Comments by "" (@timogul) on "CNBC Television"
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@paulbarclay4114 If you're talking about covid-19, the evidence is that it was not created through genetic engineering or gain of function, and there is definitely no indication that it was released deliberately. Even if it did leak from the lab somehow (which is still the less likely scenario), it would have been an accidental release, since in that scenario a number of researchers got sick. If they'd intended to release it they could have done so in a way that wouldn't have harmed themselves, right? That's just common sense.
Now, if you're talking their previous research, they had done some experimentation on SARs strains that had nothing to do with the covid-19 strain, and did enhance their transmissability, but they also neutered their actual harm, so even if those strains had escaped into the public, nothing would have happened. It's important to do that sort of research because it allows them to get ahead of the natural evolution of the viruses and plan out countermeasures.
And I would never accuse you of being high-intelligence or difficult to manipulate, since all you've done so far is parrot idiotic conspiracy theories spread by the Faux News as a distraction from the actual pandemic we're all living in.
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@paulbarclay4114 Any "researcher" you can find to back your position is just copy-pasting the same conspiracy theory nonsense and is completely discredited. But people choose to believe them anyway because they prefer the lie that agrees with their own worldview to a truth that is scary and inconvenient.
You are just another obvious troll. You are either too dumb to realize you are being told what to think, thinking it and then telling other people to think it because its what you think you think, or you are even worse, a disinformation agent.
Either way you have not said one thing that cannot be easily refuted, and it's not even worth responding to.
Paul Barclay
Paul Barclay
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@Tim Ogul You are just copy pasting the garbage conventional narrative
for every "researcher" you are referencing I can show you PHDs from around the world who will totally refute your garbage narrative.
You are just another obvious troll. You are either too dumb to realize you are being told what to think, thinking it and then telling other people to think it because its what you think you think, or you are even worse, a disinformation agent.
Either way you have not said one thing that cannot be easily refuted, and it's not even worth responding to.
You aren't worth the effort. As soon as you spout conspiracy theories, you automatically disqualify yourself from any discourse.
But let's try it anyway. So you say that I should find Steven Quay impressive because he founded a therapeutics company. One that seems to be delivering snake-oil "treatments" to covid and breast cancer, without any reputable results. I'm sure he would have nothing to gain by becoming a "hero" to the types of people who chase snake-oil treatments rather than "main stream" drugs that actually work. Worked out for the My Pillow guy. It certainly had nothing to do with how his article came out right as his companies stocks were tumbling because their flagship drug failed its clinical trials.
And Richard Muller isn't even a medical researcher, he's a Physicist.
Quay may have a PHD in biology, and may know a lot more than I do, but I'm not putting my own expertise against his, nor should you. I'm putting the expertise of thousands of OTHER experts in the field, each with equal or higher credentials,m who DISAGREE with his conclusions. You can pick an idea out of a hat, and I'm sure you could find at least one person out there with a diploma who would support that position, that does not make it right. That is not science. The science involves actual research in the fields, and a consensus viewpoint that a significant amount of the scientific community agrees is true. Keith Grehan and Natalie Kingston wrote an article debunking his general claims on the subject.
If this WERE true, then the scientific community would WIDELY hold this position, and not just the fringe crackpots that run snake-oil companies.
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@jetmech9287 Yes, if you buy a work of art, it goes on your taxes. Typically sales tax is what applies, although if you eventually sell art at a higher value than you paid, you need to be aware of both values and pay capital gains tax on the difference. Your signed baseball would be taxed at 28%+ if you sold it, although it's worth pointing out that the IRS isn't likely to come after people for selling a few small value items.
Again, I'm not sure what crypto is classified under, but I expect it would be something along the lines of stocks. If by some chance the current law does not cover crypto, then it can be changed so that it does, and it probably should be.
Now, as for transactions, you can get in a lot of trouble if you try to cheat the system. If, for example, you want to sell a house, and so you get the person to "pay" you in diamonds. Just because he handed you diamonds and not cash does not mean that this is not income and does not need to be reported. I'm no tax expert, so I'm not exactly sure where you would need to report that, but it would go someplace in your taxes that you acquired something of value.
Bitcoin does not have arbitrary value, because there is a market for it, and therefore a market value. You have to consider market value for tax purposes, not whatever value you put on an item.
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@jetmech9287 But the point is, when you do sell it, you are accountable to paying capital gains on the difference between the buy price and the sell price, so it is listed in your taxes.
