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HighlyIrregular wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:28 pm

Yesterday wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 18, 2022 3:18 am

I wrote this as SomeInternetBloke

If imitation is a pedagogical psyop offering reconstructions of stuff and things said, sort of a knowledge corrective, is it still sincere flattery?

edit: That is to say, what's your protocol for inserting correctives discretely aimed at others in online dialogue?
Should that be a thing?

Then Andrew Garfield in the new Spiderman movie ripped it off. Then Ryan Reynolds did too in his Adam Project. If I had a check for every uncredited idea I'd have healthier self-esteem. But I suppose it's credit enough to have participated in the entertainment writer's idea-o-sphere.



P.S. I dunno if I'm insulted, or flattered?

Join the club. I coined The Fuzzy Death online before they used the phrase on South Park.

You're a good friend. Like you're Jason Segal and I'm Paul Rudd on drugs.

Catoptric wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:08 am

Jealous
https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/u ... &strip=all

Catoptric wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 25, 2022 4:53 pm

Catoptric wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:08 am

Jealous
https://www.usmagazine.com/wp-content/u ... &strip=all

I likey the part where Oscar gets a face full of saggy Angie-boob. But we all know who the real winner was...

I don't understand why there are so many obscure Monopoly games.... e.g. this one based on the 2003 romantic British comedy "Love Actually".... it is AU$40 and it says it is for "18+".....

JohnClay wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:42 am

I don't understand why there are so many obscure Monopoly games.... e.g. this one based on the 2003 romantic British comedy "Love Actually".... it is AU$40 and it says it is for "18+".....

I own a Monopoly Game themed on Socorro, NM where I live. I doubt more than a hundred people in our poor town of 10,000 would bother buying such a game, but there it is.

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It's tax time here in the US. I don't mind paying taxes, I do mind filling out the forms to pay taxes. This year the twist I have to deal with is installing solar electric systems on my house and a rental in another city. The rules for the rental are especially obscure and trying to make connections between the byzantine tax code and the user-friendly but opaque interface of turbo tax is

starjots wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 27, 2022 5:39 pm

It's tax time here in the US. I don't mind paying taxes, I do mind filling out the forms to pay taxes. This year the twist I have to deal with is installing solar electric systems on my house and a rental in another city. The rules for the rental are especially obscure and trying to make connections between the byzantine tax code and the user-friendly but opaque interface of turbo tax is

Is it customary to hire an accountant to do this? Wondering what the approximate cost is.

Madrigal wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:10 am

starjots wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 27, 2022 5:39 pm

It's tax time here in the US. I don't mind paying taxes, I do mind filling out the forms to pay taxes. This year the twist I have to deal with is installing solar electric systems on my house and a rental in another city. The rules for the rental are especially obscure and trying to make connections between the byzantine tax code and the user-friendly but opaque interface of turbo tax is

Is it customary to hire an accountant to do this? Wondering what the approximate cost is.

A lot of people do use accountants, but I never have. My thinking has been 'once I rely on someone else figure this shit out, I'll never really understand it.'

I'd guess the cost at $500 and that's a guess. I paid an accountant once to answer a question and it was $100... The generic tax prep services may not charge much, but this is some pretty obscure stuff and I wouldn't trust them if they charged me less.

SO... I did make the connection today between IRS tax law and turbotax software. For those who want a taste of US Tax code, here's the instructions for the form I have to fill out.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i3468.pdf

I like that at the bottom of the instructions they estimate it will take 16 hours to understand the form and fill it out. Maybe like is the wrong word.

The thing you have to know (why am I answering this in such detail? I may need medical help) is that the solar install on the rental is a property in its own right under section 48 of the tax code since section 50 of the same code says you can't deduct solar on 'lodgings'. Tricky, yes?

Madrigal wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 28, 2022 12:10 am

Is it customary to hire an accountant to do this? Wondering what the approximate cost is.

For taxes in general? For most people it's free and pretty easy. If you have higher income, lots of investments, a business, then it gets more complicated and maybe worth it to pay someone.

