And why the hell do the stormtroopers wear all that armor if one shot kills them?

Only one of these things draws media attention

Whats that? Trans people?

Big Homeless

Earth don’t give a fuck. It’s been hot. It’s been cold. It’s been filled with poisonous gasses. It might be any of those things again. Earth could care less about us and is probably about to show us where we stand.

4° is as dense as water gets. After that it starts expanding as it turns into ice. Which is how ice floats. It’s one of those miracles of nature. If ice sank things would be very different.

Dead. Gay white MAGA? Dead.

Except for Peter Thiel. So far.

I called my mother by her name. My oldest brother started it.

It makes the police state more efficient.

somebody needs to punch the bully in the mouth

It comes pre-installed with “Your Palantir Pal” AI assistant.

You should read Flatland it’s an awesome book and blew my mind as a young textile geek.

I’m not sure the way out of this mess is through more transactional relationships.

This is a plot point in An American War

Hadouken handshake

The only way that you can stop a crazy-killer-robo-taxi is to have your own craxy-killer-robo-taxi.

Craxy-killer-robo-taxi don’t kill people… Oh wait, they do.

Dude, politics is a system that society has created to prevent change. When you get that, the western system of governance makes more sense.

You’re looking at it from the wrong side. Imagine a politician saying, “we’re starting a new tax, 20% of your income”. You ask why, what’s it for and he says “everything!” how keen are you for that?

All taxes were created one at a time and sold to people individually. Politicians said “we need money for x, we need to tax y to pay for it”. Run for office on a platform of eliminating all taxes with your omnibus tax reforms and we’ll see how it goes.

I think because when a tax is getting implemented the people want to know exactly why they pay it and what it’s for.

Here we have school boards that manage a very large area of many schools. The taxes of many municipalities pool to fund many schools. These tax systems are old and probably very hard to change. I’m sure there are better ways to do things but the political might to change the system isn’t there.

I’m all for tax reform, but people need to understand what taxes pay for what stuff. I’m sure municipalities would like a different way to generate revenue than property taxes as well.

In Canada we like “sin” taxes on bad for you things. The lottery funds schools, liquor taxes fund health care for example.

I want to pay and gladly will for community enrichment,

Most people say this and I agree. And then the comment under you is complaining about paying property taxes which directly pay for these things you’d like to see funded.