Fushuan [he/him]

Our? Didn’t know you were from Spain.

most Americans will just buy the American made pasta and won’t bat an eye when the imports go up

Most Americans will keep buying the same store brand pasta and will complain when the price goes up because either they had to swap to a more expensive American company or will transfer the tariff cost to the consumer. And you wonder why the American company is more expensive? Because if it wasn’t the store brands would already work with them, and as stablished, they are putting tariffs on Italian pasta because it outcompetes American pasta companies.

Don’t you understand that the reason they put tariffs on it is that imported Italian pasta was cheaper than American homemade pasta? It’s in the freaking post. They are putting tariffs on the cheap Italian pasta to make it more expensive so the more expensive American pasta can outcompete it.

Don’t you understand that most of the store brand pasta is actually made in Italy and imported by the store because that’s cheaper than to contract an actual American company?

Money lost to tax cuts for the rich must be recovered from somewhere. Tariffs are taxes and a perfect way to increase taxes for the little man without literally doing it. Well, he literally did, but republicans don’t understand so it works for him.

You would be technically correct with the first two even though I was talking in social terms,not technical ones, but adopted kids are not step-kids. Those aren’t are legally full parents, not step-parents. Step-parents might be the boyfriend or next husband of a single mother or vice-versa, but once you are adopted, if we are getting pedantic about it, the step thing disappears.

Who is your father, the one you would rely on when you need a paternal figure, the dude who shoot his sperm or the dude who raised you? Hopefully both dudes are the same person but in the case they aren’t, I think the answer is clear.

I’d be surprised if adopted kids don’t consider the people who raised them as parents as their actual parents.

WFH has been a blessing.

You easily eliminate almost 2h from there, no commute, and some workdays no showerp/getting ready to go out. Even when I shower I try my damnest to do it between meetings in company time.

I also do zero overtime, you’d be surprised that there are actually decent consultancy companies in that regard.