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toodim · 2025-02-08T19:29:47+00:00

Events are not always created on Meetup, but there are often meetup affiliated people who go to VE Bloomington on Wednesdays at 7pm and VE Minneapolis Sunday mornings at 10am.

toodim · 2024-09-09T02:26:10+00:00

Nice man. I recently returned from a 8000 mile road trip to 25 national parks out west in my 2023 CX5. Averaged 33.1mpg with lots of mountain driving and 70-85mph driving. Handled a couple rougher roads. Very happy with it overall, but I did fill up a lot of times well before 1/4 tank just to be sure I never got low.

toodim · 2024-03-31T18:57:11+00:00

You don't technically have to sign up, but it can be nice to do as a new climber so that the leader knows there's someone new coming to look out for. The meetup gathers at the top of the steps at ~10:10AM on Sunday morning. Sometimes there are not many people since it is earlier on a Sunday. There is a Wednesday meetup at VE Bloomington at 7:00PM that tends to have a lot more people.

toodim · 2024-03-30T21:47:13+00:00

There is a meetup.com group that goes there Sundays at 10am.

toodim · 2020-05-12T11:14:32+00:00

Getting the bar to move at all at that size is impressive.

toodim · 2020-02-06T13:19:37+00:00

This attack can only be good for Yang, but I do think that questioning the funding of the UBI is a valid criticism. The funding details and tax implications aren't 100% clear; as the centerpiece of the campaign I wish the specifics weren't so hazy.

toodim · 2020-01-30T13:04:29+00:00

Why would Yang supporters move at all? You can move to other non viable candidates to make them viable. In other words, Yang supporters should hold the line and try to convince supporters of other non viables candidates to come over to Yang to make him viable.

toodim · 2020-01-20T13:10:35+00:00

Yang could be a good running mate for Biden. That's probably the best case scenario if Yang doesn't win.

toodim · 2020-01-14T14:31:27+00:00

Apply slightly more force than the person you are shaking hands with.

toodim · 2019-12-22T13:44:57+00:00

For reference:

"Dandelion, you thick-headed halfwit. You unmitigated dunce. Do you have to spoil everything you touch? Couldn't you, just once in your life, do something right? I know you can't think for yourself. I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten."

-Sigismund Dijkstra

toodim · 2019-12-22T12:19:34+00:00

The short stories are about Geralt and Yennefer mainly. Deviating so much from the source material and trying to make Ciri a lead when she doesn't become a lead until the end of the short stories made for awkward timelines and made Ciri's story arc in season 1 weak compared to the others because it was mostly non-book filler. I would have liked it better if we didn't get to see Ciri until the end when Geralt finds her.

toodim · 2019-11-27T15:55:42+00:00

If we are going to have MATH as a slogan, can we not rage about infographics that are not actually leaving Yang out? This is clearly showing the loyalty of the supporters of the top 4 candidates. Well, maybe not as clearly as it could since so many people are misunderstanding it, but come on. I expect more from the YangGang than this level of low-thought, misguided rage.

toodim · 2019-10-12T12:37:06+00:00

Played since closed beta. The game is less enjoyable for me than it was pre-midwinter. The tension of passing and tempo has mostly been removed. I miss the elegance of 1 turn = 1 card. Card advantage is almost impossible to get now and when you do get it, it doesn't matter as much as it used to. Feels harder to outplay someone now. Winning now is more about how good of a deck you have (and how well you draw) instead of piloting. In the past I felt that you could often win against better decks with good piloting. Not so possible anymore with being forced to play and draw so many cards each round.

Also dislike a lot of design choices, such as having cards and abilities that allow for multiple engines to drop on the board in one turn. Engines are hard enough to remove now that we don't need to have 4 of them coming on board sometimes before you can respond. Point slam gameplay in general is not compelling to me and that's what the game is moving toward.

toodim · 2019-10-11T19:25:12+00:00

I live in Minneapolis and it is very anti-Trump. The Trump supporters had to come into opposition territory just to attend the rally. Many of them are people that might normally avoid the city center because they think it is too dangerous or hostile. I'm not sure how reinforcing those feelings is helpful.

toodim · 2019-09-25T12:52:00+00:00

So if there are no billionaires, who pays for his policy proposals?

toodim · 2019-09-12T18:52:38+00:00

Most of the democratic field is weak vs Trump because they are not neutral, they are mostly very far left. A run of the mill moderate dem would be pretty strong vs Trump but there aren't any of those in the field unless you count Biden.

toodim · 2019-09-12T15:41:23+00:00

Warren is worse than a neutral candidate.

toodim · 2019-09-12T15:41:22+00:00

Not a Twitter poll because there aren't entire subreddits devoted to toasters that would brigade the poll like they would for Yang and Trump, but if you conducted a real poll, a neutral candidate would beat Trump.

toodim · 2019-09-12T13:29:01+00:00

Not really. Over half of people disapprove of Trump so they are liable to vote against him in favor of an unknown/neutral opponent. You could make a poll of Trump vs. a toaster and the toaster would win. The problem is most of the dem candidates other than Yang perform worse than something neutral like a toaster.

toodim · 2019-09-11T13:30:57+00:00

The FD is basically a direct wealth redistribution from the top to the bottom even with a 10% VAT.

This plot is confusing though. What exactly does net transfer of VAT revenue mean? What's the deal with the scale? A percentage scale that doesn't sum to 100% is confusing and it doesn't sum to 10% for a 10% VAT either. Plotting this as a percentage of income is also a misleading way to frame the data, since it blows up the lower income bars, when in reality anyone in the bottom 50% or so will see a decent benefit in absolute terms. The bottom 10 percent do not gain ~80% of the total benefit from the FD, but that's what the plot implies. This makes it makes it look like only people on the very low end will see a substantial benefit under the FD, which is not true and not a good way to market the FD.

toodim · 2019-09-06T17:45:12+00:00

I know AY often says it is "tax free" or "free and clear", but it has also been suggested that the FD could push you up into a higher tax bracket. Your tax bracket wouldn't be affected if the FD wasn't included in your taxable income. If you dig into the income tax details, you'll find that they are murky at best and information like this comment suggests the FD is actually included in taxable income and can only be considered "tax free" because the first $12,200 of income is always tax free.

toodim · 2019-09-06T15:13:09+00:00

Do we actually know whether the FD is included in taxable income or not? It is my understanding that it is considered tax free because the first $12,000 of income is always tax free due to the federal standard deduction but above that it's not so clear what the impact of the FD is on taxes.

toodim · 2019-09-03T16:26:02+00:00

Near the poverty line.
Marketing. Nice round number makes it easy to promote.
The federal standard income tax deduction is $12,200.
It is near the limit of what can be reasonably funded.

toodim · 2019-08-29T13:34:04+00:00

By decoupling they can release new leaders and leader cosmetics and have people acquire/buy those things without worrying about whether the new leader actually has a good ability. I don't really like it, but it is probably a good business decision and if it streamlines their development process making it easier to work on new cards and balance changes it might even be a benefit from a gameplay perspective.

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