And you still don't get it. If your price is $1.00, but sales tax is 6%, your final price is $1.06, and you still need the penny.
And of course when a product costs 1€ the total price is 1€ because in sane countries the sales tax is already included! Problem solved!
The law says the owners of TikTok (technically not the Chinese government, but whatever) must sell to a US entity or shut down.
Why "US" entity? What would be wrong with selling it to a Canadian or European entity for instance?
You two are talking about slightly different things. According to wikipedia, Oslo has:
For comparison, Minneapolis (north of Chicago) has:
So the north of the USA does seem to have a colder climate than the south of Norway (Oslo). That definitely does not hold true for other parts of the USA like southern California so your mileage may vary.
Also the climate in the UK isn't ideal for bikes in a lot of places,
That's strange because, based on their numbers, the weather is ideal for bikes in Cambridge. I did not know there could be such a big weather difference in two cities so close to each other!
The population will top out at around 9 billion if we are lucky. Then it will decline.
You should work on your memory: The World's Population Is Projected To Peak At 10.3 Billion In the 2080s.
It is entirely possible, but the bigger the social circle, the less likely it becomes.
Let me count my social circle who I encounter frequently enough to notice reduced functioning: [...] Totals: 36+adults of all ages, 21+ children.
How many of them are vaccinated? Per the article vaccination reduces the likelihood of long covid rendering your example meaningless.
the supermarket checkout clerks,
As if you would notice if one of them dropped out because any sort of illness.
Free speech isn't compatible with hate speech laws. So, if your country has those, you're a authoritarian country with no free speech.
By that measure the USA does not have and never had free speech either: Three former Backpage executives were sentenced to prison for promoting prostitution.
In USA we have free speech enshrined in the highest law of the land, and that seems almost enough to make it real.
And then: Three former Backpage executives were sentenced to prison for promoting prostitution while disguising their activities as a legitimate classified business.
So the EU does not have free speech because it goes after CEOs of companies enabling pedophiles and drug trafficking, whereas the US guarantees free speech even as it goes after CEOs of companies where people advertise their business. Talk about double standards.
The markets are too segmented. There is no one landlord with sufficient supply to dictate the terms of the market.
You have not been paying attention then:
Bush [...] was a somewhat adequate president, trying to make his dad proud.
Right. By invading Iraq on false pretenses, discrediting the USA, destabilizing a whole region and forcing US troops to fight on two fronts. Just to show his dad that he could finish the job his dad did not. What an "adequate president".
For instance it's not enough to play Counter Strike 2.
It's totally different with iPhones: they have their own group discussion app, proprietary AirDrop file transfer, their own apps, etc. This enables lock in via the network effect.
Most of the incidents are maintenance issues, and that's on the airline.
It does not matter who is responsible. In the coming years Boeing will systematically get blamed in the press and public opinion. That's what skimping on quality earned them and it's probably well deserved.
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem. -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
