I switched to Waterfox Classic when FF screwed the pooch with UI mess, but it's no longer maintained. I've been using Palemoon recently and it's fine, even leaks less memory. It's extension repository is smaller, but you can usually just download the FF XPI and install that if there's something you really need/want.

No tipping has historically been, and still is in many instances, a way of screwing people over:
https://youtu.be/XLG3pX6tNv0

The UK has student loan problems, although not nearly as severe.

There is no way of knowing what the prospects are when the loans are taken out.

What magical means testing are you referring to that has since disappeared?

Many of the efforts you've referred to are typically not paid for out of tuition receipts. We can argue whether or not sports should be as prominent on some campuses as it its (it shouldn't), but those gold-plated stadia, etc. but those teams bring in plenty of revenue. Similarly, such a large expansion would have been paid for with a loan and or come out of the university's endowment. Indeed, endowments have generally been performing quite well, allowing many universities to actually KEEP COSTS RELATIVELY FLAT, not increase them. See the Forbes article in the comment proceeding yours.

Interesting study/article, I'd mod up if I had points.

I gather some traffic violations in the UK are nominally, but still work out to be only less regressive than a flat fine.

It' not autocorrect, it's the cell contents parser. I unfortunately run into this a fair bit when I receive database extracts for analysis. Frequently the randomly-generated unique identifiers used as primary keys are misinterpreted as dates. Something like 3mAy57tRZ gets mangled into "May 3rd, 1957"; example only, from memory, actual way Microsoft fucks things up may vary.

This an be prevented by explicitly setting a column as Text, but if anyone else failed to do so before the file got you, you're screwed.

BULL SHIT. Greater Boston has one of the most expensive housing markets in the country, and that's since rent control was stupidly rolled back statewide in the 90's.

Yes, rent control's totally the problem, because without it the invisible hand has been doing an excellent job of meeting demand for housing these past thirty years...

Food & Drug Administration. GP's comparison was perfectly cromulent, along yours about guns.

Carmine is still an FDA approved ingredient, and used in a variety of foods. Although apparently there are some who question its merits.

That presumes people only have primary residences, and no weekend houses, snowbird getaways, or rental properties which might be vacant due to condition or outrageous rent, etc.

You also ignore attrition as homes are lost to floods, fires, multi-family housing being converted into single-family...

It depends on the price elasticity of the products or services in question.

For inelastic goods (staple foods, fuel) it'll be largely passed through, because what else are you going to do? You gotta eat/stay warm. For elastic goods, it'll be split. If a Chinese manufacturer tries to make its customers pay 100% of the import tariff for some fancy electronics customers are more likely to do without or buy something originating from another country. So MegaCorp Conglomerated Ltd. might be able to pass on a larger proportion of the marginal taxes for its luxury goods, but not for its basic product lines... Or so goes the theory anyhow.

Fair enough.

WTF is wrong with "flora, fauna and fungi"? Who cares that the trailing vowel is different, if it anything it makes you pay more attention... assuming you know it's 3Fs in the first place.

Taxes are not guaranteed to be 100% pass-through. Your idea would also sacrifice Pigouvian taxes intended to dissuade "bads" like pollution.

GP said buy the *service*. That's customers data and materials.