Corporate tax rate is 21%, so by subtracting $80 million from their income they get a $16.8 million discount.

I’ve never wondered if I’m dreaming while awake. So I’ve conditioned myself that if I’m wondering whether I’m in a dream, I’m in a dream.

Makes it easy to lucid dream.

Ok, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.

It is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.

Whoops, fixed.

In the real world, you’re measuring with significant figures.

You draw a 1 cm line with a ruler. But it’s not really 1 cm. It’s 0.9998 cm, or 1.0001, or whatever. The accuracy will get better if you have a better ruler: if it goes down to mm you’ll be more accurate than if you only measure in cm, and even better if you have a nm ruler and magnification to see where the lines are.

When you go to measure the hypotenuse, the math answer for a unit 1 side triangle is 1.414213562373095… . However, your ruler can’t measure that far. It might measure 1.4 cm, or 1.41, or maybe even 1.414, but you’d need a ruler with infinite resolution to get the math answer.

Let’s say your ruler can measure millimeters. You’d measure your sides as 1.00 cm, 1.00 cm, and 1.41 cm (the last digit is the visual estimate beyond the mm scoring.) Because that’s the best your ruler can measure in the real world.

Lights are really nice. With one voice command I can turn the entire house into a bright daylight, or drop it to low intensity red shift at night.

My thermostat warms my room up before I awaken so I won’t be cold getting out of bed, while my lights slowly fade on over 10 minutes before my alarm, waking me before the tone sounds most days. At bedtime, I can fade off all the lights in the house at once before going to sleep.

Also, I can turn on the color effects and throw a dance party for the family.

Reddit and Discord. I have Facebook but barely use it.

This might be the wrong crowd to ask as I suspect Fediverse users would favor Mastodon over X.

I’ve had to do 2 days in a row multiple times in my life, and they get gross really fast. I can’t imagine going for 3.

It’s the case unless your household makes over $693,750, in which case you should probably be having an accountant do your taxes, and $6k is a drop in the bucket for you.

For everyone else, the brackets are exactly double the single file, so if you’re making exactly the same amount it’s a wash, and for most couples it means ending in a lower tax bracket.

“If X is cat, then X is mammal” =?> “X is mammal if and only if X is cat”

Obviously doesn’t hold: What if X doge?

Get ready for the next influx when the Reddit platform goes to shit even more.

You’d need a central list, which would defeat the purpose of a decentralized system.

Or set it up so that when you share add community of an instance to your instance, it adds every community that community’s instance had indexed, which will very quickly populate all the major instances.

Med school

Just turning it off and on again until a game pops out.

I’ve actually had more issues with Windows doing that. My wifi drivers have stopped working on more than one occasion, and once it just decided to stop recognizing my wife’s hard drive.

Yes. Pfizer and Moderna made mRNA vaccines. Johnson & Johnson and Oxford-AstraZeneca made DNA vaccines with an adenovirus vector. Novavax made a protein subunit vaccine.

No. They are actually incredibly safe, much safer than the vaccines from last century. The big scandal from 1955, where an improperly killed polio vaccine gave polio to 40,000 kids, leaving 51 paralyzed and 5 dead, is literally impossible with mRNA vaccines.

As a doctor, I consider mRNA vaccines to be one of the most exciting developments in vaccine history. It has the potential to make vaccines something that a developer can encode, much like a programmer writing a computer program. The possible applications of this are insane.

J&J might be a bad example as it’s a DNA vaccine.