Sovereign governments collect taxes to destroy money, not to fund things. They can fund things by creating money from thin air; the taxes are to remove money from circulation and control inflation.

What the hell are you even talking about?

Jesus. When I was in college we’d catch the C-Train (subway) to Esso Plaza for the dollar-seat second-run cinema, which had Pulp Fiction playing.

Go play with one. It’ll get serious FAST

That would be epic.

My dad invited me to meet him at work, one day. It was a bad week for me and the new step-mother getting along, and so I wasn’t surprised. We took a little walk from the shop and stopped to chat.

“I’ve given you all 25 years of my life,” was when the conversation changed, mid-speech. “Now it’s time for me. It’s my time.”

It was how he invited me to go live with my mom, or just go. It began a bit of a formative time filled with stress and anger, and I daresay we’ve not been the same since.

Just a big beautiful orange tabby boy. He’s got the floof and the face. He’s genetically blessed either way!!

Wow. That’s a great list, though.

Describe, in single words only, the good things that come into your mind… about your mother.

Did that one still have some Dunki DNA on it, or was she long gone by then?

You laugh. I dream of this.

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People who proclaim others are Grammar Nazis generally may need to focus more on spelling and less on cheesy melodrama.

WW2

You’re gonna hate to learn they needed to be paid-off to get into that conflict. “But but but mercenaries for the good guys that time” doesn’t hit so hard.

How much flame-point ragdoll is that?

(Btw our old ragdoll does the piloting as well, but so she can inspect lights, off or on, because she’s fixated on lights. We do ‘rounds’, sometimes. Our young ragdoll cannot be arsed to interact that much yet as she’s in that phase)

Without context? Yeah.

I downvote for lazy spelling, and there’s no way to indicate that. I’ll accept if I downvote a positive idea and in doing so make it seem like I disagree with the positive message instead of just the broken medium, but I’d rather not.

[it’s] a modern building and they’ve fucked it up you really notice

How about the stairs leading up from a subway stop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-22FjgoE4

"'We apologize for the inconvenience.”

(stolen from Douglas Adams)

our insurance would not cover the operating system if there were ever a security breach, data loss, etc

This person was lying to you.

dosnt

\facepalm

50-50 is what the cons call unfair.

as an American, and I’m sure I speak for most of us, we didn’t give a crap

I get it. False consensus aside, it’s a trope that Americans don’t much care about things outside their borders. Many Americans never cross a border, and for many people if it doesn’t affect them directly then it’s just noise in a busy day.

But with such long unguarded borders, minimal manufacturing, insufficient resources and a surplus of cash crops, it needs friends who will deal squarely with it and help secure those borders.

And when the oil and electricity run short, I hope America is cool paying “market prices” if we’re no longer best-buds.