I’m at a point where I wish our support forum was at least on Discord, the majority of my community is pretty old but it spans down into a handful of Gen Z with more Millennials and Z coming in as the Boomers get out. Even so the main forum is a Facebook page. Splinter groups using WhatsApp, Signal and iMessage. It’s not like the older gen is technically inept, for the most part, it’s just they’re entrenched and moving them would take a massive, easy to use software that is far superior to FB’s viability. Personally using Discord and it’s seamless jump from PC-Laptop-Phone is nice, admittedly I’m in the same mindset of those in my groups on FB as I haven’t tried anything else.

Not comparing, we have our own issues, but the US just said not wearing a mask in public is akin to not paying taxes or speeding - it’s still illegal and not free speech because it affects others.

No good point, I appreciate discussions!

I think they know if it didn’t exempt city residents there would be enough backlash from eligible voters it wouldn’t pass. Seeing as it’s a fine and not a ban it can have secondary effects of improving safety and the environment but primarily it will raise money.

Well they also exempt taxis and city residents so it’s not about safety or the environment it’s about the money.

It’s also a character in some of their games! 😅

Should be a rule if you post a story about a law that doesn’t include a link to the actual law you should post the link.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_tax_relief_for_american_families_and_workers_act_of_2024_technical_summary.pdf

For anyone with questions - it’s not a long read, I do have more questions after reading. Like why was a full part about Taiwan residency? I read through it twice and didn’t understand why there exclusively.

Did you respond to the wrong question? He asked if the numbers posted showing a much larger shift from Biden in the lead to Trump now in the lead for men, preceded by the statement that there was not as much a shift in men as there was in women. Then you go on about Gen Z.

Yeah, they’re so easily distractible during any scene that they’re doing work (unless adderal is in the mix). Then they go off on these weird tangents for far too long. One of my favorite themes in the show.

Maybe comforting to think about it like this: kids find a way. Every generation has individuals that will outsmart restrictive methods out there for the masses.

What if I did middle out?

My favorite part was they’re still discussing it and say Richard’s been in there for hours, meaning they’ve been occupied for hours optimizing. 😂

I didn’t know that, the way they word these headlines sounded like he was still eligible for the delegates/nomination just not the advertisement on the ballot.

Thanks for the info.

These States are all (talking about) pulling him from the Primary ballot right? His name is so inundated with his base are they going to see the ballot and just go with Haley? I think 10x the number that pick Haley because her name is the only name on the ballot will just write him in, if they would’ve voted for him by checking the box. Or maybe not, only way to get an indication is a State pulling his name.

I’m going off memory here but if it’s correct they held a live and let live dogma. No convert or kill mentality, do good above all else etc.

Also being able to blame Obama/Biden somehow.

If ‘Christian’ were it’s own label it would nearly double the ‘Nones’. Nones = 28% Protestant = 24% Catholics = 23% Total of the two Christian groups reported = 47% That is just adding the highest reporting sects of Christianity, there’s probably a few % points that could be added in there as well.

Gas and oil execs: “this blows”

It’s Kentucky, what else matters? lol

She doesn’t have to be good, it showed that women can go into space and was yet another benchmark the Soviets achieved first. I’m not saying who or how they did it was particularly heroic, just that it was humanity’s first steps into the stars.

Yeah I guess I was talking about the USSR responding to the “they won the war” and last 80 years I thought you were using Russia/Soviets interchangeably until the fall of the Soviet Union.

I agree with a lot of this. The one exception I would like to mention: I as an American am impressed by Sputnik, Laika, Strelka and Belka, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova and a whole host of steps in the space race that I believe is why we are where we are today in space exploration and satellite technology. They aren’t leading the pack now but they were, maybe recklessly, for a good chunk of the beginning.

*as an achievement in the past 80 years if that wasn’t clear what I meant. ✌️