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ThunderSizzle 3 points ago +3 / -0

Pregnancy, for civilians at least, is left up to the mother, but it appears companies that require it don't give a shit and will require it of women that are trying to or are pregnant

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ThunderSizzle 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think Bing is actually worse than google when it comes to this, since bing uses whitelisting by default, whereas Google has to blacklist specific sites.

E.g. Bing only returns sites they whitelisted or pass a whitelist threshold. It was an attempt to improve quality, but it throws out alot of discussions/forums sites by default.

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ThunderSizzle 1 point ago +1 / -0

The last "outsider" president ran was Carter. He couldn't get Congress to do shit.

No rational person could argue that Trump couldn't get things done. No where near as much as many hope, but politics is very slow.

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ThunderSizzle 2 points ago +2 / -0

Meh. If they use the with logic for covid, they should stay consistent and use it for the vaccine.

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ThunderSizzle 7 points ago +9 / -2

BLM and antifa burned down cities. Governors have locked down states and killed businesses and livelihoods. Biden stole the presidency.

Alot of normal people are tired of the shit. At some point, we're gonna break. I suspect it'll be this year if Biden does become president and actually tries to ruin what's left.

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ThunderSizzle 4 points ago +7 / -3

So, we have 4 years of Biden doing what?

And what do we do with the irrefutable proof of fraud? Just pretend it didn't happen? Should we really expect 80+ million Americans to just go along with that? No one even likes Biden. Seen his YouTube channel?

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ThunderSizzle 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ah. You think dieing with a positive COVID test or potential diagnose of COVID is the same as dieing from COVID.

Remember there's an undetermined false positive rate with tests, and doctors will diagnose covid before anything else because of the financial incentive to do so.

So, how many of that 300,000 actually died from covid?

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ThunderSizzle 4 points ago +4 / -0

Is the death rate now 30%? Last I checked, still only 18,000 or so died from COVID in the US. Less people died in 2020 than the natural expected death rate.

Everyone I know who got it recovered. But no one cared when my grandparents died from not covid in yesteryears.

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ThunderSizzle 0 points ago +1 / -1

Don't forget that the current tax code is written for the rich - you may see the top bracket is higher, but anyone that is smart is funneling their money to avoid taxes. For example, the nominal tax rate of a married couple making $120k/yr is 22%, or ~$26k in taxes every year.

But, the couple will use the standard deduction ($24k), and use some pre-tax deductions, such as 401k and HSA contributions, meaning they only pay 4% in taxes or about 5k. They have to throw almost half of their money - about $50k - into tax advantaged accounts - meaning they only have less than half of their income (about 55k) to spend on what they want. Honestly, it's basically enforced social security. Either pay 26k in taxes or save half your money for retirement. "free country"...

You want people to prefer saving money over spending it? Then put a sales tax on everything instead. I highly encourage saving, but my frustrations with 401k/ira/hsa are the complications behind it, and the # of "gotchas" waiting for you. You shouldn't be taxed for wanting to save for a down payment instead of retirement. Owning a house is a decent way to secure your money while having a place to live.

The more money you make, the less you have to follow the normal "rules" and you can start following the harder ones to follow. Business deductions galore.

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ThunderSizzle -5 points ago +2 / -7

As much as I hope for a Trump win from this, I fully expect Biden to take office.

Never let your expectations be disappointed by your hopes.

You shouldn't be downvoted for realizing this truth.