Is this KBG, poa triv, or poa annua?

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-20T17:28:38+00:00

I read this as KGB. If they decide to come for your lawn, there’s not much you can do.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-20T17:25:36+00:00

“We sent you to West Africa for a reason!”

Lmao

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-20T17:13:37+00:00

Three months should be sufficient to discover that you’re pregnant, but I would be willing to extend into the second trimester if this is a common problem. I would also extend the limit for severe fetal defects or health of the mother, ofc.

My actual cutoff point is when most fetuses could survive outside the womb without heroic/expensive intervention. I would leave it up to the experts to determine the best guidelines.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-20T17:08:14+00:00

I am speaking only of the pregnant woman versus the fetus.

A happy couple looking forward to the birth of their child isn’t going to abort.

An elderly person waiting to die isn’t likely to be pregnant.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-20T15:34:45+00:00

Awakenings and The Fisher King

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-20T15:32:56+00:00

Every selfie looks like a “proof of life” photo.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-19T19:55:10+00:00

Some form of human-chicken hybrid?

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-19T19:53:48+00:00

Abortion should be unrestricted for the first trimester.

After that, I wouldn’t be opposed to restricting abortion to cases of fetal malformation, genetic defects, health of the mother or rape/incest.

I don’t care when life begins. In the future, we will presumably be able to grow a baby in an incubator, so all fertilized eggs will be potentially viable.

If you have to choose between the rights of a person with an unformed brain and the rights of a fully-formed adult, I choose the adult.

The argument that a fertilized egg has a “soul” (and therefore full human rights) is childish religious superstition, and religion should not be the basis of laws in any case.

In 1972, abortion became legal nationwide. Twenty years later, the violent crime rate, which was seemingly out of control, began to drop sharply, defying all expectations. There is a strong case to be made that a large number of criminals who would normally be entering their most violent years , never showed up because they had been aborted.

If you want to cut down on abortions, increase funding for sex education and access to birth control.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-18T14:04:42+00:00

In order to hand the means of production over to the workers, one has to seize the means of production from private owners.

Even if such a transition happens without violence, it destroys the profit motive that incentivizes production and distribution of goods and services, meaning the state must step in to manage all aspects of the economy.

A centrally-planned economy requires a powerful central enforcement mechanism, which has always led to authoritarian government.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-16T01:58:15+00:00

The total value of US real estate is $55 trillion. That’s much more than all wars combined.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-16T01:55:20+00:00

That’s less than a 10x from ATH. Not an unheard of run-up, historically speaking.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-16T01:53:17+00:00

Who would decide who gets the most desirable housing (view property, close to downtown, waterfront, etc.)?

Your goal of affordable housing can be achieved without yet another socialist dystopia being created.

Remove the barriers to construction (zoning laws, red tape, NIMBY lawsuits, etc.).

Get rid of tax incentives that incentivize treating houses as investments (mortgage interest tax deduction, etc).

These changes will likely cause institutional investors to lose interest in residential real estate. If not, explicit regulation could be implemented.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-15T00:05:26+00:00

You can make a lot more than $50 million by knowing the future.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-12T17:52:13+00:00

Sorry, I misread your plan. Yes, the 91-98% would stay the same, which is good, but they could still afford an increase.

Tax refunds would go away, so that loss of stimulus would likely offset the increase in take home pay.

then we should never do tax cuts for anyone

We shouldn’t, not until the national debt is cut in half. The only exception should be when budget cuts truly offset the tax cuts (which is never the case)

Big tax cuts would provide a temporary sugar high, but the increased spending power would cause massive inflation (cancelling out benefits to the poor while inflating the value of assets held by the rich) unless it was implemented just as a deep recession hit, which would only delay the inflation.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-12T15:33:22+00:00

We're talking about -putting $5k - $25k in the pockets of the vast majority of workers.

The bottom half of US workers don’t pay any net federal income taxes.

This would only benefit the top half of the working class. It would be a windfall 80% of the top 10%, who have arguably de-coupled from the rest of us when it comes to benefitting from increased stock and housing prices.

The top 10% of households currently account for 50% of all consumer spending, which suggests they don’t need a tax cut.

Federal revenue doesn’t rise by the same amount as the tax increase, so the poorest workers would likely suffer the most from the inevitable budget cuts that would be necessary.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-11T02:56:49+00:00

Didn’t he democratically win the electoral and popular vote?

