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Hi there!

Welcome to this month's Site Update!

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Profit & Loss – You can find this month's Profit & Loss report here. The previous reports are here. Admin – I'm working with the mods to make adjustments to the Guidelines and Content Policy based on the feedback from this thread. Our aim is to have clearer policies that allow us to step in and avoid derails and comments aimed at enraging other members and where we can set clear expectations with the members who get moderated. Fundraising – So far, we have raised $5,281.00 in one time contributions (17% of our original goal) and $200.00 in new Subscriptions (8% of our goal). We still have a lot of money in the bank, so while this is not where we wanted to be, there is no imminent emergency. On one hand I'm deeply grateful for the contributions received so far and we'll make the best of it but on the other I know the frustration this generates. We were hoping to have the new entity in place before the fundraising started this year. Since last year's run, we knew we would not be able to spin a full fledged campaign while rebuilding the site; moderation has been busier than usual in the past few months. That being said, we decided to move ahead with the fundraising and do our best. I'm still running to continue with the activities we had planned and we'll keep going with the fundraising activities until we're ready to give access to the new site for testing (more details on that below). Then, we'll put copies of the Pet Tax wall and Cookbook for sale and proceed with the Podcast. Tech – Early access to the new site has been delayed in order to include more complete features and actions that users can test and kirkaracha and I are expecting to make it available by Sunday, September 29. – Added affiliate links to bookshop.org – Fixed multiple errors connecting to external APIs – Server fixes keeping maintenance tasks running without breaking BIPOC Advisory Board – Thyme and I will resume our work with the BIPOC Board this month. Next meeting is scheduled for September 21st. Once the meeting happens we'll report back on our plan to get back on track with the minutes and the cadence of the work with the BIPOC Board. If you have any questions or feedback not related to this particular update, please Contact Us instead. If you want to discuss a particular subject not covered here with the community, you're welcome to open a separate MetaTalk

Hi there!

Welcome to this month's Site Update!

You can find the last update here.


Profit & Loss – You can find this month's P&L report here. The previous P&L reports are here. Admin – You can read the latest updates about the MetaFilter Community Foundation here. – We are still going over adjustments to the Guidelines and Content Policy based on the feedback from members. So far we're planning on expanding guidelines specific to each subsite and we'll share a draft of these changes on a separate Meta post once it is ready. Fundraising – We have raised $11,959.00 in one time contributions and $340.00 in new Subscriptions. These contributions are a huge lift and we'll work with the Community Foundation to put that extra revenue to good use. We'll wrap the fundraising by the end of this month with the release of the new site's MVP, the MeFi Cookbook, the Pet Tax wall, the AMA Podcast and a special Halloween Virtual Gala. Tech – Early access to the new site is delayed due to some issues with the new host service. kirkaracha is working as we speak to fix it and we hope to have it ready later this week. – Fixed geolocation bug with IRL that was blocking posting. – Removed time limit on Projects posts. BIPOC Advisory Board – Thyme and I will resume our work with the BIPOC Board this month as the previous meeting was canceled. Next meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, October 21st. Once the meeting happens we'll report back on our plan to get back on track with the minutes and the cadence of the work with the BIPOC Board. If you have any questions or feedback not related to this particular update, please Contact Us instead. If you want to discuss a particular subject not covered here with the community, you're welcome to open a separate MetaTalk thread for it.

Hello, folks. I would like to know 1) if it's common practice for mods to edit users' comments without any indication of a mod note, 2) when this practice began, and 3) if it's been disclosed as a community practice here. As a member of the mefi community it's certainly something I would like to provide feedback on!

I noticed that a recent dumb joke comment of mine was altered at some point after it was posted. The comment in question:

Where's the mugshot. There are no known photos of this guy after like 2006 Found it. (Content warning: gory image) posted by phunniemee at 3:22 PM on October 22

The bold text--the content warning--was not added by me. There is no mod note either in my comment or elsewhere on the thread indicating that this was edited in any way. Was my comment in poor taste? Yeah sure, many of the things I do are. If a comment picks up flags, please delete it. Or add a content warning that says "MOD NOTE: CONTENT WARNING FOR GORY IMAGE" if you must. That's the community I have been a part of--moderation by deletion with active mod involvement in the thread. I absolutely do not want to be in a community where people's comments are EDITED by a mod without any indication that the text was written by someone other than the poster. My own comment here and the relatively minor edit is about as stupid as it gets in the specific, but I'm feeling genuinely scandalized right now and deeply uncomfortable to find out that our mods are editing users comments in secrecy. I've been on metafilter for a decade and a half, and I know the people here only because of the things that people say online. It's important to me that our names are appended to the things we actually say. This is a staggeringly bad path for metafilter moderation to take and I think the community needs some disclosure on how often this happens. [phunniemee's note: Loup did reach out to me over email to explain that this edit followed the policy from the FAQ to add a content warning where deemed necessary by a mod, but that it was an error to not leave a mod note or to let me know the edit had occurred. That the mod team has discussed and agreed that a mod note will always be included in the future. I appreciate that individual errors happen and I believe it's most likely that this was an edit made in good faith. However. There have been a number of mod calls this year that have eroded the faith that I have in the ongoing moderation of the community I love, and I would like to continue forward with this metatalk to ensure we continue to be a community that's moderated thoughtfully and with active user engagement.]

