I do my grocery shopping almost exclusively at Aldi and my grocery bills still increased a cumulative 50% at a minimum since before the pandemic.
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at one point farmers had to kill off 100 million chickens because of bird flu. That’s nearly 1 chicken for every man, woman and child in the US.
Didn't seem to impact egg production all that much: https://www.statista.com/statistics/196094/us-total-egg-production-since-2001/
Not much of a gift anymore when everyone expects a minimum of -- what is it now -- 25%? The expected minimum percentage keeps increasing as people endlessly grandstand about the amount they pay because of how much workers depend on tips for their income. Then there's shame at play if you don't comply, with some thinking it's okay to mess with the food if one doesn't pay the expected minimum "gift". It's really just extortion at that point.
This is just federal income tax and doesn't count tax contributions towards medicare and social security (which is capped after a certain level, so someone making $1 million a year pays the same toward social security as someone making the cap which is currently around $160k). It also doesn't count state income taxes.
I wonder if they plan on transitioning fully to RISC-V in the future, it would be cool if that cuts the price down by $1 or so. The Pico series is the only Raspberry Pi product line that interests me these days. Love seeing the increased speeds with decreased power consumption, and the additional PIO state machines are a nice touch. Looking forward to seeing the Pico 2 W!
That ship's got a lot of balls.
I thought that was an apartment building at first.
They back a felon and the most prevalent gang in the US. Seems logically consistent to me.
The solution would be to increase the lowest tax bracket then.
I'd rather not further cement tips as a fundamental part of our economic system. It's gotten so stupid to the point where you get asked for a tip before any service has even occurred and then the "service" is often just counter service which used to not be tipped. By not taxing this income, you're encouraging more income to be paid through tips to avoid taxes. When you're making all these little exemptions and special cases, maybe it's time to rethink the fundamental system so that it works better as a base case rather than having all these poorly-applied bandaids.
I don't understand authority figures that get angry when someone is falling asleep in their presence. They're not falling asleep out of spite. This reminds me of teachers who'd say "if you want to sleep, then do it at home" as if the student had a choice of catching up on sleep instead of having to get up early and sit through class, barely able to keep their head up.