God even at this point the voters packet would be a steal if it contained NOTHING BUT October Daye.

Ballmer Peak

Granted but I think there's an incredible funny crossover opportunity with the classic xkcd.com/323/

Have you read the Mossa and Pleiti novels by Malka Older?

It had to make sure if you ever connected one it could delete all the music off of it.

I don't recognize that description at all. He's a massive selfish hypocrite, completely inauthentic if subjected to any serious analysis of his actions vs his rhetoric. Could you argue that his inchoate rage makes him a blank slate the unengaged can project themselves on? Maybe.

I think a lot of the tension is around trying to figure out what is just a gatekeeping mechanism and what is a guardrail.

"Ed is not telling story to mousie to make mousie be weeping, Ed is telling story to make mousie understand."

I got my figure from the right side picture in the OP.

Found other quotes including from the Whitehouse account claiming $11k savings but that is obviously wrong. Max exclusion of tips is 25k. Max income for the exclusion is 150k, which is a 22% marginal rate, not 44% (no one pays 44% US federal).

There's definitely some Joe the Plumber level math being tossed around including by the White House.

But with her husband still working even at reduced hours the marginal tax rate of 12% I used seems plausible.

Regardless, it's marginal compared to, say, not having to go broke to pay for chemo.

Since in the states she is in I'm pretty sure it's 1099 income so she has to pay both portions of the Social Security tax.

That doesn't negate the savings from not also having to pay federal income tax. (Assuming there's also spousal income that pushes them above the standard deduction).

She said she received $11,000 in tips. Tips are already called out specifically on US tax forms so it's easy to exclude them. Them not being taxed probably saved her $1320 -- possibly more like $2000.

As for why there's not just higher base pay (and no out of pocket for cancer treatment), well...

I mean there was the one guy who asked one of the LLMs to make him an alarm and what it came up with was asking itself what the current time was once a minute and burned through all his tokens, but...

Then realize that these people read books for pleasure putting them in the most read 50% of Americans at minimum...

Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation

The rem or the sievert since you are interested in health effects. So more context:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal...

So I, uh, had an embarrassing in retrospect teenage Niven phase and was still _technically_ a teenager when I read that. You didn't even mine the deepest vein of cringe from it...

Wasn't that one published in 1998 though? Though I'm not sure Niven ever moved beyond the early 80s if that's what you mean.

Ok, I see now the case you are arguing which is that across the board price cuts themselves aren't problematic, in the context of increasing productivity or falling energy prices, even if they push things into overall deflation.

So you are assuming downward nominal rigidity of wages holds. That eventually breaks and I would expect it to break much faster for anyone in a position where their employer can just cut their hours.

Deflation is terrible if you are carrying debt. I think that outweighs the relative benefit of cash savings vs equity/asset savings given average savings vs average student loan, car payment, and credit card debt.

These are great books and beautiful editions.

"Even that contentment shall not be yours...No longer are you Assistant Pig-Keeper"

Huh...my schools started accepting computer printed assignments starting in 1989 and I always did that. For me, cursive is for taking notes but if I need to make sure someone understood it I still print.

If only there were some sort of Screwfly Solution for this oversight...

But is the eagle allowed to pick up a tortoise and drop it on your head?

What order are you doing the re-read in?

Foldables have gotten really good lately. I use one for my bike+bus commute to work.

Support for classical music is usually pretty dire on music services. Even the basic metadata schema is usually a bad fit because if you only have an Artist field you have to decide whether to populate it with the performer or the composer.

I'm more cynical and I think they DO still want the media distortion. The doubling down on social media is for the base while the general electorate vaguely skims news headlines. So they get to have it both ways.

1987 during Iran/Iraq war where there were repeated attacks on shipping.

Do you have the option to use a compose key? I've set my keyboard so caps lock becomes compose and then I hit caps lock, then e, then ' to get é, or caps, c, comma to get ç. Wincompose looks like a free package for Windows.