musicalphysics
@musicalphysics@discuss.online
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 weeks ago:
Yes, the majority of the people in the world cares about who makes the art.
- Comment on At my house we dine with some goddamn class 2 weeks ago:
So y’all drink a sweet wine to go along with sweets? Seems far too sweet.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t an additional tax document. If y’all are unable to understand reality I am not wasting more time on you. Believe all the lies you want.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 weeks ago:
It’s isn’t an argument, it is the tax code.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 weeks ago:
I like for arts sake. You don’t know anything about me other than I believe your opinions are unfounded and disingenuous.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 weeks ago:
Liar liar pants on fire. You can delude yourself and try to deceive the community all you want. You will continue to be wrong though.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 weeks ago:
Then prove it liar.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 weeks ago:
Everything you say is dishonest. It is in fact a form for calculating social security tax. Do you think the IRS is going to leave payroll taxes out?
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 3 weeks ago:
You think most of the artists that made famous art got paid?? Plus you think people don’t care if artwork that is claimed to be authentic is actually fraudulent??
Thanks for demonstrating you don’t have serious or informed opinions.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 3 weeks ago:
If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.
I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 3 weeks ago:
Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art. Do museums put up fake artwork or do they only try and show actual pieces from the artist.
People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.
Sure, if you don’t care about artists getting paid at all, or you don’t care about authenticity, then NFTs aren’t for you.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 3 weeks ago:
Provenance is the biggest issue in Art. NFTs aren’t stupid, thinking that computer generated ape artwork with no actual scarcity is a good investment is stupid.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 weeks ago:
How long should Nintendo save your data when you aren’t paying them? Why should they keep it for any length of time?
Nintendo has qualification processes because bad games almost destroyed the industry in the 80s.
Steam doesn’t ensure quality. How would steam possibly try to charge for internet access on a device they didn’t produce, control, or sell you?
Businesses charge users for things that users value. Simple as that. It isn’t unique to Nintendo or the games industry. Cell phone folks charged for texts that didn’t cost them anything to deliver. Why? People valued texts and were willing to pay. We got out of that because of Apple but now people are angry at Apple about it.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
The cost to create more coke is essentially zero. The price to ship and stock the different sizes are about the same though.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
Unlike you I can actually read and follow the basic math steps in calculating the tax for social security. If income is above the max, per page 9, then the social security tax is 0. Goodbye.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
I already posted the IRS form that demonstrates that fact.
There is a wrinkle that during the year until your received income actually exceeds the max you pay in. After that though the IRS will return the money when you file.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
Downvote reality all you like, it won’t make y’all any more correct. www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
I have more than the bare amount of knowledge. I correctly conveyed actual tax code for the us. My initial point was not wrong in the slightest and I linked to actual irs tax forms to prove it. You are misinformed and shouldn’t try correcting people on items you clearly don’t understand.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
It is a qualifier. The tax code doesn’t exactly make sense but I’d expect if self-employed doesn’t have to contribute why would an employee. Self employed people have to pay both the employer and employee portion, while employees only pay to employee part.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Same boat.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
Yep. It also shows if you are making above the SS limit then people don’t have to contribute to SS.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
What piddling argument do you think I’m making when I state facts about the tax code.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
Go through the irs form here, page 9. Self employed folks making more than the max put in 0 for SS. www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
Believe it or not it is true.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 3 weeks ago:
If you make more than $184k you pay zero dollars into social security. The other part is you aren’t getting any benefits.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 4 weeks ago:
I came across it on a post about why universities are expensive. At first it had all the standard Reddit answers but I used my experience in the university system to provide more accurate answers. My responses started generating responses and then the whole thing was shutdown. I thought they were farming for LLM content and didn’t like the answers. I am definitely less likely to participate now.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 1 month ago:
I’d say he is complicit given how much pleasure he clearly derives from Israel’s genocide.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Texas, and probably other states, are openly attacking and censoring higher education as well. The provost for a place I was at carried around spreadsheets of costs since overall the university was always losing money. They are in for a tough time if populations get smaller as you say.
- Comment on The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier? 2 months ago:
Correct. No complete stop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Textbooks have more features than they used to, like online homework and the like. The online component makes it easier for companies to push new versions. Professors are overworked, and intro classes, where book prices/versions rule the most, are massive. The dept probably doesn’t have funds for a full TA so grading becomes a massive undertaking. It isn’t possible in many cases to manage lecture halls without the features from the textbook publisher. So what is a young faculty member likely to do? Pick a text from a major publisher. Generally speaking, faculty aren’t out to get you, they are trying to teach you.