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Cultured skin, as they put it, can heal itself, carry biological sensors like our own to provide sensitive touch, and could also have benefits in medical or human interaction contexts.

Schools with good administrations will make accommodations for kids that need it. Schools with bad administrations won’t until somebody sues.

It’d end up spinning out of control with magical thinking.

Two weeks later you’d hear people babbling about how he actually faked his own death so he could control things behind the scenes, and also he was actually assassinated by the deepstate™

There are a bunch of artists who sell commissions and stuff through tiktok too. Kinda hard to call that a scam.

I mean, people probably aren’t making a living on Reddit or Lemmy, but those aren’t actually getting banned. Tiktok is, and people are actually making a living off of tiktok.

VPNs aren’t that hard, but I feel like you overestimate the technical literacy of the general public in the US.

For real.

Like a dozen social media apps already have reals or shorts or some shit that’s basically tiktok. They’re all shitty and invasive, but so is tiktok.

They’re not gonna sound as good as real, over ear headphones. But there’s still a pretty wide sound quality spectrum for ear buds.

What they’re suggesting is that we make a concerted effort to fight against this specific aspect of the patriarchy.

I mean, so long as he’s reporting his income. Plenty of cash businesses operate within the IRS’s good graces. Hell, you can even report your income from selling drugs. The IRS just wants their cut.

Secular in theory, but lots of key elements have been taken over by religious nutjobs, so in practice it often isn’t.

Y’all Qaeda is also acceptable.

With the happiness questionnaire, how is the overall happiness of the employees of the companies calculated, just a straight up average? So if the company made sure the really shitty stuff was compartmentalized to a very small portion of the employees, then they would be rewarded? If it’s determined by the least happy employees, a company could fire the least happy employees and be rewarded.

Send the questionaire to anyone who gets a w2 from that company. Set multiple factors to determine over all taxes paid. A good average could reduce your taxes by x%, but too many very unhappy outliers could raise it back up by even more.

Edit: over all though, your comment is spot on

Not to mention if you’re trans. The thought of moving to Texas is terrifying.

I mean, this person should be in prison, but prison doesn’t have to be the horrifying fate it is in America.

It is possible to separate someone from general society, and do so with compassion. We just don’t here.

Oh the staff doesn’t see any of that money. Honestly, for what they have to put up with a lot of nurses are paid like shit.

As opposed to being crushed under the corporate machine?

We also invented beer, picking your nose, and whatever you think your country invented. USA USA USA /s