What, you think eggs grow on trees!?

Supply and demand means that when when supply goes down you need to lower demand some way to stay in stock.

Most places raise prices to stay in stock. My local Lidl has eggs for like $2.70, but they limit 4 dozen per customer to lower demand

Are they in a row?

I really liked the movie, and I believed he did some of those things - like impersonating different people and doing check fraud - but I figured most of it was massively embellished to make a cool movie.

Too many of the things they claimed he did were impossible to get away with unless everyone else in the universe was dumb as hell.

lol I loved that movie.. my poker handle is BlankCheck lol

https://www.austinmonitor.com/data-graphic/austin-police-department-budget-2012-2022

>During the 2020-21 budget process, City Council cut $31.5 million from APD’s budget, citing the protests and “community outcry against the disproportionate impact of police violence on Black Americans, Latinx Americans and other non-white ethnic communities,” according to the approved budget.
The following year, however, Council members approved a record-high APD budget – more than $443 million.

What this doesn't say, though, is that the operational budget was still cut and the increase in overall Police Budget was because several other operations that were moved out of APD were then merged back into APD and/or expanded the next year... like the combined city dispatch center, additional calltaker support, etc.

Austin, today, has fewer sworn officers on the streets but also a higher response times to priority calls, than previously, indicating it's not keeping up with demand despite taking street officers off of nonviolent property crime calls. A significant chunk of that budget increase was in non-sworn positions and 311 calltakers to deal with those issues, where APD issues a case number over the phone for non-violent property crimes (and never follows up).

Seems like they just boiled up the essence of what the platform has become under its new majority owner.

Defund was always the wrong word. Audit would have been more appropriate. And imply that their would be some accountability against precincts that shield bad cops.

He pretty much admits that it's all fake in the intro to his book.

A movie about the con of a con who conned Hollywood? Sign me up, again.

I bought just 6 eggs at the grocery store on my last trip. The only other choice available was in a carton of 18 for over$8.00 . I could have taken two at 1.75 for six but really only needed the smaller size. It is a matter of marketing and fear.

Not in this trying time, they can’t.

It was George Santos all along!

And where was that? I haven't seen a single major city that actually reduced police budgets. Tons of people talking about how "oh, they reduced police budgets and then needed police, ha ha!" but in literally every one of those cases (including this one, as San Fran increased its police budgets since 2019, https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-department-funding/12321818/ ) the police budget went up and police usefulness continued to go down, and the "its because of defund!" was nothing but propaganda.

So which actual cities did this happen in?

FOR FUCKS SAKE WE KNOW. WE KNEW 20 GODDAMN YEARS AGO.

Now stop posting this shit on every fucking subreddit.

If "defund the police" didn't mean "get rid of police," it was a terrible mantra to begin with.

Mean what you say and say what you mean.

I have my own ducks.

Twitter doesn’t have a press team.

This is so meta

No, I know nothing about opex vs capex, but neither do most of the tax paying public calling for smaller department budgets, they just look at the overall spending then see the military looking equipment on the road and say "why aren't we spending those tax moneys on helping people instead of hurting them".

I mean, opex and capex both come from OUR taxes right? The police department isn't selling stamps to pay line level salaries like the postal service. How our money is split and the system of budgeting in place is irrelevant to the person paying the bill but SOMEONE is responsible for deciding what money goes where.

I've always felt "defund the police" is, or at least should be aimed at THAT person. No one thinks a dude in blue and a badge is making the budget for the department. We all understand THAT guy is wearing a suit and tie sipping coffee in an office somewhere, but for some reason the lower rank and file seem to think that WE think it's up to them. As a union worker I'd never call for another union worker to lose their job over budget cuts, equipment spending should always come first. (Well really management salaries should come first cause they're always the most bloated but realistically I know no one making the budget is ever going to cut their own salary, looking at you top level politicians)

I thought this was common knowledge. Lol

It’s the Lieception

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I can see the chants now

DEFUND THE POLICE BUT KEEP THE SAME NUMBER OF POLICE OFFICERS!

doesn't really roll off the tongue but hey