ClanOfTheOcho @ ClanOfTheOcho @lemmy.world

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"Yeah, gee, it'd be a real shame if someone came in and messed up your nice place of business here. But you know what? We can protect you from those sorts of lowlifes. We sell, you could say, a type of insurance to protect you against that happening."

• 355,000 years ago. Article indicates no such findings in recent human history. In case anyone was wondering.

No, no, the black sharpie on the maps clearly indicated encirclement. /s

There are already too many deserving charities for my pocket book. Giving money to an unrepentant Trump voter who got exactly what he voted for gets my sympathy, but not a dime.

Please please please

Last I saw, he moved back to the UK and was struggling to find a job. The sudden, unexpected lack of communication is certainly concerning.

Any idea how to access the pop-up text on a phone?

Officially, no, but I bet they've had some choice words about Boeing executives in their private communications, and "stranded" would likely have been the least extreme terminology used.

I love this plan.

Where's the Trump "I did this" stickers like I saw at gas pumps with Biden, anyway? At least this one would have some semblance of truth to it, with the bird flu mismanagement.

• Twilight Zone
• MASH
• Malcolm in the Middle

Exactly. Every vaccinated person is another unlikely vector to pass the disease along further, and we're all better for it.

Not to argue with the article headline, but the stupidest line was crossed long ago. The administration is just padding their stupidity score at this point.

Good trouble

You have the right answer here. Too many people wanting us to separate into two opposing groups before it is absolutely necessary. Which is exactly what those hoping for the demise of the nation want. Putin knows he can't deal with a united United States, but if we're too busy fighting ourselves, well then, he's in the catbird seat.

Why are the Democrats making everything so expensive?!

/s

I'll take "How to raise taxes for the lower classes without them noticing?" for $1200, Alex.

For an over-simplification, let me present 2 people living in a world where most everything is imported and most everything has a 25% tariff applied.

Steve lives paycheck to paycheck. Every penny he earns is spent. On top of his income tax, sales tax, and whatever other tax he pays for the right to purchase or use something, he also pays that extra 25% on everything for tariffs, which goes to the federal government. Just like a tax, but with a different name. On more or less 100% of his income. So, effectively, the tariff is an additional 25% tax on Steve.

Thermadore III, however, is a trust fund type of guy. He flits back and forth between the beach and the golf course, with no real job, and no real contribution to society. He pays a lower income tax rate than Steve on most of his income, because it's from long term investments rather than money he had to work for. But because he only spends 10% of his income, he only pays the additional 25% tariff on a fraction of his money. 90% of his income is allowed to grow, tariff free, until such time as he decides to pull some extra cash out for another yacht. Which his accountant will probably advise him to purchase through a shell company registered with some country in the Caribbean, thus avoiding the extra tariffs, anyway.

Again, it's an oversimplification. But placing large tariffs on vast amounts of stuff that normal people must buy is absolutely raising taxes on the little people.

Edit: grammar isn't supposed to be this difficult

I'd like to see links, or at least screenshots, to these supposed outreaches, looong before we start accusing people who would apparently be warning us of such recruitment efforts as disloyal. Sounds like it's just fElons trying to justify their past imbecilic actions by post dating the firings with "and they're disloyal, too!"

Stupid Andrew Jackson and his stupid horse face making things difficult centuries later.

And now I see why he chickened out of the fight with Zuckerberg. Zuck vs. the X Fail Whale. Would have been epic.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like Zuck, and would have been cheering for him to clumsily trip as he was led from the ring, but I do have my preferred order of courses in my billionaire buffet, and the Elon course comes first.