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elfenix

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  1. per adam smith, 500 men must be poor so that one man can be rich. which means if you're not in the top 0.2% of wealth you're a poor. and looking at the chart of wealth in this country where there's basically a slow ramp from negative on the left side to about the 90th percentile on the right side, and then a bit of increasing curvature over the next few percent, and then you get way over to the right and it's just a line straight up and off the chart, that seems about right.
  2. have a client with a pesky commercial solar system and i've been helping their chief of staff work through it. he's a scottish man named watt. always get a kick out of that.
  3. even worse, toledo
  4. This is nonsense. The producer does not pass through a $25 tax on its product by changing its price from $100 to $90 and thereby the consumer sees a tax markup on their bill from $90 to $115. The producer is still bearing $10 of that tax. Only $15 was able to be passed through. The economic burden is who actually pays the tax. Not the nominal accounting of who is doing the remits or on whose bill it's showing.
  5. This isn't true except in very limited circumstances. Here's what happens: in this chart the yellow portion is borne by consumers (they are paying p1), the purple portion is borne by producers (they are receiving p2), and the triangle to the right is the dead weight loss from sales that weren't made. There's no may about it. Quantity demanded is reduced except, again, in very limited circumstances. Why, might you ask, are those circumstances limited? That's because if an increase in price (either due to supplier choice of the imposition of a tax) didn't reduce the quantity demanded, the supplier absolutely wasn't pricing as high as they could have. Now, while I'm not naive enough to think suppliers have priced their products for perfectly maximum profits, I do think most are in the ballpark. Just think about it. If you have 100 widgets to sell, and you can sell every single one of them priced at $100, or you can sell every single one of them priced at $125, you're pricing at $125. That's the only circumstance where the entirety of a 25% tax could be passed on.
  6. We've driven from downtown Houston to Leadville in a day. It's a beating but doable. Left about 4 am iirc and were in DFW by sunrise. Reached Leadville after sunset. Austin to Denverish should be easier and you do gain an hour crossing time zones. Coming back you lose that hour, though.
  7. bathurst streams on GT World on youtube qualy: pole battle: race:
  8. wrong tread
  9. pit beef is pretty mid tbh
  10. Ford joining WEC with an LMDh in 2027 https://www.dailysportscar.com/2025/01/31/ford-confirms-hypercar-programme-for-2027.html
  11. had to change my avatar so this hits close to home.
  12. trump signs executive order requiring tragedies to be politicized within 24 hours.
  13. *makes a damn near perfect rpg that took the world by storm* *refuses to make the same game for reasons* "gosh why don't we have a hit again?"
  14. TIL airplanes are illegal aliens
  15. early april weather in february.
  16. elfenix

    LBGTQ

    ah yes the old libertarian position of if gays can have state marriage then maybe no body should have state marriage.
  17. there's been a headcount shortage for years and there's also repeating waves of retirements that happen due to a lot of ATCs all being hired at the same time in the early 1980s and all aging out at the same time. which then necessitates a big wave of hiring, and all of them age out at about the same time. repeat every 25 or so years.
  18. Old fashioned message boards are dying all over the Internet. There's a lot of reasons, from either competing but similar service like reddit, to dissimilar services like Twitter, and even stuff like tiktok. Late 90s/early 2000s style message boards are a relative dinosaur in terms of how media is consumed. Claiming this one in particular isn't growing or is dying because there's a politics sub board is a a logical leap. There's politics all over Reddit and Xitter and Bluesky and tiktok. Xitter damn near forces it on you.
  19. i hope most of those commenters are bots. their combined IQ can't be more than 57.
  20. fox chyron this evening was "RFK Jr Just Wants to Inform You Not Control You." because healthier school lunches are controlling, apparently.
  21. Jesse Waters on fox lying his ass off about this right now.
  22. The chair of the appropriations committee not knowing that the appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed by the President are in fact laws is something.
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