everyone reading that probably had one in mind. i bet ill hit 75% of them with the balatro/stardew/terraria combo, though if yours is far more obscure, by all means enlighten me so i can buy it and let it sit in my backlog for years because of my own game addictions.
I'm of the opinion that if you're casually scrolling lemmy and see a titty, pause a moment, say, "Nice titty" and continue scrolling then its whatever. If you're jacking once a day but are otherwise fine, then, again, whatev. When you start going further then that like cranking a few off at work each day, you gotta start evaluating life choices.
Actually 50k sounds a lot closer to reasonable for a somewhat used car that currently sells new for 80k'ish. Of course, I'm saying that in the hypothetical generic car vacuum, not the actual "electric dumpster" reality.
Both sides are clueless but in different ways. Dems want to ban rifles that look scary (because clearly that means they shoot bullets faster or some shit) while ignoring the overwhelming majority of gun crimes are pistol related (wow amazing a gun you can fit in a pocket gets used in more crimes then one you have to sling over your back), while republicans want to let 8 year olds have AK's.
Not gonna read that incredibly tortured analogy. I hope you took it out back and shot it after you did those awful longwinded things to it though.
They do note the lump non-annuity value. The numbers I pulled were off the powerball website and were right next to each other. Different states (and even municipalities possibly.) tax differently (not at all in some cases), so its not as if they can give a solid number there.
On one hand, it does feel a bit scammy. On the other, I'm not gonna lose a lot of sleep if I only took home 50 million dollars from a 150 million jackpot. It's still a "Work? Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with peasant slang." amount of cash.
It's not taxes... well not all of it. The lotto advertises its prize as the sum total of a 30 year annuity. Currently Powerball has an estimated Jackpot of 163 Million. You can take the lump sum up front though. At present that lump sum is 73.9 million. After you get that, then you get taxed on it, reducing it to probably something like 40-50 million.
He can't follow through? I am shocked. Shocked! If only we had some historical precedent for this like him promising to build a wall on a previous presidential term and then halfassing a fence.
i am shocked that The Free Market™ would fail in such a way