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The root of MAGA’s nostalgia for the 1950s is the effective US corporate tax rate being 40-50% rather than the 2010s’s 10-15%. Those higher taxes paid for healthcare, anti-trust enforcement which increased wages across the board, general public services. Instead, money that corporations would have spent on taxes goes into bribes for regulatory capture, helping depress wages and facilitate monopolistic mergers and acquisitions. Quick overview of historic tax rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax_in_the_United_States

Sounds like Aceh… Yep, it’s Aceh. They’ve been strongly Islamic for centuries. Their Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka) was a pain-in-the-ass even for Suharto, Indonesia’s military dictator throughout the 1960s/1990s.

I thought Debian was as sluggish as Windows until I was forced to use the LXQt desktop environment instead of the default GNOME on an old Compaq laptop since that’s all it could handle. Turns out, GNOME looks nice but it kept my old laptop’s mid-2000s i386 CPU churning at 50% 24/7. LXQt? Barely a blip. Sure, it couldn’t run Firefox quickly, but at least its fan was silent when idling or when I was simply using the laptop as a dumb SSH client into a much more powerful remote server.

I now use LXQt on my main workstation because I don’t need fancy tilíng windows or Wayland.

Exfoliate that shit.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

People that treat people as things deserve the same courtesy.

The trick is to have a really good imagination so imaginary-you can perform all stupid without consequences. The process of training your imagination to do this is called “education”.

Name and shame?

All with plenty of “NO LOITERING” and “CUSTOMERS ONLY” signs to min-max value extraction.

A small mercy of losing your country to oligarchs is that you’re under no obligation to save them from themselves. Well, until the mandatory conscription stage, anyway.

I thought Evangelion already had a FPS.

3 months of reliable weekly pump-and-dumps? And by “we”, I mean Trump and friends.

“Dude, how do you care about anything this much?”

Better than when cooling water is supplied with an expensive reverse osmosis unit which then proceeds to corrode the entire carbon steel cooling water system due to pH of 5.5 since everyone is convinced water so pure can’t do any damage.

Possibly because, in your case, they moved to a geographical region less actively hostile to their non-binary personality, but people continuïng their outgoing Renaissance Fair / Swordfighting / Theater / Convention polycule life is a category for me.

Like robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).

Toxic Yuri.

Publicity to increase donations.

What about the Daniel Suarez Daemon, a decision tree designed to take over the world?

“I’m not black! I’m a tabby, like you officer!”