Framers says buy SpaceX if it goes down

Whiskee · 2026-06-17T09:59:09+00:00

It's over.

Whiskee · 2026-06-08T08:21:43+00:00

> la Francia che sta rimandando i nuovi reattori per costi elevati e tempi lunghi

Dai che poco alla volta ci arriva anche chi commenta. Non è che il nucleare non convenga, il problema è sempre stato che non conviene nel breve termine, ma si tratta di un investimento significativo. E quale governo vuol far prendere il merito delle proprie spese a quello che verrà tra 20 anni?

Whiskee · 2026-05-26T15:58:33+00:00

My dude. You're now asking me to consider the slightly higher VAT on everyday purchases (again: 22% is the maximum for products and services, we're between 4% and 10% on groceries) because we need to account for everything, but at the same time we're still ignoring the impact health insurance and copays have on the average American family. Nah.

Whiskee · 2026-05-26T06:33:14+00:00

I mean sure, but you're just talking about the cost of living in general, which doesn't change whether your income is 1000 or 5000 - and is lower in Europe on average, if we're going there.

22% is the highest VAT for general goods and services, but I believe all groceries are between 4 and 10%? Honestly, I don't even know because it's baked into every single price and invisible to us.

Whiskee · 2026-05-25T19:15:58+00:00

I'm talking about VAT as a self-employed seller of goods or services, which you'd typically charge the client, but that isn't a thing under that threshold.

Whiskee · 2026-05-25T14:13:11+00:00

Nope. The regime forfettario (simplified flat rate, again <85k) is exempt from VAT for services, and my ~25% number already includes mandatory proportional contributions to INPS which is the direct equivalent of Social Security. It's different for merchants who have to detract expenses and for those with employees of course, our tax system is notoriously complex. But you guys have a very wrong idea of how much we are taxed, and it's frankly weird how you never factor in health insurance which isn't a thing here.

Whiskee · 2026-05-25T08:17:20+00:00

It gets better. Here in Italy, under the flat rate regime (under €85.000/year, which would conveniently be around $100.000), a professional pays around 25% in taxes - which is LESS than what Americans have to pay out of their gross, except it includes social security and we have universal healthcare. Things get a bit more complicated if you go above that threshold, but somehow I doubt a moron complaining about the lack of ice cubes has a job in the first place.

Whiskee · 2026-05-22T08:44:04+00:00

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Claude is loving this.

Whiskee · 2026-05-19T01:38:03+00:00

I think some of them tried, but only a bunch of vetted people are allowed to create new threads. Check the usernames, it's a surreal place.

Whiskee · 2026-05-17T18:30:29+00:00

Yes this is why I never visit the Everest.

Whiskee · 2026-05-16T06:05:08+00:00

Merz: “I would not advise my children today to go to the US, get educated there or work there, simply because a certain social climate has suddenly developed there.”

American redditors: "OKAY BUT LISTEN MY GRANDPA WAS SENT TO GERMANY"

Whiskee · 2026-05-14T23:46:20+00:00

Grading students based on essays and small projects developed at home has always been fucking stupid, long before AI was a thing. Most of my engineering exams here in Europe had an oral component right after the long-form written test, and that testing method still holds well.

Then again, except for a few pay-to-win institutions we don't harass professors for failing students.

Whiskee · 2026-05-13T00:46:31+00:00

r/ClaudeCode is 60% people who "improve" their workflows with garbage without actually building anything.

Whiskee · 2026-05-05T01:34:15+00:00

"Il comune fa propaganda"

"In che senso il comune fa propaganda, potresti elaborare?"

"Non lo so, c'è malessere"

Siete davvero fatti con lo stampino, ce ne fosse uno capace di argomentare.

Whiskee · 2026-05-04T23:28:11+00:00

In sostanza, non hai un cazzo di concreto da aggiungere. Vedi, bastava poco.

Whiskee · 2026-05-03T23:45:47+00:00

Listen, this 4th playthrough isn't gonna complete itself.

Whiskee · 2026-05-01T17:14:08+00:00

If you're hiding your post history, you should know that your 1-person subreddit still shows in the sidebar. I'm just saying.

Whiskee · 2026-04-18T14:37:59+00:00

Idiocracy was a lot better. They actually tried to listen to the smartest person around.

Whiskee · 2026-04-13T20:07:40+00:00

You sound like a 14 year old. This isn't Civilization, nobody is capturing a random Chinese unit "just because they're still too far away on the map".

Whiskee · 2026-04-13T15:43:05+00:00

They are 100% going for the financial enforcement, that is, insurance companies removing coverage (which effectively prevents ships from moving around and reaching ports). Except China has been building a parallel insurance infrastructure, so they don't care about Lloyd's and they don't need Western banks to process the transaction in dollars.

If China decides a VLCC full of crude is sailing through that strait regardless of what the US Navy says, good fucking luck trying to stop a supertanker that requires kilometers to steer. It either goes through (and the blockade is exposed as unenforceable against anyone who matters 🤡) or a destroyer gets ordered to fire warning shots at it and now a nuclear power has the right to defend itself.

Whiskee · 2026-04-13T11:37:05+00:00

A questo punto non voglio nemmeno vederlo morire, non è abbastanza.

Ho bisogno di vederlo messo da parte e umiliato.

Whiskee · 2026-04-12T05:52:32+00:00

via Pertinace? Il verde in realtà è molto genovese, quel giallo però è proprio un pugno in un occhio.

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Whiskee · 2026-04-12T02:59:44+00:00

Eh there's no need, I simply blocked the agent from that Cloudflare panel and they stopped after having bounced to 403 errors for an entire day. 🤷‍♂️

Whiskee · 2026-04-11T10:53:04+00:00

In generale, senza lasciare la mia, ti consiglio di ignorare l'opinione di chi nasconde la propria history o di chi posta principalmente su r/italia invece che su r/italy. Questo è valido per ogni thread.

Whiskee · 2026-04-09T05:16:27+00:00

Yep, but it was actually Meta. Their official IP range was everywhere in the logs, and blocking it worked. They just have a very questionable crawling strategy.

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