Indeed, I got there moments later, alas.

Oh well, I'm sure this will be nice for T-Mobile users.

I don't get that. When costs go up, wages go up. There's no reason not to include minimum wage in that scheme. Yes, it's a kind of rat race - that seems to be the nature of economies. My old sig seems relevant here: "The Economy is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn".

I also think the experience of many Europeans contradicts your contention. People working in food service industries in some countries there enjoy paid vacations which some US tech workers would be jealous of. These people have decent lives, leisure time, and good healthcare.

Things are similar here in Canada, although probably not as good as in Europe. Our policies and expectations have been pretty heavily shaped by America's. That may change now that the US has jumped the shark and is busy making itself irrelevant to the rest of the world.

I think there's lots of evidence that a minimum wage which follows wages in general results in durable, worthwhile benefits to a society.

Vandalism is treated very differently in court when it comes to compensatory damages. Actual destruction can lead to restitution. Vandalism does not.

And if I break anything I will offer to pay for it. Which they won't allow me to do, because they are kicking me out. So my video evidence would demonstrate they didn't want to get paid.

Why was my first thought about this "bwahahaha"? I mean, they'd never activate this without permission - right?

I wonder how soon somebody will come up with some kind of random "stirrer" to mask occupants' movements.

"However they are using a public good (the spectrum) and as such they have to show a beneficial use."

Hahahhahahahhahahhaha

Now do faux news

"Don't forget, CALPERS and NEA are major donors to the Democrats."

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Or maybe for a Vice President? For Vance, the capitalized versions of "al bundy" and "ai bundy" are both appropriate.

Now do Facebook shadow accounts.

You sound just like a noob.

Well, we can get ours back by mangling the phrase "Io and Behold"... ;-)

Their penalty for shoplifters is that they won't take their money?

I don't think they have thought this one through.

It's also another wakeup call for Disney which has given a lot of money to a lot of conservative campaigns in the past, though to be fair they seem to have already figured that out as in 2024 about 80% of their campaign donations were to Democrats.

Yes, government borrowing needs to be reduced. But what's probably more important is that they spend what they borrow on things which increase the country's ability to service that debt.

Engaging in spurious wars, funding a genocide in Gaza, building a ballroom / bunker, hiring and equipping ICE agents, and enabling a president to profit in the billions from clearly illegal activity - all of these things, and more besides, are equivalent to setting piles of money on fire.

On the other hand, going into debt to
-- drastically improve education at all levels
-- create and fund single-payer healthcare
-- support a livable minimum wage, and
-- fight corporate corruption which is a massive drain on the economy
could be considered "debt well invested"

I know that "spending your way out of debt" seems counterintuitive - but there are times when it is both necessary and workable. Of course, for it to work you have to have competent and honourable people running the show - so support your local DSA candidate!

Oh, wait - I forgot that I'm talking to a hidebound Conservative and unwitting apologist for the new Gilded Age.

Tell me more about these coal reactors

Again you fail to read the comment.

Your English comprehension is better than mine is in any other languages, but I don't try to argue in languages I'm not good at, so I don't have the problem you're having now.

Go back and read the rest of my comment before you try again.