themeatbridge 2 hours ago • 100%
Robinson claims to have video footage of the time traveling artificial intelligence.
themeatbridge 5 hours ago • 100%
This beats Tatum's and Curry's extensions which is under $63 million.
That's just how NBA contracts work now. Whoever signs the next Max contract will beat this one.
themeatbridge 6 hours ago • 100%
You're just throwing random numbers around. Stocks generally aren't that volatile, but when they do rise and fall quickly there's usually a reason.
Like let's say you bought GameStop stock, and it experiences extreme volatility. Let's keep the math easy and say you start with 100 shares of stock worth $10k total, and the stock jumps to $100k. Having diamond hands, you don't want to sell, but you owe 28% of the $90k you "made" on the stock, which can be spread out over 9 years. You sell $2,800 worth of stock this year, and you're left with $97,200. The next year, the stock tanks to it's original value. You have $9,720 in stock, and you have a $2,800 prepaid tax credit for whenever you decide to sell the stock. The next year, the company goes bankrupt and dissolves. You have a $10,000 loss which you can deduct from taxable income over four years, and a $2,800 tax credit.
Two things are important in this example: Such taxes only apply to individuals who have over $100 million in wealth. Nobody is going to end up poor because of the "burden" of paying a reasonable tax. The second point is that short term investments are taxed as regular income. So the example isn't great, anyway.
In spite of those caveats, it highlights the insignificance of the additional tax burden for capitalist speculators in volatile markets. Such a tax structure discourages hoarding and market manipulation while removing the loophole that the wealthiest individuals use to avoid most taxes altogether.
themeatbridge 8 hours ago • 100%
They also may be much larger data centers than in other countries. This source is just a total count of individual data centers.
themeatbridge 9 hours ago • 100%
You're right, but that's why we should encourage those voters just as much as the swing states.
themeatbridge 9 hours ago • 100%
Because it's a lie told to cover up bigotry.
themeatbridge 9 hours ago • 97%
Trump, pictured here endorsing a self-described "black Nazi," implicitly threatened a room of Jewish people with genocide if they didn't support him.
themeatbridge 18 hours ago • 93%
It's only true because they believe it. Every vote counts, even if it's for a losing candidate. The parties pay attention to the vote totals, where they are winning and losing, and what issues are connecting with voters. The parties may choose to run more moderate candidates in areas that are changing, and will set their platform based on what gets people to the polls.
Even if you're going to lose, you should still show up and vote.
themeatbridge 19 hours ago • 100%
Slippery floor!
themeatbridge 19 hours ago • 100%
But you can already deduct losses from your taxes, up to $3,000 per year and if you have more than that, you can carry it forward. If it's worthless when you sell, you can deduct all of the loss from your taxes.
themeatbridge 19 hours ago • 98%
Just throwing this out there, people aren't "illegal." Actions are illegal. It's not the immigrant that is illegal, it is the immigration. People are legally permitted to come to America for a wide variety of reasons. Entering the country without documentation is illegal. Staying past the expiration of a visa is illegal. Entering into a loveless marriage to skirt immigration laws is illegal. The person is not the crime.
When conservatives talk about immigration, they do their best to dehumanize the scapegoats in the stories they create. Calling them "illegals" is a conscious effort to make it easier to treat them as less than people.
themeatbridge 20 hours ago • 100%
I'm not going to get into the minutia of how someone manufactured this
No, baby, you're gonna have to get into it. This is not a deepfake image, this is your posting history. We can see the whole record of it. If someone manufactured the evidence, they've been planning it for decades.
themeatbridge 20 hours ago • 100%
If your total value is down, you aren't going to be able to borrow against the gains, anyway. So no taxable event.
Let's be clear, this is a loophole that rich people take advantage of to avoid paying taxes on income. By borrowing instead of selling, they get the profit without incurring a taxable event. It's one of many ways capitalists siphon profit from the system while providing nothing in return.
themeatbridge 21 hours ago • 95%
All of these are bad examples, or rather counterexamples.
