If the cash register can manage to figure out granularity in the local taxes, so can the price tag printer. Updating tags every couple years after an election might be a pain, but it isn’t exactly a herculean task - they seem to manage it in places where tax-included pricing is required.

The problem is, as you say, no one wants to be the hero: No business wants to appear more expensive than competitors, and no legislator wants to be the one to make cost of living appear even higher.

What about how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?

No? Pitiful!

Turns out, they’re both!

Uninformed straight white guy here: Drag does not intrinsically share the sexualization commonly associated with modern use of the term burlesque. But, yes, a burlesque show that doesn’t mistakenly assume that burlesque is entirely about stripping/nudity might in fact be available for children.

It’s the only argument he’s got.

Algorithmic propaganda bubbles and tribalism.

But that’s the best part: they bribed a few senators so they could buy up all their competition.

Because the corporate propaganda is that their LLM’s are trustworthy.

Non-wage income is what’s explicitly exempt from taxes. What bigger “fuck you” to the working class can you even imagine?

And yet they keep managing to convince the working class to vote for them.

The rules need to be rewritten. The house speaker and Senate majority leader both have WAY too much power. No single individual should be able to dictate what the entire body does, nor have sole decisionmaking authority to decide what bills can and cannot be voted on. And it should take a majority vote to call a recess.

But also, please rip off my shirt if it might save my life. I’d rather be immodest than dead.

My 14yo hates the current AI but says most peers are using it and can’t understand how to write an essay or such without it.

I think only some of the kids are alright. Many, if not most, are in trouble.

And immunity can wane over time for some. I had to get the MMR series again when I started nursing school because I tested negative for rubella antibodies.

A problem here is: how many people with 20+ years on their mortgage are suddenly owing more than the house is worth? If my house’s value were to drop by half tomorrow, I’d be stuck and unable to move because I would still need to pay as much as the previous values in order to move somewhere else.

I don’t know how we fix that, but I don’t think it’s an insurmountable barrier to making housing affordable.

They’d given us enough bread and circuses to prevent it. What surprises me is that there weren’t any copycats - perhaps they were foiled by increased security or just not reported on.

There was a sign right there telling them what not to do and they still failed.

Your first point is so huge IMO. If you can’t enjoy being at your own home then trying to have some kind of fulfilling life is going to be a steeper uphill battle than it already was.

Been on the dating apps recently. The number of people who present “travel” as their entire personality is unsettling. Every photo somewhere exotic, every prompt answer is about traveling. It makes me wonder what they’re all running from. I don’t disagree that vacationing can be enjoyable, but there’s more to life.

And don’t get me started on the people who try to say that “traveling” is different from “vacationing” and that what they’re doing is travelling and not vacationing. Egads.

I went to a megachurch as a teenager. The kind with seating for thousands but still had two Sunday morning service times because everybody couldn’t fit into one.

The preacher loved to talk about how Christians are a persecuted minority.

Er, what? On what knowledge or experience are you basing that assessment of their claim? The ratio can vary widely depending on the specific job, but they’re not wrong. I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner at a psychiatric hospital. My previous role at this facility was in the ball park of 2-3 hours of chart time per 1 hour of patient face time. In my current role it’s more variable, but it’s still around 2 to 1. Mind you, that’s not all just typing notes or checking boxes - both roles necessarily involve a fair bit of reviewing of records too. And I’m not counting coordinating with the care team, communicating with family members, staff meetings that don’t pertain to patient care, mandatory training time, etc. etc…

On automation, I can’t speak for others but I don’t see much automation of my job happening before we have artificial general intelligence, which current “AI” plainly is not. Even using AI just to do automated visit summaries wouldn’t be useful for me given how much time I spend talking with patients about the content of their hallucinations and delusions, which is something a LLM simply can’t understand in any meaningful way that would allow for a logical/useful summary.

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