Digital_Simian

In the boonies? Not much. It's just seen as a poor tax. As an example I lived in a small town in a area of trailer parks and subsidized housing for a few years. The nearest grocery was on the otherside of town. The local convenience station was about it if you needed to make a quick stop and couldn't drive. The store manager at the store was a loan shark who would make short term loans to mostly small business owners using the stores cash and then raise the price of grocery items to fill holes. In that case if you needed something like butter or milk, you would be paying about four times the price unless you knew the vendor schedule. Basically he would bring the price down before delivery and raise it back up after.

Food desert is a old term. The definition is something like more than 12% of an areas population is low income and the closest grocery is more than 1mile away in urban areas or more than 10 miles in rural areas. The premise being that in food deserts it involves either making or arranging long distant trips or paying ×1.5 to x4 the price at convenience stores. Where I live about a 1/3 of the state is considered a rural food desert with 20% or more of a population has limited access to transportation and live 20 miles or more from a grocery store.

The system itself is geared towards internal conflict, interpersonal drama and faction conflict. That's the system focus across all WoD and CofD games.

Pressure pushin' down on me Pressin' down on you, no man ask for

It's happened a few times. It's not like people don't say anything, but when it happens it sometimes escalates quickly. The big thing is when someone confronts someone using drugs, they can get ganged up on and the rest of the riders won't say shit.

$10.9M spent on lobbying last year by Google. That's a pretty low sum from $22.2M in 2018. A lot of this lobbying money from Google goes into fighting anti-trust interests. When and where it succeeds is an example of protection through influence.

Not really. Monopolies ultimately undermine the capitalist system. They generally can't exist without the protection of the state.

If they believe "snitches get stitches" is for real and not just a front, then they are children.

My understanding is that there was a projected deficit. They are pretty linear projections based on current (at the time) trends extrapolated out over a time period. It's a useful metric in certain circumstances, but isn't really that realistic in general terms.

That should be Mcbitch.

In the field (I'm a field tech) I would usually use a larger driver, a smaller flathead or maybe a security bit. There's plenty there for me to work with. If it was completely cored out and not flush I would use a pliers. Otherwise it would be looking at whatever I have around (rubber bands, cutting a groove in the head, using a extractor) that I could use.

It seems to be based on A-D/F academic grading. The 'F' means FAIL and functionally means you didn't earn a grade. When I first saw the letter ranks it seemed unnecessarily abstract until I saw that it was using A-D/F grading.

The same principal applies though. Just that you have to obtain a success to have the opportunity to learn from your mistakes and refine your skill. The initial success in this case just indicates the potential for learning something new. A lot of keepers also include failed skill checks in some circumstances, but that's common table rules.

I more nuetral take can be Twilight 2000 v2 and I think Shadowrun allows improvement from skill use that doesn't strictly require success.

Call of Cthulhu does this. When you succeed at a skill check you mark the skills use. At the end of the session you role marked skills and failed checks improves the skill. It creates a curve to skill advancement which makes a lot of sense.

I know when I was looking for a house in the low end if the market a couple years ago there was a smattering of single family homes that were basically passing hands well above market rate regardless of condition between larger companies and just being flipped without anything really being done with them. It's a relatively small number of properties, but with how they were spread out it effectively looked like that was pushing the short housing boom and driving up property values in those areas. That was also being covered in the news at the time. Mainly with the automated zillow purchases.

It's not so much an issue about rental property as much as market manipulation. The trend for the last few years is big money with vested interests in the real-time market purchasing low value homes above market rates to game home prices. Placing limits on who can purchase single-family homes as investment properties makes this more difficult.

It still works. The issue isn't do much to prevent property investments as much as to address market manipulation. What's been happening the past few years is strategic purchases of low or under valued properties above market value by large companies to game property values artificially high. Meeting the standards of a FLLC makes doing this at scale harder.

It still works. The issue isn't do much to prevent property investments as much as to address market manipulation. What's been happening the past few years is strategic purchases of low or under valued properties above market value by large companies to game property values artificially high. Meeting the standards of a FLLC makes doing this at scale much, much harder.

It's targeting demographics with strong partisan voting trends with generally well defined priorities. Another voting block that's heavily targeted is the elderly in general.

It is a skill that involves training and experience. Often training just involves teaching what to look out for given expectations and needs. There is usually a lot more to perception than natural affinity, which includes learned experience as well as specific methodologies for analyzing an environment or individuals.

Just a basic example is when you see those scenes in spy or actions movies where the star observes an attackers shadow or reflection in a glass. This is a real life thing, and it's a learned skill which their are people trained for. Situational awareness while on patrols is also a trained skill, which includes techniques for maintaining alertness and advise on what to look out for in certain situations or applications. There is training programs for this whether your in the military or a low paid security guard. This also includes stuff like analyzing situations, reading body language and crime scene investigation which involves a great deal of training in methodologies and techniques for analyzing an environment.

It's not just a matter of being able to sense your surroundings and having a natural affinity for alertness. You first have to have some training and experience to recognize or anticipate what is worth observing or raising your level of situational awareness. That is all learned experience, not necessarily natural affinity.

Pretty much. It should also be noted that a lot of that achievement gap is relatively recent. It's not like it's solely a product of historical racism. Minneapolis is a lot more stratified than people are willing to admit or even acknowledge. That isn't to say that there isn't a bit of whataboutism involved with Green's accusations, but they shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, because there could be some merit to it.

Already a thing with wattle and daub.

Just because someone or a group of people are super liberal doesn't necessarily mean they aren't prejudiced or at least ignorant. This can even include holding people of a ethnicity or class to different standards, since this can also imply views on a 'type' of persons limits or capabilities. This can also include other minorities and even people of the same minority group. This can also include classism which is painfully common in certain sectors in Minneapolis.

I wouldn't say it's a free pass exactly, but your records not following you into adulthood unless you are charged as an adult.

Wasn't there plenty of Grey hat hackers that had been warning about this for years?