Skelectrician

Ok I'm not even from the states, but you should be able to get to Washington DC in less than a day from North Carolina. Hell, anywhere on the east coast is within 5 hours from a huge metropolitan centre

A business chose not to do business with us as an entire country because our government legislated them out of the market. It's absolutely fucking hilarious when the same government makes idle threats towards the same business because they aren't providing the same service they provided before the government made it clear that they would tax every post and regulate the internet by enforcing taxes on hyperlinks.

Our government has made the sharing of information a taxable manoeuvre. No fucking wonder referenced megacorp said "I'm just not gonna."

This place is a commie echo chamber even more deranged than Reddit was. Good luck expressing any sort of dissenting opinion.

I just find that screwdriver to be the most pretentiously bad product. Still a product that's half as good as something from Klein or wiha, or Milwaukee, or Greenlee, for three times the price. He put all that money into a designing a cheap but overpriced Chinese piece of junk, when there are already great screwdrivers used by professionals for years and years. Linus was so arrogant he didn't even think that somebody's already made a superior product with established tooling. But no, he has to reinvent the wheel and design a screwdriver nobody's asked for

The workers would rather work for tips. You can hide a lot of income if your wage is primarily cash.

Fuck the service industry as a whole

The first president of Ireland was an American of partial Spanish descent.

I think that kind of goes for anything in a market economy. Client wants item that vendor has for sale, vendor and client negotiate a price.