doing more work by 6am than most people do all day

Never do tomorrow what you can do today, because let's be honest who knows if you'll want to get out of bed in the morning

yeah but something like a sewing machine or ironing board could be 80% business, 20% personal use, is there a way to declare that on taxes? Is it ok to record this as 100% business expense?

It's context collapse. I see it all the time. You can be a pinko lib commie most of the time but if you make one conservative point and someone dunks on it, all of their followers will read every one of your tweets in the most conservative possible way from now on

Tax treatment creates some interesting incentives too. Like excuse me friend I need you to pay for this gift so that I can deduct the fabric from my taxes. Free personal gifts end up costing double

Ok if I'm sewing as a business but also make my own clothes, presumably I can deduct all my sewing equipment from taxes but how do you factor in the portion that's used for your own clothes?

I went like 15 years without a TV and now I've come back to find out they're all significantly worse than when I left. Negative productivity shock

Like paying full price in advance for a Windows operating system with your laptop worked great, we absolutely do not need this thing where the OS is underpriced but they make up for it by gouging you on app stores and ads

smart TVs serving ads like this are emblematic of what drives me crazy about today's economy. Every news outlet shifted from ad-supported to subscription, while every electronic device and software shifted from you pay to ad supported. This is entirely backwards, switch it back, reverse it!

It's not my TV, I don't normally have a TV, so I genuinely don't know if this is normal. Do you all deal with this, this is no way to live

The clunky interface designed to serve ads instead of be convenient ought to be illegal but even ignoring that, the stuff just does not work, it's glitchy. My internet is fine and it doesn't know how to use it

this quite new and barely used FireTV is barely usable, are all "smart" tv's this bad

labor unions are not politically popular and I kind of think if they go to bat for tariffs we should cut them loose. Nobody loses elections bashing on unions

I know commentators on here like to say deficits don't matter but I would suggest that they do in fact matter and that the political coalitions that exist will have a hard time reviving 90s-era tax rates to cover the revenue now coming from tariffs

Voters as a whole would be happy to see tariffs go away, but that's not the same as saying it's politically feasible. Some voters care more than others, and anyway which broad-based tax doesn't terrible poll numbers? bsky.app/profile/theo...

we convicted Aaron Schock for this, it can be done

and I mean if you want something more specific just look at the lavish office spending of ~any current senior official

Doesn't matter really that the money is technically paid for the government, it is inherently personal use because it is being spent by people in the administration in a manner inconsistent with how congress appropriated it

The idea of unlocking appropriated science research funds to universities in exchange for general fund revenue payments back is just a straightforward case of criminal embezzlement.

for a while I was getting bombarded with ads that told diabetics to stop taking their insulin, in favor of some quack thing that obviously doesn't work. They're literally trying to get people killed, and somehow aren't in prison

yes there should be more consequences for making deliberately false medical claims for profit bsky.app/profile/crus...

it's annoying that the political constituency thing applies to dumb crap like Jones Act and tariffs, and not things like healthcare or refundable child tax credits

The wives used to wait outside the steel mill on paydays to confiscate their husbands' the pay checks before they went out to the bars

The path to banning gerrymandering is to take hostages. Execute two blue-state red districts ever time a red state executes a democrat

other things aside it is not logical. When blue states unilaterally de-gerrymander this creates *more incentive* for red states to gerrymander. Not less. bsky.app/profile/opin...

start with 100% cocoa, blend it into boiling milk, then add cream and my homemade spice syrup to taste. The result is thick, spiced, slightly bitter, and shockingly caffeinated

if you like dark chocolate can I recommend my 18th century spiced drinking chocolate:

Aspartame's sweetness lingers longer than real sugar, so bittering it with acesulfame potassium makes it taste more natural

both are sweetened with aspartame but diet coke is only aspartame while coke zero is half aspartame and half acesulfame potassium. Acesulfame potassium is similarly sweet but also has a bitter after taste.

We add milk, fat, and sugar to the very bitter cocoa to make it palatable. If you add enough that it doesn't taste bitter, what you have is not "dark chocolate"