Net worth taxes are stupid.

Just tax loans collateralized by stock as income, and give a deduction on the interest when they pay back the loan.

That’s currently the biggest loophole the wealthy use. They use their stock portfolios as collateral for loans, which are untaxed. Then as their portfolio grows they take out more loans to cover the old one and fund their lifestyle, or they liquidate some of their assets at the much lower capital gains tax to pay it back.

Just tax collateralized loans as realized gains and be done with it.

I mean if you don’t use the health app you’ve eliminated like 90% of what the watch is for. The entire premise is a wearable biometric sensor that also functions as a direct link to your phone.

I have an ultra that I use for a ton of stuff. I originally got an SE for the better sleep tracking, but that turned into using it for workouts at which point I got a series 8. When I got into longer distance cycling (75-100 miles) the battery on that didn’t last long enough so I upped to the ultra.

Oh absolutely. It’s probably worth the $3500 at least. I just cannot think of a use case for myself that would justify it lol. I don’t work from home enough to claim it for work, and I can’t remote in from a Mac anyway.

And with kids, I definitely don’t have the free time to use it to watch movies or anything.

Pretty much the only reason I didn’t buy one.

I did the guided demo at the Apple Store and it’s a cool thing. If it were $2000 with AppleCare instead of $4000 I probably would have bought one.

I’ll see what they release for the “Air” version.

Hell, her last name alone gives it away.

The Drummond family is one of the wealthiest families in Oklahoma, owning hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

Wealthy enough they have their own Wikipedia page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_family_(Oklahoma)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummond_family_(Oklahoma)

She’s married into one of the wealthiest families in Oklahoma.

Completely excluding the tens of millions she herself is worth from her business.

By an order of magnitude.

WWF estimates around 26,000 polar bears remaining (22,000-30,000). And there are 2640 billionaires globally according to Forbes.

If you get up right after you fall it won’t activate. And it’s usually set to only activate during workouts if you’re under a certain age, I think 50.

It’s activated for me crashing a bike when I just lay there for a second, but doesn’t activate if I pop back up after a fall.

Oh they’ll still hear it. And they’ll just know him as the office asshole with the annoying af keyboard.

Nothing already pulled their app because it’s a security nightmare, storing and transmitting every message in plain text.

MKBHD pointed that out too. You’d have to be a complete imbecile to use that shit.

No it’s not. At least not in the US.

All major carriers use Google Jibe as their RCS backend which is the universal profile with a ton of proprietary Google bullshit, and routing all message traffic through Google servers.

No thanks.

I mean, the default for everything is being legal until made illegal.

You’re not going to find many things explicitly made legal unless they’re exemptions to a law that would otherwise make it illegal.

$30 wouldn’t be competitive at all. A basic Garmin InReach subscription is $15 a month.

With Apples massive user base, they should be able to just include it in Apple One or as a standalone for a couple bucks a month. They would instantly have more revenue just from that than Garmin does from InReach.

GPS is a US military system entirely payed for by taxpayers, that just spams out pings to any device listening. Civilian end users can’t transmit to it.

And it wasn’t freely available to civilians for years, until the Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1993 by the Soviets due to a navigational error causing them to drift into Soviet airspace.

They just change the definitions when it suits them.

High capacity used to be the big 50-100 round mags. Now when they say “high capacity” they mean standard capacity 30 round or even smaller. Plenty of places ban anything over 10 or 15.

The idea of a firmament is definitely a thing and has been for thousands of years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmament

I’ve heard about it all my life from mainstream Christian churches too. Though it’s more of a metaphorical thing than physical. Like it’s a supernatural reason why we can never get to Mars rather than being a glass dome.

If they’re using it for work, they could have a bunch of corporate stuff loaded on it, and using a VPN by default. All of which can slow it down.

This always gets said, but there hasn’t been a price increase in years.

You can’t spin thread from it since the fibers are too short.

But you can use lint for felting.

This is more of a budget replacement for the original lightning pencil.

It’s $20 cheaper than the first gen and $50 cheaper than the second gen.