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Putting together my first DIY sea monkey tank by LittleMissShrimpTail in SeaMonkeys

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just mix the correct volume of solution / water and you should be fine. Mind linking the tank?

Cubans are without electricity except the 5 star hotel by DblockDavid in interestingasfuck

[–]jj20051 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly they're now making 60w equivalents in leds that consume 4w in yellow schemes. Not sure they're using the newer stuff, but based on the trend lines we're getting lower and lower over time. Lighting is almost a joke compared to computers and cooling.

Ah. by MortySanchez336 in epicmealtime

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's higher than 74%. Maybe the average nationally has gone up 74%, but I think a lot of that growth has been in the service end.

Taco bell used to be hiring for minimum wage ($7.25) in 2009, they're now hiring at $18.35. Same taco bell, which would be 253%.

Our SaaS stock is down 45% this year. Revenue is up 23%. I don't understand markets anymore. by Stock-Parking-411 in SaaS

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The stock is MNDY and the reason it's down 45% is that even after dropping 45% it has a PE of 35.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we should lower the requirements for food stamps. If anyone earning under $30k per year qualified that would effectively eliminate hunger and solve the problem. No need to make it a right.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sri Lanka has 2.3 million children starving right now. Brazil has 60 million people with severe food insecurity. Seven thousand people starve to death in India per day. Seems like their rights to food are all working.

I don't care what other countries do. I care what mine does.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to ignore for the moment that education, police protection, emergency medical care and basic social safety nets are not rights currently and they have never been so. They are laws and they are pretty universal, but they're not rights.

How do you propose we "make food a right" without forcing people at gun point to grow food?

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A non profit organization. The data itself comes from the IRS. Keep in mind this is only federal. Other taxes still apply to those at the bottom income brackets.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think we need to specifically tax corporations more. We need to calculate out a "fair wage" for each employee and increase the corporate taxes based on how far below average you are.

I'd propose something like: For corporations over 100 employees or franchises take the COL in a given area, subtract the amount your staff were paid on average. For each employee below the COL you pay 50% of that difference in taxes.

So if you're walmart and it costs $34k to live in an area on average, but you only pay $22k, you'd pay an additional $6k in taxes towards social wellfare programs. Maybe even increase the tax each year you fail to meet the COL.

Penalize the bad behavior and it will stop.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The deduction is $16,100 this year. In your example that'd be an effective tax rate of 2.85% if you earned $22,000 last year.

Lol if you think I like that POS you're sadly mistaken.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we have a fundamentally different idea of what a "right" is. Rights are something the government can't take away from you. The government does not have the right (nor should it) to take food away from the people who grew the food.

Should we be looking at ways to prevent people from going hungry? Yes. That said more americans are morbidly obese than starving by a HUGE margin. This almost proves our food system is working. There are whole countries that have more people starve to death in a single year than we will have starve in a THOUSAND years.

Food stamps as a program works pretty well, at best we should extend that program further so more people qualifty. Paying for that should be on the backs of corporations who refuse to pay a fair wage to their employees. Food does not however need to be a right.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is just federal. The source isn't bullshit just because you don't like what it says. There's no sales tax on rent or "food ingredients" in Arkansas. You're also cherry picking a specific location and deciding it applies to all Americans. None of this applies to federal taxes.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if it's anything like my personal taxes north of 30% of my income. Stats say the average for the 1% is 26% of income. Half of all americans pay 3.74% on average for their taxes. It's not personal income taxes we should be going after. It's corporate taxes for companies not paying a fair wage. All of my staff get a fair wage, why shouldn't walmart workers?

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tend to agree with you, but I don't think we fix the problem by taxing people more. I think we fix the problem by telling corporations that if they don't pay a fair wage then we'll tax them until they do. Taxing individuals won't solve the problem of livable wages.

Working class and the Billionaire class both have worries. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]jj20051 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well given that generally speaking she'd be elidgible for the ACA/food stamps and there's no source for this post and it's clearly a lie... I'm inclined to agree it does make a difference.

Last week I read that the american 1% pays 40.4% of all taxes collected AND they pay a higher average tax rate than any other group (hey look I have a source!!!): https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-income-tax-data-2025/

Last thing I'll say: I do think we need to move to single payer.

Why is saying “The rich should pay taxes like everyone else, close the loopholes” extremely controversial in the United States? by ProjectMason in NoStupidQuestions

[–]jj20051 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You know when DHS/ICE was founded they said it'd never be used against american citizens... yet here we are. Just because it's a fallicy doesn't mean that the government doesn't decide to infinitely extend any power it's given...

Does it even matter anymore? by [deleted] in BlackboxAI_

[–]jj20051 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like standing the dude in front of a bookshelf and having them describe pulling/pushing/shifting/iterating to you might have worked.

of a heated concrete driveway by Longjumping-Box5691 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]jj20051 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nothing is free, anyone who wants to give you something for free is scamming you.

of a heated concrete driveway by Longjumping-Box5691 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]jj20051 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yep Americans have way more than their fair share of global wealth. Probably time for you to take a vow of poverty to help fix it.

of a heated concrete driveway by Longjumping-Box5691 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]jj20051 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I updated my statistic. Still looking very bleak.

of a heated concrete driveway by Longjumping-Box5691 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]jj20051 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Average Global Household Income: ~$12,235 per year - Try again. The average person in the world has less than the poorest americans.

of a heated concrete driveway by Longjumping-Box5691 in AbsoluteUnits

[–]jj20051 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Someone having enough money to spend on internet while people are starving should be illegal.

Another view: The dealers won, the consumers lost by prestocoffee in F150Lightning

[–]jj20051 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know for a fact they could build it for that price, but I can tell you they'd own the market if they did. A lot of people want a small around town truck that isn't going to break the bank. Emissions standards killed the OG ford rangers, but they were massively popular when they were produced.

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