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  • A tax on people-pleasing

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  • I mean, it's kinda true.

    Some places do tip sharing, but not most (though most have some sort of tipping out to the back of house staff,) and obviously you pay taxes on tips.

    But I think the sentiment was that it's not lining the pockets of the business owner, which is true.

  • For this hardworking chef? Always

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  • That's fair. I think my issue was over the word "meal," though a quick Google shows you're right

    Maybe this is regional or something, but that really feels like 2 syllables to me. I pronounce it "mee-uhl," not "miel."

    But that could just be accent or whatever.

  • For this hardworking chef? Always

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  • I feel like this is intended to be a haiku, but that middle line is 8 syllables, and that makes me sad. :(

  • Fox viewers STILL imagine that foreign exporters will simply reduce their profit margins to 0, or even go into debt, for the privilege of selling trinkets to Americans.

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  • I think that was pretty clear sarcasm. A lot of people hate read/comment on Fox News.

  • Looking for cocoa powder alternatives

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  • Peanut butter powder?

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    Per own data, 58% of incidents in 2024 which ADL considered to be antisemitic were actually anti-Israel or anti-Zionism

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  • To be fair, they:

    said it did not count criticism of Israel as an antisemitic incident, but did count incidents as antisemitic if someone called for the destruction of Israel or used antisemitic tropes in discussing Israel.

    I think you'd have to comb through that to figure out where the line is, but I think it's possible to cross the line from opposing the Israeli state to using antisemitic slurs without too much difficulty.

    Not defending Israel. But I do think that people tend to be pretty bad at nuance, and if you told me that the Israeli abuses are leading to a rise in hate towards Jewish people I'd believe it.

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  • They probably don't have the warehouse capacity to store all those extra units. There's a lot of logistics involved in housing and shipping 2.2mil consoles, and "just wait" can be way harder than you would think.

  • RFK Jr. set to launch disease registry tracking autistic people

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  • The average is 100 by definition, with standard deviations of 15.

  • 'Evil is being defeated by God': Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates after Pope's death

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  • A political institution in Europe in AD 30? The year Jesus began his public ministry?

    That's a pretty bold claim, lol. I assume they're just saying "the Catholic church" has been around since then, since that's when christianity started?

  • Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower

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  • I mean, you say more visible, but it's not like these things haven't always happened. I personally knew a guy a few years back who was UCMJ'd for being a racist.

    I suppose you're right that he didn't have an article written in the Guardian about him, so it's more visible in that sense. But it seems a little tautological to write an article saying things are more visible, if the "more visibility" in question is that you wrote an article about them.

  • Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower

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  • I mean, the Army is on the record in the article as saying that the behavior would not be tolerated and that they are investigating. He'll probably get UCMJ'd. I think "without repercussion" is strong.

    Should there be more protections to detect this stuff early? Maybe. But, like, that doesn't feel like as flashy a headline I guess.

    And idk, should the Armed Forces have people actively monitoring all their personnel's private lives 24/7? Seems a little much to me.

    I'm just having trouble figuring out what the takeaway is. What "repercussions" do you want to see here? He gets punished in some way? Cause odds are good he will, if they can figure out who it is (since the Guardian didn't share the name with the Army, per the article.) So what's the story?

  • Fears over extremism in US military as soldier revealed as neo-Nazi TikTok follower

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  • I mean, this isn't good obviously, but it also doesn't feel like news.

    The US military employs almost 3million people. I challenge you to grab a broad swath of 3 million people and not have a few neo-nazis in the bunch.

    Which isn't to say that it's okay or should be tolerated. Just that, like, it isn't news. Or, at least, not any more news than "Nazi sypathizer exists on earth" is news.

  • broscience go brrrrrrrrr

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  • Impossible Creatures was a masterpiece. I still go back to it every now and then.

  • US stocks soar as Donald Trump backs down in global trade war

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  • You are taxed on the gains, not on the total sale volume.

    So if I buy something today for $5, and sell it tomorrow for $6, I pay the 37% on the $1 of gain.

    So my takeaway is $5.63, not the $3.78 it would be I was taxed on the full sale.

    It's also worth noting that capital losses can offset gains. So if I made $1000 on one trade, but lost $1000 on another, my effective tax is $0, because I didn't make any money.

    This can get squishy though, as there are a lot of accounting loopholes you can do to count things as "losses" that are more losses on paper than actual losses.

  • Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

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  • Idk man, he's a public figure. Like, would we be this mad if Kamala accidentally leaked her phone's contact list (names only, no numbers)?

    And to be clear, it'd be another thing entirely if he had, like, secret government sources in his contact list or something. But I don't see anyone saying that as far as I can tell. It's just his personal friends and contacts.

  • Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

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  • Nah, Venmo contacts are often based off of your phone contacts. So that's probably just a list of people he has saved to his phone (who also have Venmo).

    And even if you did have to pay someone for them to show up, it still doesn't seem like much of a scandal. It's not like someone in the contact list was "drug dealer" or something. Who cares if he venmo'd a coworker $20 for lunch?

    Idk man. Like, leaking your phone's contact list probably isn't the best thing ever, but it's hardly a huge deal imo.

  • Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

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  • Fair, but I didn't see any contacts that were terribly surprising or concerning.

  • Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

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  • I mean, I think most people on Venmo have it set this way. It's the default. I wouldn't call it inept.

    It's not privacy focused for sure, but then, using social media in any capacity isn't. I'm unconvinced this is crazy worse.