Is it an increase? The article @macattack cited does not give any data on how much the IRS collected from high-income earners before this additional push supposedly funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. The article does mention that Republicans in congress recently rescinded more than $20 billion in additional IRS funding, which does suggest that the net benefit was far less than $1.3 billion and might even have been negative. It seems like the kind of breathless article the impact of which relies on people not well understanding the difference between a billion and a trillion.

Fine, revenues are $4.9 trillion. My point is that $1.9 billion is literally a drop in the bucket - hardly an example of the IRS “going after rich people”.

FWIW the US federal budget for 2024 is going to be about $6.8 trillion dollars. So that $1.3 billion is about 0.019% of the total budget. I’d call that a slap on the wrist for the billionaire class except that you can actually feel a slap on the wrist.

How on earth do people still think Bigfoot is real? It’s obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

Especially amazing because it was pretty damn rare to still be alive to receive a Victoria Cross.

Ironically, the modern Middle East is almost entirely a creation of WWI and its immediate aftermath when the Ottoman Empire was carved up by the victorious Allies.

During WWII in Britain, about 10% of the men drafted were sent down into the coal mines instead of being sent off to war. In addition to enduring the horrific conditions of the mines, they had to endure abuse for not fighting. For bonus points, the old-time miners would often haze these draftees by letting their elevator cages free-fall for a bit during their first trips down.

That pan is long gone - this was in 1990 or thereabouts.

I mean, look how bad he fucked up Lindsay Lohan.

“Get rid of those ugly strain reliefs on the plugs!”
“Uh, we don’t make hardware.”
“I don’t care, get rid of them!”

Breaking news: “Sean Combs announced as the new starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns”.

you can unrust it in your garage

You can very easily de-rust cast iron cookware with Ospho which is basically phosphoric acid (Loctite naval jelly available at Lowe’s is the same stuff in gelled form, which is a bit grosser). Obviously you have to rinse it really well afterwards, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than trying to physically remove the rust.

My best pan was the cast iron frying pan from the 1920s that I inherited from my grandmother. I say “was” because eventually my brother used it to drain the oil from his motorcycle. I still haven’t totally forgiven him for that.

I’m a school bus driver. Last week a 13yo middle schooler tried to impress a girl by running after my bus after I dropped them off and grabbing the bumper. Middle schoolers are some serious fucking dumbasses, but this move surprised even me. Even more surprising was the girl actually being impressed by his asphalt faceplant.

The billionaires and corporations run the state and the media. Not laughing my ass off.

Hard to imagine Trump has read very many books.

By all accounts, he’s never even read his autobiography.

For me, working from home meant eating endangered species for lunch seven days a week instead of just two. Checkmate, liberals.

And a child is assumed to be a future combatant.

I mean, a score is 20. I think that means they’ve killed two thousand scores of people. “Scores of women and children” doesn’t really do that justice.

I’ve only ever really felt jealousy when it involved a woman turning me down and then sleeping with somebody else. As long as I’m allowed in the club, I don’t really care how many other people have been let in.