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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • A laptop with a screen on both sides would have its niche.

    Shuting it would be like a tablet.

    You could do something while a person across watches.

    If you could rotate the screen you could swivel the screen to swap between two physical screens. I prefer two monitors over an ultra wide or trying to digitally swap between two screens. Rotating screen would have the problem of not being able to see both at once.

    However, if you made the screen on the back hinge forward. You could flip the screen towards you and have a second physical monitor.

    Sounds expensive and not really needed. But it wouldn’t be a bad design







  • You have to understand what profit is.

    If I make a church, collect 1 million from my congregation. Then, I pay myself 1 million for the job of being the pastor.

    My business, the church, is non-profit. It had 1 million in revenue and 1 million in expenses. No profit.

    Now, I would be dumb to pay myself the million as a salary because then that million gets income taxed. I’d “buy” 1 million dollars worth of bibles for Uzbekistan and never fulfill the order or something. Launder it.

    The idea of why the church doesn’t get taxed is sound. People pay income tax, church collects taxed income, church spends taxed income to better community.

    They are essentially supposed to be a middle man. If i took my taxed income and donated it directly to buy bibles for Uzbekistan. Then it doesn’t make sense for my money to be taxed again. So if i give my money to the church and they give it to Uzbekistan, then why tax it?

    Problem is our tax code has loop holes

    A church was never supposed to buy a private jet. Yet it has become a business expense.





  • You can not simply “shift” billions of dollars from one currency to another.

    As much as the rich people with billions want to get rid of the USD, the people willing to give GBP or Euro for USD don’t have to accept. Why would they want to be holding on to the USD if the others don’t?

    They could be slowly doing it right now, but if the shit hits the fan, the exchange rate would jump.


  • One day people will realize that you can make money when the stock market goes down

    Causing it to go down is much easier than making it go up

    Smart people looking to make money on a declining market told him some “smart” stuff to do. He believes it is smart. It is smart for the people that profit. Just hurts so many.

    He believes he is special, like some kind of perfect business man where the “deals” always get done and work out in the end for him.

    He has been used his whole life like a rich monkey to make others money thinking he was the brains behind the whole operation


  • “Free”

    Nothing is free

    Someone paid for the fountain. Either you, your neighbor, your friend, or your fellow countryman. But someone.

    Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?

    Cold filtered water at just a single park you regularly go to is probably worth 3 bucks a month.

    If extra money went to park improvements, that would be even better.

    I don’t see why everyone wants “free” when it’s just a hidden cost that you’re probably paying anyways. Yes, probably costs more for the people that use the service more, but that’s the way it should be.

    Personally I’d rather save 20 dollars on my taxes and bring water to the park. Even still tap water is just fine.

    Why would I even want to pay 5 dollars more in taxes so someone doesn’t have to bring a water bottle?

    This is a premium service that shouldn’t be the burden of the taxpayer.