Buying studios wasn’t stupid.

Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.

The big deductions that hurt was removing deductions for items people bought for work. The idea is that the employer should be providing that stuff, but that’s not always realistic.

Without a doctor’s note, lots of businesses aren’t going to buy an employee an ergonomic chair because it costs 10 times as much as the Amazon special. They also aren’t going to buy you a wardrobe of business suits that you’ll only use for meetings. Being able to write that stuff off was huge for some of us.

I had to convince my side gig (teaching scuba and underwater photography) to change me from employee to contractor because I suddenly couldn’t write off my gear.

We keep having to replace the logic board on our dryer.

Motherfucker, your job is to get hot and spin. I want the old “egg-timer that flips a switch” tech to come back.

When the major party candidates include a literal fascist building concentration camps and sending people to torture prisons without due process and a wildly imperfect opposition party candidate, you for against the literal fascist.

People who chose not to vote for Harris because they weren’t “excited” to vote for her chose not to stand in the way of Trump, and they are responsible for him winning the election.

If you didn’t vote for Harris, you have blood on your hands and should be losing sleep over it.

You voted for Trump, and you have blood on your hands.

They took a “Death by a thousand cuts” approach to fascism, and we’re about 1200 cuts in.

Blindness seems like a fitting punishment for someone who willfully ignored what was happening in front of them.

In the general election, that’s what you should do. If establishment Dems don’t back their nominee, it doesn’t change how you should vote.

People who didn’t vote blue in 2024 actively chose a fascist regime. Anyone who doesn’t vote blue in all the upcoming elections (with a Fetterman exception, but he should be primaried) is endorsing the MAGA movement.

They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.

It explains some.of the earlier stuff too.

He’s active on right-wing hate subs, so he’s banned from the remaining civilized subs.

That’s using the budget they have now.

The new budget going through right now increases their budget to an absurd degree. ICE is about to have a larger budget than any other country’s entire military and defense budget.

They’re 100% militarizing the gestapo.

I live in Texas. I own like 2 shirts with long sleeves in case I have to go to a funeral or something.

RICO stands for “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations”

That’s the first item on the list.

Incels are dangeous, man.

Don’t forget the rolling view counter and the guestbook!

I have health insurance in the US and still have to pay a fuckton in copays to use it.

In early May, I searched GPs on my Healthcare plan, and I get to see a doctor on Jully 11.

I’m stocking up on ammunition in case I need it for self-defense and using a no-log VPN when criticizing the government.

So I’m gonna go with “No.”

That’s just because Microsoft waited until Android and iOS were well-established before trying to make a smartphone OS. It could have been the best OS ever made, and it still would have been a failure because there wasn’t a market for a third OS. It was hard enough at the time to get apps developed for both iOS and Android - there wasn’t room for a third player.

The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”

The Schumaker films had good casting. Clooney, Kilmer, Thurman, Jones, and Carrey were all great for their roles. They just happened to be cast in terrible films.