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- Comment on Title 12 hours ago:
If you get a big pile of money you have to pay taxes on it immediately and then you only get interest on what is left over after you got tax. If get a big pile of gold you don’t pay taxes until you sell it, and in the meantime you benefit from any increase in value since then.
- Comment on Title 12 hours ago:
Another critical difference:
If you got a million dollars in cash you were obliged to pay taxes upon receipt, and if you did not do so and you try to deposit it, you are going to get flagged for a tax audit and subject to criminal charges.
If you got a million dollars in GOLD you don’t pay taxes until you sell it. So you can sit on it for years and then sell it and deposit it and you only pay taxes at that moment and have not broken the law in doing so.
Money is income, Gold is just gold until you turn it into money.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 days ago:
It also can be pretty hard to find music you will actually like. Every streaming and sales service is more interested in promoting content based on who paid them off or based on what is cheap for them to stream. It seems like there are not a lot of resources geared specifically with connecting you to music that you are likely to enjoy.
I usually troll through new albums each month and just listen to a bunch of stuff until I find something I like.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 days ago:
Certainly, of course all the old stuff is good because that is the stuff that you already curated into your personal preferences. There was a LOT of shit from pretty much any era, its just that the younger version of you already pawed through all that shit. Listening to new music means having to paw through a lot of crap, which is always harder than just listening to stuff you already like.
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 1 week ago:
No, but your mom is.
- Comment on The house always wins 1 week ago:
Given that “the bank” owns every asset in the board and only pays out a piddly $200 every turn, normal play should pretty much never result in them running out of money.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 3 weeks ago:
1 should just be a pig.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 5 weeks ago:
Right, but they are churches in Germany.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 1 month ago:
Almost all of which were built before the reformation.
Ulm Minster, Cologne Cathedral, Speyerer Dom, the Berlin Cathedral, all originally Catholic.
England is a better example since their brand of Protestantism really favored big works to rival the Catholics.
- Comment on A long-ass way to write 'not parmesan'. 1 month ago:
Yeah, that is probably something that can’t legally be called “Parmesan”.
Like it could be basically anything. The only thing we know for sure is that it is NOT Parmesan, because if it was it would say so.
- Comment on Gee willikers, hey Craig! 1 month ago:
Some philologist is currently writing a thesis on the development of emoji “accents” on social media.
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 1 month ago:
Are you suggesting that my definition of a population of orca as “hillbillies” is not an evidence based scientific opinion?
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 1 month ago:
Right, which is why they are backwards hillbillies.
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 1 month ago:
Except that we are talking a group of animals within a species.
Other, genetically identical, Orcas literally swim into the same habitat as Southern Residents and eat all the other shit in puget sound while the resident orcas sit there and starve in the same environment.
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 1 month ago:
Given that they are facing extinction because they are starving to death while surrounded by food? They haven’t had a surviving calf in a decade because they are malnourished. Yeah, it is.
The Salmon hats are probably them expressing displeasure and mourning in their starvation since it is the same behavior that they use when they express mourning for a dead calf:
- Comment on It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up 1 month ago:
Southern Residents (puget sound orcas) are the toothless moron hillbillies of the Orca community. They starve in a weird little place that is FULL of food that they are too stupid and backwards to eat.
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 1 month ago:
It’s true. They also issue a pistol as part of the kit and as far I know still so, but it is apparently optional and most cosmonauts choose to leave it behind.
Space gun control is a thing: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-i-stop-cosmonauts-carrying-guns
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 1 month ago:
That story is apocryphal.
Pencils aren’t suitable in space because the last thing you want are little wood and graphite shavings floating around the capsule.
Both the US and Russia used grease pens.
The Fischer space pen was developed by a private company with no public investment and was marketed to the government and public.
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 1 month ago:
Russian capsules have returned to land since their very first launches.
The decision has more to do with geopolitics than physics. Russia does not have a robust Navy with access to equatorial waters on which to land a spacecraft, the US does. Given the historical accuracy of landing a capsule it is actually a hell of a lot easier to drive a big ship to the eventual location than it is to drive a big truck into the middle of a desert. The reason western nations return capsules to the sea is because its easier to recover them there.
Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind.
In other words this post is completely inaccurate.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 1 month ago:
Putting the oven right up against the fridge is the real problem here.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree. But I understand. 1 month ago:
Isn’t this one of those states that instructed people to report all their immigrant neighbors?
I guess they didn’t mean white immigrants.
- Comment on Triangle 2 months ago:
If anyone is curious here’s a fairly exhaustive description of the radio situation for this flight:
- Comment on Quiver, ladies, quiver 2 months ago:
Most forms of meditation specially teach you NOT to hear the voice in your head, because that is the entire point.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Steam is a great example of how a privately held company can out compete publicly traded and venture capital funded corps.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 months ago:
The cost of building a gaming PC has also gone up dramatically.
A whole ps5 is about the current price of just a decent “value” video card. Toss in your ram and storage and you’re looking at three times the price.
- Comment on You can just do stuff. 2 months ago:
They are good enough to see points of light in a black sky.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 2 months ago:
Guys working with computers in this era didn’t know any girls.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 2 months ago:
Not as old as the person that thought of forming Voltron first.
- Comment on Normal 2 months ago:
Chickens do not have udders.
- Comment on If a revolution started tomorrow in the US to get rid of Trump, could the majority of society use hit and run tactics successfully? Or what would be the tactics the rebels would use? 2 months ago:
I’m not what condition for victory would be achieved by nuking Washington DC for anyone. Seems like that would be a win for the people opposed to the existing government to me.