If the cash register can manage to figure out granularity in the local taxes, so can the price tag printer. Updating tags every couple years after an election might be a pain, but it isn't exactly a herculean task - they seem to manage it in places where tax-included pricing is required.

The problem is, as you say, no one wants to be the hero: No business wants to appear more expensive than competitors, and no legislator wants to be the one to make cost of living appear even higher.

What about how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?

No? Pitiful!

Turns out, they're both!

Uninformed straight white guy here: Drag does not intrinsically share the sexualization commonly associated with modern use of the term burlesque. But, yes, a burlesque show that doesn't mistakenly assume that burlesque is entirely about stripping/nudity might in fact be available for children.

It's the only argument he's got.

Algorithmic propaganda bubbles and tribalism.

But that's the best part: they bribed a few senators so they could buy up all their competition.

Because the corporate propaganda is that their LLM's are trustworthy.

Non-wage income is what's explicitly exempt from taxes. What bigger "fuck you" to the working class can you even imagine?

And yet they keep managing to convince the working class to vote for them.

The rules need to be rewritten. The house speaker and Senate majority leader both have WAY too much power. No single individual should be able to dictate what the entire body does, nor have sole decisionmaking authority to decide what bills can and cannot be voted on. And it should take a majority vote to call a recess.

But also, please rip off my shirt if it might save my life. I'd rather be immodest than dead.

My 14yo hates the current AI but says most peers are using it and can't understand how to write an essay or such without it.

I think only some of the kids are alright. Many, if not most, are in trouble.