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Cake day: January 24th, 2025

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  • Yeah, if you can find a public tier ii map, rural areas are full of bunkers of holding tanks filled with petroleum and produced water from injection wells. So it works more than fantasticaly on tge rural public, many of whom earn a small amount of income on a shared lease.



  • To support around a 1% shortfall in fica, fica is about .5% of all income (feel free to fact check, I guessed a bit), 1950 fits the bill for their actual paid percentage of 41% vs their statutory 89%.

    Edit: it’d be interesting to know how much of a fica shortfall 4% taxes on the 1% would cover. Somewhere in the range of 50-150% is my guess. Seems more than the projected shortfalls. Now, if they got taxed at 91% for real, noone else would have to pay [much] income tax, and they could raise fica on the rest of us without objection.





  • Put it in a potato cannon, get two optic eye beams, record the time as the anemone flies through each beam. Tricky to get the path right, I am sure, trial and error will help. Then, time in seconds, say from an internal clock on whatever device gets the signal from the beams. So b1 is beam one, and the first the anemone passes through, then you have b2 for beam two. Measure the distance (d) in feet between the beams along the flight path. So, t1 is time b1 triggers, t2 for b2 trigger. Elapsed time, et, is t2-t1. Velocity is d/et, giving feet per second.