The US only taxes the difference between the country’s tax amount and the US tax amount, at least. Someone living in Sweden may not have to pay anything while someone in Thailand may owe most of their taxes to the US. It still is wild that they demand tax money from citizens all over the world though.

Drug addicts looking for scrap metal aren’t much different. They look through abandoned structures, sneak around armed “hostiles”, and sleep wherever there are no enemies.

The animation (and this meme) have been around for way longer than modern AI. IIRC I remember seeing this meme in 2019.

As far as I know, they don’t even bring drug dogs into US airports. They are almost exclusively explosive-sniffing dogs. The TSA doesn’t look for drugs in the first place.

Perhaps it’s possible US customs could be using drug dogs, but I have never heard of that regarding airports. I could be wrong though.

Halal white sauce is superior for sandwiches, meats, and dipping sauces. Mayo might be better for tuna/egg salads but it’s an indictment that you have to drown out the flavor of mayo for it to taste good.

“Waste heat” is a relative term.

Anything that would cause real economic damage and put power back in the hands of workers will be treated as “illegal” regardless of what the books say. But what could they realistically do, arrest everyone in their homes who didn’t go to work that day?

Wildcat strikes are “illegal” in the sense that your employer is allowed to retaliate with firing you or docking pay if you do so. I highly doubt someone’s going to prison for not showing up at a regular job.

I think they are referring to the US Speaker of the House refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva after she won a special election in Arizona.

Adguard DNS tends to block ads in apps pretty well in my experience.

This is why I think large companies with lots of trucking should be paying a lot more taxes for roads and bridges. As it stands now, ordinary citizens are subsidizing them while they turn around and raise prices off the back of this. Corporate welfare for nothing in return

“Indicia” is the correct word, “indica” is the cannabis species. They’re probably not fond of the latter.

I’m big on the entire Borderlands franchise, played 1+2+3+TPS and even both Telltale story games. I’m still going to wait at least until it drops below $40 at the very earliest. I get the notion that we will start seeing sales on BL4 relatively soon.

If anything, Windows 11 is the OS where things don’t work off of a fresh install (assuming it’s a self-built PC). It requires an internet connection during regular setup yet the ethernet/wifi drivers simply didn’t work. I had to cheat startup and install drivers through USB.

Bazzite on the other hand, worked instantly. The only thing needed was to set the right sound output.

The problem has been solved to some extent, at least. Unregulated casinos and Polymarket are entirely banned in the US, but citizens here regularly bypass it with VPNs and transferring stablecoin. In the case of obscene games, it’s not illegal (yet at least) so the only thing needed would be the infrastructure for accepting and distributing crypto payments.

None of it is without flaws, but many small websites managed to make it work without issues. The main issue would probably be convincing enough people to move to crypto to create a stable user base. I’d imagine some would be “driven” enough to jump through all these hoops though. Personally I’d like to see a platform that is free of this anti-democratic fuckery going on.

Australia has been censoring an incredible amount for a long time, for what it’s worth. It is one of the worst offenders of this out of all the Western countries. There aren’t many restrictions on the government to ban things.

I think it’s time for a game platform divorced from Visa/Mastercard to rise to the occasion and step in for these platforms. Websites without these processors already exist, so the model is proven to work well enough (it’s less convenient for sure).

I wouldn’t think the US would be a good country for this hypothetical store though. I think it’s only a matter of time until they attack the publishers and studios directly. I’m not counting on the 1st amendment to help anyone.

Maybe I chose the wrong $10 adapter but I notice a big drop in sound quality using that vs Bluetooth, to the point that it’s not worth using unless there isn’t another option. I’m not really an audiophile, though I can notice the general quality of sound.

I know that the name of the fallacy comes from an example, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scotsman invoke “No True Scotsman”. I’ve heard countless Americans invoke it though, and one side does it far more than the other.

That paranoia came about when crime documentaries got big on TV (and now internet) rather than a consistent increase in abductions. People are really bad at reasoning with probability and undoing attentional bias from media, so they even think it can be likely kids would be abducted if left alone.

This is why 24/7 location tracking on kid’s phones is completely normalized. Sure, it’s not a bad thing to take precautions, but tracking your kids like a dog seems a bit much. And I’m sure a lot of parents misuse it for a lot less serious things (eg teens being at the mall unsupervised).

Not to mention, I’m pretty sure if they started debiting accounts arbitrarily and en masse, there would be a nationwide bank run and an apocalyptic economic crash. I’m not sure they’d want to wage nuclear war on the US economy. At least not yet.