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they are having an impassioned discussion about cotton blends
This is what the yts wanted with their GOP voting…
Iowa Republicans say they want to increase scrutiny of the state's public assistance programs.
What the entire fuck?!?!
Proposed Restrictions
No white grains — people can only purchase 100% whole wheat bread, brown rice and 100% whole wheat pasta.
No baked, refried or chili beans — people can purchase black, red and pinto beans.
No fresh meats — people can purchase only canned products like canned tuna or canned salmon.
No sliced, cubed or crumbled cheese. No American cheese.
Pretty sure we all died and we're living in hell
I'm still confused about this. Why? Just why. Like I understand if you say "you can't buy lobster on SNAP". I don't agree with it, but I understand why. You don't want poor people consuming rich people food.
But why only whole grain? Why only specific beans? It seems like you're just trying to filter everything out until they can't eat anything.
What if they have allergies that limit what they can eat?
I'm confused by this move.
-fae
Well you’re very wrong. There’s no ‘ understanding’ about limiting what SNAP can buy. Thats not your business what anyone wants to buy with their SNAP card. If they want New York Strips then that’s their right to have it.
And clearly because this is a way to cut off Black and brown people from having fresh foods.
That also should’ve been pretty obvious tbh. Canned crap and very cheap food products to punish low income people.
Oh the meat part makes sense. And your right. It's none of my business what people buy. I got my own what I buy to worry about.
But like. You can have canned black beans just not canned chilli beans. You can buy a whole block of cheese but not cubed or shredded cheese..
Like I understand legislatures shouldn't be policing what people buy. But I want to know why they think poor people shouldn't buy cubed cheese. That's weird as fuck.
And you know what? People on SNAP should absolutely be able to buy all the lobster and filets they want. What I mean is my "understand" is like. Logically. It's classism. They don't want people to buy lobster on SNAP because classism.
But like. Cubed cheese. That's not a rich people thing. If you get into a debate with a Republican about limiting what you should be able to get on SNAP they'll quickly bring up lobster and steak, but I'm not hearing anyone upset about poor people buying shredded cheese. Like.
This is the equivalent of trying to write laws about poor people being able to wear the color blue. I hear no one bitching about it.
Best guess is either a) they're trying to eliminate all of the food off SNAPs systematically or b) they're trying to eliminate all of the healthy food off SNAPs so poor people will get less healthy and they can abuse poor people of not taking care of themselves.
But you see even the second option doesn't make sense because they've limited the grain people can buy to only whole grain, arguably the more expensive one with more nutritional value.
I just want to know who the dumbass is that's storming around the capitol like "You know that pisses me off? Poor people buying cubed cheese and chilli beans. But I have no issues with them buying an entire block of cheese or buying black beans."
Like it's the half assed pulling random ass shit out of thin air. Is there some hidden agenda they're sneaking into the bill to like limit people from getting SNAPs or something? At least if that's the law I'd be able to say "Ah. That's the racism happening."
-fae
Hey USA, y'all doin okay? Do you need some help? Every time news comes out about the GOP doing anything it's always terrible, which like i understand, the GOP is full of the worst of the worst, i used to live in the Midwest, where Paul Ryan was from, but like...y'all good? It all kinda went to shit even harder after i left.
Lobster was poor people food until rich people discovered it's tasty.
The price of whole grain anything is not going to fall in order to accommodate SNAP recipients. SNAP is already not supposed to fund anyone's entire food budget, that's why the S in the name is for Supplementary, but (1) that was always nothing more than the justification for not giving SNAP recipients enough funds to be an entire food budget (2) SNAP is in fact many people's entire food budget. It is not enough as it is. Anyone who was buying white bread with SNAP, who will be required (if this bullshit passes) to buy whole wheat instead? They're going to end up eating less total food.
Which is the point.
Again the cheese thing is confusing here. Shredded cheese is more expensive. So the only thing I can think of for that would be that they're trying to make things inconvenient (we would need to buy blocks of cheese and then shred it ourselves). Is it really that petty?
I mean, it easily could be that petty. One of the biggest obstacles faced by poor people trying to eat healthy and balanced diets is the extra time cost of trying to prepare food from raw ingredients, since poor people are likely to be working more hours and often at times which clash with the sort of time they might wish to be cooking dinner.
So if the goal of this law is simply to punish poor people for being poor, which is very in keeping with the Republican playbook, I can easily see them deciding specifically to prevent people having access to foods which save on labour and effort.
On the other hand, I can equally well see it coming from some kind of very very stupid thing about "Oh, poor people are unhealthy because they eat too much processed food, therefore let's try and prevent them from getting that sort of food on SNAP, oh, what counts as processed? Hm, I guess shredded cheese is more 'processed' than unshredded cheese..."
I find both malice and absolute idiocy both equally plausible, to be honest.
