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Re:Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax by joshspankit on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:12PM (#25391051)
From experience: Watch out for “seems” in these cases.

The number of times I’ve heard someone say “_____ is not like it used to be”, or “it’s harder to find ____ in (name community/event/location/etc)” is significant, and even when it’s true short-term, it rarely pans out long-term unless that very thought spreads to enough people that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Like do what you want it’s your life. I’m just saying what I’ve seen.

Re:Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax by eganist on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:06PM (#25395011)
Would be interesting to automate retrospective analysis across every comment posted on HN and chart language trends over the years.