Yes and no. Companies will always try to pass expenses like tax onto their customers. My guess is they will increase rates on customers significantly to recover some of those unexpected retroactive costs in the near term with the side effect of increasing revenue above the 3% tax in the long term.

• Sitting too close to the water with a nice sandwich can be interpreted as deliberately pissing them off.

Which god? Sheva? Ra? Odin? Jupiter? Ishtar? Yu Huang? There are so many.

I am 100% with you. I just think there’s a beauty in giving the US a taste of their own rhetorical medicine. I’d link to the Trump tirade I was referencing, but I don’t want to do that to myself or anyone else.

Close the border, build a wall, and make the US pay for it.

The number of opinion pieces having meltdowns over Mamdani is simply off the charts. The fascists and neolibs are losing their minds about this. It’s incredible.

Mamdani isn’t even remotely radical as far as leftists go. What’s he’s proposing is just the bare minimum of common sense as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

I suppose I will continue to repost this, which summarizes the problem well, I think.

I love GURPS, but have since moved to the Cypher System, which is mechanically beautiful and rewarding like nothing I’ve ever seen.

Annotatively correct, connotatively deceptive. Also sometimes called a “Motte and Bailey Fallacy”.

I think I know what you are trying to say - if you visit the Fascist States of America right now you shouldn’t be surprised when the fascists go fascist on you - but this is still arguably a misuse of the face-eating leopards idiom, since he was never a leopard supporter.

That tracks. They treat the Constitution the same way they treat the Bible. What is written there doesn’t matter. It’s not a thing that actually exists but a concept, and that concept “says” whatever they want it to say.

You don’t understand it because it’s irrational.

It’s also unconstitutional. We have an amendment (4A) that addresses this specifically.

Unfortunately people like Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, JD Vance, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and more still exist.

I was recently turned on to Notesnook and it’s been incredible. It really is a FOSS replacement for Evernote.

Getting sync server running is a bit of a challenge, though, since there is very little documentation for it. If you’ve ever set up an internet-connected server before, though, it’s not too hard to figure out. There’s a docker-compose.yml file that does a lot of the work for you.

How are your knees and back treating you, fellow old person?

Any official that behaves like this should be arrested and tried for attempted murder, or murder in the first degree should the execution be carried out. There can be no wiggle room in society for such deliberate, premeditated homicidal injustice.

That sounds like antisemitism. /s

I’m not following. Ectopic pregnancies are not viable. Ever.

In that case you are best off with Kubuntu, since UE for Linux is distributed as a .deb.

If you prefer to compile the engine yourself, then you can use anything you like, but OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is worth a look since it’s a rolling distro and stays up-to-date (especially handy for GPU drivers).

https://theauthoritarians.org/

Authoritarians compartmentalize everything. The conclusions are indisputable and so no two justifications must ever be mentally compared to one another. They don’t even realize they’re doing it, and will assume it is being done to them.