That's crazy. Failing a drug test is probably not legal cause to evict you, and refusing to take the test almost certainly is not. Of course they can do a no-cause eviction if you don't have a lease.
Landlords can and do put all kinds of unenforceable clauses in leases, though. There's no incentive not to because some people will see that they've violated an unenforceable clause and simply move out assuming that it is legal.
How is that legal? Do you mean they can demand a drug test randomly?
It would be litigated when/if a prosecutor tried to bring charges against Trump for conduct that was self-pardoned
I'm not convinced he'll do any serious level of tariffs. Too much American business relies on China to risk getting into a massive trade war. I think he'll do some strategic tariffs to benefit a couple industries and be able to say he won the trade war.
Talking about tariffs is good for him politically, good for the economy(people and businesses are making purchases early in anticipation of tariffs), and will bring in lobbying money from various industries that want protection, but an actual trade war will be devastating to the American economy broadly. I don't think the ruling class will let him do it.
I thought a lot about this. I think most of the big buyers of this were the same shitcoin gamblers that buy everything else. It's mostly people who know everything in crypto is a scam, but think they can make some money by predicting what will be popular and timing their trades.
At least I hope nobody is taking financial advice from someone so briefly famous for something stupid.
Even if I had someone I could trust enough, I wouldn't tell them. It's not fair to burden someone with keeping that level of secret.
Out of gas,
Out of road,
Out of car,
I don't how I'm gonna go
I had a drink the other day
Opinions were like kittens,
I was giving them away
I had a drink the other day
I had a lot to say
And I said
Bump
Telling an "I shit my pants" story is weirdly endearing to me. It's showing vulnerability about something that everyone has done.
We shouldn't feel shame about a bodily function we have no control over anyway.
It's pretty interesting that you were able to surprise it, cats are usually so alert to their surroundings. Maybe it was hunting, and just zeroed in on it's prey?
I was surprised by that too. I had turned around to head back when I encountered it, so I had passed that point 10-15 minutes before.
The occurred to me in that moment that I might have been the prey, but in retrospect I doubt it.
You're definitely right about the limits of my recollection. Even though I was trying to remember everything it happened fast and my cognition is always a little wonky when I'm running.
It's funny to me that raw milk was mainly a thing for rich liberals until COVID happened. Then right wingers absolute hatred for public health measures bled over into all the dangerous health quakery.
California should pass a law banning arsenic in cheeseburgers.
New Hampshire's school funding system is the worst that exists in the US.
This image is pretty self-explanatory, but I want to add that this is not a cherry-picked example. There are other communities that could be compared that would show significantly larger disparities, but this example was chosen because they are 30 miles apart.
This disparity exists because most of the school funding comes from local property taxes. Property rich towns have plenty to spend on schools, while property poor communities must raise their tax rates. This causes businesses to leave, which lowers tax revenues, which forces them to raise tax rates even more. This also eliminates local jobs, which causes people to leave, which drives down property values, which drives down tax revenue. It's a vicious cycle that destroys communities.
One of the aspects of this that enrages me the most is that the NH constitution requires the state to fully fund an adequate education. There was a series of lawsuits starting in 1998, where the NH Supreme Court ruled that the state must fund a study to determine the costs and fund that amount. As a result, the state legislature created SWEPT, a statewide education property tax. The funds would be passed to the state, and the state would be required to divide it out based on an equalization formula. This satisfied the court, despite the fact that the amount would not satisfy the cost of an adequate education established at trial.
Just 2 years later, the legislature passed a law allowing communities to retain the SWEPT funds, as long as they spent them on education. Property rich towns reduced their local property taxes to 0% and tried to spend as much as possible even though their schools were already well funded. Despite their best efforts, equalization funds still flowed to the poor communities, they just couldn't spend it all. Then the rich towns discovered they could set a negative local property tax rate. Most of the richest towns did it, bringing their contributions to the SWEPT fund to 0.
Over the years since there have been other lawsuits, most targeted at aid for students with disabilities. Some of those resulted in some targeted funding and adequacy aid, but today the funding looks like this(SWEPT in this chart is the amount kept locally, so it's a local tax as well):
This whole situation also makes the entire NH tax system regressive, meaning poor folks a larger share of their income in taxes than the rich. There's no personal income or sales tax and the interest and dividend tax was recently eliminated:
This is a system designed to keep poor people poor. Give them a terrible education, eliminate any chance of jobs in their communities, and tax them more than everyone that has a higher income.
There is currently another lawsuit going that the state has lost, but judgement is delayed until after the next legislative cycle. Despite the fact that the state lost, and didn't even contest that they aren't properly funding an adequate education, I'm not hopeful. The current chief justice is a big proponent of private education and represented the state in a previous school funding lawsuit. They also have the roadmap of how to allow the state to continue to violate the constitution. Let them delay, pass small reforms and then undo them, forcing another 5 years of funding studies and litigation.
I'm now fairly sure the wild cat I saw recently was a bobcat. There was some recent light snow and when I ran in that area again I saw what I'm fairly certain are bobcat tracks. 4 toed with a indent on the main pad at the top-center, no claws, about 2.5 inches long.
I also found someone saying that bobcats can have brown fur in fall to early winter and I found this video of bobcats playing with one having the same color fur I saw and a longer tail with different colored bit at the end of the tail.
One of the details that made me think it wasn't a bobcat was that the tail was not just a little stub like most of the images I found online. Also, I didn't notice spots. But mostly seeing it from the back, if it's coat was similar to the cat in the video, I wouldn't have immediately noticed spots.