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Post by sj on Apr 28, 2024 11:01:09 GMT -5
Perish the thought that the conservatives could be right about this one. The "mainstream" (legacy) news networks are owned by billionaire elites who don't even believe in the narratives that they're broadcasting. For instance, if they're truly convinced and passionate about climate change and worry about rising sea levels, they wouldn't be flying around in private jets and buying up ocean front properties.
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 28, 2024 18:39:53 GMT -5
For instance, if they're truly convinced and passionate about climate change and worry about rising sea levels, they wouldn't be flying around in private jets and buying up ocean front properties. Not true. If you are a billionaire you can absorb the cost of losing an oceanfront property that may go underwater via climate change, also a jet is a good investment for a wealthy person who wants to avoid crowds and deal with airports........how do you know there are no rich people who don't specifically avoid buying oceanfront property or don't own a jet? Like you are 100% sure they don't exist?
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Post by sj on Apr 29, 2024 4:07:33 GMT -5
For instance, if they're truly convinced and passionate about climate change and worry about rising sea levels, they wouldn't be flying around in private jets and buying up ocean front properties. Not true. If you are a billionaire you can absorb the cost of losing an oceanfront property that may go underwater via climate change, also a jet is a good investment for a wealthy person who wants to avoid crowds and deal with airports.... They certainly could absorb the cost, but that's a separate point. My point is, rich people typically don't invest in rapidly depreciating assests and real estate is one of the most expensive assets they can buy. They're not going to intentionally throw money away on assets that are going to be wiped away near-term by an impending disaster - one that they supposedly feel so passionate about, ie. climate change. Even if they believe in climate change, evidently, they believe (what scientists say about it) it's a very slow process that's not going to flood their properties in their lifetimes (or their kids' lifetimes) and they do not believe it's the imminent crisis that the media narrative suggests. Their owning a private jets and fleets of SUV's, while telling everyone else to buy EV's is hypocritical. Lead by example. I didn't say 100% anything. You're just interjecting your own words/opinions. But now that you mention it, none of the ones I could think of off the top of my head don't own oceanfront property. Info on billionaires' beachfront properties is all over the internet. Simply do a google search! Gates www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/bill-and-melinda-gates-purchase-beach-house-in-del-mar/Bezos www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2023/11/03/jeff-bezos-buys-another-billionaire-bunker-mansion/71436852007/Zuckerberg www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-compound/Altman www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/heres-openai-ceo-sam-altmans-real-estate-portfolio-assets/466193Obama (not a billionaire, but very much into climate change politically) has a home in Marth'a Vineyard, a small island off the east coast. List probably goes on and on. Now you can search and try to find us the one who doesn't own a beachfront property.
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Post by sj on Apr 29, 2024 4:42:22 GMT -5
www.greenmatters.com/sustainable-living/elon-musk-houseBoca Chica is on the Gulf Coast. However, i've read that it's a rental, so maybe Musk doesn't technically own a beachfront home. Either way, this would be a rare case for a billionaire leading by example (in sustainability).
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Post by ForRealTho on Apr 30, 2024 10:05:09 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on May 1, 2024 5:39:15 GMT -5
One thing I always found interesting about Volvos is how they use an inline 5 engine.
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Post by RockBuff on May 1, 2024 8:49:02 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 1, 2024 10:15:15 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 2, 2024 16:22:30 GMT -5
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Post by RockBuff on May 3, 2024 12:10:50 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 3, 2024 14:26:35 GMT -5
Unfortunately, those V10 cars in the video (and the R8) are out of production. Apparently, Audi kept the R8 on their site just for legacy PR, since there's no pricing or availability info. I wasn't even thinking of the engine sound, but the dude hosting the video is right.. 5-cyl engines sound incredible. Scroll down in the Audi RS3 link (above) and there's an embedded audio playback of the engine sound. Then, for comparison, listen to engine audio of the 6-cyl engine RS5 (below). It has more horsepower, but doesn't sound near as good (imo). www.audiusa.com/us/web/en/models/a5/rs5-coupe/2024/overview.htmlThe RS3 appears to be one of the fastest cars in the sub $70k price range. I think only the new Corvettes are slightly faster (to 60mph) for roughly the same retail price. idk if you can find Corvettes for the mfg suggested price though. They were selling out at above mfg suggested last I heard.
