No, it’s far cheaper to scan a stack of loose papers than it is to scan a bound book, that’s why they’re cutting the pages out. And most of the books aren’t that valuable, even if they’re rare. So it’s an accounting decision to destroy the books.

It will never generate something novel. Whether it will generate something “new” depends on your definition of “new,” which is a little more ambiguous than “novel.”

Sorry if I’m being too pedantic.

That’s all true, but I’m not sure if you’re disagreeing with something I said or supporting it?

As long as the withdraw rate is based on contribution rate it doesn’t really matter what the cap is, because you’d be increasing withdrawal along with contributions. Social security income for someone who was making $185k/yr will be far more than enough to keep them out of poverty, which is the goal of social security. It’s not meant to be people’s only retirement account, it’s a safety net.

IIRC both employee A and B will also get the same payout from Social Security, assuming both of their salaries were at that level (at the cap or higher) for most of their careers.

Just looking at social security tax will never give you the full picture though, it’s just a small fraction of overall income taxes. And it misses the fact that wealthy people increase their wealth through other means, like long term capital gains. Someone making $100M per year through investments probably won’t work a day job and will therefore pay $0 social security tax.

Even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella

Although that might be more of an offensive umbrella…

YouTube is digital cinematography, not digital photography.

300,000 years ago ancient humans were born just as intelligent as any of us born today.

This isn’t true, and it would have taken you very little effort to verify it before posting.

Same reason Jeeps have more ground clearance and suspension travel than they need to operate on public roads. Some people use their vehicles for both transportation and recreation.

You moved the “H”

No, most people haven’t heard of it, but you’ve probably used it because it used to be integrated into a lot of apps that everyone has heard of.

No, it just means that the camera person doesn’t belong to the subset of H that makes up the orgy. You can have an orgy in the same room as someone who isn’t fucking - proximity isn’t an issue.

My grocery store usually has a box or 2 at the top front that’s mostly full of cracked eggs from people swapping. So yeah, psychos. At least grab from the middle of the pile if you aren’t checking each egg.

Wow, talk about moving the goal posts. Do you really think anyone on Lemmy is pro-ICE?

The kid returned home with brain damage, IIRC. Has that happened to anyone accused of vandalizing the pool?

Interesting. I don’t think you need to pay tax on homemade fuel in the US but I’m not entirely sure.

It isn’t illegal to run a car off biodiesel, is it? I know (in the US) some diesel is sold for non-highway use and maybe kerosene is similar, but the issue is tax. If you make the fuel yourself the tax man doesn’t get involved, just like beer and firearms. I think.

Same

I understand what that is supposed to mean

It seems like your understanding is different from other people’s.

A single user making dozens of posts and rarely getting any response? I wouldn’t call that egregious, it just seems ineffective to me.