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before slaves were invented

Like, before the invention of agriculture?

In the US, people making minimum wage pay $0 in income tax in almost all states.

https://ipa-reader.com/ is also helpful.

I mean, we do that. Just say it's good to censor bad things. There's nothing wrong with that, so don't lie about what you're doing.

I think it's more like this: Say maintenance of a grid costs $1 million/year, power generation costs another $1 million/year and people use 10 million kWh/yr at 20¢ per. Everything is balanced. Then half the people cut their usage in half. Grid maintenance still costs $1 million/year, generation dropped to $750,000, but revenue dropped to $1.5 million. They have to raise the price 16% to go back to paying for maintenance. You're still saving money if you dropped your usage more than 16%, but those that didn't pay the difference.

Since you generally have to be fairly well-off to afford the massive upfront labor costs involved with solar, its adoption has disproportionately raised the living expenses of the lower class.

The alternative is a base services charge, where everyone pays a flat percentage of the grid maintenance costs and then his or her usage is on top of that. No idea why it's taking this long for PG&E to adopt that model, but adding charges for solar is a big improvement in equity.

I thought it's widely-agreed that gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The debate lies in how to treat it—try to realign the body with the mind or the mind with the body.

They would be either way. For the moment there is some hope and evidence things are getting better instead of just endlessly sliding worse and worse.

https://www.gog.com/

Really, really pessimistic hope though lol

So he's just completely delusional?

Their last attack killed a single Palestinian and Israel just destroyed their air defense with planes in response. There is no scenario where Iran comes out ahead in this. Does the Supreme Leader think he has a chance, does he think he has to do this to save face to retain power, or is it just suicidal hatred of Jews and the West?