You do not need to be part of opec to sell oil. The US, UK, and Norway, just to name three, are not members.

https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm

I can’t stress how important this is: babysitting does not, in fact, involve sitting on baby.

Yeah, that’s not a danish, that’s an entire cake. It’s 14 ounces.

Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.

During the 2022 cycle I made the mistake of donating to a lefty cause, and this year I was getting up to twenty (20) grifting emails a day. Just a few well-crafted email filters later, it’s down to zero. For texts, as soon as one comes in it’s “block and report as junk”. I’ll keep this up until I have every fucking number in the US listed as junk I don’t care.

The unemployed should have to pay income tax on the income they would earn if they were employed