Hmm, what if instead of removing taxes from tips they make the tax rate on tips 100%? It would effectively eliminate tips as a source of income forcing companies to pay competitive wages without factoring tips in. Also if people knew 100% of their tips were going to the government they’d stop tipping pretty much overnight.

99% of those outcomes are bad, and 100% of the most likely ones are. The only vaguely positive outcome would be if Trump was immediately impeached AND convicted and considering congress couldn’t even manage that the last two times when he was blatantly guilty that’s effectively impossible.

So yeah, a Trump win is the end of the US. Even if he keeled over dead of a heart attack immediately after assuming office his VP is just as bad (worse in some ways). We’ve seen their playbook, project 2025 lays out exactly how they’re planning to destroy the US, and Trump has repeatedly talked about how he plans to run his dictatorship. When people tell you who they are (repeatedly) believe them. Trump badly wants to be a dictator in the style of Putin or Kim Jong Un. All he’s waiting on is the opportunity and we can not give it to him!

Ah, see you made a mistake in step one by expecting Republicans to use logic.

Basically the timeline near as I can tell is, first the publishing company decided to stop printing and distributing a number of books. This was their own internal decision not prompted by anyone outside the company. Second Fox News invented a story from whole cloth about “the woke left” banning those books. This of course got all the talibangicals in a lather and so they decided to “retaliate” by banning “woke” books. The fatal flaw of course being that they can’t actually define what “woke” is so that just flailed randomly against some minority groups. Because of the broad and ambiguous language they inevitably ended up banning a bunch of Dr. Seuss books.

Said another way:

MAGA used *ism against The Woke.

MAGA is confused.

MAGA hurt itself in its confusion.

A recent survey found that 69 percent of American adults are seriously stressed about the 2024 presidential election.

That should be 100%. Our Democracy (what little there actually is) is hanging by a thread and there’s a big orange turd running around with scissors. If Trump wins that’s it, game over, the inmates are running the asylum and the dumbest, craziest, and meanest of the bunch will have just crowned himself dictator for life. If Harris wins we get to kick the can down the road for four more years and maybe if we work really hard claw back a little bit of the democracy we theoretically have.

Nah, they have a playbook for this. They’ll put him on house arrest and trot him out every couple of years to make a speech about how terrible and corrupt the US is.

claiming they undermine family values.

Oh really? And exactly which values are those? Perhaps that women should obey their husbands commands and be glorified slaves? They can’t very well say that quite part out loud yet now can they. That would actually cost them some votes they really can’t afford.

Should check out the Gulikit controllers. Not only do they not suffer from stick drift, they’re the same form factor as an Xbox controller but without the MS bullshit. Was just using one in Linux not even an hour earlier.

Or that he’s so gung ho on trying to settle Mars.

Isn’t FIFA widely regarded as one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet? I mean, the article isn’t wrong, but that ship sailed a long time ago, it’s a bit late to be acting like this is bombshell news.

Poe’s law strikes again? I do agree it seems very obviously sarcastic, but the MAGAts do seem to score a lot of own goals as well so I can see the potential for confusion.

Go back to lemmygrad, nobody is buying it.

What an absolute joke of a propaganda piece. China might qualify as a threat, but as has been amply shown recently Russia is a paper tiger. A tiny nation armed with hand me down retired military hardware has not only fought them to a standstill but actually pushed back into their own territory and this piece would have us believe they’re some kind of military juggernaut poised to crush the US military.

This is also ignoring the strained ties between Russia and China lately and the close economic ties between the US and China. The US and China might not exactly be friendly with each other, but also can’t really afford to be enemies. Russia on the other hand only exports oil, an increasingly devalued resource, and one that is readily available from multiple other countries.

The specific issue with heat protection is that some counties were trying to pass legislation to provide better heat protection, and the state government preempted that effort by passing legislation banning counties from making heat protection legislation.

This will be the plot of Oceans 14.

They should have just committed to the bit and demanded a googolplex of rubles from Google.

But the leopards weren’t supposed to eat my face!

Oh? What’s wrong with hackaday?

Will that bridge hold? He hasn’t done the math, and other engineers that did say no, but his intuition says it will so we’re all good I guess. Someone should look into this guys professional qualifications.

It’s also just a good policy in general. Anytime you receive a communication that’s prompting you to do something that you weren’t expecting to receive you should ignore any links, phone numbers, replies, etc. in that communication and instead reach out using a known good mechanism. Doing that one thing stops the overwhelming majority of scams in their tracks.

I suppose the real question here is, is Xi bothered enough to actually do something about it, or is this just more grumbling.