An example of Putin's genocide:
https://babel.ua/ru/texts/77507-the-roa ... e-genocide

When someone on Facebook says in response to massacres like the theater bombing, that Putin should be hauled away and placed in jail, and in response someone comments that "you're dreaming," and your response is, "Yeah, Putin needs to be killed," I don't see how that violates Facebooks "community standards" when a news report about death and destruction is mentioned as a result of a despotic autocratic dictator (who literally has his own private and vetted corrupt security team, along with a chain of financial corruption that took private investigator teams that were killed after being tortured to death on threat of publicly reversing claims of corruption and "apologizing" for recognizing how Putin elicits support and extortion from billionaires who were demanded to pay him 50% of whatever they make.

FB previously flagged a post as "nudity" because some troll got mad and decided to target a post about India where people were starved to death and in rags (but to call it nudity is absurd.)

It makes me think of this:


What the hell is it with African's coming out of the woodwork praising Putin? Has Russia still been funding African trolls to stoke support just as they did for racial tensions a few years ago?

Russian trolls are outsourcing to Africa to stoke US racial tensions
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/12/twitt ... ra-russia/

Putin still has absurd levels of support whether or not they are paid to do so, and it's clearly evident that people seem to be drinking the Kool-Aid of whatever they identify with.

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People don't like to think that Trump was anti-democracy (when he himself similarly echoed George Bush's statements that it would be easier if he was a Dictator, since Trump so admires Putin's autocratic leanings.)

Some arguments:
It is true that Biden was buying Russia oil even as Russia was increasing its border presence with Ukraine, and Trump wanted to have increased oil reliance from NATO/European countries, but he also was pulling out of NATO (and as to why Trump claims NATO wouldn't even exist if he "didn't do what he did," is delusional.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... ?gnt-cfr=1

-->Putting it another way, Trump was using extortion of his position within NATO to get the European Union to be in support of the US economic growth, which would only undermine the global security infrastructure. Trump's extortion of $400 military aid to Ukraine which the US Congress then put a muffle on Trump with impeachment proceedings, solidifies Trump's true allegiance.

Similarly while Trump would have requested that European countries stop buying oil, he recently (2022 after invasion) is whining about Biden requestiong to ban Russian oil, since the cost of gas would go up more.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 31685.html

It should be mentioned Trumps low gas cost with Covid and the subsequent reduced scaling of operations for refinement of crude oil is why the cost has gone up with demand for it.

That Trump had "saved NATO" would also fall under the 30,000+ false statements Trump has likely made in regard to the "truth."
Trump is listed as among the most corrupt presidents - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canad ... O6E63nsBu8

I distinctly remember when Trump wanted to get out of NATO while withdrawing $400 million in aid to Ukraine amidst a standoff with Russia. . .
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... e-1313538/

Historically Trump was soft on Putin
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics ... 8YOjF6Skxo

Trump also entrenched himself in tax proposals that disrupted the poor segment social safety nets, while proposing an absurd budget that only benefited the wealthy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... or-people/

Trump inherited Obama's economy. . .

No, Trump would not have stopped Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
https://thehill.com/opinion/internation ... f-ukraine/

Boxes of classified documents issue that Trump was concealing and stalling on
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Lago.html

Maybe he was flushing documents down the toilet because he ran out of toilet paper?

When Russia was actively involved with plans for militarizing Cuba for a much larger invasion of the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anadyr

In arguing whether a "false flag" motivation for conflict is agreeable if otherwise far greater issues arise from not dealing with it:

If someone like FBI Agent John O'Neil knew that the WTC would be attacked and had increasing suspicions leading up to it that the proliferation of terrorist groups needed to be monitored, but was stonewalled by the administration that didn't know the extent of it, do you think he would need to die in the WTC after joining its head of security team after being let-go from the FBI a month prior on a suspicious missing briefcase charge levied against him?

If counter-intelligence units believed that convincing evidence of military provocation leading up to the 'Cuban Missile Crisis,' as per operation Northwoods and Mongoose weren't based in part on reasonable provocation, it would probably require greater transparency on what people within government are actually aware of.

Do I agree that governments should construct elaborate false provocations for war (such as occurred with Vietnam which JFK fortunately also knew not to get involved in,) and does it not justify it if something far worse can be avoided?

THE 2ND CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/the-2nd-cu ... now-about/