Whiskey_iicarus

Whiskey_iicarus , 1 month ago

My m8 is somewhere in my office still. Behind my pixel 5 it has probably been my favorite Android phone.

Whiskey_iicarus , 1 month ago

I have been using that stuff for years and I’m very satisfied!

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

Same ship, different service. The safety net affords me the ability to find what I really want to do without tying my life to a single job or place.

I also think that it can be brought to other citizens through other community activities. Why don’t we offer similar incentives to teachers? 10yr of teaching in exchange for UBI. Or doctors. Or rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure.

I’m guessing that your VA/service income doesn’t just go straight to savings either. A lot of it goes right back into the economy through purchasing and associated taxes paid on those things. At least mine does.

The US military is the largest socialist organization in the world and I wish they would extend that to the rest of its citizens without the downside of PTSD, death, and a lifetime of physical and mental ailments.

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

I’ve thought this for a while, but maybe our service to country isn’t done with a DD214. The current situation in the US and world at large makes me think I can still do some good. Maybe politics needs more people who think like you and me.

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

As someone who has been forced to have a chaplain around, they are usually great people that are very uplifting. Absolutely no need for the religious part though. Until there is a true non denominational “chaplain” which is really just a counselor with extra privilege, you will alienate people who feel you can be, and do good things without any need for a sky daddy. All I wanted was someone to listen and maybe offer some advice, please don’t bring your millennia+ worth of baggage to the conversation.

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

It’s not. I actually commented on this before in a different thread. I saw him in a Texas airport last year and he already had a state trooper with him and not a single person was trying to talk to him as he walked. That man is in no danger because his persona is repellent enough to keep people away from him.

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

No offense to Canadians, but a Texas man, cruz is not.

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

This is only tangibly related to your comment, but even before you get the unemphatic part, the regressive taxes alone set rich people apart from poor people. If you make enough money have to pay taxes at the lowest bracket in the US it’s 10% taxes with minimum $22k a year income. That is $2200 a year, which is a crazy amount for them to be able afford when someone in the highest tax bracket is paying 37% and it doesn’t start until $578k for a single filing. That’s about $214k in taxes with about $364k left over to be as empathetic as they want to be with it. It would take the person who is paying 10% in taxes 16.5 years just to make what the person who is making half a million a year makes AFTER TAXES!

It’s very hard for either group to be empathetic to the other, but for vastly different reasons.

I am very bad at public math if anyone sees a glaring issue.

Whiskey_iicarus , 2 months ago

How is that proving my point any less? You are absolutely right those fucking billionaires way more than $578k every day and yet the person who pays at 10% is going to feel that tax burden so much more than someone making a million dollars!

Whiskey_iicarus , 3 months ago

rAmen

Whiskey_iicarus , 3 months ago

You might want to take a HARD look at your comment and check some of your spelling.

Whiskey_iicarus , 3 months ago

I see it now. Must have flown right over my HEAD.

Whiskey_iicarus , 3 months ago

Same, especially on such a serious topic.

Whiskey_iicarus , 4 months ago

I would love to be wrong, but it’s too bad one of the injured or killed weren’t connected to the governor. That seems to be the only time some people give a shit.

Whiskey_iicarus , 4 months ago

The article says the people that brought the lawsuit are from California, where cannabis is already legal.

Whiskey_iicarus , 4 months ago

I think that is capitalism 101

Whiskey_iicarus , 4 months ago

I saw this rat faced fuck at IAH back in October. Not a single person was trying to interact with him and he already had a state trooper escort with a wide buffer zone around him. He had that smarmy, stupid smile on that stupid dumb face of his. It ruined my whole day.

Whiskey_iicarus , 5 months ago

In the little blurb under the title it says 2002 instead of 2022 for when this happened

Whiskey_iicarus , 6 months ago

Cunts are useful and provide warmth and depth. These people have none of those qualities.

Whiskey_iicarus , 6 months ago

Shart.

Whiskey_iicarus , 7 months ago

How is this news?

Whiskey_iicarus , 7 months ago

That happens all the time. I went through several government contracts where a company would come and under bid the current contract by a significant amount, win the bid, offer the current contractors 3/4 of what they were being paid and fill in the rest with new hires. There is no continuity between contracts so unless a bunch of the old contractors took a pay cut to stay on they would come in and start from scratch with all new processes and procedures and absolutely slow down productivity for all those they were supposed to be providing support.

Whiskey_iicarus , 10 months ago

In court, McGonigal, 55, said he is “deeply remorseful” for his actions.

“I appear before you in this court to take full responsibility as my actions never intended to hurt the United States, the FBI and my family and friends,” he said, at times appearing emotional.>

At the very least at least he is taking responsibility for his actions. It seems like a rare occurrence for such a high level individual to acknowledge what they did was wrong and are willing to accept the consequences to their actions

Whiskey_iicarus , 10 months ago

I might buy one of their games just to offset someone who can’t. I absolutely appreciate a business with this kind of attitude. Like someone else said, the people who pirate it probably weren’t going to buy it anyway. Might as well get some goodwill out of it.

Whiskey_iicarus , 10 months ago

I have learned a lot while I was setting up my NAS and all the *arr applications. It taught me a bit about networking and a bit about docker which I know is going to be helpful for me in the future. That kid you were talking about might be able to learn the something similar which might get them interested in the tech world and you have just created a future programmer, or network admin, or any number of other tech job. Those can be very marketable skills in a pool of people who seem to be less tech literate as tech becomes so easy to use.