I want to see Mark sit in a room with Arin Hanson and take turns screaming opinions at each other. Mark screams about solar panels and fruit trees, Arin screams about how almonds take too much water to grow, they both totally agree with each other but are still screaming. It'd be incredible.
To answer bobs question on the ice cream cone. So the answer you gave for the cone being made last is the reason why its made first. That and also, people get extremely mad when they dont get their things. So the cone coming out first actually appeases the customer and if it is taking a long time to complete the order, the customer is content eating the cone while they wait
The 9/10 on the end of gasoline prices isn't actually due to marketing. Back when gas was only pennies to the gallon, the 9/10 charge was added in response to account more easily for taxes. A 9/10-penny charge was enough to cover the taxes back then and the practice never went away.
15:50 fun fact about John Chapman aka johnny appleseed: he was a real guy who planted real apple trees and gave away real apple seeds, but they weren't what you'd generally think of. the trees grew bitter apples (known as "spitters") that were good for making cider, but they were hardly edible. also, mark was right about him being around during the time of the founding fathers! he was born in 1774!
It seemed quicker too. The NFC readers in the Kroger in my area takes an extra 5+ seconds to load before selecting cashback options whereas before it was near instant after swiping.
For anyone wondering on Bob's extra fee for electric vehicles. Most states charge a tax on gasoline as a convenient tax for road use, since electric vehicles do not use gas, they needed another avenue to tax for road use. It's what maintains your roads.
Kinda kills the idea of electric cars being cheaper Plus your state taxes would go to road maintenance i guess it depends on the state I love electric cars but man the government make it annoying
@thunderlighting2006 The calculation ends up being roughly the same monetarily. You'll pay about 250-400 dollars on taxes on gas yearly. Why shouldn't electric vehicles owners being exempt from a tax levied for road construction?
@@Rhinlord because thats why they make us pay state taxes Or maybe i don't know instead of going after the middle class for more money go after the multi millionaires
i sell ice cream cones and can answer bobs question. you cant set the cone down, so the cones get made last and handed out first because you need 2 hands to make the cone
"Where are the apple trees?" You know those suburban neighborhoods that have been cropping up and the big real estate crisis that came in its wake? Yeah that's where the orchards and fruit trees went. Turns out orchards grow on nice flat land and that's prime real estate land that can be easily coerced out of orchard farmers. Edit - Also that discussion on coal...funny thing, fruit trees can kind of solve part of that problem. Since trees literally consume carbon to grow, any trees (not even fruit ones) you don't want anymore you can just cut down, mulch, and bury somewhere and that's basically carbon taken out of the atmosphere and put back into the ground.
With all the cars passing through LA every day, you'd think there'd be less potholes. When it gets to a point where civilians are fixing the potholes themselves, you have to wonder where all that gas tax money is going to.
The fact that there are no fruit trees in cities is mainly because fruits will eventually fall on the street and rot there causing various problems if not removed. In cities streets you won't find often "females" of ginkgo Biloba for example, because they do very smelly fruits but the "male" ones are common because they don't do them. Then, in cities parks for example, you can't plant vegetables or such because the continuous smog and pollution of the city will ruin the crop (in general).
On the tax issue, when i owned a sports card store in the 90s. The price marked was the price paid. I never ran the "plus tax" bs. It was just part of the price. Made book keeping a lot easier as well.
The one about sales tax has never made sense to me. In Sweden, the sales tax is a set percentage, most products fall under the 12.5% sales tax, which the takes into consideration to still be able to add the sales tax and get the 350 or 349, prices for example
Mark is mistaken on sales tax. There isn't a different sales tax rate for every state, there is a different sales tax rate for every county in every state. It isn't figuring out 50 numbers, it's figuring out multiple hundreds.
On ev and hybrids -- good ol Asa Hutchinson did that, plus he raised the gas tax during the height of covid in 2020. I even got angry on behalf of those consumers because it's like wtf.
The tax on gasoline is (ostensibly) used to repair roads and shit. That way, the people actively using the roads and therefore degrading the roads are the ones paying for their upkeep. Your EV will causes wear and tear on the roads. You're not paying a gas tax for the upkeep of the roads you're driving on, so they need to collect it some other way.
