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Cid Vicious

@ CidVicious @sh.itjust.works

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  • Same BS every year

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  • Well plus there are taxable events that aren't on your payslip. If you sell goods over a certain threshold. If you get a taxable distribution from an investment account. Etc. Edit: also the IRS doesn't know about what you have that's eligible for deduction.

  • Same BS every year

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  • The people most capable of carrying the tax burden are the people most likely to cheat their way out of paying taxes.

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  • Sometimes hope is all we've got.

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  • Yes, because it's not going to be nearly as catastrophic as it sounds. What we need is a real world ender.

  • What is your favorite pasta shape?

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  • Bucatini is nice. Or pappardelle.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • The specific devices impacted by this are pretty old (I think only the first and second gen ones? So at latest 2009), so honestly I doubt they're very worried about it.

  • Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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  • You can still use calibre to sideload onto them. Where you get the books is another issue.

  • Clickbait asteroid

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  • Well when they're saying there's 2% odds, that's....probably still higher than you want for the probability of a world ending asteroid strike.

  • Candy corn bitch

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  • It is a pretty 70s-ass fit to begin with.

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  • Are there endless wars? A lot of people don't like .ml, lemmygrad, and hexbear and they're defederated by a lot of instances, but that's not really a hot war. Outside of that most drama seems to be about certain mod/admin decisions. But that kind of feedback loop is by design. People are supposed to have opinions on whether they think instances are well run and aligns with what they're looking for...and if it doesn't align, that would be a good reason to switch instances. I see more fretting over how to make Lemmy more popular than arguments about instances.

  • PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.

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  • You mention that PayPal was bought by eBay (in 2002) but not that it was spun off again in 2015. They're separate companies. If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.

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  • Defaulting to any one instance would be against the goals of federation, I think. Much better to have a centralized site to help people find an instance that uses factors that wouldn't bias too much. Perhaps pushing towards "general purpose" instances that would make geographical sense. And then you could highlight instances that cater towards more specific groups. But I think the goal of this would be to spread users across many instances rather than funnel them all towards one.

    I might propose having something things like server ping be a factor, and capacity of the instance. Perhaps instances could also be shown with their largest communities so that people could see the vibe of the instance before they join.

  • NSFW

    Two sides of r*ddit.

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  • I like how you have somehow managed to avoid encountering unflipped manga until today, and yet still think you know the best way to present it.

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    Two sides of r*ddit.

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  • Because it's japanese and japanese is often written right to left. You can't make it read left to right without changing the art. People who read manga understand the convention. It's surprising if you haven't run into this before given the popularity of manga now.

  • Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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  • Apple basically killed any chance ogg had by not supporting it on ipods. Which was unfortunate.

  • Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?

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  • Most people are archiving in FLAC but the reality is that almost nobody can hear the difference between 320 (or even V0) and FLAC. So in cases where the disk space makes a difference mp3 still makes sense.

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  • Kafka was a visionary in a lot of ways.

  • The Right Skills

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  • Power dynamics is definitely part of it, and I've found that I have much better luck in interviews when I treat them as a conversation rather than just being grilled. It's easier to do in your 40s than in your 20s though.

  • The Right Skills

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  • On the one hand the way corporations expect loyalty and devotion all the time in return for a very small percentage of their profits being paid out to us as salary sucks. On the other, having to work if you want to eat is just kind of...life? Not saying we couldn't work on something better as a society, but there's been very few people at any point in human history who didn't have to work hard to survive. I'm glad that I get to at least do soulless work in an office which is mostly just boring instead of hard labor or something actively dangerous.