The US only taxes the difference between the country’s tax amount and the US tax amount, at least. Someone living in Sweden may not have to pay anything while someone in Thailand may owe most of their taxes to the US. It still is wild that they demand tax money from citizens all over the world though.

Drug addicts looking for scrap metal aren’t much different. They look through abandoned structures, sneak around armed “hostiles”, and sleep wherever there are no enemies.

The animation (and this meme) have been around for way longer than modern AI. IIRC I remember seeing this meme in 2019.

As far as I know, they don’t even bring drug dogs into US airports. They are almost exclusively explosive-sniffing dogs. The TSA doesn’t look for drugs in the first place.

Perhaps it’s possible US customs could be using drug dogs, but I have never heard of that regarding airports. I could be wrong though.

Halal white sauce is superior for sandwiches, meats, and dipping sauces. Mayo might be better for tuna/egg salads but it’s an indictment that you have to drown out the flavor of mayo for it to taste good.

“Waste heat” is a relative term.

Airlines were one of the first to enshittify this way in the modern age. I think a lot of the current executives took this story to heart IMO.

Anything that would cause real economic damage and put power back in the hands of workers will be treated as “illegal” regardless of what the books say. But what could they realistically do, arrest everyone in their homes who didn’t go to work that day?

Wildcat strikes are “illegal” in the sense that your employer is allowed to retaliate with firing you or docking pay if you do so. I highly doubt someone’s going to prison for not showing up at a regular job.

I think they are referring to the US Speaker of the House refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva after she won a special election in Arizona.

Adguard DNS tends to block ads in apps pretty well in my experience.

This is why I think large companies with lots of trucking should be paying a lot more taxes for roads and bridges. As it stands now, ordinary citizens are subsidizing them while they turn around and raise prices off the back of this. Corporate welfare for nothing in return

“Indicia” is the correct word, “indica” is the cannabis species. They’re probably not fond of the latter.

Agreed, the beginning of the end of involuntary-only censorship happened when Tiktok got popular. The older generations try to find the limits of allowable content on platforms (within reason) but the younger ones effectively self-castrate everything they post everywhere. And it’s because one app owned by a Chinese company is a bit strict about it. It’s disappointing.

There can be entire communities that know of no one that voted for the opposite candidate. That’s what helped feed the “stolen 2020 election” narrative. Some truly think that Trump should have won in a landslide because “No one I know likes Biden, how could he have won?”.

Reddit used to really drive me nuts, in the work-related subreddits, where everyone used to say, “Your co-workers are not your friends.”

Reddit is full of the asocial “leave me alone” types (or at least used to be) that make every excuse to not to socialize with others. Taking their advice to heart is an easy way to become a miserable person. There’s lots of nuance between “set up barriers in front of everyone” and “share every detail” and they seem to lack that.

this means that you get more economic growth by giving those rich people more money to spend, not by lifting up the other 90%.

This is probably true for industries like fashion, but I disagree with this point applying in general. There is only so much food, gasoline, and paper products an individual is willing to buy, no matter how rich.

The restaurant industry, for example, would collapse as we know it if most non-wealthy people suddenly don’t have any extra income to spend on prepared food. They need velocity in orders just to remain open at all. I doubt most places could remain open off of a few rich people buying a lot.

This isn’t to say that they won’t stop extracting more from the lower earners. Many of them would be fine killing off industry if it makes themselves richer. I personally think all of it’s a short-sighted cash grab that’s gonna keep poisoning the economy until something changes.

That’s assuming they even pay attention to anything international other than Ukraine or Israel (many don’t).

Here, your comment doesn’t get completely buried if you make one on a popular post. Part of that is the lack of heavy volume, of course, but I also feel like the sorting is more favorable to less upvoted comments.

Cocomelon would have been a proper choice for OP to argue. It’s sensory overload brainrot that causes addiction rather than any sense of morals.

It’s effectively “Liberal people twitter” with all posts being about politics, especially discussing Musk and Trump. I think it changed around the Covid lockdowns.