Hot take! We’ve got a hot take over here!

Single digits for sure. I’ll be okay from -9 to +9, but I don’t really see a solution to a 999°F heatwave

But it’s critically necessary for functionality.

Got a question? Google it an boom there’s an AI summary for you. Now you’re engaged in scrolling past the dubious response and the sponsored links before you can get to the results you want.

It’s called ‘enhancing the user experience’. It was tedious to ignore the paid ads where you were likely to be misled for profit, but now it’s enhanced tedium where you’re likely to be misled for no fucking reason.

A handy guide to America:

Wearing a mask to prevent the spread of infection during a global pandemic? It’s an excuse to hide your face, you literally cannot breate through it, and it’s a symbol of leftist fascism.

Wearing a mask literally to hide your identity so you can physically accost and abduct anyone under the pretense of ‘immigration authority’ with zero need for due process so there are no repercussions when you are wrong? That’s protecting your country.

I think it could be dangerous given the limited scientific literacy of the general public.

I can imagine a slew of issues where people treat it like fat/calories and assume lower is “better”, or where other people think it’s like a vitamin and high is “better”.

I think 95% of people wouldn’t look, but that last 5% would be a mix of people that use it to their benefit as you suggest and people that misuse it as I cynically assume.

Counterpoint: look at those hands. Maybe they just weren’t great at some things.

I’d believe they mastered lighting and painting techniques over accurate physical representation more than “Jesus was a perfect middle aged nippleless man with fucked up hands and that’s represented perfectly here”

People don’t live in shared dwelling residences because they thought they’d really enjoy sharing walls…

Exactly this. A detailed log and evidence is important.

Also, talk to your other neighbours and see if they have, or would report it.

As it is, resident B has 2 noise complaints in 8 months from resident A. Without evidence of all the rest of it, this fits all sorts of scenarios. People make malicious complaints all the time and the authorities (rightfully) shouldn’t just take your word for it that there’s a long history.

Always have receipts

I think you should consult a dermatologist.

Fun fact! The kid in the MAGA hat is in a concentration camp.

(I have zero idea who either of these people are, but I think the odds I’m still correct are in my favour)

“The lord has given unto you these 15 —”

crash

“… 10 commandments!”

They’re only political because one side insists somehow they are.

Left-handed rights aren’t political.

I think they can both be correct

3 stars. I dislike that it killed my baby, but shipping was really fast!

“Joe Biden immediately tanked the economy to enrich himself and his cronies!”

Free speech in no way makes a conversation intelligent or sane.

Free speech is necessary to prevent the government from censoring dissent.

The consequence is that there’s little to no legal repercussions to spreading lies and hate. But that doesn’t mean there can’t be repercussions.

Ah, to be 6 years old again.

But then they have to fill those prisons with more and more people. How can America just increase the crime rate on a whim?

glances briefly to American history

Oh right, shit.

The cynical perspective is that it’s an attempt to consolidate wealth for the wealthy.

Basically, you drive the price up on everything and force the least able to bear the loss in revenue to give up and sell.

Elon Musk can afford to lose $11 billion, because he still has $200 billion left over and that is obviously more than anyone needs to keep afloat for a few bad years. The same goes for every billionaire and every multibillion dollar company.

When you import something from another country, it needs to go through things like customs, etc. You have to fill out all the paperwork about what it is and where it’s going (if you’re using/selling it in the US or just middlemanning it somewhere else).

Part of that paperwork includes tariffs, a tax on the good you are importing. So, the importer has to pay the government that money in order for the product to legally come in to the country. The importer pays that cost, so the local purchaser pays that cost, so the consumer pays that cost. And each one of those (and likely many other) steps probably will add on a little extra for the trouble.

The hope is that encourages local production; even if it costs more to produce locally, when you factor in the cost of the tariffs to import, it might make sense to invest the cost to avoid the tariffs.

The troubles are:

1. you can’t often make a fully operational supply chain domestically in 4 years
2. the US doesn’t have some of those raw resources, like minerals or regional food sources
3. good or bad, places like China can pay professional factory workers way less than minimum US wage, which, in case this is news to anyone, is already far below a livable wage