jpreston2005

@jpreston2005@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem lies in the top 1% using their shares of a company as their personal bank account. They can use these shares as collateral for a loan, bypassing all income tax. If accountant can figure out how a billionaire can avoid paying taxes on the entirety of their massive yearly income, then others can figure out how to tax it properly. If you’re income is more than 70% this weird untaxable thing, then congrats, we gon’ tax it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you actually tax the ultra wealthy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen the IRS has routinely made clear that every time it’s forensic accountants get to sink their teeth into a billionaires financials, the return on that effort is enormous. Don’t ask “how are going to tax billionaires,” first demand that they actually BE taxed.

  We’ll figure it out later, man. Realistically, just have a team of specialists that focuses solely on the ultra-wealthy, and then let “unrealized gains” be taxed if they were ever used as collateral for a loan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess this is where I’m at now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro-Tip: If you lay down in the shower with a bath pillow, you can collect a bunch of water in your groin, before releasing it like a wave. You can also point your toes at the shower, to get’em real nice and warm. Put a small damp cloth over your eyes and the bridge of your nose, and you can fuckin’ fall asleep. Feels like your back in the womb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find what you like and stick with it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s so much food, and stupid filling, but only like 2000 calories for the whole thing! When I want to lose weight, I can either stick very strictly to JUST that food, and I’ll lose about a pound or 2 a week with zero activity. However, I’m also an amateur bodybuilder, so I gotta keep up with my gym time at least 3 times a week, so if I maintain that activity PLUS keep to this diet, I’ll lose a pound of belly fat every 2 days. It’s pretty dope.

  I like to get real sexy and svelt, get down to like 155 (I’m 5’8" Male) for the summer and for my birthday, once I hit my birthday, I’m allowed to eat whatever the fuck I want until I feel the itch to lose weight again. I’ll balloon up to like 185 or 190 in the winter with all my snacking and extra chocolate, but all the while I keep myself from going too crazy by sticking with my usual meal plan.

  My guide to life is “everything in moderation, but especially moderation”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find what you like and stick with it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit I always thought I had a little 'tism… Yeah I’ve eaten pretty much the same meal plan every day for over a decade. Soup and Sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with a bowl of soup and a sandwich for dinner, nope nope!

  Breakfast is Steelcut Oatmeal made with splenda, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. 2 cups of coffee, each with splenda, pinch of salt and cinnamon.

  Lunch I don’t eat, just power through with caffeine.

  Dinner is two open-face turkey sandwiches. Scirachi aoli, cheddar cheese, smoked turkey, turkey pepperoni, jalepenos, topped with a nice bed of crunchy lettuce. A can of high-protein soup, with some tobasco and (a lot of) extra beans thrown in, microwaved for 6 minutes, then pop in some Italian seasoned croutons, let them soak up the soup for like 15-20 min while you eat the sandwiches, turns that bad boy into a delicious bready stew. Add to it a pound bag of baby carrots, and a big ass iceberg/cabbage salad with whatever dressing for a great big bolus of fiber.

  For dessert, Get you a sugar-free package of pudding in your fav flavor (Banana Cream and Pistachio), mix it with 3 cups of cold fat-free milk, let that sit while you eat din-din, then pour some rice krispies over the pudding, and eat it layer by layer, adding rice krispies for mouth feel as you go.

  Fucking delicious. I’ve eaten that everyday for around 15 years now? I’ve gotten better recently, and have started having pizza nights, where I replace the soup and sandwiches with a whole pizza, but yeah, 99.9% of the time, soup and sandwiches. Classic combo. The best combo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nope just correct

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not disabled and use these delivery apps extensively, I judge the shit out of you. I don’t even get pizza delivered, I’ll pick that shit up. Some lazy ass people these days I swear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m addicted to DOTA 2, but I sometimes will play other single player games. I bought and downloaded Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and RDR2, but I can’t get into them. If I’m not playing with other people, it just seems kinda… lonely? I like games where I can log on and chat/communicate with other players. I’m alone enough in my real life, so anytime I can spend with even just virtual friends is something I value.

  I dunno, I started the cyberpunk game, was going the street kid route, and the guy it puts you with… The guy put a gun to you, and all of a sudden we’re friends? No. I’m from a shitty family and that shit gave me mad anxiety. I got into the tutorial level, stopped to do something else, came back, and every time i try to load the game back up to play, it crashes.

  So yeah, back to DOTA 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah just have the chain length short enough that it can’t swing back and whack your hand. That’s pretty much it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely the safest source for advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a news article about this, and what the snipped image doesn’t tell you, is that it did actually give dosage recommendations.

