Congress has the right to levy taxes under the Taxing and Spending Clause. However non voting members can’t vote on any laws and therefore can’t vote on tax related law . Wikipedia says They receive compensation, benefits, and the ability to send mail without a stamp like full house members. I’ve heard they can vote in committees but I can’t confirm that

so I would say this is taxation without representation. Or taxation with the most minimal amount of powerless representation possible. But that’s a longer phrase

If you haven’t heard There’s a lawsuit about this very thing and it’s a class action

It’s somehow worse than that they DO have (kinda) reps Eleanor Holmes Norton DC house reps are “delegates” so they cant vote on bills but the position still exist.

I think I’ve convinced myself that my 2 zombie short stories are finally done and I’m still trying to make myself finish that alternate history shorts document I’ve had sitting on my Proton docs for a year and a half.

Adding onto this rabbit hole

Truman Show delusion is a real and scary thing

“They have reported that one patient traveled to New York City after 9/11 to make sure that the terrorist attacks were not a plot twist in his personal Truman Show, while another traveled to a Lower Manhattan federal building to seek asylum from his show.”

Around 34k people. It’s a fascinating little country with a long history and a mini civil war somehow

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But I have this old onion vid

Human leather gives a debuff if you’re not a cannibal or a psychopath. In Rimworld the same thing applies

Play Minecraft

Tell that to my pawns

The I panicked and grabbed my phone instead of taking a screenshot after math

Public domain music

Over internet id like Peertube because the more Fediverse projects the better

I’ve never done anything like this before just had the idea to do it for a while

I hadn’t thought of that but yea that seems like a easy way to do it

I’d like to have music playing 24/7 and maybe some other segments I’ve seen one channel who does this on Peertube Assorted Trance, Techno & Acid so something like this.

I’ve always found the idea a fun project and I was a fan of radio free fedi when we still had that around

As someone with a seething hatred of AI and companies putting it in everything I found No ai DDG useful. They wanna add AI and keep turning it on after I disable it? Try turning it on now that it’s stripped from the search engine.

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

I’d recommend to post about that Here I think it would be a more fitting community for something like this.

For those interested here’s the vid

All the systems were down and the whole place ground to a halt

There was a line blocking the road it was so bad