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Wednesday, February 8. 2023

Wednesday morning links


Nuclear power mounts a comeback, but obstacles remain.


Nuke is good, and getting better. 


Why do high IQ people stagnate in their careers? Emotional intelligence Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.


That's overly broad. It depends on goals and on what you do. What is success anyway? Needless to say, people do not like to work with obnoxious a-holes.


 Psychology Studies That Get More Media Coverage Are Likelier to Be Bogus


 Promoting pedophilia at State University of New York


Not really - he's just asking moral questions it seems to me. It's no problem in Islam, is it? 


 EQUITY IS THE NEW COMMUNISM


 Revealed: Memphis police were hiring "pretty much anybody"


That explains it, more or less 


 As Millions Flee Blue States, Red States Need To Remind Them Why


 Veep to announce fix to "root causes" of illegal migration


 Disney+ to America’s Children: Lincoln Didn’t Free the Slaves


 IRS Proposes New Program to Crack Down on Waiters’ Tips and other Service Industries


Sheesh


An Open Letter to the WEF: Dear Klaus, You Will Not Own Me, and You Will Like It


New York Taxpayers Give $2.1 Billion to Illegal Immigrants with Large Sums Lining Pockets of Landlords


How generous of our taxpayers... 


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re: waiters' tips

Always tip in cash, even if you pay the bill with a card. That way, your waiter doesn't have to report it because there is no evidence it existed.

When I was a waiter we were required to report a minimum of 10% of our sales as tip-generated income, even if you had a bad day and made less than that. Obviously, in practice the minimum was also the maximum.
#1 jack walter on 2023-02-08 08:41 (Reply)
Amen to cash! And not just for waiters and waitresses. I've had several "opportunities" to need some tricky adjustment or repair to ski bindings; inevitably the tech will do the job and tell me "no charge." I always reply with a tenner and tell him thanks for not saying "no tip."
#1.1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-02-08 09:19 (Reply)
I don't agree with this. They are required to report it because it is income. Legally and morally it should be reported honestly. It is shameful to advocate anything else. Honesty and morality is more difficult and more important when no one is watching.
#1.2 OneGuy on 2023-02-08 10:56 (Reply)
Well then, call it a gift. You can receive up $16k per year. Become ungovernable.
#1.2.1 B. Hammer on 2023-02-08 12:37 (Reply)
What advocacy? I simply refuse to be complicit in employers having a paper trail to track tips for purposes of sharing, confiscation, or snitching to the IRS. That's on the employee, not on me.

You might deem me a facilitator, but good luck making that stick in court. After all, there's no paper trail. No document, it never happened. I'm striving to become ungovernable.
#1.2.2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2023-02-08 14:12 (Reply)
I still don't agree. It violates two of my principles: I don't agree with breaking any laws that are constitutional and I think everyone should be treated equally under the law. Everyone should pay their taxes, period!
#1.2.3 OneGuy on 2023-02-09 09:37 (Reply)
As a young man I tipped for services rendered; now no longer young, I tip for services to be rendered. Some fools posting hereafter some how think that if other people pay more taxes, they will will pay less. Did I say fools? The government NEVER gets enough, and its minions think they spend your money better than you do.
#1.3 SF jeff on 2023-02-08 23:01 (Reply)
"New York Taxpayers $2.1 billion..."

This is what Democrats do. it is what they have done for decades.
They pass spending measures that allow them to steal. It is the Democrat way. Defund the police wasn't about the police as much as it was about getting their hands on that funding.
#2 JustMe on 2023-02-08 09:31 (Reply)
'New York Taxpayers Give $2.1 Billion to Illegal Immigrants with Large Sums Lining Pockets of Landlords'

You vote Democrat, that's what you get.
#3 Maniac on 2023-02-08 09:39 (Reply)
You can tip 10% on the card and then add whatever cash you'd like to make the tip generous.
#4 Texan99 on 2023-02-08 10:05 (Reply)
First priority is being generous toward competent service. But then, any amount on the card costs the business a fee to the banksters. And creates tracking data.

Use cash as much and as often as you can.
#4.1 foxmarks on 2023-02-08 13:20 (Reply)
I have gotten to the point that my retirement income is removed from the bank by ATM cards and I try to pay everything locally with cash. Other monthly bills are paid by phone call arrangements.
I try not to give the USPS or the IRS any aid or comfort.
#4.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2023-02-08 18:00 (Reply)
If there's 10% on the card, the IRS can't gig the employee for the presumed amount received in cash. The card charge creates a plausible paper trail.
#4.1.2 Texan99 on 2023-02-09 09:09 (Reply)
The employer most likely has policy to report 10% of cash sales as employee tip income, to avoid the IRS coming after the employer.

