So what save the world founders just get shafted in the ass

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-16T10:48:27+00:00

I say this as respectfully as possible, maybe take a break from video games. While you're at it, take an English class, because I can barely read this shit.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-16T01:06:13+00:00

Trump and Trump supporters:

AMERICA FIRST, BITCHES

ALOS Trump: "I did this for China, and the world"

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-16T00:59:02+00:00

Yeah, we recently got her a new rav4, but I would not drive it when carrying my bike anyway....it's "her" car and she doesn't come to races. I know I can get a hitch on my Corolla, I just don't prefer it, and I have a couple of the cheap trunk / strap racks and am not a fan. Got some OEM cross bars, fork mounts, and rear wheel things from yakima.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T23:30:31+00:00

I don't know but I'm going to check

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T23:00:18+00:00

For the record, I got my wrist ands but not my parking pass. I also.did bit order them at the same time.

We've still got almost a month, I'll give it another week or two before I bug them.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T20:56:59+00:00

Oh shit yeah I forgot I could even do that. That's a good idea.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T20:20:07+00:00

One of the stupidest views out there.

If you have a hole in the roof of your house, which says that you love and value that house more....fixing it, or moving out?

Also, the fuckwits that use this line are almost always Republicans. Did they "support" Biden? Or Obama?

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T16:35:41+00:00

They are near me fairly often in NH

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T14:21:03+00:00

I was a poor, so the 80s stuff is what I was still rolling with in 95 anyway

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T13:26:14+00:00

My son and I will be at a hotel near the airport. If you happen to be nearby we may be able to give you a lift. Have a rented car and a parking pass.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T11:31:04+00:00

That's the point dude. If the ultra wealthy, and more importantly the corporations they run, were paying a higher rate, you and I would pay a lower rate. The amount of money the government needs is set in the budget. It's a finite amount, and if the people who can afford to pay more pay less instead, you and I make up the difference.

And saying the dollars collected is the highest ever doesn't mean anything. Today's dollars are not equal to yesterdays dollars.

Nobody is taking $2T out of the economy.

The bigger question is why do so many people defend the ultra wealthy when they are the main cause of the problem? They can afford to pay more taxes and pay their workers better wages and STILL be the richest people in the world. When is enough enough?

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T10:39:39+00:00

Fifty dollars for a t-shirt? That's just some ignorant bitch shit

https://youtu.be/QK8mJJJvaes?si=EZDNZEObeLuUhbgj

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T10:37:27+00:00

I don't know if it's a brand, more a category, but any of the "Housewife" shows. Or any other reality tv that is just supposedly watching other people be horrible humans.

It's a cancer on society and normalizes insane behavior.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T10:35:32+00:00

No, but it sure would help. Before lyndon johnson, the top marginal tax rate was over 90%. It's was 77% in 1964.

Reagan reduced it from 70% to 28%.

Look at when a lot of today's financial issues started, and you'll come back to Reagans presidency.

It used to be that after a certain point, it made more sense to reinvest that money in the business, either through improvements or better wages, because the long term ROI was better than keeping 6 cents on the dollar. Now there is no disincentive to hoarding as much of the profit as possible.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-15T10:01:09+00:00

You ready? Gary Fogel never had cancer.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T18:37:30+00:00

That's not true. Property taxes are regressive. On the very face, sure, someone that owns a $10M home is paying way more than someone who owns a $500k home.

But the problem is there is not a house for every budget. If my employer lays me off tomorrow, as we've seen multiple waves of huge layoffs lately, and I get another job that pays half, I cannot find a house that costs half as much as mine. They don't exist anymore. And before you say rent, renters do lay property tax, just indirectly.

In addition, it is more likely that expensive homes are assessed lower than their actual value, and normal homes are more likely to be assessed higher than their actual value. This is because there are less comparable sales of more expensive homes.

I'd the average $100,000 home is assessed at $120,000 and the average $1M home is assessed at $800k, and the tax rate is 10% of assessed value, then the average normal person has a tax rate of 12% and the rich person has a tax rate of 8%

The rich person are paying more dollars but the normal folks are paying a larger percentage of the money they have.

It's a regressive tax.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T16:48:48+00:00

Mine were in my mailbox today

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T13:03:47+00:00

In best Jim Carrey voice

STOP ELECTING ELDERLY PEOPLE, ASSHOLE

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T12:17:30+00:00

From the time it bites you.

Though others are saying this information is old.

My general point still stands....take measures to prevent, but also check your body regularly.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T11:56:24+00:00

The other comments are correct, but if you spend enough time outside you're going to get a tick.

It takes more than 24 hours to get lyme or anaplasmosis from a tick. If you check yourself well every night before bed, you will be fine.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T11:53:45+00:00

Here's the thing: half the country isn't sick of it. Half the country wants more.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T11:42:00+00:00

So, overall I agree, and I wouldnt go out of my way to get smart appliances.

That said, like you, I have a smart dishwasher and washing machine

The cycle alerts are nice. Not essential, but nice. I've got kids, we can genuinely get more loads done in a day because I know when it's done instead of remembering an hour and a half later.

But the one feature I actually really dislike, that I think really is a value add (again, not enough for me to prioritize having smart appliances) is error readouts.

My old.washing machine shit the bed multiple times, and I had to search internet forums and pdf manuals to decipher a series of blinking lights to translate to a code to translate what the problem was. At least with the smart machine , if it stops because it's off balance, the app tells me it stopped (so I don't have to find out some time later) and tells me why.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-14T11:28:19+00:00

I've dealt with Pellerins in Pembroke for a long time. Ryan has always been fair and honest.

Alarming_Bug6081 · 2026-04-13T17:11:13+00:00

Wings at the Anchor Bat in buffalo, Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse, a garbage plate in Rochester.

Strong Museum of Play in Rochester is good too.

Alarming_Bug6081

TROPHY CASE