state-funded resources to help bail out those who the IRS retaliates against.

That’s been the hang up for a while. How much are state officials willing to do in defiance of the federal government?

To date, not much

The Rand to Dollar conversion rate is shit and none of these Boer expats are going to be able to find jobs, much less housing, in a country with inflated living costs and no dirt poor youth underclass to press gang.

We’ve been watching these dorks bounce off the American hellscape for years now. These losers show up, putter around for a minute, complain about how difficult it is to survive in the US without three generations of accrued family wealth, and then pack up for home again.

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Of course I’ve been up all night! Not because of caffeine, it was insomnia. I couldn’t stop thinking about coffee.

No court would uphold that.

Further, virtually all these state accounting and payroll systems are privatized. States don’t pay federal payroll taxes. Officials simply administer contracts to private firms that handle payroll and deductions. And you’re not going to like who the managers of these mega-accounting and payroll management companies supported in 2024.

What you’re asking these officials to do is issue an obviously illegal order to a subordinate who will simply ignore them and report them to the IRS for prosecution.

Blue states should stop paying taxes.

States don’t collect taxes on behalf of the federal government.

There’s another way to look at this. Fascism has often been defined as “Imperialism Returning to the Core”. A great deal of the ICE buildup and the arming of Sheriff’s Deputy Gangs with military surplus is coming from the surplus men who came out of our Iraq and Afghanistan occupations.

Even before you get into using the explicit military (rather than the paramilitary) on US soil, you’d do well to recognize that we’re employing the same tactics against LA and Chicago that we had once employed in Baghdad and Kandahar. The escalation of troops into cities matches Bush/McCain era “Surge” rhetoric, with many of the same rationales and objectives.

the idea that using troops as law enforcement is “Un-American” or tyrannical is Confederate propaganda

Might be worth remembering that the original Confederate Army was composed of rebel officers from the Mexican-American War. You can draw a straight line from the annexation of Texas and California, through the failed filibuster of Cuba, and on to the First Battle of Bull Run. Future Confederate soldiers cut their teeth in Bleeding Kansas and suppressed the slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry.

Using troops as law enforcement was their whole game, until the got punted out of Gettysburg and torched straight through Atlanta on to Savannah.

And the turn in rhetoric somehow didn’t extend to the Battle of Blair Mountain or the suppression of Civil Rights Marches in Selma, much less the gunning down of anti-war protesters at Kent State.

Words do not compute. Issuing a $1T IPO to Sam Altman.

social media has brainwashed women that fat = bad gymbro/skinny = good

My Brother in Christ, we’ve had this standard since Calvin Klein plastered half the country in heroin-sheik underwear models. You are two generations late to the party.

that’s why i gave up on dating

I see this on 4chan all the time. You’ve got this demand among the NEETs that their partners look like supermodels, then a bunch of screaming and crying when a woman is repulsed by their bad grooming or poor manners.

On the flip side, you’ve got the /r/RelationshipAdvice threads where “RED FLAG! DUMP HIM!” is this pre-programmed response to damned near every post. Guys who aren’t sexy enough are undateable trash. Guys who are too sexy are skeazy fuckbois (or worse… gay!)

But then you log the fuck off, touch grass, and meet dozens of happy couples of every size and shape and disposition. You even see people with disparate political philosophies dating, because not everyone is a fucking nerd obsessed with primary results and poll numbers and creating some kind of breeding program to win the next election cycle.

Only a tiny minority of PC gamers pay monthly for anything.

That’s simply not true.

I’m going to say it did, based on the fuzziest of memories from twenty years ago

They’re all blue states so who cares, amirite?

Except Utah, but it’s too red to change now, so it also doesn’t matter.

PS5

500 non-gaming PC

Come on, dude. Firstly, you can get a non-gaming PC for under $200 easy. Hell, if you know where to look, you can get it for free.

500 ps5 650 ps5 pro 4 years in

Why not just… not upgrade the PS5? Save yourself $650. If you want to “balance” things, the PC guy can save $200 on their own upgrade.

Wait for the PS6, which will be out in '27/'28 and just enjoy the OG console that was released in '20 for the life of the platform.

Like, this is obviously not an apple to apple comparison. And that’s spotting you a generous $800 PC build out of the gate. You’re simply not building a PS5 quality rig in 2020 for $800.

720 for PlayStation online basic at 10 per month

Do I get to charge the PC owner the release price of every PSO title released for free? Because that’s going to come out far higher than $720 over six years.

Are you playing any MMOs on that PC? Should we be charging you the base rate for those as well?

I’m not even a PS5 guy. I tapped out at 4 and game on my PC happily. But I’m not going to pretend console gamers are doing 3x my spend just because it’s possible to do so.

I will say, way back in college I had a friend get two $600 graphics cards so he could play Morrowind: Oblivion at max settings. And I was just kinda dumbfounded, cause the upscaling simply wasn’t that good.

https://bsky.app/profile/shannonhale.bsky.social/post/3m4eif45k3c2n

I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried “HELP ME” and pled for her child.

She ran the perfect campaign, and they indicted her

Guys in Alberta earning six figures to burn gas as quickly as they can dig it up don’t give a shit about Jamaicans losing half their country to a Cat 5 hurricane.

America achieving universal employment through declaring every citizen a cop