@marine-beats
HELPME
In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more
I understand and it is true that it is hard to have a life outside work and scrolling but there is not a near future where that won’t be the case and you should still live a life. And you won’t create a future where that isn’t the case if you don’t have the confidence and experience and drive to fight for it
https://forge.medium.com/get-the-most-from-your-limited-free-time-84de1bc3096
the trick is to recognize that there’s nothing intrinsically exhausting about reading a book or painting a picture or doing any of the activities that are meaningful to you. What makes these things seem exhausting is the fact that they’re now competing with cheaper stimulation. In a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a group of psychologists suggested that the feeling of effort is a sensation of opportunity costs. When you’re doing something and an alternative activity promises to be easier and more immediately rewarding, the original activity feels effortful.
Therefore, if you want to do the things that matter, you need to make the alternatives less salient. Reading will be hard when Netflix is always an option. Family time will seem boring if your phone is always within arm’s reach. Easier will beat better if it’s always available.
people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good
it’s not about actually being gifted, it’s about an initial higher scoring on standardized testing that means little to nothing or being good at learning in the way elementary and middle school wants you to, so you get marked as ‘advanced’. in reality, maybe you had faster development in certain areas, but the issue with being a gifted kid isn’t that “everyone told me I was so cool and special for reading and then I actually wasn’t :(” it’s “I wasn’t properly taught to handle things not coming easily to me, but the adults around me were counting on me not being a ‘difficult’ child in school.”
people who use it as some weird bragging method or interpret it that way are ignoring the way a lot of school systems force certain roles on students to simplify the learning process. If your kid doesn’t need to take notes to understand a science concept bc they get it naturally, well that’s good, but now you’re not teaching them how to take notes and they’re not learning that important soft skill. but because ‘gifted’ kids are easy and don’t show that they’re falling behind in learning in other categories that are harder to quantify, they eventually fall behind after that catches up to them. It’s about the failures of a one size fits all school system trying to compensate in the worst way possible.
And also the thing where ‘gifted’ kids are super likely to also be neuroatypical, which they don’t get screened for because they appear to be doing well in school. Or “You can’t be ADHD/autistic/etc, because you’re doing so well in school!”. Or being shamed for developing mental health issues/generally not being able to keep up with school work later, because you USED TO BE able to do it just fine.
Or the assumption that just because you can read well or you like math class, you’re somehow more EMOTIONALLY mature than your little kid brain is actually capable of being.
Or gifted kids whose parents and teachers put immense pressure on them to Do Great Things and Save The World and you’re like. “I’m 10 and I have no idea how to do that, but everyone is saying that’s my job?”.
This is the best “gifted kid” post out there. I never took notes until college because I didn’t have to, snd when it got challenging I had to literally teach myself note taking at age 18. It also fucks with your perception of asking for help - you’re advanced, you’re competent, you should be able to understand every topic easily. Asking for help/going to office hours/asking for a tutor feels like failing when you were praised in your early years for not needing to do that.
Neil Young is so hot for this, everyone should remove their music from spotify and everyone should stop paying for it, return to your roots, remember the days of limetorrents
IT IS STARTING
IT CONTINUES
What exactly is going on here?
Spotify pays its artists pennies but because most people use Spotify or a similar music streaming service, most artists put up with it so people actually listen to their music. As far as I understand it, the only money they really make is off merch and concerts rather than people actually playing their music. Which is, of course, unfair. Hence these artists’ protest.
neil young actually pulled his music from spotify bc they platform joe rogan’s vaccine misinformation, not because of streaming revenue. he threatened spotify that if they didn’t deplatform joe rogan that he would pull his music, and they let him pull his music instead.
Neil and Joni are both polio survivors. Neil can’t really feel his left hand, because of the whole “they had to remover vertebrae from his spine due to the polio” thing, and both of them are extremely pro-vaccine and medical science because of that. Rogan’s anti-vax stance was explicitly what caused Neil to walk, and Joni followed suit.
trying to find something out so please rb and give your opinion on these cookies specifically in the tags
[ID: a picture of soft, frosted, sugar cookies in a plastic see through package, the frosting is pink and there are multicolored sprinkles on the frosting. /end ID]
Saw yet another person on Tumblr claim that billionaires only donate to charity for the tax benefits.
Just so you know: that’s not a thing. Tax deductions on charitable donations mean that you get back *the taxes you paid on the money you donated*, which is less than the amount you donated, because there aren’t any >100% marginal tax rates.
The idea here is that someone who makes $3M and donates $1M of it is effectively counted as having $2M of gross income for tax purposes. But they’re still out the $1M, they’re not making a profit somehow.
Please stop accusing people of getting rich by giving away their money. That’s not a thing you can do.
(a) charitable donations fund things that the donor would pay for (e.g., your name on a building) or which are impossible to price at fair market value (e.g., unique goods, memberships or admissions)
so not only do rich donors get the things, they get a tax deduction for buying them – it’s nice to be able to take a bite out of your income when you’re buy something nice for yourself!
(b) charities can keep assets out of your (taxable) estate without depriving you and your heirs of substantial control.
