don't know they exist #pink tax = money people have to spend for being born AFAB #ppl need to spend like 500 dollars a year on pads from the store #thats so much money #just spend 30 dollars on this #ok #pls #pls stop wasting money #u need that money 2 eat

[hxllblazer-a]

Sometimes I think about that one time John was hired by a politician to essentially try and cover up a conspiracy to put a demon on the throne and it ended in:

John forcing the demon in question to possess said politician after handcuffing the guy so the demon would only be able to eat its new vessel.

John beating the shit out of the politician guy’s co-conspirator and chucking the guy over to be eaten alive by his possessed boss.

Said politician being condemned to hell to be dinner for the First.

And at one point John just decking who is implied to be (at the time) Prince Ch*rles in a gimp suit.

And the whole time John’s just gleeful to take on this job because a royal family member??? fucking murdering and cannibalizing the public????? actually hilarious and he’s definitely going to have fun.

#he's not a good guy he's not a bad guy but when he sees the opportunity for some good old fashion fun #and sticking it to the biggest waste on tax dollars ever? #you're damn right he's there for a laugh #just don't mind the bodies that'll pile up >.> #ooc post is ooc #cannibalism tw #just cuz its kinda implied

[transgnckon]

I literally hate being on my period bc I cry over the dumbest things. I just cried over not being able to buy the batgirl zine to my mom

#txt #I WAS LIKE IM GOING TO ORDER MYSELF FOOD BC J HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR THAT & I DONT WANT TO BE SAD #& MY MOM TOLD ME NOT TO WASTE MY MONEY ON THAT & I JUST STARTED CRYING & TOLD HER I ONLY WANTED IT BC I WAS TRYING RO MAKE MYSELF FEEL #BETTER #& now she’s sending me money for the fuckinh zine bc she doesn’t want me to order take out I’ll fucking scream #It’s like. I have enough money for it it’s like 60 dollars w shipping & tax but I didn’t want to be left w 14 dollars on my bank account 😭😭 #like I’m literally just being dumb. #I mean at least now I can buy it

[elphin365]

United States Tax dollars at work :/

Thousands are homeless, children and seniors are without food, and the GOP chose to spend more money on this. Remember to get out and vote. Change the way we view priorities.

#2024 elections #us tax dollars wasted #hold politicians accountable #coose to prioritize people over politics #get out and vote

[pressrealz]

Waste of the Day: NYC Service Cuts Due To $7 Billion Budget Gap, Migrants

By Adam Andrzejewski November 27, 2023 Wikimedia Commonsttps://pixabay.com/en/users/PublicDomainPictures-14/, New York City taxpayers will see their own services cut — police, schools, sanitation, libraries — in lieu of paying the massive bill of caring for an estimated 143,000 migrants. City officials predict it will spend $11 billion on housing migrants over the next two years. Waste of…

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#tax dollars #wasteful spending #WasteOfTheDay

[newreputations]

You know those cops in Pennsylvania were so excited to dress up like seal team 6 to catch one greasy, tired dude in the woods.

#ftp #waste of tax dollars right there.

[thinaiir]

Every year around Met Gala season I think about making a post on my Instagram story about how we should defund the met gala and ignore celebrities. But I'm always too cowardly to actually do it because some of my followers are into it 🤣

#like isn't it funded by tax dollars or something?? seems like a big waste of money imo #I have seen people make their own ''Instagram met gala'' which is kind of cute though #like they design their own dresses and pretend they're going with other people #......Ok yes I know it sounds like Tumblr Prom 2.0 🤣🤣 but idk it seems like harmless fun #cringey maybe but also harmless #my posts

[detectivechen]

thought more ppl would be making fun of the absolutely unhinged statement by that man outing his own ind*ctment on here but i guess not?

#lol it's checks and balances until ur boy gets caught by the DOJ huh #then suddenly it's a geriatric + friends v geriatric + friends witch hunt #like the rest of us aren't dying from systemic inequality while these mfs waste tax dollars grandstanding #and now he boutta make it everyone's problem that he couldn't follow his own rules? #hate it here part 474 #okay bye again

[deadsetobsessions]

Of all the places he could have been summoned to, Danny Phantom had never considered a private school’s bathroom to be one of them.

With glowing green skin, a shock of flickering flames for hair, and a suit made out of the spaces between collapsing stars, Danny stared down at the stupefied faces of Gotham Academy’s finest students. One of them had their face in their hands, having caught sight of him and undergoing all the stages of grief in but a moment.

