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There isn't a multiplication symbol though. By your logic something like 8÷2x would mean (8÷2)*x because order of operations

Or if you read 8÷2√x as (8÷2)*√x

Just notate 8÷2(2+2) as 8÷2x; x=(2+2) and you get it, you can substitute any complete expression with a variable in an equation and the logic stays the same.

unironically yes, except instead of a lenovo thinkpad it's a lenovo legion

Because mean income is a useless metric in most contexts due to it being extremely warped due to outliers (billionaires) since this country has the worst income inequality in the first world by far..? Do I get a trophy now

ah yes, supporting the party that mostly wants to destroy gay rights and theocracize the state as much as they can, very tolerant of you. i thank you for your courage to enable these politicians to encroach on basic civil rights despite not hating gays, non-christians, and immigrants as much as they do, so you can pretend to get lower taxes and pretend that small businesses are doing better even when almost all republicans cause the complete opposite for people who aren't billionaires and are more against development that every single other country on earth has implemented into law because it's so obvious how important it is to humanity like universal health care, paid vacation, and parental leave – which is pretty funny when you consider the US most years spends over half of its budget on healthcare/welfare/social security yet has

And people in the US have a much lower median wealth (net worth) than those in western Europe, despite having lower incomes and allegedly "super high taxes" (most don't, except like Germany), meanwhile the mean net worth in the US is egregiously high in proportion to the median net worth because of the massive wealth inequality. If you make under like 700k then you get taxed more in Texas than you do in most of Europe, for example.

But yea I'm sure the pros of being Republican outweigh the cons voting Republican entails like worse healthcare, awful underfunded and outdated education, terrible infrastructure, high taxes for lower & middle class people, next to zero worker's rights, letting companies control what you can do with and how you can use the shit you bought (to the point where you don't own most of the stuff you buy). I mean, how else can you support stripping away the hard-fought victories and liberties of minorities like LGBT and disabled people while acting like you're not implicit?

I suppose you could say the guns, but Republicans don't give a shit about your 2nd amendment rights either lol, they vote yes for almost all of the gun laws that conservative voters complain about anyways.

Not to say Democrats are the solution, but obviously they're generally leagues ahead of Republicans (which is a low bar nowadays to be fair). I mean your prime presidential candidates were Trump and DeSantis, seriously? Even Biden is somehow better than them, and it's not even close, wtf.

I'm from not-urban Georgia and I (and most other people) say "guys" a lot too

it would 100% be a hellscape, you're expected to conform entirely and deviations from what's expected socially are frowned upon significantly, it is extremely lonely if you can't be a carbon copy of everyone else. especially if you're a foreigner or have non-asian-looking parents, japanese will never really see you as "japanese", at first they treat you like a tourist but then when that wears off you're seen as below others

it's one of the most conservative cultures on the planet in a lot of ways, perhaps the most conservative in the first world (although it shows it in some weird ways like in respect to the heavy objectification/dismissal/sexualization of women in japanese culture, it doesn't look like "western" sexism a lot of the time). same kind of stuff applies to korea

from an outside perspective, and a tourist's perspective, japan and korea seem like they'd be amazing places to be, beautiful and a lot of fun stuff. but for most people it's just depressing, even for the people living there – great hint as to why the suicide rate is so high, you get practically no support and everything is incredibly superficial

so yeah i would say a pretty awful environment to be in if you're neurodivergent/have a disability in any way, shape, or form, or have any differences that would make you stand out (even so little as being racially different is enough to be ostracized). also the economy is pretty stagnant if you care about that

some people have different experiences, a lot of people love japan, but it's not for a majority of people. but as with anything, if you seriously want to move somewhere you should at least do your research yourself and take a lot of visits beforehand

if you want a "don't bother others" culture you might like finland, it's pretty much like that – i mean they also have an extremely high rate of depression but the culture isn't extremely oppressive like japanese culture is

another suggestion could be eastern europe

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_derogatory_terms

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_offensive_terms

these aren't phrases but they're words

That's a bad example, because at that point Yugoslavia couldn't have existed without Tito – he was an extremely authoritarian figure that cracked down on any sort of controversial thought hard. Having an intelligent dictator as the unifying force isn't a particularly good strategy, and Yugoslavia was bound to fail without an authority forcing it to stay together. There were many human rights violations done to keep the peace and equality in the nation.

