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I’ve developed a weird habit of going on business trips to cities where @bfsrocks is playing, but finding out too late to get tickets. This time it’s in Central Park next month.
Literally this has happened to me four times now.
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I recently moved to the United Kingdom from the Netherlands, and just tripped across a ghost from my professional past. You see, my @DisneyPlusNL account permanently believes me to be an NL resident. I've been here 2 months, and my main account doggedly insists otherwise.
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I'd suggest that we use this money to fund projects to house the homeless and to fund the VA, but I know for a fact this would be the response.
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This is my favorite topic to wade into. You see, I moved from Texas to the Netherlands. It will curdle your milk to know that the Dutch income tax top rate is 49.5% starting at €77k. I make quite a lot so my effective rate is about 40%. In the US my effective rate was about 30%.
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Whether these expenses should be baked into an income tax is a philosophical question and worth discussing. But at the end of the day, things that “round up” to “taxes” are roughly the same here - it’s just front loaded into an income tax instead of being spread around.
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I’ve been off the ice for about two years now, but this is the shit that makes me want to put the pumpkins back on.
I absolutely demand the @nhl do this with their officials immediately. If you won't have them answer questions then we need to see their POV.
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Sometimes shows go so long and plot lines get so complicated, even the fandom forgets what the original plot points were.
Walt's argument was that his process was more efficient, and produced more sellable meth from the same input ingredients, and thus boosted profits.
In Breaking Bad, Walter's ability to produce extremely pure meth is a major plot point. Do meth addicts really care about the difference between like 98% and 99.5% pure meth? Can they even tell the difference?
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That’s not the reason it won’t work. The reason it won’t work is because Modesto doesn’t have ubiquitous efficient public transit options.
Wait, we’re talking about a train from LA to SF aren’t we? Why does Modesto matter? I’ll tell you why.
One way to explain why the United States has never really pushed hard for high speed rail: everyone who actually wants to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco can easily do it.
There's a flight leaving in 90 minutes from LAX to SFO which you can get on for $109.
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Every hour, dropping 500 people in say Köln. Now imagine doing that in Modesto. How are those 500 people getting that last mile?
Well, today that’s by taxi, and you probably need 400 of them.
Can downtown Modesto sustain 400 new taxis every hour?
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