musicalphysics
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- Comment on How was the US national debt created? Does the US have problem paying it's bills? Who are we in debt to? 6 days ago:
Fedi is social media. Not an official repository of knowledge whereupon I have to provide only the most accurate of statements. Presuming I’m stupid because you don’t like a comment is not justified. If it was, then I could insult you for claiming that expanding the money supply doesn’t cause inflation. Or claiming the government has no role over the money supply. What do you think happens when the US lowers reserve limits for banks? That is rhetorical. Not an invitation for further discussion.
- Comment on How was the US national debt created? Does the US have problem paying it's bills? Who are we in debt to? 6 days ago:
I understand that quite well. No reason to call me stupid asshole.
- Comment on How was the US national debt created? Does the US have problem paying it's bills? Who are we in debt to? 1 week ago:
U.S. bonds already pay more interest than Greek bonds. The dollar devalues every single day from the printing of more money.
- Comment on How was the US national debt created? Does the US have problem paying it's bills? Who are we in debt to? 1 week ago:
The US can always pay its bills because it can just print more money.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Republicans on city councils in Texas are trying to force libraries to charge people for access, just like a gym.
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Under a digital model libraries generally have to keep paying for digital licenses to books. So capitalism is making inroads against tax dollars and actively nullifying the majority of benefits of digital books.
- Comment on As per my last email 5 weeks ago:
The whole curving bullets thing is one of the dumber plots in action movies.
- Comment on What happened to NFTs and what where they in retro spec? 1 month ago:
NFTs provide provenance for artwork and allows for a specific person to designate some digital objects as originals while all other equivalent digital objects are copies. The original market burned out because people were spending large amounts of money for artwork with artificial scarcity, not because provenance isn’t a problem.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Fun fact: that isn’t how the uncertainty principle or reality works.
- Comment on Why weren't telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground? Which would have saved a bunch of money from upkeep and accidents? 1 month ago:
There are devices that will measure how far away a break in a cable is.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
It’s isn’t an argument, it is the tax code.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 2 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Then prove it liar.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 2 months 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!! 2 months 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!! 2 months 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!! 2 months 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!! 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months 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! 2 months ago:
Yep. Same boat.