20:35 i never loved and never will love paying with my credit card, it feels so much to better to do with actual cash, the feel of the money, to visually see it and all that, paying with the credit card just feels fake in a way.
I did not think i would answer 2 of bobs questions, but here we are with credit cards. So this answer is more nuanced and has some history. There is no concrete answer, but there are supporting answers that culminate into where we are now. Our history of racism and poverty has a role to play in all this. In the united states, it is illegal to operate a card only business* (*i know some regulations changed concerning this law but for the longest time, this has been the case. This is just a comment, not an extensive video, please do your own research after this). The reason is because historically blacks and other people of color could not recieve credit cards as easily as whites, so a company being card only was seen as financial discrimination against people of color. Yes times have changed now, but our history has made it to where tap to pay has slowed down here compared to europe
I am curious if fruit plants have the same bio-accumulation issue as cannabis does. If so, I think i know why cities banned them in addition to concerns of attracting pests. Back in the day when we still had lead in gas (oh god how long has it been, is this the feeling of time slowing creeping up on me) I could see issues if you tried to grow in that environment. But no, probably because of pests and people not keeping the areas clean. Would be interesting to see what the reasoning is now and if its still valid.
Bob's stance on the gas tax is baffling. There's an extra tax on gas that is different than regular sales tax designed specifically to go towards infrastructure. Utility taxes go into their own sorts of pools and generally are going towards utility infrastructure vs roads. Taxes from different sources generally go towards different budget categories vs just pooling together then being split out. Now you can argue about how terrible we are at that, and how they don't spend enough on it etc. But the gas tax is very specific, so it does actually make sense to tax electric cars at registration so that you're still contributing to the infrastructure taxes that do go towards maintaining roads/etc. Lower gas buying/higher electric vehicle driving is actually contributing to less money going towards the infrastructure and is part of why states are falling behind on upkeep. Depending on where you live, gas taxes can range from relatively low (18c or so) to relatively high (68c or so). An average single car uses around 560 gallons per year, so taxing that ranges from 100$-300$+ per year that the electric cars wouldn't be paying directly towards infrastructure. Even if utility taxes are bundled into a general infrastructure pool that the gas taxes also fund, electricity tax rates are generally drastically lower because they aren't specifically geared towards the same things gas taxes are (we're talking 1-3% on electricity vs gas taxes which generally end up being more like 7%-25% depending on state/prices). Overall it absolutely makes sense that as consumers shift away from gas and towards electricity, those taxes will have to be shifted to during the registration. I also feel like most people don't actually know about that gas tax, and don't understand what it's funding even generally.
You can greatly dislike a system but still take part in said system. Especially when that system is the dominant one that controls day to day life. It doesn't have to be good, just pervasive.
@@Blasted2Oblivion I see what youre saying and I hear you and I agree with your core argument but that argument is irrelevant because Bob did not have to pick the car the purchase of which supports Elon Musk. He specificallly chose to buy a car that is produced by a company that is owned by Elon Musk. If all cars were produced by tesla then yeah, your argument would hold but because other, less awful options exist, I made the comment that I did.
Let me put it to you like this Tesla doesnt control day to day life on electric cars Better options exist Therefore him choosing to not like it and still use it is indeed hypocritical.@@Blasted2Oblivion
45:00 that shitty practice that make people don't want to buy electric car. like you still have to pay tax for electricity right? or im just stupid here? do usa already have free electricity? 200usd more each year?
So there's a difference between the taxes you pay for anything else, and the taxes you pay on gas. States have a specific gas tax that's usually higher than state taxes, but is folded into the cost so people don't really realize it's there. Those taxes go specifically to pay for infrastructure, so improving roads/potholes/repaving/etc. Utilities have their own taxes, that don't go directly and specifically to things like maintaining the roads. Like taxes from different sources go to different state budgets, it isn't just pooled into one fund and divvied out from there. By driving electric, you're suddenly not contributing the same as you would if you were buying gas, but you're still getting the benefits of what the state does do for infrastructure maintenance. Things like people driving less, going electric and just general lower demand for gas has actually pretty negatively impacted a lot of states infrastructure spending as a whole, and isn't keeping up with how much our stuff is just crumbling and falling apart. The more we go electric, the more it makes sense to tax at registration for electric vehicles so that they are still contributing to the maintenance of the roads they use. Depending on where you live, gas taxes can range from relatively low (18c or so) to relatively high (68c or so). An average single car uses around 560 gallons per year, so taxing that ranges from 100$-300$+ per year that the electric cars wouldn't be paying directly towards infrastructure.
