Some are doing republican only town halls ಠ_ಠ

Sounds like you need to read up more on the civil rights movement. That had many elements that were even more aggressive than damaging a couple of cars.

I mean there are literally areas where commercial drones can’t fly, as in the software won’t allow it. The tracking and registration system is certainly a bit more robust than guns. While all the rules aren’t the same, you would expect it because, unlike guns, there are a lot of uses for drones besides killing things.

With all the job cuts tied to the Republicans, I don’t think most care about tax rates right now.

There are a couple of benefits to credit cards (in the US at least).

• Protection: If some steals my credit card info, I can fight the charges with the credit card company (and am not out any money while sorting it out) . With debit cards the money is gone and you’re fighting to get it back.
• Rewards: most offer good cash back or point rewards. It means I save 2-3% on average compared to using a debit card
• Persk: Many cards will add coverage for car rentals or discounts just for using them for the purchase.

If you pay off the card each month you get all of those persk at zero cost. While technically credit card companies charge stores 2-3% for each swipe, in the US at least there is no price difference for the customer for cash/debit/credit.

Edit/TLDR: In the US it’s cheaper and safer to use a credit card (if you can pay the balance every month).

I’ve been to that museum. It is extremely bizzare with a bunch of real penises from all sorts of animals (and people) floating in jars. The facts on all the plaques are kinda fun, but many of the penises are in questionable state.

Also the museum was started by someone who was randomly gifted a whip made from a bulls penis. That kicked off a weird fascination and he started both collecting and being gifted more and more until he figured they might as well open a museum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Phallological_Museum

I mean, if democrats controlled the house he would be getting impeached, it’s not the volume or quality of the crimes, it’s the fact Republicans don’t care.

Yeah that’s why I called out it costs money.

Its also kinda similar to taxes, the US pretty much already knows all this info already, yet somehow we can’t manage to make elections easy and free.

Have you tried getting a realID? It’s just as bad as getting a passport and costs a chunk of change. I’m pissed off states weren’t able to shut it down. Now you need a passport effectively to fly domestically.

Yeah, I know why the guy came clean, but it would have been so much more useful if we stayed on the chat. Really a big missed opportunity.

I thought it was okay. It’s pretty cheap at $5, but is probably only a few hours long.

That being said, digging a hole is a little thereaputic.

Thanks for adding the additional context!

What’s funny is the covid drop isn’t even that bad either compared to some other recession. So the 2022 blip is really inconsequential.

That’s a fair criticism, if things can get worse for people when we aren’t in a recession, then why would we care about recessions.

The truth is that a recession is just one metric that we use to track the economy. However, the economy is a big complex system and things like recession are there to track a global state, and aren’t refined enough to track things like inequality.

One failing in recent times for economic data is around “full employment vs part time employment” and other things like “is this person making a livable wage”. The hard thing with a lot of inequality or livable wage discussions is they are inherently political and not something that is as easy to track/detail/communicate/etc. vs numbers like GDP.

So, yes having better numbers would be great, but most likely this admin will fudge and hide numbers making things even more difficult to track (both now and in the future). Additionally while people are hurting now, during a recession even more people will be hurting (and most likely hurting worse than they are now).

I don’t disagree. My point was that we weren’t in a recession. Things may have been bad for many people, but that was when the “economy” was doing well.

Current indications are that the “economy” is heading for a downturn. If things were already rough for people, it certainly isn’t going to get better if that happens.

I posted elsewhere, but I think the real issue is that it really didn’t look like a recession. While technically it was a recession by the two negative quarters definition, if you look at real GDP it’s barely a blip.

I suspect at the time the concern was that calling it a recession would have impacted the recovery. Not that I think that’s a good excuse, but they werent hiding the data. With Trump, he’s trying to hide the downturn rather than trying to rally the recovery.

Calling out Biden here is a very “both sides” centrist kinda mindset.

Not really, maybe a blip of something in 2021-2022, but generally the US economy as a whole has been doing alright - Real GDP. Individual people though have been getting beaten up recently, but boy is that about to get worse.

I mean, it’s only been 2 months. 9% drop vs 5% gain is a 14% shift from expected. That’s impressive, and Trump administration is just getting started.

I think that’s an okay use - https://grammarist.com/usage/forecast-forecasted/

But grammar is not my strong suit.

It’s an Oxford comma joke. The way it’s structured reads like “male-firearms” enthusiast, as in an enthusiast of “male firearms”.

Why only a “male firearms enthusiast”, what about the female firearms? Maybe your not as big of a leftist as you thought.