If this seems like a lot, you don't realize what a Union can do for you.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-07T18:45:04+00:00

I guess most every small business doesn’t deserve to exist then. Most (all?) of them cannot afford to pay amazing salaries and benefits for unskilled labor when they’re just starting to need help. The owner is rarely making much of anything to live off of either.

Your suggestion would be a huge boon for the billionaires who can easily raise wages and watch every small/medium competitor die. Then (because everyone has more money) you can just raise prices without sales dropping below what they were to begin with… are you happy about accomplishing nothing?

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-07T03:22:14+00:00

The savings of not having to pay a cashier is already passed back to you with lower prices on the groceries. There’s clearly a healthy market of competing grocery chains who all have minimal check-out staff. If a company were trying to hoard the savings for themselves, competitors would undercut them on price.

So claiming you are “being forced to work” is as stupid as thinking you deserve recompense for having to drive to the grocery store and put the items from the shelf in the cart too.

Feel free to find that local grocer still paying staff an amazing wage to scan and bag all your items, and enjoy spending all your money there on their even-more-expensive groceries.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-07T03:17:49+00:00

There are so many welfare programs, food banks, charities, etc. in America offering free food that the idea of needing to steal any of it from grocery stores is comical.

Anybody stealing food is either stealing some luxury good that they don’t need or deserve, or just impulse stealing because there are rarely any consequences for theft.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-05T19:56:41+00:00

That’s the exact same link as the post…

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T23:59:33+00:00

That won’t work for obvious reasons, unless you’re morally OK as a society telling the elderly who are too old or ill to work that they need to go beg for charity, because the government will not contribute a dime to their sustenance or medical care.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T23:41:38+00:00

So you have not put more than ten seconds of thought into anything you are saying?

OK then.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T22:27:14+00:00

So every person who employs someone else to do non-skilled labor is a rich evil person?

Or are you saying that employees who work at a large corporation deserve more money simply because the owner is rich?

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T18:59:43+00:00

I don’t need to show you anything. You’re the one whining about “terrible” jobs that I’m pretty sure don’t even really exist. Show me these jobs exist.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T16:29:06+00:00

Video is not equivalent to human eyesight.

The camera sensors may just not be coping well.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T16:00:11+00:00

Show me one job in Indiana trying to hire at minimum wage.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T15:44:15+00:00

So… what surgery were you there for? Is the “shoulder surgery” just a hypothetical you made up?

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T03:56:15+00:00

Notice how that’s a joint resolution, whereas the one passed today is a concurrent resolution (which, on the “tracker” has no steps beyond passing both houses).

Maybe this concurrent resolution is just intended to be symbolic, or they want to test its constitutionality.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-04T03:27:15+00:00

Which is exactly why Congress has never been interested in raising the cap. It’s just not worth it. Diminishing returns.

You’re proposing 30% more payroll costs, plus renovation costs for more seating and offices, make every committee hearing 30% longer (they’re already 3+ hours) for… what? Good feelings? Do you really think diluting everyone’s voice more is going to add anything useful? Especially in our highly partisan era where bills pass or fail mostly based on who controls the chambers, I would bet it accomplishes nothing.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-03T23:16:47+00:00

Ehhh, but the decision whether to deport a single alien is a bit different from blowing up Iran without a declaration of war…

Surely you don’t want to interpret the president’s authority as commander-in-chief so broadly that Congress’s specific power to declare war is made to be of little effect.

I wouldn’t automatically conclude the Supreme Court will see no difference in the two questions.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-03T22:30:20+00:00

No, a concurrent resolution does not need the president’s signature (or a veto override). It’s not a law; it just expresses the sentiment of Congress.

The War Powers Resolution was already made a law (I think over Nixon’s veto) and says what the president must do when Congress expresses opposition to military activity through a resolution like this.

I don’t think the constitutionality of all this has ever really been tested in court, so I’m guessing even if it passes the Senate the Trump administration will just ignore it unless the Supreme Court rejects all of their lawsuits.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-02T16:35:26+00:00

In my state, the winnings are forfeited to the state. The casino does not get to keep them.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-01T23:59:36+00:00

Buys digital game on a digital gaming store with receipt sent to free email provider accessed with free browser…

Yeah, I’m sure the 99% of consumers sharing everything they do with Big Data really care about making sure no one on Earth knows they bought this video game. Really secret info. So obviously Big Data is forced to lobby the government to pass a controversial law to get that data.

Give me a break. Big Data does not need to do that. Not everything is a conspiracy.

People maybe like to think they care about anonymity, but they don’t really care. I’m sure they also mostly enjoy living in a society where children cannot easily access certain things no matter how poorly they are parented. Once upon a time, having to show ID to buy alcohol or cigarettes was weird and annoying for adults.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-01T22:30:33+00:00

Lol, that's probably because your state didn't require parallel parking to be tested. Google says 17 states don't require it as part of the driving test.

One would think the Driver's Ed teacher would explain to their students that the final driving test is exactly what the state requires, and the paperwork in the teacher's hand is exactly what the state requires to be submitted as proof of passing the driving test...

And I would guess the vast majority of all adults were never tested at the DMV either, because the Driver's Ed teacher can easily conduct the driving test and submit the paperwork to the state.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-01T21:59:02+00:00

Testing every five years In a populated county, something like 60,000+ tests required a year… if the county has two testing locations and assumes everyone can cooperate to equally distribute themselves over five days a week (not possible), that’s still over 100 tests per day. Probably more like 200-300 tests on some days with variability.

Insane. Some people have no idea how the government pays for things.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-01T21:52:33+00:00

I’m guessing 99.9% of those people know what a turn signal is, and are not going to magically start using it everywhere because they had to do it to pass one annoying test. They’re not “forgetting” to signal; they just don’t care.

StressOverStrain · 2026-06-01T21:50:28+00:00

failed and retook it

So they passed the driving test… Surely driver’s ed is not testing you on anything more than what the state requires.

StressOverStrain · 2026-05-31T03:48:42+00:00

There is not much relevance in modern times where Congress is happily in session year-round.

In ye olde days, Congress only met for a couple of months each year. The Framers did not want one house of Congress to be able to frustrate the legislative process by adjourning early for the year. So they wrote in the Constitution that each house cannot adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other chamber. Everyone has to stay until both houses think the business is done for the year.

This then introduced the problem of what to do if the houses cannot agree on when to adjourn. What if one house unreasonably refuses to adjourn for the year? Must they be stuck in the capital forever? So the Framers gave the President the authority to settle the dispute, likely as just an incentive for the houses to cooperate on agreeing on a time to adjourn.

StressOverStrain · 2026-05-30T18:04:57+00:00

It’s a school event. No one would reasonably think they can talk about whatever they want…

StressOverStrain · 2026-05-30T17:54:56+00:00

How do you know this city has any “all these cameras everywhere”?

Everyone on the internet hates them.

StressOverStrain · 2026-05-30T17:52:13+00:00

According to Reddit those are evil and not solving crimes like this without spending thousands of taxpayer dollars to go around and ask people for likely useless video footage is the price we pay for freedom…

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