Social Security was created by a law forged in the New Deal congress. It also only had a tax rate of 2% in the beginning. Now you get to pay 6.2%, but your employer also gets to pay 6.2% just for the privilege of employing you. Medicare came along later and that adds another 1.45*2 for 2.9%. Basically, you pay 15.3% in payroll taxes just to fund these two programs, you just pay half of it indirectly. So, take your 'Income' tax rate, add 15.3% to it and that's ACTUALLY how much money you pay in taxes.
Baltic was an ethnicity once upon a time, but all the Baltic countries were in the middle of centuries of warfare between the competing empires of Sweden, Russia, and the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. They all got raped into the dirt and some lucky Slavs had their genes improved, like myself
The Trump curse changing the papacy is wild tbh
Google updated, mostly. The name on the Google Maps icon weirdly alternates as you zoom:
The documented business logic is the easy part. The hard part is achieving bug-for-bug compatibility with the current system.
They need to issue vanity SSNs. I'd pay extra for my SSN to be 420-69-1488
I love that there are people ready and waiting to roll back changes for their shitty Wikipedia page. I bet they refresh it every day to see if it has changed. If I was Elon I'd start buying this websites for fun.
We should decide this democratically. Let every person in the country in question vote..... ohh wait
There is an army of sweaty wiki nerds waiting in the wings to be the first to update wikipedia as soon as there's a happening because it gets them off or something. I don't understand. Do these people not have jobs?
Good one took me a moment
I think an important thing the New Right needs to keep in mind is that while the truth is important, most people don't want that, they want a convincing narrative. If we've learned anything from how the Left operates, we need to learn that. So while understanding that the Truth is that it's mostly data entry errors that never get cleaned up and only some of them are used for fraud, etc. most people don't care and "They're mailing checks to 249-year olds," is what gets people attention. Make the Leftists have to speak the truth, people will zone out or get mad that "It's only a little fraud." It's like the Haitians eating cats and dogs, they may or may not have been in Springfield, but it was an effective as hell narrative.
Adding some context here. The rocket development programs during the Apollo era, like the Saturn V had many changes performed in manufacturing by engineers were incorporated, yet not properly documented. Including material changes on the fly to get it out ASAP. Alongside the loss of on the ground experience from said engineers on properly producing the parts to spec. Additionally the R-1 rocket engine had (iirc) a boost in performance from it accidentally achieving partial rotating detonation. When those people retired and died. Much of that knowledge was lost. Leading to guys like Bezos going to the graveyard to recover engines from the sea to do a proper reverse engineering project. Though I don't believe anything has come from it. Probably just hanging in his home from the ceiling. Another issue is that NASA has had little need for human lift vehicles for the last few decades unfortunately. So the infrastructure needs to be retooled for a human rated capable lift vehicles produced by the US government.
THIS
Europe can die for all I care they're not England.
I'm rating this autistic just because how cringe this is. Like the boomers had good protest music today it's crap.
We were quite willing to have left the gun lying on the center of the table untouched. But Obama (rather, his puppeteers) insisted on picking it up.
