The printers in the article are using toner. The title is misleading.

a 2006 law that forces them to fund their retirement plan for 75 years in advance

Congress actually fixed this a couple years ago: https://apwu.org/postal-service-reform-act-2022

I’m in the US and I see this if I zoom out a bit.

$2 a check? You need a different bank.

This exactly. I still write checks to my lawn care guy because Yardbook has a credit card convenience fee.

The original comment that garnered a one word response wasn’t mine. Thanks though.

Yep, you got it!

You’re right, it’s not an argument. But it’s a perfectly sufficient reply to a one-word question that doesn’t properly provide an argument of its own.

Ever hear of the prisoner’s dilemma?

Ah yes, the feed starting with an ad, followed by a reels module alternating between soft porn and dogs, followed by bots and more ads, maybe interspersed with a couple of posts by people whose names I recognize for good measure, are well worth my time. No need to virtue signal, I’m hooked!

The good news is that the main contingent of people upset about TikTok getting banned have willingly rotted away their attention spans (ironically, through TikTok) to do anything meaningful about it. The moment they realize being mad takes effort they’ll find something else to do.

Not sure but I think Schwab did it too.

It’s not even his idea, though. It’s been introduced by Marco Rubio 4 times, starting in 2018.

Try Projectivy.

Not worth my time to check who it was (I think BCBS), but they were going to deny the totality of the anesthesia line item for a surgery if the allotted time (and therefore the expected amount of anesthesia used) exceeded the original estimate.

And guess what? If you’ve ever sold anything on TikTok, Bytedance (and the CCP) has your SSN, asking with a treasure trove of personal info! Byebye, identity!

Way ahead of you. When trying to persuade, you need to know your audience. I’m going door to door canvassing, and having conversations with voters that have these concerns. Those conversations, meeting people one-on-one with empathy, has a profound effect.

In contrast, here, I was responding to someone who was obviously acting in bad faith. I’m not trying to convince that person, but making sure others observing the conversation don’t feel gaslit and second-guess the reality others are trying to distort.

I’m not as dense as I might appear. However, I do appreciate you calling me out so we can have a conversation like this. It’s important, and it helps us all learn and grow.

Thanks for making it disgustingly obvious how easy it is to cherry-pick statements, excluding the full context, to push forward an agenda.

We all know the situation. But we also have more folds in our grey matter to understand the consequences of the alternatives.

Russian trolls just getting desperate at this point…

Kirkland Signature is Costco’s store brand.