GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca
- Comment on business is business 3 hours ago:
Yeah, I don’t think many people call it fun, but like you said it also isn’t a great way to make money.
- Comment on business is business 6 hours ago:
On the flip side, Uber is basically a hobby. Do these people buy their cars just to drive for Uber, or do they drive for Uber to make some extra cash with the car they already have/need?
- Comment on Not to arm chair general it. How come the US doesn't get a bunch of helicopters over to the Lincoln with food meds and whatever? How did it get this bad where we can't supply our own ships? 22 hours ago:
Like the old saying. Armchair generals talk strategy (and maybe testosterone levels). Real generals talk logistics (and maybe if their troops fuck).
- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 1 day ago:
Well, thats interesting too! And the shitpost still gave me a chuckle.
- Comment on Lead writer Margaret Hamilton standing next to the finished Moon landing script 1 day ago:
I’m a little offended at referring to her as the director’s assistant, given what she actually did. It could have been just as good a shitpost if she had been referred to as his screenwriter and not diminished how instrumental she was.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 4 days ago:
Have you heard of Schedule C? It’s mentioned at the bottom of page 9 in the pdf you linked. But please, do keep doubling down.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
You said if you made $184k you would pay $0 into SS. In fact you would pay over $20k. How is that correct?
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 5 days ago:
Often, people look to the internet to learn things. Given that circu.stance, they may not have that foundational knowledge. So how are those scrubs supposed to git gud?
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
Okay, so you’re talking about something where you have the bare minimum of knowledge. That’s cool, this is the i telnet after all. Not being an American, I haven’t spent a lot of time reading their tax laws or forms. I dont know if that applies to you. But I try to be more informed if I’m going to argue on the internet, and it appears SS is a marginal tax just like many others. In this case, it’s a flat tax up to $184.5k this year, and 0 for income above that amount. So your initial point was also wrong.
- Comment on People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts 5 days ago:
I get what you’re saying, but a realistic temperature for cooking only makes sense if you’re familiar with cooking. I’m sure there was someone who was wondering why their cookies weren’t cooking at 175° F or utterly annihilated them at 350° C. It’s just a couple extra characters, anyway.
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 5 days ago:
“Innocent until proven guilty!”
Uh, yeah, exactly. So let’s send them over there to be judged for their actions and determine if they’re guilty. It’s not like they’re going straight to jail, they aren’t facing the death penalty. So go. Get proven guilty, or not.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
The qualifier you put under here, which is not in your original comment, is if you’re self-employed. What if you aren’t? (Let’s ignore the question of if you should be at that i come.)
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 5 days ago:
If, as you say, the median income of lawyers in $150k, then it’s safe to assume more than half are making over 6 figures. According to this link I found in a quick search, about 10% of lawyers make less than 100k. Can that be said of the other professions you mentioned?
This ignores the fact she is advocating getting rid of the cap for everyone, not just lawyers.
- Comment on Wooden Cutting Boards Are the Best | SciShow [12:53] 1 week ago:
Wood has anti-microbial properties, which plastic does not. The other commonly raised concern is contaminants getting stuck in the grain or cut grooves of wood cutting boards. The problem is any plastic cutting board will also have grooves after it has been used for a while. Ultimately, a properly cleaned wooden cutting board is probably safer than a properly cleaned plastic one.
On the topic of anti-microbial materials, silver, copper, and copper alloys including brass are anti-microbial, so the best material for doorknobs and other high-contact surfaces from a sanitary standpoint is uncoated silver or brass.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
I was more thinking he could be in the fire.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
It’s possible both scenarios included Elon Musk.
- Comment on Still waiting for my Donny dollar check, any day now... 1 week ago:
Let’s talk about death taxes in America. You will hear the line about paying taxes when you’re alive and then paying taxes when you die. I checked this out a few years ago, so this information is out of date, but that means the exemptions have only gone higher.
While you’re alive, you could gift about $10k to each child per year, from each parent. This meant if you had 3 kids, you could do a tax free wealth transfer of $60k per year. When you died, you could give each child $10 million, again per parent. This means the absolute minimum wealth required to pay an estate tax on was $10 million, providing the wealth was held by only one person and they only had one child. If the scenario above was used, with 2 parents owning the wealth jointly and having 3 children, you could transfer $60 million, plus another $600k if you had started working on your estate planning 10 years before you died. And even then, you were only paying taxes on the portion above the tax-free amounts listed above. All of this doesn’t even require any trusts or other tax haven’t shenanigans.
tl;dr Pretty much anyone who is paying estate taxes can afford to.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 1 week ago:
Only if you’re careless and forget their deepest desire is to end you while you’re installing them. Make sure they’re properly secured and they will vent their rage as electricity for your use.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I was going to respond, “As is tradition.”
- Comment on Is there anything I can do about the humming of an LED? 2 weeks ago:
If you get tinnitus, this little guy won’t bother you at all.
- Comment on Certified post about shit 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a song about your troubles.
- Comment on In the age of Ancients... 2 weeks ago:
What does it say about your neighborhood when the drug dealers are the most classy people there?
Oh, is that not what you meant?
- Comment on The perfect date 2 weeks ago:
Open source, and no ambiguous options grandfathered in.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The solution for if they have a father is pretty obvious.
- Comment on Once a week, go Greek 2 weeks ago:
And not a violet in sight. I thought this market was cornered!
- Comment on I dont know 2 weeks ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Kafka reference.
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like the hiker was reasonably qualified, and had a device to contact emergency services if things changed (assuming he was still able to use them). Certainly not the choice I’d make, but my qualifications are much different.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
Because normally dogs shouldn’t be in restaurants.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 weeks ago:
Capitalism moves manufacturing to a location with less regulation or the overhead from regulation, resulting in more profits for the capitalists. This is clearly not because of capitalism.
Spoiler
/s for those who need it.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 weeks ago:
But that also means that if the top 10% cut their consumption by half, we would have blown past the required targets to not have global warming pass 1.5° C, even if the other 90% didn’t change a thing. And they would have still been engaging in massive consumption by anyone else’s standards.