That’s just the excuse Democrapitalists have always used to maintain the status quo, even when they had a majority some years back, they still then claimed repubs held them back. It has always been their tactic to win votes, get into power, do nothing. (There are a few exceptions like Sanders, Warren, AOC, Michael Bennett, but few and far between.)

I bet they are!

Single-stream is great from an effort perspective, if you believe the lies, but much is just diverted to the landfill or plastic bundled up in bales for some magic future when it might be recyclable. As others mentioned though, aluminum (and glass) for the win.

Serious question: How do you go about sitting for 2 days straight without going mad? Obviously you can get up and walk around, but it doesn’t seem like the most comfortable way to travel. (Although still, probably more comfortable than an airplane for that duration.)

She’s useless, she should have gone into trashy reality TV instead of governance.

We should have never voted to allow sports betting in the first place, back in 2019. It is a stupid thing that just prays on the weak and easily-addicted right up there with all the games in the app stores these days.

It narrowly passed (in 2019). It should not have. We don’t always get them all right.

Oh man, seriously, regulations are the only thing keeping people safe or it would be junk fees all the way down. Take wireless phone service in the US right now, the main carriers say you have a rate plan of x, but then they tack on all the taxes and fees they have to pay and pass them onto you, saying they’re taxes you have to pay. The price also then varies depending on where you live, in some places the “taxes and fees” can add $15-20/month to a single phone line. Nowhere near the advertised price.

Now, once or twice a year, they also add on new made up “fees” whenever their quarters aren’t looking as profitable as they expect, so you’ll see another $5/month or $7/month charge tacked on.

Then they don’t let you pay your bill with a credit card if you want an “autopay discount” - a discount that used to exist for carriers to encourage people to stop using paper billing.

More and more people are switching to paper billing and mailing in checks just to make those companies have to waste more money/resources for being so dickish.

If they were regulated, they’d be forced to just have a flat price, you could pay with any money, and they’d still be profitable, and the bill would be less confusing.

Or we were forked into a garbage timeline to keep the main timeline from being irreparably harmed.

Talk about false advertising. Tried to order contact lenses on Lens dot com the other day for someone. Advertised price with rebate seemed reasonable. Create account, (as they require that to proceed) go on about choosing options and filling in info.

Only at the last order page, do they tack on $250 of “taxes and fees” (even though it’s a medical device so it’s not taxed) and then try to explain away in an info widget that taxes are “stuff we may be charged but we’re just making up this bullshit number.” Oh, and they charge shipping.

1800contacts did not do either of these things. LensDirect seemed equally non-bullshit but their prices were a bit higher.

How many people get scammed by the “taxes and fees” field figuring, “welp, I guess that’s just the price of America.”?

Edit: de-hyperlinking the lens site, they don’t deserve any clicks, only hate.

You didn’t even miss the misplaced comma. Check mate. (Edit, I jest, but just asking the question means you don’t know and are probably a dev. Making something work one way is easy. Covering everything the dev missed because horse blinders takes skill. The best developers are ex-QA engineers.)

Good QA is much more difficult than dev. If you got that down good, dev will be cake by comparison.

100% yep.

The media seems to have no standard on using terms and switches them willy-nilly to net the better headline.

I really wonder what a rebooted from scratch ethical police force would look like. A force with honor and integrity and all those words they print on the side of the cars. A respected, well-paid job.

You know, something like what they show on every TV program airing on CBS, but real.

Hang in there. I’m hopeful that the numbers seem to be trending back down towards small cult status. But a lot has to change, rapidly, if we get through this next election time stop this slide into hell.

I always hoped we’d have a Star Trek type future minus World War 3, not Hunger Games being historically accurate.

But they choose to not. One of those cake and eat it too scenarios.

A territory like them is eligible for Federal money from various programs, while not having to pay Federal income tax. If they became a state, they’d then have to pay income tax, lose benefit of the free program money, but be allowed to vote.

If you don’t want to fully commit to the whole package and are milking the advantages of being a territory, should you really get a right to choose how the package that is being taxed and giving you free money is steered?

(Oversimplification, of course.)

If I were a member of a territory, I don’t really know where my thoughts would land.

However, as one that is taxed, it seems that allowing the untaxed to choose our taxed destiny would be disingenuous.

I mean, Bezos doesn’t run that either. Might as well just stop using every stock in his portfolio by that logic.

Get Amazon employees to unionize and take back the ship is the answer there. Amazon is annoyingly too big to be affected by even a large grassroots protest.

Sorry, that’s not how it works with people stuck in a loop. It’s a very American problem, if you aren’t American. Not sure if it was the leaded gas, or what, but some people are just broken. The person you want to change needs to want to, and be able to change for your idealism to work. Otherwise you’re just building a delusion around a fixed point to fit your viewpoint while that person remains unchanged.

It’s terribly sad, really.

One can feel how one feels, however, the boomer generation’s brains are locked in a time loop. They can’t be changed. It’s like visiting someone with alzheimers. It’s quite sad and frustrating.

Oddly, the silent generation peeps are more adaptable.

It is always projection. There have been previous Republican voters fraud cases in the last election(s).

At least it’s an easy alert for what problems to look for. If they’re declaring “the other guys” are doing something, they’re already doing it themselves.