Is a private jet an operating cost?

You have to understand what profit is.

If I make a church, collect 1 million from my congregation. Then, I pay myself 1 million for the job of being the pastor.

My business, the church, is non-profit. It had 1 million in revenue and 1 million in expenses. No profit.

Now, I would be dumb to pay myself the million as a salary because then that million gets income taxed. I’d “buy” 1 million dollars worth of bibles for Uzbekistan and never fulfill the order or something. Launder it.

The idea of why the church doesn’t get taxed is sound. People pay income tax, church collects taxed income, church spends taxed income to better community.

They are essentially supposed to be a middle man. If i took my taxed income and donated it directly to buy bibles for Uzbekistan. Then it doesn’t make sense for my money to be taxed again. So if i give my money to the church and they give it to Uzbekistan, then why tax it?

Problem is our tax code has loop holes

A church was never supposed to buy a private jet. Yet it has become a business expense.

So, feel free to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk. Jesus is A-ok with that.

How did you get that it was alright to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk out of that?

Sure, he says you could eat the young goat that has been boiled in its mother’s milk.

But nothing saying it’s alright to boil the young goat in the first place, which the OP verse clearly states.

Ohh I see now.

Yeah 160° is too hot. But people do it. Small tank multiple showers needed. You can stretch it.

I was saying for people that have their water too hot. The regulator inside the US mixing valve has a stopper so you can’t go to max hot. That’s all the piece inside does, stops you from turning the valve more. Doesn’t help reglate the temperature. Someone in comments said their regulator is bad and I thought it was OP.

It’s definitely a nice upgrade. Little pricey in the states because hardly anyone uses them, so they are “specially”. Not any more difficult to install really but plumber might charge a premium.

In the US the standard safety temperature for the water heater is 120° F

You don’t need it higher than that unless you have a small tank and use a lot of it. Tankless is 120°F.

I don’t know where you got 70°C from.

If you live in the US, then you probably have a standard mixing valve

If you live elsewhere, it’s probably a thermostatic one

For US:

You want to turn your handle all the way hot to clear your hot water lines fast, it’s room temperature in the hot water lines. Once the water is hot, then you start mixing in cold water.

The first cold water is from the lines in your house. It is heated or cooled by your home, basically room temperature water.

So say I turn the valve on full hot. Pure hot water is pouring out. Now you add some of that “room temperature cold water” to get to your perfect temperature.

Now, once you run out of “room temperature cold water,” it will start pulling water from the street.

I’m guessing you live in a cooler climate area?

120°F + 70°F = perfect temperature

But if the outside water becomes, say 50°F after you use all your water stored in your cold water lines

120°F + 50°F = colder water

So you have to add less 50°F water, which means slowly creeping your valve up until you have steady temperature water going to the valve.

Things like the type of water heater matters. If you use a tank then as you use water it adds water. If you keep your tank at 120° and you’re adding 70° cold water or 50° water to the tank matters. You also have “room temperature water” in your cold lines going to your tank at first, then colder water. So that creates another “lag” in temperature

US standard mixing valves aren’t as nice as a thermostatic valve. They are just cheap and standard and work well enough in most places.

Thermostatic valves allow you to select, say 100°F water, and the knob just controls the water flow rate. No matter what, the water that comes out of your shower will be 100°F. As the water coming into your house gets colder it will automatically adjust. As the water from your tank gets colder, it will automatically adjust.

Sounds like your valve is working as intended though

Yes, but this wastes water, so if you’re trying to be green, you should be able to open up the valve to full hot.

Not only does it waste water, your shower will take longer to heat up.

Also, depending on where you live the perfect temperature changes a lot because of outside temperatures. If you use all the room temperature water in your cold lines then start pulling cold water from the outside. You’re going to have to adjust it. Bigger the house, the more the problem.

But if you have to dump out your entire hot and cold lines to even begin to step in the shower, that’s a ton of wasted water.

Answer is a thermostatic valve. It will just use hot water until it needs to mix in cold. If your cold water temperature changes, it will adjust it automatically. You really do pick a temperature to set the valve at, and then the handle just controls the flow rate.

The regular for a standard mixing valve is there only so you can’t turn the valve to burn you. When people keep their water tanks at 160°F, a full turn to the left would be devastating if you’re standing in it.

#1 Ontario being the population of Pennsylvania

#9 New foundland being the population of Wyoming

#10 Prince Edward Island only has 150k, could lump in 150k from northern territories

20 senators for 40m, 5.0E-7 senators per person

200 senators for 340m, 5.88E-7 senators per person

It seems pretty fair

Lol okay

I’ll go check out your comment!

I just find it funny that some Nirvana fans would listen to Plateau by the Meat Puppets and think it was Kurt Cobain singing. Like “He recorded a studio version??”

I wouldn’t even know how you could change Africa to something else and be liked. It’s a tall order for sure. I enjoy Bob Dylan a ton but understand not everyone likes his voice or even harmonica. “All Along The Watch Tower” could easily be changed and enjoyed because it’s the music and lyrics that are loved mostly. Africa is an entire package. I enjoy Dave Matthews Band performing “All Along The Watch Tower”. He puts it in his own style some, but that style isn’t as different as Jimi.

Lake of Fire is the only one I’d say is maybe better. Especially if we are talking about the MP too high to die version over MPII version.

They are all good songs, though, so I can definitely see your point.

Do a guard dog equals a fighting dog? Protective equals aggressive? Gtfo with that weak bullshit 🙄

A guard dog DOES not EQUAL a fighting dog. No. But a fighting dog does equal a guard dog.

