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Smoking PSA
  • And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs

    Irrelevant I guess. I was casually reliving a memory from when I was a child, but there's always got to be a pedant to further solidify my general withdrawal from society because I'm clearly not satisfactorily intelligent enough for it.

  • Smoking PSA
  • They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.

    I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.

    Sorry to have failed your class professor.

    We couldn't all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.

  • Smoking PSA
  • I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.

    First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.

    As to the album cover, it somehow didn't register with my that it was a baby smoking.

    Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.

    Motley Crue's Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don't think that influenced my mental image.

  • Harris unveils plan for 28% capital gains tax, softening Biden's proposal for 40% rate
  • Mostly yes.

    You get people selling off companies or several depreciated rental properties, and they get hit with the tax and can't get out of it.

    There are some circumstances that they can manipulate though. When the stock market crashed in 2008, people sold off at enormous realized losses, sat on the cash for thirty days to avoid the wash rule, and bought right back in at the same low prices.

    That created years worth of carried over losses that enabled them to recognize capital gains at zero tax.

    It's a reasonably common strategy called loss harvesting.

    Certain flavors of stock options appear to be tax free at time of sale, but this is because the initial grant was deemed W-2 wages and was taxed when it was issued at ordinary income rates.

  • after 40 all meals are horror
  • It's been years since I've eaten food away from my desk. And God forbid I should forget to bring food and need to run downstairs for sixteen seconds to purchase something. That's truly one of the seven deadly sins.

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  • What are the chances that I, a not particularly tech savvy person, go to download mint and end up bricking my computer?

    Honestly, my computer is an absolute bottom of the barrel $200 Dell laptop right now, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but I'd hate to fuck it up, get a better computer, and fuck that up too.

  • Loving USA Culture
  • The pervasive, loud, aggressive "America is full of stupid yokels and has no culture herp derp" sentiment seems to have really ramped up in recent years. I really wonder if it's a side effect of recent politicians pushing increasingly bizarre and oppressive agendas, and actually getting elected.

    Maybe we deserve the disdain.

  • Marijuana Is Too Strong Now - The Atlantic
  • I actually miss the old Mexican brick weed from thirty years ago. It could give you a headache, but otherwise, the high it produced of everything being hilarious doesn't seem to exist anymore. Modern weed pretty much makes me instantly catatonic.

    Further, I don't know if it's age, but a single bong rip will send me into violent fits of coughing that frequently render me running outside to puke.

    I've stopped smoking entirely in favor of edibles due to the coughing thing. The edibles still knock me the hell out. I don't know how the younger set wakes and bakes and carries on with their day with the modern stuff.

  • Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents".
  • A very long time ago, and much less technologically advanced:

    I went to boarding school. We had a little bit of a propensity for sneaking out of the dorm at night.

    New dean comes in our senior year and installs alarms on all the exits.

    Our senior year time capsule contains the controlling keypad to that alarm system that wasn't even functional for twenty four hours.

    I've no doubt that today's teens possess the ingenuity to bypass if not completely disable this thing.

  • You don't get to be a Confederate and a 'proud American'
  • I kinda feel like the American flag itself has taken on connotations that align with the confederate flag.

    When I see the American flag in current times, I think of roll coal 'murka fuck yeah sentiments.

  • What a waste of asphalt
  • Going by the memory of my 1980 edition of the Guinness book of world records, it was the number of hairpin turns that made it the crookedest street. There could also be a difference between a street and a road.

  • Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek
  • The entire scam of unlimited PTO is that the company doesn't have to pay out any unused time when you leave.

    It certainly doesn't increase the time off you get while still at the company. Studies show people take less time when it's unlimited.

  • Federal judge throws out U.S. ban on noncompetes

    A federal court in Texas has thrown out the government’s ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.

    In her ruling, Judge Ada Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas wrote that the federal agency had overstepped its power when it approved the ban.

    "The FTC lacks substantive rulemaking authority with respect to unfair methods of competition," she wrote. "The role of an administrative agency is to do as told by Congress, not to do what the agency think[s] it should do.”

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    www.latimes.com Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November

    Republicans hope the conservative U.S. Supreme Court will intervene in an Arizona state election dispute.

    Republicans ask Supreme Court to block 40,000 Arizonans from voting in November

    The Republican National Committee is urging the Supreme Court to intervene in an Arizona election dispute this week and block up to 40,000 of the state’s registered voters from casting ballots in the presidential race.

    Republican state lawmakers say these voters did not provide proof of their citizenship when they were registered and now they should be barred from voting in person or by mail.

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    Judge Dismisses Rudy Giuliani's Bankruptcy

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    Came into some local blueberries so went to town. Muffins, mini cheesecakes with blueberry curd, and lemon blueberry bars

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    Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars

    www.cnn.com Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars | CNN Business

    Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre.

    Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars | CNN Business
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    Burger with caramelized onions and Swiss. No fries because I've had a couple drinks and don't need a grease fire

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    abcnews.go.com Giuliani bankruptcy judge frustrated with case, rebuffs attempt to challenge $148 million judgment

    A New York bankruptcy judge has denied Rudy Giuliani a chance to pursue an appeal of a $148 million defamation judgment for spreading lies about the the 2020 election

    Giuliani bankruptcy judge frustrated with case, rebuffs attempt to challenge $148 million judgment
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    www.yahoo.com Texas judge orders new election after GOP lawsuit challenged 2022 election result in Houston area

    A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most populous county, a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast. A losing GOP candi...

    Texas judge orders new election after GOP lawsuit challenged 2022 election result in Houston area
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    if you had to choose one

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    www.theguardian.com Texas man seeks to have ex-partner investigated for out-of-state abortion

    Collin Davis asks court to green light investigation as experts call case a ‘coordinated fear campaign’

    Texas man seeks to have ex-partner investigated for out-of-state abortion
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    My phone is just one big shitpost

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    Democrats introduce bill to rename Miami prison after Trump

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    I took this community a little too literally this morning

    Welp. Off to Lowe's I go.

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    I guess Elon is getting into the old school punk scene

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    Average Redditor @lemmy.world Got_Bent @lemmy.world

    How do I find available communities?

    This seems like a good platform. How do I find communities to subscribe to? I've got maybe fifteen showing up as default, but don't know how to dig deeper.

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