They sat around a circle that he was appropriately impressed with considering the limited space they had to work with. Danny could see the empty stalls, some of which were adorned with drawings and writings that were left by the, no-doubt, extremely busy caretaker.

“Seriously, a bathroom?” Danny wrinkled his nose.

“Holy shit, that actually worked?” One of the kids blurted out, then slammed their hands on top of their mouth.

“Did you expect it not to?” Danny squinted at them, frowning. It’s Friday, so it’s not like he had much to do, but Danny would prefer it if his time wasn’t wasted.

“No- no, your… uh, highness?”

“All of that schooling and you’re still uneducated,” one of the other ones hissed at the red headed kid who spoke. It’s “Your Majesty.” He’s a king, idiot!”

That was a pretty solid burn but, “It’s actually just Phantom. Did you guys want something? I’m busy.”

He’s not busy, but who cares?

“Uh…” the kids exchanged glances. The one in the back sighed and spoke up. He adjusted his glasses.

“We’re sorry for bothering you, Phantom. You wouldn’t happen to have a solution for dimensional separation, would you?”

“Huh.” Danny tilted his head, face souring. “I hate dimensional issues. They’re the worst. Who’s causing them?”

“His name’s Klarion!” The one who slapped a hand across his mouth earlier piped up.

“Oh! The lords of chaos or whatever. Yeah, I can help, for a price.”

Danny is against unpaid labor. Extremely against it, considering his side gig is being a half-dead vigilante. Then again, are you really a vigilante if you’re not half dead on a regular basis?

“What do you want?” Despite the reluctance from earlier, it’s clear the one with the glasses made the big decisions in this weird friend group.

“… A hundred dollars.”

“That’s it? No stipulations?” When Danny nodded, the kid had a calculating expression. “Deal.” The teen said immediately. He pulled out cash and wow, Danny’s definitely in a place with a different tax bracket.

He snatched it. Nasty burger money!

“Deal’s a deal. Also, don’t ever summon me again, but if you do, don’t ever do it in a bathroom again. You kids are so weird.” Danny floated out of the circle, grinning sharply. He formed a small bird- he doesn’t know why, but it felt right- of ice and handed it to the kid with glasses. “There. Proof of the deal.”

With that, Danny disappeared. Private school kids were so fucking weird, but… Dash and his goons were probably worse. What’s a little ritualistic summoning in the face of teenagers?

——

“I leave you guys alone for ten minutes and you summon the king of the dead?” Robin narrowed his eyes at his teammates, traitors who had the good graces to look sheepish. “How could you?! I wanted to try, too!”

Kid Flash patted him on the shoulder, a granola bar appearing in his mouth now that the possible world ending terror disappeared. “Sorry, Rob. Maybe next time! Magic still isn’t real though.”

“I’m not doing this shit in a bathroom again,” Artemis rolled back to her feet. “He sounded like he was going to rip our bones out if we ever summoned him in a bathroom again.”

“Ugh…”

#dcxdp #dpxdc #danny phantom #batman #bruce wayne #dc x dp #dick grayson #Robin #young justice #artemis crock #kid flash #I’m aware Artemis didn’t know about rob in this ep #I think? it’s been a while since I’ve watched it #Wally West

[headspace-hotel]

I went down the internet rabbit hole trying to figure out wtf vegan cheese is made of and I found articles like this one speaking praises of new food tech startups creating vegan alternatives to cheese that Actually work like cheese in cooking so I was like huh that's neat and I looked up more stuff about 'precision fermentation' and. This is not good.

Basically these new biotech companies are pressuring governments to let them build a ton of new factories and pushing for governments to pay for them or to provide tax breaks and subsidies, and the factories are gonna cost hundreds of millions of dollars and require energy sources. Like, these things will have to be expensive and HUGE

I feel like I've just uncovered the tip of the "lab grown meat" iceberg. There are a bajillion of these companies (the one mentioned in the first article a $750 MILLION tech startup) that are trying to create "animal-free" animal products using biotech and want to build large factories to do it on a large scale

I'm trying to use google to find out about the energy requirements of such facilities and everything is really vague and hand-wavey about it like this article that's like "weeeeeell electricity can be produced using renewables" but it does take a lot of electricity, sugars, and human labor. Most of the claims about its sustainability appear to assume that we switch over to renewable electricity sources and/or use processes that don't fully exist yet.

