tdibble.bsky.social
Father of six, husband of one, pet-parent of too many.
Software architect in major US K12 education software company.
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Same here but with dashes (YYYY-MM-DD), because that makes things sort properly.
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As I said: money spent on proselytizing should be taxed as equivalent to profits.
Megachurches buy goods (jets as a prime example) that they let their "pastors" use (so the pastor doesn't need to pay taxes on this as income), with the justification that it allows them to expand the church.
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I believe any salaries paid to these "pastors" is already taxed. However, things that the church buys for the exclusive use of the pastors (their mansions, cars, jets, travel around the world, etc) is what needs to be taxed.
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To be clear: you should be able to volunteer your time saying how great your church is, just like anyone can spend their free time talking about how great the company they work for is. And if you talk about how great your church is while ladling out soup, that doesn't make the soup taxable either.
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"Spreading the good news" is proselytizing which IMHO should be taxed (any money spent on it, that is). This is exactly the loophole that gets megachurches private jets for the exclusive use of their "pastors".
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If $100 in donations goes to paying for bread that goes out to the community, that is by definition not a profit and cannot be taxed.
If $100 in donations goes towards buying a jet for the "pastor" to expand their ministry, that *should* be seen as a profit and be taxed like any other.
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If you tax everything that is not spent in direct service of the community, large megachurches suddenly pay a lot in taxes and your local congregation still pays nothing (or next to nothing).
Problem is that proselytizing is classified as legit nonprofit, and it shouldn't be.
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The article is missing the point. Yes, non-profit means it has no profit to tax. Small churches are exactly that ($100 in tithing/donations goes directly to providing $100 worth of work for the community).
But if a church is buying one or more jets for its "pastors" to use, that should be taxed.
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And it is text on a plain white background. Would take less than five minutes to put together in any decent image editing app. 🤦♂️
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I've used the app without any internet connection (it has been a while though) without issue. Obviously, I can't vouch that there isn't some nefarious hidden kill switch the author put in there, but I can't see why they would have done that.
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You can export and/or print them (in a standardized form, not the original blog format). Everything is stored locally on the device (or synced to iCloud, but that doesn't depend on the app author's servers staying up) so if it stops being updated, everything can still be exported.
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100%. The end of Google was written in stone when they bought Doubleclick.
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I'm not sure what Google has to do with recipe bloggers' practices, but I've been using the app Paprika for a few years now. Imports just the recipe from any page you give it, and works as a digital recipe box. I know there's a Mac and IOS version; not sure if it goes to Win/Android.
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I was going to say exactly this. Google (search) was *amazing* when it launched. I remember using it the first time in late 1998 and getting astounding results (as always, compared to the competition – alta vista, yahoo, etc, which had in their own day been revelatory as well).
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Savings aren't *automatically* passed down, but in this case I agree, because of two factors:
1. AI schlock is even worse than BuzzFeed's usual content. A worse product -> lower value, automatically.
2. Unlikely BF is going to be doing anything novel here; others can easily duplicate.
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I have, not just once, put something on my to-do list after I already did it, just so I can cross it off.
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... "which are made in Central America and Haiti."
So, *technically* America(s)-first! Just a lot more brown-people-participation than the typical MAGA / christian nationalist would condone.
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Many tech execs were raging anti-tax libertarians long before MeToo, but knowing that their toxic behavior might have consequences did seal the deal.
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Since you watch so much non-propaganda news, please cite your source for your "mutilations" claim.
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I've never understood why people like it and look forward to it returning. I find it pretty gross in both taste and texture. That said, if someone likes it, more power to them I guess.
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Should also say that this is the first time ever I've deleted a social media account. I'm sure whoever runs MySpace on a server hidden under their desk these days still has my account sitting there, idle and unused. But no one cares how many accounts MySpace "still" has these days.
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I was in that situation as well for a good long time. The straw for me was Musk explicitly endorsing Trump and funding incredibly scummy Willie Horton-esque ads. I decided then that I didn't want my account to be one of the number Musk cites as implicit endorsement of his social platform.
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"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, but when I had to pee you said fuck off."
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Also, must be repeated daily, because who knows when they are going to visit one of those schools doing clandestine mid-day sex-reassignment surgeries and return to the hallowed halls of Congress as a woman?
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I suspect Phase II is really either:
* Abolish labor laws so "the poor" can work 120-hour work weeks
* Fail at changing laws, say the poor should just get multiple jobs so they can work 120-hour work weeks
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It is absolutely insane for people to say that Harris lost because they focussed too much on trans issues, when they didn't focus on trans issues at all in the campaign.
I don't have a trans child, but I expect my party to defend *all* children who society doesn't sufficiently protect or support.
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To be fair, that is all we heard about "executive immunity" as well, and yet here we are with a dictator-elect ...
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Apparently Mary got how FB and LinkedIn work (mutual links between people) and just can't get their head around what "follow" means (uni-directional links).
Pro tip: if you think others should be obligated to do something that the social network site does not enforce, you are likely using it wrong.
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Yeah, I was just thinking that as well. I remember *liking* it in High School, but when something's assigned with reports and such looming, it's hard to *really enjoy* it. I'll have to add it to my reading queue again.
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I saw the Instagram handle and thought, "That's not Harvey Epstein, that's some guy named 'Harvey Forny'."
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So, you go to a "Young Republicans watch party" to get the "real" scoop. Then the only real impressions you get are that they hooted and hollered when their guy lied about Haitians and attacked the moderators?
This could have just been a tweet. Waste of an article.
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I think it is probably more accurate to say that *Melania* doesn't stand that close to *him*, but, yeah. That photo and the body language definitely raised a lot of eyebrows (two that I can account for at least).
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Huh. So, it isn't how much you "process" a food, but rather what you end up with after all that "processing" (ex, a bucketload of sugar and/or salt) that matters? Interesting.
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It seems like everyone but the media know the "dirty secret" about undecided voters: they aren't diligent solons just needing more information to make their decision. They are procrastinators and politics-averse people who haven't put any effort or thought into the election yet.
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I believe chest freezers are significantly more efficient, especially if you open the door/lid a lot. But chest freezers are more difficult to get into and use. It's a tradeoff.
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Holy cow!
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It *is* really cool, and has many advantages over direct-propulsion mast sails.
What would the added height do to its utility and stability? I imagine there are a number of ports it wouldn't be able to reach. Is there more of a risk of capsizing, or does the mass distribution avoid that?
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We usually run the dishwasher at night, and turn the heat-dry off (which like yours is stupidly *two* presses). Everything is nicely dry by the time we unload in the morning.
But if we do a load during the day we leave the heat dry on. I'll try no-heat next time we run during the day!
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Please do it earlier than when you are actively turning though. Yes, having the signal when you are actually turning is marginally better than nothing, but signaling well before the actual turn is much much better.
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Where we used to live, there was a long right-turn lane, and about 15 feet before the actual turn there was a side street that cars would be coming out of. I'd wait to turn on my signal until *after* that side street, to avoid making those cars think that I was going to turn there instead of later.
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I'm not 100% sure about that, but mongooses are definitely a cross-breed of a monkey and a goose.