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Or they're hostile actors, attempting to push any resistance forward while it's piecemeal and ineffective.

Maybe the one with the greatest personal consequences, and also the one that's the most routine for them, is not the place you should test first.

It's the kind of thing you'd have to disclose before getting a security clearance. And the FBI would be the ones to decide if it's okay. Not Elon.

That sounds hard to audit. Does the IRS have the staff for that?

This is referring to after you know the person, already have their number, etc. You still text before every call.

I think it's somewhat age gated. But I love it. A phone call out of nowhere means I need to drop everything and give you my full attention, and I have to make that decision within 20 seconds or it's too late.

A text first gives me so many more options. Especially if I like to prepare, for example, stepping out of the crowded office. Or parking the car. (Which still works even if I don't read texts until parked.)

First, if there's one thing the federal government is good at doing, it's getting normal people to pay their taxes. Besides, you've probably already had the taxes withheld from your payroll and you're just stalling on the end of year balancing of books.

Second, I know nobody has told them yet, but we print the money. Not paying your taxes is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts them. If anything it just gives them a valid excuse to go after the people they wanted to go after anyway.

Don't change to their whims.

I appreciate the protests that are happening, but protests won't do much until polling changes.

Pretty sure Trump just made a thinly veiled threat on the life of the Governor of Maine while declaring that, "I am the federal law".

You're asking a lot of people for very little return.

I think most any full time job in the US has bereavement leave.

It's only the poorest of the poors that get absolutely fucked, as is tradition.

Do you think Elon gives enough of a shit to ask someone?

He got so mad at the government telling him no that he overthrew the US government.

I'm not directly experienced, just throwing that out at the start.

There are things more addictive than cocaine, like heroin. NEVER, ABSOLUTELY NEVER do heroin.

But if you do end up being a coke-fiend, that does suck. And it seems the individual often has very little control of their ability to get addicted or not.

I'd never touch it. At least not before 80. I don't think it's worth the risk.

But I also don't think it's beneficial to lie and exaggerate in order to promote drug-phobia.

I had a friend who was addicted to coke for a very short time. Another friend, found his stash, flushed it, and threatened him with life-changing consequences. He quit, and has been successful since.

More recently, I went to a bar with a person I knew from the Internet. When he went to the bathroom, another patron told me, "after the third coke joke it's not a joke".

There's also the more modern danger. If you think you're doing cocaine and it's actually half cocaine, half fentanyl (much cheaper), then you're probably dead. Maybe they didn't intend to cut it half and half. Maybe they just didn't stir well.

I sure as hell wouldn't mention that ahead of time.