This covers federal income taxes only, excluding payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. Including those the top 1% pays ~25% of all federal taxes while earning ~22% of all income.
Weed in the US is starting to get this way as well. It’s amazing the amount of actually useful drug information you can get from products sold at weed shops these days. Meanwhile you don’t even get nutritional facts or ingredients with beer. I wish I liked either drug but I should be happy I don’t.
They’re incredibly convenient. It allows smaller groups of people to accomplish more in a shorter amount of time by providing a standardized interface that does a great job of integrating with their existing environment.
When translating database input and output into server-side representations, you have two options: build and maintain the process yourself or use a mature tool designed for that specific purpose in your server-side language. I strongly prefer the latter, as do many others.
I find that most people critical of ORMs end up creating their own narrowly focused, weakly tested ORM-like database compatibility layers in their backend. These have caused more problems than ORMs ever have.
Like you said I imagine it was less effort. Less effort can be very valuable if you’re still producing something useful. Perhaps you could use a simple transpilation approach yourself if you think that’s a good idea.
> claim that cats (of all animals!) should stay at home at all costs. that's also weird. But these are mostly internet people, I've never found one in real life...
I’m one of these people. I swear I’m not just an internet person. Most of my friends who own cats also have these views as well.
Cats are incredibly efficient killers and live a considerably shorter life when given unsupervised access outdoors. Just because it’s natural for them doesn’t mean it’s good for them or their environment. Cats can live perfectly happy lives indoors, if taken care of properly. This isn’t weird. What’s weird is what’s normal.
You seem like you very much actually know what you’re talking about. Do you have any recommendations for books for laypeople for understanding modern agriculture?
Do you find yourself refusing to read articles or papers unless you’re first 100% sure that everything stated in them is absolutely true? Having to approach something with a certain amount of skepticism is not something that was newly introduced with LLM’s.
The common language most often used when people from Japan, China, or South Korea visit each other’s countries is English. All three groups of people are more likely to know English than either of the other two languages. The same can be said for the remaining group that doesn’t include people from those three countries.