Yes, because the propaganda states that paying 8000 to a private company is better than paying 2000 to the government

Interesting article, but it misses the point of what phone assistants are used for. Any widely used assistant is going to have to be able to check the weather tomorrow, set a timer, turn on and off your smart lights, and do math. Anything less trains the user not to use the assistant.

This poem is also a funny meta-joke because if you add 4 to 9 in an analog manner you will roll over and get 3

Hence if you misunderstand the underlying technology, you will end up wrong

A vacancy charge could also help reduce the critical point where rents start to fall.

This also promotes the mindset that housing is a place to live and not an investment vehicle, which is the real reason rent is so expensive

Now consider if the price is prohibitive even for high-income earners

Factory idled
Loads cancelled
Docks idled
Ships skipping ports
Harbors slow
Ports idled
Customs backed up (due to policy whiplash)
Rare container trucks
Empty warehouses
Canceled routes
Restricted hours
Night stocker layoffs

🎵 it's Eugenics 🎵

//(pardon my levity, the world is burning, rfk wants people on lists, and I need a damn break)

Big mood, here's their "taxpayer protection pledge" which is pretty much required by the republican party. The lack of reasonable taxation is bleeding public resources dry.

atr.org/about-the-pl...

I need bookmarks for my "read later" / reading list

Too many good book suggestions get lost to the feed......

As a South Dakotan who has shame over the sins of our past, and out of respect for the Native People who were here first, NO!

They got to her, she said some things like: "guys, maybe stop starving children in "

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yeah, but fixing any of that might require raising taxes, the one thing every republican vows and swears never to do

Student loans aren't dischargable in bankruptcy