Gtfo with that weak bullshit 🙄

Good argument point

For someone talking a lot about working dogs, you seem utterly clueless about how they BECOME working dogs.

Do you even know how they BECOME working dogs?

A Shetland Sheepdog doesn’t need to go to doggie college to learn to herd sheep. It is in their nature to chase and get everything together. You put my sheltie in a field of sheep, and he’ll make sure no sheep wanders off.

There is very little training you have to do to get a beagle to hunt rabbits.

Try training a St. Bernard to hunt rabbits…

Dogs aren’t machines with certain behaviors hard coded

Since you said it, it must be true

Some might have generational trauma

So you are saying that past generational experiences can shape a breed? That’s the opposite of what you are trying to argue.

Many studies have been done about aggression in breeding.

One would be The Russian Silver Fox Experiment.

They took wild foxes and tried to domestic them through selective breeding, and they took aggressive foxes and tried to make more aggressive ones.

Turns out that they could do both, make them less aggressive and more aggressive through breeding.

It has been studied a ton in mice and it has been found that aggression is heritable that follows the Mendelian inheritance patterns with genes located on autosomes. That expression of aggressive behavior is influenced by androgens.

So yes, in a way, we, like dogs, are all “machines” with certain “codes”

You don’t have to train a guard breed to not guard any more than you have to train a seventh generation farmer not to farm or he’ll just spontaneously start growing crops.

Oh geez

I’ll ask you this question.

Set up: Pit Bull and Shetland Sheepdog. Both in separate large pits. Gold bars in middle. Food and water is given to both, but no human contact ever.

Which pit would you want to retrieve the gold bar from?

In your mind, it shouldn’t make a difference which pit

Fighting breed = Guard breed

A pit bull will guard you with its life. Not only will it, it can.

Other types are:

1. Herding Dogs

2. Sporting Dogs

3. Hound Dogs

4. Working Dogs

5. Terrier Dogs

6. Toy Dogs

7. Non-Sporting Dogs

8. Companion Dogs (sometimes included within Non-Sporting or Toy groups)

9. Mixed-Breed Dogs (not an official group, but commonly recognized)

Guard dogs fall under working dogs

Working dogs = Guarding, Pulling, Rescuing, Sledding, and Service assisting.

Like you said, the reports are probably skewed to some degree, but that doesn’t stop the fact that you’re more likely to get mauled to death by a Pit Bull then say a Shetland Sheepdog.

Pit bulls are both able and willing to guard. They will stand their ground or attack.

Could you train your Pit Bull to always run in a precived danger situation? Maybe. But you have to train it.

In conclusion: there’s no such thing as an inherently dangerous dog breed

only a dog who needs to be trained in ways they (the owners) are unable or unwilling to do.

If you have to train a dog to do something or else it will “naturally” or “inherently” do something different. Then it is naturally or inherently trained to do that thing, “Guard”.

Have you heard the original meat puppet versions? Nirvana basically covered them exactly.

Not saying that’s bad. But when you look at songs like “All along the washer tower” by Jimi, or “Whiskey in the Jar” by Metallica. Those covers are completely changed to fit their style. In my mind, that’s what makes a cover great.

A lot of Nirvana’s style is the Meat Puppets

Good covers, but they lack original twists. Meat Puppets even played the music in the unplugged performance. So really it’s wasn’t Nirvana covering them as much as Kurt Cobain singing.

It’s what I have against Weezer’s cover of Toto’s Africa. Good cover, but it doesn’t scream Weezer at all.

Would you rather have 2-3 lines with cashiers or 6+ self checkouts?

I would say I would get out of the store way faster doing self checkout. I call that efficient.

Places like Sam’s Club with their Scan and Go checkout. I can scan all my groceries with my phone as I put them into my cart. Then I just walk under an arch with cameras that scans what barcodes it can. Then I walk out the door. I don’t even have to wait in line or go to a self checkout.

Cashiers aren’t efficient

If the company had to pay cashiers, then the prices of goods are just going to go up. Corporate execs and board members want the money.

So, do you let the Corporate execs and board members save money and hope not to raise prices (maybe lower them), or make them pay a cashier so they are going to raise prices.

Even though I hate the “please place the item in the bag!” “Unscaned item in bagging area!”. Self checkouts are efficient, and the future.

8 hous at $15 an hour is $120

Two security cameras. At most $2000

Assuming the register is basically the same price

Do you want to pay a person to stand and scan groceries for 2 weeks for $1200?

Or do you want to spend $1200 on cameras that will last years?

30k+ a year vs. $1200 once

People could steal 29k worth of stuff, and the company would still makes the same profit.

The cameras are basically security theater anyways. No one is ever going to watch the footage unless needed.

The efficiency is definitely there

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the ability to create art from scratch is what makes someone an artist

What is “scratch”?

That’s the whole argument against AI art.

Did you make spaghetti with pre-made noodles?

Did you make your own noodles?

Did you grind up your own wheat?

Did you make easy mac in the microwave?

Which one is a true chef?

Maybe

Probably

Definitely

Probably not

Does the AI make the “art” or does the artist use AI as a tool.

The chef creates the easy mac. A person cooks the easy mac.

Having AI create the “easy mac”, then trying to claim cooking the “easy mac” makes you a chef is what’s wrong

But if you get the AI to create the noodles, sauce, meat ball seasoning, etc. And you put it all together well. Then you can claim you’re somewhat of a chef.