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elfenix

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  1. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/40353-doge-america-fucking-around/?do=findComment&comment=6867798
  2. He does really good work in the shit I cooked thread
  3. Imagine thinking the pentagon accounting shipping and handling against the Ukraine funding bills is money disappearing like a fart in the wind.
  4. The free services were far more limited than what the IRS's free file service was. The IRS's free file service was not limited by income, it was limited by the types of reporting documents that a person had. There were also, as I recall a couple types of deduction that it wouldn't process. But it probably handles the income the vast majority of people have. For the rollout purposes it was geographically limited last year. The free services are often difficult to find and,as you mentioned, the websites try really hard to sell you on every single upsell they can find. And plenty that most people don't need.
  5. february 3rd and i'm about to turn on the AC what the fuck
  6. ^^ one of the reply blues
  7. it's like you've never seen an anastasis post before. the only position he actually has is that abortion should be outlawed and we'll start with ratcheting down on people seeking their second or third or fourth abortion and if you don't agree with whatever never-stated solution he has for that you're a racist eugenicist. thankfully trump did him a solid and appointed a bunch of justices who think the government should be just small enough to fit into your bedroom and shortcutted that whole process.
  8. oh you thought tab was going to indent the paragraph? fuck you.
  9. https://www.yahoo.com/news/turns-guy-hit-la-firefighting-013909643.html
  10. Stop fouling.
  11. the broadcast pulled this angle of that wreck off of socials: 2025-02-01_16-13-35.mp4
  12. pretty scary crash on the mountain. also, 3rd time kenny habul has gone inside someone and there been contact. 2025-02-01_15-08-07.mp4
  13. class leading GT4 mclaren gets it wrong on top of the mountain and collects the class leading pro am audi. big crash and this is going to be a long yellow.
  14. 3 abreast on pavement that's 2.5 cars wide up the mountain straight in the dark with no night practice at all 2025-02-01_15-52-50.mp4
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. even worse, toledo
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
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