I WANT to believe this but I've seen too many elephant videos that turned out to be just elephants trained to do a quirky thing for tourists and there's someone off camera subtly directing them.
Talking about in the meantime. Working on this bullshit takes years if not decades. In the meantime, I have to react SOMEHOW when I fuck up, meaning I can apologise or try to explain what went wrong so the other person doesn't think I'm a total piece of shit AND apologise.
"Remember Y2K and all the chaos that was supposed to happen? Computer nerds scared everybody into updating everything and make it 'y2k proof' or whatever and then it was a whole nothing burger."
"Remember the hole in the ozone layer? Scientists made us ban CFC's like we were going to die of skin cancer any day now and then nothing bad at all happened."
None of the above? I have certain traits that society thinks are weird. That's about it. I'm neither cursed nor gifted, I just very much don't fit the definition of "normal".
The delist is presented as a big operating “loss” to tax authorities.
I have absolutely no fucking idea how taxes work. But this sounds to me like I have insurance on my hand and I sit down one evening with a knife and cut off my hand and then go to my insurance company, showing them my bloody stump: "gib money!"
Depends on what country. But in general, probably because the departments responsible tend to be understaffed and overworked, regardless of where, and there are quite a lot of migrants.
I WANT to believe this but I've seen too many elephant videos that turned out to be just elephants trained to do a quirky thing for tourists and there's someone off camera subtly directing them.