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Either this is highly exaggerated, or whoever is doing your taxes hasn't explained to you the various deductions you should be claiming or enjoying, from standard/basic deductions, to tax credits and programs, not to mention tax brackets.

That being said, is there a massive discrepancy in how much little tax corporations and the rich pay compared to the little guy? He'll yeah there is.

A hobby is pretty much anything you do other than what you do for your own or someone else's sustenance. Getting paid to barbecue for customers paying you? Not a hobby. Grilling some burgers at dinner time because you or your family are hungry? Not a hobby. Spending hours and weekends on end slow cooking a particularly challenging piece of meat? Hobby. Eating an expensive piece of meat (as a treat)? Also a hobby.

Checked luggage.... so that they can get at the bag carousel faster and wait even longer? I think you mean let people with no carry-ons off first.

Remember clipart and wordart? It was colourful and flashy and easy, and everywhere in PowerPoint presentations and word documents and even online. For a few years. Then it vanished.

Turns out, easy and flashy doesn't have a lot of staying power because when something is easy, it is ubiquitous, and when it is ubiquitous it stops being impressive.

AI slop is easy and flashy, and will probably run its course as people become tired of it.

There will still exist AI content, but it will not resemble the slop we see today.

Maybe? Or maybe it's just a byproduct of a very finely tuned system used to tell individual humans apart.

Nothing is stopping programmers from inventing and using new words. Getting people to use those words is another matter. You are hand waving the ability for programmers to dictate to non-programmers how language is used, but I think that hand waving also hand waves the idea of language to begin with. So I don't think any answer you get will be meaningful.

Nunavut is a territory, not a province, btw.

Not really. You can get manual pumps for PEX A which are about the same price as a tile cutter... They are fine. You only need those 500$ power tool expanders if you were doing plumbing all day every day.

Similarly, everyone benefits from roads, even if they don't drive, even if they are a house hermit. What you thought you amazon package was just teleporting? Your life saving medicine? Your food?

The left-right linear political spectrum is a simplified fiction. I think it is a waste of time to try to fit people on this spectrum.

If my laptop is offline can I just not use it because it can't confirm my id?

Yes. The powers at be will stop at nothing to take more, and more, and more power away from you. This is human nature.

In a way, science is just a formal way of recording things, obvious or not, in a way that the crap can be vetted out. Would you prefer podcasts to be our recorded history?