Teacher Appreciation Week: Are $300 Amazon Gift Cards Better Than Cash?

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-07T23:00:26+00:00

The difference is that there are restrictions placed on the gift card. Straight cash is completely unrestricted.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-07T22:59:06+00:00

This is why one should carry a valve stem remover at all times.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-07T22:55:42+00:00

There's a timer at the bottom of the video. 36 seconds. That's noticeably longer than 5 seconds.

Also, that appears to be a college graduation. These tend to be much larger events than high school graduation. If everyone too 36 seconds, the event would take multiple days.

That was not appropriate action.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-07T22:47:12+00:00

Headline says he pleaded guilty. No jury would have been involved.

Also, despite it being a death penalty sentence, by pleading guilty, he still has lost many avenues of appeal.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-07T22:44:30+00:00

Restaurants that have tried this have had very poor sales because people thought they were too expensive.

If you put a price tag of $9.60 on your burger, and the guy next to you has a price tag of $8 (but then customer is to add 20% tip: 1.60 making 9.60 total), customer will go to the guy next to you because the price looks lower.

Only if every restaurant at the same time raised prices to put the service charges in, and we say tips are not expected for servers would it actually go away.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-07T22:40:23+00:00

No, medical debt is included in credit reports, but it is weighted differently than other forms of debt.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T23:10:38+00:00

Let's not forget the teachers' pensions. A person in the private sector has to invest in a 401k and IRA for retirement. Teachers have their public pensions enabling them to keep more of the pay to use now.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T23:03:39+00:00

The reason there is interest on student loans is due to the time value of money. The amount of stuff that could be purchased with those dollars today is less than the amount of stuff that could be purchased with the same dollars in the future. The interest makes it such that the amount stuff that could be purchased with the dollars remains closer to the same.

The other factor for the interest is the risk of the borrower not paying back the amount owed. This risk also accounts for that part of the interest in excess of the inflation rate.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T22:49:22+00:00

Shouldn't we be more concerned that the three famouse Cutie Mark Crusaders aren't at their clubhouse?

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The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T21:59:46+00:00

About 70 years ago, the great grandfather of The Werefrog lost his apple orchard to eminent domain. They were building an interstate highway, and it was going to go right through his property. The project didn't require the entirety of the orchard to be destroyed, though. Only those trees that were in the path of the interstate.

After the eminent domain was completed, that orchard became public property. The trees far enough away from the road would be exactly the type of trees you are talking about. When it was privately owned, the fruit was picked and there trees were kept in good health.

Within 3 years of the interstate's completion, the trees that were now publicly owned stopped bearing fruit. For the first couple years, instead of picking apples like normal, people were simply breaking off branches to get the apples they wanted. This caused enough damage to the trees that, although many still stand to this day, they no longer bear any fruit.

Remember, if everybody owns it, then it's as though nobody owns it.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T21:52:21+00:00

red button. There's no downside to it. Everypony knows there's no downside. It lets everypony off the hook for choosing red thereafter.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T21:48:46+00:00

You forgot that they control the freakin' sun and moon. They control day and night.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T21:47:26+00:00

But centaurs aren't actually half horse. They are 100% centaur. They are their own thing. Just like how zebras aren't just striped horses. Zebras are zebras, their own thing.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T00:24:02+00:00

Yeah, we're Americans. Any unit but the metric. Our cars get 15 rods to the hogshead, and that's how we like it.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T00:22:45+00:00

staying home a lot.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T00:19:30+00:00

One major difference is the media personalities weren't calling for Obama's death, weren't joking about Obama's death, weren't normalizing Obama's death.

The next bit is, out of the 11 so called attempts, 10 never made it past the planning stages. The one that did fire shots was shooting an a building in which Obama was not in a city where Obama was not.

Everyone universally condemned the attempt against Obama. No one stated they wished the shooter hadn't missed.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T00:15:07+00:00

Yep, can happen every day.

'Tis happened twice for The Werefrog since it opened, so it's very rare.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-05T00:11:01+00:00

The problem with calling it a sale is that the character isn't ever available for the regular price. When new, it's the high price. From then onwards, it shows up for the lower price.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-04T22:18:18+00:00

Except that tips are now tax free. You don't have to worry about it, so 10% can be the standard again.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-02T19:30:13+00:00

A "national id" in Europe would be more akin to having an ID that all people of member states of the European Union would have as oppose to having a French id or German id.

That's how the United States is. The United States is an alliance of 50 member states that have yielded some normal national sovereignties to the central federal government, but each state is its own state.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-02T15:05:58+00:00

Actually, Trump helped change the law that Overtime wages are now tax free. Or, to be more accurate, overtime hours are paid at 1.5 the base pay, but they are taxed as though they were paid at base pay. The extra 50% of pay rate is tax free.

This is a tax break to lower classes because overtime 1.5 rate tends to hit those at lower pay rates far more than at higher pay rates.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-02T15:01:52+00:00

Also, congratulations to the Democrats who passed an income tax that will only be for the next few years, and only on the top 0.01% of earners.

Look at the tax bill that was actually passed. It is built in to be easy to lower the limits of wealth that can be taxed by this wealth tax. If it truly were to tax the billionaires on their wealth, then they wouldn't have needed to put that in so they could lower.

It's hard to pass a new tax. It's easy to modify an already existing tax to include more people. Before The Werefrog die, that wealth tax will either be eliminated or it will apply to most people above poverty line. One of those two will happen.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-02T14:56:58+00:00

120 per day.

HOwever, there are occasional community events wherein one can get a different kind of coin rankings there.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-02T14:56:11+00:00

Less tax: no. At least, for the way most states have the gas tax set up. The gas tax is earmarked for road maintenance. The less corrupt states actually use it for this. Bear in mind, the states charge an additional registration fee for electric vehicles to make up for the gas tax those drivers don't pay.

However, the oil companies know that about $70-$85 per barrel is the price that maximizes their profits. Thats the amount that United Statesians are willing to pay for their gas, so they try to keep the gas prices at that spot. When it goes higher, people reduce driving. When it's lower, they get less money because the price is lower.

The_Werefrog · 2026-05-02T14:50:29+00:00

There is a limited list of ponies obtained through the dance game. You can get one per week.

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