It's because the racists don't understand that it doesn't matter, no one but them cares about that. Their personality is based around the "purity" of lineage, so clearly everyone else must be the same way.

No it's literally just various pieces of meat cut up onto roughly wing-sized pieces. Bigger than popcorn chicken, smaller than tenders.

The bone was nearly 1.5 inches long. It wasn't just a bit of bone. It was basically the size of some bone-in wings.

I bet she didn't literally see the signing of the Treaty of Versailles either. /s

You can be witness to world events without literally being there and looking at them with your eyes.

Not only that, but McDonald's had been warned previously that the temperature they kept it at was literally dangerous and could cause burns instantly. They chose to keep it there intentionally, ignoring the safety issue they were already told could happen.

The bone was 1 and 3/8 inch long. That's not a bone piece. That's just a fucking bone.

I was gonna say, it's usually the property taxes that make up a significant part of the difference.

Which in turn also means higher rent charges by landlords, so renting doesn't even really mean you avoid it, it's again just obfuscated in a different payment so you don't see it.

A primary reason Texas has people moving in to avoid taxes. Texas has no State income tax.

This is turn means other taxes are higher to compensate, just like States with no sales taxes, or property taxes, etc. The money to run things has to come from somewhere, if spread out across multiple tax sources then each individual source is a smaller percentage. If you remove one of those tax sources, then others will need to be higher to compensate.

People don't think about that though, they just see that there's a specific tax missing and think they'll have fewer taxes taken overall. Which could be true, or not depending on how the state's tax revenue is structured and if own property that has a higher tax rate. For instance, gas taxes on fuel may be higher, and if you have a vehicle with poor mileage, you'll be paying more than you would otherwise. But most people aren't paying attention to the "hidden" taxes that are just embedded in everyday prices. Do you know what the tax rate added to a gallon of fuel is in your State? I doubt it. But you probably know what the sales tax rate is, or close enough to estimate for purchases at least.

To be honest, TX probably has fairly low fuel taxes though since they have a massive oil business, but the example applies to most sales taxes, regardless of the type of sale/purchase it is.

I wonder how many of these houses are gonna be underwater in 50 years, too

There are already sections of Florida with subdivisions that were planned, had roads made, and are underwater now. You can take a look at some on Google maps, just look at the coast near southern Miami. Not the satellite view, you'll be seeing other land structures meant for erosion and flood control, but looking at the regular map view you'll be able to see some areas with unnamed roads that were never developed further.

The penalty should be $1000 for each day the stock is held plus the absolute difference between the purchase and sale price (I don't want them to get the tax benefit either).

Make it triple the absolute difference, plus the base fine. And have that fine specifically go to the DOJ budget. Give them a financial incentive, since it's clearly worked extremely well at getting the cops to go after the drugs.

Otherwise it again is still just a service fee if they get caught.

They're pointing out that aircraft carriers are heavy as fuck and float just fine.

This is why initiatives in states that allow Citizens to add measures directly are always trying to get as many signatures as possible. Way more than they need.

I just went through training for collecting signatures here in AZ and entire sheets of signatures will be tossed out for one small issue in the info for the collector.

Write your collector ID poorly and it's even slightly hard to read/verify? The entire sheet is tossed. The first person wrote their full address but their spouse just puts little "ditto" tallies? That isn't a valid entry and is tossed. And probably everyone after them will do the same, so most of the sheet will be tossed. Information is written outside the boxes? Tossed. Didn't check which county they are registered to vote and their entry is on a page for a different county? Tossed out. Signature doesn't match what they did when they registered to vote 20 years ago? Tossed out.

A great usable percentage is 80%, but it's more often near 40-50% once actually verified.

I only remember it taking so long to come out it became an early meme, and then finally coming out as a wet fart after all those years.

To be honest, it wasn't bad, for a Duke Nukem game. The issue is that the Duke Nukem style just wasn't good compared to modern games anymore. It was a late 90s game released in 2011. It also didn't go all in on the campiness either so it couldn't even cross into that territory and wrap back around to being good.

The entire premise of Enterprise was that it was Humanity's first foray into space outside our little backyard. The first Warp 5 engine gave Humanity the means to truly begin exploring.

The entire intro is about the journey and faith in that exploration. Going through Humanity's history of exploration, through every Enterprise until you get to the NX-01.

I love the orchestral intros just as much as everyone else, but that's just not the tone of ENT. It's a perfect intro for what the show was.

We're talking about an irrational fear here. Just because it's generally irrational, that doesn't mean that there isn't a valid base that the irrationality stems from. Evolution has hardwired us to be fearful of certain things, usually that is just a general discomfort and avoidance, but for some people those fears go beyond the rational response. Clowns may seem like a silly thing to be afraid of to someone that's not scared of them, because you have a rational response to that stimulus.

For a more general example, let's look at a different phobia, one that people often reference incorrectly, referencing general discomfort as if it were a phobia, claustrophobia. Humans generally don't like cramped or small confined spaces, it reduces mobility and options, which evolutionary meant survival, but to those with claustrophobia that instead feels like a real life or death situation, regardless of actual safety. You put a "normal" person in a dog crate and they'll be uncomfortable but they know they aren't going to die just by being in there. Put someone claustrophobic in one however and they'll likely feel like they can't breathe and are dying, despite there clearly being enough airflow, and while they know there's enough air, their fear won't let them process that correctly, it's irrational.

That's my point. The debate itself had nothing to do with the issue.

That just happened to be the event where it became more apparent to many people. It could have been any press conference or other speaking event instead.

Many fears are not logical. Clowns though sort of make sense.

Being fearful of something that CLEARLY is out of place goes straight back to evolutionary reactions to our world.

You know that the debate response had nothing to do with the debate topics or responses. Any other press conference that day would have likely had the same response. It wasn't what he was saying that was the problem.

Yeah but if they send these troops to the areas that are most deadly, then they don't have to pay them for very long in the first place.

No need to print the money if you're not actually spending it.

It does, because that's what department heads do, they take the fall in situations like this. Even if the root cause wasn't related to them. It's an expectation of the position.