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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

This will be a pinch on ALL SSD, including NVMe, not just a pinch on SATA SSD exclusively.

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

The distinction between the NVME SSD and SATA SSD is really the bus its designed around and plugged into. One plugs into a mainboard directly and the other plugs into a cable.

Both are memory based storage. The SATA cable is just a transfer throughput bottleneck. But there is also limited real estate on the footprint of a mainboard. It is easier to plug cables onto a board to expand storage, where there may only be room for 2 or 3 M2 slots on a standard form factor board.

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

I understand how tax credits and deductions work. A tax deduction only reduces taxable income. If one doesn't have itemized tax deductions exceeding the standard deduction then a relatively small deduction, on its own, has zero net benefit to the taxpayer.

One can take a deduction from their taxable income and it not matter in the total amount of tax owed.

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

I never said that it should be. You replied to the grandparent that it is deductible. The grandparent said that a mortgage should be tax deductible. Neither you or the grandparent specified what portion should be or is tax deductible.

All I am saying is the portion of mortgage, that is tax deductible, is not a net tax benefit to most people.

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CaptPenguin 5 points ago +5 / -0

Only the interest paid on a mortgage is tax deductible. The principle paid is not deductible.

People that pay it down aggressively may not benefit at all from this deduction. Because they will progressively pay less and less interest over the years. There is a pretty high standard deduction already. Without other itemized deductions, many which have been removed since TCJA, it probably won't move the needle on tax bracket or taxes owed.

It might benefit very few like a high income single taxpayer that itemize beyond the standard deduction, and then only for a few years of the life of that mortgage.

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

Many things about the official story do not add up.

The weapon found doesn't make sense. It doesn't really look like an older imported Mauser. It could be a sporterized antique Mauser in a modern polymer stock. It could also be a modern Mauser brand hunting rifle. Which sort of contradicts "older imported" and "grandfather's rifle" descriptors. The scope is seemingly set back too far for prone shooting.

I have read or heard several claims he was shot from behind. I could buy that as plausible. Based on what I have observed with my own eyes. I think it is one of two possibilities.

The only thing I am suggesting is that it's not impossible for a frangible bullet to deflect, ricochet, and fragment from it's path from hitting spinal bones.

It could be the bleeding from his neck was caused by entry and he was shot from the front. It could be bullet hit spine, fragmented, ricocheted and we're seeing small fragment exit neck having been shot from rear. If he was shot from the rear was there another object in the path that absorbed some energy, maybe?

There is a hole in his neck where a projectile, or fragment, either entered or exited.

It's not impossible for spine to deflect or fragment, preventing a bullet from exiting. Nobody has made public the type of bullet used in the shooting. Different bullets can be designed to do things such penetrate, expand, or fragment. Something can be implausible or unlikely, but not impossible.

Again you're proclaiming something you're largely ignorant of the skeletal structure and body composition of a deer compared to a human. It's not a horse sized animal. A large mature buck weighs over 200 lbs, about the same mass as full grown man. I have an 18" neck. Some deer might have a 15" neck, larger may have 22" neck. Deer do have larger chest cavities than humans. But they don't possess any special properties that change terminal ballistic performance.

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

When you say impossible, how much experience do you have observing terminal bullet performance and harvesting big game with high powered rifles?

It largely depends on bullet construction. Has the type of bullet, soft point, open tip/hollow point, match, or FMJ/ball been made public.

FMJ, or ball, will usually pencil right through a container of water which can be used as a ballistic analog for big game. Shoot a milk jug full of water with FMJ and it will pencil hole through and make very little splash.

A highly frangible bullet will fragment and dump all of its energy into the target. Shoot a jug of water with a frangible bullet design and it will dump all of its energy, the milk jug may explode and will usually create a very large exit wound. It's not a perfect analogue because there is no bone material to deflect or vary the resistance.

A spine shot on a deer can deflect in strange ways. I have been eating deer heart before and found lead fragment from a spine shot deer with a .270 Win. Core Lokt. Which has the same case as the .30-06 by the way. The .270 uses lighter bullets with a .277" diameter instead of .308" diameter. It has the same powder capacity as a .30-06. Because the .270 is using lighter bullets the same powder charge can move a 120-330 gr projectile faster than a 150 or 180 gr projectile.

I watched the footage again today and it looked to me like a CNS (central nervous system) hit. I misremembered him grabbing his throat once hit. After rewatching it appears his arms went up, reflex or reaction, possibly? Then muscle control drops out a split second later and he goes limp. When an animal takes a CNS hit like a spine or head shot it will go limp like that and drop right there.

