Prorate the tax based on used tread? If you only burned through 10% of the tire before replacing it - pay 10% of the tax.

Include tire checks with thread depth minimums in the annual or semiannual registration renewal.

More fair would be to pay for road wear and tear. Bigger cars do more damage to roads, and semis do exponentially more. Drop the gas tax and charge per mile scaled to the weight of your half loaded vehicle.

Pandemic definitely hit this too. The schools in my state have consistently scored about one grade level down for every cohort that was in school during 2020. That experiment in fully remote schooling (elementary through highschool) definitely failed - it’s as if they didn’t even go to school that year.

Now you’re talking. I just linked what I’ve used.

Super long wire? Can’t you just put your laptop next to the tv, plug in with a normal 4’ or 6’ HDMI, and use a Bluetooth mouse or your phone to control it?

DC entered the chat

Top of the list. No chance for change with this regressive anchor around the neck of this country

No I mean heat is the effect of moving atoms bumping into things

Heat is motion…

Without the super toughness, I have some bad news for you

I’m just glad I didn’t get banned for answering a question with references

It’s not removed from my post. Seems like some of your readers or federated instances are filtering that word out for you.

English history is full of “that foreign word sounds sexy so let’s make a version of it”

Me reading this in the bathroom on Thanksgiving

Back from this rabbit hole and brought gifts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*removed*

It’s been in use since the 16th century by English speakers. Basically it was just an anglicization of the Spanish or Portuguese negro. At the time it was seen as neutral by white folk, but it’s also always been tied to slavery, so definitely not neutral from the pov of the slaves.

So did its use imply a power imbalance? Yes. Did the white folk who used it early on know? Maybe…?

I guess it’s similar to using “Indian” to describe New World Native peoples. It’s always been tied to expansionism and genocide, but from the pov of the oppressor that connotation isn’t readily recognized.

It’s only ever you in there. They just put away the props, take off the makeup, and get ready to argue about which color of pants should go with those shoes your spouse hates but you like so much.

And pin it to an inflation index maybe?

Fair point

Don’t you basically only need to change the pronouns you use to ask about their Significant Other, and maybe change the “when are you going to have kids?” to “when are you going to adopt a kid?”.