If you go a few levels deeper into minimum wages, tip laws, tax loopholes explanations as to why the world looks the way it does for all kinds of businesses.
Oregon has no sales tax so some beautiful Columbia riverfront property in Portland is a massive shopping complex built in the 60s so Washingtonians across the river can drive over and buy “tax free”, though I’m sure any benefits were long ago mostly neutered by retailers.
A little less prosecution a little corruption please
All this misdirection is satisfactionin’ me
A little less bite and a lot more dark
A lot less right just to serve the sharks
Close your mouth, evil off the chart baby pacify me
pacify me, baby
Inflation is largely not a problem, corporate price gouging accounts for the bulk of increases. Price gouging increases are an enormous fucking problem for people. Calling it inflation is their script, don’t adopt their language.
Consolidation or competitors that has been allowed almost unabated the last 25 years exacerbates the effects.
Just like the letter I got yesterday from an ISP I haven’t done business with in 4 years, letting me know my birthdate and SSN were compromised. Why did they even maintain it if they didn’t have a need for it? Also, why did an ISP need that in the first place…
They offered 1 year of credit monitoring. Lol. I’ll wait for the class action.
And by super intelligence we mean connected to a lot of things and able to wreak significant havoc, but absolutely fucking worthless for complex thought.
#Skynub
“Our main story tonight is about a 100 year old woman who says her secret to old age is walking around barefoot and never brushing her teeth. More news on this super calloused fragile mistress hexed with halitosis after the break.”
The Breakfast
Appreciate it…that’s one of those titles I’ve heard so many times and never watched it, finally committed to and just finished watching it, really enjoyed it. The dialogue is so sharp it reads more like a theatrical production, so well done it almost doesn’t seem like a movie, my how times have changed.
People also just get confused by terminology and the mechanics and do it on accident, though much less common if state isn’t including it on voter reg for sure.
The genesis of this post was a family member in a very blue state, who went to an ivy league school and is extremely progressive and was sick of blue/red and googled “independent party” in her state and when I sent her the party platform she was registered for she lost her mind.
Political parties vary by state, and registration processes do also as noted elsewhere in the thread. There may not be an Independent party in your state, but there are in others and it causes confusion.
The point of the post is to share the point of confusion so people can read up on their registration or state party platforms. If you’re not going to bother to learn about the differences that do exist, but still want to broadly claim “election year bullshit”, maybe you’re part of the problem you’re raging about.
What movie is this from? I see a very young Bardem
I’m in Oregon and it’s on the voter registration form, not required, but a big drop down with party name and no other info. Oregon is hardly red.
Picked some random states, they’re all different which is also part of the confusion when citizens move. They may not record it for the state but can those in the state still register or join a party on their own? Issue would still exist if so.
They’ve set the board, and are betting they’re too big to fail and that enough choice has been eliminated consumers won’t have viable options.
Your move America.
Oh it’s not the entirety, the employer has been paying tipped folks at least $2.35 per hour! What recompense.
The 7i exemption, also called tip credit allows employers to take tips reported and lower the wages they pay and replace those wages with tips the public pays and have it count toward the federal minimum wage, which is a whopping $7.25 per hour and hasn’t increased since 2009 thanks to corporate ownership of the GOP and fecklessness from Democrats. It’s difficult to say what is more offensive economically or socially.
The way to do it is to support ranked choice and other voting systems that are not first past the post all/nothing; this would eventually lead to changing of the composition of congress over time and the two parties would have to learn how to moderate and negotiate their stances just like happens in democracies all over the world.
It’s a common misconception but if you registered you aren’t “independent” you are a member of your state’s Independent party, who has a platform and agenda you may or may not agree with.
You don’t need to register with any party to show you don’t like R or D. Go for “little i independent”.
Just need a little bit more consolidation, trust us, just this little bit more, maybe once more…
Is that bebop or rock steady?
United is Four Seasons compared to American.
One of the few good legal standards around bankruptcy is that unpaid wages to workers are actually, surprisingly paid out of assets prior to investors getting their cut.