Bob complained about not being able to loose weight in a recent prior episode. Then goes off about "Everytime I go to a drive thru" and "all the stuff from DQ I order, hand me my ice cream last, can't manage everything your handing me AND my ice cream Fat people are delusional 😂
How does that make him delusional, unless he lacked self awareness (which you seem to be baselessly assuming)? Are smokers delusional for complaining about their smoking addiction? Clowns with big fat fragile egos are pathetic 😂
Fat people are allowed to enjoy food same as anyone else. Just because he mentions takeout on Distractible -- something they record in batches and/or once a week, so it's a tiny slice of their lives -- doesn't mean he ONLY eats takeout, and that doesn't mean it's the single thing keeping him from losing weight.
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I want to see Mark sit in a room with Arin Hanson and take turns screaming opinions at each other. Mark screams about solar panels and fruit trees, Arin screams about how almonds take too much water to grow, they both totally agree with each other but are still screaming. It'd be incredible.
Honestly thank you for uploading these videos to RUclips, highly appreciate it since I don't have Spotify.
To answer bobs question on the ice cream cone. So the answer you gave for the cone being made last is the reason why its made first. That and also, people get extremely mad when they dont get their things. So the cone coming out first actually appeases the customer and if it is taking a long time to complete the order, the customer is content eating the cone while they wait
The 9/10 on the end of gasoline prices isn't actually due to marketing. Back when gas was only pennies to the gallon, the 9/10 charge was added in response to account more easily for taxes. A 9/10-penny charge was enough to cover the taxes back then and the practice never went away.
15:50 fun fact about John Chapman aka johnny appleseed: he was a real guy who planted real apple trees and gave away real apple seeds, but they weren't what you'd generally think of. the trees grew bitter apples (known as "spitters") that were good for making cider, but they were hardly edible. also, mark was right about him being around during the time of the founding fathers! he was born in 1774!
Speaking of credit cards, I miss swiping the card. They all have the strip, but only gift cards ever work. That shit was so satisfying
It seemed quicker too. The NFC readers in the Kroger in my area takes an extra 5+ seconds to load before selecting cashback options whereas before it was near instant after swiping.
VERY cool. Will continue to watch. Been watching all of you for about 7 years. Love being able to watch these it's freaking awesome.
For anyone wondering on Bob's extra fee for electric vehicles. Most states charge a tax on gasoline as a convenient tax for road use, since electric vehicles do not use gas, they needed another avenue to tax for road use. It's what maintains your roads.
Kinda kills the idea of electric cars being cheaper
Plus your state taxes would go to road maintenance i guess it depends on the state
I love electric cars but man the government make it annoying
@thunderlighting2006 The calculation ends up being roughly the same monetarily. You'll pay about 250-400 dollars on taxes on gas yearly. Why shouldn't electric vehicles owners being exempt from a tax levied for road construction?
@@Rhinlord because thats why they make us pay state taxes
Or maybe i don't know instead of going after the middle class for more money go after the multi millionaires
i sell ice cream cones and can answer bobs question. you cant set the cone down, so the cones get made last and handed out first because you need 2 hands to make the cone
"Where are the apple trees?" You know those suburban neighborhoods that have been cropping up and the big real estate crisis that came in its wake? Yeah that's where the orchards and fruit trees went. Turns out orchards grow on nice flat land and that's prime real estate land that can be easily coerced out of orchard farmers.
Edit - Also that discussion on coal...funny thing, fruit trees can kind of solve part of that problem. Since trees literally consume carbon to grow, any trees (not even fruit ones) you don't want anymore you can just cut down, mulch, and bury somewhere and that's basically carbon taken out of the atmosphere and put back into the ground.
