Sludgeyy

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[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

"Thats not how law making currently works though"

Yes things would need to change but if law makers had the public interest in mind, things would move much faster.

Single issue bills can also be decided on faster

The idea you're scared of is a benefit to "their" system. Less gets passed, less change.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Perfection is the enemy of progress.

Tax 99% of them and then introduce another bill to tax the ones starting with "E".

You could pass the bill and then do another bill to fix the other issues.

I'm against pork in bills and feel like they should not contain more than one issue. But it is all designed that way for a "reason". Don't like the idea of a bill, well add some pork and now you can be against that.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate" - Zap Brannigan

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

For this one thing yeah the small fraction of inflation wouldn't probably be noticeable. But you cannot do it for everything or every fraction adds up to a bunch.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do you think it's just a couple "Democrats" changing sides or caving when Republicans need them to?

They are playing good cop/bad cop but they are both cops.

Sure maybe 49% of Democrats might have the best intentions but along as Republicans stand strong with their 51% they control basically everything.

It's naive to think that the rich controls everything except for the Democratic party. They do a lot of work to make it look like they don't own the good cop.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes.

Company A gets 1k. 1k is revenue.

Company A spends 1K at Company B. 1k is expense.

Company A has made 0 profit. 0 taxes.

Now if Company A owns Company B did it really lose 1k?

This is how money laundering works. More money more problems. You just have to leave a convincing paper trail an accountant will follow. Eventually they won't be able to follow that the flour supplier Company Z that Company B buys from for it's cookies is funneling Company B's money back into Company A. The accountant doesn't know that B isn't buying flour or making cookies. Sometimes they even make cookies...

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was 12% abv 24 ounces.

A standard beer is ~5% 12 ounces.

~2.5× stronger 2× the amount

Chugging 5 beers at once will get most people feeling quite buzzed.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gold would be given in troy ounces

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine one of the top 500 companies in an economy being a company where it's sole job is to help people pay taxes.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Depends how you define temperature.

"There's no such thing as cold"

Something at absolute zero would have zero heat.

If you define temperature as heat then it wouldn't have heat or temperature.

Kind of similar to trying to measure nothing with a ruler. It says 0. There is no length, but is 0mm still a "measurement"?

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Your screen on your phone is RGB. Red Green Blue pixels. There is no yellow light ever being sent to your eyes. So if you were to look at a yellow square on your phone the pixels are RGB in a mix convincing your brain it is yellow.

So when you get a blue dress with warm yellow light, the pixels on your phone tries to convey that bit of yellow

Different devices will show it more or less.

If you printed out the picture there would be no illusion.

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