Honest answer: the legal theory is that if each side doesn’t argue their case as well as they can, justice can’t be complete. That’s why there are things like mistrials when the defense attorneys do a poor job, and appeals only work to the extent that certain things were brought up furing the original trial.

In practice it’s deeply flawed.

Good guy landlord, remember to tip well

I use my 14-year-old prescription to get a couple pairs of glasses from Zenni every couple years. Averages about $75/yr.

Perfect accompaniment to all this cheese I recently acquired

Not really. See table 2 here (a ways down the page)

Cold generally slows degradation.

But using them at cold temps is bad

Price increases seem to take long residence in people’s minds. Prices are noticeably way higher than in 2019. Whether wage increases make up for that is kind of beside the point, psychologically. Collectively, big price hikes are traumatic.

Economists correctly talk about inflation as a rate of price increase, and they correctly consider real wages as a useful metric of well-being. But economists are academics and we use the word “inflation” in a colloquial sense, in a politicized real world, where it means “I have noticed that prices rose is recent memory and every time I go to the store I feel cheated.”

But to be clear, it’s not in my top 10 either (mine starts with climate, democracy, and freedom). Just sharing how I see the disconnect on inflation as a hot topic.

I would love to see a detailed technical explanation for how this would be possible.

I design battery-powered electronics for a living and I can’t think of any design that would let a battery explode with the violence these did, let alone on command. Unless it were deliberate.

That’s kind of an unnecessary leap.

they get audited, at least, yearly by law

The IRS doesn’t audit annually, companies hire 3rd party auditors. And it’s not a tax requirement, it’s a public-company requirement.

Yes there is a difference, but LLC is a legal concept, not a tax one. The IRS taxes sole proprietors the same whether or not they have an LLC.

Tax entities include sole proprietorship (default), partnerships, s corps, c corps. Any of those can be LLCs, but they don’t have to.

Profitability is just a proxy for whether someone is legitimately running a business, or just trying to save money on their hobby. Businesses can deduct expenses, hobbies cannot.

So if you are running an etsy store or an engineering company and buy a 3d printer to make parts, the cost of that 3d printer is subtracted from revenue for tax purposes. If your “business” is actually a hobby, it’s not legally a business expense and therefore it’s not deductible

(In the USA)

Well I wasn’t conscripted to be on his detail (and neither were you) so i guess they didn’t do all they could

I assume MFBR was supposed to be MFBC, and you can see their summary of why they assessed the Guardian that way Here

Link was paywalled for me and I could not make sense of the posted excerpt.

Ballotpedia link

Tldr the measure bundles citizenship language (change from “all” citizens to “only” citizens can vote) and a RCV ban - among other things - into one constitutional amendment.

Mocha Joe! I fucking knew it! Cold coffee and cakey scones!

Seems to me like a white label system. Like all the bullshit copypasta Amazon brands, or home appliances like dehumidifiers.

I’m not seeing “cash for clunkers” types of arguments here - I’ve always seen EV adoption as more about market share of new cars rather than share of the entire fleet.

Of course the former leads to the latter, eventually.

Thank you, I wish there were more of this type of…ahem…content in my feed

I don’t know what you mean by this.

Unless you’re under the impression that the judge is part of the DOJ?

Or you think the DOJ shouldn’t be prosecuting this case against menendez?

Speak for yourself