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I'm surprised that nobody mentioned tax brackets.
I laughed my ass off when my racist uncle smugly explained that he turned down a raise, because that would put him in an upper tax rate and cost him more money than the raise was worth.
Tried to explain how income tax works. Didn't go through that thick skull of his.
This misconception is widespread enough that I can only think that it is deliberately perpetuated by the ruling class to save them money. The number of people who are convinced that going up a tax bracket could mean you make less total money is astounding, and many of them are like your uncle— utterly convinced to the point that being informed correctly sounds like naivety to them.
Yep.
A graduated tax structure is evidently just literally too complex for about half the population to understand.
Throw 'how is Social Security funded' into that as well.
The top bracket is 176,000 and everything above that.
All it would take to keep Soc Sec funded is just add more brackets after that.
But nope, America is full of morons who think that their dumb ass making 40k or 80k is going to see a higher tax bill if you explicitly only additionally tax those making stupendous amounts of money.
I was eating at a BBQ joint with my ~30 year old friend, when I had to break the news that the pigs don’t survive if you “only take their spare ribs.”
This is definitely something he was told by his jokester dad or uncle when he was 8 and then never had the idea challenged since then.
My mom was proud that the neighborhood worked together to block an "ugly new cell tower" from being constructed in the area. Then she was upset that her cell service was spotty, in literally the same fucking breath.
I remember in 7th grade, our social studies class did a module on taxation and tariffs. Seemed pretty easy to understand at the time. Little did I know, later on, that many, many people would not understand this relatively simple concept.
Something explained to me...
I was 41 when I realised that people actually see things in their minds eye. It is not just a metaphor.
Blew my mind, like it is some kind of superpower, you can just imagine stuff, and you see an image of it....
My partner is such a good cook, partly because she can combine flavours in her mind, to check if they will taste good together, that is just fucken cheating.
When people "get a song stuck in their head" they can literally hear it.... How the fuck do you get anything done, you crazy bastards.
I've encountered this the other way. I would design something for a customer, and I'd leave it Fusion360's default grey texture. Let's say I'm making a table. The following conversation would take place:
"Why is it grey?"
"That's just the software, I'm gonna make it out of wood."
"I don't want it to be grey, I want it to be wooden."
"I know, I'm going to make it out of wood. What do you think of the shape?"
"I can't see it if it's not wooden."
I honestly don't know you function like that.
My partner is such a good cook, partly because she can combine flavours in her mind, to check if they will taste good together, that is just fucken cheating.
Okay I can do the other stuff (as can most people; you probably have aphantasia) but this? This either is fucking cheating or I have atonguasia
My wife had to explain to me that pickles were pickled cucumbers and there wasn’t a pickle tree.
I was 30 something years old.
This happend multiple times. A lot people seem to not know that a Cow had to be pregnant to produce Milk...
I never knew knew that. I assumed we'd done some selective breeding along the line so when they start they just don't stop. Seems really inefficient.
Yep. Really inefficient and horrible. In nature a cow give birth to about 4-6 calves in her entire life (They get about 20 years old.) In the dairy industry, they are fertilized for the first time at 15 months. From then on they are permanently pregnant until they die (in the industry they live to be around 5 years old). The calves are removed from their mothers after birth in order to pump the mother's milk. Horrible for the calve and her mother cause they have the same kind of bonding to their child/mother that we have. In addition, the cows' udders are extremely over bred for maximum profit. This makes it extremely painful for the cows to give milk.
The dairy industry is extremely brutal and morally reprehensible. Everyone who consumes dairy should take a look at how milk is actually produced.
From then on they are permanently pregnant
that's not true.
Would you like to expand on your answer?
typically, they are only pregnant once per year
(They get about 20 years old.)
cows do not live to 20 years old without food, water, protection from the elements and predators, and veterinary care.
Ahh true. I forgot that every other animal in nature only gets a few month if not a few weeks old because they don't have food, water, protection from the elements and predators, and veterinary care...
let a jersey in the woods.
I worked in a retail pharmacy so here is a list:
Having to explain that a certain infamous "Chinese alphabet" font¹ (favoured by tattoo joints everywhere) is not how you write in Chinese. There is a shocking number of people who have somehow managed to grow up not just to adulthood but to senior citizen levels who think that foreign languages are just English with a funky spelling; that grammar rules are otherwise the same, and that words translate one for one (and sometimes, in extreme cases, like the gibberish font, letter for letter).
¹ https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html
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I saw a brand a while back, can't remember exactly what, something like coffee or chocolate, and they were using this fake Japanese for all their product names and merchandise labels.
It was certainly the most surefire way to instantly demonstrate to me they have no actual understanding of, or connection with, Japan or Japanese culture at all.
why consumers pay tarrifs
The earth isn't flat.
Seriously, what the fuck.
I had to walk a classmate through how to install a program in Windows. You know, go to the website, hit download, wait for it to finish, next next next, etc. We're two weeks away from getting our diplomas. In IT.
"Tax the rich" does not mean anybody wants to tax you for owning your home. Unless it's a fucking palace.
About 30 years ago I had to explain to my boyfriend's mom that LGBTQI+ people do not just choose to be LGBTQI+.
I didn't know at the time whether I got through to her, but years later she told me she understood why that was true.
I had to explain to an adult woman that prunes are to plums as raisins are to grapes.
I think it was last year that I had to break it to my mother that pickles are not, in fact, a naturally occurring relative of cucumbers, but rather the result of placing cucumbers in some sort of brine. She's almost 70, and apparently believed there were pickle plants out there that you could just walk up to and grab a gherkin, or something.
I had a friend who recently started growing things I his garden. The cucumbers out grew everything. When I went to his house there was cucumbers everywhere. In jugs of water in the fridge, everywhere.
I said why don't you make gherkins? He replied with "dude I've got too many bloody cucumber why would I start growing gherkins.".
I had a good laugh.
How fractions work to a 30 year old woman.
I literally had to draw a circle, and use the pie analogy from grade school.
I got a job building touch screen information kiosks for a fundraising thing a university was doing for one of its STEM programs. I had my hands full building this thing, so they got one of the students at the college who "does video" to put the content together. I got one chance to talk to this girl, I start in "So the monitors I'm using are standard 1920x1080, so aim for that resolution" and she stopped me to ask what that meant. So I'm now convinced she wasn't a member of the AV club or in some video production major...she was someone's niece who's on Tiktok.
I eventually get an email with the files she was supposed to send to me. Each kiosk was going to be programmed differently to display information about the thing it was standing next to. I get a bunch of video files in no folder structure with names that don't mean anything. "charlton.mp4" "untitled.mp4." "melissa.mp4"
I replied with an email asking "How am I supposed to know which of these videos goes with which kiosk?" How do you end up with most of a bachelor's degree like this?
That narwhals are real. Partner thought they were mythological like unicorns.
Honestly, it was funny but somewhat understandable.
That you CANNOT gain more weight from a sugared drink than it actually weighs.