Chetzemoka

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[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

They pay 42% of INCOME taxes, which are only 40% of the annual federal tax receipts. Which means their income tax only amounts to about 17% of the overall tax receipts. Their FICA contributions are capped and they pay no FICA on anything over about $140,000. FICA tax accounts for 25% of overall federal tax receipts. The majority of remaining tax receipts are consumption taxes and property taxes, both of which are regressive and impact lower income citizens more.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/us-tax-revenue-by-tax-type-2020/

https://www.bench.co/blog/tax-tips/fica-tax

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regressivetax.asp

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get. A. Password. Manager. Dashlane is very easy to generate and save strong passwords for any site you shop on, plus it can save credit card details to autofill.

I haven't purchased anything from Amazon in three years. Getting stuff directly from the manufacturer is a better experience for products where you know what brand you want anyway. Bookshop.org for books. Best Buy for electronics. Wayfair or Overstock for home goods. It's genuinely not any less convenient when you consider the amount of trash and fake reviews you have to wade through on Amazon these days.

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's not. It's a disingenuous way to enact early abortion bans that targets people's emotions, but is meaningless from a healthcare perspective. We don't treat heartbeat as the ultimate arbiter of "life" in fully grown adults; we use brain function.

If we want to apply a similar standard for determining the cutoff for elective abortions, it's more complicated because the fetal brain assembles itself slowly. Hearing starts to become intact some time in the late second trimester, but the capacity to experience pain doesn't develop until after viability (the point in development when a fetus can be sustained medically outside the womb.)

https://www.acog.org/advocacy/facts-are-important/gestational-development-capacity-for-pain

Even using those potential physiological markers can't be relied on to enact a full permanent ban without exceptions because a fetus can develop defects that are incompatible with life, such as severe hydrocephalus or anencephaly, which complicate the process of gestation and birth in such a way that a late term abortion may be medically appropriate considering the fetus will not develop the ability to live independently outside the womb anyway.

And the real kicker here: Doctors are already very good at making these kinds of nuanced distinctions and making decisions in consultation with their pregnant patients and their families. We do not need legal regulation to do what medical ethics regulations already do very well.

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

something similar to the worst of the Byford Dolphin

That's why I qualified my statement. I think the fourth victim is probably the closest analog we have decent reference for. (No one was ever recovered from the Thresher, which also wasn't at this same level of pressure as Titan when it imploded.)

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Terminator 2 didn't even feature a single shot from the actual movie in its teaser trailer. It was just that iconic:

https://youtu.be/h4ThFNL_2tI?si=ufRA5SzDH1f6uf8b

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No TNG was definitely a full ensemble cast. I think people say that because Data is an obvious analog of Spock. But if this analogy is to hold, who is McCoy? Riker? Crusher? It doesn't make sense.

I think they just held onto the TOS traditions of strong captain as the lead with a Spock-like character and diverse remaining cast. But TNG had more space to work with the non-lead actors than TOS did partially because it had TOS's world building as a foundation.

Literally why I'm single and plan to stay that way.

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would imagine something similar to the worst of the Byford Dolphin decompression accident, which was a torso and large limbs crushed to the point of being almost unrecognizable with internal organs and some chunks of soft tissue separated from the body. Photos of that exist and you can find the relevant research paper by googling "Byford Dolphin Autopsy," but seriously those pictures are gruesome. In the case of the Titan, because the hull was compromised, large portions of those bodies were probably lost to the sea.

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Those are the best characters though. They learn and change so much.

Why you gotta call me out like that?

Most 70 year olds don't have paper thin skin. 70 is not as old as you think. (90 year olds, on the other hand...)

Source: am nurse. Pull tape off a lotta old people.

[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Morning Boston!

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