thrwhizzle

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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
> you are potentially killing people No, you absolutely are not killing people. This is absurd alarmist propaganda designed to guilt people into acting a certain way. > If they aren’t needed, and you do wear one anyways, no harm has b
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
I am absolutely unable to understand how a ban isn’t being followed. I have been under the impression that when legislators make something illegal it instantly goes away. Now my entire worldview is being challenged.
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
Stay inside or wear an N95. The rest of us are returning to life.
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
Road maintenance fees should not be attached to the price of gasoline. The wear and tear on the road is a function of the weight of the vehicle and the miles driven. The best place to figure out the fee should be the annual inspection. Plug
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
He went on a robbing and stabbing spree that ended up with six critical injuries and two deaths. Maybe you don’t think he deserves his punishment. I certainly do. The type of person who would go on a stabbing spree for wine money is not the
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
I don’t know how you could police that or enforce it. Half truths are basically the entire modern mainstream media. Arrest type information just needs to be more publicly available so these secondary sites don’t need to exist.
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
It's too limiting right now. When the Expo team finishes the "Expo Application Services" it will be an option for almost every project. For now, it's limited to just the Expo APIs and for most projects you will ultimat
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
Criminal charges and arrest records are public information. You could not possibly pass a law forbidding someone from displaying public information. And we certainly would not want to pivot to secret court systems. I think what you really w
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
> Have you never driven on an interstate highway outside of rush hour? Yeah some of these comments are from people who obviously don’t drive much. If you are driving the speed limit on a big highway you are legitimately at risk of causin
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
> but the mugshot and charges will probably be findable on the web for years and years The injustice is that this person was charged in the first place. The court system is public, and must remain that way. We could remove the mugshot, b
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
For some people the goalposts are moving faster than the speed of light. The goal was to flatten the curve. Remember that? Flatten. The. Curve. Is the curve not flat? How much flatter do you want it to be before returning to normal life? Do
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
> the unvaccinated can simply go without a mask regardless of their status. Oh, the humanity.
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
Texas. That would depend on how you classify 1%. The effective tax rate for an individual earning $400k would be around 31%. Like I said, even approaching 40% is obscene. 50-55% is absolute thievery. I would relocate from Texas if my effect
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
>What do you think is a reasonable effective income tax rate? (Please do not confuse effective and nominal tax rates!) In my view: "All in" should be about 50-55%. When I say "all in" I mean absolutely everything -- f
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by thrwhizzle 5y ago
Business and corporate taxes are an endless exercise in futility. We need to just completely get rid of them. Businesses and corporations will never pay, and there is no magical sequence of words to formulate a bulletproof tax scheme. If we