The real scathing insult was just “uninstall”

Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.

One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.

Edited comment weird. My original comment just had the quote from the article where Trump said he didn’t know that was a slur. I replaced that quote with the full original Trump quote, with the edit (but left the original middle piece from my original comment)

(Edit) Full quote from rally:

Think of that: no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, Shylocks and bad people.

I hate to give the guy a pass, but to be fair, I wasn’t aware that was a slur (or even a word). If anything, it sounds more like a homophobic term.

Edit: yeah, actually that’s a hard one to right a pass on.

Maybe I’m just a newb, but it still looks like PNG is the goto to ensure lossless image storage.

Everything else on that list that is “better” does/can do lossy compression. I’m not sure how to force apps to use lossless compression, so to me, all those lossy-capable formats are a drawback.

Thanks for the heads up.

Saw it wasn’t on F-Droid and was going to ask for source page (to get through Obtanium), but looks like they’re allergic to android and derivates. Appreciate you pointing to references.

I’m surprised how low South Korea and Japan rank on that. With the things I’ve heard about their health and wellness, I would have figured they’d rank above the U.S.

Wolf Creek Pass / Pagosa Springs, CO.

My old man was a fan of C.W. McCall, so grew up with his song about it. Randomly had a friend’s family invite me with them to a ski trip there in college. Slopes were solid (my ski experience is very limited, but my amateur ass liked them), and the hot springs were great. First time I ever saw a couple unabashedly and openly smoking a joint in public (this was before state said pot was legal).

I’m still unclear how this will be implemented, but even if the full tax bill of a single person (highest tax bracket group) making $25,000 was negated, it would only save them $1,298.

On one hand, that feels like a tiny sum. On the other, that is 5% of their annual income (and i know a 5% raise on my end would make a substantial difference in my own life).

Used this calculator to run the numbers

It’d be as a grain of rice to a starving family, but I hope the Democrats pick it up as part of their platform.

That’s been my tinfoil hat theory about all this too. Tipped workers are usually the lower rungs of the economic ladder. If they can “prove” they actually make a good deal more than they’ve historically claimed, then they can shed those “hungry mouths” from SNAP and other welfare programs.

This whole thing feels like a trap. I can’t say with confidence where the trap is, but it just feels like its there, ya know?

The vast majority. I was in a state that allowed paying under minimum wage if you received tips.

Gonna keep the numbers to myself to help preserve anonymity, but some back of the napkin math says it was probably 70-90% (depending on how good of a day it was) of my “wages” came from tips.

Good catch, missed that.

What’s getting me is how my overly conservative family is scorning tipped workers as a result of this (“hasn’t Big Daddy T made enough concessions to these people”). And its like “but he hasn’t. Not really.”

I juggled 2-3 part time restaurant jobs back in the 2009 - 2013 timeframe (total time per week was comparable to a full time job). Even as an only moderately successful male waiter, I was able to pull in ~$32,000 my first year and then evened out to ~$35,000 once I found my flow. That was a decade and a half ago in one of the most conservative corners of the US, and I would have still been paying taxes on my tips back then.

AOC:

“The cap on that is $25,000. While you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,00 across the United States…So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you?..This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt…To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation? We can not stand for it, and we will not support it.”

(its unclear from this quote if that’s no tax on $25,000 in gross income for tipped workers; the first $25,000 in tips; or if there are no taxes on those only for those who make under $25,000 per year. None of the possible meaning is a good one, to be clear, but that’s what I was hoping to get answered).

Article isn’t actually that long and is effectively a short rant AOC gave. Still annoyed with OP for click bait title without substance in post.

FINE, I’ll go read your article and tell you want the catch is. *mumbles under breath*

There are also well-known entrepreneurs who have lost their lives due to such extortion.

I’d be interested to read more, but I’m not sure I’ve heard about “distant sea fishing” before. Can you pass the articles/links to the stories you’re referencing?

Does it really matter though?

Seems like the lost revenue would just be made up through borrowing / deficit spending. Worried this is another whiff of a move. Its not like I have a better solution; and I wish the states doing this the best of luck in addressing their finding issues, but I don’t expect this to move the needle significantly.

I was thinking like a bear. Big, menacing, kings of the forest. And then they go nap like half the year.

Sounds like the life.

Maybe they’re just paralyzed? I like the lore implications of that. Could be a run plot device to kick off a “why Dracula’s been gone for the last 200 years and suddenly popped up again”

I could just see a division of a larger vampire hunting organization calling themselves “The Campers” who’s whole mission is to find vampires and set up a tent over their resting places.