I understand what they’re trying to do - bring attention to total cost of ownership and the price disparity between petrol and electricity. It’s clearly marked and impossible to miss when you’re on the website speccing out a car, so it’s maybe a little initially deceptive, but not scummy imo. But it also leads to screenshots like this…

Well there’s already a preexisting list. Presumably, projects today that might have been at the top of the list are now deprioritized in favor of projects that meet these criteria.

(laughs in European)

Thanks. Damn, he just has so little control, he’ll say almost anything. It’s not exactly encriminating but leaves little doubt that Drumpf knew exactly what was going on, as if we didn’t know he participated.

Can you link that quote?

Thanks, my mind when to nuclear radiation, not heat radiation. Makes sense!

Better than 5x at 16h I guess. 😅

Venezuela. But that certainly seems to be the idea.

Not only that - but he’s a flight risk, literally laying out his plan to go to Venezuela when he loses the election.

And yet he will be thrown under the bus at Trump’s earliest convenience.

After trying to have his last Veep hung, I’m not really sure why anybody would think it would go any different for them. I guess he found another thoroughbred narcissist to join him this time. “It couldn’t possibly happen to me.”

They know my tax liability based on the income reported to the IRS by my employer - but you’re right that something they don’t necessarily know is the variety of valid deductions you might be eligible to take. Part of the process of filing is also calculating your tax liability though - and that part of it they know precisely and rather than TELLING you, you’re expected to determine your own liability and heaven help you if it’s wrong.

They also know precisely how much we owe in taxes, but instead of telling us and we pay it, they allowed a multi billion dollar industry to pop up around it and dictate tax law.

Yes, I’m assuming they’re obeying labor laws of the United States. Businesses operating illegally are kind of outside of the scope of the conversation, don’t you think?

They didn’t fuck their system in the first place. I’m not sure how we unfuck ours with so much wrong at every step.

I don’t disagree. But for the sake of playing devils advocate a bit - restaurants already take YEARS to achieve profitability because costs are so high. If you suddenly triple all of your wait staff’s salaries, small, local restaurants making good faith efforts to operate ethically would probably be the ones to suffer.

And yet - I’ve heard that if McDonald’s were to pay employees $15/hr, because of economies of scale, it would raise the cost of a burger by mere pennies.

So if your local mom and pop’s can’t afford to operate now, and all you’re left with is Chili’s and Olive Garden and McDonald’s who priced them out of business with capital investment and economies of scale, mom and pop go away and all we’re left with is the corporate garbage. And when the competition is dead, prices will steady climb. Meanwhile, those m&p restaurants all have waiters now making $0/ hour.

I’m not an economist. Obviously. And maybe it wouldn’t be so dire. It just feels like “let the market sort itself out” would work great for the CEOs and not anybody else. I haven’t seen the market self correct for my benefit in years. But in our failing capitalist society, I think there are about a thousand ways the worker and the consumer end up fucked either way.

It’s kind of a semantics argument I guess. Their employer is ensuring that they are taking home no less than minimum wage - because they are paying them up to minimum wage as necessary.

To properly address this would require fully overhauling our tipping culture and laws around pay for tipped workers, which sounds great to me as a consumer. But if you ask a waiter or bartender, many would MUCH rather leave things the way they are, because they make an absolute killing and taking 100% of pay from their employer would result in a substantial pay cut.

I see this mentioned a lot - and it’s not technically true I don’t think. If tips do not push their pay above the minimum wage per time worked, then they do in fact get paid out at minimum wage. Not that I’m here to defend a $7.75 $7.25 minimum wage - that’s an obvious problem. But AFAIK, a server who did terrible in tips is still taking $7.75 $7.25/hr home at the end of the pay period.

It would be horribly unsettling to hear him do so. And the rare Trump laugh would be at the most awful, evil thing, I’m sure.

We’ve been hearing about this shit for the better part of a year or more and people are only just now speaking out against it. Is it just so unpopular with their base that people are trying to distance themselves?