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Also keep in mind the VA state House is all up for re-election too (but not the state Senate). Question is, is Virgina a blue state or a blue-leaning swing state?

my condolences kudasai

happy birthday @DBZ4ever!

There's a bill moving in the NY legislature (I would expect it to pass next year) that would require employers to disclose a salary range upfront when posting job openings. A couple years ago they banned asking for prior salary history, on the grounds that it is used to undercut low earners which creates a repeating cycle.

it was a rather stern choice of words over Facebook messenger.

I've been yelled at for using the phrase "labor shortage". "It's not a labor shortage, it's a wage shortage." Which I can't really argue with that.

I don't know enough to speak to that, other than like a digital purchase of a game/movie means you're not buying a physical copy of that game/movie. But my guess is they just wanted a blanket rule that maximizes revenue with the least ambiguity.

Much of the tax system is built around the concept of taxing transactions, because the constitution says there can be no "direct tax" - hence things like the income tax or the local sales tax where the government takes its cut in the transaction. For a while there was a real disparity between in-person and online sales, no one knew who had jurisdiction over the internet so it wasn't sales taxed. Great for online shoppers, but it undercut physical retailers (on top of the added comparative costs of physical retail sites etc.) and it siphoned away tax revenues for localities that generally don't really have many other means of generating revenue. So to balance the scales for physical retailers and to make localities whole, NY law for example treats all online sales as occurring in the location of the consumer, so that's why you have to pay your local sales tax regardless of wherever you buy something online.

New York has local elections and five statewide constitutional amendments, available here. Three of which are elections reforms. One eliminates the ten-day voter registration requirement, and the other authorizes permanent no-excuse absentee voting. The final one (well really proposal #1, the others are #3 and #4) does a wholesale cleanup of various elections stuff in the constitution but also tinkers with the redistricting commission originating in a 2014 amendment. Mixed bag on that one, depending on your perspective, but also very in-the-weeds.

vamped that is a baby not a pumpkin

dead bug in unopened spaghetti I guess we'll starve

Here is the original because why not https://youtu.be/lrzKT-dFUjE

I am suddenly elderly

I think I bought hard-to-find GameCube ports of older resident evil games on my mom's eBay account.

Also that's not what the debt ceiling is or how it works.

It's inaccurate to compare the federal budget to a household budget; a household budget is built around the premise that the earner(s) will eventually retire/die and must settle all their debts in a finite period of time.

Is your concern about living at home centered more on the realities of living at home (privacy, freedom, etc.) or the outward appearance/judgment of living at home?

I hope your birthday was poppin

Happy anniversary guys!

The world is run by the illuminati. And the illuminati is controlled by a clandestine cabal of IBers through Discord.

now you'll finally be able to play among us like a true pro

happy birthday mthor!