Mike

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@IASTATEAD If you invest $200M in *anything* it only needs to grow in value 3% per year for it to be worth $500M in 30 years. You'd have more asset value investing that same $200M in a 30 year treasury bond right now.

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@schulzjj @SteveDeaceShow It isn't the reason. We're running a deficit because we use the money we generate from services to buy goods. That doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't try to negotiate better deals than we have.

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@SteveDeaceShow Because a trade deficit is only a measure of the physical imports and exports between countries and doesn't reflect all economic activity. The US has a trade deficit in net because we use the money we generate from *SERVICES* to purchase goods from other countries.

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@MattBGilliland @BiGGReD95 @CovfefeAnon People don’t seem to understand that this question is (essentially) like asking “If all bananas are blue, what color is my banana?” The answer to THAT question is blue, but I’ve seen 100 different versions of “but bananas aren’t blue” in different threads today

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@EnriqueDiazAlva @Freedom_Meme @eigenrobot @sgodofsk Not that similar. The IRS doesn’t rely on local law enforcement in the same way.

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@SockDemFan @conorjrogers @IwriteOK Also this isn’t even “like a business” businesses invest a lot in R&D

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@rainnyseattle @qutemommee

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@ABujnicki @MikeRay_22 @Angry_Staffer Also it’s the final 2020 count vs the election night 2024 count. Both candidates have added millions in votes in the last 48 hours, it’s just no one cares this election because none of the states are close enough where subsequent counting is likely to change the result

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@seanfulop @questionableway It's definitely not lmao

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@godgunsgpus @aelita1917 Here's 15 acres for sale in Montana for under $1,000/acre that you could buy literally right now if you wanted.

https://t.co/nVxRiCJiHc

There's thousands of listings like this. There is no shortage of land *not located close to population centers* in this country

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@ADowling34 @Chuck0slovakia @ByrneSilas @CartoonsHateHer Right. My mother group up in a 7 person family on one income. It's easy to idealize that until you actually see the size of the house that she grew up in.

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@firasd @extradeadjcb Student loans are non dischargeable because if they weren’t no one would be able to get them

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@webdevMason People never realize that the alternative to non dischargeable loans is NO LOANS

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@stanfordNYC @LTilmann @cheer_wine No it does not lol

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@PeterJFilipovic @helen_barnowl @Nonstopdrivel @VelesHammer @tired_sun_aeiou @0x49fa98 @GaboKovo37153 That's sort of true but not really. Obesity is caused by consuming too many calories. The problem with sugar is its calorie density vs. its palatability. As noted in the comments below, it's just much EASIER to eat 3,000 calories of sugar vs. lean protein

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@AaronKlein @johncodes …with no explanation given at all as to what that tax mechanism that would come by

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@AaronKlein @johncodes Came here to look for this comment. The tax point makes no sense at all. It’s correct Amazon has gotten tax breaks for the previous construction of physical offices. But then there’s an enormous unsupported leap to “if they don’t lay off remote workers massive tax bills come”

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@NielsHoven @202accepted @JoshLu I think the key thing here is that you have a product where your *user* is different from your *customer*. Your users are small children, your customers are parents. And you're not trying to tell an attention product like a cartoon, you're trying to sell an education product

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@NielsHoven Knowing nothing else about your product, seeing that art in an ad would make me less likely to pursue it

[Mike @Mike_JM]

@NielsHoven There is a style about them that resembles the cheap animation mass produced to streaming services, which I think is why people are having this reaction. Fair or not, that mental association makes someone think your product is cheap or low quality.