Because unemployment isn’t really that low. When we talk about “people here now who could use those jobs”, we’re usually talking about people in dead end jobs that could use a career job.

So great, pull them into our elder care system, give them a career level up…now their old jobs are still unfilled. And while we’re super shitty as a country towards entry level service workers, we also as a country really want those jobs to be filled. So we’d need to fill that gap in the employment pool somehow.

Just in case you misread the title (because I did at first), Namibia is explicitly not looking into other people’s pants now.

Why did it take until 2024? Humans being humans, I guess. Gotta go after some “other”.

While I agree with the sentiment here, this is pretty 1-dimensional. For one, US support of Ukraine actually has little to do with democracy and everything to do with national sovereignty. One nation with imperial ambitions invaded another nation without pretense, US provides aid to stave off that invasion.

Hypocritical given US history of imperialism? Sure. But it’s NOT imperialism under the mask of democracy.

Similar arguments apply to various points on this list. Supporting NATO is about maintaining a military alliance against common enemies, not spreading democracy.

They crack nuts with their beaks, we had to invent a tool for that job.

Progressive tax brackets. This hypothetical tax is only on money earned over 10M/1M.

But if you’re talking to an alien that uses base 4, they don’t know what you mean by “base 9+1”. Wtf is a 9?

Tbf, even the “right” way to balance 7 tubes in 24 slots is a bit cursed of you don’t look at it as a superposition.

But you’ve got 3 tubes in an equilateral triangle and 2 pairs mirrored across the center, so we’re all good here.

My favorite fortress fail was from a were-iguana. A visitor turned into a giant iguana in the middle of the dining hall and caused a minor ruckus before my militia dispatched it. 2/10 invasion, really not that special.

Then next full moon there were 7 of them, including my militia commander. Oops. Pay attention to combat logs when you fight a were-creature! Quarantine the bitten!

Banning tax prep companies is a bad, poorly thought out idea.

Simplifying tax prep is the avert. Doing what the rest of the developed world does, where the IRS sends you a receipt and you can either accept that or manually file if you think you owe less.

Banning tax prep companies just hurts people who have a nonstandard tax situation. Small business owners, people with tax relief from disabilities, all manner of normal people in niche situations. Don’t take away the tools they need, remove the opportunity for parasite companies to prey upon average people.

OR have a mandatory specialist/professional input throughout the process

People on the internet don’t like to hear this, but that’s called Lobbying.

I get a mental image of The Bad Donald crossed with Rick & Morty’s Elon Tusk.

BG3 runs like a dream on steam deck.

Latvia is actually in NATO, not just receiving support from NATO countries. This is meaningless bluster.

It was an Indian man, but I’m aware of any evidence he was an operative of the Indian government.

Edit: Dumbass me, commenting before reading the article.

I think it’s just a symptom of “people”.

We’ve written plenty of legal justification around it, but ultimately it just comes down to the fact that police CAN physically place your finger into your phone, but cannot extract a password from your brain that you don’t want to give up.

If we had the ability to read minds, there’d be legal justification to grab your password within a year.

It’s a fun one. Not nearly as open-ended as SDV, but it has more of an actual story to tell so that’s okay.

I recommend the DLC, they flesh out the story a lot.

In short, yes, Islam varies a lot based on the actual community you’re a part of. Few places are as extreme as Afghanistan, even if you look at other conservative theocracies. When you’re looking at Muslim communities in Western Europe, it’s a very different situation.

They’re technically mouse-navigable, but they’re awful at it. The currently-click-selected option is not always obvious.

SkyUI is one of my must-have mods for that reason.

Any map-staring enthusiasts? I’ve been playing Europa Universals 4 lately.

Started as Ethiopia, got up to Egypt before the Ottomans but they got Syria. I got all of the Arabian Peninsula and nearly all of East/Central Africa, but I’ve been so behind in tech that I can’t actually challenge the Ottos (kept them at bay by allying a strong Poland/Commonwealth). Finally, around 1600 I’m caught up and about to start making my final push towards Constantinople.