It looks like a fragment exited his throat where he began to bleed out. Not a full bullet exit or it would have been a larger exit from expansion. It is plausible the bullet heavily fragmented upon hitting vertebrae taking out his CNS and partial fragment exited throat. Spine has to be a lot stronger structurally than other bones like shoulder blade. It carries weight load for the entire skeletal system. Shoulder blade by contrast is thin enough to let light pass through.

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CaptPenguin 12 points ago +12 / -0

She is reading a script. Not relaying a true narrative.

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CaptPenguin 3 points ago +3 / -0

It was not a Mosin Nagant. It was a Mauser. It's now owned by SIG Sauer, and they make basic sporter hunting rifles, it's not really the same thing as an antique Mauser with wood furniture.

It kind of sounds like it may just simply be a modern M03 or M18 model Mauser chambered in .30-06 with a cheap plastic stock. A modern off the shelf hunting rifle in $400-700 price point range. Not much different than a Ruger American, Savage 110, or Tikka t3x. It seems like kind of an oddball choice that might not be widely available or popular in the US. Edit I can only find a few Mauser dealers online. Palmetto doesn't carry them. Eurooptic has them in stock for $670. It doesn't seem to me very common. I just find that really odd.

If it were an antique Mauser, like an M98 or Kar98k, then it would have been chambered in some oddball European cartridge where one might not be able to find reliable surplus ammunition to feed it. An antique Mauser wouldn't be chambered in .30-06, unless it had been rechambered or "sporterized" (modified for hunting).

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CaptPenguin 1 point ago +1 / -0

Really seems like he is stirring up drama for greater impressions and reach and its working out for him.

He could have quietly changed the policy and be accountable for his own mistake. Instead blamed the customer, whines and moans about what the customer did to him.

"Bullying works". He needs to hold his frame better instead of going straight into a bitch fit about how his customer took advantage of his mistake.

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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

The term metaverse goes back even farther to Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash. That didn't start with Second Life.

It wasn't a coincidence, both Facebook and Linden Labs founders have read that book.

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CaptPenguin 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's both her and his child. Her destroying it doesn't make it not her child. I don't know what point you're trying to make.

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CaptPenguin 10 points ago +10 / -0

Kind of makes her seem like a psychopath with how flippant she is being about killing her child.

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CaptPenguin 4 points ago +4 / -0

Payment networks like Visa are still taking 3% transaction fees off of credit card transactions. The merchant doesn't have to tell you about it but it's still there. Some may offer cash discounts or add credit card surcharges. Interest isn't the only way the payment network makes money.

Credit cards are a way to safeguard checking account assets by not having paper checks floating around with account numbers, or not having to carry large amounts of cash. It is a practical way to protect debit cards from card skimming. There is also transaction protection from fraud or non-delivery of goods or services. Some of the network payment fees may even out with 2% cash back or other intangible benefits such as miles so that it's more enticing to use credit card.

You may be paying off balances monthly without paying interest. It isn't free to use a credit card, and there is more net benefit to the payment network than for you or a merchant. There are trade-offs to consider using a credit card, however.

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CaptPenguin 8 points ago +8 / -0

The whole Gulf of America change was Trump finding a loophole for offshore drilling.

Biden banned offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ok. It's the Gulf of America now, drilling is back on the menu. Drilling isn't banned in the Gulf of America.

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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

You're not voting directly for the president. Really, it's choosing electors for the presidential race.

The presidential race isn't the only thing on the ticket. There were state and local measures on ballot that have more bearing over my day to day than the current president.

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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

My dad had always told me Bridge on the River Kwai was a great movie.

I just watched it for the first time about a month ago. He was right, it really is a fantastic movie.

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CaptPenguin 6 points ago +6 / -0

I am most disappointed that he also created Secret Hitler, which is just "Werewolf" or "Mafia" with extra steps.

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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Sennheiser headsets last 4-5 times as long as any other option, for me. I scoffed at the price when someone recommended them, but they tend to be more durable in my own experience.

I really liked Plantronics Rig which came with a USB mixer, you could flip the audio over to a cell phone to make a phone call. But the damn headset broke every year like clockwork.

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CaptPenguin 2 points ago +2 / -0

He was paid not to joke about things on everyone's mind. Who sponsored his special, Netflix, HBO?

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CaptPenguin 6 points ago +6 / -0

Acquired in 2018, so they ran out the 4 year cliff on their acquisition stock awards.

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CaptPenguin 17 points ago +17 / -0

I have donated to them in the past. Because I thought it was important that Linus and Greg Kroah-Hartman get paid for working on a project that has enriched my life and career. I imagine there are a lot of boomer and gen X neck beards, who felt similarly and that keeps the donations rolling in.

However, when I saw the Foundation putting Linus in timeout, and getting involved in vaccine passport systems then I was pretty much done with the Foundation.

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