MacGuffin94

joined 2 years ago
[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fluency in a language learning context is not the same as native speakers. The measure is can you pass a 4th grade grammar class in the given language.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

My understanding is that you won't get fluent but it would give you up to a middle school level understanding, depending on the language. French and Spanish were more advanced than Mandarin or Welsh.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't think I've ever run into anyone else who has seen or remembers surf ninjas. What a great fever dream of a movie.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

If you like them The Agonist is a good band in the same vein. Alissa White-Glutz fronted them until she left for arch enemy and was replaced by Vicky Psarakis

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Not if it is leveraged to hell and back. Odds are that a bulk is collateral for buying a social media platform and a presidency along with how he uses it to float his other companies.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it really a new low? I meant he pretty much does the equivalent of this just about daily. It's pretty standard at this point.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

If a judge can garnish my wages or dictate the terms of a company bankruptcy settlement then they should be able to take control of the payments relevant to their ruling.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Pretty sure he just paid for it.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I wrote it below but that's not the only way.

Other things like finding the IRS (8x the investment) and job placement programs return much much more than what is invested in them. It's like running a restaurant and pricing alcohol at cost while planning for apps to make us the difference, that's just not reality.

Granted this is still unpopular with lobbiests and would cost rich people money so them money

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Not very effectively. Tariffs return less than the investment in them due to a slow down in the economy they cause. Other things like finding the IRS (8x the investment) and job placement programs return much much more than what is invested in them. It's like running a restaurant and pricing alcohol at cost while planning for apps to make us the difference, that's just not reality.

[–] MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The thing that always baffles me is that they never look to increase government revenue. Every company I've worked for the question was always 1 how to increase money coming in then 2 how to reduce money going out. In that order.

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