I suspect they might have meant the other end

Oh gotcha, I didn’t realize you were pointing out the contents of that article, rather than the rule lol

Straight newrepublic link for me, either OP changed this within 12 minutes of your comment before I loaded the page, or something weird is going on for you, maybe some sort of caching and you got an older version of the post? Which client do you use?

You probably interact mostly with people living in the west. Most of us in the western world live on significantly more resources than the global average. True equality on the scale of the whole planet means most of us lose our standard of living. If you do it on the basis of just one country, then that creates an incentive for people capable of earning more money in another country, to move to that country. To deal with that, you need to ban people from leaving the country and…

It’s easy to see why communism tends to work best as a dictatorship. You need to use violence to keep the people in line, otherwise they’ll want more than their fair share. Free markets (especially the labor market, being able to choose your own job is pretty nice) give people a sense of agency, even if it’s misplaced.

Mm pickled pearl onions tho

You could try pawning your husband off on my ex-wife. She has all of the same “restrictions”, but also bell peppers and garlic. Oh and no fish of any sort, except for herring, which she’ll eat tons of whenever pregnant (which I think would be most of the time if she could)

I think this is unseasoned boiled chicken breast

The problem is that, legally speaking, the lower receiver is the gun. So you can buy all the other parts online with no background check etc.

Makes you wonder if there’s a more sensible way to classify things legally… Probably not.

Top 1% … holds 32,5% of the wealth

And people over 55 own 73% (most of the top 1% that isn’t tech billionaires, are also old people after all). Start taxing corporations more and they won’t be able to retire the way they have, so they’re naturally against that. Good luck figuring it out without magically increasing birth rates to have more workers per retiree, or having your old people live in squalor so young people can have better lives (potentially driving up birth rates if they feel they can afford children)

He loses if he loses his majority in congress. If he keeps it, he wins. Simple enough.

1. Yes he can if he says he can, he has the majority in congress and the supreme court backs his every move.
2. Doesn’t matter.
3. Incidentally also doesn’t matter, Trump only needs the optics for midterm elections

If it’s a regular phone number, of course your regular call rate would apply though? Only special numbers get exemptions usually

That wasn’t a wealth tax though? That was an income tax and only on the top bracket. Very, very different things.

Super artificial intelligence

Nice!

Any other dangerous critters in Australia that one should be aware of though? I’m aware of all the memes about how everything in Australia wants to kill you, but I have no idea of the reality and haven’t ever been myself - probably want to visit one day because I know you guys have some really beautiful nature, but it’s far enough away that the cost and flight time make it somewhat of an ordeal compared to a 3 hour flight to another corner of Europe for a weekend getaway

The car has a confederate flag on the roof and it’s named after a confederate general. Whether or not the characters of the show were racist or not (I can’t tell, I’ve never seen the show), this is absolutely a good joke to make about the car.

Looks like a cross between aussie and NA ones to me, I can’t find one that look exactly like this for any country. Otherwise it could even make sense since powerline ethernet adapters are a thing.

Not sure if some weird smartphone AI magic might’ve straightened up an aussie outlet? Either way, it’s… weird. Not even sure why this photo needed to be genAI, routers like this aren’t all that uncommon

Edit: I think someone used AI to “sharpen” this even blurrier image from ~2 years ago as details have changed and the right side of the image has been cropped, but the overall image shape is the same

But even so we’re probably the safest country in the world to get bitten by a spider

Why? Do you have antidotes for all common venomous spiders readily available, or are there just not that many of them in reality?

Wait no this wasn’t 10 years ago it was like 3

With -10C you might keep it as warm as 20-22C inside, usually with -20C and lower and an air source heat pump, you’re probably going to keep it a bit colder to save on electricity.