The right facial expressions will turn it into a contest they can’t resist

I definitely ate the clickhole here

This is normally referred to as the “qualified business income” or QBI deduction. Not sure why they used “pass through deduction” here. Because that terminology is easily confused with a different tax break that some states enable called a “pass through entity tax” which lets a business owner pay state income tax from their business and deduct that amount on their (personal) federal return.

Honest answer: the legal theory is that if each side doesn’t argue their case as well as they can, justice can’t be complete. That’s why there are things like mistrials when the defense attorneys do a poor job, and appeals only work to the extent that certain things were brought up furing the original trial.

In practice it’s deeply flawed.

Masterful Bike shedding

Perfect accompaniment to all this cheese I recently acquired

I heard Elon was born on the moon, but that could be fake too. I wish there was a way to know for sure, or at least see a small amount of evidence one way or the other.

Did they?

Screenshots of what seems to be Witcher 3, taken whenever the game was saved.

I understand the gripes about NYT wrt trans rights and Palestine and general “both sides” bs, but within this context about endorsements it’s worth noting that they are publishing a big series of pro-Harris editorials in the last couple weeks of the election.

It seems kind of silly to expect all media companies to immediately cover a story that broke less than 12 hours earlier.

But it’s starting to happen. Happy?

Are Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin Talking? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/business/dealbook/musk-putin-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Is Wall Street Journal not American?

Price increases seem to take long residence in people’s minds. Prices are noticeably way higher than in 2019. Whether wage increases make up for that is kind of beside the point, psychologically. Collectively, big price hikes are traumatic.

Economists correctly talk about inflation as a rate of price increase, and they correctly consider real wages as a useful metric of well-being. But economists are academics and we use the word “inflation” in a colloquial sense, in a politicized real world, where it means “I have noticed that prices rose is recent memory and every time I go to the store I feel cheated.”

But to be clear, it’s not in my top 10 either (mine starts with climate, democracy, and freedom). Just sharing how I see the disconnect on inflation as a hot topic.

Not even a concept of a plan?

If Raffensperger doesn’t personally handcuff each board member he is Literally Hitler

Seriously though I would appreciate OP’s thoughts on what additional actions he should take

I would love to see a detailed technical explanation for how this would be possible.

I design battery-powered electronics for a living and I can’t think of any design that would let a battery explode with the violence these did, let alone on command. Unless it were deliberate.

IMO at least one of those omitted words was not unnecessary

That’s kind of an unnecessary leap.

NYTimes reports that IDF claims Hamas killed them shortly before they were found. I thought I recalled seeing elsewhere that they were claimed to have been shot, but I can’t find that source at the moment.

Of course, how credible is the IDF?

From the article:

Conscientiousness, one of the Big Five personality traits, is defined as a tendency to control one’s impulses, be persistent, act dutifully, and live up to one’s obligations to others.

Conscientiousness has been linked to a variety of positive traits and behaviors, such as responsibility, dependability, hard work, goal orientation, self-control, and leadership. Some conscientious people, however, happen to be dogmatic, inflexible, unquestioningly obedient, and intolerant of uncertainty (i.e., they tend to see things in black-and-white).