With all the cars passing through LA every day, you'd think there'd be less potholes. When it gets to a point where civilians are fixing the potholes themselves, you have to wonder where all that gas tax money is going to.
The fact that there are no fruit trees in cities is mainly because fruits will eventually fall on the street and rot there causing various problems if not removed. In cities streets you won't find often "females" of ginkgo Biloba for example, because they do very smelly fruits but the "male" ones are common because they don't do them. Then, in cities parks for example, you can't plant vegetables or such because the continuous smog and pollution of the city will ruin the crop (in general).
39:50 my country also has the taxes included into the cost... except for bottles,
the tax is 10 cents by the way.
On the tax issue, when i owned a sports card store in the 90s. The price marked was the price paid. I never ran the "plus tax" bs. It was just part of the price. Made book keeping a lot easier as well.
Canadian here.. we’ve had contactless/tap to pay for a suuuper long time too… its definitely more convenient
The one about sales tax has never made sense to me. In Sweden, the sales tax is a set percentage, most products fall under the 12.5% sales tax, which the takes into consideration to still be able to add the sales tax and get the 350 or 349, prices for example
Petition to make Masoplier his real name
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Maybe this was the real reason for the render Farm 😂
I TOTALLY agree with "US tax absurdity" and "9/10 gas". It is insane that there is still such a system here.
It is INSANE that Ohio charges a "gas tax" for people....who aren't going to be using gas!!! WTF???
Bob bringing the Treaty of Westfalia back up to win was epic xD
Mark is mistaken on sales tax. There isn't a different sales tax rate for every state, there is a different sales tax rate for every county in every state. It isn't figuring out 50 numbers, it's figuring out multiple hundreds.
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On ev and hybrids -- good ol Asa Hutchinson did that, plus he raised the gas tax during the height of covid in 2020. I even got angry on behalf of those consumers because it's like wtf.
The tax on gasoline is (ostensibly) used to repair roads and shit. That way, the people actively using the roads and therefore degrading the roads are the ones paying for their upkeep. Your EV will causes wear and tear on the roads. You're not paying a gas tax for the upkeep of the roads you're driving on, so they need to collect it some other way.
As a Ganahl Lumber Employee. Hell yea Home Depot Sucks!
For legal reasons this is a joke
guess ill be binging distractible for a bit XD
20:35 i never loved and never will love paying with my credit card,
it feels so much to better to do with actual cash, the feel of the money, to visually see it and all that,
paying with the credit card just feels fake in a way.
I did not think i would answer 2 of bobs questions, but here we are with credit cards. So this answer is more nuanced and has some history. There is no concrete answer, but there are supporting answers that culminate into where we are now.
Our history of racism and poverty has a role to play in all this. In the united states, it is illegal to operate a card only business* (*i know some regulations changed concerning this law but for the longest time, this has been the case. This is just a comment, not an extensive video, please do your own research after this). The reason is because historically blacks and other people of color could not recieve credit cards as easily as whites, so a company being card only was seen as financial discrimination against people of color.
Yes times have changed now, but our history has made it to where tap to pay has slowed down here compared to europe
i thought you paid 3.99 for 9/10ths of the gallon 🤣
Heck, man, sales tax varies by COUNTY, even. It's not 50. It's 50 times all the counties in that state.
I am curious if fruit plants have the same bio-accumulation issue as cannabis does. If so, I think i know why cities banned them in addition to concerns of attracting pests. Back in the day when we still had lead in gas (oh god how long has it been, is this the feeling of time slowing creeping up on me) I could see issues if you tried to grow in that environment. But no, probably because of pests and people not keeping the areas clean. Would be interesting to see what the reasoning is now and if its still valid.
