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The Atlantic: The Gas-Tax Reckoning
https://archive.ph/46gkR

FTA: "Pausing the tax is a lose-lose proposition: It won’t do much to bring down the price at the pump—but it will accelerate a crisis of infrastructure funding that no one wants to solve."

Side note, funny how the #GOP #PartyOfStupid bitched and moaned when Biden suggested the idea before the current clusterfuck, but now their guy is in trouble so hooray.

#assholes #gas #BigOil #BadEconomy

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116641755801780857

#BadEconomy #corruption #AISlop #cogsucker #sloperator #RealOwners #assholes #tech

Which is absolute bollocks because they don't service people, they dehumanise and degrade them. And never face consequences.

Don't fuck with me on this, that is my lived experience.

Decades before it became HR, it was known as Personnel. Until Clint Eastwood as "Dirty Harry" Callahan delivered this iconic line.

Cue a mass renaming to HR or variants of it.

And now HR is becoming "People Services".

Doesn't matter what name it goes by, it's staffed by assholes whose sole mission is to "Protect the business".

#Personnel #HR #HumanResources #PeopleServices #Assholes #DirtyHarry

Reasons to avoid the #FlyingCattleCars: #assholes who try to open the door while in flight.

> United Airlines passenger tries to open plane door at 36,000 feet, assaulted traveler on flight from Newark https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/us-news/united-airlines-passenger-tries-to-open-plane-door-at-36000-feet-assaulted-traveler-on-flight-from-newark/

One less. . .

> James Robison, televangelist and Life Outreach International founder, dies
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/18/james-robison-televangelist-dies/90140088007/

#Christian #religion #assholes (c)

I have never regretted a vote the way I regret voting for Jared Polis. Please call this coward's office and explain what it means to be complicit.

(303) 866-2471

[email protected]

#Assholes #USPol

This is why you keep a solid password on your Wi-Fi. In today's self-entitled mooching #assholes.

> Man piggybacking neighbors' Wi-Fi gets mad when they turn it off and beats couple with a bat, cops say https://lawandcrime.com/crime/man-piggybacking-neighbors-wi-fi-gets-mad-when-they-turn-it-off-and-beats-couple-with-a-bat-cops-say/

#Crime #KentuckyProud #Internet