I finally tracked down the source of some of the more radical claims about precision fermentation, and it comes from a think tank RethinkX that released a report claiming that the livestock industry will collapse by 2030, and be replaced by a system they're calling...

Food-as-Software, in which individual molecules engineered by scientists are uploaded to databases – molecular cookbooks that food engineers anywhere in the world can use to design products in the same way that software developers design apps.

I'm finding it hard to be excited about this for some odd reason

Where's the evidence for lower environmental impacts. That's literally what we're here for.

There will be an increase in the amount of electricity used in the new food system as the production facilities that underpin it rely on electricity to operate.

well that doesn't sound good.

This will, however, be offset by reductions in energy use elsewhere along the value chain. For example, since modern meat and dairy products will be produced in a sterile environment where the risk of contamination by pathogens is low, the need for refrigeration in storage and retail will decrease significantly.

Oh, so it will be better for the Earth because...we won't need to refrigerate. ????????

Oh Lord Jesus give me some numerical values.

Modern foods will be about 10 times more efficient than a cow at converting feed into end products because a cow needs energy via feed to maintain and build its body over time. Less feed consumed means less land required to grow it, which means less water is used and less waste is produced. The savings are dramatic – more than 10-25 times less feedstock, 10 times less water, five times less energy and 100 times less land.

There is nothing else in this report that I can find that provides evidence for a lower carbon footprint. Supposedly, an egg white protein produced through a similar process has been found to reduce environmental impacts, but mostly everything seems very speculative.

And crucially none of these estimations are taking into account the enormous cost and resource investment of constructing large factories that use this technology in the first place (existing use is mostly for pharmaceutical purposes)

It seems like there are more tech startups attempting to use this technology to create food than individual scientific papers investigating whether it's a good idea. Seriously, Google Scholar and JSTOR have almost nothing. The tech of the sort that RethinkX is describing barely exists.

Apparently Liberation Labs is planning to build the first large-scale precision fermentation facility in Richmond, Indiana come 2024 because of the presence of "a workforce experienced in manufacturing"

And I just looked up Richmond, Indiana and apparently, as of RIGHT NOW, the town is in the aftermath of a huge fire at a plastics recycling plant and is full of toxic debris containing asbestos and the air is full of toxic VOCs and hydrogen cyanide. ???????????? So that's how having a robust industrial sector is working out for them so far.

#CAPITALISM IS THE PROBLEM #AAAAAAAAAA #farming #sustainability

[owlpellet]

landlords truly will take every measure to gaslight you into thinking you're doing something wrong asking for maintenance.

one entire side of my room is covered in cracks and has a musty, damp smell due to some bad leaks from the rains earlier this year + a huge pipe leak in the adjacent laundry room. every complaint has just led to the cracks getting shabbily patched, and i have to keep a window open or my room gets a mildewy smell.

so i contacted the goddamn city about it, saying i am experiencing sinus issues and suspect black mold, and within days some men were tearing up the laundry room to replace things and now they're saying they need to come into my room and tear up my wall too-- but not without huffily implying their time was being wasted and that the black mold allegations are serious, as if i will be in trouble if they find none.

as if a cracked wall full of mildew is somehow more acceptable. we pay $2600 a fucking month and i am not going to let some lazy, greedy fuck prevent my conditions from being habitable while he hosts brunches on his tax fraud dollars in his condo across from the yacht club. fuck you fuck you fuck you victor makras.

#the inside of my closet smells just like the inside of one of my isopod tanks #damp and earthy #ain't right!!

[mthomasapple]

"Make Uranus mission your priority" --uh, for what practical reason?

Don't waste our #taxes on #Uranus #NASA -- let's settle the #Moon and #Mars first!

“Researchers think an in-depth study of Uranus can help them better understand the many similarly sized objects now being discovered around other stars.“https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61155725 Uranus’s strange tilt is probably due to getting smacked by a very large body a long time ago… Uranus is weird. It has rings. It has 13 moons, some of which may harbor life beneath their icy…

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#Europa #Mars #Moon #NASA #outer space #rings #science #space exploration #tax dollars #Titan #Uranus #waste

[amtrak-official]

Conservative Man from Ohio riding the New York Subway thinking about how this was a waste of several 100 billion dollars that could have gone towards Tax Cuts and Military Equipment