I’ll take some cleaning house vs 0 cleaning house.

This is like dusting the china cabinet while ignoring a giant hole in the wall from someone crashing their car through it.

Oh, I see. Carry on!

Four years ago the other party had the same

As noted elsewhere in the thread, this is blatantly untrue.

TBF, I think we’ll still have elections next time. Even Russia still technically has elections.

Note, I’m not making any arguments about how legitimate those elections are going to be…

Not accurate. In 2021 the Supreme Court was split 6-3 in Republican favor.

Also, the Senate was super split with 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 2 Independent Senators (who, although they caucused with the Democrats, wouldn’t necessarily vote in lockstep) – and two of the Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) seemed more interested in obstructing things than in the party’s agenda.

You’d have a better argument if you’d brought up the ACA, IMO. The numbers in Congress favored the Dems more in 2009-2011.

You deleted this before I read it, btw.

Okay. Thank you? I think you replied to the wrong person. I wasn’t asking for the definition of a flat rate income tax.

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master/slave relationship in tech

Wait, this is a thread about branch names in git. The “master” in question would be more akin to a “master recording” from music, not master/slave software or system architecture.

Assuming you want to keep tax revenue the same, we’re talking a $27k tax bill for each adult based on 2023’s numbers (nothing newer was available).

Ordinary workers get shafted by taxes going up (rough guess, under $200k/year income) A few (TBH I’m not sure how many, really) pay about the same. Really high-income people make out like bandits.

If you think the economy is harsh for “regular joes” right now, oof. You’re in for a doozy.

How much can it cost, Michael?

Your post prompted me to check – at the “fancy” grocery store in town, I can get a dozen eggs for about $5. Same price at Aldi. Looking at Target, it’s about $4.20.

Wait, what? I usually expect Target to be more expensive than other options in the area! Strange times.

I doubt it, but ok

I’m not sure I’d count Frankenstein, tbh. I think it’s more horror than sci-fi.

LitRpg

I don’t think this is new; The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg was published in 1983 where players in a tabletop RPG get whooshed into the game world at the beginning of the book. Fun series.

Black Hawk Tuah is the cause of the crash!

(Also /s, of course)

I don’t have this issue in any other apps, so yes, def a Teams thing.

What OS are you using? AFAIK there’s no way to pin the separate Teams windows to the Dock in osx.

Yes, it’s a different window.

The issue is that it’s not the first window that Teams selects when I click on it.

Blame it on the macbook if you like, but IMO Teams is at fault.

Wait, have you never heard any of the Boomer jokes about “women drivers”?

I thought their meaning was obvious. In the places you’ve paid any attention to the sex of the taxi drivers, any would-be female taxi drivers have been deterred or driven out of the job by too much harassment.