Article 1, section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises […]

You do not need to be part of opec to sell oil. The US, UK, and Norway, just to name three, are not members.

https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

Pretty sure Hilton will just sell you one

I’ve left it at the default

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.

I’m at 17, no lie.

During the 2022 cycle I made the mistake of donating to a lefty cause, and this year I was getting up to twenty (20) grifting emails a day. Just a few well-crafted email filters later, it’s down to zero. For texts, as soon as one comes in it’s “block and report as junk”. I’ll keep this up until I have every fucking number in the US listed as junk I don’t care.

She not even a boomer, she’s Silent Generation

Their idea of a “tech worker” is an angel investor

Por que no les dos?

The subscription is entirely optional

Edit: i mean that you can use it perfectly well without one, all you’ll see is a banner ad at the bottom. It’s how ive been using it for years now

They probably just need a drink. Offer them a Molotov Cocktail.

Zeno. The name is Zeno.

I’m trying to picture wearing a sock on one foot, and underwear on the other…

Way back around 2010 or so, when Siri was still new, it was really bad and I found myself regularly cussing her out. I thought that might be bad to always associate these things with a woman, so I switched it to a male voice, intending to toggle back and forth every so often. I’ve yet to switch back.

Xeet. Pronounced like you think it is.

Someone might be going in for an annual checkup, so you can’t just assume that something is wrong.