If they’re using fake papers to work, they’re paying income tax (and payroll tax is paid for them as well) but can’t file for a refund or unemployment insurance payments. They pay into Social Security but won’t be able to collect it (though I think anyone under 50 can probably relate to that).

When they buy things, they pay sales tax like anyone else.

They pay their landlady’s property tax if renting and pay it themselves if not.

I am not arguing for surveillance

just parroting the talking point of those who are?

beans

Doesn’t really keep my bike where I expect it to be, though, does it? So what does all that violation of human rights actually buy us?

1880, right after the Great Fire

Ha! The police don’t pursue crimes against cyclists.

The needs of the many cannot outweigh the human rights of the few.

Find a nice squat, I suppose. Then get to work on securing a new legal identity.

If MAHA has their way, the path to success is bootlicking Glorious Leader with pulling up our own bootstraps to stomp on the underclass.

They’re not conservatives. They want to conserve nothing. They seek only to destroy anything in the way of their own power, like all fascists.

Junk removal is expensive and if you’re outside of a municipality all trash pickup is done by private arrangement.

Seven years isn’t a bad halflife for a social-media platform. That’s about how long thefacebook was actually usable, that’s about how long I was active on reddit, that’s about how long I was posting on my blog every day. That’s significantly longer than I was using livejournal or iLike.

Nope. No thank you.

20 if I can get away with it, 18 otherwise

and NEVER socks

just a regular Chicago dog

Mewphistopholes

I loved my old job and being forced out was both sudden and heartbreaking. It’s been almost two years and I still get a pang through my chest when I see something that reminds me of it. It’s like a bad breakup, in that way.

Now this I can get behind!

What distinction are you making, here? Everybody seems, to me, to be a black box that only relates to others through their inputs and outputs. How else can I like someone, if not by what they put into the world?

Feudalism was worse, and despotism was even worse than that.

Is that a typo, or you’re looking for a community based on casual racism?