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ReluctantMuskrat

@ ReluctantMuskrat @lemmy.world

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  • shrimp colour drama

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  • Your description of hearing shapes and colors sounds a lot like someone with synesthesia, a rare condition that's seems to have no downsides and only benefits.

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  • First, this post is about social security disability insurance, SSDI, not social security retirement benefits. The disability fund is paid into by current workers to pay the benefits of currently disabled people, which may or may not have worked previously. Someone born disabled receives benefits as an adult even if they've never contributed.

    Second, your statement isn't valid for SS retirement benefits either. Current SS taxes pay the benefits of current SS recipients. The taxes have never been saved to pay for future benefits. The more you pay in the more credits you receive for your future benefits, but nothing is actually saved on your behalf. If benefits are reduced, it's not your saved money you're being denied... it's a promise being denied.

  • fair treatment

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  • I'm old and first played paintball before masks were a thing... we just wore goggles. This was mid-80s. I got shot at very close range right in the jaw. Took a perfectly round, paintball-sized piece of skin off, my jaw immediately swelled and with the red paint splattered all over my face, I looked like a crime scene. 😄

    Masks were a great addition to the game.

  • U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions

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  • The need for privacy in crypto is significant and a hinderance to wide adoption. With most crypto if you send me money once I then know your wallet address and I can then look up every transaction you've ever made with that wallet and every future transaction you make later. Clearly that's a problem.

    The fact that criminals are more motivated by privacy concerns doesn't reduce the need and expectation of privacy for the rest of us.

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  • To hear you say "Hey Google" it has to listen to everything you say, all the time. While they pinky-promise they aren't doing anything with all the voice data they're getting while listening, do you trust them?

  • Republicans push to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a mental illness

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  • Correct. Trumpers are ok with you having democrat derangment syndrome... that might lead to you storming the capital but that's totally ok!

  • Antarctic scientists plead for help after ‘sexual assault and threats’ by colleague

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  • Surprising that they're still cut-off since it's the Antarctic summer right now.

  • Anti-acknowlegements

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  • You are indeed!

  • Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you

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  • Not for the billionaires, no, though they probably have several homes and lots of acreage and still pay significantly more than you and I. Better the wealthy pay more even if it's not going to scale precisely.

  • The Supreme Court has a new playbook — and Democrats need to adapt before it's too late

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  • Well you aren't expecting the Republicans to wise up are you?

    Yep, we're fucked.

  • Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch that activated when he was let go

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  • Honestly remarkably stupid. His scheme had no way for him to claim plausible deniability. So while he got to gloat a little bit on the way out the door, he's suffering far worse consequences than just being out of a job and I'm sure the legal fees he's paying are ridiculous too.

    Also company would have suffered the same fate if he died also. So even if he got promoted and the company treated him well, the company and his coworkers would have suffered if he got hit by a bus. Dude was a selfish idiot.

  • Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you

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  • And the bigger the chunk, the more they owe.

  • FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk)

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  • Thank you. I couldn't remember the names and was rushing my comment before a meeting. I knew someone wouldn't let that go without a correction.

  • FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk)

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  • Calling GPS part of imperialism is a stretch. It was put in the air at no cost to another country and can be used without cost by anybody, but nobody has to use it. Other countries can launch their own satellites if they want, but they don't because that's expensive and GPS is free. The US isn't making money off of it or exploiting another country with it.

    Yes, the US can jam it regionally when in conflict but of course why wouldn't we? No reason to help the enemy.

  • Donald Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein flight logs released by his own attorney general

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  • I honestly am not concerned about Epstein's consent.

    A murderer murdering a pedophile, and likely doing so as part of a conspiracy to protect other pedophiles, is much worse than someone deciding to look the other way while Epstein offs himself.

    Epstein being dead is disappointing either way, but only because we didn't get more information from him.

  • Donald Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein flight logs released by his own attorney general

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  • I'm not concerned for Epstein at all. A murderer murdering a pedophile, and likely doing so as part of a conspiracy to protect other pedophiles, is still much worse than someone deciding to look the other way while Epstein offs himself.

  • Donald Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein flight logs released by his own attorney general

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  • Because in one case Epstein decides himself to be dead. In the other Epstein doesn't want to be dead but is murdered.

  • Donald Trump named in Jeffrey Epstein flight logs released by his own attorney general

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  • They are both bad but they aren't equal.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Utah enters the chat...