TyrionsNose

joined 1 year ago
[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Normal practice is as follows for dignitaries let alone former presidents.

Secret Service man’s the venue itself. Local police man’s the perimeter. Every roof is not only secured but actually occupied. There’s an officer on every roof that is a concern.

Again, every roof physically has an officer on it. That’s how it’s handled for ambassadors, senators, and obviously leaders of a country.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

As long as you didn’t drench that in ranch it’d probably still be fairly healthy.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

This is the answer.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

This is the same as me. I also have a policy on both my kids. It’s $10k and it’s so I don’t have to worry about funeral costs.

There are also plans like that and turn into a college fund but it’s probably just better to use a 529 for that.

But ultimately, in my opinion, it’s better to have a one on the bread winner of the family. But some people feel they are never necessary.

If you die young you don’t need insurance because your spouse is still hot and can re-marry easily. If you die older your children are out of college and can take care of themselves.

Everyone take or don’t take insurance policies for their own reasons and it’s hard to know exactly why unless they make it plainly obvious.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It depends. It makes it a lot harder to claim but not out of the question.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yup, and that’s the exact use case for the Portal.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I pre-ordered mine back in September. Those of us who game from multiple rooms in their house this thing is amazing. Or those who have to share a TV with people who don’t use the PS5 connected to it.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But we spend nearly $200 billion just paying salaries. We spend the most because we are also an expensive country to live in and that means paying the folks who volunteer a decent wage.

We would have to significantly downsize the military personnel and pretty much operate as homeland defense only.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This comment doesn’t even make sense. For example, the USA government spent 37% compared to the GDP.

If you mean 10% of government spending towards science then that question makes sense.

The USA spends about $75billion of the $800billion defense budget on R&D. It spends another $120billion on non-defense R&D.

Which is about 1/31 of federal spending for the US.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s for the opposite of what that person said. It’s for the people who also want their neighbors to maintain their property. Whether that’s through hiring contractors or doing it themselves.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t know about the UK but in the USA slavery was abolished in the 1865, but equal rights weren’t granted until 1965. All the states were not in full compliance until the early 1970s. You could easily argue there are people still alive today directly affected by slavery.

Making slavery illegal doesn’t mean everyone suddenly starts hugging in the streets and bigotry is abolished. I’m sure these same sentiments persisted in UK but hopefully not as long as it did in the USA.

[–] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with Signal besides requiring a phone number?

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