Bob's stance on the gas tax is baffling. There's an extra tax on gas that is different than regular sales tax designed specifically to go towards infrastructure. Utility taxes go into their own sorts of pools and generally are going towards utility infrastructure vs roads. Taxes from different sources generally go towards different budget categories vs just pooling together then being split out. Now you can argue about how terrible we are at that, and how they don't spend enough on it etc. But the gas tax is very specific, so it does actually make sense to tax electric cars at registration so that you're still contributing to the infrastructure taxes that do go towards maintaining roads/etc. Lower gas buying/higher electric vehicle driving is actually contributing to less money going towards the infrastructure and is part of why states are falling behind on upkeep. Depending on where you live, gas taxes can range from relatively low (18c or so) to relatively high (68c or so). An average single car uses around 560 gallons per year, so taxing that ranges from 100$-300$+ per year that the electric cars wouldn't be paying directly towards infrastructure. Even if utility taxes are bundled into a general infrastructure pool that the gas taxes also fund, electricity tax rates are generally drastically lower because they aren't specifically geared towards the same things gas taxes are (we're talking 1-3% on electricity vs gas taxes which generally end up being more like 7%-25% depending on state/prices).
Overall it absolutely makes sense that as consumers shift away from gas and towards electricity, those taxes will have to be shifted to during the registration. I also feel like most people don't actually know about that gas tax, and don't understand what it's funding even generally.
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Complaining about capitalism while financially supporting Elon Musk is peak slacktivism.
You can greatly dislike a system but still take part in said system. Especially when that system is the dominant one that controls day to day life. It doesn't have to be good, just pervasive.
@@Blasted2Oblivion I see what youre saying and I hear you and I agree with your core argument but that argument is irrelevant because Bob did not have to pick the car the purchase of which supports Elon Musk. He specificallly chose to buy a car that is produced by a company that is owned by Elon Musk. If all cars were produced by tesla then yeah, your argument would hold but because other, less awful options exist, I made the comment that I did.
@@zaner5261 That doesn't change my point in literally any way but okay.
@@Blasted2Oblivion bruh
Let me put it to you like this
Tesla doesnt control day to day life on electric cars
Better options exist
Therefore him choosing to not like it and still use it is indeed hypocritical.@@Blasted2Oblivion
You guys need to go shopping in Oregon XD
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does bob have a sunburn?
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45:00 that shitty practice that make people don't want to buy electric car. like you still have to pay tax for electricity right? or im just stupid here? do usa already have free electricity?
200usd more each year?
So there's a difference between the taxes you pay for anything else, and the taxes you pay on gas. States have a specific gas tax that's usually higher than state taxes, but is folded into the cost so people don't really realize it's there. Those taxes go specifically to pay for infrastructure, so improving roads/potholes/repaving/etc. Utilities have their own taxes, that don't go directly and specifically to things like maintaining the roads. Like taxes from different sources go to different state budgets, it isn't just pooled into one fund and divvied out from there. By driving electric, you're suddenly not contributing the same as you would if you were buying gas, but you're still getting the benefits of what the state does do for infrastructure maintenance. Things like people driving less, going electric and just general lower demand for gas has actually pretty negatively impacted a lot of states infrastructure spending as a whole, and isn't keeping up with how much our stuff is just crumbling and falling apart. The more we go electric, the more it makes sense to tax at registration for electric vehicles so that they are still contributing to the maintenance of the roads they use. Depending on where you live, gas taxes can range from relatively low (18c or so) to relatively high (68c or so). An average single car uses around 560 gallons per year, so taxing that ranges from 100$-300$+ per year that the electric cars wouldn't be paying directly towards infrastructure.
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Bob complained about not being able to loose weight in a recent prior episode.
Then goes off about "Everytime I go to a drive thru" and "all the stuff from DQ I order, hand me my ice cream last, can't manage everything your handing me AND my ice cream
Fat people are delusional 😂
How does that make him delusional, unless he lacked self awareness (which you seem to be baselessly assuming)? Are smokers delusional for complaining about their smoking addiction? Clowns with big fat fragile egos are pathetic 😂
Fat people are allowed to enjoy food same as anyone else.
Just because he mentions takeout on Distractible -- something they record in batches and/or once a week, so it's a tiny slice of their lives -- doesn't mean he ONLY eats takeout, and that doesn't mean it's the single thing keeping him from losing weight.
What a horrible thing to say about someone else