The number of tankies in this thread is just epic

Article 1, section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises […]

Isn’t “Arbeitsnehmer” one who takes labor? I would think the worker gives his or her labor, and the industrialist takes it.

You do not need to be part of opec to sell oil. The US, UK, and Norway, just to name three, are not members.

https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm

… and other fairy tales

That would be my reaction too. Who says “unsubscribe to” instead of “unsubscribe from”?

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

For real. Once I retire in a decade or so, I’ll try to live off social security for as log as possible, but once I need to dip into my savings, I’m just tapping my kid’s inheritance. At that point, death is the only financially rational option.

I assume that anything in slang or music that I don’t understand is either about sex or drugs.

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

Pretty sure Hilton will just sell you one

“Aside from people who [benefit from self-checkout], it’s hard to see who benefits from self-checkout.

I don’t think the step- relations are to hide incest. I think it’s a lazy way to create situations where two people are alone together. Otherwise you’d have to go to tired tropes like pizza delivery, or visiting plumber, etc.

They really are disgusting aren’t they

I’m at 17, no lie.

What if we plugged the holes with the corpses of the workers we had to sacrifice to achieve a hole-free hull?

I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.

During the 2022 cycle I made the mistake of donating to a lefty cause, and this year I was getting up to twenty (20) grifting emails a day. Just a few well-crafted email filters later, it’s down to zero. For texts, as soon as one comes in it’s “block and report as junk”. I’ll keep this up until I have every fucking number in the US listed as junk I don’t care.

She not even a boomer, she’s Silent Generation