Public statements like this is why EA continually wins "Worst Company" over real assholes like Blackrock.

I don't think objects without a subjective experience need to give or are capable of giving consent. I don't think anyone needs to ask their fleshlight for consent, e.g.

If it were a living deer, then it would need to give consent but be unable to. (I think it's reasonable to say any supposed communications from the deer is less trustworthy than "Facilitated Communication", and not sufficient consent.)

Eh, one of the founders is a friend of a friend, I don't think it's "slimy". Though I have complained about some aspects both publicly and privately to him.

It was easier to get into than to actually buy my own property, but there's been a lot of changes to it since I bought my first shares of a local (to me) property.

We need to bring back the 92% (marginal) tax bracket.

There's a cap on how much you (and your employer) pay per SSN / year. So, for particularly high wages or salaries, the percentage goes down, for every dollar made above the cap.

Also, things like stock( option)s often made up a significant portion of compensation for high earners and those aren't subject to SSI tax at all, IIRC.

As wish many things American, it goes back to slavery. Tipped workers were a way for employers to avoid paying (mostly black) workers, effectively providing slavery-lite even after slavery had ended (Happy Juneteenth).

In any case, current U.S. labor law has specific carve-outs for certain tipped jobs that allow the minimal wage to be not the already unlivable $7.25/hr but the unsustainable $2.15/hr. Technically, employers are required to bring a tipped workers pay up to $7.25/hr if they do not report enough tips, but in practice employers encourage reporting incorrect tips and find reasons (if needed) to dismiss employees that do not report enough tips.

Fisherman, Sailor, Teamster, and Chef are not tipped positions. Waitstaff is a tipped position.

EDIT: There's no "rack" mentioned in the source. I assumed that. A loose loaded gun makes even less sense, tho.

Loaded while in a vehicle-mounted rack. Not just illegal, but also violates some fairly fundamental gun safety principles.

Heck, just "treat every gun a loaded" and "never point a gun at anything you don't want shot" means we should probably do away with most vehicle-mounted racks to being with. I suppose inside the metal toolbox in the truck bed would be okay; at least then the dog wouldn't fire it.

WTF. Didn't we decide that was way over the line like... 14 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incident

From 1975 to 2015 "deaths are down 92 percent among children ages 15 and under, and down 44 percent annually across all cyclists." -- https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20043115/kids-bike-fatalities-down-92-percent-but-theres-a-catch/

"You" personally might have survived, but about 12-13 times as many kids died from "No helmet, no fear". (At least very least, 2x as many did.)

They are still U S. citizens, just not citizens of any state. Same thing can happen if you are born in DC or a military base not in a state.

American Samoans are the ones that really get screwed. They are just U S. nationals. All the responsibilities of citizens (including the draft when it exists) but not all of the benefits.

They won't do it, but it would be baller to set it up like a debate, and have the moderator prompt the empty Trump lecturn and have the camera hold on it for 5-10 seconds each time. It would effectively just be a Kamala campaign interview, but with a bit of shade casting between each question.