A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:

1. Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems

2. James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists

3. Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s

4. Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories

5. Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS

Just winning a Nobel doesn’t automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.

4. Profit

If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions?

Don’t ignore the fact that part of the reason there are so many distributions, desktops, window managers, etc etc is because a large number of skilled coders have outsized egos

Occupy Wall Street: 2011

Obamacare: 2010

it’s ok dude i know you’re not serious comparing Platner with someone with literal brain damage anyway, no need to dig into the weeds on more logical fallacies from that point

Move the goalposts harder daddy

jfc is this your line of logic? that’s about as sound as “hitler was a vegetarian so all vegetarians are nazis” lol

If this guy was actually a Nazi he’d be fast-tracked in the Republican party instead of trying to play on hard mode rehabbing his image as a working class Democrat. You don’t even have to cover your tattoos up as a Republican, they just let you be secdef

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Shhhhh, .ml will hear you!

Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now, fulfill your destiny and take your father’s place at my side!

Good, direct your ire at an arbitrary age group instead of at the billionaire class, and alienate potential allies. Perfect

Mmmmm yes generational conflict will stoke the working class against each other yessss the plan is working

Before he started glazing trump he was an empty suit who did whatever Florida’s sugar lobby wanted. He’s never had anything

Most people think the Supreme Court will always act like the Warren Court when in reality, with the exception of those 20 or so years, it’s been nothing but reactionary and conservative at best. Dredd Scott anyone?

You will get nowhere blaming individuals for systemic problems and also you’re alienating your potential allies like a true leftist so maybe chill on the class traitor stuff

Not OP but New England has many also

Any hobby you have where you someone could reasonably assume you could make money at it can be claimed to be a business and used to deduct expenses from your taxes. Since the Trump tax cut of 2017 you don’t even need to create a legal structure for that business anymore. You just literally fill out schedule C as a sole proprietor.

“Middle class” landlords do this all the time, since they get rent as income they can deduct all their expenses at Lowes et. al., if you keep a garden in the summer and ever sell your produce, even if it’s just one tomato, you can deduct gardening expenses, if you own a boat and take people out on charter you can deduct your boat expenses, etc. (Make sure to follow other laws about this, I don’t know where you live and just came up with these off the top of my head.) I have even heard of people starting YouTube cleaning channels to teach people who to clean, and now you can reasonably deduct expenses for your cleaning products.

Also business expenses are “above the line” so this has nothing to do with the standard deduction like charitable donations and mortgage interest do, those are below the line.

Rule of thumb is there’s some length of time you can report losses before the IRS comes sniffing around so if you’re not filthy rich you may have to deal with an audit, but it’s not illegal to try to start a business and not make money. Word on the street is you can lose money running even a casino and deduct those losses too.

This is not legal advice, go look it up on your own and don’t do anything some random on the internet says

Maybe you should spend a trillion dollars a year on a military whose only purpose is to lower that number a few dollars per gallon

Hyundai/Kia have a major problem with the integrated charge control units that they’re basically refusing to provide a long-term solution for. If it fails in one car, they just replace it with an identical module and hope it doesn’t happen again. But the root cause has not been addressed.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-recalls-defects/hyundai-ioniq-kia-iccu-failure-tesla-a3038878758/