sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
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sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
15hr ago
the sheer idea that their performative ascetism is moot must gnaw at their bones (veganly).
It's a little confusing to read this when it's not the vegans that are passing bans on lab grown meat.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
16hr ago
Don't know much about German city canteens (??) but Germany has the fourth highest meat consumption per capita in Europe, so I am not convinced that meat consumption is endangered there. Per capita consumption in 2020 was actually higher than in 2017.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
16hr ago
Ban their stuff before they ban ours.
I don't see why the do gooders couldn't undo this ban and ban real meat anyway if they have the kind of influence to enact a ban on real meat in the first place. "Get them before they get us" doesn't apply if you are not, in fact, getting them.
I don't really believe in first mover advantage for laws, laws get overturned all the time. What appears as first mover advantage is likely just durable public sentiment.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
17hr ago
This doesn't constrain their future actions. It's just as easy to repeal this law and ban real meat as it was before the ban. Maybe if it were a constitutional amendment or something you'd have a point.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
18hr ago
If we are assuming do-gooders puppeteering the state then a state ban is just a distraction anyway.
Feel free to elaborate. It's not the EAs that are able to ban meat, lab grown or otherwise. It's the state, which has just now banned lab grown meat apparently in order to "steal a march" and prevent itself from banning real meat.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
19hr ago
"Those", being the same government that just banned it?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
19hr ago
In this thread we're talking about a government action. It doesn't really make sense to say that the government banned something so that the government wouldn't mandate it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
19hr ago
This is only true in the sense that groups pushing gun rights are already talking about establishing a white ethnostate.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
20hr ago
Chicano is hardly a postmodern term (it originated at least as early as the 1940s) and as far as I know it only covers Mexican Americans, so it wouldn't apply to a lot of Hispanics anyway.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
20hr ago
It's premature to talk about differences in quality before it's even on the market.
For that matter, if it's so much worse, there's no need to ban it.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1d ago
(While I was checking its power situation, I ran across the quote that Eskom, as of 2010, produced 45% of all electricity in the entire continent, which was surprising to me.)
This seems beyond belief. This USG page makes the claim, but this article deboonks it. IEA statistics back up the deboonking, putting South African generation at 27% of all Africa's generation.
That seems somewhat more plausible, although it's interesting to note that in PPP terms South Africa generates only 1/8 of Africa's GDP.
Yeah, I was mistaken about the federal taxes. But for state tax they are exempt. So the math in your original post exaggerates the tax advantage (since you are missing state cap gains tax). Depends on jurisdiction and income obviously.
That said, BOXX also carries the risk of the IRS saying that you can't actually do that, at which point it's no better than the savings account. It also might turn out to be a fraud and go to zero, which is probably less likely with things like VUSXX.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1d ago
No. SGOV dividends (as well as treasuries) are taxed as ordinary income at a rate of up to 40.8%. Add in state taxes, and you're paying nearly half of your already paltry income. It's a very bad deal.
No, you're definitely mistaken.
https://investor.vanguard.com/investor-resources-education/taxes/how-government-bonds-are-taxed
Federal bonds, including treasuries, are state tax exempt (though you still pay federal tax).
In any case, lending money to the government is a pretty awful deal. They dilute you constantly and charge you extortive taxes for the privilege. In the end you're much better off owning a shiny rock (might write a post about this later).
VTSAX right now is paying more than almost any bank account and the taxes are less than you'd pay on bank interest due to the state tax exemption. It's not bad for an asset as safe as a savings account.
Comparing zero risk assets to gold doesn't really make sense.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1d ago
SGOV dividends are largely federal tax exempt since it's 90%+ treasuries. I don't think that's the case for BOXX?
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
1d ago
It's like The City and the City except libertarian.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
4d ago
Beeminder? Never used it myself though.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
5d ago
If all you want is to improve your cardio, you definitely don't need a trainer.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
A mailing list is not a scam, but I'd agree that there's nothing to worry about here.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
People who tend to be "this is the body of a person" when talking about a turkey or joint of beef on the dinner table are also likely to be "we must not impose our morals on others" when it comes to unconventional and non-Western beliefs and practices.
How do you know this? The vegans I've met don't hold non western cultures above criticism. Especially if we are talking about people posting on the ea forum who are likely more autistic than your average vegan.
I certainly don't know any vegans who are in favor of murder and cannibalism, though they might draw a distinction between that and eating a human who died for other reasons (as some of them do for eating a non human animal that wasn't slaughtered for the purpose of eating).
I doubt that the ethical vegans would stretch their ethics to condemnation of such cultures as being wrong, unnatural, etc. because that is Western colonialist thinking. They might condemn it on the grounds of all meat-eating being wrong, but not because humans are different or superior to animals.
Wait, you doubt that they would do this, but acknowledge that they might?
It sounds more like they might not condemn it for the reasons you think they should condemn it, and that seems like a much weaker argument indeed.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
Haven't played BG3 so I can't comment on the quality of VA there.
Generally speaking, there is a special effect of the human voice that you can't get with walls of text. Obviously it can be poorly executed, however.
Nevertheless I suspect that with AI speech generation this will be largely moot in the next decade.
sarker
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
6d ago
I can't really imagine e.g. Witcher 3 without VA either. People want to hear people's voices rather than read some text in their head.
Thankfully, Florida is not the only polity on the planet, and lab grown meat can still be marketed elsewhere when and if it becomes commercially viable. So this ban doesn't prevent the development of an alternative.
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