Bill Gates runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mark Zuckerberg runs the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. Gates and Zuckerberg control the use and management of the assets in their charities.
they don’t put them in their estate. they don’t pay taxes on that capital income, unlike a regular inter vivos trust. in fact, Gates and Zuckerberg took a big tax deduction when they donated to them.
they shield those assets from other taxes too. no gift tax. no estate tax. no probate. I don’t know how unrealized capital gains work when there’s a charitable disposition, but I’m sure it’s slimy.
and control goes with whoever the trustees choose. which means, of course, whoever the family chooses. they still have their name on it.
© that’s if everyone’s playing by the book. but some people just cheat. like Trump, with the Trump Foundation.
some people charities to pay for their own consumption. to hire children or family. or game transfers of impossible-to-price goods to secure just the right deduction.
(d) whether or not these guys cheat, they absolutely donate to charity for the tax benefits.
none of these guys got rich donating to charity. that’s true. but charity helps them stay rich, powerful, and tax-free.
it’s not great!
conservation easements, don’t we love them, folks?
This reminds me of this: Anand Giridharas on why the plutes hate to pay taxes but love to donate. Rich people use “philanthropy” to purchase power, and that may be even more pernicious than when it’s a straightforward scam. I’ll just transcribe the whole thing:
“What we see in France is part of a larger pattern: the plutes often hate to pay their taxes but love to donate.
Now, you might say, what’s the big difference? Why do you hate paying $100 million in taxes but relish paying $100 million in a philanthropic gift?
One reason is that the donation is tax-subsidized, in many cases. So the $100 million donation may actually cost you way less than $100 million, even though it will be reported in the media as such.
Another reason is reputational. Paying taxes doesn’t give you much esteem. To paraphrase Chris Rock, one doesn’t get credit for doing what you’re supposed to do.
But donations, especially well-publicized ones, buy you reputational benefits that in effect also defray the cost.
What I mean by “defray the cost”:
If you’re rich and powerful, you may have various interests that make you dependent on decisions by public actors, and various things you want to avoid (antitrust rules, regulations).
So, having a moral glow, being seen as a good guy, pays.
So when you donate, you may drop $100 million. But (a) you get some of that back via deduction. And (b) many donors will also derive some intangible reputational and access benefits. If a $100 million check makes it easier to call a senator, that could be worth millions.
So you’re now out only $50 million, but you have stories out there saying you spent $100 million, and maybe you have general reputational benefits or specific access benefits that help you get a project approved or avoid some legislative crackdown, which sweetens the deal.
But we haven’t yet talked about the biggest differentiator for many of the plutocrats I have reported on. The biggest differentiator is control.
The problem with taxes is that you wire them in, and they go into a big pile with everyone else’s, and they go where they go.
This offends many plutocrats in a few distinct ways.
One, they just like controlling things, deciding things. That’s often how they make and keep their money. They are, or think they are, good at it. They want to do the same deciding here.
But with taxes, they can’t.
Even if you pay a lot of taxes, your money isn’t special when it takes the form of taxes. More of it doesn’t buy you more esteem, more discretion, more of a say in how the money is spent.
But when you donate, that can get you a board seat, an advisory role, the right to decide.
“I feel much more comfortable with our ability as a private foundation to allocate these funds than I do giving them to the government,” Michael Dell said in Davos, which is a conference similar to that Saudi Future Investment Initiative, but on a Swiss mountain.
What so attracts many plutocrats to causes like Notre Dame and so repels them from taxation is a feeling they have that the society is best-off when they, rather than the society, decide how and where resources are spent.
Which gets us to the heart of the matter.
They are happy to part with some of their money as long as they don’t have to part with any of their power.
In fact, through the donation, they increase their power - reputationally, access-wise, and in the administration of the gift.
They are willing to make a difference so long as you do not interfere with their right to make and keep their killings.”
- Transcript of writings by Anand Giridharas, credit belongs to them.
Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.
Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:
“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent
Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”
And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.
I love how this website is so surly and disinterested in the neo-internet content experience that every feature imported from twitter/insta/whatever is met with an indignant fury like the French being told they cant smoke on a bus and setting the town hall on fire in protest
The only content I want to see is content I opted into and the only order I want to see it in is chronological.
I don’t care if it’s the most fascinating thing I’ve ever seen on this website; as soon as I see “Based On Your Likes” it goes in the piss pit
here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too
In case anyone can’t read the article for whatever reasons, the VPNs acquired are:
ExpressVPN
Private Internet Access
Zenmate
CyberGhost
And the VPN review sites they purchased are:
vpnMentor
Wizcase
So if you use any of those, time to look for other options.
Wasn’t this episode banned in the UK for that specific reason?
2 more years
Just cause of the Starbucks news *cough cough*
I want to study at a Klingon university
i will spell Kronos as Qo’noS and use loghqams. I would watch Klingon Opera all night while drinking bloodwine with my maqoch’pu. I’ll have gagh every day that’s worth 5 darseks. I would go to Kal'Hyah. i am also more likely to meet warriors, the Duras sisters, Martok, and Gowron.
i wish i was klingon :(