Hufflepuff just takes "the rest." The misfits and outliers, the mediocre and the moderate. These can be great wizards and witches, or they can be utter shit. That's Hufflepuff.
Lockhart was exceptionally smart and talented, but he was a spineless weasel and gloryhound. He used his skills as at obliviation to alter memories and make people love him. He was a leech and a criminal, and inept at other magical skills, but he made himself rich, famous, and universally beloved while avoiding any actual practice or hard work. He was probably a very gifted student who figured out how to get other people to do his work and make him look good. That's why he was ultimately inept.
Pettigrew was a follower. No doubt he did not fit the mould of the typical Gryffindor in that he fell to corruption and betrayal, and managed to hide as a rat for decades. But remember, the sorting hat takes your choice into consideration. He likely wanted to be a strong and brave leader. He wanted to be cool like his friends, and he was not. He was small and scared, and always reminded of it. After school, his friends weren't there to protect him and make him feel special. He wasn't one of the "in" crowd anymore. He was a ripe target for a cult that brought him in and made him feel powerful again.
themeatbridge 22 hours ago • 100%
No, everyone misunderstood. "Salacious_Trash" was his handle on the porn site where he claimed to be a Nazi.
themeatbridge 24 hours ago • 96%
You would! Unrealized losses could be used to offset gains. If one stock goes down and another goes up, you would pay tax on the net gain, and you could take a deduction on the net loss.
The tax could also be structured so that it only applies when borrowing against the gains, so it could be rolled into the cost of the loan.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
Still working for me.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
Cats hide in basements all the time. The first domino was "racist loses cat in her own house."
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 75%
Singers come in all shapes and sizes. I don't know if there are any physiological advantages related singing ability and height or weight, but is it possible that you aren't used to larger women being famous or celebrated? There is a lot of societal pressure on women to be slim and attractive (and young and demure, but also intelligent and sexy, but not in a threatening way, just enough to know she'll want to have sex, but then be ready to stop after the man finishes). Singers, meanwhile, are "permitted" to be any size (although being sexy helps record sales).
Edit: Oh foop, I just realized which community this is.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
Rumor mill says some adult internet activity, but it would have to be really bad. Maybe he was featured in porn? I kind of hope that's it, because anything else I can think of would involve some who could be described as the "victim."
Edit: So he went on porn sites, admitted to some embarrassing fetishes, and called himself a "black Nazi."
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
I expect it to be like every other season, some good and some not. It's an edgy show that tries to explore weird concepts. I like that it is experimental, but that means sometimes the experiments don't always succeed.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
I think there will be some protests, some violence, but it will be much smaller than the protesters want it to be, and any violence will be swiftly met with law and order.
Jan 6 happened in part because Trump was in power. Election deniers in every state tried to gum up the works, and will try again. But Trump is not in power. He cannot exchange favors or offer pardons. People obstructing the democratic process will be arrested and prosecuted.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
I feel like if they were gonna stage these attenpts, they would have cast an immigrant or LGBTQ+ individual for the role of would-be assassin. These two were just gun nuts disillusioned by Trump's failures and riled up by his own rhetoric. That's why he's struggling to paint this as somebody else's fault.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 71%
Socialism is the antithesis of religion.
Not really. Socialism is a broad term with a lot of meanings. People often assume socialism requires antitheism because specific Communists venerated the state above all, and pointed to religion as a competing priority. Marxism was born in a context where the Church was seen as the ultimate authority. Monarchs and oligarchs claimed divinity as their reason to rule above all. Casting off classism meant defying thousands of years of faith-based indoctrination.
