Income, sales, property, vehicle/gas and other taxes are just different ways of getting money. Different states may have one tax be pretty high, but another is low or non-existent. At the end of the day, the government will get their money somehow, and if they don't you'll generally find you get what you pay for.

Because a resupply base was destroyed.

Saved you a click.

It's the second half of a surgery when they reassemble

Probably

I win 😀

"G'day mate!" to all of my Austrian friends 🥰

I was taught to always label your axes.

"something something transferrable something something"

Going from a deterministic model to probabilistic is a huge change, silly goose

I'm not seeing a post summary on this one

Quite possibly. I use Sync which has its issues but for how much I use Lemmy is usually fine.

Fuck that headline. It was the president of Portugal.

Not that it would happen, but can you imagine if the case ends up getting dismissed with prejudice before trial over that?

To help quantify, that's a little under 3 pounds (1.3kg) per person, assuming perfectly equal distribution.

I wasn't expecting good news in the world of AI today, but I'll take it!

Now the question is, which Jenga block is being pulled?

There is sugar, absolutely. And that's probably where most of the calories come from. But there is also water, cellulose (fiber), and vitamins/minerals - doesn't have much non-sugar caloric value to change that balance, but it's still important. And nobody serious is suggesting you eat only fruit, so you can get non-sugar calories from other sources and it can be balanced in the big picture.

It's kind of like an appropriate amount of dressing on a salad, the good outweighs the bad and makes you more likely to actually eat that nutrition-positive food.

Source: I'm some guy on the Internet. You can trust me.

I miss the days when satire was fake

I was looking for "buzzword soup website doesn't say what the product fucking does"

Maybe that wouldn't fit in a square

It's the same jurisdiction that put 4 cops in jail for murdering George Floyd. There's a good chance that AG Keith Ellison is looking into it

Of course Stellantis was first to do it

The kind of people who would start a business (to enrich themselves) and the kind of people who value co-ops and employee-owned businesses (to enrich others) does not have much overlap. I love the idea of coops, but I do not have the skills or ambition to start any kind of business.