okay so like, i have a couple bottles of spices (red pepper flakes, garlic powder, salt, colon cleanser) in every room for pizzamergencies and all popcornventualities. also late night tortilla runs. but sweet baby rays? it’s not that good what the hell.

Right? And then i go and read the “well what can you really do” comments and it’s shit i’ve already been doing for the last 30 years. So like, it’s time for other people to step up ALSO because i am fucking tired and covered in scars from this fight already.

non-statesians on lemmy want statesians to go die at the problem because that is one more method that means they don’t have to get off their asses

californians, despite high state income taxes, have lower other taxes. On net they pay less in tax than texans, who have no state income tax. check out ITEP.org’s Who Pays report every year. they run a report that totals the entire tax regime (income, sales, property, fuel, the whole shebang) in a state, including federal taxes, runs a sample family’s books at various income levels, sees what their taxes (all of them) would be, then makes a big report for the entire country.

In Texas, if you are poor you pay more of your income toward taxes than the rich. That’s because the graduated income tax rate most states have corrects for the regressive tax structures in just about every other tax. Texas has no income tax. You see the same thing in Washington State. In California, the rich and the poor pay about the same percentage of their income toward tax, and it is lower than Texas at every income level. Funny that.

oh, i missed that video

very serious men

my dude, i’ve written two laws. maybe three. depends how you count. i am literally the least serious person i have ever met. you have your expectations for government waaaaay too high.

Sweet Baby Ray’s isn’t my favorite sauce out there but it’s pretty damn good for a sweet, tomato based sauce. Like, to the point where there are a significant number of better commercial sauces (and a hell of a lot of worse sauces, let’s be honest) what use it as the base for their recipes.

I’m not going to relegate it to furniture like KC Masterpiece or some garbage like that.

yes.

you mean the 3 day weekend everyone is planning on taking? really hard to get enthusiastic about this when most engagement is lazy, but like i get why they are trying to make it as easy as possible to claim people are striking.

I am visibly disabled. the last time i was asked some version of “hey, how are you” that was not in a clinical situation was over a decade ago. people use different phatic expressions because they fear I might answer honestly.

my usual answer is “i’m alive/here. that makes it a good day” which people take as an optimistic greeting but folk who know me well, uh

no but i will sell you this bucket of used blood i just happen to have

i cannot believe that they didn’t have a literal emergency vacuum flush or something to blast a dook out into space. or a second shitter.

i hope i’m wrong, but krasnov is going to use a nuclear weapon on the US first as justification to use more on Iran. godspeed, whichever west coast or new york or minnesota city gets wiped off the map. is it terrible that i kind of hope a teensy bit it’s mine so i don’t have to deal with this bullshit anymore?

the US military will ignore the fact that Iran lacks the ability to get a nuclear weapon, weapons they also lack, to the united states. but casus malli never waited for facts.

the arrows don’t look nazi enough, only pseudonazi. could we curve them a touch more?

they have to pee in bags for reasons. I don’t think we got or will get a full explanation on how the shitter broke until splashdown

radical freedom! don’t tell me what to do!

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when the tree you’re allergic to is mad at you

Yeah, when i read that i wasn’t sure if it was april fools or not. I mean, i’ll vote for it regardless but like i’m not exactly in government or anything. i don’t think my vote counts for this.

Correct: Statesian foreign policy has been fairly consistent. Internationally it matters less whether it’s a republican or a democrat in the white house (the biggest change is how much funding USAID gets and where it goes. Everything else remains consistent. At least that’s how it looks to me because I move in the nonprofit/NGO world) It’s where we see the ratchet effect most clearly.

they fucked up the toilet within hours of launch. nasa if you have been reading me making fun of you I am available for consult on a design for a hose-based toilet that if it breaks, you’ve fucked up the entire spaceship on gods how did this fuck up.

i’m surprised they brought 10 days of shitbags but here we are