BirdPlusPlus

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by BirdPlusPlus 4y ago
> Smart journalists This seems unlikely.
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Pardon me, but letting alone the notion that any reasonable person with the means to follow those stories would have cause to dismiss them, the Hunter Biden stories have hardly been addressed. Hard to be part of for-profit reality TV withou
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Yes, it is a choice borne of a deeply-seeded prejudice and fear which likely was reasonable once upon a time.
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Consider how widely available high-speed broadband through Starlink might change some of these things once that makes living in the interior of the country more desirable. I think we may end up seeing a sort of reverse of the industrial rev
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
I grew up in Des Moines, it's a rather nice place to live and raise a family. Great amenities, pleasant(relatively) traffic, good roads, decent airport, quality schools, etc... there's plenty of compelling reasons to live there -
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
I love the article despite the partisan political bickering on the tail end. There's more common ground available on these issues from Trump's right wing supporters than what might appear so at first. There's an artfully cons
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Federal lawmakers aren't capable of NOT insider trading.
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Many of you haven't noticed yet, but contemporary AAA devs realized years ago how much easier to make something compulsive than compelling and substituted addiction for fun, taking inspiration from slot machines and abandoning past mas
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
You'd pursue this despite acknowledging that the target of your spite would escape unscathed? I don't believe polite words can describe depravity that deliberate. Your proposal isn't a tax, it's an impotent tantrum beref
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
That idea isn't possible. First problem is stocks aren't easily liquidable at scale. Lets' think on the scale of the individual first: say this hypothetical person has 50 grand in stock options from their company. It's n
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
>The real issue is government having a monopoly on tax revenue and not pushing a penny far enough. I definitely agree with this but is it even possible to incentivize that? Sometimes I wish we could put an honest "I" in IRS and
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Just earlier this week I was talking about this concept over drinks with my uncle, who has a PHD in Economics. - though I didn't mean to imply that the entire tax gets offloaded downstream. That was clumsy. My point is that taxing corp
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
The curtain drew back when the established Wall Street players, powers, and entities undeniably colluded in plain view to shut down trade during the Gamestop debacle, revealing just how unhealthy, manipulated, and unfair the NYSE really is
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
The unfortunate truth about corporate taxes is they're not really possible. There are two possible outcomes. 1. The business cannot absorb the levied tax into its overhead and shuts down. Production and operations cease. Said business
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
I appreciate your comment though I disagree with what seems to be your interpretation of dominion. Good lord I love this board, people actually converse. I upvoted you too, though I take issue with a couple of your points. I don't beli
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Eating horse paste is a desperate measure taken by people struggling to maintain dominion over their healthcare decisions. Most patients who've taken matters into their own hands and gone yay for the neigh would have much rather taken
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
I like it but the proposal either needs to be more persuasive toward universities' limitations or those institutions need to be allowed to fail and be replaced with something more aligned with a university's mission. Generally, un
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by BirdPlusPlus 5y ago
Well said. Incumbents "Industrial Incumbents" You didn't patent that did you?