Share something good or nice in here. Someone excellent win in your district? Kid or grandkid get a good job, or accomplish something hard? Maybe you found a welcoming, progressive group in your community? Maybe you'll enjoy A Post-Election Day Poem by Rebecca Faulkner, assembled from words sent in by the Reasons to be Cheerful community.

Or maybe you just need to watch a couple golden retrievers jumping into giant leaf piles. There's still time to sign up for the end of year gift swap or join the holiday card exchange. Please put your (extremely understandable) doom, hostility, anger, upset, fightiness and horror somewhere that is not here, thank you!

Updated at 8:47 a.m. ET The coronavirus pandemic has pushed unemployment to its highest level since the Great Depression, but the pace of layoffs has been easing. And there are now some signs that the job market could slowly start to recover. The Labor Department says another 1.87 million people filed claims for unemployment insurance last week. That's down 249,000 from the previous week. While still very high by historical standards, the number has been declining steadily from a peak of 6.8 million the week ending March 28. In the past 11 weeks, 42.6 million new claims have been filed. Continued claims for unemployment went up 649,000, to 21.5 million, in the week ending May 23, the latest week for which data was available, after dropping the prior week. While some workers continue to get pink slips, others have started going back to work. The payroll processor ADP reported Wednesday that private-sector employers cut just under 2.8 million jobs between April and May. That's a much

Our national fascination with sourdough starter appears to have stopped. Or at least slowed down a bit. The price of baking flour fell last month along with the price of eggs, suggesting that the baking craze that gripped hungry and housebound consumers in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic has cooled. "Sourdough is definitely a commitment," says Kristin Hoffman, who makes instructional YouTube videos for aspiring bakers. "I have heard a couple of people say that they really don't understand why somebody would want to put so much effort into a loaf of bread." Hoffman's Baker Bettie website saw a surge of interest from first-time bakers in late March and April, when tens of millions of Americans found themselves stuck at home with time on their hands. "I saw four to five times higher traffic than even during peak holiday-baking season," Hoffman says. "It has started to kind of level back out, now that things are reopening." Even if the bake-off was a turnoff for some, people

Ever wonder if a podcast could go to space ? Or ask why a $60,000 bag is always out of stock ? Or want to learn the secrets of snack vendors at a baseball game ? Do you want to find connections between a huge IPO and a Greek new age keyboardist ? Are you the kind of person who finds delight in a report from the Federal Reserve ? Are you a meticulous (and speedy) fact checker? Do you have ideas for improving our Twitter , Instagram and TikTok ( yes ) game? We are looking for TWO interns this fall: One to work on Planet Money , and one to work on The Indicator from Planet Money . You will be working remotely, like all of us. But you'll be part of our daily meetings, regularly scheduled edits, and weekly happy hour. This moment is unusual, we know. We consider it an opportunity. We are especially interested in candidates who might not otherwise be able to move to NYC for an internship, or people who might not usually apply at all. We still expect you to be a fan of the show, be eager to

Updated at 5 p.m. ET Employers added a record 4.8 million jobs last month, as the U.S. economy continued to slowly bounce back from a deep and painful coronavirus recession. The unemployment rate dipped to 11.1%. Job growth accelerated from May, when revised figures show employers added 2.7 million jobs. Loading... "Our economy is roaring back," President Trump told reporters in the White House briefing room. "It's coming back extremely strong." What's odd this time is that the closely-watched monthly jobs report offers a snapshot of the economy that was already somewhat out of date as soon as it was issued. The Labor Department report reflects conditions from the middle of June. The COVID-19 outbreak has since been accelerating in many states , which could put the brakes on the nascent economic recovery. Investors welcomed the positive jobs news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 92 points while the Nasdaq composite index hit a new, record high. "This is not just luck, what's

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money 's newsletter. You can sign up here . Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images Craft beer sales are surging at stores, but craft breweries are still struggling. Cheap beer is surging, but it's still losing market share. That's because the economics of the beer business are complicated. (And that's before you start drinking.) But the beer business can tell us a lot about the last two recessions. Take Natty Light (seriously, take it, we don't want it). Natty Light falls into a category that the beer biz calls "subpremium" — a category filled mostly with beer that closely resembles water. After over a decade of decline, the pandemic has pushed subpremium beer sales up big time. According to data from IRI, a market research company, store sales are up over 11% as compared with the same time period last year (early March to late June). This surge has happened *despite* the shutdown of colleges, frat parties and beer pong. Subpremium beer

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Today, the contested future of SF's Great Highway. Then, a community group that’s building trust for better health. And, we honor Barbara Dane’s life and revolutionary music.

