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Honestly, I wish there’s was a 50% sin tax on all food above a certain calories/gram or processed or whatever criteria you want that would be reinvested into subsidies for healthy food on SNAP. But that would never happen because Wall Street makes too much money off of fat Americans.

Good intentions here, but the LAST thing we need is an increase on consumer basics like this. Cheap candy bars and sodas are one of the few pleasures that are still affordable for people, despite their unhealthy effects. I'd prefer subsidies to healthy food vs. yet another cost increase.

warning for high sugar content and trans fats

These are the same folks that think the "diet" in diet cola makes it healthy. They aren't going to read anything or change their habits. Junk food is tasty and that's as far as the thought goes.

How is he going to define this?

Bahahha, they don't care about logical consistency. They are going to ban anything they think is "bad" and allow everything else. Trying to nail them down is like trying to staple jello -- there's no logical approach. Trump and Co. take flying by the seat of your pants to a new art form.

You can't get them on "gotchas" like this because they simply DO NOT CARE.

What's stopping you from placing a wager on your favorite platforms then? You seem to feel quite confident it's going to happen, yet for some reason aren't willing to get that "easy" money...

The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.

You are reading the results backwards - Kalshi predicts a Democratic win at ~70% (as of now) probability. I agree the payback isn't huge... but if you're SURE then it's easy money!

Christians and hypocrisy go hand in hand. How many cross tattoos are out there? How many Christians scorn the poor, or their neighbors? It's kind of a running joke that if you want to learn about the bible, ask an atheist. The more you read the bible, the more logical inconsistencies you find in it.

The real "value" in Christianity and the bible in general is that the masses can outsource their morals and ethics to some external thing without having to think too deeply. (Because who wants to think for themselves? That's a lot of work!)

I know this was supposed to be a little jab, but look back at writings by the founding fathers from that time. They were clearly well-reasoned, and at least TRIED to make a long-lasting republic. The USA wasn't just slapped together randomly -- they had a real plan and an architecture. If anything, it's impressive how long it took to degrade the place.

A great example is George Washington's opinion on getting involved in wars on foreign soil. Well, we might not call it "war" anymore, but we sure as shit have troops overseas at all times. I'm pretty sure the founding fathers never intended us to be the world police in this way.

Haha!!! Sadly, I think our domestic stupidity is more than adequate to explain the situation. I'd love to blame the boogyman here, but let's face it -- we're #1 in stupidity and self-owns.

I have no specific information, but usually when a company is gobbled up like this, the employees get the short end of the stick. Given how nasty Humane was to their own customers, I can't imagine the employees are getting treated well. Really depressing to see such a scummy CEO and company get a payday like this. I can't imagine what HP saw in them.

Here you go friend: this is a prediction market on whether the Republicans or Democrats will win the house next year: https://kalshi.com/markets/controlh/house-winner

If your prediction is right and there are no more elections this will be easy money for you.

I hope there is a prediction market on this at some point because I do not think it's likely that they will be able to block elections. I'd love to put my money where my mouth is.