It is insulting because it downplays the theory to the point of “to believe this would be absurd and stupid” which obviously has implications for its believers.
Imagine an atheist stated: “I am an atheist because intelligent design boils down to: if you leave your room empty for 6000 years, a magic fairy will appear and create the Taj Mahal”. Can you see how this is not only just an outright false statement, but also making a mockery of those who believe?
I think the point was that even with your “help”, the American date system is still unintuitive to most people using other systems
If they are pathologically irresponsible, then I’m struggling to see how it is “evil” to get backup in the form of the law in enforcing that they act responsibly?
Hard to tell if this is a metaphor or just a status update of an acrobat
In order to avoid said recourse, the company will usually offer a severance package. For example a company I used to work for did a big restructure and the laid off employees got a half months salary for every year they’d been at the company + 2 months paid leave
I have a lot of respect for the Devs, as shining example of “how to recover from a mistake and make it up to your players”
Many other dev teams would have probably taken their payday and disappeared into the wind after that launch.
Nah, curl your tongue into a tube and stick it in the drink to use as a straw
Don’t be silly, you’ll obviously have your hands full defending your spleen from chipmunks, no time to dial 911
Either watch the movie OR read the book. Never both. Both just leads to disappointment at the cost of your time.
Obviously tax law would have to be more nuanced, if you only own a single house then you can’t be expected to sell it just to pay the tax on it, but the tax could accumulate for when/if you do sell it. But someone who owns hundreds of properties which increase in value, could be expected to sell some to pay the tax. The point is to affect people who hide their actual income from taxes like this, just like Bezos does.
Because it is also a messed up way to tax people, to only require people who can’t afford these tax evasion strategies to pay income tax.
You complain about bullshit manipulation, then spread your own blatant disinformation to try support the billionaires??
The “real tax rate” isnt based on a stable net worth, it is based on the increase in net worth over X years (ie. Income), compared against the amount of tax paid over the X years.
If someones house increased in value at a rate of $1M per year, then they absolutely should be paying income tax on that $1M every year. Once it stops increasing in value, then it would no longer be contributing to income, and therefore would not be subject to income tax. It is pretty simple.
This is not a counter-argument, it’s a thought terminating cliche.
The way I understand “Smalltalk” is not whether the subject matter is “serious enough” but rather whether either party actually has any interest in it, or if it is a polite nicety to avoid awkward silence.
Discussing the weather in a car ride with a coworker is smalltalk, contemplating with a friend how one might conquer the world using ant-controlling super powers is not.
No, len is a constant time operation, at least in most cases I believe.
In my experience, the mental effort spent trying to understand the German in a meme makes the comedic payout better
The semantics of who “is to blame” for the war are ultimately irrelevant to the small nation trying to avoid being in a war.