Thankfully it doesn't say it all.
Media doesn't report it all, just the parts that keep people scared.
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Don't forget depressed and helpless too. We survived a pandemic and a failed coup, we're pretty bad ass.
I don't think Prem Thakker's mastered semicolons quite yet.
sometimes in math textbooks they use semicolons when listing things. maybe prem thakker’s writing this post for the mathematicians
You can use semicolons when listing things instead of commas, but that's usually only for clarity when listing things with commas in them (e.g. "Last summer I visited Las Vegas, Nevada; Tucson, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; and Sacramento, California.")
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That comes with Premium Thakker;
Semicolons can be used to list items that are more than just a word or two long, and may/may not contain commas. So if you're listing phrases contain commas, putting a comma between list entries would be confusing as fuck.
For example... I will list a few US capital cities, and their corresponding states: Albany, New York, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Sacramento, California, Houston, Texas...
Compare that to: Albany, New York; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Sacramento, California; Houston, Texas.
See? Much clearer.
I don't know if this person did it exactly correctly, and I'm not going to go back and read it again to check, but the idea itself is just fine.
Unless a lot has changed about semi-colons in the past 20 years.
Edit: I reluctantly went up to read it again, and it seems like the only thing missing would be a colon after "The combo of" and a comma before "really says it all"
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How can they when schools are so dangerous!?
Same as it ever was.
doing a mass shooting
They said 'no child left behind' and yet 'committing' is no longer in this 1000-word vocab.
Nobody is committing the Macarena anymore.
Or as we call it in America, Tuesday
What’s this about leader inciting terrorism to demonize immigrants? Does anyone know what he’s referring to?
That would be the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates' false claims that the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio are 1) illegal, 2) causing mass crime, and 3) eating the townsfolk's pets. All of these have been debunked. That has not stopped bomb threats, school and business closings, and rantings by other right-wing nutjob clingers-on to the same effect, denigrating a full 20% of this Midwestern town.
Several area Republicans have come out pleading for the rhetoric to stop, but because the hate is a feature, not a bug, the VP candidate came out and said: "if I have to make stories up to get the media's attention I will and won't feel bad", and has doubled down on these lies.
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...really says it all huh
No it doesn't. It doesn't say it all. All it says is that the author is addicted to the infotainment algorithms and fancies himself to understand EVERYTHING... and it's all bleak, all cynicism.
Nothing they said is false though... I don't know the exact cop shooting and school shooting being referred to, but those are pretty interchangeable, aren't they? Plenty of options there.
So should we just ignore societal issues because they're bleak? How has that worked out for us?
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Truth
get out and stop paying taxes that finance policies you don't support.
there's plenty of other more affordable, beautiful places to live with all the modern amenities, plus the social services lacking in the US.
Getting to those countries is not exactly cheap or easy especially if the IRS is after you for tax evasion
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Please pay all the taxes you are supposed to, even if you leave.
even ~~if~~ after you leave.
Remember that you owe the US IRS forever, as a citizen abroad; even if you were already or become a citizen of another country. While the payments of your new-locale's taxes can be deducted from your American taxes, you're gonna be paying the greater number eventually (usually the American one, despite the reduced services).
Source: dual citizens in the family, and each has their own Tax Guy to keep the US stuff straight.
If you live outside of the US for 330 or more days out of the year, you qualify for FEIE, Foreign earned income exclusion.
you fill out one more IRS tax form, the FEIE form, at the same time as all your other tax forms, and you don't pay up to $120,000 in US income tax according to IRS regulations.
That's the US tax code.
Countries that are worth moving to are typically quite choosy about who they let in.
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What are they referencing in the first instance?
If it's the subway thing, I'm pretty sure you need four people to be a mass shooting.
Also don't pull knives on cops.
Did they wind up finding the knife? Last I heard they weren't able to, which cast doubt on its existence.
If the dude was threatening the cops with a knife there's no way they would have let the knife out of their sight. I doubt there ever was a knife, and if there ever was it sounds like they abandoned the weapon to go kill the guy.
Also don't pull knives on cops.
and even more importantly: always believe whatever the cops say! :)