Trump: "Somebody said, 'would we think about taking the World Cup away from Boston if they don't straighten it out?' The answer is yes. We have the right to do that with FIFA. So if we think that LA is gonna be bad, or that applies a little bit to the Olympics too."
Two things can be true: 1. Very high marginal rates are bad 2. We shouldn't valorise or romaticise very well off people paying them
It is perfectly possible to redesign tax system so those on over £100k pay more on average, but never face ludicrous marginal rates likely to impact on their choices
It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more
The only Linux adjacent thing I will ever go near is steamOS, I'm to old and crabby to be playing Indiana Jones and the temple of the missing distro file.
50x leverage means you can put in $1K, borrow $49K, and have $50K of crypto in your account. A 2% gain doubles your money. A 2% loss? You’re wiped out and your crypto is sold.
Setups like this is exactly why crypto tanked harder than stocks on the tariff news.
Outside observer, but it looks like another case of the RW morons screeds on how the US government is too big, running into the reality that it's actually likely too small for the size of the country.
It's a ruddy miracle things run anyway efficiently with how low the numbers are.
You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?
Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture
Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.
It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.
As someone who works fully remote, and actually got a pay raise when I moved to it, I still say a drop in salary would actually be a trade off I would be willing to make.
RTO is just dumb shit, especially the forced variety.
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/
all presidential administrations are partisan, but trump and the people in his white house are partisans bordering on sectarians, and one result is that they see nothing of actions that strain and weaken the union itself
It's truly magic what LLMs can do if you've got any critical thinking skills. Just put together a 250 line script of Python/Java to scrape market data using Claude/ChatGPT. Took 15 minutes.
The entire filibuster mechanism I feel like the majority of the American public are just unaware of it, and it just feeds general cynicism about things not getting done.
the GOP nuking the filibuster to end this shutdown is the best case scenario
if we want a chance at fixing any of this shit we're going to have to get rid of it, better to let them do it themselves rather than worry about Fetterman pulling a Joe Manchin
Hamas hasn’t said yes, and even if it does, implantation is going to be fraught. Still, getting Netanyahu to sign off on Trump’s Gaza deal is a real achievement and one I’m not sure anyone else, let alone a democrat could have achieved. Why? Well I’m glad you asked. 1/
