Take a slice of white bread and a single slice of American cheese. Microwave just long enough to make the cheese slightly burn… the phase just after bubbly will get harder when it cools. Top with hot sauce or spicy ketchup… but not too much. If you can find it, there is an Indian curry spruced ketchup that is awesome.

I did… that was the part about extracting value from a dying industry.

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Progressive taxes are not the same as ‘progressive’ in terms of social politics.

Progressive taxes are how our tax brackets work. The more you make, the more you pay. This is them saying private companies will use progressive taxation as their model for pricing goods.

I’ve been playing the Zelda series since the original NES game in the 80s. BOTW and TOTK are some of my favorites.

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Insurance companies give people discounts based on driving habits good driving habits, like the lack of speeding and hard braking… which can be determined by gps. They also charge more for people that drive more miles per year because it exposes the vehicle to more possibilities of being involved in accidents.

It’s not unreasonable for them to ask for access to your gps data… it is definitely unreasonable for you to give them access to your gps data.

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Try to understand that influencers and content creators are human beings and not infallible. I don’t think Mark or Derek are the greatest people in the world, but they are trying to put educational and entertaining content out into the world, and don’t seem to be malicious in intent.

Give them a break and see where they land down the road. If they turn out to be trash, judge em all you want. As someone that doesn’t spend the time and effort to pass my experience on to others, I’ll give them a bit of wiggle room on the politics associated with operating in the public attention economy.

Might be a reasonable argument if you didn’t have 76 years of his rotten behavior as precedent in processing the decision made by a jury of his peers…

Reminds me of the Jimi Hendrix song “Bold as Love”…

“…he smiles towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, Her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted, They quietly understand. Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready, But wonder why the fight is on…

My red is so confident, he flashes trophies of war and ribbons of euphoria. Orange is young, full of daring, But very unsteady for the first go round. My yellow, in this case, is not so mellow, In fact, I’m trying to say it’s frightened like me. And all of these emotions of mine keeps holding me from giving my life to a rainbow like you…

But, they’re all bold as love…”

They did their damnedest to kill it with terrible decision making, though…

Is a cure for sleeping something that makes it so you don’t have to sleep or something that makes you sleep really good?

Get an EV and you’ll never have to go to a gas station again. None of the chargers I’ve seen have ads on them.

Well, I’m no balcony-ologist, but I’d think that having multiple brackets tying into the building structure on each floor would help add strength to each platform. I wouldn’t necessarily trust it with my life, but it seems better than what I thought I saw at first.

Those people trust the strength of that balcony far more than I do.

Edit: I see now that it is a fire staircase… it’s a bit better.

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Communism and fascism are not the same thing. They are opposite ends of the political spectrum.

What if taxes or fines were tied to personal wealth rather than a nominal flat fee?

I know there are some European countries that tie fines to annual income. That would do better at equalizing the effects of undesirable behavior regardless of wealth. If a parking ticket or speeding ticket or excessively polluting vehicle is going to cost a wealthy person tens of thousands of dollars extra, maybe they’ll find a more suitable and community-centric behavior.

You still have to get past the upper class tricks of driving “income” down by taking out loans to live off of, but that’s another conversation… maybe tie it to net wealth and make the wealthy sell stocks to pay the fines…

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