I dont know if its the holiday inn, but its definitely in Texas based on the doublewide chairs
Damn I cant believe theyre cancelling Stumble. That show was absolutely hilarious. Although to be fair it did seem like a one season run kind of show despite how good it was. The plot didnt have a very open ended amount of places to go
Sometimes when Courtney gets mad at me I play the head injury card. Which usually gets her to relax and take it easy on me. But when that doesnt work, then I play the head injury card
He said winning parenting, not rage quitting Clancy style
There was an interview recently on NPR with Mike Shur where he talks about why sitcoms tend not to get made anymore.
Basically, under the new market conditions of streaming no studios are willing to greenlight the production of a sitcom the way they used to be. 22 episode seasons where the writers have the opportunity to flesh out the vibe and characters of the show. That old model usually lost money upfront but then made shitloads back once the show went into syndication.
Instead, all the studios want 10 episode seasons of sitcoms that never get the chance to get off the ground or take their time to develop. They then sell the streaming rights to as many places as possible, kind of like syndication except for that it makes way less money. The whole thing is a race to the bottom and they generally wont take a chance on anything. Instead they would rather fund the hundred-millionth police-action-drama because, unlike comedy, that kind of content tends to be universally understood across cultural lines around the world. Everybody understands cops chasing bad guys, but what is or isnt funny depends on cultural perspectives.
So ultimately we have ended up in this world where sitcoms are still among the most widely consumed content, but virtually everyone watching them is watching sitcoms that ended 10-20 years ago.
That said, I do like most of the new sitcoms I have seen that managed to get made in this sitcom enshitification era
This time, Frankie wakes up having forgotten his entire life as an actor, genuinely believes he is Malcom, and that Malcom in the Middle was a documentary about his life
If it was good enough for Truman in WWII then it should be good enough for Skyrim
What Im saying is that if someone in a 3 ton SUV hits you at 75mph when youre in this thing on the highway, then youll be disintegrated. I suppose it’s up to interpretation whether or not that should be someone’s choice to take that unnecessary risk.
The government, at least at this moment in time, says no
If it was gonna be cleared to drive on higher speed roads, then it would have to meet other regulatory requirements that would make it way more expensive than being the cheap workhorse that it is.
As a low speed vehicle it just needs basic safety equipment and technology. It doesnt have to meet a high standard of crashworthiness. So on and so forth
By the time you get done making it a highway-safe truck according to those standards, you have something probably not far off from the $40,000 normal truck market. All those would be preferable to a buyer over a KEI truck if the KEI truck only cost like $5k less
Academia doesnt necessarily have the best track record for paying professors adequately in the first place, nor for work-life balance.
Nearly every professor I ever had at any college, regardless of size, was an adjunct professor who had to teach at multiple schools. At most 25% were full time at one institution. The lack of opportunities in academia to be a full time professor in one place has absolutely got to be draining on everyone, regardless of gender. And the whole system works that way in order to pay educators as little as possible
On top of that, for someone to maintain their position as a full-time professor at one institution, they usually have to keep publishing constantly. That just adds more pressure on work-life balance, again regardless of gender. Although moreso for any woman that is carrying the brunt of caretaking work in their household or trying to have kids
While im sure there is devaluation going on, as this study points out, I dont think you can really look at extrinsic pay or intrinsic work-life balance factors in a vacuum. People are always doing some degree of calculus like “is what I get paid worth it for the work-life balance” or various other aspects of having a certain job. I think the gendered factors of women typically having more extracurricular responsibility outside the job, plus being paid less relative to their peers to some extent, leads them to quit more often. Not just one or the other in isolation, and it seems like they would still be more likely to quit even if paid on par due to having less work-life balance
Reminds me of the avocados they have in the Caribbean versus the ones that are grown in California and Mexico.
The typical Hass avocado we eat in the US is absolutely tiny compared to the tropical avocado. Theyre like 2-3x the size. Apparently closer to the avocado as it was prior to cultivating influences, which selected for smaller avocados with higher fat content
Honestly I did not notice much of a difference in taste or fat content between the two. They taste almost identical, but the tropical ones are massive and a way better value than Hass avocados
Talk about a policy idea that is the biggest waste of time you could ever think of. The job search requirement has always been meaningless.
You could mandate 3 in a week or 20 in a week, its just as simple to get around it. Apply for a job, and congrats youve met the requirement. These days you could apply to 20 different jobs in about 15 minutes using Indeed or whatever, regardless of if youre even remotely qualified for them. You dont have to show up to the interview (if you get one), and therefore never get offered a job, which means you never turned down a job offer, so you can keep collecting without any issue. No one from the state ever follows up, other than to see if you were offered work, because all that matters is that by next week you applied to how ever many other jobs. Rinse and repeat.
