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King 👑

Working in academia I've had to explain to a lot of girls that older men flirting with them repeatedly isn't a normal thing and they should 100% report them to the proper channels if they felt uncomfortable. It sucks that even when there's any amount of support it's still so poorly communicated.

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Did you pay your taxes?

The issue afaik is that Jeff bezos's $200B is in assets like stocks, and the buy borrow die strategy of getting loans using assets as collateral lets rich people spend money without actually cashing in said assets which would trigger capital gains taxes. Idk how to stop this prevalent strategy but between that and the corporate tax system ignoring money that goes back into the company letting corporations invest their profits to ignore taxes that's why so few taxes are collected on those groups. Feel free to correct anything inaccurate.

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I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey

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Take whatever the price of your food is, multiply it by 1.3-1.5 because restaurants have to make up the 30% they pay the company, then add an extra $30 for taxes, fees, and a tip. Food delivery got boiling frog'd like rideshares after market capture and needing to stop subsidizing post-IPO. Funnily enough drivers are making less than they ever have despite all the price increases, funny how that works.

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The traffic revolution that’s making cities cleaner — and happier

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I live in one of the more bikeable cities in the US and pedestrians are more of a danger to cyclists than the other way around usually as pedestrians will loiter in bike lanes for some reason. The big bike offenders are kids on ebikes and the city's rental bikes which both attract people who couldn't care less about safety, otherwise anyone on their own bike tends to follow the rules or go slow enough to be able to stop.

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Food should not be a commodity

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Idk how widespread it is but I've volunteered with organizations that get massive shipments of unsold food that's then repackaged by them and then given out or sold at a substantially lower cost, so this does happen. This is backed by federal laws limiting the liability of donors, and at least in my state there are also laws limiting food waste to incentivize participation in such programs.