I think I'd spend all day moving my mouse in circles, followed by typing dirty words then deleting them. Train that AI right!

Kid in my hometown just got run over by a train on an e-bike, so bad stuff is happening.

Years ago, I tried to get licensed for a Honda motor scooter, which required doing that figure eight. But the Honda had this enormous square fairing on the front wheel that made it impossible for you to actually see the front wheel, so you couldn't actually tell if it was in the figure eight - you couldn't see the figure eight, you had to guess where it was at in relation to the tire. It was also not very stable, so at slow speeds it tended to fall over. So I failed the test. Twice.
I asked the instructor(who stood by carefully watching as I farcically attempted the figure 8) If I could remove the fairing just for the test. No.
So I simply used my learners permit and didn't ride it at night.

You sound edgy. Perhaps you should have "amerikkka" stenciled on your hoodie? You'll certainly impress everyone with it.

So change tax law and not vote in a "we'll randomly take five percent of your stuff". It really is that simple.
Want a way to start? Give everyone skin in the game with a flat tax. no deductions, and i don't care if you're living off a paycheck or some elaborate loan scheme: it's your income, and you pay tax on it. If you want to fund services for the poor, make it completely separate from the tax code.
Because it's real easy to vote to tax everyone when you're not paying any taxes ( the poor) and it's real easy to game a complicated tax system when you have an army of employees to do this ( the rich).

Even this "I'm the LA TIMES and I never met a tax I didn't like" article cites it. : https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-01-10/california-made-them-rich-now-billionaires-flee-when-state-asks-for-little-something-back

I read the bill myself to find the exact clause because people have been saying this and I wanted to verify. , You're correct. Essentially, it says California's congress can modify the bill once it's passed with a 2/3 majority. So if they want to lower the threshold, or make it annual, they can vote to do this without putting it up to the state voters. As long as it fits within the intent of the original bill. And as the original bills intent was to finance healthcare, that's a pretty lower hurdle.

And getting a 2/3 majority in California for raising taxes is like getting throwing fish food into a koi pond and wondering how many fish will eat it.

Not only is an easy change to more than once already built into the bill- it can be done without a vote - they've also built in the means to expand it past billionaires.
"50310. Legislative Authority. The Legislature may amend the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, by statute passed in each house of the Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership concurring, if the statute is consistent with and furthers the purposes of the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act"

Feel like applying to those who make 100K?Feel like making it an annual fee? Just needs a 2/3 vote. And in California, that's pretty easy to come by.

I drive roughly 2.5 hours daily, 1.25 hours each way. Occasionally an accident will push it past 2 hours. I also eat in my car.
My last at fault accident was when I was 19, 37 years ago.
I have not had a traffic ticket since I was 21.
So I'm going to go with I am actually above average

I noticed you said Petrol. I assume where you live it would be a task to drive that far.

NOTE: if you lead with or must include "LOL" in everything you type, you're kind of an idiot. LOL.

If ZIP had been more reliable, or more affordable, they would have simply replaced Floppy drives until CD/RW or USB drives of decent capacity came along. But they pretty early gained a reputation for being unreliable and expensive, and so everyone at the time really just bit the bullet and waited.

Every time an article on Amazon comes out, I realize I'm glad I don't use Amazon.
Anecdotally, I have a friend who used to sell products through amazon, they got tired of the constant price increases and weird rules for everything, and changed to a different method of selling.
Amazon is just awful. And it's been easy to see it going that way for years.

It's not difficult to post to every resource under the sun. They're just peacocking to fit in. Not exactly sure to what.

Being Kamala put Kamala in a tough spot. She just wasn't that good, she was frankly kinda meh. She exuded a feeling of "I'm a good mid level manager", and never managed to convince us she could move past that.
Every time she opened her mouth to make a point, nonsense came out. She just exuded "incapable". Trump did too, but never pretended otherwise.
She'd been pummeled in the primaries, and got a political version of "get out of jail free" card being put on the ticket as a token for Biden, and then when Biden dropped out it was a lot of "wait, whaaaa?' I can't help but think the only reason the democrats ran her was that they would have had to give back all that donated money had they changed the candidate.

I've never even visited Lebanon, but reading up on it's history previously and now just makes me so sad.