Today, we look into how elections are structured. How our ballots are designed. How ranked choice voting actually works. And, the people who work to ensure our elections run smoothly.

Today we go inside San Quentin’s mock elections. Then, we hear about comic books and mental health — for veterans. And, the passionate mix of music and movement of Flamenco.

Do you need to be perfect to be saved? How do you live a perfect life in a wicked world, and how perfect do you need to be to be saved?

Some people have perfect hearing, but they don't hear God. The Lord wants to heal our spiritual hearing.

We are all called to be ambassadors for Christ.

We are not saved by works, but how we live our lives shows whether or not we are truly Christian.

“The sweetness of the Bible lies in the possessive pronouns,” (Charles H. Spurgeon). The Lord is YOUR deliverer, Your help and Your salvation. The Lord is OUR strength, Our power and Our victory. Do you believe it ? Join us now as we learn to believe the truth and not Satan’s lies, to believe in His power and in His sure word, to trust Him, to see others as our Father sees them, and thus love them as He loves them; and to believe His prophecies and keep His testimonies. Grasp your Lord, lay hold on Him ! Study with us now !

"Don't worry about Hell if you're planning on going to Heaven," but how do we even get to Heaven ? Do we have to be perfect ? Do we have to be baptized ? What does it mean to reflect His image, how do we glorify God ?... Friend, are you ready ? The moment of truth is soon approaching. Tune in now to study with us the answers to these questions and more ! 1.- Can science prove the Biblical record of the sun standing still and moving backward ? 2.- Revelation 21 verse 4 says we will not remember the former things. What are the former things ? 3.- Regarding Matthew 26 verse 28, what covenant are we currently under ? 4.- What does Revelation 14 verse 13 mean when it says, “Blessed are those who die in the Lord from henceforth” ? 5.- Who are the 24 elders in Revelation ? 6.- Biblically speaking, what does the word “glory” mean and what is it ? 7.- Is the true Sabbath calculated by the phases of the moon ? How can we be sure which day of the week it is ? 8.- Does the pope’s sixth encyclical have any significance ? 9.- What does the Bible say about hell and the judgment of the wicked ? 10.- What does Matthew 5 verse 48 mean when it says, “Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect” ? 11.- Can you sell your soul to the Devil and, if so, is it reversible ? 12.- Regarding 1 Corinthians 5 verse 8, what does Paul mean by saying “keep the feasts” ? 13.- At the Second Coming, if a woman is pregnant will the child be raised in Heaven ? 14.- According to Matthew 12 verse 45, are there different levels of wickedness with evil angels ? 15.- According to the annual feasts in Leviticus 23 verses 1-3, does the weekly Sabbath change ? 16.- Did Ellen G. White predict the Second Coming ? What do I tell people who claim she did ? 17.- Is 1 Samuel 16 verses 16 and 23 saying that evil spirits come from God ? 18.- Is Satan an angel ? 19.- Does a person need to be baptized to get into Heaven ? 20.- Can anyone perform a baptism? 21.- Do we know anything more about the mark that was placed on Cain when he killed Abel ? 22.- Why are there gates in the New Jerusalem if there’s nothing evil on the outside ?

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The decision followed a landmark 2020 decision that said much of eastern Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation, limiting the authority of state prosecutors.

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, testified that the former president directed his chief of staff to reach out to Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, who had ties to the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

That the House panel did not provide the Justice Department with transcripts of Cassidy Hutchinson’s interviews speaks to the panel’s reluctance to turn over evidence.

In a forceful speech, the congresswoman also denounced Republican leaders who had “made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.”

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Panelistas opinaron que decisión era la esperada; confían en que Fiscalía actúe con independencia y esperan que proceso avance con rapidez.

Panelistas creen que cambios deben ser con enfoque en derechos humanos y calidad de reclutamiento; otros creen que podría significar un retroceso.

Panelista creen que no se pueden “cortar cabezas” antes de tiempo; señalan que mantenerse beneficia a la institución. Otros creen que por honor se debe apartar.