@BuzzPatterson In Texas, if you own or rent a home you pay property taxes.
Every sale of almost everything from gas to groceries is also taxed.
If you get a job with a paycheck, then social security and Medicare are taken out, even though you will never collect.
@KatanaSpeaks I’ve definitely had this thought, and worried about the ethics of “owning” another living creature.
Then I realized that most pets are essentially just symbiotic parasites. We are both getting something out of the deal, and it could be argued that they’re actually the “owner”😅
@rational_wiki @jonnyswift8 …because it is a regulatory imposition by the federal government, that is best left to the individual sport leagues or decided locally, on a case by case basis.
I thought Republicans were against big government overreach. 🤷🏻♂️
@_danny_dimes@SuzieSeeksTruth@IanCarrollShow@jasonwhitlock In many ways, and in many places that are dominated by a single party, primaries elections matter more than the general election.
It’s where you get to decide who the candidate should be and show them what you want them to care about.
i don’t think anyone disagrees with cutting government waste ffs we’ve literally talked about this my entire life
the problem here is we have a rogue immigrant with no understanding of how the government works and his merry band of incels hacking and slashing through something they do not understand
you want to cut government waste there’s a ton of ways to do right now without firing thousands of people and cutting aid and research
@PettitFrontier I disagree with them, but there are reasonable arguments for prioritizing terrestrial equality before expanding our horizons to the stars.
@PettitFrontier Not yet.
No one thinks that extravagant cost plus budgets make sense, but lots of folks still value the benefits of advancing space science and the long term goal of making humans an interplanetary species. 1/
@The80HDkid@theStolenKing07 @CrosslandCreate @no_earthquake While some aspects of beauty are absolutely subjective. Influenced by culture and whatnot.
Other aspects are surely objective, even if they are operating at a subconscious level. Facial symmetry, proportional width of shoulders (for men) or hips (for women), etc.
@kenfichtler@WarMonitorClips@GaizeSafety This is a clever and practical use of technology.
I’m curious what the test subject sees when looking into the headset.