BillyClark

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Also Yoda.

Maybe the standard deductible increased so much that everyone can use free services to file the EZ version.

Edit: Article blames the decline completely on AI tax services.

The last time I looked, there were also legal casinos using a similarly transparent schtick.

What they do is that you don’t directly win money from gambling. Everything is presented as if it’s related to a sweepstakes, because sweepstakes are a legal version of gambling.

It works something like, you can pay to get entries in a sweepstakes, and I think you can even gamble with your sweepstakes entries to try to get more entries. Then because you entered the sweepstakes, you automatically win, and the sweepstakes pays out in fake money like gems. Then you can also gamble with the fake money. Finally, the casinos will buy the fake money from you using real money.

I may not have gotten this explanation exactly right, but it’s in the ballpark.

I don’t know what you read, if it was actually truncated for you, but there is an entire article. It’s just that the article’s actual content is “Did you know Steam has porn? Here’s a few porn-related Steam anecdotes.” The part specifically mentioned in the title, though, is just like you said, it has no more information than is in the title.

I think they are saying that more information on that topic is in the linked non-free Bloomberg article.

I’d say it’s their most effective direct tool.

But if you count indirect tools, I think the propaganda out there is more effective. There are school districts where somebody on the school board encountered a bit of propaganda, and then before you know it, the school district is choosing on its own to censor their own libraries of things like LGBTQ+ materials.

Yeah, the pic even explicitly states that you got to heaven. And would it really be heaven if you went there and your bad behavior was brought up like this? I think not. So, therefore, the conclusion must be that this isn’t being brought up as bad behavior. Jesus is showing you this to laugh about it with you.

Not sure why I can see your comment despite blocking you. But to say that I must be wrong because a mod said so… Those aren’t the words of an adult human who can think for themselves. Seeing if this still posts despite the block.

Edit: Wow it posted. Must be a Voyager bug.

But imagine trying to convince people that you were proven right because you managed to find one other person who agreed with you! And they didn’t even actually say they agreed with you.

Ok let’s be precise with our language. What culture are you referring to? Do you have a name for it?

My language was precise. I said exactly what I intended to say. All you’re doing here is confessing that you began criticizing me without sufficient reason to do so, and now you need me to say something else that you might actually be able to argue against.

It simply is indistinguishable from fascism because ultimately the fascists decided which cultures were problematic, who was a part of them and therefore who “deserved” to be exterminated.

This is a straw-man. I never said anybody or anything deserved to be exterminated. Strange… if the language I used was actually that bad and “indistinguishable”, there wouldn’t be any need for you to change it, would there?

In your first two paragraphs, you have already managed to demonstrate twice that you have no intention of making an honest attempt at discussing the actual subject here. From where I’m sitting, you seem desperate to manufacture offense that you’ll take the side of a culture that celebrates the murder of an innocent girl, and try to paint critics of that culture as fascists.

I skimmed the rest of your comment. “erase” “punish” “genocide”. Yep. Lots of dishonest injection of charged language and strawmen. Sorry, I’m not even going to bother really reading the rest of your comment, as you’ve made your intentions here clear. I’ll just be blocking you.

I can see why you said “framing” and “frameworks”, because that sort of vague criteria is really where any similarities end, but you went too far by saying that it’s “indistinguishable”.

I was talking about not just murder of a completely innocent child of their own blood, but of an entire clan’s celebration of the event by dancing. It’s the culture that birthed that reaction that is at fault. And all of those people dancing in the streets enabled that murder. There is no chance that the murderer didn’t know they’d get such a positive reaction.

The culture is wrong. It doesn’t deserve to exist. If they want to change their culture to get rid of the murder of and the celebrating of the murder of innocent children, then the previous culture which condoned those murders will have ceased to exist.

Just because fascists criticize cultures with harsh language doesn’t mean that any criticism of a culture using similar language needs to be shot down as having similarity to fascism. You can actually look at the specific allegations.

Your framing is also indistinguishable from core frameworks within facism.

In what ways, specifically?

nobody can lose his right to exist

Rights apply to everybody, even people who don’t deserve them. I said they don’t deserve to exist, not that they didn’t have the right to exist. It’s an important distinction.

A person who doesn’t deserve to exist should thank their lucky stars that they were born in a time and a place when society will let them exist, anyways.

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They believe a competitive market economy is required to have a sustainable healthcare and welfare system.

This sentence doesn’t make sense to me, or at least the juxtaposition of ideas is confusing. Because my reading is that it means healthcare and welfare systems should be connected to this competitive market economy. But “a competitive market economy welfare system” is just a meaningless word salad, so that can’t be exactly what they’re talking about.

Or perhaps are they saying that social programs need to be supported by a competitive market economy in other areas? Although I don’t agree with that requirement, I think that interpretation at least makes logical sense.

The US is pausing a $14bn (£10.4bn) arms sale to Taiwan to ensure it has enough weapons for the Iran war, acting Navy secretary Hung Cao has said.

“The reason we can’t help fight against evil is that we’re too busy doing evil ourselves.”

He’s picked out the one most distinguishing feature of swordfish and copied it, which makes the swordfish accept him as a swordfish.

This would be like if you saw a swordfish on land and it thought you would accept it was human just because it was holding a cell phone.

In 2021, there were an estimated 50 million people living as slaves, and in 2013, there were an estimated 168 million children (aged 5-17) involved in child labor. These are the numbers I found off of Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

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

I tried proton-ge, using proton plus, and I got no flashing screen, even when playing a 1v1 competitive match. Hopefully, it will still work when I play with my friend later.

Thanks for the tip. I think it probably worked.

Thanks I’ll give it a shot. Especially because I don’t want this technical problem to ruin this long tradition.

I always switch back and forth between hotfix and experimental to see if one works better. So basically, I use those two.