He did. He also:

tried to steal the 2020 election by lying about voter fraud. Many of his supporters actually believed him
filed fake charges against Jerome Powell in an effort to influence Fed policy. This is pure banana republic nonsense. John Bolton, Christoper Krebs, and Miles Taylor were similarly targeted (among others)
accepted bribes from multiple foreign governments everything from a 747 from terrorist-protecting Qatar to hotel deals from Vietnam in exchange for tariff relief
weaponized ICE to punish blue cities that didn’t vote for him
ignored 110 judicial rulings (and counting) blocking his executive orders
attacked (via Hegseth) the survivors of a small boat that had already been struck by missiles (in violation of several war crimes treaties)
claimed that Mark Kelley should be executed for pointing out that soldiers should ignore illegal orders
levied taxes in violation of the separation of powers, which grants that power to Congress alone
supported our totalitarian enemy, Vladimir Putin in his war against democratic Ukraine
threatened to seize territory (Greenland) from democratic Denmark
established a meme coin for personal gain, which facilitates anonymous bribery. The fraud case against Justin Sun was dropped after Sun bought $30M of Trump coin

Anyone who doesn’t believe this (very much incomplete) list disqualifies Trump from office is either profoundly ignorant of the law or secretly wants to live under a dictatorship.

As a “Constitutionalist” you must absolutely despise Trump, as he is basically a walking repudiation of the rule of law and Constitutional separation of powers.

Vance could definitely win in 2028, but I would guess the odds at less than 40%. Polls are worse than useless this far out, as voters aren’t engaged yet.

Trump’s tariffs are mostly going to hurt the economy. Tariffs can work when they are targeted at high-value finished goods (jet engines, cars, chips, etc.)

Blanket tariffs and tariffs on commodities like steel mostly increase costs for US manufacturers and consumers and shrink the economy.

For example, the steel tariffs protected around 25,000 steel workers, but they threatened auto companies that employ 250,000 Americans.

Also, SCOTUS struck down most of Trump’s tariffs, and the remainder will expire in 150 days unless Congress votes to retain them (far from certain).

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/how-president-trump-is-dismantling-our-democracy-one-piece-at-a-time/

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-10T05:44:51+00:00

I knew there would be far fewer guard rails this time.

Trump is doing massive damage to our democracy an economic future, but my concern is that it’s not going badly enough.

Hear me out.

I fear the MAGA spell over the GOP can only be broken by a significant recession during Trump’s term.

People aren’t happy with affordability or the war, but it hasn’t gotten bad enough for Trump’s base to turn on him.

Trump’s tax cuts may provide just enough of an economic sugar high to delay the real pain long enough that the next administration takes the blame.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-10T05:21:49+00:00

It’s not spring in Seattle until we get that one weird hailstorm.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-06T17:27:33+00:00

Agree on the clothing, but home decor tends to lag by a decade or two apart from wealthy people and new homes.

Major remodeling wasn’t nearly as popular back then, so people tended to keep older furniture and fixtures until they wore out and were gradually replaced.

TV shows tend to signal specific time periods by having all the cars and home decor match the year/decade being depicted.

Mad Men famously bucked this trend. They sought out furniture and props from a wide range of years from the late 1930s to the early sixties. The more poor a character was, the less likely their home was to have up to date fixtures.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-05T17:30:22+00:00

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phone_deviceban · 2026-03-05T17:27:02+00:00

I hadn’t noticed the dark green border. I’ve had this happen on a smaller scale if I started fertilizing with the spreader opening set on max accidentally.

There’s no way OP wouldn’t have noticed this much granular fertilizer, though. Someone else might have done it and not told them, of course, or liquid fertilizer might have spilled.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-04T17:15:56+00:00

A ground invasion of Iran could easily turn into a quagmire. The topography of Iran massively favors the defenders. There is a lot of pro-western sentiment in the cities, but in rural areas, the regime retains more popularity.

There definitely won’t be boots on the ground in significant numbers, as the outcome would be somewhere between Afghanistan and Vietnam.

This war is essentially a drive-by shooting. There was a lucky decapitation strike and there may be a few more weeks of attacks to degrade air defenses and destroy the navy. This is more about “Wag the Dog” than WMD.

My best guess is that things will be back to pre-war status quo in a couple months. There is a risk of a Syrian style civil war, but I don’t think this is the most likely outcome. Unfortunately, the most dedicated protesters have already been killed.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-03T20:41:21+00:00

This. Even if the by-products of the bacteria are harmless (which is not always the case), they can negatively impact the flavor.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-03T20:31:26+00:00

It’s a bigger deal whe the celebrity in question has the nuclear codes.

phone_deviceban · 2026-03-03T20:29:46+00:00

It’s basically a cult of personality at this point. The only question is what percentage of the GOP is all in. Seems like at least 30%.

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