MerchantsOfMisery @ MerchantsOfMisery @lemmy.ml

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What calculations are you even talking about? Your initial comment getting downvoted is a clear demonstration that people understand top marginal tax rate going down is a bad thing, yet you're insisting that most people are too simple minded to understand this.

Is this some attempt at making yourself feel smarter than you are, or what? You still have yet to explain why calculating top marginal tax rate is necessary when data clearly showing the top marginal tax rate is before our very eyes.

You clearly don't like the visualized data because you initially found it misleading. And now you're desperately attempting to claim the data was presented in a poor manner when it really wasn't, especially considering this is the comments section of Lemmy FFS.

What are you talking about? No calculations are necessary, just an understanding of what top marginal tax rate is and how it's lowering correlates to Americans getting poorer.

What's your deal? Lemmy is so exhausting with all the little wannabe Mean Girls weirdos like you being so snobby.

Bizarre seeing The Intercept labelled as a trash websisde with trash opinions. I don't even agree with the article's main points but I'd hardly call the source or opinions trash.

Lemmy is weird sometimes, like just packed with weirdly snobby folks.

As long as a person knows what top marginal tax rate is, this isn't particularly confusing and I think it's pretty shitty of you to be so critical while doing to provide what you think is better formatted data.

I was told there's no difference between Harris and Trump though

Even if you swallowed your toothpaste, you'd be fine because the amount of fluoride is so insignificant.

Anytime I hear a guy proudly say "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" I can't help but think that statement gives off rapey vibes. For obvious reasons, I'm not at all surprised that this is essentially Trump's mantra.

Well that's unfortunate. What are more ideal instances of Lemmy? Thanks for the explanation, by the way.

I have no clue how Lemmy works. I made an account and just assumed that was that.

This is why ACAB doesn't go far enough. Prosecutors and judges are just as guilty if not more.

No problem! I love removable/rechargeable batteries.

😏 be like me and use a cast iron skillet that weighs a ton, never is slick like you see on the internet, and is a removed (really Lemmy? Auto censor?? FFS) to clean

In all seriousness, I just made scrambled eggs on the ol' beast and they turned out decent. Far from non stick but it's non cancer at least.

Cracks me up that it took Lego several years to barely scratch the surface of your well-made point. This is what happens when you have a male dominated corporate world and and you know when they hire women, they're either hiring women who will agree with them or they're not actually listening to the women that disagree with them.

They don't last as long and have less charge cycles, but IIRC they have a larger charge capacity. Eneloop white batteries have 4x more recharge cycles than the Eneloop black batteries. Hard to justify larger capacity (2550 mAh for black, 2100 for white) at 1/4 of the lifespan/charge cycles.

Some people use them for specific things like gamepad controllers (i.e. X-Box/Playstation controllers) because you're less likely to have interruptions but personally, I just change batteries when I dip below 30%. I keep 4 spare AAs in a charging cradle (La Crosse Technology, apparently they don't make chargers anymore which came as a huge surprise because they were THE battery charger back in the day 🤓). I use a program on my PC for keyboard macros that has an additional feature displaying gamepad battery percentage and I find it far more accurate than the native app or alternatives.

To me it's like having a 16 gal gas tank and some guy tries to tell you he can swap it out for a 20 gal gas tank, but then you find out the "upgrade" has 1/4 of the lifespan because it's far more likely to corrode. Not worth the tradeoff for the vast majority of drivers who can simply fill up a little more often.

It's a gimmick to basically upsell people an additional battery type that in fairness to Panasonic is literally right on the packaging (2100 vs 500 charge cycles) but unless you're actively comparing charge cycles between battery types, which the vast majority of people buying batteries aren't paying attention to because they (reasonably, IMO) assume all AA batteries have a similar life cycle/capacity these days, it's hard to notice the above differences that I pointed out. So a lot of people buy the white, then the black thinking "ooOoOO Pro edition = better", only to find out 2+ years later that their black batteries are dead while their white batteries keep chugging along.

I know that's a super long winded explanation but I think it's good to explain all this. I mostly recommend Eneloop whites because I'm not a big fan of waste, battery waste in particular, so I think that if someone has to use batteries then it makes sense for them to use the ones that are reasonably priced and will last far longer than any other battery. That said, the price of them definitely has gone up over the years, though that applies to most things.

The problem is once you really experience and notice high quality it’s hard to go back

I can't stress how true this is

That being said, unless you’re immunocompromised there’s not much to worry about with covid variants right now

There's still many short and long term effects from COVID that people who aren't immunocompromised should be concerned about. Also, lack of ingress protection is a moot point if both parties are wearing masks though, right? Which is precisely why mask mandates make sense.

Eneloop batteries (the white ones, not the black ones) are the best AA and AAA batteries out there for sure. Panasonic sells a package of Eneloops with a charging device that accepts both AA and AAA batteries, it's very good. Can be charged via USB and can also charge other devices, it's the kind of device I dreamed about in the 90s.

I think you're underestimating peoples' ability to filter out the massive amount of garbage results/astroturfed reviews/posts/websites out there.

I do value high fidelity media, but frankly I can't say that I notice a difference between say, 320 kbps mp3 audio and FLAC audio-- and yes I have a nice DAC + headphones so there's no bottlenecks. I used to have all my music as FLAC files but these days I don't have the $$$ to buy more storage so I find myself converting everything to 320 kbps MP3 files and I'm okay with that.

For movies, I've only got 1080p monitors + a 720p projector so for the most part I just download 1080p movies. I burn movies and TV shows to Blu-Ray discs so for some S-tier stuff I'll download the 4K release and burn it to a BD-R in hopes that someday I can afford 4K and all the damn PC hardware upgrades that's going to require. But I'm in no rush, 1080p is fine by me and 720p on the projector is great.

I'm into photography, and I'm like you when it comes to lenses. Quality > quantity, any day of the week. I'd much rather choose a nice 40mm prime lens over a 17-70mm lens with mediocre glass.

My friends are kind of like yours but they know that when they want something of high quality, they can ask me and I'll gladly do the research then give them several options. I really enjoy well-made products and I despise poorly-made products so much. As a result, I'm finally at that point in my life where quality purchases I made 15+ years ago are still working great and it feels good.

That said, I do try to keep my purchases to a minimum because it's way too easy to fall for marketing + consumerism.

Nah, bad faith arguments like playing dumb and putting blinders on to make a contrived, nonsensical point-- sort of like what you're doing right now, minus the belligerence.