2023-08-13

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(2020) The Trouble With Trigonometry

It uses an entirely different function! The justification is that -1 is one character less than arc. This is inexcusable. All of these function power tricks are bad habits that should be avoided. They should never be shown to innocent school children.

He was a top church official who criticized Trump: 'Christianity is in crisis'
How And Why Trump? - by Jeffrey Carter - Points And Figures

I think to this day the card-carrying elites and the Deep State along with Democrats who aren’t card-carrying elites have nary a clue why Trump came to power.

The more you see the entire apparatus of the Deep State and Uniparty mobilize against him and use a double standard of justice against him versus other politicians, the more it makes you want to see him get in office again just to wreak havoc on the entire thing. If you thought Trump was a bull in a china shop in his last term, I suspect if he happens to get elected again, there will be nothing left of the china shop. That might be a feature and not a bug.
Dallas Has a Problem With 'Zombie' Astroturf Groups - The Texas Observer

Despite being exposed as bogus, some right-wing organizations keep coming back from the dead. No one knows who is funding them.
GA prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach

Credit card debt collection

The debt collection industry is, and I say this as someone who is capitalist as the day is long and attempts to be non-political in public, among the most odious hives of scum and villainy as exists in the United States. The business is sordid and virtually immune to reform, despite decades of trying. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act was passed in 1978! It is older than me! I learned to cite it in 2004 against the same abuses it was designed to prevent! The situation did not markedly improve in the last 20 years!
- Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States
- HN comments
How we stopped inflation without a recession (hint: by not stopping inflation).
Institutionalized Belief In The Greater Fool
Student loans: 56% of borrowers say have to choose between debt and groceries
US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago

A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops

prior to the raids, the newspaper had been actively investigating Gideon Cody, Chief of Police for the city of Marion. They’d received multiple tips alleging he’d retired from his previous job to avoid demotion and punishment over alleged sexual misconduct charges.
- HN comments
Attrition shrinks Los Angeles Police Department below below 1990s levels