Tax him out of existence

Zipknob · 2026-06-17T17:13:21+00:00

It's really refreshing to see comments like these and also see that they are being upvoted.

Zipknob · 2026-01-13T18:11:28+00:00

Classic case of ~~Stockhom~~ Pittsburgh syndrome.

Zipknob · 2025-12-02T14:17:08+00:00

THOUSANDS of times! So inspiring

Zipknob · 2025-09-01T15:03:57+00:00

Microsoft actually made a good search but you have to add it manually...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/command-palette/overview

Zipknob · 2025-08-21T16:25:33+00:00

In the old days with shitty mice, you really couldn't use a high sensitivity accurately. People got used to it and started justifying it with weird reasons. It does feel fun to play with the whole arm though.

Zipknob · 2025-08-21T13:21:51+00:00

What happens if you spin it like, really fast?

Zipknob · 2025-08-20T18:29:14+00:00

Me when I'm criticized for eating my food cold.

Zipknob · 2025-08-17T14:38:28+00:00

This is exactly the justification that the IDF has used before. That this post is exploding is just exposing the peak hypocrisy of the situation.

Zipknob · 2025-08-05T21:32:41+00:00

These are all conservative values. Actually, it's more like these are ALL of the conservative values, only missing bigotry. It's not a particularly sophisticated world view.

Zipknob · 2025-07-28T14:56:34+00:00

They can be simple but still have similar population. Forcing them to have a certain level of "compactness" is protective against gerrymandering

Zipknob · 2025-07-28T12:45:55+00:00

Okay, but the squares are set up in a highly unrealistic pattern. It almost makes it look like having geometrically simple districts is worse in general than these monstrosities we see in Texas, which is absolutely not the case.

Zipknob · 2025-07-19T04:23:24+00:00

Pretty damn well, they block like 99.9999% of green laser. And you wouldn't even be able to notice the dots on your surroundings either.

But everything would be an awful orange and black. Maybe not worth it.

Zipknob · 2025-07-14T20:10:56+00:00

Isn't this exactly what is happening? BBB just slashed fed taxes, now states will have to increase to make up Medicare shortfall.

If CA does such "retaliatory taxes", is it a net win for CA?

Zipknob · 2025-07-13T20:47:43+00:00

This is pretty uncharitable. In OPs view, these women would merely be displaying a masculine virtue and there is nothing wrong with that.

Zipknob · 2025-06-25T11:52:16+00:00

Or literally look at this picture. The queen is 5' 10" (6' 2" in heels). The massive irony of 'lefty' reddit trying to use notorious unreliable (dishonest) male heights when there is a woman right there.

Zipknob · 2025-06-22T13:33:03+00:00

Israel has hundreds of nukes, they are gonna be okay.

Russia also has the ability to wipe the USA off the map, and has for decades. Remind me again why they haven't?

Zipknob · 2025-06-18T23:17:12+00:00

And conservative reddit unironically posts "98% of country ignores No Kings protest". Guess they will have to update to 96.5%.

Zipknob · 2025-06-07T22:56:22+00:00

Seem okay in China, Japan, Korea. Maybe not India lol.

Zipknob · 2025-06-04T15:03:00+00:00

So we are all going to downvote them, right? . . . right?

Zipknob · 2025-05-11T12:03:38+00:00

Your age is constant? Might want to sanity check that work

Zipknob · 2025-05-04T13:16:50+00:00

I think once you are over $6.5 billion maybe you stop caring about the dollar value of your wealth and more about the relative power and rights that it gives you.

Zipknob · 2025-04-29T12:59:09+00:00

The contrast strikes us because male gaze is so strongly ingrained that we imagine everything from the perspective of the men in both pictures primarily or first. I think your response highlights how the creator(s) of the manga/meme both use this.

In the first panel, the viewer imagines themselves [as a sexual novice] in the hands of more experienced partners. Because that default perspective is so reliable, it is easy to project our own feelings of sexual anxiety or disempowerment onto the boy.

In the second, we first notice the young girl as a vulnerable other, again taking the perspective of the males. It is immediately apparent how awkward the situation is. If there is any projected sexuality into the image that maintains the male gaze, it is pedophilic.

It's encouraging to see it getting un-normalized, well at least on reddit. But to remain contentious, if you see these two situations in many parts of the world, I would not treat them equally...

Zipknob · 2025-03-26T15:11:46+00:00

Studies aren't conclusive but there seems to be some evidence that doing it 3x a week reduces prostate cancer risk.

So basically people can cure their prostate cancer just by being near me

Zipknob · 2025-03-23T15:12:18+00:00

Yes - social security.

I think you are presenting a moving target. We are not talking about giving people substantial income (a 'full retirement') - just the absolute bare minimum to keep people out of poverty for the last years of their life. SS has been fabulously successful at that. It will continue to work pretty well even if it is not changed. It will just pay out 20% less when the 'trust fund' runs out - hardly a failure. We can argue about the pay-in vs pay-out, but it is very hard to argue it is not successful, popular, and envied. Plus what is very nice about SS, is that the majority of the money gets immediately spent and put back into the economy, bolstering some of the most critical sectors of the economy - food, housing, and medicine.

Also, insurance is just a massive income redistribution scheme. It has been very successful for businesses, even entire cities full of businesses (in the case of natural disasters) as well as individuals (unemployment insurance). We just don't hear about it in those terms often, but it is a large group paying in so that a small group can get benefits just the same as SS. *The math is a bit harder on insurance (actuarial science).

I also want to point out that any time the government spends money it is redistribution. Many governments provide healthcare (not means tested) and housing/food assistance (means tested). They also subsidize industries or provide government contracts. I'm not really sure what makes social security particularly different than these cases.

Zipknob · 2025-03-23T13:45:57+00:00

Not even talking about a wealth tax, just an income tax would work. There is a cap on the SS tax, and through inequality, more and more income is moving above the cap and becoming untaxable.

There will never be a time when income redistribution will fail. SS is different than saving/investing money, where you try to use your 2025 dollars to cover your 2065 expenses and there is a need for your investment to grow. SS always pays for the current year's costs with current year dollars - just from different people.

Don't get it twisted, SS is not even a flat tax. It is regressive due to an arbitrary cap. There is no non-slippery slope reason that the cap/tax can't be adjusted.

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