The employee is, in effect, taxed on imaginary tips from stiffers. Those who give all cash help offset this.

General principle: Use the most fungible and anonymous means. Permit the recipient freedom to decide what’s best in regard to their IRS and work relationships.
#4.1.2.1 foxmarks on 2023-02-09 15:07 (Reply)
re Disney+ to America’s Children: Lincoln Didn’t Free the Slaves

Disney has made it their mission to indoctrinate people and particularly young children in leftist/woke ideology via Disney's programming.

Over the long run, this may work out quite well for the Left.
#5 feeblemind on 2023-02-08 10:30 (Reply)
I doubt it's just psychology studies that are more apt to be bogus the more media attention they attract. Any headline that starts out 'New Study Shows...' is almost guaranteed to be trash since new studies 'suggest' or 'hint at', they don't 'show'. That's the way science works - you come up with some startling or counter-intuitive results, you're careful to assume that there's something wrong with your experiment rather than that you've found something new. So you release your findings, inviting other scientists to examine your work, testing it for flaws. Unfortunately, the lack of replicability in scientific studies is a huge problem right now - nobody checks up on these claims since they're all busy generating their own novel claims.
#6 Jerryskids on 2023-02-08 11:46 (Reply)
Part of the problem with immigration is contained in the headlines: NY gives billions to illegals. Build the wall, and stop giving money and services away, and the influx will dry up. To bad the Uniparty is uninterested in doing those things.
#7 B. Hammer on 2023-02-08 12:46 (Reply)
Californicators and other blue state equity hive comrades are here to improvementate you Rube Goldbergs.
Wait staff used to make $2 an hour plus tips and only a fading bananastan third world turd would try to get their grubby mitts on that.
Went to the second hand clothing store after Christmas and the replacements (not the band from Minnesota) were out in force with those yellow $1000 ribbons littering the parking lot.
CCP drops them off at the Panama Canal in the spirit of egalitarian equity under orders from the internationalist owners of the former USA.
Memphis wanted community policing and they got it.
Stopped there for gas on a FLA road trip and we all had hot lead dispensers just in case there was some enrichment on the menu.
Anarcho-Tyranny can be used to your advantage.
#8 National Bolshevism on 2023-02-08 15:19 (Reply)
Hmmmmm . . . .

You decide.

BOMBSHELL: Yep, It Looks Like Team Biden Blew up Europe's Nord Stream Pipeline

QUOTE:
The United States government blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline connecting Russian suppliers to our allies Germany last year, according to a bombshell report from Seymour Hersh.

. . . White House spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told Hersh in an email that “This is false and complete fiction.”

“This claim is completely and utterly false,” a CIA spokeswoman wrote.

. . . Hersh claims that “Biden’s decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington’s national security community about how to best” stop Russian strongman Vladimir Putin from weaponizing “natural gas for his political and territorial ambitions.”

. . . Hersh is not always the most reliable source, but between Nord Stream and Keystone XL, it’s fair to ask: What does this administration have against energy pipelines, anyway?

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/02/08/bombshell-yep-it-looks-like-team-biden-blew-up-europes-nord-stream-pipeline-n1668984
#9 feeblemind on 2023-02-08 15:59 (Reply)
What does the Biden Administration have against pipe lines? Isn’t interesting that the WEF is also against cheap energy? The WEF and all its members believe the world is overpopulated and burning up. The Netherlands, following the grand experiment in Sri Lanka, is drastically curtailing the use of nitrogen based fertilizer. They have already begun talking about the curtailment in Canada and America of nitrogen based fertilizer. What source does nitrogen based fertilizer, in large parts, come from? World wide, especially in the West, there has hardly been a mention of the destruction of the Nord Stream pipe line. It’s all just a giant coincidence.
#9.1 B. Hammer on 2023-02-08 18:29 (Reply)
New York Taxpayers Give $2.1 Billion to Illegal Immigrants with Large Sums Lining Pockets of Landlords

lol

All we can do is hope and pray Abbott, DeSantis and Polis keep sending these "migrants" to sanctuary cities like NY.
#10 LibDis on 2023-02-08 20:31 (Reply)
Love the pic of the cap. Pretty funny and,,
#11 RL on 2023-02-08 22:00 (Reply)

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