Bartering is taxable, and if you try to use bartering to avoid paying taxes on a transaction, that is called "tax evasion." Here is an article covering that: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/irs-cautions-bartering-transactions-are-taxable-transactions
Here is an IRS page on it: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/four-things-you-should-know-if-you-barter
And no, the value of bitcoin is not arbitrary because it has a market value. I have no idea what that value is off the top of my head, but let's say it's $50K. If I gave you three Bitcoin, I could not declare that this value is arbitrary and that I only value it at $20, and therefore you only owe taxes as if I gave you $20. We would both have to use the market value of what 3 Bitcoin is worth, so we would have to register $150K for relevant tax data.
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@TheDragonageorigins You'd think so, right? I mean it sounds right, doesn't it, that if you raise taxes on businesses, then they'll just jack up prices, right? Except we know for a fact that this is not what happens, they don't raise prices, or at least not more than they would under normal conditions. After all, there was a massive corporate tax cut recently and they certainly didn't lower prices, right?
The fact is that the companies will just set the prices to as high as people are willing to pay, and if they aren't willing to pay more, then they won't raise the prices. If they are willing to pay more then they will jack up the prices whether you raise taxes on them or not. Very few businesses are so on the margin that raising their corporate taxes would put them out of business, instead they will just not buy-back as many stocks, or not pay as massive a bonus to their executives, but so far as the average employee or customer, those prices are baked in either way.
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@ZepFan01-rs5xc I don't know the context of the photo you're talking about, but it's possible that the reporter was directly talking to people, while the cameraman was staying far enough back that it was less of a risk. Or perhaps the reporter was just trying to show a good example to the public. That is not some "gotcha" moment that you seem to think it is.
Hangovers have not killed 600,000 Americans. Yes, many people who get it only have mild flu symptoms, or no symptoms at all, but it still kills twenty times more people than the average flu season, even AFTER taking serious measures to reduce that number, and leaves others with long term disabilities. It may be a joke to you, but that does not mean that it actually IS a joke to those that get serious cases of it.
Some people have had the flu, you can see tracking of it on CDC sites. There were around 400 flu deaths in 2020-2021 season. The flu rate is much lower than in a normal year, but that is because 1. a lot more people got flu shots this year than normal, and 2. the same sorts of things that reduce covid risk ALSO work against the flu, so since a lot more people were staying home, not going to mass gatherings, etc., a lot less people got the flu. This should not be surprising to you. If we handled every flu season the way we handled covid, then we would see similarly tiny numbers, but since the flu has a MUCH higher survivability rate than covid, it would not be worth taking such extreme measures.
There are only 20-30,000 flu deaths in a normal flu season, I'm not sure who lied to you and told you "400,000." The CDC also predicts how many "expected deaths" each year will have due to normal circumstances like old age and card crashes and that sort of thing, and 2020 had roughly 400,000 deaths above that expected amount, meaning around 400,000 MORE Americans died last year than any reasonable expectations could account for without factoring in covid's impacts.
And are you SERIOUSLY trying to spread the Big Lie too now? Geez, I really hope you're a Russian plant at this point, because I'm tired of believing that Americans can be this stupid.
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@Donny_Double_Dip Ok, so if a child is trans, why do you not believe they should be supported? You do know that trans youths have a much higher suicide rate than the general population, and that supporting their transition greatly reduces this, right? Why would you prefer that they die than that they bother you by being alive and trans?
Also, if you wanted to call a black person the n-word, and they asked you to not call them that, would you be offended that they are " forcing you to speak a certain way?" I mean, if we're being honest with each other, I'm sure your answer would be "of course," but I do think that society in general has moved past that point, as they will on this topic. Bigotry is a constantly moving goal post, what was seen as bigotry fifty years ago is often seen as "ridiculous" to even modern bigots, just as their own bigotry will seem ridiculous to bigots fifty years from now. That does not make it right. Get ahead of the curve, rather than behind it.
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@SC-pe9ir But again, most of the land available for those purposes is either of other value to the city, like public parks, or it is far enough away from the city that homeless people would not use it. Do you think that public parks should be given over to homeless camps? Or should federal lands miles past the suburbs be given over to the homeless, understanding that few if any would actually go there? Everyone has lived somewhere, and no matter where someone lives, they have witnessed the homeless problem not being solved, because there is nowhere on Earth where it has been solved. A lot of things are being tried, some well-meaning, others indifferent, others cruel, but Newsome's have not been worse than most, and certainly not so bad as to undermine his governance in general.
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