Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

Writer of perverted fiction with No Commercial Potential. Because you're never too old to learn a new way to be stupid. Earth, Milky Way Joined February 2022

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

6 days ago

@GadSaad They left out Canada.

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

6 days ago

@senatorshoshana She looks the same as the day I married her. Except she shaved her back.

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@Porter_and_Co Try getting an HSA on Medicare. You can't.

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@senatorshoshana Here, too

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

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@HarperSCarroll

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

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@HarperSCarroll Somewhere in my attic I have a first edition copy of Brainmaker, all on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks.

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@DrProfitCrypto I want my kidney back! Waaaah!

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@porterstansb We're still the cleanest dirty shirt in the dirty clothes basket.

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Brian Kim at ClearValue Investing @CV_Investing

2 weeks ago

The Inflation Disconnect: Why Purchasing Power Continues to Decline Financial headlines are celebrating lower inflation numbers, but the underlying data exposes a much harsher economic reality: • Trimmed Mean PCE (2.4%): Strips away volatile price spikes, allowing the Fed to claim they hit their new 2.9% target. • Core PCE (3.4%): The Fed's traditional favorite metric is still sitting at a near three-year high. Prices aren't going down; they're just climbing slower. • M2 Money Supply Growth (7.5%): The true volume of money circulating has accelerated to an annualized 7.5%. The Wealth Gap Equation: U.S. wage growth is only pacing at 3.4%. If your income grows at 3.4% while the true supply of money expands at 7.5%, your purchasing power is actively shrinking. This is exactly why families are falling further behind. Don't just watch the headlines—keep your eyes on the money supply. #Macroeconomics #Inflation #FederalReserve #MoneySupply #Wages #CostOfLiving

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@PressSec But I thought Tacoma was in Washington. My head hurts.

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Gary Cardone @GaryCardone

2 weeks ago

Do we need less people like this in spaces, in our lives, or anywhere around us? do you know anyone like this, if so tag them and repost it — Help keep our spaces tidy, name a parasite and tag them. x.com/Hawkesbay69/st…

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Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta

2 weeks ago

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet. The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax. So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K. Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail. Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card. The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price. Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

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2 weeks ago

In order to prevent stores from evading taxes, every receipt in Taiwan is automatically a lottery ticket, too, which can win up to $300k, turning customers into voluntary tax auditors:

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Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez

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College has become the most expensive lottery ticket in America. - $180k all in - 4 years of not earning money - 25 of paying back the debt if you borrowed to get there At least scratch tickets tell you upfront it's a gamble...

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@HarperSCarroll Have you read The Structure of Magic? I think it could revolutionize AI.

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Daniel Train @DanielTrain5

2 weeks ago

@SydneyLWatson The Finns are failing. They should at least be in the top five. Why, when I was young I raped at least 4 people a night. It makes me sad what the world is coming to.