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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
Gawdzilla Sama Offline
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#2171
RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2023 at 2:13 pm
(March 15, 2023 at 2:37 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: For a eco-car derided for woeful lack of power, Toyota Prius seem well capable of defending itself.   It has crushed to death at least 16 thieves who got under one to steal its apparently particularly valuable catalytic converters

I hear such thefts mentioned on "On Patrol: Live".

Related: State Farm Insurance Company created a crime wave when they started allowing "used" air bags to replace expended ones. The traffic is "used" air bags was brisk for a while.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2023 at 9:30 pm
On 18 MArch 1990, two thieves stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston, including a Rembrandt and Vermeer.

That part I knew. The part I didn't know:

On the 23rd anniversary of the heist, the FBI announced that they knew who did it. 10 years after that, they still haven't even named who they've fingered for the crime.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 18, 2023 at 5:20 am
(March 17, 2023 at 9:30 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: On 18 MArch 1990, two thieves stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum in Boston, including a Rembrandt and Vermeer.

That part I knew. The part I didn't know:

On the 23rd anniversary of the heist, the FBI announced that they knew who did it. 10 years after that, they still haven't even named who they've fingered for the crime.

Maybe the FBI should stop fingering people and get on with arresting them.

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 18, 2023 at 2:34 pm
There is a Banana Cleaner on Amazon.

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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 18, 2023 at 3:36 pm
(March 18, 2023 at 2:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: There is a Banana Cleaner on Amazon.

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How does it work? With suction?
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 18, 2023 at 3:44 pm
(March 18, 2023 at 3:36 pm)Deesse23 Wrote:
(March 18, 2023 at 2:34 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: There is a Banana Cleaner on Amazon.

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How does it work? With suction?
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does it make the banana bigger?    

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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 19, 2023 at 2:13 pm
Something that never came up when I was taking my Income Tax Accounting class: The IRS already knows exactly how much you owe them for a given year.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 19, 2023 at 2:43 pm
(March 19, 2023 at 2:13 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Something that never came up when I was taking my Income Tax Accounting  class: The IRS already knows exactly how much you owe them for a given year.

Not always.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 20, 2023 at 12:55 am
I had lunch with old friend yesterday, along with some other friends. He referenced some conspiracy-theory sounding mouth noises about "15 minutes cities". Now, I'm aware of what those are, but Boy Howdy, I did not know that /they/ were going to make it illegal to leave your assigned "district". Imagine my shock!
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 20, 2023 at 1:04 am
(March 19, 2023 at 2:13 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Something that never came up when I was taking my Income Tax Accounting  class: The IRS already knows exactly how much you owe them for a given year.

Only if all of your income is reported by third parties such as an employer, bank, brokerage, etc.

For the vast majority of workers this is true. It becomes less true the less your income depends on such sources. I had a stock transaction where only the sale was reportable, IRS has no way of knowing what the cost basis was. Yes, the area is rife with fraud.
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