Quizzical how conservatives are socialist within the family unit but capitalist outside it. Liberals are capitalist within the family unit but socialist outside it.
In New Zealand, many commercial domestic flights don't have any security at all.
What is preventing that from happening in the US/Europe?
Mall cops have a bad rap, but malls have less crime, vagrants and beggars than the streets have. Why is that?
The argument for food stamps is that people will starve without them. Its obvious we should institute BMI-based eligibility for food stamps. If someone is obese, it is the opposite of compassionate to tell them “here’s free money to buy more food with.”
Steve Jobs put tremendous effort and money into making the glass in Apple Stores as elegant and seamless as possible. They’re now works of art covered in tasteless sticker ads.
How sad that the tastemaker has lost taste.
Republicans boasting about a tax cut in a bill with a massive deficit is equivalent to being told at a car dealership "great news, your $30k car is now only $20k plus a $10k loan!"
The cost is the same, they're just bragging that they're financing it with debt instead of cash.
If you find yourself defending Russia in the Russia/Ukraine war, how does it feel to be on the side of the North Korean soldiers?
If you're happy the US destroyed Iran's nuclear program, thank a bunch of guys in dress pants and button downs who went into grey office buildings in boring suburbs and ate microwaved lean cuisines for lunch. They designed the planes and bombs that made it possible!
If you went into a coma in 2015 and woke up in 2025 in a spirit airlines terminal, you’d be sure headphones no longer existed.
There is no ($0!) trade deficit if you include the dollars we export in the calculation. The most profitable factory in the history of the world is the US Mint. Any trade policy that seeks to "balance trade" seeks to shut down our most profitable export (US Dollars).
If Trump wanted to raise his approval rating to infinity, he would immediately threaten tariffs on any country requiring American companies to display cookie banners.
These laws only exist due to EU organizational inertia. Break the inertia and they'll come shattering down.
The feeling of accomplishment that you get when you complete a silly process, like filing taxes or renewing your license, is the same feeling that keeps the bureaucracy going. Well-meaning people who feel good accomplishing tasks, even those tasks didn't need to occur.