The only way to not collect the unemployment is if you are offered a job and turn it down, if you dont apply to enough jobs, or if you run out of money to collect. Clearly people out of work are applying to more than enough jobs to meet the requirements. And even if they werent, they still will drain what little benefits they have very quickly regardless
This is all just a bunch of nonsense
Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds
(www.theguardian.com)
‘A System Rigged’: Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half
(www.commondreams.org)
The richest 0.1% of people on Earth are hiding more than $2.8 trillion in offshore accounts to avoid taxes. That money alone is more wealth than is owned by the entire bottom half of humanity, more than 4.1 billion people.
These findings were published in a report released Thursday by Oxfam International on the 10th anniversary of the 2016 Panama Papers, which provided an unprecedented look at how the world's most powerful capitalists, financiers, political leaders, celebrities, and criminals exploited offshore tax havens to stash their money.
"Ten years on, the superrich are still sequestering oceans of wealth in offshore vaults,” said Christian Hallum, Oxfam International’s tax lead.
The percentage of untaxed wealth in offshore accounts has dropped in the past 10 years, in large part due to global reforms like the adoption of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Automatic Exchange of Information framework (AEOI), which allows revenue authorities around the world to easily share information and crack down on cheats.
However, many nations in the Global South are excluded from this system, even though they need the tax revenue the most.
Oxfam found that a staggering $3.5 trillion, more than 3.2% of the global gross domestic product, still remains in untaxed accounts. That's more than the entire GDP of France and is more than twice the combined wealth of the world's 44 poorest nations.
And while the percentage of untaxed wealth is shrinking, that doesn't mean inequality has shrunk.
On the contrary, the December 2025 "World Inequality Report" found that the richest 0.001% of humanity—fewer than 60,000 multimillionaires and billionaires—now have three times as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population combined.
Inequality has surged around the world in part due to taxation policies and pandemic recovery packages that overwhelmingly favor the rich. The most glaring was adopted in the world's financial hub, the United States, last year.
The megabudget passed by Republicans and signed into law by President Donald Trump handed a $1 trillion tax cut to America's wealthiest 1% while slashing more than $1 trillion in spending from Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs. It has been described by some economists as the largest upward transfer of wealth in US history.
While the global top 0.1% holds about 80% of untaxed offshore wealth, an even smaller group of uber-wealthy individuals does most of the cheating. The world's richest 0.01%, who hold at least $50 million apiece, control about half of all money in global tax shelters—$1.7 trillion.
According to the Tax Justice Network's Corporate Tax Haven Index, Caribbean islands under UK ownership, including the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and Bermuda, are among the worst offenders. Other notable tax havens include Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
A February Oxfam report on Elon Musk, who is well on his way to becoming the world's first trillionaire, found that his company, Tesla—which managed to pay zero dollars on its $2.3 billion income in 2024—has not published a country-by-country report on its taxes and that it has subsidiaries in many countries considered to be tax havens.
Big Pharma companies, including AbbVie and Merck, also used tax shelters to lower their total tax expense in 2025 by more than $1 billion, according to a report released earlier this month by the Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency Coalition.
"This isn’t just about clever accounting—it’s about power and impunity," Hallum said. "When millionaires and billionaires stash trillions of dollars in offshore tax havens, they place themselves above the obligations that bind the rest of society."
"The consequences are as predictable as they are devastating," he continued. "We see our public hospitals and schools starved of funds, our social fabric shredded by rising inequality, and ordinary people forced to shoulder the costs of a system rigged to enrich a tiny few.”
Even a fraction of the money currently stashed away by the world's wealthiest could alleviate untold amounts of suffering.
In November, the United Nations' World Food Program estimated that extreme hunger, which currently affects more than 318 million people around the world, could be eradicated by 2030 with investments of about $93 billion per year, but that global hunger programs instead remain “slow, fragmented, and underfunded."
According to a 2021 UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, investments of around $114 billion per year would similarly be enough to ensure that everyone on Earth has access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Oxfam called on governments around the world to increase coordination to prevent the wealthy from hiding their riches from tax authorities. It also urged them to adopt more aggressive policies to tax the 1%'s wealth at home, including taxes on income and on extreme wealth.
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Billionaires Pay Lower Effective Tax Rates Than Average Americans, New Data Show
(blackpressusa.com)
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