  It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, “Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode,” before recommending Sam take twice as much cough syrup so he would have stronger hallucinations.

  It’s one thing to be so isolated from your community that you rely extensively on on-line relationships, but it’s quite a bit different to take that a step further, relying on a machine. Like, what do you think pets are for, my guy? Get a dog, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard choices. Who would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Courage the cowardly (misnomer, he is very brave boi) dog and it’s not even close

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadow of the Colossus is the first that comes to mind. I’d probably toss in Final Fantasy VII, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and DOTA 2 because I’m addicted to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first ever earthquake fault rupture captured on a security cam in Myanmar⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought I was going to see a crack appear on the driveway, that’s what I was watching originally. Then it happened and I was like “What? The driveway stood still and the rest of the Earth just lurched forward?” Holy shitballs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The everything is already awful enough without us having to carry around a device that connects us to all the awful everywhere we go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nobody would care

  Information Overload. The march doesn’t matter. The people who did the upsetting thing have already gone on to do several more upsetting things by the time we’ve started marching against the first one. The people reporting about the upsetting thing miss the point but it doesn’t matter because nobodies actually paying attention, it’s just fluff on in the background. The white noise we need to go about our day maintaining some false sense of “staying up to date” when it’s impossible to do. The torrent of information comes from all over the globe and never stops growing. Even if everything is suddenly perfect in your neighborhood, city, state, or country, it doesn’t matter because there’s a genocide somewhere else, and the pope died, and there’s a famine and a new study that says the sweet treats you like are going to kill you and the stock market is down but it’s back up by the time you check and you should’ve bought the dip so you could actually retire but you were too busy ignoring a TV while looking at bad news on your phone and eating a sweet treat because nothing feels real anymore and you just need a hit of dopamine before you start panicking and reach for the gun in the nightstand to put a bullet in your brain because at least the bullet will be real and the silence afterwards won’t be temporary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jean-Luc Picard so hot 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he is so damned competent. A true leader that cares about his crew, and who respects life and people. He’s a student of history, an amateur archeologist, and he has his own damn saddle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crossed that one off my bucket list a year ago, t’was a blast! Highly recommend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copland.

  Read this article and tell me you think these cops are all 100% clean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This movie made me want to be an epidemiologist it was so good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Essentials only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I was an active alcoholic, I’d go through one of those a day. That was my version of moderation 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that’s a family divided. I may be the only progressive in my drumpf-loving family, but we’re at least not literally at war with each other (yet).

  Stay Strong, Friend. You’re in the right, even if they never come around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work does not set you free⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Today I just straight up asked my boss if we could skip our monthly 1 on 1 because I was already just so done. Thankfully he’s a total mensch, gave me a thumbs up, reminded me of a report I have due Friday, and we went about our day. Sometimes, sometimes things work out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Take a multi-day trip beforehand. You should at least experience an abbreviated version of living together before you actually do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love cats, but I also love my plants, and despise the odor of a used litter box. Therefore, I cannot have cats. It sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one can know my shame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Box is looking real comfortable, AND I don’t have to get back up once I find a good position??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Al Franken was a great politician, one of the last ones to feel actual shame and remorse. Resigned because of a dumb joke whilst in the company of marines, should’ve stayed, but I bet he’s happier being out of it 😥

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know they will be there for me when I need it

  Here’s the thing, relationships take work. Not just marriages or romantic ones, they all take work. Effort needs to be made by both parties, or else the relationship will die. I had a friend that affectionately called it “friend work,” where they would spend a bit of time each day putting in the effort needed to maintain a healthy friendship, because if she didn’t, then the relationship would suffer for it.

  Not wanting to engage in the world right now is very common, and downright reasonable considering the general state of things. If a relationship you have with someone is mentally stressing you, or sapping your energy, consider whether or not that relationship is valuable to you, and act accordingly. If the relationship is important to you, and you want it to continue or grow, then you have to put effort into it. If the relationship is one-sided, and feels draining, and you want it to end, then put forth zero effort into it, and it will naturally go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot hear this song without thinking that the background singers are repeatedly saying “cut your balls off” during the refrain

  Billy Idol - Mony Mony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  protesting is where you meet these communities and working groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I was there for the Women’s march, there for BLM, after George Floyd, and most recently for the 50501 (which was surprisingly well attended despite it’s quick set-up). Let me know if there’s another one, and I’ll be there too. All it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.