Yugoslavia also wasn't exactly as "communist" as other communist countries, they allowed private ownership of property and business and relied a lot on surrounding capitalist countries to have a decent standard of living and economy.

Solodarity strikes are illegal in the US, the UK, Australia, and the Netherlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft%E2%80%93Hartley_Act

Truman vetoed it and railed against it hard, but of course a corrupt and fiercly communist-paranoid congress overrode his veto.

Ah, so if my kid gets made fun of for having odd-brand shoes, or harassed by a friend group for not banging one of the guys in it, that's not bullying. I see, you've solved all my parental challenges

I've personally found the most conventionally attractive socialists to be wayyy hotter but that's just my experience.

... you've never heard of bikes, or legs, or car sharing if you need to transport stuff? you don't need to own a car, it's unnecessarily expensive and bad for literally everything

the only reason one would need to own a car is if it's tied to their job

even if you disagree with this assessment, the technology in this post would almost certainly only be applied in cities, it would likely be restricted to a portion of where trains would be except be far less useful, while taking up tax money that could be used for actually important things

also the US has a higher percentage of the population in urban areas than Europe (82% vs 74%) – the US has a lot less small & isolated villages/towns and historically immigrants to the US always came to large urban areas – and US states are comparable in size, population, economy, and arguably self-governing capacity to European countries (the EU can practically be treated as a soveirgn state itself, in most cases), it's reasonable to say that something that can be implemented in Europe can usually be implemented in the US with a similar level of success, in theory.

Lmao no they ain't. You ever seen Marjorie Taylor Greene? I'm pretty sure she's so vehemently anti-trans because people always mistake her for being trans, and that pisses her off. She doesn't even look trans, she looks far far more like a man than any MTF could even if they tried, she's just... a hairless gorilla.

I'm not even trying to body shame, I'm just saying she is definitely not aligned with societal standards for how women should look (not even close), and that's something I see with a large amount of conservative women. There's this one popular-with-conservatives woman on Twitter who's name I forgot who just goes around saying how women should be in the kitchen and how we should genocide fat women, and it's so clearly because she's annorexic and extremely conventionally unattractive so she feels the only way to appease to men and seem attractive to them is to give up her dignity + shame others for not having the only "good" quality she sees in herself (being skinny). It's kind of sad but this is probably the most common shtick you see with popular conservative women.

Seeing one person or even a few people that have a certain quality that are from a certain group doesn't mean every person from that group has that quality. There's a lot of ugly Republicans and a few attractive ones.

Birds are too powerful to need to use a beg button

and public transit is either dirty, unreliable, or unsafe?

Or non-existant. See: most of the US (please send help, passenger rail doesn't exist here and I live less than an hour from a city)

This shitty strategy is fairly used in the tech industry because most people are clueless about tech

Ah, so like every manager and client to ever exist in software development. I see

me. i do

we should shoot it down just for the funny

"Mathematically impossible" my ass, everyone commutes 2 hours to the nearest city because work outside of urban areas is unsustainable. And no, the county has had a steady high growth rate for around 3 decades by now because of the prestige from Atlanta rubbing off + low cost to buy a house make Georgia seem appealing to middle class people, and aggressive advertising by the county makes people move here, it's not "dying".

"Local standards of living" are what I gave you, that's what statistics say. If you don't like science you can just say so. Hell, it's not that hard to just Google "median income in Georgia" (spoiler alert: median personal income is $30,000, which is very clearly unsustainable).

In this day and age, it's near impossible to survive out of school if you don't have family willing to pay for you. Hell, if I didn't have family to fall back on I would probably have been in the streets starving rather than be getting my degree.

Louisiana is possibly the most corrupt state in the entire country, I don't think they'd ever even come close to changing that