walter_2000_
walter_2000_ t1_j9nitu2 wrote
Reply to comment by jubilant-barter in Wealthy Percentiles Rising by dwaxe
Sorry to jump in here early in the thread, but I currently pay 35% income tax. It's not normal. Someone asked to borrow 10k and I told them it would cost me 6k to do that. So I'd have to pull 16, 000 dollars out of an account to get 10,000 dollars. In the next few years we'll be able to lessen that, but basically I pay a lot. And I should. Lots of people with more money than me, and there are lots, pay 20% in taxes. Lots of people pay zero. If you have like 5 or 15 million, you're going to have to do some work before you stop paying exorbitant taxes. Above that, you're going to pay very little. Fuck you.
walter_2000_ t1_j7o6j5q wrote
Let's be honest. We, as the human race, love this kind of food. With that said, it's better served in January or March. People with the best of intentions will fall into this trap for at least another decade. It's black history month and black people love fried chicken, and fuck, I do, too. Let's have it for lunch in February. Oh god I'm fired. Is that it, can we now no longer eat fried chicken or watermelon for 28 days? I'll just eat it quietly by myself.
walter_2000_ t1_iyr9gb7 wrote
Reply to I wasn't fast enough to reach the summit before the light left, but this fall forest made for a nice consolation prize. Dolomites, IT [OC][2048x1300] by CampsG
This has been on my list since 1975. If Italy names a mountain range after a character from a movie, you know it's a place you have to get to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolemite
walter_2000_ t1_iyl6ukg wrote
I love the elevation difference between the two lakes. That's messing with perspective. Totally nice location and pic.
walter_2000_ t1_ix6r0lh wrote
Damn, I ate there in like 1995 and have an actual paper photo of it. I'm sure it has changed owners and stuff, but super funny. I went to college there and we did weekend excursions. This was one of the stops and the location was certainly memorable. The country didn't have a paved road that went coast to coast, I'm sure they do now.
walter_2000_ t1_iu7x3mn wrote
Reply to comment by randoredirect in Controversial race researcher gets prestigious Cambridge University fellowship by hieronymusanonymous
Entertainment and game boys and Kenyans. No, man. No assumptions. You have a question, you create a process, and you study it. There's a board of ethics that reviews what you're doing. They can stop you before you begin. Something as serious and political as race will get srutinized beyond anything I can imagine. I simply would not even ask a question about race. I have a career and am older, we'll see what happens with his life. If he's a full of shit racist, which I doubt he is, then this will end soon.
walter_2000_ t1_iu7t71o wrote
That's a really long time ago. Those fuckers were psychotic in the 1800's. That's actually really liberal. Jews are like 1 or 2 or 3% of the population now, I can't imagine the hell they experienced in the 1800's. Fuck that. But seriously, they're still persecuted (Hi Kanye you cunt), so 200 years ago must have been really rough. Other minorities couldn't do anything for quite a while after that. When did women get the right to vote? The fucking 13th amendment that ended slavery was 1866 or something.
walter_2000_ t1_jag7dnc wrote
Reply to China accuses USA of abusing state power for banning TikTok on government devices. by ownmonster3000
Bam it for the entire country. It's fucking mind numbing macaroni and cheese for developing brains. There's nothing in that app and format that benefits anyone but an authoritarian country. Why was it ever allowed? Entertainment? That's the threshold for allowing an adversarial country to have unfettered access to the youth and idiot adults of the US? Seems like a low bar.