Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

I mean, I know I'm a brit telling americans to just pay their goddamn taxes here and that has historically not gone well for us but really

I find the lengths US gun owners go to to avoid having to pay $200 in tax to own a "short barrelled rifle" endlessly fascinating

Stuff like "oh, this is a pistol with an... uh... arm brace" and "this doesn't have a rifled barrel so it's not a rifle"

Guys, you're spending ridiculous amounts of money here, just pay the relatively minor tax

I've just seen the headline "New Jersey becomes first US state to take legal Oscars bets"

...you weren't able to before?

Over here you can bet on literally anything you want

You want to bet on who'll be the next Pope? You can do that

You want to bet on KFC running out of chicken after brexit? You can do that

I'm just really surprised that a country that has one of the biggest gambling destinations in the world doesn't let you bet on random stuff

A thing I love is USAians trying to justify all prices in a store being shown without tax with "well, you'd need different shelf labels in every store because the taxes are so different everywhere! that would be impossible!"

Mate, I worked in a supermarket in the department that handled shelf labels

There was a printer in every store

When anyone needs a shelf label, they go and print one out

It's not hard

alternative marketing campaign for a scheme based near the sea: "serfs up!"

at some point people will try to sell us on some neo-feudalist thing with the promise that we'll all be "chillen like villeins"

Here's a watch that came out recently that's not got much attention, the Elliot Brown Holton Professional

Designed with the help of, and issued to, a military unit who the rumour mill says may or may not be based in Poole and may or may not spend a lot of time in canoes

"Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime retires, Bowser named new president" is a much more fun headline if you don't know there's a bloke called "Doug Bowser"

I've been told that I could run a modestly successful stall at a craft fair selling these and various other things wot I make out of dead tree

ironically I really don't have the spoons for such an endeavour

makin more spoons

@maple HAPPY BIRFDAY!

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One month until Baselworld!

(big watch industry event, basically christmas for watch nerds)

Apparently Putin is now threatening the US with new ultra high tech "underwater nuclear drones"

Torpedoes

Underwater drones are torpedoes

Those have been about for a while

account sign-ups only available once every 29.5 days

with all the planned manned missions to the moon have someone sneak a little server up there

MOON TOOTS

Project idea: fediverse instance in a cubesat

TOOT IN SPACE

Oh, apparently Kellogs are stockpiling Pringles in case of a no-deal brexit

https://uk.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-kellogg/kellogg-stocks-up-on-pringles-cereals-for-fear-of-hard-brexit-idUKL3N2095GN

we won't have any medical supplies but we'll still be able to buy Pringles, how fucking comforting

Oh god, I reminded myself of this

http://nomoreteabags.com/

*angry british octopus grumblings*