Dr. Geek, MD

26 Followers
220 Following
189 Posts
Wading through the noise to find the truth.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

5 years of exec pay:

Tesla: $2.5 billion
T-Mobile: $675 million
Netflix: $652 million
Ford: $355 million

5 years of federal income taxes paid:

Tesla: $0 ($1M refund)
T-Mobile: $0 ($80M refund)
Netflix: $236 million
Ford: $121 million

Anyone else see the problem here?

Modern work:

you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion, and track project progress on Monday and then update the Trello and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything you've just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases and each one costs $15 a month per user...

The Girl Scouts came at me today. Normally I’d buy 2 boxes of Thin Mints, but after their fabulous statements of late, I bought 6.
Important PSA:

This is Toshiko Yuasa (1909-1980). She was the first woman physicist from Japan. It's 1940 & with her science prospects at home blocked by gender prejudice, she'd managed to get into wartime Paris to do physics research...

1/9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiko_Yuasa

#tbt #WomeninSTEM

Toshiko Yuasa - Wikipedia

One thing I absolutely love is that hitting star in Mastodon just sends an appreciative signal to the poster. It doesn't influence algorithms. It doesn't shape what I see in my timeline. It doesn't broadcast a signal to my followers that I favorited something.

It just does one thing incredibly well: it sends a simple thanks.

The Murdoch family's Fox "News" did its best to foment national fear and loathing with its dangerously bogus claim that the car explosion at Niagara Falls was terrorism.

It's a reminder that Murdoch and his underlings relentlessly inject poison into our civic bloodstream, for profit and power.

If you subscribe to cable/satellite TV or a digital equivalent, you are sending them money every month.

Please stop. Please cancel. Do not support this evil company.

I honestly believe comedians like Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic, John Leguizamo et al are doing a vastly better job of informing the public about important issues than our hopelessly compromised fourth estate.