That sounds hard to audit. Does the IRS have the staff for that?

This is referring to after you know the person, already have their number, etc. You still text before every call.

I think it’s somewhat age gated. But I love it. A phone call out of nowhere means I need to drop everything and give you my full attention, and I have to make that decision within 20 seconds or it’s too late.

A text first gives me so many more options. Especially if I like to prepare, for example, stepping out of the crowded office. Or parking the car. (Which still works even if I don’t read texts until parked.)

I think most any full time job in the US has bereavement leave.

It’s only the poorest of the poors that get absolutely fucked, as is tradition.

Do you think Elon gives enough of a shit to ask someone?

He got so mad at the government telling him no that he overthrew the US government.

I’m not directly experienced, just throwing that out at the start.

There are things more addictive than cocaine, like heroin. NEVER, ABSOLUTELY NEVER do heroin.

But if you do end up being a coke-fiend, that does suck. And it seems the individual often has very little control of their ability to get addicted or not.

I’d never touch it. At least not before 80. I don’t think it’s worth the risk.

But I also don’t think it’s beneficial to lie and exaggerate in order to promote drug-phobia.

I had a friend who was addicted to coke for a very short time. Another friend, found his stash, flushed it, and threatened him with life-changing consequences. He quit, and has been successful since.

More recently, I went to a bar with a person I knew from the Internet. When he went to the bathroom, another patron told me, “after the third coke joke it’s not a joke”.

There’s also the more modern danger. If you think you’re doing cocaine and it’s actually half cocaine, half fentanyl (much cheaper), then you’re probably dead. Maybe they didn’t intend to cut it half and half. Maybe they just didn’t stir well.

I sure as hell wouldn’t mention that ahead of time.

Which one was that? You can, uh, hold the images. Words will do fine here.

People have been saying, “I’m worried because the kids are so dumb” since the dawn of time. This has a couple extra grains of truth thrown in, but not much that wasn’t already apparent.

Does it mean that anonymous social media can’t exist without state actors using it to push propaganda?

I also don’t want everything I’ve posted to social media to be attached to my resume when I’m applying for jobs.

I’ve thought about some kind of system where a trusted actor would have access linking individuals actual names to pseudo-anonymous online identities. But one, that’s a stretch. Two, Elon would have downloaded that database first. And three, it doesn’t even fully solve the problem. Maybe you can make it a crime to allow foreign individuals to use your verified social media account.

But all that’s just spitballing on the bleeding edge of social media. And our government isn’t exactly known for being on the bleeding edge of tech.

I do think something like this could be good for the German government in particular.

The Nazis may not get broken in the East without the Americans and the Allies in the West.

We have plenty of things to be Anti-American about right now without trying to cherry pick, and oddly frame WWII.

Pretty sure they also don’t pause property taxes based on your income.

And you’re the sort of person to call me a Nazi at the slightest provocation.

People like Bradley Hart write books like that as a cautionary tale. People like you just abuse any chance you get to shit on America.

There’s better unethical stuff in South America. You should spend your efforts there.

And if you’re on the jury, you never say the words “jury nullification”. It technically isn’t allowed, and you can be removed from the jury.

But if you just think there’s reasonable doubt, then nothing can be done.

The CEO was not a billionaire. So it’s not billionaires as a group.

We did not as a nation

You sure like to cherry pick what counts for “as a nation”. The fact is we sent significant supplies and support to Europe throughout the war.

I can’t find a source for percentage support for the Nazis. While it existed, it seems to be pretty minor. Even the infamous Madison Square Garden rally has more to the story.

It bears mentioning that while there were 20,000 enthusiastic American Nazis inside the venue, there were also thousands of protesters outside. The anti-Nazi contingent included everyone from veterans to housewives to members of the Socialist Workers Party. The New York Times reported that the streets of midtown Manhattan were packed, and at one point the orchestra from a Broadway musical near Madison Square Garden performed a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the protesters. A mysterious crusader even set up a loudspeaker in a rooming house near the scene and blasted a denunciation of the Nazis out the window: “Be American, Stay at Home.” The New York Police Department had deployed a record number of 1,700 officers around Madison Square Garden, enough “to stop a revolution,” the police commissioner said.

Rust is straight up better than C. It’s safer and less prone to errors.

It’s not feasible to convert the entire Linux codebase at once. So your options are to either have a mixed codebase, or stick with effectively Cobol into 2020.

He wanted plausible deniability. He didn’t get there.

Bullshit. We supported Europe similarly to how we’ve been supporting Ukraine.

We didn’t have boots on the ground, but we did everything short of that. It’s why Pearl Harbor happened.