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New comment by chriscrisby in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

chriscrisby — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:39:48 +0000

It’s pretty easy to someone who can’t wait for tax time because they pay negative taxes.

New comment by chriscrisby in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

chriscrisby — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:07:27 +0000

Top 50% of taxpayers paid about 97% of all federal individual income taxes. Therefore bottom 50% pay nothing or next to nothing.

New comment by chriscrisby in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

chriscrisby — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:04:03 +0000

Majority of Americans pay little to no taxes.

New comment by chriscrisby in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

chriscrisby — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:28:32 +0000

50% of Americans think taxes are too high, the other 50% think taxes need to be higher so they’ll get a larger refund.

It’s not a sustainable system. A better solution would be to change tax law so a “payer” can’t receive a larger refund than what they paid. No more credits, only deductions.

New comment by chriscrisby in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

chriscrisby — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:47:13 +0000

Stackoverflow deserved to die

New comment by chriscrisby in "On cigarettes"

chriscrisby — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:23:42 +0000

I don’t get two worked up over it, I met my wife when she needed a cigarette. Young people can get away with a lot health wise.

But no doubt, your 30s are for getting your life together and discarding any habits that don’t agree with old age.

New comment by chriscrisby in "On cigarettes"

chriscrisby — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:36:16 +0000

I smoked for 20 years, loved every minute of it and looked cool as hell

New comment by chriscrisby in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

chriscrisby — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:14:16 +0000

He disrupted a career fair because it had defense contractors.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/palest...

New comment by chriscrisby in "Landlines are ringing in homes again. Why parents are happy about that"

chriscrisby — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:55:11 +0000

We had a land line in the house around 2013 so the kids could call for help when home alone.

It was ringing non-stop with phone scams and telemarketers.

New comment by chriscrisby in "YouTube Is Down"

chriscrisby — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:13:09 +0000

Now I have nothing

New comment by chriscrisby in "Why Do People Hate?"

chriscrisby — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:07:51 +0000

Hate is absolutely natural. Just like steeling or lying, hate doesn’t need to be taught. When people realize they have wants and needs that require competition they become jealous and coveting. That leads to hatred. The only way to fix it is teach people the world doesn’t revolve around them and to do unto others …

New comment by chriscrisby in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

chriscrisby — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:05:17 +0000

“Reuters was not immediately able to establish details of who the fee would apply to or how it would be administered.”

I’ll wait till I form an opinion on this.

New comment by chriscrisby in "I kissed comment culture goodbye"

chriscrisby — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:37:26 +0000

I’m convinced

New comment by chriscrisby in "The Algebra Gatekeepers"

chriscrisby — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:22:59 +0000

Does this study account for students who are good at math but have no desire to pursue it?

New comment by chriscrisby in "“No tax on tips” is an industry plant"

chriscrisby — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:09:08 +0000

That’s a weird way to say a sizable majority of tipped workers do pay taxes and will benefit from this.

New comment by chriscrisby in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chriscrisby — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:34:25 +0000

It’s definitely sarcasm, expecting the average parent to administer their home network and outmaneuver adult website operators is unreasonable.

Plus comparing how to parent in the days when the only internet access point was a desktop computer in the living room vs now when everyone has multiple hand held devices is not helpful.

New comment by chriscrisby in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chriscrisby — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:43:16 +0000

If you can’t configure content filters and dns servers then what right do you have to be a parent.

You shouldn’t be a parent if you can’t enforce a mobile device policy better than an average Fortune 500 corporation.

New comment by chriscrisby in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

chriscrisby — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 03:33:36 +0000

Who knew giving kids unlimited porn would have negative consequences.

New comment by chriscrisby in "New study offers clues about what makes someone cool"

chriscrisby — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:36:07 +0000

Smelling ass ain’t cool, maybe you should read the article.

New comment by chriscrisby in "New study offers clues about what makes someone cool"

chriscrisby — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:33:33 +0000

I don’t even have to read it cause it’s smoking. We’ve always known it was smoking.