Dear Newsom,

Vagrancy laws were abolished for a reason. You can’t make it illegal to be alive.

Love,

California

Yeah I hope they have ulterior motives and it crashes (hoping isn’t illegal @FBI)

The US already has a bunch of lithium, the problem is mining it in an environmentally compatible way

Remindme! 13 years

Completely plausible! Have you aged since? Or stopped aging at 27?

Edit: If not maybe you needed to add a few drops of purple eyeglass-cleaner sample.

Can relate but I made potions in the bath. With various colors of shampoo. In actual glass test tubes and such from the science supply store (probably not wise @my parents but all the little glass bottles were adorable).

Ironic since we used to literally ship our trash to canada (I think it’s wound down now though)

Trying to think of how to leverage this precedent to my advantage but all I can come up with is that work only has to pay me for 1 day “for the remainder of the 119th congress.”

In the US it only costs about $30k to bribe a politician

“Envy toward the bottom” so well said. People are so disappointing.

Yeah best this does is teach them some new tricks for sneaking around whatever barriers. There’s a reason noone bothers with parental control settings as is.

IMO this is the same issue as pollution or banning carcinogenic compounds. If you all agree it’s harmful to society you need to ban it at the manufacturing level. It’s not inherent that browsing the internet has a negative impact, it’s that these individual tech companies have purposely designed their products to extract value from kids even with clear evidence the design is harmful to them. Companies with bad faith products like this (looking at you oil and tobacco) should be forcefully shut down (and prevented from reforming) based on their demonstrable malicious intent (holding back research that their products are harmful).

Edit: tl;dr you should ban harmful things at the manufacturing level not try to moderate them at the end point

Americans have to file taxes with the IRS regardless of who is paying them and where the company is based. There are tax breaks available (on taxes owed to the US) if you are living and paying taxes in europe to avoid double taxation for the most part. It makes the paperwork a little more tricky but it’s still done frequently and isn’t “very unlikely.” The most difficult part isn’t your american taxes it’s making sure you’re paying taxes correctly in your new country. It will make it easier if you work for a multinational company (like Schneider Electric USA, for example) where they already know the ins and outs of taxation in both countries, but I’ve known people to do this out of smaller companies as well.

You could also consider working an american job remotely in Europe

But there was uncertainty over whether Trump would carve out tariff exceptions just for the mega-retailers, or whether reductions would apply to all importers.

thE pARtY foR sMalL bUSinESs oWNerS

Doesn’t the US’s geography rule it out as an efficient source of ‘energy products’ for europe?

NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said last week that the science and engineering research agency would no longer “support research with the goal of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation’ that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights” of Americans.

While bashing in people’s doors for protected speech…

Surprised they didn’t mention the wwe/ufc merger. Trump’s always loved professional wrestling and the mcmahon family.

One of the early executive orders this admin was for a celebration of the 250th anniversary of US independence (july 4 2026). I’m convinced it will be a coliseum fight or a ‘games’ a la the medieval king era.

One of the programs that has been defunded by the trump admin at my work was a program giving academics with families the opportunity to collaborate to make progress on research projects— something that becomes harder with kids especially if your collaborators are in other countries. We essentially reserve some spots in local schools so we can provide childcare (or else we pay for a caretaker to watch them back home).

It might be a good time to check for local food co-ops in your area. Usually these arrange for you to order items directly from local farms and pick up from someone in your neighborhood. Some of them are produce only but some offer local dairy and meat and even baked goods too. Do some digging (ask on nextdoor?) if you can’t find one because sometimes they’re quite small. In college I used one that accepted EBT!

Gross. I wonder how much more of this is happening behind closed doors. How can they be so heartless?