WalrusDragonOnABike

joined 1 year ago
[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Don't you mean "fuck immigrants and gay rights" from both candidates?

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As far as I know, my sperm donor doesn't have a huge family. All it takes is your one sibling to take a genetics test to no longer be an anonymous sperm donor. Same applies here. It just takes one.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense if they were caught, the system would bring a case against them. But given the facts of the case, a reasonable jury should find them not guilty.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Boss gifted me lotion once. Was kinda amusing in that it sorta was an insult, but like I sometimes bleed from how bad my skin sometimes gets so it's not like it's some secret. I think she also apologized in case it was weird.

Mine offered to pay me half the rate of my non-management work. But I did get a decent raise for my non-management work from the promotion.

There's always the grey market for getting raws. Of course most individuals probably don't have access to the tools and knowledge to verify purity and going from raws to safe and accurately dosed medicine is another problem. But many people were already going that route anyways before this.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Like the math kind or the chemistry kind?

It's not choosing inflation. As pointed out, it could actually be deflationary depending how how the money is printed. Funding services and taxing the wealthy are two separate issues. Taxes have nothing to do with funding services and are only used as an excuse to not have universal health care or to much on climate change, both of which could be deflationary if funded by just printing money and doing nothing is inflationary.

Of course I also don't think billionaires should exist because they are separately harmful and only are possibly with exploitation. So I don't particularly have a problem with using taxes as a weapon to combat that symptom of the exploitive system, but it's like using paracetamol to treat an infection - its just treating the symptoms, which might be important to not die immediately and to be able to recover, but ideally you also treat the infection directly and then form antibodies to prevent future infections or have other external chances to reduce infectivity. So I'm not opposing taxes, but generally they are a distraction from other issues and meant to bore people by forcing advocates of such policies to waste time talking about boring specific tax policies rather than building a narrative about a better tomorrow.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

If you just print money to fund a program that has a greater return on investment (ie: schools -> increased productivity, housing the homeless increasing their productivity, reducing waste to "crime" and paying police to harass people, etc), then the money per real asset can actually decrease from "just print money" and have the opposite effect in the long-term (and if these types of things are constantly being funded, then now is the "long term" from earlier investments anyways).

I played the game solo to get to good enough stuff to play with friends in a hardmode server (they would have provided equipment if I asked probably, but I preferred exploring the game by myself first). Ended up barely playing with friends.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That was the 5th final update I think. This one is the 6th final update.

 

This projection distorts both area and direction, but preserves Melbourne.

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2999:_Bad_Map_Projection:_The_United_Stralia

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