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Post by ForRealTho on May 4, 2024 17:28:42 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on May 5, 2024 10:47:06 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 6, 2024 10:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 6, 2024 15:10:43 GMT -5
My main complaint with people asking for tax increases is that they either seem to think all taxes are "income" taxes or they don't understand that the super rich pay very little in income taxes. Because if they did (understand how the system works), they'd spell out precisely what type of tax increases they're asking for.. but they don't and they end up getting what they ask for (higher taxes on the working class ppl, not the super rich). The key to understanding this financial wizardry and secret to avoid paying high taxes is simply knowing that dividends and capital gains are NOT counted as income (by the IRS), as long as you keep reinvesting them and don't divest (into cash or other asset classes, with the exception being real estate - in the US anyway). What counts as income on your tax return is the money you make as an employee for some company/organization. Dividends and capital gains, real estate gains, and other asset gains do NOT count as income and are taxed at much lower (or 0) rates. www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html#:~:text=Even%20though%20I%20agreed%20with%20him%2C%20I%20warned,rich%20class%2C%20that%E2%80%99s%20making%20war%2C%20and%20we%E2%80%99re%20winning.%E2%80%9D Edit: Biden's 2025 budget proposal includes increasing the capital gains tax. However, I heard that the proposal still doesn't close a tax loophole that the super rich can exploit (by buying property and becoming citizen of Puerto Rico) to transfer their investment portfolios to this non-US jurisdiction, allowing them a path to escape US capital gains tax entirely. Increasing taxes doesn't help when they leave the loopholes for the rich intact. In fact, this makes the capital gains tax more regressive, since ordinary people can't afford the loophole (i.e. buying enough property outside the US Federal jurisdiction to qualify) and, thus, only the lower income ppl can't escape the tax increase.
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Post by RockBuff on May 9, 2024 11:48:48 GMT -5
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Post by RockBuff on May 10, 2024 11:39:58 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on May 10, 2024 12:51:29 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on May 10, 2024 16:54:32 GMT -5
"Mmmh Mmmh Mmmh, baby, you make me wish I had 3 hands..."
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Post by ForRealTho on May 12, 2024 11:06:03 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on May 12, 2024 22:55:20 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on May 14, 2024 10:21:40 GMT -5
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Post by RockBuff on May 14, 2024 12:35:40 GMT -5
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Post by Cop on May 14, 2024 12:39:19 GMT -5
They stopped paying protection money so the mafia took part of it back... That or they caved in because the mob-connected building company used sand instead of cement...
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Post by ForRealTho on May 14, 2024 14:19:09 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 14, 2024 15:59:43 GMT -5
I've noticed that, from many anecdotal sources like this on the internet, that anything with sugar in it is much cheaper in America. Here, if you catch it on sale (which is often), you can find whole gallon of a quality brand of icecream for $4 or less. Is it any wonder we're the fattest nation in the world?
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Post by RockBuff on May 15, 2024 6:38:08 GMT -5
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Post by ForRealTho on May 15, 2024 10:58:51 GMT -5
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Post by sj on May 15, 2024 14:51:56 GMT -5
The adult T-Rex only had the best eyesight, best sense of smell, and strongest bite force of any known land animal in the fossil record.. and it didn't hunt. Yeah, sure. lol
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Post by sj on May 15, 2024 15:16:19 GMT -5
imo, it's teeth are the smoking gun that give it away as a predator species.
Two facts point to this. 1) Researchers know, based on fossils, that any teeth a Rex lost grew back (like a shark). What shark species w/ razor sharp teeth that constantly replenish do they know of today isn't a predator? None. 2) It's teeth had serrations/jagged patterns, for holding onto to bits of rotting flesh, that resemble those found on the Komodo Dragons. So odds are, T-Rex didn't even need speed or endurance to hunt. Like the Komodo Dragon, it could just ambush prey and deal a single bite, infect the prey with sepsis, and then follow it around until it collapses from disease/infection.
Also, if only scavenger, why so big? hah.
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