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Cake day: July 26th, 2025
  • Ch3rry314@piefed.socialOPtoNews@lemmy.world•Trump directs Pentagon to 'use all available funds' to pay troops during shutdownEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I have some thoughts:

    The fact that government shutdown prevented federal workers from being paid (a huge portion being the military) was a large portion of the Democrats’ leverage as public sentiment decreases the longer the shutdown persists. If the military is able to be paid, the shutdown will certainly continue as there is less pressure on either side to agree.

    The military is able to operate on a limited basis with unobligated/emergency funds, but is not ‘funded’. If the pool of available money is used to fund personnel, it will certainly reduce readiness as pre-planned activities will not have funds to proceed or for emergencies. There is also certainly not available funds to repeat this multiple times.

    In FY 2024 the DoD’s total budget was about $873.5 billion, and compensation for active‑duty, reserve and retired troops accounted for roughly $191.9 billion – ≈ 22 % of the total budget.

    That means this move will cost about almost $16 billion per month assuming everyone including retirees are paid. The Pentagon has identified about $8 billion of unused research‑development, testing and evaluation money from the previous FY that can be redirected, but that doesn’t seem to be enough and again, a one time use.

  • Ch3rry314@piefed.socialtoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•Starmer used land tax dodge to avoid inheritance taxEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I honestly feel like good people are in short supply. Maybe it’s just a truth that since no one is perfect, we must accept ones faults.

    Should we judge others by who they were, who they are, or who they will be?

    On what metric should we boost our leaders? Those who get stuff done? Those who share a similar sentiment and belief?

    I’m disappointed in the direction Starmer has gone from where we thought he would take us.

    His actions got him where he is. Should we look for leaders who will offer hope despite where they came from?

    Can we move on from past transgressions on the hope that a better future lie ahead?

  • Ch3rry314@piefed.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•ImpossibleEnglish
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    2 months ago

    General over use of acetaminophen, contrary to the common belief that it caused autism, made humans allergic to consuming animal milk products (lactose intolerance). However, more than just giving one gas, consuming dairy products now results in death.

    Our great world leader, Elon, felt pitty on us and provided us all with Neurochips, which allows us to synthetically taste dairy once again after a quick image scan.

    This woman exhibts caution by covering her mouth and nose and enjoys a timeless vanilla ice cream.

  • Ch3rry314@piefed.socialtoJellyfin: The Free Software Media System@lemmy.ml•Solution for 1-click random albumEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What are you trying to do exactly? Add full albums to a playlist queue in a random order?

    Edit: removed.

    In this video, I showcase a couple ways of adding albums to a queue. From thw album menu, tapping the play arrow loads the whole album in the queue (replacing the queue). You can long tap to select then three dots add to playlist -> add to play queue. Finally from an album page, you can click add album to play queue.

    I thought I figured it out, with the group select on multiple albums then the three dots, but it only adds the first album selected. Sounds like something that could be requested in a future update for multi-album adds via a group select.

    Does this help? I’ve been impressed with the official app and tried a few unofficial ones, but this seems to have all the utility and features I want.

    Edit: forgot to add if full in order albums isn’t what you’re after, there are other options including the app making a random Instant Mix of songs of the same genre.