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Ghost Guns...
Basically, it's a term to describe a gun assembled from parts (usually bought online) and has no manufacturers serial number. By purchasing a kit or individual parts, someone can build a gun that cannot be traced back to a manufacturer or gun sale allowing the owner/purchaser to get around the legality of registering the firearm.
That's a new twist on the phrase "If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns."
That's a new twist on the phrase "If guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns."
Singles in the middle ages
Around 1000 A.D. taxes were still payable in goods, though there was money, too. Mostly thin silver coins cut out from hammered silver sheets. These coins were called "denar" like the roman silver coins.
At this time there was an important monastery in Lorsch with much real estate and income from the peasants.
Taxes on farms were for example: a pig and a sheep annually, a horse and a certain amount of wine or an ox, eggs and a few denars.
Every peasant had to plow about two acres of dominion land three times a year and had to work three days of the week for the landlord.
Every single man or woman had to pay 369 denars tax annually for being single.
Denar from Schwäbisch Hall, a city producing salt in the middle ages
At this time there was an important monastery in Lorsch with much real estate and income from the peasants.
Taxes on farms were for example: a pig and a sheep annually, a horse and a certain amount of wine or an ox, eggs and a few denars.
Every peasant had to plow about two acres of dominion land three times a year and had to work three days of the week for the landlord.
Every single man or woman had to pay 369 denars tax annually for being single.
Denar from Schwäbisch Hall, a city producing salt in the middle ages
The more people we get on this lovely planet,
The more people we get on this lovely planet, the more confrontations we will have!!!! So fight for your rights and fight for your space.?
An individualist
The majority of people live in groups or feel related to a group. The group is often strong or close.
Then it is almost impossible to avoid, berate and criticize other people from (the thought of) a group. It is rather concern, arrogance and rejection than jealousy, I think.
An individualist (or your own secretary if you like) will not easily start gossiping in my opinion, because he /she is going completely his own way. Standards and values ??will often be clearly different..........
Then it is almost impossible to avoid, berate and criticize other people from (the thought of) a group. It is rather concern, arrogance and rejection than jealousy, I think.
An individualist (or your own secretary if you like) will not easily start gossiping in my opinion, because he /she is going completely his own way. Standards and values ??will often be clearly different..........
Are you a good actor?
Are you a good actor?
That is completely fine and completely normal. But some people are such good actors that they struggle to stay. They always pretend differently than they really are. They think: "I have to behave differently than I am! Otherwise I am never liked, I get no appreciation or I am not accepted by others. As I actually am, I'm just not interesting enough, not nice enough or not successful enough
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That is completely fine and completely normal. But some people are such good actors that they struggle to stay. They always pretend differently than they really are. They think: "I have to behave differently than I am! Otherwise I am never liked, I get no appreciation or I am not accepted by others. As I actually am, I'm just not interesting enough, not nice enough or not successful enough
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Of course there's a word for it. Covidiots...
There is a word that describes people who hoard dozens of rolls of toilet tissue.
The same word describes people who go against public health advice and ignore coronavirus warnings.
They are called Covidiots
Covidiots. Yes, Covidiots that's the newly coined word in the Urban Dictionary.
The same word describes people who go against public health advice and ignore coronavirus warnings.
They are called Covidiots
Covidiots. Yes, Covidiots that's the newly coined word in the Urban Dictionary.
New York & other US states make changes to improve the policing problems.
Today from The New York Times;
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In response to:
N.Y. Bans Chokeholds and Approves Other Measures to Restrict Police
The state became one of the first to make major changes in police practices in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, which has spurred nationwide protests.
June 12, 2020 Updated 10:35 p.m. ET
New York on Friday became one of the first states to take meaningful action to restrict police forces after the killing of George Floyd, banning the use of chokeholds by law enforcement and repealing a half-century-old law that has kept police disciplinary records secret in the state.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the expansive package of bills less than three weeks after Mr. Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, which has since sparked widespread civil unrest and demonstrations against police brutality and racism.
New York City also took tentative steps toward meeting protesters’ calls to “defund the police.” On Friday, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, said the Council had identified $1 billion in cuts to the Police Department’s $6 billion budget, and would urge Mayor Bill de Blasio to agree in advance of the July 1 budget deadline.
Mr. de Blasio quickly rejected the proposal, while indicating that he was open to further negotiations over the size of the Police Department. “The mayor has said we’re committed to reprioritizing funding and looking for savings, but he does not believe a $1 billion cut is the way to maintain safety,” said Freddi Goldstein, Mr. de Blasio’s press secretary.
A similar reckoning is occurring across the nation, as lawmakers are weighing various changes to police tactics that may have exacerbated racial disparities in law enforcement. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an immediate end to the use of “strangleholds” last week, saying such use of force had “no place any longer in 21st century practices and policing.”
