pupbiru

it’s a religious site … fuckit

i believe this is what they’re referring to. it’s specifically an atheist take; it’s just not a very nice one

i generally have disdain for religious crap, but do agree that simply writing people beliefs off as open for dumping waste on is probably not in the spirit of live and let live

the absolutely wild thing about this is that australia is/was also complaining about a cost of living crisis, and our food is $ for $ roughly the same… as in our numeric value for food is the same - despite our currency being worth about 2/3 as much

this doesn’t mean that australia has our cost of living crisis easy… it means that americas food prices are ultra fucked

https://links.coles.com.au/hRXTKkT7aVb

Coles No Added Hormone Beef 3 Star Regular Mince: $7/500g (1lb ~= 450g)

(at time of writing, that beef in the photo costs about $10AUD/500g, or our beef mince costs $4.50USD)

i’m actually okay with something like this, assuming it doesn’t give useful identity information but instead gives unique tokens to services (that can’t be used for tracking an individual - which is the real problem with these age laws)

i think a system like this should be in place for pretty much all identity verification: banks, real estate, etc… where they can verify identity without the need for an identity document (scans of which can be mishandled, give more information than necessary etc). really, it kinda has to be government-led because they’re the arbiters of official identity to start with, and i wouldn’t want to have to have all my identity proofs in 4 different company systems

ephemeral digital tokens is more secure, more private, and simpler for everyone involved

attention? who does that? i can say for certain i don’t know a single person… i hate being late (and frequently am). it’s awkward and embarrassing and nothing else

the “i dress myself and everyone around me is too afraid to tell me it looks like shit”?

Well, making necessities more expensive is difficult to sell no matter how it’s packaged

well that’s kinda the point: in the wash, it didn’t… you paid a bit more and got that money back at tax time… any carbon tax you pay gets evenly distributed across the population, so if your carbon footprint is less than 50% of the counties, you make money

considering the carbon emitted by the top 10%, this is basically wealth redistribution and it helps tackle carbon

the government charges carbon emitters for their emissions - this is done in multiple ways, but the gist is big polluters (power generation, industrial, etc) are charged at the source and things like petrol is charged at the pump

as part of taxes, or whatever other means, the revenues from that tax is evenly distributed back to the population

this makes the cost of carbon-heavy products more expensive, making carbon neutral products cheaper relative to them

it also means that if you live a carbon neutral life, you’ll end up paying no tax, and just getting a nice payout to offset the slight extra you paid for eg green energy

carbon trading schemes are different

it’s all very elegant imo, but the language is bad (nobody likes new taxes) and the govt didn’t do a good job at marketing the chunk of cash they were giving everyone

the best irony considering the qanon pizza pedo crazy bullshit

sure looks like both sides are the same to me! /s

want to? i think most people want to, but if you come to a deal and then mango Mussolini has a tantrum then it’s out the window and there will be some sort of retribution, and then if you decide to scrap the deal there will likely be more so you’re in a worse case than if you’d made no deal at all

deals are built on trust, and the US has no trust left any more… that’s kinda the point: the US is entirely where it is on the world stage because of post-war trust and stability. the power of the US is given to it by its allies… throwing all that out didn’t just prove that trump is untrustworthy and unstable, but that the world was wrong to place trust in the stability of the entire system that the US is built on. watch how well that system fares when all the power collapses because without everyone paying deference, that power is non-existent

The files were real and implicate Trump, but it's ok when he does it because reasons, and akshually abusing minors is totally cool.

i can completely see this going some way of “it’s part of being rich that people force you into these things… and trump got to where he is - helping the USA - by being rich. he didn’t want to, but if he didn’t comply he wouldn’t be able to be doing the amazing job he’s doing now. feel sorry for him. he sacrificed for you!”

🤮

i’d love to see linus revoke twitters license to use linux somehow