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@taiwan_girl said in Tax the Rich, Trump edition, 2025:

Is income considered all monies coming in, or just from work? Because I think most rich people - the yearly money comes from other than a "salary"

All realized gains.

She’s 10 seconds away from a finger snap…

Comeon, guys… Focus on what’s important… A new Pontiff was selected to lead the spiritual lives of over a billion lives… And to bless the Terrible Towel…

I seem to recall somebody on here that liked The Expanse, both the novels and the TV Series.

I wish I could remember who that person was so I could tell them that the writer’s new series “The Captive’s War” has just been picked up by Amazon Prime to develop a series… the first novel was really good, too. I wish I could remember who it was, but I’m not as good at thread necromancy as @George-K

I seem to recall somebody on here saying Trump was a Clinton era Democrat…

@jon-nyc said in What to wear?:

It does seem like one last opportunity to embarrass him. Rent an actual clown suit.

I’ve got the Jumper for Thursday. Friday’s about him…

@Doctor-Phibes said in What to wear?:

I need a link and can they deliver by next Friday…

So Luke graduates next Friday. What’s appropriate attire for the parents at an outdoor ceremony? Blazer and slacks? Or can I get by with just a collared shirt and slacks?

@jon-nyc said in Elon’s report card:

My guess is this little fact alone will mean Doge’s net effect will have been to increase the deficit.

And I don’t mean the entire Trump admin with his big beautiful bill, of course that will be a world historic deficit increase.

I mean just Doge.

They added 30K new positions between 2023 and the end of Biden’s term. Now, all of those weren’t auditors, but quite a few were.

I’m not entirely sure that it’s even necessary when considering Canada, the EU, et al have their own energy saving regulations that match up, Whirlpool is not going to suddenly start building with entirely different components that are more of energy hogs just for the US…

Another argument that could be made is that it might allow a little grace to for a new manufacturer in the US to start building with less regulations. It would also allow them to build a “less smart” appliance with fewer chips and such…

It effectively removes the energy star tax credit, though.

Oddly enough, they show a net income of $400M. Did they sell assets last year?

@Mik said in Rainy day Bolognese:

Funny - we’re having Bolognese again

Fortunately, we have a statesman and a diplomat leading the nation and the free world. I’m confident in his ability to…

Is it time to move drinking from an avocation to a full time vocation?

You know, I’ve never really cared for bolognese. The flavor is good, but everything is minced and reduced too much. I love a penne paste with a chunky tomato sauce with big ol’ chunks of onion, garlic, sausage, peppers, chicken, asparagus, etc… I like the penne ant the tomatoes binding everything together, but each and every bite is a little different… I have some Italian sausage and chicken in the fridge, I think that might be tonight’s dinner…

@Mik said in A troon was working the counter at a gas station today…:

You need to share that with its employer.

Oh yeah.

Older guy in front of me was having all kinds of problems processing it, and screwed up and called him sir… Kid starts mouthing off. Me and the guy behind me put our packages down, walked the old guy out to his car, and all left.

@jon-nyc said in Egg price watch:

One risk is that people who travel internationally realize ‘you don’t have to refrigerate eggs’. But you do have to refrigerate US eggs.

I often mention this if I’m at an immigrant’s house and see their egg on the counter. They usually ignore me thinking I’m being an overly precious American.

We actually normally have a few eggs on the counter. Friends with a farm… We don’t get enough to meet all our needs, so normally buy eggs at the regular grocer, too. We use those for baking/cooking ingredients and use the farm fresh for eating…

Because it had nothing to do with the increased costs. The cost of transportation and refrigeration has been baked into the price for generations. The only way to point to transport as a factor is if the fuel price increased. Now, if we had just switched to this sanitation method, the. You could point to it.

TMI…

@jon-nyc said in Your Oldest Friend?:

9th grade.

In the last year of my father’s life his cousin visited with a childhood friend of theirs that lived not far from where my dad was living at the time (with my sister in Arlington).

This guy and my dad hadn’t seen each other in 72 years. From 8 to 80.

How do you even catch up?

You don’t catch up, but you do find common ground and stories.

When I was 5, my best friends were my cousins, 4-6. He was exactly 1 year to the day younger than me and she was 1 year and a week older. We were friends into our early teens, when they moved to Texas in the 80s, and we lost touch. We tried to reconnect 15 years ago when social media made the world smaller, but he found out about my extreme anti-US labor views (he had become an executive in the AFL-CIO, how ludicrous is that?) and decided he wanted nothing to do with me. His wife died of cancer 2 years later, and he committed suicide a few months later.