Well historically it is not a terrible system

Well historically primary education is pretty shit and we, the readers, thank you for proving that to us today.

Imma give the Baltic States a pass on this one.

The guy looks like Saxton Hale.

It’s not a TERF thing. Nearly no one cares about who goes into a “Men’s” Restroom and it’s always been that way.

Cargo ships don’t really use diesel, they run on bunker fuel.

This wasn’t one of Colin’s better videos but I do enjoy his channel.

Trump is worse than useless but these failures are the result of DECADES of underfunding and mismanagement.

It’s point to point delivery. The cargo isn’t in orbit.

It’s starting to get downright dehydrated.

This guy is an idiot but de minimis was clearly being abused. It was never intended for multi-billion dollar foreign companies to sidestep taxes. It’s just another thing that needed to be updated as a result of technology.

requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities

The actual law isn’t about confessions nor is it solely about CSAM. What Washington State has done is amend their mandatory report law by removing the exemption for Clergy.

“…has reasonable cause to believe that a child has suffered abuse or neglect, he or she shall report such incident, or cause a report to be made, to the proper law enforcement agency or to the department as provided in RCW 26.44.040.”

So yes, if a Priest (Catholic or not) hears a confession about CSAM they will be required to report. However if they hear about child *neglect *in a confession they have to report that as well.

Likely more meaningfully they ALSO now have to report those same things even if it isn’t during a Confession. For example if they witness a parent smacking their kid around in the parking lot.

It’s a necessary and correct change but it reaches a lot further than just the confessional.

I haven’t read the law, but it would be interesting if it explicitly allowed a “mandatory reporter” to satisfy the requirement by facilitating the transgressor to turn themselves in.

Here’s a link to the law as passed.

It doesn’t seem to explicitly allow what you are suggesting but I supposed the “or cause a report to be made” clause could be interpreted that way.

We also need a law that requires news sources to provide links to law(s) being discussed in their articles!

If anyone would like to read this law here you go.

You will need to document those Owner / Capital Contributions very clearly so if an audit happens you can prove how that money got into the LLCs account.

Speaking of that account; your Contribution may not be considered Revenue but any interest earned from it sitting in a bank account almost certainly will be and unless you record offsetting expenses then you suddenly have profit…which is subject to taxation.

If that isn’t enough then there’s State, County, and sometimes even local regulations to consider. For instance you lived in Denver, Colorado you may be on the hook for “Occupational Privilege Tax” which is $4 per month per employee. Is the owner of a single member LLC considered an “employee”? I dunno but you should know that this stuff exists and find out before it bites your ass off.

For the most part LLCs are cheap and easy, right up until somebody from the Government decides to poke their nose in, which is how so many people get in trouble with them.

So Good Luck with this and let me know when your instance goes live. :)

They will never go away for regular people, only the Rich.

Good luck with the IRS.

Apple Intelligence and the first versions of Gemini are the perfect examples of this.

Add Amazon’s Alexa+ to that list. It’s nearly a year overdue and still nowhere in sight.

This is strange.

Let me know when you figure it out. I’m happy to revisit.

You may be correct on MB though. I pulled that number from a news article that I can’t get into again because I exceeded my daily threshold of free ones. I’ll just concede that I’m incorrect on the case count in MB specifically, at least until I can get into the dang article again.

Western Europe has way less cases…

Fair enough, so lets move those goalposts to the west a bit.

Here’s the EU data from April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which seems to be the latest available. You’ll note that in that time period there were 26,222 cases. Romania, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium reported the most.

…and nearly all of them in Romania.

True but Romania is part of the EU and so they count against the numbers. Just like Texas does for the US.

Looking at the data we can plainly see that in 2025 the EU has reported more cases of measles every month than the US has in all months combined. The EU had 4482 cases by the end of March while the US is still under a thousand partway into May.

For funsies though let’s remove Romania from the data completely and see what it looks like.

Of 26,222 cases Romania accounted for 21,620 which leaves a remainder of 4,602. On the United States side there has been 935 cases YTD and there were 285 in 2024 for a total of 1,219 in the past 16+ months.

I’ve linked and quoted Official Sources from both the EU and the US and the data clear; the EU is having a worse measles outbreak than the US.

Lest you feel I’m picking on the EU I’m also going after Canada because they too have had more cases of measles since just last October than the US has had in the past 16+ months. You can find that data linked in my post here.

Where are you getting your info from?

The OP’s article.

"One in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 1,243 cases from mid-October through April 29. "

It’s literally the 2nd sentence of the 3rd paragraph.

Additionally Canada’s Health Minister has updated the total to 1,384 as of today, May7th.

If your own Health Minister being quoted in a Canadian News Source isn’t good enough then I guess this conversation is over.