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> The problem is Eumenes wants his school to be funded by everyone else's property tax.

Where did I say that? I said it'd be nice if one could route their state/property taxes to school of their choice. That seems pretty dang fair. Taxation without representation doesn't.

My local school district pays $17k/year per student ... how much more money do they need?

I'd love to redirect my property/state taxes away from my local failing public school system to the private school I send my kids.

> How can Europe continue to exist like this.

By continuing its place as an economic zone for tourism and refugee resettlement.

Lol I was talking to a friend who is a web dev and works for a large company in the social gaming space. He referred to the "Civility" team which is just censorship and content moderation, plus sending mental health notifications if you've been playing/spending too much. I'd rather dig holes or shovel shit over working for a mobile game companies "civility" team.

Its wrong!

> Sunsetting supplier diversity efforts

Why the hell would a company pick vendors based on the sexuality or skin color of the owner or whatever?

You're just mad you didn't invent it first!

America's poor use EBT/food stamps to buy massive amounts of junk food, including billions on soda. Those same people are almost 100% on ACA or state health insurance plans and milking the tax payer on treatment for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. There is no way, in my mind, it is feasible to fund these lifestyles and provide the treatment for it. Its absolutely insane.

Good, these things are for dumb people anyways. Don't worry tho, they'll be back and more convincing.

Why would I trust what Denmark does? This was Denmark's Minister of Health, a severely obese woman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_De_Block

Okay, now apply those guidelines to vulnerable members of society who purchase groceries via EBT/food stamps. I don't think soda, ultra processed foods, or candy would count?

Can someone explain whats going on in this pic of Bidens and Carters? https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-government-and-polit...

I don't think its antisemitic to divest from a country involved in a questionable war ... but thats not really a conversation for this thread. Fwiw, I disagree with it in general, because small town politics should be focused on small town issues, not active management of pension fund allocations based on political issues.

The woke city council in my town spends the first 15 mins of every meeting on land acknowledgements, followed by 30 mins on how to divvy out needles to the "unhoused" ... followed by divesting from Israeli companies in their pensions (a good cause, but it just adds to the irony).

Silicon Valley: How can we DOUBLE that?

Is having 75% of your H1B visas from Indian nationals not a national security issue, a BRICS nation? https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/h-1b...

Can they quit this "non profit" larp already? Is this some recruiting tactic to attract idealistic engineers or a plan to evade taxes, or both? Sam Altman was offering crypto-alms to third world people in exchange for scanning their eyeballs. There is no altruism here.

At this point Mozilla is a political organization masquerading as a web browser.

> The best option would probably be to travel back in time

And finish them off in 1945

Look what Ancient Rome accomplished with lead pipes

Get ready for RFK Jr to be called "racist" for this. The NCAAP screams wolf everytime this comes up: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minorities-soda-lobby_b_25411...

> At the same time I feel like people should be able to make their own decisions and if you are already having a hard time, why not be able to get a small treat with a soda or something?

Is this satire? "The government should pay for your diabetes syrup cause you're having a hard time and want a small treat?" Sorry no, that is akin to tax payer funded booze, cigarettes, or drugs.

What do you call ambulance chasers, but they go after tech companies? Cause this is that.

Yeah, cause they're all on SSRIs, mood stabilizers, legal meth via ADHD drugs, and beta blockers.

Its truly hideous. Old City Hall is beautiful. Why can't we build nice things anymore?

same. i live very rural and my urbanite co-workers are literally mystified when they hear i don't have doordash or uber eats delivery (we get some credits for team lunch). like "how do you eat?" level of questioning.

Its already a rich persons hobby. So rationing would suggest subsidizing travel domestically by the rich, for the less rich, but still globally, very well off.

> It is estimated that around 95% of the world’s population has never experienced air travel firsthand.

https://www.ncesc.com/has-only-5-of-the-worlds-population-ev...

You think private jet flights outnumber commercial ones?

I'm all for making travel more expensive. Mostly to remove the trashy and rude people from the equation. I don't care about C02 but I do enjoy seeing megalomaniacs like John Kerry and Taylor Swift lecture us plebs on climate/social justice, but fly private jets everywhere.