sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
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sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1d ago
Don't know how true this is. Your W2 says how much tax you paid, everyone knows how much is being taken.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
2d ago
you know what they say: in America, first you get the frame, then you get the respect of your beers, then you get the women.
Henry Cavill is hot because he’s tall and has a great face, if he had the physique of a runner or something it would make minimal difference, that was my point.
I don't think this is true. He's got a large, wide frame that he'd continue to have even if he had a runner's physique, and women like large frames. If he was about a foot wide in the shoulders nobody would think he's attractive.
John Hamm is a good example of this. He's a handsome guy and looks good in a suit because he's got a large frame. His actual physique is similar to a sack of potatoes, but it just doesn't matter (yes, it never even began for framecels).
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
2d ago
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I can turn off my thermostat from bed if I forgot to do it before turning in
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I can have my lamp gradually turn on and brighten before I need to wake up, which is nicer than the alarm
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
3d ago
most women prefer a guy with lower bf% to a roided beefcake type
Since "low bf%" and "roided beefcake" are not mutually exclusive, this is an interesting view into the female view of men.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4d ago
Did you mean www.thepsmiths.com ???
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5d ago
I'm pretty sure you're the guy who's ban evaded ten times.
It can't be, he's assured us that he has little sympathy for the far right (before launching into four paragraphs of standard far right talking points).
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5d ago
This is like the unscissor statement. Whether you're unvaccinated or still masking, you can agree on the above.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
Thankfully, Florida is not the only polity on the planet, and lab grown meat can still be marketed elsewhere when and if it becomes commercially viable. So this ban doesn't prevent the development of an alternative.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
the sheer idea that their performative ascetism is moot must gnaw at their bones (veganly).
It's a little confusing to read this when it's not the vegans that are passing bans on lab grown meat.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
Don't know much about German city canteens (??) but Germany has the fourth highest meat consumption per capita in Europe, so I am not convinced that meat consumption is endangered there. Per capita consumption in 2020 was actually higher than in 2017.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
Ban their stuff before they ban ours.
I don't see why the do gooders couldn't undo this ban and ban real meat anyway if they have the kind of influence to enact a ban on real meat in the first place. "Get them before they get us" doesn't apply if you are not, in fact, getting them.
I don't really believe in first mover advantage for laws, laws get overturned all the time. What appears as first mover advantage is likely just durable public sentiment.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
This doesn't constrain their future actions. It's just as easy to repeal this law and ban real meat as it was before the ban. Maybe if it were a constitutional amendment or something you'd have a point.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
If we are assuming do-gooders puppeteering the state then a state ban is just a distraction anyway.
Feel free to elaborate. It's not the EAs that are able to ban meat, lab grown or otherwise. It's the state, which has just now banned lab grown meat apparently in order to "steal a march" and prevent itself from banning real meat.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
"Those", being the same government that just banned it?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
In this thread we're talking about a government action. It doesn't really make sense to say that the government banned something so that the government wouldn't mandate it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
This is only true in the sense that groups pushing gun rights are already talking about establishing a white ethnostate.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
Chicano is hardly a postmodern term (it originated at least as early as the 1940s) and as far as I know it only covers Mexican Americans, so it wouldn't apply to a lot of Hispanics anyway.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
It's premature to talk about differences in quality before it's even on the market.
For that matter, if it's so much worse, there's no need to ban it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
7d ago
(While I was checking its power situation, I ran across the quote that Eskom, as of 2010, produced 45% of all electricity in the entire continent, which was surprising to me.)
This seems beyond belief. This USG page makes the claim, but this article deboonks it. IEA statistics back up the deboonking, putting South African generation at 27% of all Africa's generation.
That seems somewhat more plausible, although it's interesting to note that in PPP terms South Africa generates only 1/8 of Africa's GDP.
Yeah, I was mistaken about the federal taxes. But for state tax they are exempt. So the math in your original post exaggerates the tax advantage (since you are missing state cap gains tax). Depends on jurisdiction and income obviously.
That said, BOXX also carries the risk of the IRS saying that you can't actually do that, at which point it's no better than the savings account. It also might turn out to be a fraud and go to zero, which is probably less likely with things like VUSXX.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
7d ago
No. SGOV dividends (as well as treasuries) are taxed as ordinary income at a rate of up to 40.8%. Add in state taxes, and you're paying nearly half of your already paltry income. It's a very bad deal.
No, you're definitely mistaken.
https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/taxes/how-government-bonds-are-taxed
Federal bonds, including treasuries, are state tax exempt (though you still pay federal tax).
In any case, lending money to the government is a pretty awful deal. They dilute you constantly and charge you extortive taxes for the privilege. In the end you're much better off owning a shiny rock (might write a post about this later).
VTSAX right now is paying more than almost any bank account and the taxes are less than you'd pay on bank interest due to the state tax exemption. It's not bad for an asset as safe as a savings account.
Comparing zero risk assets to gold doesn't really make sense.
Isn't this clip of him trying to explain the unexplainable (i.e. mmt)? It seems like they deliberately edited out the question to make him look like a moron and the whole film seems to be mmt propaganda.
Of course it's also possible that he is a moron, he doesn't seem to have any economic background anyway.
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