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- Comment on We can play that game too 21 minutes ago:
Of the boomers I know
- one neighbor was a spiteful asshole, the other not
- my ex’s father is a fairly liberal vet
- my exs mother is not just liberal but is still at her age motivated by how much she can help people working at social services
- my mom is the most liberal in our family and frequently argues with my conservative brother
- Comment on We can play that game too 25 minutes ago:
And boomers are NOT all the same
Google search tells me 48% Democrat, 46% Republican and the remaining undecided
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 47 minutes ago:
That was one of my objections to replacing kitchen appliances for all too long. I’m not even going to consider all the same brand. But they’ve added enough “styling elements” that it’s tougher to fill a kitchen with similar appliances from different manufacturers
- Comment on Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02] 6 hours ago:
The problem is it’s not really people’s choice. Companies have gotten very good at disguising quality traders and marketing has got very good at muddying the waters.
Since this is about tools, I’ll bring up Craftsman as an example. For many years, it was a quality brand accessible to homeowners. But as they changed to be cheaper they still marketed themselves as a quality brand and they seemed like the same price. It was only after the brand value was destroyed, that it became clear how “cheap” the tools had become and people were able to make a legitimate decision to move on
- Comment on "You let your dog sleep in your bed and on the couch?????" Yeah bro & I'd let him borrow my car too if he needed it 20 hours ago:
6-7 miles walk, that’s a few hours
- Comment on If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear? 1 day ago:
The east coast. When I lived in New York, I thought we could do better on our own. Now that I’m near Boston, I know New England could. But you know what? We really have a lot in common all the way down to DC, and the DC suburbs of Virginia.
Acela is not just a transportation system connecting us all, but a result of our shared values, wanting a better connection. We’re a huge percentage of the population and the economy. We’re mostly “donor” states instead of “takers” so our economy would be solid. We’re mostly “blue” except New Hampshire and Pennsyltucky, seeing the value of good education, caring about our citizens quality of life. And yes we’re mostly the parts of the country built out long ago so have in common many traditional town centers and relatively fewer car centered hellscapes. Many parts of the east coast have been derided as “European”: let’s embrace that
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 3 days ago:
I’m also amused that the Epstein ballroom might hide an Epstein datacenter but it seems overly complicated. If someone wanted a secret datacenter without congressional oversight, pick any military base anywhere. It’ll be cheaper, you can hide it in military appropriations and military network traffic. He’ll, just make it an annex to an existing military datacenter and no one will think twice
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 5 days ago:
Depends on what you call enough protein. Part of the point of those pushing protein is the claim that most people need a lot more than government standards
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 5 days ago:
Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs
While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.
A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage
- Comment on Any guesses? 6 days ago:
No wonder American men can never find that - we need to import more German cars
- Comment on Be Like Clippy 1 week ago:
Clippy was always the symbol of my hatred toward techno loft culture manned. His engine get redeemed?
- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 1 week ago:
And beyond …. Your view of infinity is blocked because the speed of light is so slow
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
I don’t generally find any tab. I work with the set related to my task then close them. The tabs for the previous task are right there, so I can just continue that task until completed, then close those tabs.
It partly works, but I don’t always close tabs for interruptions and aren’t always able to work my way back to uncompleted tasks, so it builds up
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
I have close to 200. Every task I start has a new set of tabs. In theory I’ll complete them and work my way back through the stack
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 week ago:
And before anyone thinks we should try the new irs now that auditing and collections have been purged, that won’t work for us. The vast majority of us have long since faced automated auditing. The computers are still there.
It’s only the wealthy with vastly more complex tax situations requiring teams of auditors to look at, that now have more opportunity to cheat on their taxes
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 week ago:
Nope, you’re the only one who knows what’s going on!
I was repeating the number from the person I replied to - it did cross my mind that there’s a higher bracket, but I took the number - the existence of one more bracket doesn’t really change anything. Why do the brackets end when there are so many people so much wealthier? While I understand wealthy people tend to get money through other types of income, and that’s an even bigger issue, we should have more brackets. It seems like everyone agrees to have a partly progressive income tax (disregarding other types of income) with brackets so wealthier people pay a higher percentage, it shouldn’t end at what may be considered the lowest income of the wealthy.
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 week ago:
Certainly a bigger problem is how someone who can afford over $1M private jet would be in only the 35% bracket
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 week ago:
It’s not too bad as long as you’re not a dick about it. One year I marked myself as head of household instead of single. I’m not even sure why I did it. I only thought “huh, this saved a lot on my taxes”, and really had no idea what I was doing. They sent back a correction and how much i owed. I paid and that was it. Not scary at all.
Of course in today’s world all about spite and punishment I could imagine it being much worse
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 week ago:
Does it require them to itemize? Most cant
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
I can definitely see a preference for resolving over this
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
I started using Libby during pandemic and for a while I was reading more than I have in years! But the wait times got me. As I read more of the easy choices, my typical wait time got longer and longer until I lost interest again
- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
I definitely get this, but sometimes I decide it must be meant as a joke because it’s easier to respect them as a person if it is
- Comment on eat the rich and go to libraries 1 week ago:
Even for ebooks, libraries are limited to how many they can lend out, plus the ebook has an imposed end of life.
I’ve read claims that ebooks are more expensive for libraries than physical books, because of those limitations
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 week ago:
I don’t understand how that didn’t happen immediately. My understanding was cfpb was somewhat unique in that Congress created it as an independent thing and with its own source of funding.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 week ago:
I have no idea.
Technically I’m here because I replace phones every 2-3 years, but it’s so I can give my teens good phones. I can’t afford to replace four phones at once so this lets me replace two. We keep phones in the family, in use, for a much more reasonable 5-6 years
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 week ago:
Yeah it took me a gpfew years to hop on the smartphone bandwagon because they seemed so expensive for something as unnecessary as a phone. Then I did the same math, considered how much I actually use it, even just for insipid games. The cost per use or per minute use, or for functionality is pretty reasonable, especially as phones get more capable.
Ironically, it’s my computer that fails that math, especially as phones take over more functionality we used to need computers for
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 weeks ago:
They now have “freedom” to abuse their customers.
I’m sure you’ll feel that warm wet trickling down any day now
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I actually hadn’t found that faq. There’s another one about multiple toxic metals, but might not be for Corelle
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 2 weeks ago:
Voyager I and II are 48 years old running on thermoelectric generators. that’s amazing. They are winding down because the half life of plutonium means there is much less power than when new.
I can see future probes lasting even longer with americium as a fuel source
But introducing moving parts for a sterling engine? In space? And expect it to last like that? Seems unlikely
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a different or specific source? I found an daqnabout lead but it only said that they are in compliance and always have been. I recognize the weasel word but only because you brought it up