As if conservative Americans have read the bible. They’d be the ones crucifying Jesus for being too “woke” if they knew what it was all about.

The intent is to provide players owners with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes horsepower.

It wasn’t a riot, it was a job fair.

While not a “review” in the traditional sense, I hope it would fall under the CRFA anyway.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-businesses-need-know

The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews.

They can’t necessarily use a “contract” as a defense.

From the king of “free speech.” 🙄

“douche”

Dumb question: which one draws more media attention in Chicago?

In my own experience (not Chicago), the local news is dominated by where the rush-hour crash is today, while national news talks way more about gun deaths.

I’m going to go with the general vibe of Lemmy here and assume you mean that auto deaths need to get more attention in America. To that I would say there is a general cultural attitude that cars are a necessary evil (even among most people who don’t outright love them, which is a huge demographic), and fixing the zoning and infrastructure would take decades and many tens of billions of dollars to restructure a large city around public transit. Besides bumper-sticker-slogan politics (“more public transit!”) there are precious few real, concrete plans for getting from the current situation to the car-free utopia.

Even then, you’d not eliminate cars entirely. Among the more developed western European nations that are known for good public transit, Ireland seems (at a quick glance) to have the fewest cars per person at 536 per 1,000, while the car-happy US has 850/1,000. So best case, you reduce cars by ~35%.

Gun deaths, on the other hand, are easier to imagine as a problem that can be solved relatively quickly and with less disruption. From an advocacy point of view, it’s the lower-hanging fruit.

Even if you discount all other forms of taxation, and only focus on income taxes, the sentiment is irrelevant to this particular vote.

His support appears to be concentrated in the middle class. (Median household income in NYC is about 80k, right about the peak of his vote share)

You just know somebody in that meeting suggested adding “copilot” in there somewhere.

TIL notepad has spell check.

For all we know, in that moment Elon was standing on some dirt, making him the wealthiest person on lower-case earth.

Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republican-committee-sues-google-email-spam-filters-rcna53580

He is a certain type of anti-intellectual who believes “nothing is true unless I discover it myself.”

Education is useless, truth is a lie, etc, etc.

So he destroys everything he touches until he can recreate knowledge himself, poorly, expensively, and redundantly. Then declares himself a genius for getting back to basically where the rest of humanity already was years ago.

Practical Engineering?

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That guy’s definitely not

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Bringing home the bacon

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The American sports convention is to list the visiting team first.

That graph plots gross pay (x-axis) against take-home cash (y-axis). The far left of the graph (in green) shows people making under 20k taking home more than their “earned” pay. At the extreme bottom is somebody making 1,000/year taking home 10,000. The progressive income tax starts at 20,000.

Not labeling the axises does make it hard to read.

The US doesn’t technically have a negative tax, but the EITC accomplishes the same basic thing. Whether it’s efficient enough, or needs expansion is another story.

Actually explains a lot of decisions by game publishers the last 5-10 years if their official position is that games are meant to collect dust on a shelf rather than being played.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.