… They mean that you’re supporting free speech by disabling and block and supporting them

They give it in return for showing ads

I wouldn’t really call it a crypto scam if they aren’t demanding or asking you buy it, just giving you free crypto

The casinos I’ve been to have had free drinks, snacks, and entry

Okay on some level I agree with you, but “paying with exposure” is bullshit. If I like something I’ll pay for it after the fact

It does for many people. I know some who work part time and still don’t make food at home. Most notably two of my roommates.

They’re around 30 cents. Specific amounts don’t really matter.

I don’t know how you’ve seen nobody in the world that has cut their fingers or their hand while using a knife. There are millions of people who use dull knives because they believe they’re safer. Just because you haven’t hurt yourself yet doesn’t mean you’re not introducing unnecessary risk. I’ve helped two or three people learn how to cook, and all of them have come millimeters from slicing the tips of their fingers off at one point or another by pressing down on a knife with their fingers curled under the tip. I keep my knives deadly sharp, so a slip is a lost finger. You may not even realize you’ve cut yourself. As long as you’re using them properly, they’re safer.

Sure, you may go a decade or two with unsafe knife practices and be totally fine. Survivorship bias is a hell of a drug, though.

I trust him to be competent in things he’s knowledgeable on, but for things he’s rarely done I’ll offer assistance if I know a bit more, and I expect the same from him. There’s zero shame in not knowing how to do something. I WANT to be corrected when I’m wrong or being unsafe. I don’t understand how anyone could want anything else.

I try not to take over, just note how certain ways of doing things introduce unnecessary risk. If someone just copied something, they may take unsafe shortcuts later if they don’t know why it’s done a certain way

But also he’s never cooked before, so genuinely doesn’t know how to not be unsafe doing certain things. For example, he was using the tip of the blade to cut things with his fingers splayed out everywhichway. Sorry but I’m going to show him how to be safe. It’s difficult to let him go through “trial and error” when “error” means a trip to the er

That’s… Not at all true. There has been a child tax credit for decades. EV credits have existed for quite some time.

And yeah, other countries have some, but iirc they do it because they already track everything for VAT purposes, so it’s just an extension of that.

I’m working on teaching the significant how to cook… It’s difficult at times because he thinks I’m being overbearing at times when, no, if you do it that way you risk slicing your fingers off. Please, you worry me

There’s a waiter, so I assume you could just tell them you don’t have a phone for it

Mine cost me 4k a dose and they gave me two. Absolutely remarkable.

Okay but RIGHT NOW they don’t know. Sure it’s possible for them to track it, but they do not, and the infrastructure isn’t set up to do that.

They didn’t have my new address until I filed my taxes with my new address.

They don’t share that information unless absolutely necessary. All government agencies hold their cards pretty close to themselves for legal and liability reasons. The IRS will complain that you’ve both claimed a dependent because you have to include that dependent’s information and they can tell when you both try to claim the same one

That’s absolutely not the case. They lobby to prevent the IRS making their own version of TurboTax, not lobbying to make the tax code more complex. Taxes are complex because we have little real oversight but a lot of deductions and credits. The IRS literally cannot track everything they offer deductions for, so it goes largely on the honor system until something seems fishy.

If you have a house, you have deductions. If you added solar to your house, you have deductions. If you bought an electric car or a hybrid, you had deductions for a while there. If you rent you have deductions in some states. You have to list your dependents for credits.

The IRS is incapable of tracking all of this.

And I just don’t understand how I can walk around so wrong that I end up in jail for trespassing, or vibrate my vocal cords in such a wrong way that I end up in prison for “trying to rob a bank.” smh

It mostly works by forcing companies to pay back their loans rather than keeping them indefinitely, which pulls excess money out of the economy instead of it circulating continuously. When interest rates were near zero and the reserve requirement was dropped for banks, a shitload of this lending was done multiple times, so they’re hoping to effectively claw that back