Or a fixed fee on the gig economy’s least able to pay.

It does not charge wealthier people more than poorer people. That makes it by definition a regressive tax. It shifts financial burden for a societal problem to people with less resources.

I like that we can argue over what type of asshole this obvious asshole is.

On one hand, I appreciate you explaining this, because I genuinely didn’t know.

Radon is also not the same thing as radium. Unlike radon, your body treats radium as though it’s calcium, which means it stores it in your bones where it never goes away.

Of course DeSanctomonious did. He had to because he had already taken the bribe...uh, “loan” from the phosphate companies and cashed their check.

So, this whole thing is happening because Governor DeathSentence signed a law in 2023 requiring Florida to conduct a study on using this stuff in roads.  

... and he becomes a superhero, Road Rash.

/rushes to typewriter, hurriedly pens script about a young man who has a bicycle accident on radioactive road and becomes the superhero Road Rash.

I got a dent in my Cybertruck too, but put a bunch more dents in it so the initial one didn’t stand out. And my fix was free! 

239 families are the reasons you do this. It's called keeping the faith with your fellow human beings on this rock and hoping other people would do the same thing for your family.

The reason is to determine the cause of the crash to try to prevent a similar crash in the future.

Many Asian cultures want remains of the deceased so their souls can be laid to rest.

Yes. The families really do want that. They want the bones of their relatives and loved ones laid to rest in the respective homelands with their correct religious rites said over them.

There is a philosophy in the aircraft industry to ‘leave no stone unturned’ when it comes to aircraft crashes. This is primarily a safety thing. While investigators have a pretty good idea of what happened to MH370, they are not certain. Finding the exact location will give them more evidence, even if the black box…

Families need closure in terms of the “what” and the “why” of the incident. It hasn’t been about the hopes of recovering remains for a decade.

Those aren’t exactly “waking” hours.

That’s not fair. A bunch of his waking hours are spend doing ketamine.

Oh, so the horrible AI Pathfinding in Farming Simulator IS accurate to real life!

Only 1/3 did. 1/3 voted against and 1/3 decided they didn’t care enough to bother.