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The IRS is lying to you. The supreme Court has maintained from 1916 (1) to 2024 (2) that the income tax is an excise, not a direct tax. The IRS says that it's a direct tax (3) even though they quietly acknowledge their own website is not the rule of law (4). Links in π§΅
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Is brainfreeze a phenomenon that only exists in the US? π³
Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.
The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.
The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.
Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.
"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.
It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.
"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.
I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.
In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.
And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.
You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.
The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.
I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.
Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.
"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.
Discipline is a journey.
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Its like watching live stop motion π³
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How 2a are you? π€£
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I was watching this movie Used Cars and I see this guy with this really big smile and I was like... Why does this smile look familiar? Why does it look like it's going to ask me what a plethora is? And yeah it's him π³ (Kurt Russel on the left)
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Nasdaqistan π€£π€£
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These can does are wild and seem to drop to exactly 150... Is that the company trying to liquidate shares not sold in the IPO?
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Trade volume is starting to slow down and settle here. Wow.
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Lol this isn't spacex
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Legendary.
Thomas Massie with survivors of the USS Liberty talks with the press on how they were ordered to remain silent about the incidentβ¦
Survivor: βCongress wonβt give us the time of dayβ
Another said βIsrael owns usβ
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This is disturbing and they need to take it down now! It takes only 1 million people to take down just one camera each to make absolute chaos for my flock stock.
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Deflock, an open-source project mapping license plate readers
blog.adafruit.com/2026/06/10β¦
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Dan πππππ©ππ€π£ ππ¨ πππππ© Behrman Esqπ retweeted
Everyone fears something
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I'm watching Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price (1964).
Since he has nobody to talk to he's narrating, as if that's the only way the director had to fill in the audience.
Now I just feel silly because I talk to myself all the time saying the same kind of things he says but apparently I'm not supposed to tak to myself out loud.
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When I was maybe 10 years old I went to Disneyland and rode the teacups. With an engineering mindset I tried to open the door while the ride was going, suspecting that the doors didn't lock. Turned out they were held closed by centrifugal force alone.
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There is no trust fund. There never was. Funds are paid into and out of the treasury. It is a ponzi scheme destined for collapse. But there is no dedicated fund.
BREAKING: The Social Security trust fund is on track to run out of money in late 2032, its trustees said.
It's three months sooner than projected last year.
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