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Very painful to see Corporate income taxes @ 8%, vs. Personal income taxes @ 36%. on the income pie chart^

However, not at all surprised. That stat would arguably make the most material difference to voters, if only they knew about it.

Edit: Adds another degree of pain when you consider that the CEO-to-worker pay ratio reached 281-to-1 in 2024.


Why should it be painful that all personal federal incomes taxes produce 4x the income as the federal taxes on all corporations?

Because U.S. corporations were taxed on a total of gross receipts of roughly $40T, while personal income was taxed on a much tighter pool of roughly $23.9T.

That is absolutely terrifying.

Now they just need every iPhone owner on the planet to subscribe, and this AI bubble will officially be unpoppable!



It's wild how the President literally said, "I love the poorly educated." It turns out that when you treat a PhD like a deep-state conspiracy and a high school diploma like a Nobel Prize, you just get a country that tries to fix its power grid with thoughts, prayers, and a sharpie.


Idiocracy was a documentary sent to us from the future.


In Idiocracy the president hires the smartest guy and is still trying to fix his country rather then intentionally destroy it.


We haven't reached the Gatorade event horizon, yet.


Unfortunately you run into the same problem as Mao's China did after the Cultural Revolution.


Where does the FIFA peace prize come in here?


To be fair, this same realist perspective seems to suggest humans would not have been capable of developing a COVID vaccine for 5 to 10 years; yet, they identified the virus and authorized vaccine use within eight months.


Not to diminish the accomplishment of rolling out the Covid vaccine in such a rapid timeframe, but… there was something like 40+ years of research into creating mRNA vaccines that laid the ground work.


Thank you for reminding me about the Nobel War Prize.

It's a shame that history has repeated itself here, political satire has yet again become obsolete.


The Netherlands typically accounts for roughly 1.5% to 2% of the global video game market. After applying this share to Epic’s global estimated revenue of $5.7 billion, we can estimate roughly $100 million to $115 million for 2024.

1) Total Estimated Epic Revenue: $5.7 billion https://sacra.com/c/epic-games/ 2) Global Gaming Market: $187.7 billion https://best-of-gaming.be/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024_Ne... 3) The Netherlands Gaming Market Size: $2.5 billion https://www.imarcgroup.com/netherlands-gaming-market



If a detector can exist, it can be used adversarially without a human in the loop to defeat itself.


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