science and music. and beer. and dogs.
I agree that the word punk came to be associated with aesthetics, almost exclusively. But that is very far from where it started, and it is frustrating for those who started it to see it coopted like this. The association of the word with anything other than anti-consumerism is just " branding" at its worst.
I was a tween when the first version of “punk” came around (yes, that makes me old). I think I can say with authority that the ideals were: anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, and anti-commercialism. Ever since then people have tried to sum it up (and marginalize it) as “DIY.” But that falls well short of what it really was.
Of course, the second it showed any sign of viable popularity, the forces of capitalism, well…, capitalized on it. The obvious examples are bullshit, high production, made-for-tv bands like Green Day getting sold as punk rock. But does anyone remember Urban Outfitters? Holy crap, the open, unashamed corporate pandering!
Sure, but my point is that it is possible to make more money and then actually have less money because of taxes. It’s just not for the reason in OP’s post.
I don’t think you’ve understood what my claim is. Please see my edit.
I disagree. Dad jokes are most often puns, and puns always elicit a groan, whether they’re good or not. Dad jokes can be witty and/or clever, and that’s what makes them good. This one is not.
Nope. This time I can’t abide. There seems to be a culture here of mutual encouragement, that leads to upvoting everything no matter what. But this joke is simply awful. No good. Terrible. Very bad.
I’m not saying you’re wrong - I completely agree with you. But I have been in the position where, if I made 10 dollars less I would have paid more than 100 dollars less in tax. That just comes from the infuriating discrete tax “tables,” instead of actually calculating the tax using a continuous formula.
ETA: Apparently many here have never prepared their own tax return. Here is a sample of the tax table for 2023. The first two columns give a range of (adjusted) income, and the third is tax owed. Notice that someone who made $51,099 would pay $11 less in tax than someone who made just one dollar more. Admittedly that is less extreme that what I claimed above, but “back in the day” when I started paying taxes the tables went in much larger steps of income.
It’s not about nostalgia. It’s about passive aggressively needling Musk, and it works and I love it.
Sometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.
I need 'em both. Not everything I multiply is a number.
In LaTeX? You really are a rebel.
You seem to be taking this a bit personally - did someone pour water in your bag?
An eye for an eye is not justice, and it doesn’t lead to peace.
That’s so weird because a quote from WaPo had him saying he could hear the sincerity in her apology.
rtfa. That was never implied by either side.
Of course, in New Dehli it was 49 degrees, not 121.
Sorry for the snark. ;-)
Thankfully, it is not the country yet. It is just a sizeable and highly motivated minority. Fuck them.
Read the second paragraph of OP’s article. Your arguments do not remotely refute this.
ETA: I agree that the wording could be better, to make it less likely anyone would mistake the claim the way you have.
Hah! Ya got me!
But of course I’m talking about the adjective punk, as in " punk rock," which is an entirely other word than the noun puncke, (or, more modern, punk ) which Shakespeare used.
ETA: I don’t mean to imply they’re not related They just aren’t the same word. And one of them was created in the 1970s.