Switching out progressive taxes for regressive taxes, nothing to see here.
People earning under $50,000 actually get double fucked, since they were exempt from the income tax of 4.25% before, and now they will have to pay the new “lower” 3% income tax AND the new sales tax.
Fuck you poor people.
All of it.
He controls the house, the senate, the supreme court, and the presidency.
Even if he didn’t, controlling the presidency and the supreme court likely lets him bypass congress with a little bit of finagling.
No shit.
This is literally in the first paragraph of every economics textbook when they talk about tariffs.
Because our economic system is capitalism.
This is literally how it’s all supposed to work.
If you want real estate to be different, you’ll need to get the government to pick something else (for at least this industry)
You can survive on very little, it just will be a lower quality of life than previous generations which feels bad, but you do what you need to in order to get by.
The simplest way to deal with all of this is to actually perform the financial calculations to see what’s the best situation for you.
A $80,000 a year job in a city may actually leave you with a lower quality of life than a $40,000 a year job in the middle of nowhere if you’re spending $4,500 a month on rent for a two bedroom apartment in the city, and it would only be $1000 for a two bedroom house the middle of nowhere.
Calculate some possible budgets for different areas and different lifestyles, and find out what works best for you. Being in a city is not as good as it used to be financially speaking.
If you’re having trouble “surviving” either way, you need to figure out how to reduce your costs and/or up your income.
Common things like sharing a home (with a partner or roommate) can reduce your costs massively, trying to live alone is pretty stupid financially right now.
Learn how to cook things yourself, it’s not hard with Youtube these days, you can massively slash your food budget by not eating out or buying pre-made food. One of the stupidest things I see is people picking up a second job, making very little per hour, and then spending 6 hours of their income on a dinner from a restaurant (eat in, eat out, doordash, etc.). You would have been better off just buying decent meal ingredients for 2 hours of your wage, and then spending 1 hour cooking and cleaning. Then you’ve got 3 hours worth of time back that you can either use to work for more money for other things, or just not bother working at all to have more time for you.
If you’re stuck in a dead end low wage job, invest time in getting new skills that will enable you to get a better job. It’s never too late to retrain for a better position unless you’ve already retired.
The second part of your statement is pretty weak, those are very rare situations.
Far more useful to point out that a lot of people do it out of despair, peer pressure, or even just for fun while already intoxicated. Someone who’s massively depressed, being pressured by “friends”, or trying opioids for the first time at a party while already drunk are not in their right mind in terms of making an informed decision.
However, the first part is spot on.
We don’t usually blame people who become addicted to things, because it often isn’t as intentional as the OP is making it out to be in their question.
I want her to hire an aide to monitor Johnson’s bathroom activity, and then intentionally join him in the men’s room every single time to make him uncomfortable by grunting away in a stall.
Malicious compliance is the best revenge for this bullshit.
You asked for one example, I gave you one. Literally the incoming commander in chief committing a war crime 4 years ago.
I mean, trump pardoned a bunch of us government contracted (by the military) mercenaries who were convicted(by a US federal Court) of killing Iraqi civilians in 2014. The act of pardoning such criminals is in itself a war crime, and occurred in 2020.
Those of us who paid attention to the election are aware that leopards like eating faces.
If the logic is “selling these is causing war crimes” they’d have to defined the entire US military. The US regularly breaks the same laws.
I’ll enlighten you, It’s a bad idea. Engineering intentionally contagious things is far too likely to go wrong.
If you turned up at their door randomly, and they’d feed you and let you sleep at their house for a night while you’re passing through, they’re family.
In some ways, friends are family too.
This it the real answer. It’s usually just easier to do it because it’s the expected situation.
The real answer is you can’t actually contract for illegal things, the contract is void from the start.
I paid 8 Euros for 1L of Coke in Germany 15 years ago. To be fair that was at Oktoberfest… I think the beer was the same price.
I agree though, too expensive for day to day consumption.
What in the hell are you eating?
I’ve never had a stain that wouldn’t come off with normal cleaner and a toilet brush…
Are you baking it on with the hair dryer after you drop a deuce?
Happening to me on lemmy.ca as well.
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It’s stolen in the fact that these people are using Image-2-Image generative AI. That means that his original image is directly used as an input to make the resulting pictures, which then compete against his original image for attention on the internet. Fewer people will then see his original, and perhaps purchase one of his carvings.
Is it “real” theft? No Does it harm him? Yes
It’s a very tricky situation, given that there’s no way to stop it. We cannot shove this back into Pandora’s box. Even if you made it illegal, it would be almost impossible to enforce in a court because of the lack of jurisdiction across borders.
I suspect our culture is about to see a seismic shift again, I just don’t know how yet.
There’s a few things here.
The government doesn’t actually know who’s illegal or legal unless they specifically check a physical person. It’s not like they maintain a list of “illegal” people. Your name gets recorded when you enter the country legally, but it’s not recorded when you leave. If you fail to leave, they don’t really know until they find you and match you to the entry. If you entered illegally, there’s no record at all.
Second, You could easily use a fake ID or fake identity to get a cellphone and the carriers wouldn’t give a shit as long as the bill gets paid. It doesn’t even have to be under your name, maybe it’s under your friend’s account.
Third, I’m not sure how prevalent this is, but you don’t need a “cell” phone to have a phone. A lot of poor people just have a device that can connect to WIFI, and make calls through an app or just message.