In Washington, where authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Park for President Trump to stage a photo op at St. John’s Church, the District of Columbia’s Council unanimously passed a sweeping series of changes earlier this week, including prohibiting the use of chemical irritants, riot gear and stun grenades on demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights.
A few hours after Mr. Cuomo signed the bills in New York, Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa signed a similar measure into law on Friday. The bill, passed unanimously by the Iowa Legislature the night before, also included a ban on most police chokeholds and empowered the state attorney general to investigate police misconduct.
And in Minneapolis, where Mr. Floyd was killed on May 25, the City Council voted on Friday to seek “a transformative new model for cultivating safety in our city” just days after vowing to dismantle the city’s police department. But even there, change would take time — months if not more, and not before a citywide vote and rounds of bureaucratic wrangling.
The obstacles to the kind of sweeping and immediate changes made in New York could also be seen in Minnesota’s State Capitol, where an ambitious package of police reforms proposed by Democrats faced an uncertain future.
Republicans who control one legislative chamber said they would oppose some of the most far-reaching changes, including restoring voting rights to felons or putting the state’s attorney general, rather than local prosecutors, in charge of investigating killings by the police.
The clash over how much change lawmakers are willing to accept in a state that has become ground zero of a new movement to address racism and police brutality shows how difficult it may be to bring real changes across a patchwork of state governments and in a divided Washington.
N.Y. Bans Chokeholds and Approves Other Measures to Restrict Police
The state became one of the first to make major changes in police practices in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, which has spurred nationwide protests.
June 12, 2020 Updated 10:35 p.m. ET
New York on Friday became one of the first states to take meaningful action to restrict police forces after the killing of George Floyd, banning the use of chokeholds by law enforcement and repealing a half-century-old law that has kept police disciplinary records secret in the state.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the expansive package of bills less than three weeks after Mr. Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, which has since sparked widespread civil unrest and demonstrations against police brutality and racism.
New York City also took tentative steps toward meeting protesters’ calls to “defund the police.” On Friday, the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson, said the Council had identified $1 billion in cuts to the Police Department’s $6 billion budget, and would urge Mayor Bill de Blasio to agree in advance of the July 1 budget deadline.
Mr. de Blasio quickly rejected the proposal, while indicating that he was open to further negotiations over the size of the Police Department. “The mayor has said we’re committed to reprioritizing funding and looking for savings, but he does not believe a $1 billion cut is the way to maintain safety,” said Freddi Goldstein, Mr. de Blasio’s press secretary.
A similar reckoning is occurring across the nation, as lawmakers are weighing various changes to police tactics that may have exacerbated racial disparities in law enforcement. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an immediate end to the use of “strangleholds” last week, saying such use of force had “no place any longer in 21st century practices and policing.”
In Washington, where authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Park for President Trump to stage a photo op at St. John’s Church, the District of Columbia’s Council unanimously passed a sweeping series of changes earlier this week, including prohibiting the use of chemical irritants, riot gear and stun grenades on demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights.
A few hours after Mr. Cuomo signed the bills in New York, Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa signed a similar measure into law on Friday. The bill, passed unanimously by the Iowa Legislature the night before, also included a ban on most police chokeholds and empowered the state attorney general to investigate police misconduct.
And in Minneapolis, where Mr. Floyd was killed on May 25, the City Council voted on Friday to seek “a transformative new model for cultivating safety in our city” just days after vowing to dismantle the city’s police department. But even there, change would take time — months if not more, and not before a citywide vote and rounds of bureaucratic wrangling.
The obstacles to the kind of sweeping and immediate changes made in New York could also be seen in Minnesota’s State Capitol, where an ambitious package of police reforms proposed by Democrats faced an uncertain future.
Republicans who control one legislative chamber said they would oppose some of the most far-reaching changes, including restoring voting rights to felons or putting the state’s attorney general, rather than local prosecutors, in charge of investigating killings by the police.
The clash over how much change lawmakers are willing to accept in a state that has become ground zero of a new movement to address racism and police brutality shows how difficult it may be to bring real changes across a patchwork of state governments and in a divided Washington.
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The many faces
do you know all those faces?
How do you find the courage to allow all those faces of yourself and to take off your mask? ....... From childhood we have learned to adapt, first to our parents, later to the teachers, our friends, the society ...
We also learn to show our best at young age. We hide the "faces" that are not appreciated, that are distorted, behind a "mask".
That very special mask, only suitable and suitable for you.
A mask behind which you can hide your "true face". Sometimes so good that you do not remember what those faces of you look like. When you show your true face, you become open and vulnerable and nobody wants that anyway?
And then there comes a time when your mask will pinch and you want to lose it.
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Here is a serious question
Here is a serious question I wonder about. Do we live in a world with REAL problems and REAL situations, or do we live in a FAKE WORLD with FAKE SITUATIONS? Is the world we live in a REAL reality, or is the world we live in a FAKE reality??
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