I don't pretend to be an expert on thai food, so I can't speak to the "traditional" way to prepare it, but in my experience pass thai being spicy is about 50/50 at restaurants I've been to, and there certainly isn't anything wrong with asking it to be made spicy
We see that it's good for the individual politicians in the short term. But frankly I don't know how anyone can look at the long term effects trump has had on the party over the last decade and not see that he's utterly destroyed their party cohesion.
The GOP has never been more divided, more without unified purpose, and it's more or less entirely in the control of one highly unstable demagogue who clearly only cares about his own personal power, not the party at large.
Trump turned the GOP into an absolute joke on the international stage, and has driven more young voters away from the party than any other conservative figure in recent history.
And all that's before you even start to get into the damage being done by the "Trump wannabes" like MTG and Desantis while trying to emulate Trump
The better question in, why can conservatives not see that Trump is the rot at the head of their party, and their only hope for a future is to cut it off before it spreads
No one will convince me that there isn't money laundering going on there. There's just no way an actual person looked at that and thought it is worth that kind of money
And yet this sounds exactly like the kind of "more righteous than thou" condescending comment I saw on reddit all the time. But when you're doing it, it's alright, yeah?
The job of an elected representative isn't to do what they want, it's to represent the people who elected them. The people elected a Democrat as a mayor, and no they have a republican one.
The two parties operate on fundamentally different platforms, so I don't see how he can both switch parties and stay true to what he promised voters when he was elected
I think a big part of the difference is that most people get addicted to cigarettes just by being around it, rather than seeking it out. Cigarettes don't get you high/drunk (well OK, you get a small buzz early on, but nothing like weed or alcohol).
People will seek out weed even when it's illegal because the risk is worth the reward (to them), because it comes with an intense high you can't really get anywhere else. I don't see nearly as many people seeking out cigarettes in the same way, unless they're already hooked.
I don't think it will "solve" the cigarette problem, but I do think that prohibition for cigarettes won't go quite the same route as prohibition for weed and alcohol.
Now, whether I want the government to be able to ban recreational substances just because they think it's bad (or use that as an excuse) is another question
The most optimistic interpretation is that they're getting off the floor so that deals can be struck "behind closed doors" and then hopefully come back with an actual solution.
The most likely reason is that representatives are lazy fucks who only actually work like 50 days out of the year
Absolute best case is house arrest imo, and I'm sure his lawyers will make sure it includes the entirety of his resort, so basically nothing will change
For what they're known payscales say they'd pay a dev with my experience? No way in hell. It's only slightly more than I make now, and I'd have to go back to the office and work for an evil company (though I'm in Insuretech today, so that bit might just be a lateral move..). Plus I live in a low CoL area today, so a bit more money would actually mean a substantial QoL drop.
Now if we're talking stupid money, like $600k/year, then yeah I'd suck up going to the office and abandon my morals. Frankly anyone here who says they wouldn't do it for any salary is kidding themselves
I think it's an age thing yeah, but also it just comes down to circumstances. Id imagine that the people who are just packing up and moving to different countries every year for work don't have a large family/friends support network around them
For me, moving to a different country would be a nightmare in more ways than I can count, I've got pets I'd have to arrange transport for, a wife I'd have to get on board (can't even imagine if I had kids), all our family and friends are from the state we live in today.
But if you already had family/friends in that country, or if you were solo and your fakily/friends were already a distance away, then it wouldn't be so bad
I don't pretend to be an expert on thai food, so I can't speak to the "traditional" way to prepare it, but in my experience pass thai being spicy is about 50/50 at restaurants I've been to, and there certainly isn't anything wrong with asking it to be made spicy