Today, most capitalist nations are ostensibly secular, or at least exist in cooperation with faith in a way that permits pluralism. Boundaries are strictly geographical, and cultural and ideological exchanges can occur between almost anyone almost anywhere. Governmental authority in most countries is no longer linked to religious faith, so socialist ideals do not necessarily need to contradict any particular religion. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
Kind of hope it gets the Rambo 2 treatment. Like the first one is all about his persecution at the hands of a corrupt authority, but in the second one he's just slaughtering enemy soldiers with a grenade launcher.
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 100%
How is this relevant to the conversation?
themeatbridge 1 day ago • 75%
I won't. But my concern is that Mozilla is heading in the wrong direction lately, and I have used Firefox for a very long time.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
Zoning reform. It's boring, but the way we zone most regions practically requires a car. You need mixed use areas, commercial and high density residential areas, smaller roads and bypass highways. Separating and isolating commercial from industrial from reaidential separates the jobs from the stores from the homes.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
It looks nice, and is less expensive than a used Vespa.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 91%
I don't want that. I want full control and absolute privacy. I do not want your AI reading my emails. Look at that summary, it's as long as the whole email, and you're not going to be able to trust that it picked up on the most important part of the email. This is not efficiency, this is novelty.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 66%
Sure sure. Not corruption. The labory political thing we said. Movements and such.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
There was a movie about this last year. It was based on a true story, but strays a bit from what actually happened. It's pretty good. It's called Hitman.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
Under normal circumstances, you ask the questions to get a record of the answers, so that you can prove the answers are lies. The more information the accused has when they provide answers, the more thoroughly they can lie.
With Mango Mussolini, there's never any consistency to his blatant lies, and he never pays any price for changing his story. Everyone knows he's a liar, so he can be as brazen as he wants to be because he knows he can lie without losing supporters.
So I'm with you. Democrats will circle up like a lacrosse team at a prep school mixer. Oh shit, Campbell is gonna go ask Lauren Z to dance. Let's go back him up. Here he goes-OH she said no... no wait he said "PSYCH!" He wasn't really asking, I bet she feels so dumb. Sick burn, Campbell. Let's go throw empty yoohoo bottles onto the roof of the auxiliary building and talk about what boobs probably look like.
That's what I picture every time I read about the Congressional Democrats. Campbell, Monty, Gunner, Brook, Tripp, Blake, and Gian, all hanging around in blazers and sweatervests talking about how cool it's going to be when they finally do something someday.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
No, we know who you are and why you're here.
That man shook my hand, looked me straight in the eye, and said with a smile, "It's really nice to meet you." I am, in fact, incredibly unpleasant. WHAT ELSE IS HE LYING ABOUT?!
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
The death penalty is not justice, it is vengeance.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
But also consistency in preferences. You enjoy foods that are delicious, and abhor food that is filled with gooey boogers.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
I can not nod any slower.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 85%
So you're saying that maybe the algorithm is the friends we made along the way?
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 96%
I'm just guessing, but I bet the downvotes have more to do with the clickbait headline. It should read: Harris Did Not Wear Earbuds or whatever.
themeatbridge 2 days ago • 100%
No shit. Restaurants are an inefficient way to distribute food.
Look, we're obviously not the best team. We have significant flaws, and Embiid cannot carry this team by himself. But how can you not be hyped after watching Batum raining threes and Tobias on the bench? Embiid took his time getting it together, but he got it done when it mattered. We can beat the Knicks. We can beat anybody if we play our best. Maybe we don't. Maybe we lose again and everybody starts thinking about next year. But we are still in this. The Philadelphia 76ers still have a chance to show the world what they can do as a team. So let's get hyped and enjoy the ride!
I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.
Basically title. I'm curious how others are watch the game. I cut cable a long time ago, and have Hulu live for this season, but it's just awful. Their app sucks, the unskippable ads are all over the place, and tonight it started recording at 4:30. So what is everyone else using?
Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you. Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?
Anybody else want to see all five on the court together and just have them make a giant wall around the paint? No? Alright, me neither then. So what the fuck is Morey doing?