some do, some don’t

IMO it should be the opposite: You should get a sales tax exemption if you’re a resident. The reason tourist-heavy areas have high sales tax is to capture more nonlocal money they can use to support local services.

It’s a point of pride to build my own PCs, including Linux boxes.

Not for IT, but Culinary Agents is legit for F&B.

Y I K E S

Anyone who would use a phrase like “third-world traits” is exactly the person who needs to learn better to accept and respect others.

Moving on, it’s also been repeatedly made clear that “merit”, to those in power, means “perpetuating existing power structures”. Those who write the metrics favor those that are similar to themselves.

You can’t win an argument by being wrong. If you “lost” an argument it behooves you to at least consider the other person’s points. Two people can broth be right and still disagree.

Me, I’ve never “lost” an argument. I’ve either made myself understood or I haven’t, and at some point that’s on the other person. And I’ve either come to understand the other person’s point or I haven’t, which again at some point is on them. But being the one to change your mind isn’t losing, it’s learning.

Can I eat dead, burnt bodies? I mean, kill?

Christmas:

• Muppet Christmas Carol

• Nothing Like the Holidays

• The Snowman

Thanksgiving, not a movie, a song: Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”

July: Independence Day

I also generally reread at some point in the summer Neal Stephenson’s novel Zodiac

well now that a rando on the Internet has warned me I may never do it again

gum

Can you even make a Tolkein effort?

No we don’t. Grey is the only way.

It’s the same as “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Fixing a problem early is less expensive than fixing it later.

I see men with their pants halfway down their ass and their underwear showing every day. It was the style for awhile in the late 90’s.

Because the purpose of music, to me, is to make me feel things. The more the better. It helps me with overstimulation by drowning out distractions.

I don’t know who that person is. I doubt they are the keystone to society at large.

I seriously doubt he walked.

I think we all settled on “they had enough information to prevent it but did not do so” and “it was used as pretext for an unjust and wasteful ego-war in the Middle East” and then we moved on.

You’d be using the same OAuth key in the app, even logged out, if that helps.

post liberalism?

Unfortunately this one’s already here.