Why are we posting corporate advertising in News now?

Yes, it really is.

No bother!

For customization, you want a MUD client rather than a standard telnet client. I used zMUD back in the day, but FLOSS was harder to come by back then. These days, I’d go with mudlet.

It’s the new 2/3 compromise.

I never really paid attention to the level gain ratio. I’d look here for that kind of question.

That’s an easy one - no. You can look back to various periods during middle ages Europe for examples. An even stronger one would be China from about 400 CE-800 CE

Of course, those weren’t capitalist economies - but they were economies. Capitalism’s instability is what requires constant growth to maintain. The better (and harder) questions would be what to transition to that avoids the issues of feudalism and how to transition with a minimum of societal upheaval (violence and death).

Since people are posting games, I’ll throw in Realms of Despair

But it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar.

GNU introduced the “–foo” style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.

$126,500 per person, plus another $20,240 in housing expenses. Plus your $13,850 standard deduction (though if you’re making that much you’re probably itemizing for more). So $160,590 for an individual or $321,180 for married filing jointly. That’s assuming no kids and no other deductions or credits - which is pretty unlikely at that income level.

$160,590 is the 93rd percentile for US income distribution. So yeah, if you (AND your partner, if any) are both in the top 7% income bracket, bad at tax preparation, and don’t hire an accountant, you might still pay tax on the income over that amount. Of course, making that much while keeping the kind of ethics that let you care about anyone other than yourself is a nontrivial endeavor.

Don’t forget that your foreign employer won’t be reporting to the IRS. So if your protest extends to not voluntarily reporting that excess income …

Not tipping only punishes the victim, not the employer.

The title is unreasonably generous. The apology is entirely self serving and meaningless.

• He doesn’t apologize for throwing water for the man - only for posting it on social media.
• He tries to frame a narrative that the victim deserved it
• He doesn’t offer any sort of reparations or even an insignificant donation to a group that works with unhoused people generally.

It’s clearly only to ensure his business is not affected, reduce the threat of prosecution (being considered by law enforcement, presumably for assault), and to encourage leniency from the judge if it gets that far.

Apology not accepted.

Not everyone that disagrees with a law is in a position to immediately change it.

Not necessarily. There is a foreign earned income exclusion, so if you pay income taxes on it in the country where you’re living you don’t pay taxes to the US.

Because it’s a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.

A less euphemistic term in English is “regulatory capture”

I get that this is political. Not seeing the humor.

The cost-of living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming are homeless

FTFY

That would be silly when they have last year’s sales numbers to go off of.

I didn’t (and wouldn’t) down vote it, but I’ll bite.

1. To the extent that the US tax system is progressive, this would be putting the most money into the pockets of the portions of the Black community that are suffering the least from the latent effects of slavery and racism. This is truest of income tax.

2. Waiving sales tax would be better targeted. Unfortunately, it would most affect states and localities with the highest Black populations, with the side effect of reducing services to the exact people it was meant to help.

3. Even if sales tax is addressed (unlikely), this would probably be in the form of tax rebates. This probably means a once a year infusion of money, subject to all the same exploitation that currently impacts income tax refunds. (Edit: Also, sales tax rebate would likely still take income into account, and thus also be regressive. If it assumes all income is spent for determining the amount to rebate, it would be even more regressive than income tax exemption.)

4. Unless issues of structural racism are addressed in conjunction with this - issues like food deserts, differences in rates of home appreciation in predominantly black vs white neighborhoods, pollution burdens in predominantly black areas, education funding which is tied to those home values, and many other issues - the existing racist systems will suck that money back out of the Black community in ways that minimize the building of Black wealth. “Mission Accomplished” will be declared, and the political will to “do something” will need to be rebuilt from scratch.

5. Direct cash payments (monthly, like social security) come without the drawbacks of 1-3, are simpler, and will build up a type of immediate feeling of support that will be harder to withdraw at the end of the stated term, while also proving the case for universal basic income later. That would have knock-on effects for other exploited communities (LatinX immigrants, neurodivergent, deaf, disabled, etc).

As your linked site points out, they rated that way based on a bias toward veganism. Since fluoride is not animal based, that doesn’t have any bearing on this particular topic.