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Best I can do is Blippi sorry

(Google him if you haven't, he's hypnotic)

I feel like logistically it would make Brexit look like the Velvet Revolution breakup of Czechoslovakia. Clusterfuck doesn't even begin to describe it. We are sort of stuck with each other like a crabby old married couple that hates each other but they just don't really have any options so they stick together barely speaking except saying fuck you to each other when they pass in the hallway.

men rubbing erections against female staff

Imagine getting aroused while working, doing surgery, surrounded by other people. I would think any one of those three would preclude the possibility.

Yeah but most people aren't Alexander the Great or Mozart. And even if you are, you're probably not working in congress, hah

The USA is run by unpaid 22 year old interns being supervised by underpaid 24 year olds.

Old people in charge are definitely a problem (McConnell, Feinstein etc) but the people in their offices doing all the heavy lifting are basically children.

Anyone here old enough to remember the dot com bubble in the 90's? Like really remember the hype and insanely bloated overpriced IPOs and all that? This feels exactly the same way.

I read once we shouldn't be worried when AI starts passing Turing tests, we should worry when they start failing them again 🤣

It's a ton don't get me wrong but I've had clients who regularly make $50 million + annually on average. They spend a million bucks a year on household employees alone. Different world up there.

we should do better as a species, but in reality, what we have now is really fucking amazing

I always say this when people say we should burn it all down. Sometimes they say it flippantly but some people actually think it's a good idea to hit the reset button. Like it's a good idea to go back to subsistence agriculture and hunter gatherer lifestyle. No, thanks, overall, things are actually going really well all things considered.

Lemmy isn't just programmers and cryptobros fyi. Lots of people have interesting jobs and hardly anyone works 100% of the time. Gotta shitpost somewhere.

Off topic but I always thought the airbnb logo looks like a dangling ballsack and their service fits well with that image, so I'm not the least bit surprised to see the company struggling.

You'd be surprised. Small business owners are notorious for running non-deductible personal expenses through their business for example when they really shouldn't. Plus some super egregious stuff I can't begin to get into here. It is trivially easy and the state/fed gov can't begin to crack down for lack of resources. These are your tradesmen like plumbers and electricians, boutique shop owners, salons, food/catering, smaller self employed professionals like doctors, lawyers, therapists, dentists, etc. It's sort of a grey area and there's wiggle room for sure, and I try not to let my clients get away with all of it. But I do look the other way a lot and just plug my nose and sign it and push it through when I'm in a hurry, which is basically always. Some people are just maniacs though, it's really staggering, idk how they sleep at night. Smaller numbers than a hedge fund manager making $50 mil, but it adds up real quick, and fraud is fraud IMO.

Holy cow late 2000s...man it's too bad you missed the 90's. There were TONS of forums and real communities built around hobbies, interests, fandoms, etc. I really really miss them. I had real actual friends online. I blame facebook reddit et al for their demise. These huge websites are like the wal marts of the internet destroying small communities.

I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Can you rephrase please?

My pleasure, I'm a huge nerd for this stuff and tax is super complicated obviously. Happy to help people understand. The more people understand in the general the easier my life is, lol

They actually are about to review an interesting case which could have huge tax ramifications:

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4140521-historic-supreme-court-case-could-imperil-the-entire-us-tax-code/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

It's hard to summarize but basically they're trying to decide if part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is constitutional or not. It's the part requiring taxpayers to pick up income for their share of income earned internationally that hasn't been repatriated yet, essentially unrealized gains. This has broad implications on whether a wealth tax on unrealized capital gains (looking at you, Musk and Bezos et al) would be constitutional under the 16th Amendment which only authorizes an income tax.

I haven't done a deep dive on that case though so I could be wrong, comments welcome.

100% agree, these are the same people who said about the patriot act that if you don't have anything hide you've nothing to be afraid of. Or, he should have just complied or he wouldn't have been murdered by the cops. Etc

The speeding analogy is my go-to example. Many people go a little bit over and it's not a huge deal. Some people go 20mph under and they're just weird. Sometimes jerks get away with going 100mph and then you get a ticket for rolling a stop sign. Is what it is, most reasonable people are fine, or you can roll the dice and see what happens.

I didn't catch that part at first. Give me a friggin break. What a load of FUD.

These are probably the same people who say if you don't have anything to hide you've nothing to be afraid of.