Idk if 10% of the town patronizes it regularly and there’s no other shops around that’s like 250 customers coming in year round, let’s say each spends an average of 150 in a year that’s what … 37 grand? Plus whatever online retail they can do.

If it’s just like one dude that runs it and works there and pays themselves I could see it being viable.

Edit: probably would be a good way to launder some drug money though and I’ve found a lot of weed smokers in the mix of my nerd shops I frequent.

So I remember a political party behaving like one? Yeah, I do.

The party spends money on candidates that’s how politics works (which sucks but whatever).

Is that not just how the DNC/political parties in general normally works anyways?

I always wonder if people complained about stores when we started to get the merchandise out of the warehouse ourselves.

Something like, “why isn’t there a clerk getting the groceries on my list for me, I don’t work here, I shouldn’t have to go into the back and get my own shit.”

I prefer bagging my own shit anyways when I go shopping. I don’t break shit and at least in my area it looks like they disabled the weight shit or set the tolerances higher so I’m not constantly told to bag something I already did or getting told I bagged something without scanning .

Now it’s pretty good actually.

It’s just razors all the way down…

No, Trump imposed additional tariffs without reason on China. The only reason China raised tariffs, and by the way they literally stopped raising them because it’s pointless since they’re already so high, is because Trump started imposing them when he took office.

There already were trade agreements and tariffs in place negotiated with both countries input. These new tariffs were just slapped on by the Trump admin not as a reaction to anything but as a unilateral imposition.

You could also say they’re unilateral because they’re only aimed at China and no other states if you want to look at it that way too.

I’m starting to wonder if we’re going to get killed while we scream how wrong it is.

I’m not sure you’ll get any advice that will be particularly helpful here but I’ll try to give my tough love point of view. Please read this with kindness because it’s not meant to be mean but sometimes I write with a very frank style/tone.

Your wife and you may end up having irreconcilable differences when it comes to this situation. Personally, I’m sure you’ve already had some frank discussions on the matter but more communication certainly won’t hurt.

If she wants to have a child that’s conceived through sexual intercourse with her partner and that’s something you can’t provide … That’s really hard to reconcile because it’s straight up divergent feelings. Not even considering the whole physicality of it.

I’ll be honest, speaking personally, if my wife were to transition to a man I’m not sure I would find her attractive nor want to remain married. Maybe your wife can’t or won’t admit that she is not okay with what is going on. She doesn’t want you to think she loves you less or doesn’t care about you but she also can’t help her own feelings.

I wouldn’t go so far right now as to suggest a divorce and staying close friends but it might be worth considering that could be an outcome.

I think that no matter what happens you’ll be in each other’s lives and an important part of them at that. Just remember that both of you have feelings that are valid and while it’s scary to explore those, that’s what will need to happen to reach a mutually agreeable outcome.

Above all else, be true to yourself and true with each other. Even if it’s hard.

Yeah, it’s called employee rights and strong laws. Those exist overseas, most European countries are good examples. The USA is ass backwards when it comes to our employee protections.

As an example, in many countries they need to give a reason for terminating your employment - pay out x amount of time depending on the reasons given and since your healthcare is NOT tied to employment you don’t need to worry about that going away. That’s not even discussing their paid vacation time or other legal protections.

Basically, you can’t just fire people for some janky made up reason. As you can imagine this also leads to better hiring practices because the companies can’t just cut a person out of nowhere so they need to make sure they’re hiring good folks from the get go. Plus it means more job security and that the companies do a better job forecasting labor demand since they can’t just hire a bunch and fire whatever percentage as a rule of thumb.

Anyways, I don’t know if we would ever have a chance as Americans, but I can tell you what you’re asking literally already exists.

I want another Teddy Roosevelt in office.

Fuck man even after trust busting, those companies were then and still are stupid big and powerful and maddeningly enriching to the 1%

At least we have shiny toys now built on the backs of global labor exploitation. That’s cool.

It’s not but party unity is also important and we won’t find perfection. Working within the confines of our real world is important but I agree that we need better representatives. Booker is just what our system gave us and he’s a lot better than many alternatives and worse than others.

Mostly I think having a unified message and party is important but hard when you’re dealing with people who actually care.

Well Booker is doing a hell of a lot more than most other reps when it comes to this, no need to shit on the dude.

Like, I’d take him over the GOP candidate that ran against him.

Bro I didn’t feel like fucking with the free fillable forms (basically an electronic version equivalent to filling out and mailing in paper forms) so I used H&R Block this year. They forced me to pay 60 because I can’t file if something somewhat arbitrary “needs done” and having an HSA meant they forced me to input info about it for determining itemizing vs standard. I knew I was taking the standard, could tell them to ignore that HSA shit and still it wouldn’t let me file for free.

It was so stupid.

Next year I’ll not wait until the last minute and go through the trouble of actually filling out the forms but it’s a pain in the ass.

I wish our taxes were like everywhere else on this planet with a reasonable and effective government. Send me a check or a bill. If I think I’m due more or shouldn’t owe I’ll do my own audit of their math and can say “hey fix this” but 99% of the time it’s just right. So much easier and cheaper and simpler.

This country is a joke sometimes.

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Unfortunately for the Americans who didn’t vote for Trump we live in a democracy, for now, and enough of my fellow countrymen felt it was a good idea to elect that orange maniac.

But it’s not like we all support him or his positions.

I get what you’re saying though, my country has done plenty of bad stuff.

I did say it was a conspiracy theory or whatever you want to call the fantastical delusions my brain dreams up.

A bit of a conspiracy but I kind of believe the reason that guy got so close to shooting Trump is because Trump’s security detail probably secretly despise him.

Imagine having to deal with that asshole all the time, at some point you’d just be like, “I’m not risking my life and leaving my family without me for this piece of shit.”

I mean I’m sure I’m just being a crazy person and it’s a bit of a joke but … Idk … Maybe?

Is this a legend to the five rings card?

Where’s the mtg card at, get outta here with your shoddy card game!!

I know that’s why I thought it was funny! Got to find the humor in this mess right now. Hoping we can right the ship but right now Trump is steering us into an ice berg full speed ahead

Regular people are dumb af they elected that orange shit stain while he spit in our faces.

So I’m not really confident they’re gonna connect any dots.